Greetings Bait

Greetings Bait is a 1943 Oscar-nominated^[1] Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng.^[2] The short was released on May 15, 1943.^[3]

Greetings Bait
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	May 15, 1943 (1943-05-15)
Running time	7 minutes

It features a split-screen view of a crab's view of the underwater world in which his independently moving eyes (on eye stalks) see the world completely differently from each other. The worm and the fisherman are caricatures of Jerry Colonna, and the title is a reference to his weekly greeting on Bob Hope's radio show, "Greetings, Gate." The same worm was also featured in the 1941 Warner's cartoon, The Wacky Worm.

Personnel

None of the filmmakers are credited on screen, especially on the Blue Ribbon reissue. The cartoon personnel are as follows:^[4]

• Director: Isadore Freleng
• Producer: Leon Schlesinger
• Voices: Mel Blanc
• Character animation: Manuel Perez, Ken Champin, Gerry Chiniquy
• Story: Tedd Pierce
• Music: Carl W. Stalling

Home media

It is available on the Action In the North Atlantic DVD (part of the Humphrey Bogart: The Signature Collection, Vol. 2), and the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2 Blu-ray.