![]() She also stopped wearing jewelry and moving in suggestive ways. Boop was no longer a carefree flapper but instead turned into a housewife or a career woman in some episodes. The Motion Picture Production Code, industry censorship guidelines for motion pictures, also impacted Betty Boop's content. ![]() The innocent yet sexual nature of the cartoons was a problem for the National Legion of Decency in 1934, a Catholic group founded by Archbishop of Cincinnati, John T, McNicholas. ![]() Many episodes also focused on men attempting to compromise her virtue. Some of the cartoons featured men trying to sneak a peek at her frame as she went on about her everyday life. Boop also wore a short dress and bodice that highlighted her cleavage. No other woman cartoon character at the time had a fully-developed figure. It doesn't help that the song he sings (which the cartoon shares its title with) is rather dark, being about a beggar woman who turned to drugs and was later found dead.Fans of Betty Boop considered her a unique character because she represented a sexual woman versus being only comical or child-like. But he is very frightening due to being one of the many surreal, dark images in the cartoon. Wily Walrus: The ghost walrus isn't exactly evil, as he apparently does what he does to show Betty and Bimbo the dangers of running away from home.The Walrus Was Paul: Not helped that the short has an actual Walrus to go with the shorts already Mind Screw nature.Titled After the Song: Minnie the Moocher is titled after the Cab Calloway song heavily featured in the short.That Poor Plant: To show how terrible Betty's parents' cooking is, a flower on the table tries some of the hasenpfeffer, instantly loses all its petals, and dies.Talking Animal: Bimbo, the Walrus, the cat and her kittens.Betty." When she runs back home and hides her bed cover, her note, which her parents never read, rips around the top, bottom and sides, so it now vertically reads, "Home Sweet Home". Signs of Disrepair: When Betty runs away from home, she leaves a note for her parents that reads, "Dear Ma & Pa, I'm leaving Home because you're not so Sweet to me.Security Cling: Betty and Bimbo do this, such as in the page image.Calloway himself is said to have gotten a kick out of the end result, and would lend his singing and dance moves to two more Betty Boop shorts. Rotoscoping: Cab Calloway's dance moves were rotoscoped on the walrus.Pie-Eyed: Bimbo, typical of the animation style of the time.Considering how the flower reacts to eating it, she may be justified. Official Fleischer Studios TikTok Sharing classic cartoon clips & Betty Boop 422. Picky Eater: The short starts with Betty refusing to eat her hasenpfeffer.Lethal Chef: The flower on the table takes a single bite of Betty's hasenpfeffer, and instantly dies.Interspecies Romance: Between Bimbo and Betty.Funny Foreigner: Betty's German-accented parents, complete with the obligatory "Was ist los?", "Dunnawetta!" note for "Donnerwetter!", and "Ach, du lieber Augustin!".Emo Teen: Betty waxes a bit Emo Teen after the fight with her parents when she starts down the old familiar "they'll be sorry when I'm dead!" train of thought. Sandra Marie Fox (née Kessler born July 13, 1963) is an American voice actress who has had numerous roles in various animated cartoon, anime and video games.Disney Acid Sequence: Once Betty and Bimbo make it to the cave, and encounter the walrus.Dem Bones: The acid sequence includes a bit with three skeletons at a bar drinking beer.The Dead Can Dance: All manner of ghost and skeletons can be seen singing and dancing in the cave.Creepy Jazz Music: The ghost Wily Walrus sings the old jazz song that the short is titled after, in order to scare Betty and Bimbo into going home.Doubles as a Visual Pun, as Koko is from the Out of the Inkwell shorts. The Cameo: Koko the Clown is accidentally dragged out of an ink well as Betty writes a note to her parents before running away.The short is in the Public Domain, and can be watched in its entirety here. only to encounter a singing walrus ghost (voiced by Cab Calloway, no less, and the opening sequence features the earliest known footage of Cab dancing with his band), which proceeds to sing them the title song. Folks, now here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher.Ī classic Max and Dave Fleischer Betty Boop short from 1932, this short has Betty running away from her overbearing family with her dog boyfriend, Bimbo.
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