Rickety Gin

In this 1927 silent short, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit takes on the role of a municipal peacekeeper whose primary focus is less on law enforcement and more on the pursuit of a charming nurse. As Oswald attempts to woo the woman in a public park, his perennial nemesis, Pete, intervenes with a more devious strategy. By plying the rabbit with 'rickety gin,' Pete manages to incapacitate the lawman, steal his authority-granting uniform, and assume his identity to win the nurse's affections. What follows is a chaotic display of early animation physics, where the boundaries between liquid and solid—and sobriety and chaos—are hilariously blurred.