. . . Our Leader Trump's warnings about Mexico. SENORELLA AND THE GLASS HUARACHE is the last in a long line of cautionary tales from an Animation Division with an unmatched Gift of Prophecy. Beginning in the Early 1930s, these mostly unsung prognosticators used their cartoons to accurately predict and warn America of its approaching Cataclysms, Catastrophes, and Apocalypti, including World War Two, the Kennedy Assassination, Space Shuttle Challenger's explosion, and 9-11. But as with Cassandra in the Olden Days, most Americans took Warner's warnings with a grain of salt, dismissing them and traipsing blithely into the Buzzsaw of their Doom. SENORELLA is depicted here as a seductive hooker in a red dress, no doubt harboring numerous STD's, including body lice. (Warner may be basing her on John Wayne's second wife--a documented Mexican "Working Girl"--who gave "Il Duce" a quick-acting form of Syphillis which transformed him practically overnight from a Robin Hood-like Champion of the Union Man into a Goose-Stepping Fascist Snitch.) SENORELLA hangs out with cockroaches and pigs, waiting for her opportunity to enter America under false pretenses like Mrs. Wayne II. Since Leader Trump has spent many years personally conducting undercover investigations of the SENORELLA Problem that doomed John Wayne and so many others, this animated short can be seen as Trump's very first endorsement.

Written by John Dunn and featuring a very good south-of-the-border music score by Bill Lava, "Senorella and the Glass Huarache" is a fairly adequate Warner Bros. cartoon that spoofs the famous story of Cinderella. Two silhouetted Mexicans (voiced by Mel Blanc and Tom Holland) discuss the story of poor Senorella as we segue into flashbacks of her amazing transformation from rags to riches. The animation is rather stiff, but, as we shall see, this stiffness is an integral part of the humor of this cartoon.My favorite moments from "Senorella and the Glass Huarache" include the following. Senorella is quite amusing as she shakes her hips to a growling trumpet accompaniment. Also funny is a meek little chihuahua as it suddenly growls in Senorella's face. After a bull rams Don Miguel into a wall, Miguel punches the bull away from him! But the funniest moment of all involves Don Miguel's son Jose dancing with Senorella; the stiff animation, combined with the bland facial expressions of the couple, are what make me laugh at this sequence."Senorella and the Glass Huarache" is not the Warner Bros. animation department's finest hour, but it doesn't matter; I very much enjoy this cartoon and what it has to offer. One thing that arouses my curiosity, though: I wonder if audiences from the mid-1960s were ready to see tattoos on women's arms in animated cartoons. Considering that the sixties were a strange time frame, probably so.

I first saw this short on the new Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 5 DVD set. It was the last short from the original Warner Bros. Animation studio before closing in 1963 and having DePatie-Freleng take over the Looney Tunes series. Coincidentally, this short actually DOES resemble a DePatie-Freleng cartoon! For one thing, it uses the "modernized" abstract Looney Tunes opening and closing sequence with the bizarre theme music that was used on all LT shorts from 1965 onward. The logo was originally intended for stylized one-shot cartoons from the original studio, the first two being "Now Hear This" (done in a totally-abstract, artistic style by Chuck Jones) and "Bartholomew Versus the Wheel" (drawn in a James Thuber-style and directed by Robert McKimson). This cartoon is somewhat stylized, but in a manner so it resembles the mid-to-late 1960s Pink Panther cartoons. Then again, many of the Warners' staff that worked on this cartoon went to work for DePatie-Freleng afterward, so it makes sense. This Mexican twist on the old Cinderella story is also rather amusing. Bill Lava's Mexican music works here instead of those crappy Speedy vs. Daffy cartoons he would later go on to score at DePatie-Freleng. The backgrounds look very UPA-ish and the thick-line drawings are pleasing to look at. I don't think Cartoon Network aired this very often when they were showing Looney Tunes. They might've been worried that it was politically incorrect and all that junk. However, this is one latter-day Looney Tunes short I highly recommend!

WARNING: My brief comments on this film may contain a spoiler, so please don't read if you don't want your curiosity to be ruined.I first watched this classic Warner Bros. short on the Nickelodeon children's network when it was a part of their daily "Looney Tunes" program and I instantly fell in love with it. After that first showing, I was hoping the network would show it again at a later date, as I was taping most of the Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes shorts for later viewing. They did show it again--and yes, I taped it. I watch "Senorella" along with the other shorts on tape every now and then, and it still makes me laugh every time I view it.This animated short starts off with two Mexican drunks in a bar who are only seen as figures in shadow over a visible sign for a play (or movie) called "Cinderella and the Glass Slipper", and one of them relates the "Senorella" story to the other--but with a few exceptions. Senorella is shown as a dirty, disheveled, thin girl; the wicked stepmother and stepsisters are gluttonous; there are bugs helping Senorella with the chores instead of mice; and instead of Prince Charming, there's a single but inept bullfighter named Don Miguel, whose wealthy father desperately wants to marry off.Don Miguel's dad arranges a ball in which all of the women of the village are invited, and like in the classic Cinderella tale, Senorella gets uninvited by her stepmother. Of course, the Fairy Godmother comes to her aid, and in a hilarious twist, she makes Senorella look like a gorgeous hooker--complete with glass huaraches! Senorella then goes to the ball, dances with the bullfighter, and runs out of the ball at the stroke of midnight; leaving one of her glass huaraches behind.After a nervewracking search, Don Miguel and his dad finally found Senorella in a muddy pig's trough the following day (she was put there by her stepmother to hide her away from them). He then placed the huarache on her foot and took her away from her wretched stepfamily to marry her. They ended up living happily ever after as "manuelo and wife" (as the narrator ended the tale before we see the drunks' shadowy figures one last time as the cartoon comes to a close).The good folks at Warners did a great job with this short, and although it's not a big side-splitter by any means, it is an enjoyable change of pace from the standard Bugs Bunny and Co. fare, which is what most animation buffs tend to remember and enjoy more over the years. I give this hilarious but forgotten piece of animation history ten stars.