Doom's weasel henchmen and later by Valiant himself in Marvin Acme's gag factory, as he's trying to force the same cartoon weasels (after they capture Roger and Jessica Rabbit) to laugh themselves to death. The lyrics in both sequences were written specifically for the film. Roger's version was released on the soundtrack to the film. Other usage The song made a rare appearance in a live-action film, A Slight Case of Murder (Warner Bros., 1938), in which party guests sing a verse while standing around a piano. An instrumental version of the song is heard as source music 49 minutes into the 1941 Warner Bros. film noir, Out of the Fog. In a 1963 episode of 77 Sunset Strip titled "By His Own Verdict," the tune can be heard playing on a carousel in a scene set in a park. During the late-1960s and early-'70s, The Grateful Dead—signed to Warner Bros. Records during that time—occasionally used this piece as filler material while one or several members of the band were tuning up. On the expanded edition of Wake of the Flood, the track "China Doll" concludes with a brief jam on the piece. The song appeared as amusement park music in the 1979 Wonder Woman episode "Phantom of the Roller Coaster". In 1983, the song was recorded by the British folk band Pyewackett with vocal by Rosie Cross, on the LP The Man in the Moon Drinks Claret. The liner notes read, "Finding love for only a dime" and describe the song as "A 'Looney Tune' based on a Roy Fox recording from the 1930s". An instrumental version of the tune also appears in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), which opens and closes with Looney Tunes characters interacting with each other, and at the end of Space Jam (1996), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), and Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021). It is also used as the main theme to The Looney Tunes Show, New Looney Tunes, and one of the main themes of Looney Tunes Cartoons. See also "Merrily We Roll Along", the Merrie Melodies theme "Miss Susie had a steamboat" References The TV Theme Song Sing-Along Book, Volume 2, by John Javna, St. Martin's, 1985, External links "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" MP3 and lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzbQvPW26gg Animated series theme songs Comedy television theme songs Children's television theme songs 1937 songs Looney Tunes songs Songs with music by