Mysterious Mose - Bimbo and Betty Boop

[Pikminlinkfan23]

In the old cartoons, Fleisher was so obssessed with betty boop they decided to have a peep show.

[31operafan]

Goodness, this cartoon is trippy. Gotta love the Fleischer brothers and their weird cartoons! :)

[eddievaliant1]

4:16 the moose sounds like Popeye

[eddievaliant1]

4:16

the moose sounds like Popeye

[meowkie]

Hey, mmh ooh mm eeh ehh AHH, ey, ee er mm ooh eeh mm, mmm?

Who WOULDN"T fall for that? ;)

[DZrache]

I'm no expert, but I think this wasn't animated by Fleischer. I'm pretty sure it was animated by Grim Natwick.

[daregularperson]

@DZrache And you'd be right! He is uncredited in this one, but he did do some scenes! Check John K's blog, johnkstuff, or go to ASIFA if you want to know more!

[xraindropgirlx]

God, animation is so incredible. Especially early animation. It's crazy to think about how they had so much less technology to work with and yet the Fleischers were able to churn out animation with ten times the imagination of anything by today's standards. Like so many other commenters, I feel I was born in the wrong era...

[meowkie]

@xraindropgirlx Hardly -- it's viewers like you and SeamusLight who help to keep these classics alive by continuing to love them! :) <3

[Bizarronumber4]

The Fleischer cartoons of this era are always amazing to watch. I really like this one.

[meowkie]

Omg...Betty's facial expression at 5:31 reminded me of that one scene from total recall..

[Icemelle]

she looks different

[lilmadlolsinc]

Bimbo's facial expressions are hilarious! Great cartoon!

[princesshope14]

I am not high enough for this right now

[WhyAyeMann]

I honestly think the animation here is brilliant

[fskariem]

is this the first episode? or is it the first episode with bimbo? or is it niether?

[laughland]

@fskariem Bimbo and Betty first appeared together in the film "Dirty Dishes" which released earlier the same month .

[SabraCanadaCrazyTime]

@laughland "Dizzy Dishes" not "Dirty"

[laughland]

@SabraCanadaCrazyTime Oops! - of course - you are correct. I knew the name but apparently I must have been a bit Dizzy when writing my reply.

[TeamRocket2010]

@fskariem Betty's 1st cartoon was "Dizzy Dishes" and Bimbo's 1st cartoon was "Hot Dog".

[TeamRocket2010]

@fskariem Betty's first cartoon was dizzy dishes and bimbo's first cartoon was hot dog.

[Murasame123]

Betty Boop's animation and detail looks surprisingly modern in this short... Kind of like someone took a flash animation, put a greyscale filter on the short, and recorded the audio as something old-timey.

[chinabayeee]

Betty started out in the 1930's as a dog character without a name. Betty's love interest was also a dog character named Bimbo. As Betty's popularity grew, she went through a transformation, losing her dog characteristics. Bimbo remained as her boyfriend despite the fact that he remained a dog throughout his career. Her little dog Pudgy was introduced in 1931

[Lieu3C4]

So like So

visualized So you

Know we Know

that You knew

What They Do

- That's Mysterious Mo

In the Hood

than Be Good !

[HaggisMcCrablice]

0:46--Talk about losing you shirt on a deal! Ah-WOOOOOO-gahhh!!

[HoroGirl]

thought its the OLDER dog betty boop, she looks CUTER in this than the VERY FIRST dog versions of herself...those scared the shit out of me

[WeirdoOfWeirdos]

Weird. Just... just weird! ...I loved it!

[CDCB2]

This is just plain weird. The ending makes no sense. lol

The Fleischer people sure made some classics when it came to weirdness.

[martianmister]

3:51 Mickey?

[112742Jimijoejimi]

would this then count as the actual first appearance of Betty Boop?

[kizzynicholeshow]

no.

[freak49]

now we know where Robert Crumb got his "inspiration"

[Szgerle]

And such, furries were born.

[ZovestaDark]

XD Bwahaha!

[fabiolitashikita]

haha xd she's a dog!

[blondegirlme]

Sooo cute! :X

[xXBalletLoverXx]

this is so imaginative! =D

[cha5]

The use of shadows and darkness especially around 1:47 really reminds me of some German Expressionist films especially

'The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari'.

[Cloaytonem2]

3:10

what is that that he's doing?

[sarahbelle1313]

Heehee, Mr Game and Watch...

[emilygclarinet]

This is so trippy!

It kind of reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.

[hebneh]

Typical creepy, nutty, surreal, oddball, nonsensical, weirdo, slithery, floppy, and musical early Betty Boop cartoon.

[lorezapocalypse]

It's about Marijuana, just listen to the trumpets.

[ksantyp77]

oh, its very dopey nime, but i think thats the time when reefer was still everywhere in usa without any problems - it is a very good piece of art but with kinda halucinogenic influenza :)

[FuzzyDuck]

Betty's expressions and poses are superb! Lovely animation.

[danversdon]

what a bklyn/queens accent! she lost that as time went on. max had some great hot jazz friends.

[KINGBERL]

betty was on them drugs lol

[krazeecats]

Bimbo is Mysterious Mose!

[FrankLJ]

The ending is brilliant - it fits G.K. Chesterton's definition of a nightmare: "We have discovered the truth - and the truth makes no sense."

These people were seriously bent. More! More!

[SteevDragon67]

WOW! that was wonderful! max fleisher was such a great animator! betty is in an early incarnation, but she's adorable from the start! thought it was funny when betty would get scared and her nightgown would fly off! that's pretty risque, even for today in some cartoons! We have to remember that not all cartoons are for children!

[mixtapeyourface]

AWSOME!!!

[HachiRoku4586]

My favourite version of bimbo. :)

[spittingimage4005]

What?

[acla9000]

Even being a she-dog Betty Boop is so cute! The curious thing is that she has a somewhat Josephine Baker look in this cartoon, mainly in the way she rolled her eyes and smiled while she was singing. Lol! Thank you.

[Eleena44]

This is lovely! Kind a freaky in the beginning.

[julierocha18]

she looks better now they changed her look..shes not a puppy anymore lol

[Tsubahi]

Look at Betty Boop's cute hair, which looks very different, too.

[nein333]

i was seriously born in the wrong era....

I love old cartoons.. Todays cartoons blow!!

[brieluvsKISS]

u and me both...these toons rock my sox!!!!

[trisa137]

ya im 9 I only saw the ending 90's cartoons not fair and i was a baby

[rudegalsw2]

I love really old cartoons.

[jsl151850b]

"An invisible man, sleeping in your bed.

Who you gonna call?

Ghostbusters!"

[metalvk]

xD

Yeah! Ghostbuster!!!

[hannaboobera69]

My dad told me when I was little, if I didn't go to bed, Mysterious Mose would get me. Way to go dad! 0_0

[niquejoy]

is this one of her first eposides?

[laughland]

Yes it was. In fact, at this time the character hadn't been named Betty yet. She actually started out as a dog character which they gradually morphed into a human. In this cartoon her long ears are actually dog ears - she isn't fully human yet here.

[lavatime92]

WHAT????!!!!! hahahha

[norristerse]

@laughland

there's something creepy about the way betty boop gradually morphed from dog to human.

a bit like something out of "island of lost souls"!

[deathisyouu64]

So um I miss the moral of the story if there ever was one to begin with

[SwingJugend]

Probably not. Before the Hays code fiction didn't need to have a moral, hence all the references to drugs, sex and violence in the old Fleischer cartoons. The only one with moral I can think of right now is Minnie the Moocher ("don't run away from home, because you might meet a ghost band led by Cab Calloway in the guise of a spectral walrus, which will scare the living 'ell out of you")

[deathisyouu64]

LMAO XD Wish they bring the show back or at least rerun the eps:[

[kaliuzhkin]

Her terror turns to passion/love.

I wonder who performed the jazz track.  It's great!

[SwingJugend]

at 3.01, an instrumental version of "St. James Infirmary" (the subject of another brilliant piece of Fleischer animation) is starting to play.

[dfire]

Is this censored in any way? I thought it was this cartoon where she walks past a window and u can see through her dress. XD Betty was a sex object even as a dog.

[pokemanmaster03]

@dfire No, you might be confusing that with that one Popeye short that i forgot the name of. That had Olive walking against the moon, showing her figure underneath.

[hunterjumper91]

wow, it cant get anymore classic than this! i love it!

[54spiritedwill54]

Max Fleischer, along with Salvador Dali, was a true master of the surreal.

[fuzzypinklamb]

she looks weird.... :)

ppl well cartoons used to be soo creative....

they must have taken a LONG time to make

[CartoonFan56]

One of John K.'s favorite Betty Boop cartoons, and mine as well. It's a very surreal cartoon, as well as cartoony. It's just the way I like Betty. This was back before the Hays Code made her a soulless housewife.

[hanfordbombshell]

The Code ruined it for not only women - live OR animated - in film, but ALL liberated women in the western world at that time. Shame on one group of people telling everyone what's right or wrong!

Oh, and John K.? GENIUS!!

[FrankLJ]

Of course if it's about censoring racist thoughts and speech, you are all for it, right?

[pokemanmaster03]

@CartoonFan56 i think this IS John K's favorite Betty Boop toon-he also thinks this is the cutest of all the Betty's.

[DarkHelmutX]

Bimbo is the man

[ArgleZiddly]

I actually like Betty better as a dog; great animation (and she's really cute too)=P

[SeamusLight]

The sheer number of facial expressions from 2:11-2:20 is incredible!

[Cresantstar]

yea

[HeidiLandRover]

@SeamusLight

Yes! This is why old cartoons are still the best.

[moonshinegirl420]

I love Betty Bopp- but when she's walking around with the candle she kind of looks like a dog.

[ArgleZiddly]

This was back when she still was a dog. She was made to be Bimbo's girlfriend...and Bimbo's a dog.

[grandpoobarr]

that bitch

[toddy198126]

Betty is great!She looks so sweet at the beginning when she's scared!-Betty rocks.

[atticusvinny]

LOL he shirt came off

[littlemorbidboop]

hey in bettyboops history, was there ever a real human woman who looks like betty boop, if so what was her name. I've been told my lil mouth, big eyes and black hair make me look like betty boop. she's such a cutie!

[kaylapooh]

yes. the woman name was Helen Kane. Thats who betty boop was based off of. You can look her up on wikipedia

[littlemorbidboop]

thankyou for your reply, i should've looked it up myself but im more interested in the betty boop cartoons. I love those the mostest, lol. But i also enjoy the historical part of her too. I should've researched it meself im sure but im lazy. Haha.

[cha5]

Not a problem, I really hope that maybe Warner Brothers might consider release a complete Betty Boop DVD collection if this complete Popeye DVD set that Warner Brothers is putting out July 31 is a big seller, Later.

[chansonpopulaire]

eternelle betty elle sera toujours dans mon coeur.

[ToddCMorgan]

I like the use of the song "St. James Infirmary" when Bimbo first appears!

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

She looks better as a person she looks kind of strange as a dog / early sketches.

[cha5]

I agree GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID she does look unusual in the earliest Fleischer shorts from the early thirties,

Although IMHO she had more facial expressiveness in those early toons than from 1933 onwards.

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

Did you see the 1st BB cartoon "Dizzy Dishes"? and the 1st cartoon w/ Popeye, Betty Boop and Olive Oil? Some1 told me that Mae Quastel would provide the voices of Olive,Betty and from time to time even Popeye multi-talented voice actress. Betty was the only B/W character in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit Movie(read it in wikipedia) and her sketched as a dog she does have more facial expressions in the cartoons as a dog then she does as a person your right...

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

& wasn't In the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Mae's last role?..

[cha5]

Yep Mae Quastel was certainly versatile,

I forget just how long she did

Olive's voice in Popeye,

well into the fifties I think,

Yes Who Framed Roger Rabbit

was her last performance as Betty,

I've always felt it was a nice send off for her.

[cha5]

otzi08 has in his videos an interesting Betty Boop film from 1989 called 'Betty Boop-Hollywood mystery-1989-2334s-Part-01' That's really IMHO worth looking at, It doesn't have Mae Quastel doing her voice

(It was done after she died) but it's done in a vintage Fleischer style and is IMHO well worth looking at.

[ArgleZiddly]

Yeah that is a good way to finish off her career. She also voiced Popeye himself for a period when the original actor and gone to war (according to Leonard Maltin's Of Mice and Magic). She really was great at what she did.

[Grouchy2day]

Indeed, during WW2 when Jack Mercer was unable to get a chance to make it to the studio, Mae Questel did do the Popeye voice. Just check out the 4 DVD set of the Fleischer Popeyes. One of the special features is a documentary called "The Voices Of Popeye" and they show clips from two cartoons in which Mae did the voice!

[Vincek88]

She appeared live two more times - in 'New York Stories' as Woody Allen's mother, and 'Christmas Vacation' as the Griswold's not-all-there aunt. What a great gal!

[annoyingmemememe]

erm am i the only one who finds old cartoons scary and a bit naughty too????

[cologneprince]

o definately not. these old cartoons are sooooo weird. maybe its just becuz they were waaay b4 our time. but yea, i do find these animations very interesting, yet disturbing as well.

[cha5]

Same here,

I always find quite a few of these early Fleischer's unnerving but I love their surrealism and bizzareness,

Walt Disney would probably never have wanted any part of the wild twisted humor and sensibilities of the Fleischer toons from the thirties IMHO, I think he was way too straight laced for it LOL.

[Grouchy2day]

Their styles were different. Disney's approach would be for a more realistic approach to cartoons. As if you were watching something live....but still a cartoon. The Fleischers merely looked at the medium as a cartoon. In which anything can and did happen. Their Color Classics from the mid-30's however were very Disney-like in their approach.

[fromthesidelines]

The tune "Mysterious Mose" was later used in the 1938 Porky Pig cartoon "Wholly Smoke", directed by Frank Tashlin, in the "Little Boys Shouldn't Smoke" production number.

[dotoreee]

i really think the cartoons wit betty as dog are the best ones

[dotoreee]

HAW sexual connotations lmao

[no0ri]

1997 a girl called lauren was walikng in a forest and then a she just dissapeared no one ever found her untill 2000 when a yoing girl called Mary found her body and markings on her chest saying: I wasnt pretty enough" and now you have read this she will appear in your mirror saying your not pretty enough and kill you. by the way the girl called mary died shortly after.

To be saved paste this to 5 other videos. THIS TRUE

[dotoreee]

BULLSHEYETT!

[AnimeFreak1021]

you gotta try watchin this shit while high.

makes perfect sence

[NoirOfVeins]

Exactly what I was thinking!

[andrea013191]

I lIkE BeTtY bEaCuSe sHe Is My FaVoRiTe ChArToOn ChArAcTeR

[bettyboo94]

DON'T READ THIS! In 1997 a girl called Lauren was walking in a forest and then a she just dissapeared no one ever found her until 2000 when a young girl called Mary found her body and markings on her chest saying: I wasn't pretty enough" and now you have read this she will appear in your mirror saying your not pretty enough and kill you. by the way the girl called Mary died shortly after. To be saved paste this to 5 other videos. THIS TRUE

[mouzicheck]

Voir betty en chemise de nuit... !!! j'adore. 1930... Ces gens étaient géeniaux.

[Josh3455]

Oh, I love this cartoon. Max Flescher was a genius. This cartoon inspires me. Its kinda sad to think everyone involved in this cartoon are dead.

[allkindsofgroove]

This is kinda creepy, I dunno....

[wildpartygal600]

Is that really the old Betty Boop???

[sio42]

they added her to the bimbo the dog cartoons as bimbos girlfreind so they could get more viewers and hopely be more popular then mickey mouse. after she came on, people liked her more then bimbo and she got her own show. she was a dog here. when she turns human, her ears become earings.

[Cresantstar]

well sio42 your actually right

she was bimbos girlfreind until she became more populer

[Cresantstar]

now this is where she started in 1930

first dizzy dishes second mysterious mose 3rd barnicle bill

and then she did some more in 1931 as a dog

like bum bandit/bimbos exspress/silly scandals/she was also a dog in bimbos inteerision or something

well i always wondered where her head shape came from

[MartyRotten]

Max Fleischer, along with Salvador Dali, was a true master of the surreal.

[Bunnyontherocks]

Wow, the cartoons where kinda dark even back then. But a great little episode, I love Bimbo!

[indiagitana]

When did she became human?

[trajeff]

Great early one! Now we know why Betty was dating Bimbo the dog- she used to be canine....

[Cresantstar]

we already knew that...

if you wathced dizzy dished you would know..

[hlover]

those are kinda freaky looking ears

[Cresantstar]

oh WNanette

she isnt black thats just the tones used in shading

she has always been a white jewish woman

tooken from helen kane

and then tooken onto mae questal

[WNanette]

I'm confused - in the other short her parents (guardians?) were German - but I always fancied Ms Boop as a young Black Miss.

[Cresantstar]

her parents were not german..

they were jewish

which is the oppsite of what our saying..

she has many diffrent storys

but you cant take her boop oop a doop away

[FrankLJ]

Her parents were German-Jewish. Run the cartoon 'Minnie the Moocher' and meet them! You will see.

[Massacar21]

The bat looked like a badly drawn rat with wings, LOL!!

[spritemaster4000]

I don't know. Sadly, it would take nearly 60 years before new cartoons by the likes of John K. Joe Murray and Stephen Hillenburg before we see this ammount of irrelevance in cartoons again. :(

[smurfswacker]

In these early cartoons they'd always do a gag (for instance Betty seeing the shape under the bed covers, or Betty's heart popping out of her clothes) then immediately do it again. I've seen some early Warners cartoons where they did the gag three times in a row! Was is really just to pad out running time, or did they figure the audience wouldn't get it the first time, or what??

[dukeyflyswatter]

Hot and freaky. Are these really early ones on disc?

[chiro9]

well duh she was a dog look at the shape of her head

why would anyone have a head shaped like that and

also all the characters are animals so of course she used to be on in silly scandals she still has dog ears so shes still a dog untill she became human

[archer1949]

innnnteresting......

[Flickerfly]

Have you heard the version of Mysterious Mose done by R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders? Pretty terrific

[zarrachan]

Whoa! I didn't know she once used to be part-dog!

[nowxisxforever]

o____o;

the poppy-head thing she does right as she starts singing is actually quite terrifying.

but wtf. xD;

[raymondo1960]

One of the best of the early Betty Boops IMHO!

Briliant.