. . . than the thought of having their babies swapped at birth with those of Random Strangers, Warner Bros. decided in the 1900s. Many of Warner's live-action features and animated shorts proved a barrel of laughs circling around this jocular theme. GOO GOO GOLIATH is just one of the Looney Tunes designed to instruct U.S. Citizens that Life is just a craps shoot, anyway; a dice game in which the odds of getting a particular outcome are about 100 million to one (the typical ratio of tadpoles to eggs when folks make Whoopee). Since those odds roughly covered the entire population as the Baby Boom got into full swing, it was logical to think that anyone's grandchild could be a Barack Obama just as easily as a Donald Trump. GOO GOO GOLIATH suggests that American procreation is akin to playing the slots (some sort of song might be associated with all of this, which goes "Put another nickel in, in the Nickelodeon . . . "). The moral of this story is that having U.S. babies is just like buying a box of chocolates: You just need to grin and bear it, rather than complaining about what the stork dragged in at the drop of a diaper.

"Goo Goo Goliath" is a 7-minute cartoon from over 60 years ago that is certainly nowhere near Warner Bros' most known works. But with such a gigantic quantity, you cannot find quality everywhere and this is unfortunately true here. Freleng, Foster, Blanc and Benederet usually stand for quality, but not even they can make this one work. It is especially the background animation that looks lackluster here and very much inferior to what Warner Bros did during that time, or even a decade ago. One reason why this cartoon is not known today anymore is probably because it does not feature any of their most known characters. And in the middle section, it almost feels as if they were trying to channel Disney's "how to" videos starring Goofy, in this case "how to be a dad". "Goo Goo Goliath" is rarely funny or creative, I give it a thumbs down.

Not one of my favourite cartoons ever, but good fun nonetheless. It does get predictable by the end despite a very interesting concept, a couple of the gags not featuring the stork are on the dry side and the pacing in the middle could have been crisper. However, the animation is colourful and cleanly detailed, the sight of the giant toys is an incredible sight to behold visually. The music is lively, lushly orchestrated and characterful with clever arrangements of pre-existing tunes. The narration is sharply satirical, and the subtext with the father's terror at having a new baby in his life is one that anybody would identify with. Most of the gags are very amusing, though not much is hilarious. The best moments come from the stork, though the moment with the giant father using a jeweller's eye(manacle?) to change nappies is also memorable. The characters are good enough, only the stork has staying star power though nobody is useless to the story which is a good thing. The voice acting from Mel Blanc, Bea Beanderet(who does a fine job with the least to do of the three) and Norman Nesbitt is terrific. All in all, good fun. 7/10 Bethany Cox

The Stork. The Stork is only source of humor in this otherwise not funny and dry short. It's rather predictable and does not offer any real amusement. The Stork really makes you laugh but other than him, I really would not waste my time watching this.