![]() She jokingly calls him "the human buzzsaw" in reference to the loudness of his snoring. Loud Sleeper Gag: The first part of Marsha's flashback has her finding trouble sleeping due to her husband's snoring.Jerkass: John, a very chauvinistic husband with virtually no empathy for his wife.Housewife: Marsha, who is greatly annoyed by John not realizing all she goes through in her day.Despite pulling out the salon's permanent wave machine and scaring a man with the mud mask she had on her face, she still got a parking ticket because the city moved the parking meter and replaced it with a fire hydrant and the cop giving her the ticket didn't believe Marsha when she tells him, "It wasn't there when I parked it." And finally, her hair and make-up appointment, where she had to put money in the parking meter.Going to the department store, the drugstore (which, at the time this short was made, had a soda counter for malts and milkshakes), and the grocery store.Going to the blood bank, where she had to deal with a green-skinned man who wants to make a withdrawal instead of a deposit.Going to the bank, where she had to deal with two elderly customers slowly counting out their large deposits in pennies.and sweeping the floor when the dust comes out the other way Waking up to close all the windows in the house and make breakfast for her bickering kids and chronically late-for-work husband.Putting up with John's snoring until 6:00 in the morning.After John makes a sexist remark about how women (at least, at the time this cartoon was made) have all the time in the world and can never get anything done, Marsha recounts her day to show what she normally goes through: She replies that mowing the lawn was the only chore that didn't get done. The very first thing he asks is if she did any of the chores. Marsha, a housewife, is exhausted and slumping in an armchair when her pipe-smoking husband John comes home. Featuring none of the staple characters, it is instead a darker (and, in hindsight, somewhat progressive) take on the stereotypical human television couple of the era. "Wild Wife" is a 1954 Merrie Melodies one-shot cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. ![]()
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