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''Billy Boy'' is a 1954 animated short cartoon by Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and directed by Tex Avery. It is a spin-off of Avery's previous creation, Droopy, and stars his unnamed Southern-accented wolf, who previously appeared opposite Droopy in ''The Three Little Pups'' and later in ''Blackboard Jumble'' and ''Sheepwrecked'' and who would later serve as a basis for the character of McWolf, Droopy's archenemy in ''Droopy, Master Detective''. ==Plot== The Southern-accented Wolf is having breakfast on his farm when there is a knock on his door and a letter is left beside it, which reads: ''Please take care of my little Billy goat. P.S: You will have no trouble feeding him - HE EATS ANYTHING'' True to the letter's contents, the wolf opens the door and indeed finds a basket with a baby goat, Billy, who proceeds to walk through the wolf's house and back, eating anything in its way, such as the carpet, part of the sofa, the wallpaper, the calendar, the globe, the curtains, and the wolf's trousers. The wolf, here presented with palilalia, addresses the audience: "''You know? Now there's a pretty hungry little billy goat-goat-goat-goat-goat-goat.''" Oblivious to Billy's limitless hunger, the wolf gives him a bottle of milk, but Billy spills the milk and eats the bottle, the pacifier, the cutlery and crockery (like a sandwich), the teapot (along with all the tea inside it), and the napkin. Realising that Billy will be more than a handful to deal with, the wolf tries to tie him in the garden to a hook hammered into the ground, but Billy eats the rope and comically eats the top part of the wolf's shoe when he tries to stop him. The wolf checks his foot and finds all ''ten'' of his toes still there, to his relief. Billy then tries to eat the wolf's spare tyre, but is unable to chew the rubber and ends up shaped like the tyre as soon as he swallows it whole. The wolf then tries tying Billy to the windmill, but once again, Billy eats not only the rope, but the entire windmill, leaving the blades spinning at the top even with no support. He then attempts to personally take him away in a wheelbarrow and release him into the wild, but Billy eats the wheelbarrow ''and'' the wheel. The wolf later ties Billy to a kite and releases him into the sky in order for him to freeze to death, but Billy eats the kite, the string and starts chewing on the wolf's arm. Unaffected, the wolf merely tells him to stop and tries something else. He wraps Billy in chains and tries to tie him to a tree on a small island, but this time, Billy proceeds to eat some of the film itself. Next, the wolf places Billy in the boot of his car and tries to drive him somewhere, but Billy somehow eats his way through the car and ends up devouring the motor. The wolf then ties Billy to a horse and then hits it in the bottom to make it run away and take Billy with it, but Billy eats the horse's hair, and the angry horse repeats the same tactic with the wolf, whose hair Billy eats as well. The wolf looks irritably at the horse and says "''Copycat''". As a final attempt to rid himself of Billy for good, the wolf places pepper on a railtrack and has Billy eat the railway, following it all the way to California, which is 2360 miles away. With Billy gone, the wolf tucks himself into bed, but that night, Billy returns, now eating the other side of the railway and covered in stamps of all the States he has crossed while eating the railway. The wolf suddenly awakens to see that Billy has eaten his entire house. Feigning joy, the wolf welcomes Billy back but ties him to a rocket, which he sends to the moon. Instead of dying from the lack of oxygen, Billy eats the moon, and takes the moonlight along with it, leaving the Earth in darkness but don't worry the Moon well be back in a other night . The wolf lights a match and says "''Goodnight, y'all folks-folks-folks-folks-folks''" as the cartoon closes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Billy Boy (1954 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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