"Dickie Moe" question...

[TomJerry79]

In the Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry cartoon "Dicky Moe" the captain seperates a whale drawing into sections, labeling the various edible parts. On the rear of the whale he writes "butt". This strikes me as odd. Could this be the first use of the word "butt" in a cartoon such as this?

[J Lee]

Avery played with the same gag seven years earlier in "Drag-A-Long Droopy", when he had the wolf as the owner of "Bare Butte Ranch" (hard for the censors to object when the word is spelt right, no matter what the audience infers...)

[nickramer]

Is it my imagination, or did I hear the attorney from "Who Killed Cock Robin?" used the word when he ask the Stepin Fetchit bird if he did the crime?

[AndrewGilmore]

Actually, the earliest use of the word "butt" in a cartoon occurs as early as 1941, at the end of "Wabbit Twouble"- and is used TWICE!

Just because the second t isn't audible, doesn't mean it's not the same word. :p :p