. . . those done by Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes crew. The robotic diapering of the sea gull and the admiral being "piped" aboard a ship are the type of sight gags favored by Warner Bros.' crack team of animators, who produced 26 of the U.S. Army's 30 Pvt. Snafu cartoons. These "training" War Propaganda pieces vary in quality, and SEAMAN TARFU: IN THE NAVY is NOT the worst among them (that would be the two from the lazy U.P.A. "cartoonists," A FEW QUICK FACTS: INFLATION and A FEW QUICK FACTS: FEAR). However, its musical score is not as rich as those that Warner's Carl W. Stalling composed for the large orchestra always at his disposal. Though TARFU features sex gags similar to those of the Looney Tuners' SNAFUs, they're much tamer and more repetitious. The focus of TARFU seems to be the Army poking fun at the Navy--all financed by U.S. taxpayers. (The average SNAFU cost almost $10,000, or about two of Today's Trump Net Worths, adjusted for inflation.) It's not hard to see why TARFU was the very last entry in this series ever to be released.
