Pop Goes Your Heart

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Airdate:
8 December 1934

Series:

Merrie Melodies

Production Number:
6609

Copyright Renewed:

23 July 1962^[1]

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

The Rhythmettes (uncredited)
Marion Darlington (uncredited)^[2]

Director:

Isadore Freleng

Producer:

Leon Schlesinger

Animated By:

Frank Tipper
Sandy Walker

Film Editor:

Bernard B. Brown (uncredited)
Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Norman Spencer

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Pop Goes Your Heart is a 1934 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Plot[]

When spring comes to the woods, forest animals go about their business:

A group of bird tweets and sings. Hummingbirds are dipping their beaks into flowers, and a mother and father bird are congratulated for laying another egg.
Insects goes about their day, with the bees slurping up the nectar from the flowers, and a grasshopper tries to teach its offspring to spit a piece of pastry, which fails.
A father turtle teaches their young to swim, which they do via rowing on their backs with reeds.
Spiders plays the harp on their web and a group of worms dance using an apple as the body.
Frogs begin to sing the titular song, and a swan tries to catch a fish only to get eaten by the fish itself underwater.
A baby bird tries to devour a worm, but the worm spanks the bird off.

Afterwards, a bear attacks a beaver development, frightening the beavers away. However, as the bear scavenges a nearby tree, a beaver bites down a branch with a beehive on it, massacring the bear in bees. As the bear tries to swat away the bees, the bear trips on a fence and rolls down a hayfield. A farmer mistakes the bear for a haystack and places the haystack into a baler. The bear, now with packaged hay for a body, runs off into the distance, leaving the farmer scratching his head in confusion.

Availability[]

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Notes[]

The a.a.p. version of the cartoon has the original Warner Bros. opening titles cut,^[3] even though a.a.p. was allowed to keep the WB references intact in their cartoons from Warner Bros. Despite this, the original end titles are preserved.
- This also occurs in a.a.p. prints of "The Bear's Tale" and "Bars and Stripes Forever". The LaserDisc containing these two cartoons got their a.a.p. openings replaced with inaccurate WB shield openings. The 1995 Turner dubbed versions restored their correct openings, albeit with altered end cards.
This is among the shorts that had its a.a.p. print airing on Cartoon Network after 1995, although a "dubbed version" does exist. CN aired the a.a.p. version with the hacked-off opening.
The 1995 dubbed version was released on LaserDisc with the original opening titles restored, which were hacked off after the sale of copyrights to a.a.p.
MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of this cartoon on Toon In with Me. This was later released in September 2021 on Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE.