 Many Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons had characters based on Durante.One Harman-Ising short from 1933, "Bosko's Picture Show", featured a caricature of Adolf Hitler chasing Durante with a meat cleaver.Two examples from the 1940s include "A Gruesome Twosome", which features a cat based on Durante, and "Baby Bottleneck", which in unedited versions opens with a Durante-like stork.