Slap Happy Lion is a 1947 cartoon directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby. It is about the tragic downfall of a lion from king of the beasts to a gibbering, pill-popping wreck. It is narrated by a mouse whose torments drove him crazy. The mouse's voice was supplied by Paul Frees. Scott Bradley provided the music.
The closing credits do not display the regular MGM cards but rather the Tom and Jerry cards. This might indicate that the currently available version could be a re-release print (and many MGM cartoons from the 1940s were reissued with newer title cards, as well as occasionally with minor edits).
Famous quotes containing the words slap, happy and/or lion:
“I am the wound and the knife!
I am the slap and the cheek!
I am the limbs and the rack,
And the victim and the executioner!
I am the vampire of my own heart.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw
And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage
To be o’erpowered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)