Director(s): Friz Freleng (credited as “I. Freleng”)
Summary: In the hopes of climbing out of poverty, Daffy answers a classified ad (or small ad, if you live in the UK) for a rich widow looking for a new husband. Once Daffy marries her, the widow proves to be a pushy, abusive, intimidating, and domineering duck (which seems to be a running theme in all the female ducks Daffy has married, as seen in “The Hen-Pecked Duck” [the female duck who wanted to divorce him because he made her egg disappear] and “The Stupid Cupid” [the one who forced him into that classic shotgun wedding where the choices are marry a harridan whom he's barely known or get shot dead by her father]. “Stork Naked” was the only time his wife wasn't that way and Daffy was the one who was the bad spouse because of his objecting to his wife wanting kids and going through comically murderous lengths to attack the stork coming to his house) who has him do the housework and care for her hyperactive, troublemaking son, Wentworth.
Fun Facts:
- The duck Wentworth here may or may not be that duck from 1945’s “Ain’t That Ducky?” who kept crying over what was inside his satchel and refused to let Daffy or the Victor Moore version of Elmer Fudd see what was inside until the end. It’s almost the same character model, but not the same character, proving once again that Friz Freleng recycled and repurposed a lot of his cartoons -- this being one of them, as you’ll see.
- Martha Wentworth (called "The Woman of 100 Voices," which is 900 less than Mel Blanc being "The Man of 1000 Voices". Is this a gender equality thing or did Wentworth not have as wide a range as Blanc based on ability? Discuss) is the voice of Daffy’s new wife.
- Eddie Selzer (the same one who hated Pepe Le Pew with the same fiery passion Pepe has for a painted tuxedo cat, thought bullfighting cartoons were bullshit, and didn’t think anyone would like Sylvester and Tweety as a comedy duo or The Tasmanian Devil as Bugs' adversary) thought this cartoon was the best Daffy Duck cartoon ever made. Well, that's another reason for me to do my Looney Tunes blog where I pick a Looney Tune or Merrie Melodie that has an interesting history or has impacted me in some way, because I really want to figure out why Eddie Selzer likes this one. It’s not bad, but...just...why this one? Letterboxd has it as a 3.4 out of 5 (which is average) and IMDb has it down as a 6.9 out of 10 (which is sexually suggestive and slightly above average).
- The part where Daffy is simulataneously doing the dishes, sweeping the floor, and wringing out towels was used as a clip on one of the promos for Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon. Other cartoons in the promo (in no particular order) include “Curtain Razor,” [the Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, and Frank Sinatra birds finishing their act]; “Scent-imental Romeo” [the zookeeper feeling sorry that he had to shoo away the female tuxedo cat]; “Heaven Scent” [one of the dogs scaring Penelope by barking at her]; “Louvre, Come Back to Me” [the Claude Cat-looking male cat trying to hold his breath as Pepe is acting out his death scene]; “A Taste of Catnip” [Daffy singing on a backyard fence as he’s getting pelted with boots]; “Lickety-Splat!” [Wile E. Coyote looking pathetically at the camera as his hot air balloon basket falls]; “The Solid Tin Coyote” [Wile E. Coyote working the controls for the titular solid tin coyote. The commands are digitally replaced with the orange Nickelodeon logo at the time]; “Zoom at the Top” (I think. There are a lot of scenes of Wile E. Coyote looking scared before he gets blown up or falls off a cliff, so this could be any short), “Lighter Than Hare” [Bugs looking back and seeing Yosemite Sam from Outer Space chasing after him in the air]; “Duck Amuck” [Daffy’s screaming and going ballistic over the unseen animator trolling him]; “Fish and Slips” [Sylvester and his son sitting on the couch with a bucket of popcorn, which also was digitally altered to include the orange Nickelodeon logo at the time]; “What’s My Lion?” [the puma holding his throat as fire comes out his mouth]; “The Ducksters” [a beaten-up Porky with a manic face going after Daffy]; “Claws on the Lease” [Sylvester pounding on the door after being chased off by the woman who took in Sylvester, Jr.]; “Zip ‘n Snort,” [Wile E. Coyote getting caught in the bow while using himself as an arrow]; “Strangled Eggs,” [Foghorn trying to explain himself to someone off-screen in the kitchen and, later, crowing just before he gets a noose around his neck]; and “Cheese Chasers” [Claude Cat finding Hubie and Bertie in his mouth while looking in the mirror]. Please let me know if I missed or misidentified any shorts.
- The wedding rings Daffy shops for at Woolburg’s cost ten cents at lowest and a quarter at highest. In today’s money, that’s $1.39 at lowest and $3.48 at highest (with the 20-cent rings costing $2.78). The national average price of a wedding ring today (2026) is $5200, according to bridebox.com (https://www.bridebox.com/blog/the-3-month-salary-rule-is-dead-how-much-to-actually-spend-on-a-ring/), though, depending on how ornate you and your spouse want it (and how much either of you are willing to pay for it), the lowest you can go for a wedding ring is $300 while the highest is in the low-to-mid thousands. This is just broad strokes research. If you are getting married and want to buy a ring (and not just use the one that's been in your family for generations, assuming the ring isn't lost or your parents didn't get married. Hey, it happens), do you own deep-dive research. This is just a cartoon/entertainment blog, not a consumer/lifestyle blog.
Freleng Unit Easter Egg Alert: The can of paint thinner is from "Hadley & Pert", which is a recurring pseudonym for Hawley Pratt.
Letterboxd Says The Darndest Things: Normally, I wouldn’t put these in the special episode posts, but, if we are comparing “His Bitter Half” with “Honey’s Money,” then I pretty much have to...or at least want to point out this review (given by a user named HAL [hopefully not the A.I. from 2001: A Space Odyssey]), which, once again, reaffirms my belief that American education badly needs reform:
Daffy an independent duck that don’t need no big tiddied abusive wife and racist step son. But for these seven minutes I guess he needed them for the funnis and they delivered!
And “racist stepson”? The only racism I see is Wentworth wanting to play Cowboys and Indians, which, yes, is considered racist by today’s standards, but, back then, that was, like, the most common game little boys played (at least going by what the media at the time depicted. It’s kinda like how people lament that kids don’t ride their bikes all over town like they did in the 1970s and 1980s when I see kids, teenagers, and young adults in my town, born between 2003 and 2016 [rough estimate. I know I’m pulling the numbers out of my ass] riding around on bicycles — sometimes the traditional ones, sometimes the motorized ones that are basically starter motorcycles — all the time, especially on weekends and in the summer. Mostly, it’s just going through town, occasionally stopping at 7/11s and Wawas for junk food, not some Goonies-type adventure where they find treasure or like that one movie where they go into the woods to find a dead body and it’s some poignant, “coming of age” tale. It could be and I’m just not seeing it, but, get real). For more of these inane reviews, click here. However, if you want more lamentations over the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s being the last time it was fun being a kid (despite several documentaries now proving that wasn’t entirely true), then just search for a Saturday morning cartoon theme song video on YouTube and doom-scroll the comments section. Or, go on Retrojunk.com.
The Channel(s): Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (FOX version) and Nickelodeon (after 1992)
Part(s) Edited: We got one on FOX and one on Nickelodeon, and neither are the same part, despite that both channels would probably cut for the same thing.
- On FOX’s Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (it’s not known if the syndicated version of Merrie Melodies... made the same cut, but, until I find evidence that says otherwise, let’s assume that no, they didn’t), the part where we’re introduced to Wentworth and his destructive antics was edited to remove Wentworth playing Army with himself (that’s not a euphemism), imitating gunfire, shooting Daffy with a toy machine gun (that doesn’t fire real bullets like in so many other WB shorts...and some that aren’t) and staggering around clutching his chest, pretending to be shot (“They got me! They got me!”).
- Over on Nickelodeon, the scene that FOX cut was left intact (which is surprising, considering that Nickelodeon has cut for gun violence, especially involving children. I can totally see Nickelodeon back when this aired in the late 1980s into the 1990s cutting that part), but Nickelodeon cut the very beginning of the “Fourth of July fireworks” sequence where Wentworth nervously lights a string of fireworks while Daffy watches behind him. The reason? Dangerous, imitable behavior, despite the fact that Daffy is there as the “adult” in “adult supervision.” I guess Nickelodeon’s censors operated like the BBFC, where, if you’re a children’s show (rated U to a light PG) and there’s dangerous behavior that younger viewers could potentially imitate without a clear sign from the TV show or movie in question stating that it’s a bad idea to do [such as a “Don’t Try This at Home” lower third or one character telling the other not to do that], then it goes cut or altered, though I’ve also read that if the dangerous behavior is part of cartoon slapstick or presented unrealistically, then it also gets exempt. It should also be of note that Nickelodeon had that scene uncut until 1992, meaning that either the edit was made due to parental complaints or Nickelodeon’s censors were cracking down on dangerous, imitable behavior in cartoons, possibly because MTV’s Beavis and Butthead was catching heat for it (despite that Beavis and Butthead was made for teenagers and adults), I don’t know. Given the timeline, it seems like it could have happened because of that. What do I know? I was seven years old then.
What Wasn’t Cut That Should Have Been: Ah, the glorious return of this underused entry. I broke this out because, if you’ve seen the short (whether uncut or edited) and know all the scenes, you’ll notice that both Nickelodeon and FOX didn’t cut the part where Daffy’s bossy wife forces Daffy to play Indians, Daffy refusing and getting his butt kicked by his wife (as in “she actually kicked his behind and it was so high that there’s a footprint on his butt and he’s walking on his webbed tiptoes”), Daffy’s wife enjoying some chocolates and a good book while Daffy screams and gets attacked by his stepson (who’s wielding a meat cleaver) outside, and Daffy coming in after “playing” with his scalp between his fingers, despite that both channels have a history of editing Native American stereotypes (including kids of the time appropriating the culture as part of playing pretend) and kids handling weapons (knives, in this case). It’s more infuriating that FOX didn’t cut the scene because FOX had already cut a scene of a kid character using a gun (albeit a toy one) in this cartoon, so they should have kept that consistent.
I’m...not too sure about FOX cutting the fireworks part that Nickelodeon did. On the one hand, FOX did cut “Dough Ray Me-Ow” to remove Louie the parrot trying to electrocute Heathcliff the cat (not the orange one that was the last original character Mel Blanc voiced before his death in 1989; this one is a dopey pale yellow and black cat from a one-shot Arthur Davis cartoon) with some frayed wire and tricking Heathcliff into walking on active train tracks with a can on his head, meaning that FOX has edited for dangerous, imitable behavior (though editing Yosemite Sam Schultz tunneling out of his prison cell and ending up in his boss’ — the warden’s — office on “Big House Bunny” may have been pushing it because I can’t imagine the children of incarcerated parents doing that, no matter how desperate they are. More on that later). On the other hand, FOX probably thought, since an adult figure (Daffy) was there and it was more cartoonish than realistic, there was no reason to cut it.
What Grinds My Gears About the Edit(s): Pretty much everything I outlined above applies here, so here’s the TL;DR version: FOX and Nickelodeon didn’t edit for the same parts, and that both channels didn’t edit for a crucial part. Just another day at the hypocrisy office...
Video Comparison:
Availability Uncut: Didn’t really make an appearance in the VHS, Beta, and laser disc era (or the Super 8 era, if we’re being honest). This felt like one of those rarely-shown Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodie shorts due to either Wentworth being a brat and, therefore, a bad influence on kids (as if most don’t act like that already) or the violence (both domestic and the usual comic slapstick), though it doesn’t feel like it went too far...at least when you compare it to “Honey’s Money.”
Anyway, “His Bitter Half” is available on one DVD (the 2007 release of the musical The West Point Story [not West Side Story], starring James Cagney [who was known for song and dance roles when he wasn’t playing gangsters and criminals], Doris Day, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, and Gene Nelson) and two Blu-rays (the first volume of the Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice series, as well as its repackaged version that crams all four volumes into one Blu-ray, for those who want to enjoy all the WB cartoons on Blu-ray, but have no room on their shelves or not enough money to buy all four individual volumes).
Is/Was It on Streaming or Digital Download: It was on the Latin American/Brazil feed of HBO Max from 2021 to 2024. It didn’t debut on any American streaming platforms until 2025 when Tubi uploaded 786 out of the 1000 Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts, and that’s where it’s been ever since (for now, anyway). As of this writing, it’s not available for digital download.
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Summary: Just like “His Bitter Half” (and, to some extent “Hare Trimmed,” “Pappy’s Puppy,” and “A Broken Leghorn” [the last of which is a Robert McKimson cartoon while the other two are Friz Freleng joints]), this, too, is about a male character getting roped into a marriage to a rich widow who wears the pants in the relationship (at a time when that wasn’t as commonly depicted in the media) and has a son that the new father has to put up with.
Fun Facts:
- If you don’t count the recycled scene from “Piker’s Peak” (1957; Freleng) of the St. Bernard rescuing a frozen mountain climber, then making a martini for himself that was in “Dog Tales,” (1958; McKimson), this is the only WB cartoon where Yosemite Sam is his own character and not pitted against Bugs Bunny (or Daffy Duck, in the case of 1947’s “Along Came Daffy”).
- Like many of Freleng’s shorts, this one is recycled from other shorts. As mentioned above, this was made from the pieces of “His Bitter Half” (a Freleng cartoon where a male character tries marrying for money and pays for it when his wife turns out to be a shrew and his stepchild is either a destructive brat or an idiot), “Hare Trimmed” (Sam’s plot to marry a woman for money and use the money to destroy society), “Pappy’s Puppy” (a reluctant father figure tries to off the offspring, with tricking the offspring into fetching a ball that was thrown into a busy street as one of the failed attempts), “A Broken Leghorn” (another short that had an adult character trying to kill a kid character by throwing a ball into a busy street and the adult character getting hit while the kid character survives), and, if you can believe it, “Wild Over You” (the part at the end where Sam grumbles about whether it’s worth it to put up with abuse from a female character and ecstatically replies that it is).
- The “Donald E. Foster” on the dollar bill in the title card is a reference to Don Foster, who was the title card artist for the Warner Bros. cartoons from the late 1940s into the 1960s.
- Joining “Mexican Boarders” (a Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales cartoon), “Bill of Hare” (a Bugs Bunny and Taz cartoon), “Zoom at the Top” (a Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon), “The Slick Chick” (a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon), “Louvre Come Back to Me!” (the final Pepe Le Pew cartoon during the Golden Age of Animation, though arguments can be made that the cut-off short should have been “Past Perfumance” or “Really Scent” at best. At worst, it could have been “Who Scent You?”, since that is the last one to have Michael Maltese as a writer for those. Don’t listen to those who think it should have been “The Cats Bah.” They don’t know what they’re talking about), “Mother Was a Rooster” (the penultimate Foghorn Leghorn cartoon...if you don’t count Foggy’s cameo at the end of “False Hare”), and half of “The Jet Cage” (a Sylvester and Tweety cartoon), “Honey’s Money” is one of seven and a half shorts that Milt Franklyn composed before he died on April 24, 1962 [coincidentally, April 24 is my sister’s birthday, but she was born 24 years after Franklyn died]. I am including “The Jet Cage” because Franklyn did half of that before William “Bill” Lava took over for the other half (Bill Lava’s first full cartoon he was credited for doing music was “Good Noose,” a rarely-seen and rarely-known Daffy Duck cartoon that wasn't edited for racial and ethnic stereotypes, but for showing potentially dangerous behavior [mostly hanging, but also a sequence where he locks himself in a trunk and it takes him ten days to get out]. More on that one in a later post).
- Unlike Martha Wentworth in “His Bitter Half,” June Foray was credited for her role as Yosemite Sam’s harridan wife. The voice of “Honey’s Money”’s Wentworth wasn’t Mel Blanc, but a kid actor at the time named Billy Booth (born November 7, 1949, died New Years’ Eve [December 31st] 2006), best known for playing Tommy Anderson on the live-action adaptation of the Hank Ketchum comic strip, Dennis the Menace, which leads me to my next segment:
Other Differences Between “His Bitter Half” and “Honey’s Money”:
His Bitter Half | Honey’s Money |
Daffy marries the widow duck to get himself out of poverty. | Yosemite Sam marries the widow so he can use her money to relaunch his campaign to make old ladies homeless, tear down orphanages, and get rid of the police department that he had on “Hare Trimmed.” |
Daffy at least liked the widow until she showed her true colors after their marriage became official. | Yosemite Sam was immediately turned off when, during his declaration of love to her, he saw that she was ugly and backed out, then came back when she said she needed help spending her money. |
It’s not known how much the widow duck got in her inheritance, but it’s assumed to be a lot when she showed Daffy the bank book to manipulate Daffy into spending time with her son (who just scalped him in the backyard). | Yosemite Sam reads in the paper that the local widow has $5 million, which, in 2026 money, is $55,483,940.40. It’s definitely a step down from Emma’s $50 million ($609,086,142.32 in today’s money) from “Hare Trimmed.” |
Daffy being saddled with a domineering wife and a bratty, destructive son seems kinda cruel, though some will argue it is a fitting punishment, as Daffy just assumes that his new bride will be a submissive housewife and the comedy comes from the fact that she isn’t. | Yosemite Sam being saddled with a domineering wife is well-deserved karma for his plan to use her money for his destructive plot. The Wentworth here is actually a kind, but somewhat dimwitted son who doesn’t really deserve Sam’s abuse, and unlike “His Bitter Half,” Wentworth has a mom who does stop Sam from trying to hurt him (as seen in the “play catch in traffic” scene) rather than a mom who doesn’t notice or care about her son’s behavior. |
The comedy between Wentworth and Daffy comes from Wentworth causing trouble and Daffy getting blamed for it (as seen when Wentworth using a slingshot to make it seem like Daffy shot at the carnival worker running the shooting gallery booth or when Wentworth carries an exhausted Daffy home and his wife assumes that Daffy got drunk while out with his stepson). | The comedy between Wentworth and Yosemite Sam comes from Sam trying to kill off his son (who is oblivious to it, yet knows that his parents fight and doesn’t have an emotional meltdown over it) and either his new wife stopping him or the plan backfiring in the same way Wile E. Coyote’s attempts at catching The Roadrunner backfire (whether or not Wile E. is using something from ACME). |
Daffy ends up leaving the widow duck and her son (but not before getting his feathers plucked off his body) after having enough of the abuse and actually means it. | Yosemite Sam does leave the widow and her son, but changes his mind when he realizes that, in his eyes, putting up with the abuse and humiliation is worth the $5 million (which, again, isn’t as much as the $50 million from “Hare Trimmed,” even when adjusted for inflation). |
Letterboxd Says The Darndest Things: Like “His Bitter Half,” this one isn’t liked as much as the others, but this one actually has a slightly lower rating (3.3 vs. “His Bitter Half”’’s 3.4) and Tim Brayton (who always has a detailed reason as to why a Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon is funny or not, though I didn’t see any for “His Bitter Half,” though he does explain what made “His Bitter Half” funnier than “Honey’s Money”) does explain why he doesn’t like this one (after giving it a two-star rating):
One for the history books: it's the only Yosemite Sam short that doesn't pit him against Bugs Bunny, or indeed any other recurring Looney Tunes character. I wouldn't say that's primarily why it's bad, but it doesn't help: in His Bitter Half, which this remakes, the Sam role was filled by Daffy, and even though he's not really sympathetic in that short, there's a certain level of "aw, poor dumb Daffy" at play there that makes it possible to root for him a little. Sam is a nasty piece of shit, and so is the toad-like monstrosity he marries, which gives the jokes very little place to go: awful people being awful to each other, the end. And that's not even touching the unholy creation of Wentworth, the giant ogre with a real little boy's voice, and it's just broken, a profoundly uncanny mismatch of image and sound that is so disgusting and discomfiting that part of me wants to celebrate the cartoon's perversity in employing it.
Meanwhile, and even worse, this is fuck-off ugly, and that's sort of the "joke", that the rich widow Sam has shackled himself to is hideous, but she's ugly in that repellent "box-shaped heads" style that the Freleng unit had gotten so attached to in the mid-to-late-'50s before working it out of their collective system. It's back here, and with years of subterranean evolution into something just indescribably nauseating, between the widow's massive hatchback of a mouth and Wentworth's... absolutely everything. Even the jazzily sketched-in backgrounds don't really come together this time. A complete face-plant of a short, and childhood memories of recoiling from it were a major reason that I went into this Looney Tunes marathon convinced that I disliked Friz Freleng.
This is the first I’m hearing that someone hated (or used to hate) Friz Freleng. Normally, people don’t like Chuck Jones’ work for being too “style over substance” (or, in the case of the Censored Eleven short “Angel Puss,” relying too much on dark and cynical comedy), think Robert McKimson went downhill when his original animation crew disbanded (which is true, but I think he had his moments even then. The 1960s was when he really hit the wall), and stay away from Norm McCabe because he did too many cartoons that had offensive racial stereotypes and come off now as World War II propaganda, but not liking Friz Freleng? He does get ignored (much like Arthur Davis, Frank Tashlin, and Bob Clampett before John Kricfalusi began singing Clampett’s praises. In fact, I didn’t even know who Bob Clampett was until I was a teenager, despite watching a lot of his shorts back when Nickelodeon, TBS, and TNT aired WB cartoons. I remember seeing “Buckaroo Bugs,” “The Old Grey Hare,” one of the “fat Elmer vs. Bugs” cartoons [particularly the one that ended with fat Elmer getting his gold tooth pulled out], “Porky in Wackyland,” “Porky’s Five and Ten,” and “The Daffy Doc” a lot as a kid) and some may find his Sylvester and Tweety shorts tedious, but outright hate just seems a bit extreme to me. Oh, well. Ya can’t please everybody.
Other reviews were a bit nicer than what Tim wrote, as seen here.
The Channel(s): Nickelodeon (Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, 1995 to 1999)
Part(s) Edited: Like “His Bitter Half,” “Honey’s Money” did have a cut for dangerous, imitable behavior that used to be uncut on the network and (I’m assuming) wasn’t cut anywhere else (barring Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and MeTV, since they don’t edit for dangerous, imitable behavior, unless it’s reckless gunplay or suicide). The scene of Yosemite Sam taking Wentworth to the park and deciding to try and kill him by throwing a ball into a busy street, with Wentworth getting the ball without getting hit was cut to make it look like Sam was about to throw the ball in the street, but his wife stopped him just in time and forced Sam to get it (which leads to him getting run over).
What Grinds My Gears About the Edit(s): Not much. Like many Nickelodeon edits, this one at least tried to salvage the edited part for viewers who wouldn’t know any better (or have never seen it uncut...at least not until later). Having Sam about to throw the ball, only to be thwarted by his wife is funnier than Sam throwing the ball, Wentworth getting it, despite not getting hit by cars, and Sam trying again, only to get thwarted by by his wife.
Though, I would like to add that “A Broken Leghorn” and “Pappy’s Puppy” also aired on Nickelodeon and had scenes of a kid character running into a busy street to get a ball and not get hit, while an adult character does the same thing and does get hit, yet those two shorts weren’t edited the same way as “Honey’s Money.” Is it because those two had anthropomorphic animal characters while Yosemite Sam, Wentworth, and the wife are people and Nickelodeon’s censors figured that the people characters would relate more to younger viewers than the anthropomorphic animals? With BBFC rules against dangerous and anti-social behavior, it depends on what characters the kid viewers will identify with (normally, the portagonist). I guess that’s what Nickelodeon was trying to do? Also: why didn’t they censor this on the onset? Why did it take them until 1995 to edit it? Was this one of those censorship cuts made because of parental complaints? So many questions...and they’ll probably never get answered.
Video Comparison:
Availability Uncut: “Honey’s Money” has a better home media release history than “His Bitter Half.” It was first released in 1982 as part of the seventh volume of the Looney Tunes Video Show collection (which was only available outside of the United States). Ten years after that (1992), “Honey’s Money” appeared on “Yosemite Sam: The Good, The Bad, and The Ornery” as part of the Authentic and Original Looney Tunes VHS collection. Two years after that (1994), “Honey’s Money” went back to UK releases, appearing on volume one of the Special Bumper Collection VHS series. It continued its UK VHS release with an appearance on 1996’s “Yosemite Sam” video on the Looney Tunes Collection. 18 years later, in 2014, “Honey’s Money” was released on the third and final volume of the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection DVD and Blu-ray set, uncut, uncensored, restored, and put in NTSC after years of being in PAL.
Is/Was It on Streaming or Digital Download: Like “His Bitter Half,” “Honey’s Money” is currently not on digital download, but it has made appearances on streaming platforms. It was on Boomerang’s streaming app (actual start year unknown, but it was pulled off in 2024) and the American feed of HBO Max from 2020 to 2022 (followed by a break in 2023 and a return when it was called “Max” between 2024 and 2025). As of this writing, it’s currently on Tubi.
So, Who Won?: While “Honey’s Money” is an interesting case, as it’s the only Yosemite Sam cartoon that has him as an actual person (rather than a cowboy criminal, a pirate, a prison warden, a Confederate general who doesn’t notice or care that the U.S. Civil War is long over [though the good and bad of it still remain], or a Yukon Gold Rush claim jumper who also doesn’t notice or care that it’s hideously illegal to mine for gold at Fort Knox) dealing with an actual problem, “His Bitter Half” is funnier (if a bit average).
‘Til next time: Stay Looney and Be Merrie!
