Very well executed

one of my absolute favorites!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

. . . boobs being chief among them, this U.S. taxpayer-funded Pvt. Snafu mind-control animated short indoctrinated millions of men drafted into the American military during the height of World War Two in 1944. Even milk-laden camel teats present deadly danger for America's privates, BOOBY TRAPS documents. But it's inside a desert bordello that Snafu meets his doom, as some if not all of the Professional Ladies (or strumpets) there sport bombs where their boobs should be. BLONDE BOMBSHELL was an actual title for one of buxom Jean Harlow's 1930s flicks, so U.S. citizens already knew enough to beware of Bra Stuffers prior to Hitler's shenanigans. However, a close viewing of ALL Pvt. Snafu episodes reveals a common theme: Hetero Sex in general is a very threatening thing. Perhaps this is because the Looney Tuners behind Snafu recognized that the Advent of the Population Bomb would eclipse the Atomic Bomb and the subsequent Hydrogen- or H-Bomb as a roadblock to Humanity's continued Progress.

"Booby Traps" is another 4-minute cartoon from the days of World War II and it features Snafu again, the world's most incompetent soldier. Like all the other, it is black-and-white once again. In this one, Snafu keeps running into one booby trap after the other while always telling us that he can spot them instantly when he sees them. Not a really funny watch with the exception of one scene: the connection between women's boobs and booby traps. I really cannot believe Clampett went there. pretty hilarious moment. Snafu is voiced again by the legendary Mel Blanc, but even for him, not everyone can be a winner. This was not a particularly good or entertaining watch. I suggest you watch some other better Mel Blanc cartoon. There's enough out there.

Of the mostly thoroughly enjoyable Private Snafu cartoons two have stood out as being particularly great, one was Spies and the other was this. Booby Traps, like a lot of Private Snafu cartoons, could have benefited from a longer length, but really there was next to nothing wrong here even if there are a few parts that are not for the easily offended(ie. the mechanical Hitler). Booby Traps is beautifully and inventively animated, and has a music score bursting with energy and colour(it never trivialises the action, instead it enhances it, then again what do you expect from Carl Stalling?). The dialogue is a chock-full of razor-sharp wit, especially the sparring between Snafu and the narrator, and there are some great gags if very adult and quite daring for back then(not a criticism, just to let viewers know what to expect). Especially funny were the camel with the attached bomb and the scantily clad ladies, the ending's hilarious too. The narration is brilliantly sardonic and Snafu, for a character so inept, is truly endearing, the joke that he does simple things so wrong never wearing thin. The voice acting from Mel Blanc doesn't disappoint and Robert C. Bruce is a witty narrator. Overall, a great cartoon and one of the best Private Snafu cartoons. 9/10 Bethany Cox

OK, so "Booby Traps" is chock full of non-PC material, quite offensive in the 21st century. As long as we understand that, it's one of the funniest things imaginable, made as a warning to American soldiers about rigged objects. Dim-witted soldier Pvt. Snafu - complete with his Bugs Bunny-like voice - is trudging through the north African desert, when he comes across a building full of scantily clad babes (I don't think that they would really allow that in a Muslim country). As expected, Snafu not only gets as horny as possible, but the whole building is rigged. By which I mean that when they say "booby" traps, they really mean it! So, it's a true guilty pleasure. Seeing some of those women, I might have easily fallen into the trap! Pretty fun.