El Refuerzo

With all the talk that we often hear about athletes using performance-enhancing drugs to win competitions, Friz Freleng's "Along Flirtation Walk" becomes all the more interesting. It starts out with a dance in Plymouth Rock College - which reminded me just a little of the dance in "The Way We Were" - a college for chickens. The next day, there's the big game against the Rhode Island Reds. It looks like it's going to be football, but it turns out that they're laying eggs. That's when the cheating starts, as the Reds ingest billiard bills so that they keep laying. More surprises lie ahead.

I know, the people making this cartoon probably never intended for anyone to interpret anything about athletes taking drugs. It's just that I always like to associate the portrayals with things about which I hear in the news. If that makes me a weirdo, then so be it.

All in all, an OK cartoon.