The Impractical Joker

This article is about the Betty Boop episode. For other uses, see Impractical Joker.
The Impractical Joker
Directed byDave Fleischer
Produced byMax Fleischer
StarringMae Questel
(Betty Boop)
Everett Clark
(Grampy)[1][2]
Jack Mercer (Irving)[3]
Music bySammy Timberg
Animation byFrank Endres
Thomas Johnson
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • June 18, 1937 (1937-06-18)
Running time
6 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Impractical Joker is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.[4] Jack Mercer (the voice of Popeye) provides the voice for Irving.

Synopsis

Betty Boop is baking a cake, when Irving the practical joker comes for a visit. Betty becomes the victim of such pranks as shaking a false hand and getting squirted in the face. Betty calls on Grampy for help, and he quickly rigs his apartment to counteract Irving's pranks and send him on his way. Irving gets the last laugh, when Grampy lights the candle on the cake. Irving replaced the candle with a firecracker before he left. That last laugh is short-lived, however, when the picture of a warship that Irving is standing next to shoots water at him continuously.

In other media

A short clip from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode "My Three Suns".

Some clips of the redrawn colorized version were used in the compilation Betty Boop For President: The Movie (1980).

This episode re-uses the same animation of Betty Boop losing her temper from "House Cleaning Blues".

References

  1. ^ Komorowski, Thad (15 September 2014). "Fleischer Promo Art #16: "Betty Slays 'Em!"". Cartoon Research. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999). McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
  3. ^ "The Impractical Joker (1937 Original…Cartoon)". YouTube: Revelation-(E). 31 January 2024.
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.


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