Welcome to Threedonia! I like that part too. That’s one of the few things I remembered from watching it in my childhood; how Leslie avoids all the pies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0BOOgW7rHE

Best part is how Leslie doesn’t get a spot on him till the very end.

I haven’t verified the chronology, but it’s likely this movie spawned the spate of “racing” cartoons that filled my childhood. Penelope Pitstop is a dead ringer for Maggie DuBois.

I know what you mean, but the Editor was a bit of a milquetoast and his wife was rather domineering. Compare with Leslie and Maggie, both strong-willed, independent people. Maggie ultimately learns she cannot do everything men do and resorts to using her femininity to ultimately get her way. Maggie’s character undergoes more change than any other. She begins the film as an annoying, anything you can do, I can do better, feminist but ends the film with a much different outlook on life. The Editor is emasculated, but so is Maggie.

On a later attempt at viewing, however, I was bothered by the subplot where the editor’s wife becomes a suffragette and pretty effectively emasculates him. It was funny at the time, but I’ve gotten old and bitter and touchy since the ’60s.