I Wanna Be a Sailor

Tex Avery's "I Wanna Be a Sailor" was one of the Warner Bros. cartoons from the 1930s that was based on a song. In this case, a young parrot desires to become a mariner, against the wishes of his mother, who recounts the tales of the boy's ne'er-do-well father. But the little guy ignores her and sets sail with an overly eager duck. Sure enough, they run into a storm. I found most of the cartoon kind of hokey, but I really liked the end. Man, the things that kids put their parents through! This was far from the greatest cartoon that WB ever produced. It was probably just a placeholder between the really good cartoons that year (1937 saw "Porky's Duck Hunt", which debuted Daffy). But it's OK in a pinch.

I, uh, hope that my parents didn't regard me as the sort of boy that the parrot was.