I think it's been a little while since I've mentioned any of the Dogville shorts, so recently I put one of the DVDs in my DVD player and watched College Hounds.
This is clearly one of the earlier shorts, since the MGM lion is still not at full throat. As you're probably aware, the Dogville shorts spoofed various individual movies or genres that were popular in the early days of talkies. This particular short lampoons the college movies that showed up quite a bit, especially the college football tropes.
The basic plot, such as it is, involves one dog who is heavily in debt to bookies. This dog figures that they to pay back his debt is to fix the big college football game so that the star of Airedale U. won't be able to play, and have a wager placed before that information becomes public. To do this, he uses his daughter to try to woo the star dog romantically, including some canine kissing:
When the star realizes what's going on, he tries to escape but gets locked in a closet, only breaking out just in time to get to the stadium in the fourth quarter and score the winning touchdown. There's even some odd scenes of doggy football:
This being a 16-minute short, a bunch of plot threads are left hanging, and the star doesn't really get the girl at the end. One bit that was fun and not abusive to the dogs was in a bar, when one of the dogs orders a drink. The bartender slides the drink down the bar, and when the drink gets to the end, it does a precise 90-degree turn to get to the dog who ordered it!
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