The final shot has Betty and Bimbo kiss, but Bimbo uses an umbrella to get some privacy from the audience, except that the umbrella has a hole directly where their heads are.Kissing Discretion Shot: Bimbo sneaks a kiss with Betty behind a cloud of cigar smoke and becomes flustered when it clears.Inevitable Waterfall: Betty and Bimbo's canoe trip ends with them almost falling down a waterfall."I Can't Look!" Gesture: A flower upon seeing Betty's lewd hula dance, covers it's eyes and for added measure, buries it's head in the sand.Hula and Luaus: Betty is depicted as a Samoan hula girl.
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Hollywood Natives: The stereotypical natives have earrings, nose rings and wear bones, usually on the top of their head Betty is the exception (except the earrings of course) and just looks like herself but with darker skin and hula wear.Flowers of Femininity: Betty wears a flower in her hair, a lei around her neck and a flower lei around her waist just above her hula skirt.Fanservice: Betty's sensual hula dance while wearing little more then a grass skirt.Cranial Eruption: Bimbo purposely does this to himself by hitting himself in the head with a bone and then wearing the bone on the bump as part of his Samoan disguise.Circling Birdies: After Bimbo hits himself in the head, a pair of ringed planets appear over his head and he wears the rings as earrings as part of his Samoan disguise.Chased by Angry Natives: This happens as soon as Bimbo's Samoan disguise melts away.The only physical difference is her darker skin. Changing the Majority: In this short, Betty is portrayed as Samoan.Blackface-Style Caricature: While they are Samoan and not African, the natives (not counting Betty) greatly resemble this.Blackface: Bimbo masks the lower part of his face in dirt in order to disguise himself as one of the natives.The short features stereotypical and offensive islander designs as was common with cartoons in this era.įeatures music by the Polynesian style band The Royal Samoans with their hula dancer Lotamuru used as the model for Betty's hula dancing. The highlight of the short is a hula dance done by Betty using some very fluid rotoscoping. Bimbo sails to an island in the South Sea and meets Betty, who is a native to the island.
We fangirl her because we recognize she’s the first of our kind: a stylin’, sexy, take-no-shit dame who knows the power of a great lipstick.A Betty Boop cartoon released on Septemby Max and Dave Fleischer. (See Mouse, Minnie.) Not Betty-she was allllll woman. Still, before Betty Boop, female cartoon characters were childish stereotypes, or literally the same as male ones with eyelashes and a bow added on.
I’m pretty sure everyone agrees the oversized toddler head on top of her scantily-clad curves is nightmare fuel.
But why do we love her so much? It’s not the cloying sexy-baby voice, the Cyndi Lauper accent, or the annoying catchphrase. An 86-year-old It-girl, she has sold more merch than the all of the Kardashians put together, collaborating with everyone from Jean Paul Gaultier on perfume to Supreme on a satin jacket recently worn by Bella Hadid.
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(The designer even joins her in a three-part series of old-timey animated shorts.) The nostalgia factor for Betty Boop is off the charts. Betty Boop lipstick (on sale today), which comes right on the heels of the announcement that Zac Posen is releasing a Betty Boop dress collection in a new shade called Betty Boop Red by Pantone. Boop-Oop-a-Doop! Editors and red-lipstick fans are freaking out over the launch of the M.A.C.
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