Juke Box Jamboree is an animated short film (7 minutes) from 1942. It was directed by Alex Lovy, and produced by Walter Lantz for his "Swing Symphonies" series.
A mouse lives in his mouse hole, which is located in the Zowie Cafe. The mouse is irritated one evening by the jukebox, which was apparently left in auto play mode after closing time and is still playing Latin-themed swing music. The mouse crawls into the jukebox in an attempt to shut it down, but the turntable flings him out of the jukebox and into a cocktail left abandoned on a table. After the mouse gets good and drunk, he watches a surreal concert unfold.
Mel Blanc, who worked with Lantz's studio in this era before he signed an exclusive contract with Looney Tunes, provides the voice of the mouse (he doesn't do much more than hiccup).
Tropes:
- Alcohol Hic: The mouse does this repeatedly after getting drunk on Zowie Cafe cocktails. The short ends on one last hiccup.
- Animated Music Video: Basically swing music set to a cartoon.
- Intoxication Ensues: The fate of the poor mouse after he plunges into a cocktail.
- Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: No dialogue.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: A lobster, which jumps up from a dinner plate and starts singing, is drawn to look exactly like Carmen Miranda.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: The mouse sees (hallucinates?) ghosts coming out of alcohol bottles. They're cheery red-nosed fellows that play music on impromptu instruments, and they look a lot like the ghosts from Disney's "Lonesome Ghosts".
- Pink Elephants: Presumably the latter portion of the short is the mouse's drunken hallucination. Or maybe the drawings on the lampshade came to life and started dancing.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: We know one of the two dancing turtles is female, because she has flowers on her head.
