21990 SNAFU, stuck in a frozen wasteland, starts complaining that everybody at home has it soft: "They don't even know there's a war on!" Technical Fairy First Class brings out a televisor that shows him just how soft the folks at home have it: Dad builds tanks, Mom plants a Victory Garden, Grandpa welds ships, and his girl has joined the WAC! This is a fairly typical SNAFU with a few good gags and a really weird moment of a horse spreading his own manure on Mom's Victory Garden. Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ***. So, You Think They Have It Soft, eh, Snafu? Christine Hennig 2004-10-01 11:16:53 2004-10-01 11:16:53 3 Very nice and crisply drawn cartoon here. This features SNAFU wondering about all the fun the people back home are having while he’s at war.Dad’s probably playing pool, Mom’s playing bridge and his gal’s probably schtupping another guy. Not so fast! Says his fairy godmother! He pops up a televison and finds out all 3 of them are doing their part for the war! Huzzah! So Snafu 4 Spuzz 2006-01-10 05:14:05 2006-01-10 05:14:05 Cute little cartoon that has aged well. It's a really good time capsule of the times, with great animation and funny gags. Enjoyable and recommend. Cute little time capsule! 4 bread 2006-11-25 09:44:09 2006-11-25 09:44:09 What is interesting here is the use of the "televisor". Television was so new in 1943, only 10 years earlier less than 200 sets owned in the world, that many viewing this might have had a hard time knowing what it was. Televisor,hmm, I wonder when "television" became the popular phrasing? Televisor! 3 sharp357 2007-01-11 00:20:22 2007-01-11 00:20:22 Very good animation and Mel Blanc at his brilliant best. Funny,these were only shown to soldiers and when one or two did make it to public..people were shocked and called it vulgar and lewd..lol. Imagine if those same people could watch South Park,Family Guy and Adult swim cartoons?! Heart attack time..lol. One of the better ones. 5 hudgeliberal 2007-01-11 05:15:20 2007-01-11 05:15:20 There are some delightful cliches in this animated short that might have been thought "inappropriate" for the public at the time: the burlesque show ending in a pelvic thrust, a horse spreading its own manure, "We're working like hell in the old home town." for examples and the technical fairy kissing Private Snafu would have been considered *really* risque. These were intended for men in the armed forces of the 1940s and like their Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies contemporaries, not to be viewed by children. delightful cliches babysprite 2009-03-23 03:16:12 2009-03-23 03:16:12 4 6 3.83