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In the Walter Lantz-produced "Crazy House" (1940), Andy Panda and his dad lose their car in a flood and have to spend the night in a closed-up building that happens to be an amusement park-style "Crazy House," with all kinds of gag fixtures and rides contained therein. They try to sleep, but the house gets the best of them, chiefly because Andy, less out of mischief than willful stupidity, insists on pushing every lever he can find, sending his poor father on a succession of rides and various surprises, including a merry-go-round and a moving "dance floor" that puts him into different musical settings and, in one clever bit, gives him a life-size rag doll as a jitterbugging dance partner. The gags are never very funny, but the animation is fluid and the real treat here is the steady stream of beautiful art deco designs in the background art that begin to be seen about midway through the nine-minute cartoon, all sharply captured in Technicolor.

This is a short in the Andy Panda series produced by Walter Lantz. There will be spoilers ahead:

This is an early Andy Panda short, with Andy still a rather annoying child along the lines of a Baby Snooks, with his long-suffering, incredibly dense and quick to anger father, a personality cross who sounds a little like Elmer Fudd with the temperament of Yosemite Sam.

The two are stranded when Andy's dad drives the car into a deep puddle. Andy spots a house and dad decides they'll stay there tonight. This leads to the first of several jokes on his temper. The house turns out to be "Crazy House", a funhouse attraction closed for the season. The house isn't all that "crazy", with most of the mishaps due to Andy's precociousness or dad's stubborn obtuseness.

There are some good gags involving echos, a cup of water and Andy getting locked in the control room. The cartoon would probably be better if there was more strangeness going on. The ending is a bit predictable.

Good cartoon worth seeing, if not terribly original.