Guess they couldn't foresee the future connotations of that word. Oddly, the cartoon dog boyfriend was named 'Bimbo'. His classroom was an odd homage to her, he used her name and likeness in some lesson plans, overall it was weird. Apparently I'm just well-read on a lot of weird useless stuff.ĮdgeRunner: OK So Amuse Me: Pants full of macaroni!!: OK So Amuse Me: I had an instructor in college, I took an HTML class he taught, and he was obsessed with Betty Boop. Originally she also had long ears, but when she became so popular that she took over the cartoon as the main character, her design was made less canine and she was established to be a person, though she kept the odd cubically-shaped head proportions of a bulldog or pug.Īnd if you're wondering why I know this offhand, I'm wondering the same thing myself. She was first introduced as the girlfriend of a cartoon dog and was meant to be a dog herself, which is why she's so jowly. Here's an odd bit of trivia about Betty Boop. OK So Amuse Me: Pants full of macaroni!!: OK So Amuse Me: I had an instructor in college, I took an HTML class he taught, and he was obsessed with Betty Boop. Growing up in the 70s-80s-90s I just remember a lot of shorts getting shorter and shorter, with lots of "don't you believe it" blackface bomb explosions and dogs committing suicide in particular producing a reverse Mandela effect Should all be banned like Confederate statues, Washington R*dskins, and that Christmas song promoting date rape. NeoCortex42: Wave Of Anal Fury: NeoCortex42: Flappyhead: NeoCortex42: Dr.Fey: Fark Betty Boop and her racist cartoons. If I remember right she always 'won' or came out on top in the cartoons. The giant rectangular head always kind of bugged me so through solid child logic I decided she had a much bigger brain than everyone else so of course, she would have a bigger head. Before someone chimes in with, "But, but caricatures!", yes I understand that style even though I don't particularly care for it. Even as a kid I thought it was weird and I still don't 'get it', but as I'm not a cartoonist I guess I don't need to. I never understood the rhyme or reason for the oftentimes outlandish proportions that cartoonists would draw a particular character with. How can that be? Her head is in no way rectangular. Ladies and gentlemen, the real Betty Boop: I've seen BB cartoons all my life and hadn't realized the 'character' had been whitewashed. One day after class I was in the computer lab working on something and out of curiosity I searched Betty Boop and come to find out she was based on a real woman, Esther Jones. Pants full of macaroni!!: OK So Amuse Me: I had an instructor in college, I took an HTML class he taught, and he was obsessed with Betty Boop. I think back in 2005 or thereabouts, they released a collection of their "lost" cartoons on DVD and just included disclaimers and an acknowledgement that they used to make some insensitive stuff. Warner Bros didn't try to hide their history the same way Disney has. There were even propaganda cartoons included that Warner Brothers had been commissioned by the Army to make to drum up anti-Japanese sentiment. I bought a 6 DVD Looney Tunes set in 2014, and a lot of those cartoons were still included. They're not necessarily even in the vaults. That shiat was pervasive for a looooong time. Hell, even in the 80s I was seeing cartoons with the stereotypical African cannibals portrayal. Should all be banned like Confederate statues, Washington R*dskins, and that Christmas song promoting date rape.īuried deep in Warner Brothers vaults are several Bugs Bunny cartoons featuring a number of racist caricatures including a WW2 episode where Bugs refers to the Japanese as "little Nips". Wave Of Anal Fury: NeoCortex42: Flappyhead: NeoCortex42: Dr.Fey: Fark Betty Boop and her racist cartoons.
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