![]() ![]() ![]() Girly Girl: Betty embraces everything feminine in her era.Friend to All Living Things: And pretty much everything in her world is living.The Flapper: She was born as a caricature of this.She also originally had red hair according to her only colored classic cartoon (Cinderella) but all later appearances give her black hair. Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Betty was originally a dog however, later her species was changed to a human.Breakout Character: She was a secondary character in the old Bimbo cartoons, however she was so popular that she became the main character where's Bimbo would end up being Demoted to Extra.Anthropomorphic Shift: Originally appeared as a cartoon poodle, but gradually morphed into a cartoon human.Ambiguously Jewish: Hinted at in "Minnie the Moocher".Action Girl: In The Bum Bandit as the "Dangerous Nan McGrew", she was portrayed as a tough cowgirl.This is probably why she prefers to live with her Grampy instead. Abusive Parents: The short "Minnie the Moocher" has her being yelled at by her overbearing parents, who are demanding she eat an extremely unpleasant meal that they have put on the table-it's so nasty that when the flower who was trying to coax her to just take a bite tries the spoonful, it dies.Was gradually toned down post-1933, but is still remembered today as the peppy, cute youth of her early days. ![]() ![]() Which, I guess emphasizes her naked breasts. Instead there’s a very deliberate moment that calls attention to the fact that the living statue wishes for some modesty. The thing about it is if the statue didn’t pull up the grass skirt, the audience probably would never think about its nakedness, and rather merely accept her as a female statue figure. Why do the Boopinskis have a live nude statue at the foot of the stairs? Why does the statue choose to remain nude until she puts on a skirt? If she needs a skirt, why no top? Is there some sort of topless statue coterie I’m unaware of that feels shame about their genitals? Why doesn’t she just wear the skirt all of the time? This short moment raises so many questions. Betty gets some consolation from a statue which… well, okay, I want to talk about the statue before I do anything else. A flower even comes to life and encourages Betty to take a bite, only to try the food himself and to die from it. The plot of the cartoon begins with Betty’s immigrant parents (so I guess it was Boopinski before they came to America?) yelling at her for not eating any food. The song itself is quite a dark piece of work, with Minnie getting mixed up with the wrong guy and seeing her dreams destroyed. I wouldn’t actually make this inference if the song “Minnie the Moocher” didn’t include a few direct drug references in its lyrics, including a bit about Smokey who’s a ‘cokey’ (as in coke head) and how he taught Minnie “to kick that gong around” (which is slang for smoking opium). ![]()
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