"Whooooaaaa-"
"Count Me Out" is a 1938 Merrie Melodies short directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton.
Egghead decides to take up boxing and after some lessons from the Acme Home Boxing Kit, Egghead takes on the world champion Biff Stew.
Tropes used in this short:
- Acme Products: Acme made the Home Boxing Kit that Egghead uses. "What company supplied the home boxing kit?" is the trivia question in a boxing-themed episode of Toon Heads.
- All Just a Dream: Turns out everything in the match was just a dream after Egghead got knocked out by his training equipment.
- Big Ball of Violence: Egghead and Biff Stew get into one, Egghead tries to sneak away from it, unsuccessfully.
- The Boxing Episode: Kinda obvious.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The record tells Egghead not to stick his tongue out since people are watching, Egghead then looks at the fourth wall slightly embarrassed.
- Circling Birdies: Stars appear around both Egghead and Biff Stew's heads as they're respectively knocked out.
- Goofy Print Underwear: Egghead wears the classic white with red polka dots variety.
- Helpless with Laughter: The referee is so overcome with laughter at the sight of Egghead that he couldn't finish his introduction.
- Instant Home Delivery: Egghead sends his order form attached to a toy plane and the instant it goes over the hill, an old mail man speedily pulls up in a mail coach and hands him his package. The old man then rants on how he would have been there sooner, but the bridge was out.
- Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: There's a mix of animals and humans with Egghead and the Mailman as the only non-background human characters.
- Motor Mouth: While commentating on the fight, the announcer was talking a mile a minute.
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Egghead starts the fight by giving Biff Stew a barrage of punches all over, which Biff doesn't even flinch from.Egghead: [aside] It's unbelievable.
- Punny Name: "Biff Stew" sounds just like beef stew.
- Squash Match: Egghead vs. Biff Stew is very much this.
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That: The Acme Home Boxing Kit includes a record that seems to know all of Egghead's movements and mishaps.
- Teach Me How To Fight: Egghead buys the Acme Home Boxing Kit to be a boxer.
