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The Maltese Milkshake is the 48th episode of The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. It first aired on October 19, 1996.

In this episode, Felix's milkshake gets stolen. So with the "help" of Skiddoo, he dreams up a Detective story where he investigates who stole a madame's "Shake".

Plot[]

Felix is in the middle of making a milkshake, when a scammy phone call occurs in the living room from a "Phone Freak". But when he returns to the kitchen, he finds that the Shake isn't there. Felix tried to look for it, but to no avail. So now he needs to find a way to find his shake and dream it up too. Luckily, Skiddoo had come by with a perfect way for him to do both. He grabs a hammer and slams Felix's head. knocking him out, and starting the dream.

In the monochrome dream, Felix is working as the city detective. Explaining that he loves the city. As he settles down, His client brings in Ursula with an urgent case. Saying that someone's stolen her "milk" shake. Detective Felix assumes that it's the Fatman, saying that Fatmen love milkshakes. As he flies off (literally out the window), Ursula warns him about the "gorillas". After walking for some time, Felix notices the "gorillas" heading into a car. So, using his tail, he hangs on to the back of the car, trying not to get caught. but his plan soon fails as he is thrown onto the front when the car suddenly screeches to a halt. That's when he discovers that the "gorillas" are actually 2 duck-headed guards.

He was taken into the Fatman's lab, along with being tied up and hung above the second largest mixer Felix had ever seen. As Fatman explains that he's about to turn Felix into a "Felix-flavored" Milkshake, he pulls a Lever. causing Felix to fall down into the mixer. As he struggled to break free of the ropes, the mixer began to fill up with giant glops of milk and ice cream. Finally, he pulls out his tail again and uses it as a straw. slurping up all the Milk and Ice Cream in the process. This causes him to fatten up so much, that he breaks the tight ropes. Now a giant bloated blob, The mixer gets lodged onto Felix's stomach. Spinning him around and around, until he flies out of the mixer. Now a milkshake'd up blob, Much to the Fatman's dismay.

He demands the "gorillas" to stop Felix, but Felix sacks them out by throwing the milkshake glob back up and onto them. Causing them to lose their outfits, and turn back to normal ducks. Fatman is angered by this, and reveals to Felix that he was actually Felix's fat client. shocking the cat, she runs off. But not before Felix calls up the police, saying that they should "take their time".

Now that he's solved the case, he returns with the shake. Only to find Ursula having a scratchy mouse's voice. The shock wakes Felix up, as he finds out that it was Skiddoo waking him up. Along with Rosco being the culprit to Felix's earlier shake disappearance. But Felix didn't care about that anymore, As he makes another shake and asks Skiddoo to knock him out again. He gladly does, as Felix returns to his dream. Now with her actual voice again, Ursula and Felix are glad to have the shake back. But before they kiss, the 2 "gorillas" slam the door open. They wanted both the woman, and the shake. It turns out, Ursula was in love with the "gorillas". This shocks Felix, who explains that he no longer loves the city. In fact, he hates it now.

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Trivia[]

  • This episode is a parody of the 1941 Warner Bros. film, "The Maltese Falcon".
  • The episode is told in the style of film noir.
  • There is an unofficial Reanimated project of this episode in the works.[1]

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