While the howling pups look similar to those in a Warner Brothers' cartoon of the same era, the humans, such as the character below could have been refugees from something out of the Van Beuren Studios of the Thirties. While the animated sequence is essentially a work for hire, it is appropriate that the animator responsible was the person who had the longest tenure at Termite Terrace. If Freleng's work never was a distinctive as the work of Tex Avery with its play on words, Frank Tashlin's spoofs of Hollywood or Chuck Jones' reducing the cartoon to simplicity and nearly abstract backgrounds, one could almost always count on some manner of silliness for its own sake such as Bugs and Yosemite Sam taking a moment to demonstrate their dancing ability.

That the animated sequences were considered the high point of Hi Diddle Diddle at the time of release is suggested by this excerpt from the New York Times' review from September 24, 1943: "Mr. Stone has demonstrated his craftsmanship heretofore, so there's no doubting that he started out with an idea this time, one which was to result in a new type of screwball comedy. But there is no telling what he had in mind from "Hi Diddle Diddle." The film has a novel introduction, beginning with a cartoon sequence and ending on an even more unusual cartoon note."

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