This article is about the animated short. For the catchphrase and scat style, see Boop-Oop-a-Doop.
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The short film begins with a giant Betty Boop flag, which flies over the big top. Betty works as a lion-taming artist and tightrope walking artist. Another of the circus' attractions is Koko the Clown.
While performing on the high-wire, the villainous Ringmaster lusts for Betty from below as he watches her sing "Do Something," a song previously performed by Helen Kane in the 1929 Paramount Pictures film Nothing But The Truth.
As Betty returns to her tent, the Ringmaster follows her inside and sensually massages her legs, surrounds her and threatens her job if she does not submit.
Betty begs the Ringmaster to cease his advances, as she sings "Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away". Koko is outside of the tent, practicing his juggling, and hears the struggle coming from inside.
He leaps in to save Betty's virtue, struggling with the Ringmaster, who loads him into a cannon, firing it, thinking that he has sent the hero away as he laughs with self-satisfaction. But Koko is hiding inside the cannon, and strikes the Ringmaster out cold with a mallet, having the last laugh.
When Koko expresses concern about Betty's welfare, she answers in song, "No, he couldn't take my 'Boop-Oop-a-Doop' away." The film ends with Koko kissing Betty on the cheek.
Quotes
- Betty Boop: "I'll do, you do something, Boop-Oop-a-Doop!"
- Lion: "You dropped your handkerchief!"
- Betty Boop: "You can feed me bread and water, or a great big bale of hay!"
- Ringmaster: "Do you like your job? Well I think if I was you I would...'"
- Betty Boop: "You mean!?'"
- Ringmaster: "There'll be no more 'Boop-Oop-a-Doop' outta you!"
- Betty Boop: "You brute keep your hands off me! Ooo! Help me, help!"
Characters
Cast & Crew
- Margie Hines as Betty Boop
- Claude Reese as Bimbo
- Max Fleischer (Producer)
- Dave Fleischer (Director)
- Al Eugster (Animator)
Music
- "Sweet Betty"
- "Do Something"[2]
- "Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away"
- "The Washington Post"
- "The Peanut Vendor"
- "Sobre las Olas" (Over the Waves)
- "The Wedding of the Painted Doll"
- "Just One More Chance"
Gallery
Trivia
- Was released on the 16th of January in 1932.
- This short was originally known as Betty Boop in Boop-Boop-a-Doop but the "B" was later removed making it Boop-Oop-a-Doop.
- Max Fleischer stated that Margie Hines recorded the vocals and singing for this cartoon on the 1st of October, 1931.
- Betty is strangled when she slaps the Ringmaster for groping her legs.
- A hidden sexual innuendo-based joke in the cartoon shows Bimbo as a peanut vendor, attempting to sell peanuts to Billy Boop. While shouting out peanuts, Bimbo can be heard changing the word to reference the male reproductive system.
- Betty's official song "Don't Take My Boop-Oop-a-Doop Away", titled "Don't Take My Boop-Boop-a-Doop Away", was originally a song written for Helen Kane, however Kane rejected it. Mae Questel sang this song in a live-action musical sequence. In the 1931 Paramount Pictures short Musical Justice, originally Hines (who voiced Betty in this cartoon), was supposed to have portrayed Betty in that live-action sequence, but at last minute was replaced by Questel. Questel also later recorded the song officially on behalf of the Fleischer Studios on record using her own unique "Boop-Boop-Be-Doop" routine.