Betty Boop and Grampy

Betty Boop and Grampy
Betty Boop series
Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Voices by	Mae Questel
Animation by	David Tendlar Charles Hastings
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	August 16, 1935
Color process	Black-and-white
Running time	7 mins
Language	English

Betty Boop and Grampy is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy in his first appearance.

Plot

Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm On My Way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop—all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party.

Grampy is an eccentric inventor, whose labor-saving devices are of the Rube Goldberg variety. For example, he has a device that moves his entire house to the front entrance whenever the doorbell is rung. The glass shade of his ceiling light is rigged to double as a punch bowl and he has modified an old umbrella to slice a cake into wedges.

Grampy entertains his guests by building self-playing musical instruments out of household gadgets (which then play "Hold That Tiger"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberant Grampy.

In other media

A short clip from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode "Hell is Other Robots."

Clips from this cartoon are seen in the music video for The Outhere Brothers' "Boom Boom Boom".

A segment of music from this episode was sampled for the episode "Fire Dogs 2" of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon".

External links

Betty Boop films

1932	Stopping the Show Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee Betty Boop, M.D. Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle Betty Boop's Ups and Downs Betty Boop for President Minnie the Moocher I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You Betty Boop's Museum

1933	Betty Boop's Ker-Choo Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions Is My Palm Read? Betty Boop's Penthouse Snow White Betty Boop's Birthday Party Betty Boop's May Party Betty Boop's Big Boss Mother Goose Land Popeye the Sailor The Old Man of the Mountain I Heard Morning, Noon and Night Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

1934	She Wronged Him Right Red Hot Mamma Ha! Ha! Ha! Betty in Blunderland Betty Boop's Rise to Fame Betty Boop's Trial Betty Boop's Life Guard Poor Cinderella There's Something About a Soldier Betty Boop's Little Pal Betty Boop's Prize Show Keep in Style When My Ship Comes In

1935	Baby Be Good Taking the Blame Stop That Noise Swat the Fly No! No! A Thousand Times No!! A Little Soap and Water A Language All My Own Betty Boop and Grampy Judge for a Day Making Stars Henry, the Funniest Living American

1936	Little Nobody Betty Boop and the Little King Not Now Betty Boop and Little Jimmy We Did It A Song A Day More Pep You're Not Built That Way Happy You and Merry Me Training Pigeons Grampy's Indoor Outing Be Human Making Friends

1937	House Cleaning Blues Whoops! I'm a Cowboy The Hot Air Salesman Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow Pudgy Picks a Fight! The Impractical Joker Ding Dong Doggie The Candid Candidate Service with a Smile The New Deal Show The Foxy Hunter Zula Hula

1938	Riding the Rails Be Up to Date Honest Love and True Out of the Inkwell The Swing School The Lost Kitten Buzzy Boop Pudgy the Watchman Buzzy Boop at the Concert Sally Swing On With the New Thrills and Chills

1939	My Friend the Monkey So Does an Automobile Musical Mountaineers The Scared Crows Rhythm on the Reservation

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