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Relatively Speaking Week trudges on with “A Scout with Gout,” a 1947Little Lulu cartoon from Paramount Famous Studios. ‘Marge’ (as in ‘Marge’s Little Lulu”) referred to Marjorie Henderson Bell, the cartoonist who introduced the tiny terror in the Saturday Evening Post and her beleaguered father. But most baby boomers remember Lulu for just about everything else she did outside that original venue — comic books, animated cartoons… even her stint as spokesperson for Kleenex tissues.

Don’t you just love Lulu’s pop in “A Scout with Gout?” A really zesty, full blooded personality —look at his body language describing the great outdoors. No doubt a lot of this extra punch is due to the fact that the director was Bill Tytla, one of the greatest character animators of all time. I suppose after drawing the demon king in “Fantasia,” everything would be anti-climatic, but, like a lot of Tytla’s post Disney work, “Scout” is really first rate. All the business in the end where Dad ingests an entire brook is mind boggling… and fabulous!

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Dave Kirwan