Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . Warner warns America of its upcoming travails in the 2016 Presidential Election. FRESH AIREDALE stars Man's Best Friend, Old Shep, as our Heroic Leader Trump. Whether he's kissing tootsies, doling out Trump steaks, drawing record crowds, or moving up from Number Two to Number One in the National Dog Poll, FRESH AIREDALE closely dovetails with every endearing aspect of Trump's Ascendency to Universal Respect and Adoration. However, the fly in Shep's ointment is a felonious black cat that should be locked up! As Shep's Master (aka, John Q. Public) observes, "Why you contemptible sneak--just like a cat!" (If you substitute the word "woman" for "cat," you'll catch John Q.'s drift.) Jealously dogging Shep (that is, Leader Trump) at every turn, Hillary the Cat clubs poor Old Shep into a pond, nearly drowning him, in PHILADELPHIA (site of Crooked Hillary's Real Life 2016 Rigged Convention in which she stole Bernie's Nomination with her Imperial Army of "Super Delegates," of course). Fortunately for America, Leader Trump trumps all of Hillary Cat's Crooked Schemes to Triumph in the end, as Feline Felon Hillary is muddied and brained in a sure preview of Real Life Coming Attractions!

phantom_tollbooth Chuck Jones's 'Fresh Airedale' is one of the most remarkable Warner Bros. one shots ever made and a personal favourite of mine. Extremely subversive in that it refuses to bow to our moral expectations, 'Fresh Airedale' presents us with a set-up that is crying out for a comeuppance at the finale and then declines to provide us with it. Instead, it offers us a scathing political satire which tells it like it is; if you're at the right place at the right time and willing to behave only in your own interests, you can reap the benefits at the expense of everyone else. So we are presented with a sweet-natured, heroic cat who is upstaged at every turn by the deceitful, manipulative, downright evil dog Shep who uses his accepted status as "man's best friend" to gain ever greater plaudits from his master and, ultimately, the rest of the country while the cat is either brutalised or ignored. Cruelly hilarious and constantly relevant, 'Fresh Airedale' is 100% more effective for not giving us the happy ending we all want and expect. While it remains a buried treasure, 'Fresh Airedale' continues to delight and exhilarate anyone who happens to unearth it, provided they are not married to the constrictive notion that good must always triumph over evil in entertainment.

swestley This is a hilarious cartoon. It is an anomaly for a Chuck Jones short in that it is mean-spirited to the core...with absolutely no 'justice' served to the protagonist; but like the vast majority of his WB cartoons, the timing is to a T. And if you like the more well-known classic Warner shorts, you will most certainly relish this forgotten gem. At the same time, you'll likely understand why it vanished. This was clearly Jones finding his voice; after directing various 'Disneyish' cartoons like the Sniffles series, Tom Thumb in Trouble, etc (all great by the way), he got a little nasty. Had he not, though, he may never have found his way to the extraordinary ones that were to follow.

terry40601 Yes it is only a cartoon and evidently the previous posters that gave this cartoon a poor review may not have had the misfortune of working with an individual who was as two faced as the dog. I and many others have! This cartoon is so representative of the "luck" of the rat, it's a true classic. I have used snippets of it so many times in my classes and in the proper setting they have ALWAYS got the laughs and the comments they deserved. I believe it was made as an observation of Society and done so with tongue in cheek for our amusement. It's entertainment, and a lesson that not every negative act has a bad ending, it's made for laughs, enjoy and don't waste energy.