What if StudioCanal is founded in 1937?/Carlstoons/Yankee Doodle Quincy

Yankee Doodle Quincy is a StudioCanal Carlstoons theatrical cartoon short released on June 24, 1950, directed by Ub Iwerks and written by Walt Disney. The short was the second Technicolor Carlstoons entry to feature Quebec Quackenbush and Quincy Tenggren after (My Favorite Quebec Quackenbush). The title and introductory music are inspired by the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy, a major hit and a Warner release. Other than the fact of both films being about show business, they have no plot elements in common.

Plot
At Quackenbush's Productions, Quebec Quackenbush, a producer, loaded down with luggage and a golf bag, hangs a sign on his office door reading "No casting today" and leaves his office in a hurry to board an airplane. However, Quincy Tenggren, a talent agent, forces Quebec back into his office, wanting to secure an audition for his client, droopy-eyed child performer Young Quincy Tenggren. The pitch, intended to demonstrate Young Quincy's allegedly wide and varied repertoire, consists of Quincy himself performing an array of musical and stage acts in his usual, absurd and unoriginal fashion. Young Quincy meanwhile stays seated, nonchalantly licking an enormous lollipop and silently commenting on Quincy's ludicrous behavior using signs bearing rebuses, such as "ham" ("excessively theatrical"), "screwball" ("crazy and absurd"), and "corn" ("corny").

The songs the Quincy performs include I'm Just Wild About Harry, William Tell Overture and Angel in Disguise.

Quebec, with mouthing frustration, (as it is his day off) repeatedly tries to escape from the pitch. Quincy handly foils each attempt in increasingly improbable ways, including by turning out to be the pilot of Quebec's plane and then turning out to be the parachute Quebec uses to escape said plane. After Quincy finally takes it upon himself to harass Quebec with an outrageous finale, Quebec decides to just get it over with by allowing Young Quincy to auction.

Young Quincy calmly leaves his seat and begins to sing the song, The Garden of My Heart, in a strong, operatic baritone (provided by Billy Bletcher) that is not only surprising given his small stature but also substantially more dramatic than any of the acts Daffy used in the pitch. However, during a high note near the end, he erupts into a long coughing fit before weakly croaking the rest of the line.

Voice cast

 * Edward Brophy as Quincy Tenggren / Young Quincy Tenggren (coughing)
 * Mel Blanc as Quebec Quackenbush
 * Billy Bletcher as Young Quincy Tenggren (singing)

Credits

 * A Republic Release
 * Stanley Carls presents
 * Carlstoons
 * Color by Technicolor
 * Copyright MCML Stanley Carls Productions, Inc.
 * All Rights Reserved
 * Quincy Tenggren in
 * "Yankee Doodle Quincy"
 * Story: Walt Disney
 * Animation: Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney, Grim Natwick, Bud Fisher, Roy O. Disney, Dick Lundy, Dick Bickenbach
 * Effects Animation: A.C. Gamer
 * Layout & Backgrounds: Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney
 * Special Effects: Ub Iwerks
 * Music: Carl W. Stalling
 * Cinematography & Editing: Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney
 * Approved MPAA Certifcate No. 15242
 * This Picture Made Under the Jurisdiction of I.A.T.S.E.-IA
 * Affiliated with American Federation of Labor
 * Cartoonists
 * RCA Sound System
 * Directed by: Ub Iwerks
 * THE END
 * A Stanley Carls Production
 * Made in Hollywood, U.S.A.

Quotes

 * [In a plane, Quebec hears Quincy sing "We Watach the Skyways"]
 * Quincy Tenggren: [while flying a plane] We watch the skyways / O'er the land and the sea, / Ready to fly anywhere that duty calls, / Ready to fight to be free! [Quebec jumps out of the plane and opens a parachute]
 * Quincy Tenggren: You're just an angel in disguise / Who wandered down from up above... [humming] [Quebec lands on the top of the building and Quincy chases]
 * Quincy Tenggren: [as he chases Quebec] Over hill and over dale we're always on the dusty trail, hunting fox and hunting quail heigh ho I'm a hunting fool, giddy up giddy up giddy up my horse and now your up the final creak, giddy up giddy up giddy up just like the wind I ride my forward steed, sure of foot sure of eye peeling onions makes me cry, this makes no sense so do I, [shouting] So don't you go and beat me daddy to the nearest bar, yeah!