Early to Bet

Early to Bet (1951)

The Gambling Bug causes gambling fever in anyone he bites.

Date of release
1951-05-12
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (18)
Runtime
7m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
Robert McKimson

Casting

Interesting facts

Early to Bet is a 1951 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short directed by Robert McKimson. The short was released on May 12, 1951, and features the Gambling Bug, as well as the second appearance of the tuxedo cat and the bulldog previously seen in the 1950 short It's Hummer Time.

Production notes

The title of this short is a play on Benjamin Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise".

The Gambling Bug is a small character who infects others with the desire to gamble. He wears a green tie, a red jacket, a brown hat and a white tuxedo. Early to Bet is his only appearance in the Golden Age of American Animation. He would make a brief cameo appearance at the basketball game in Space Jam.

The cartoon is a sequel to the 1950 short It's Hummer Time, which featured the same bulldog giving the same cat elaborate punishments.

Early to Bet marks the bulldog's fourth and final overall cartoon appearance in the Golden Age of American Animation, and the second overall alongside the tuxedo cat, having previously appeared alongside Sylvester and Hippety Hopper in Hop, Look and Listen and Hippety Hopper as the antagonist, and alongside an unnamed fox in A Fox in a Fix, the latter having been released a few months before this cartoon.

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