Many of the films Laurel and Hardy made for the studio had the MGM lion replaced by a kitten in the closing credits.The Addams Family (2019): The lion turns mid-roar into Kitty Kat the lion, who sees a red ball and jumps out to play with it, knocking the logo over like a cutout board.The narrator apologizes and we then see the logo and credits. After about 30 seconds into the action, one of the players realizes that the cartoon is forgetting something and stops before he can slide to ask the narrator what happened to the MGM logo. The Tex Avery short " Batty Baseball" started with no logo, just the title of the short.In "Sorry Safari", the words "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon" appear over a cartoon lion from later in the short.In " Tall in the Trap", the logo appears as a "Wanted!" Poster which gets shot at. At the end of " Switchin' Kitten", Jerry reclines in his mouse hole and imitates the lion, with the ribboning from the logo even adorning the hole to complete the effect.On the cartoons directed by Chuck Jones, Tanner the Lion is replaced with Tom, who gives his best housecat "roar".The Lionhearts is about an animated Leo the Lion and his family, and their theme song "Roar" has them all in the MGM logo.A few MGM cartoons from 1942 had Tanner roaring to the tune of the Tiger Rag.
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