The Dream Kids (1944) User Reviews

The Dream Kids is another Fox and Crow cartoon worth a look

[tavm · 6/10 · 13 June 2007]

In The Dream Kids, the Crow is suffering a long winter's night along in the blizzard. Then he notices a house and invites himself in. The Fox who was reading peacefully until then quickly sends the Crow to what he says is the bedroom but is actually back outside as the door gets slammed on Crow. Crow quickly finds a Dream Book which says that foxes are afraid of barking dogs. So the Crow impersonates a barking dog that scares the Fox to jump on the ceiling where he sees the Crow with an inflatable seahorse who is asked by Fox what he is. "I'm your nightmare. Huh-huh-huh-huh," comes the reply whose voice sounds like Goofy (but probably not Pinto Colvig). Crow then blows his trumpet as the Fox says, "Don't shoot!" Too late as everything explodes. Crow is then sitting down as he says to Fox, "What you need to get rid of your nightmares is some companionship," but the Fox still throws him out. Later on, Fox dreams of a beautiful fox lady in a dress who starts to kiss him as the Crow breaks the window and convinces him he's still dreaming as Crow is now in band uniform playing drums and giving a note from dream girl to meet her under the cheery tree as Fox obeys and Crow now has the bed to himself! When the same dream girl appears before the Crow in bed, the Fox witnessing this gets jealous and confronts dream girl only to be told by her in a Mae West impression that she's in Crow's dream (and remember she's a literal fox!). Fox, even more jealous now, nails Crow's feet down, brings train tracks on him and has train go through when all is left afterwards is a shirt as Fox then mourns Crow's death. But then another train goes through with Fox now down and inside is the Crow holding hands with the foxy lady! (Yes, I just said that with apologies to Jimi Hendrix!)...A little confusing with the way the dreams is handled at the end but a pretty funny short nonetheless. Loved the sequence with the Crow riding the inflatable seahorse and with funny voice and laugh that went with it. Worth a look for anyone interested in Columbia cartoons starring the Fox and Crow.