Betty Boop and Grampy

Betty Boop & Grampy
Name	Betty Boop & Grampy

 

Name	Betty Boop & Grampy (1935)

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 men, a fireman and a traffic cop — 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 appliances (which then play "Hold That Tiger"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberant Grampy.

Quotes

• Betty Boop: "Grampy, whoa! Such a darling."

Characters

• Betty Boop
• Grampy
• Fat Man
• Boy
• Fireman
• Screaming Woman
• Traffic Cop

Cast & Crew

• Mae Questel as Betty Boop
• Jack Mercer as Misc
• Pinto Colvig as Fireman
• William Pennell as Fatman
• Max Fleischer (Producer)
• Dave Fleischer (Director)
• David Tendlar (Animator)
• Charles Hastings (Animator)

Music

• "Grampy's House"
• "Tiger Rag"

Trivia

• Was released on the 16th of August in 1935.
• At the start of the cartoon, Betty can be seen humming to her theme tune.
• 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".