Bernier and Bob Emmerich. During this performance, Oliver Owl haughtily refuses to share a bag of candy with Beans, who is angered by Oliver's snobbery. When Oliver goes up for his piano recital, Beans decides it is time for payback and sneaks a stray cat and dog into the piano. Their commotion creates a virtuoso performance of Franz von Suppé's Poet and Peasant overture to riotous applause. When the animals jump out of the piano (with the cat chasing the dog rather than vice versa) the ruse is revealed to the audience's disapproval and Oliver, humbled and vengeful, covers Beans in green ink from his pen, causing Beans to fall off his ladder and launch a pail of red paint onto Oliver. Caught in the same predicament, they shake hands as the cartoon ends. This end scene emphasizes the fact that this was a two-strip Technicolor cartoon, with only red and green hues. At the time (as stated before), the three-strip process (with blue hues added) was exclusive to Disney for use in cartoons. This contract ran out in the fall of 1935, and WB released their first three-strip Technicolor cartoon, Flowers for Madame, in November of that year. Production notes Inspired by the Hal Roach Our Gang live-action shorts, the short introduces several new characters as grade school students in the hope that some would catch on. At the time, the only star for the more character-driven Looney Tunes series was Buddy, a meager replacement for the feistier Bosko, who left Schlesinger's studio with his creators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. The entry introduces the following characters: Beans the Cat, a mischievous young cat voiced by Billy Bletcher. Little Kitty, a nervous girl cat, voiced by Bernice Hansen in falsetto. Porky Pig, a stuttering pig voiced by Joe Dougherty. Oliver Owl, a haughty owl who taunts Beans. Ham and Ex, (Hansen and Bletcher) twin singing puppies, voiced by Bernice Hansen Tommy Turtle, a background character. Though the gags are fairly indicative of early 1930s cartoons, I Haven't Got a Hat is significant for launching the career of Porky Pig, who went on to become a Warner Bros. regular for the next 30 years. Oliver Owl effectively disappeared after Plane Dippy; Beans and Kitty (now a couple) and Ham and Ex would continue to make occasional appearances through 1936. References Further reading Beck, Jerry. (2005) Audio commentary on "I Haven't