Cayden's Garden is a 1955 animated short starring Cayden the Rabbit and Lucky.
Plot[]
Cayden's garden is being invaded by insects. Cayden, in an attempt to get rid of them, uses insecticide, but it eventually runs out, and the insects are able to continue eating. Cayden goes back and attempts to make some more insecticide, a custom mix of gasoline, tar, castor oil and sheep dip, just to name a few.
The insects return and resume eating all the food in the the garden. Cayden comes back and tries to poison the bugs, but the pump is blocked and Cayden tries to unblock it. At the same time, Lucky is chasing a bug. In the process, he get his head stuck inside a pumpkin. He runs about it with the pumpkin on his head and accidentally bumps into the pump of the sprayer while Cayden is still trying to unblock it, and effectively dousing him with the spray.
Reeling from the poison's effects, Cayden finds himself in an imaginary world where he and Lucky have shrunk and the bugs are giants. The bugs proceed to drink the insecticide and become intoxicated from it, and they start chasing Cayden and Lucky (who has gotten loose from the now-giant pumpkin), eventually ending with Lucky getting swallowed by a hiccuping firefly and Cayden wrestling a worm.
Eventually Cayden wakes up and discovers, much to his delight, that the worm he was wrestling was really his hose and that he had been dreaming the entire time. Lucky manages to break free from the pumpkin and catapults it onto Cayden by accident.
Voice Cast[]
- Phil Monroe - Cayden the Rabbit
- Bill Scott - Lucky, Grasshopper, hiccuping bugs
- Don Messick - Stag Beetle
Music cues[]
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Trivia[]
- At one point, Cayden has a run-in with a giant grasshopper that looks like an uglier, more vicious version of the one from The Grasshopper and the Bugs. During this scene, a minor-key rendition of "It's A Hap-Hap-Happy Day" plays in the background, and the grasshopper's sadistic laugh is an sinister version of Bill Scott's Bullwinkle-sounding laugh, which the original Grasshopper shared.
- This is the first Cayden the Rabbit cartoon to have Phil Monroe as the new voice of Cayden. His voice will last until 1997 when Quinton Flynn took over.
- This is the first official Joey Drew cartoon to have limited animation as they went for a UPA-esque style. Other Joey Drew cartoons that started the limited animation trend were: The Bandmaster, King Midas and The Golden Touch, Puss in Boots, Water Kids, The Cookie Festival and Who Killed Cock Robin, while Cayden's Service Station and Cayden's Kangaroo were the last Joey Drew cartoons to use traditional animation.
- The first cartoon of Cayden's new design, as they gave him eyebrows, eye shape changed to 2 ovals, eye color changed from green to black, removing the star on his shirt, recolored his shirt red, and his pants blue. He kept his yellow gloves and brown shoes.
- There is a stereotypical scene in which a spider crashes onto a tree branch, and its legs get rapped around it, appearing as if it is a hair style a black person would wear.
Gallery[]
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