9.6 /10 1 Votes
Initial release 24 June 1938 Music director Sammy Timberg Producer Max Fleischer | 4.8/5 Big Cartoon DataBase Director Dave Fleischer Production company Fleischer Studios | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominations Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Similar Gulliver's Travels, Mr Bug Goes to Town, Snubbed by a Snob, Barnyard Brat, Educated Fish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hunky and Spunky are fictional characters, appearing in the series of animated short subjects produced by Fleischer Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1938 to 1941. Filmed in Technicolor, the series revolves around a mother burro and her son.
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Hunky is a mother burro and Spunky is her young son. This story takes place in the old west, where a prospector attempts to make Spunky into his pack animal. Hunky and Spunky was nominated for the 1938 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). Fleischer Studios went on to produce six more cartoons featuring Hunky and Spunky: Always Kickin' (1939), The Barnyard Brat (1939), A Kick in Time (1940), Snubbed by a Snob (1940), You Can't Shoe a Horsefly (1940), and Vitamin Hay (1941). The series ended in 1941 with Vitamin Hay. After Famous Studios succeeded Fleischer Studios in 1942, they revived the Spunky character alone for two cartoons in their Noveltoons series, those being Yankee Doodle Donkey (1944) and Okey Dokey Donkey (1958), with the latter featuring a simplified drawing style.
A positive contemporary review of Hunky and Spunky in Film Daily praised the short for introducing "funny new characters," and stated that the short's device of having the animals speak in "donkey talk" "will amuse the kids"
