Editing Magical Maestro (section)

==History==
The concept of cartoons with insinuating situations is hardly new&mdash;Tex Avery especially featured a few quick jokes of this nature in his cartoons. ''Magical Maestro'', for example, shows Poochini with a male and female rabbit on each arm. He lowers his arms behind his back and when he raises them again, he now has an additional dozen baby rabbits on them, six on each arm.

This cartoon features a gimmick only seen in Tex Avery films, the "hair gag". If a film strip was incorrectly loaded into a [[movie projector|projector]] at a movie theatre, it could rub against the "gate" mechanism and shave off tiny "hairs" of celluloid. A hair that became caught in the gate would sometimes skitter in front of the projector's lamp, causing the image of a gigantic hair to appear on the movie screen. While singing, Poochini notices a hair on the bottom edge of the screen and pauses briefly to pluck it and toss it aside,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Canemaker|first=John|title=Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-1955|publisher=Turner Publishing, Inc.|year=1996|isbn=1572152702|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcEHAAAACAAJ|pages=194}}</ref> one of many ways in which Avery's characters broke the [[fourth wall]]. The gag had previously been used in the 1941 short ''[[Aviation Vacation]]'', also directed by Avery.

The role of Poochini is portrayed by [[Butch Dog (Tex Avery)|Butch the Irish dog]], a frequent star of Avery's cartoons of that era (often alongside [[Droopy]]).