Review of Dime to Retire

. . . which came out a few years later, Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short DIME TO RETIRE deals with a series of escalating pests (rather than CAT's sequence of self-perpetuating stains). Unlike CAT, Daffy Duck has ulterior, mercenary motives as he bumps up a 10-cent room rental by $779 with his menagerie of guest room invaders. Daffy cycles from mouse to cat to dog to lion to elephant, and back to mouse before Porky blows his top (and Daffy's motel). As a veteran of dead, Odoriferously decomposing mice in both Montana and Michigan hotel rooms, the sight of a LIVE rodent munching celery seems benign enough to me. (It would be nice if every night could be spent at a rodent-free Five Star inn, but unexpected travel contingencies occasionally force one to settle for joints such as Daffy's anonymous lodgings in "Coopdeville," or at Saco Hot Springs.) Perhaps Porky feels more put out by his ad hoc roommates due to some religious affiliation from an episode yet to be released on DVD. If he's actually a Hindu or Kosher pig, it might be a whole different ball game.