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Betty Boop Headcanons
-Betty sees herself as “more than 16.” She consistently makes playful remarks on how old she is. She doesn’t like when people try to box her in a set age.
-Betty is skilled in ALL aspects of performance. She can sing any form of song, dance any form of dance, and act in any sort of play!
-Betty doesn’t just perform, she CREATES! If she doesn’t like what she’s performing, she’ll change it up herself! She’s written several songs and several plays, sometimes all in the span of a day!
-Betty can ride a motorbike. It was a skill she picked up from posing as “Biker Betty” for some photoshoots. And she never thought to drop it. It comes in handy, especially when you’re fleeing from a mob of obsessed fans.
-Betty is surprisingly skilled at hula hooping! She can do all sorts of tricks with a hula hoop, even several all at once!
-On the other hand, Betty is…not so skilled in jump roping. She fails to even master the most basic of jump roping skills. It’s a bit of a sore spot for her and she’ll snap at anyone who mentions it.
-Betty has a strange talent in that she’s quite good at picking things up with her toes. She generally tends to move around on her toes (like a ballerina) rather than her bare feet.
-In fact, Betty prefers wearing high heels/platform shoes rather than any kind of flats. She likes the length they give her and it's actually easier for her to move around in than flat shoes are.
-Betty has a whole collection of different outfits. She loves to mix and match and she never wears the same thing twice. She even has an outfit for when she’s down to get rough and dirty.
-Betty’s favorite food to eat are strawberries! Especially hand grown ones because she feels store bought strawberries taste too ‘artificial.” Hence, she grows strawberries in her free time so she can use them for all sorts of yummy goodness. She doesn’t tell other Toons of this hobby though because it’s seen as weird to eat human food.
-Betty Boop has a hidden and quiet but simmering resentment for the Hays Code. She hates how much it stripped down her cartoons until she had to act like something she wasn't. When the Code was abolished? She celebrated privately.
-Betty is good friends with Red Hot Riding Hood! Being that they happen to be similar sex symbols in the animated world, it’s only natural that they’d get along well.
-Betty is also good friends with Jessica Rabbit! They frequently joke to each other about Roger, and how lucky Jessica is to have him. They also bond over being seen as "relics" (even though they aren't really).
-Betty also REALLY likes Bugs! They often meet up and “borrow” each other’s clothes for fun. Bugs has even encouraged Betty to get into the drag scene herself…with her babyface and gorgeous body, she’d be great at it! Since she's done it briefly before (in the 1932 short Stopping the Show), Betty has honestly begun to consider it.
-Betty is bisexual.
Happy birthday to legendary voice actor Frank Welker now at 80!
The animation industry would NOT be the same without him.
I could go on about many of his roles - such as those in Dexter's Laboratory and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy/Grim and Evil - but he voiced Jerry the mouse in the Tom and Jerry franchise 4 times, and in the DTV movie Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (a personal childhood favorite of mine) he covered a number of characters whose performances I can never forget!
Also LOVE Frank Welker as McWolf (y'know... that wolf from Tex Avery's Droopy cartoons) in the Tom & Jerry Kids Show - one of my favorite cartoon villains and voices thereof
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All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996) Art Appreciation
May not be as detailed as the first ADGtH, but I really like how the characters are drawn in this one!
Favorite 1996 animated film
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
James and the Giant Peach
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Space Jam
Beavis and Butthead-Head Do America
Cartoon Network Friday Spotlight- “Bad Luck Blackie”
I know the title looks... suspicious, but don’t worry, this isn’t a racist cartoon... aside from a blink and you’ll miss it bit that I forgot...
While we must admit that he was as guilty of perpetrating unfunny stereotypes as much as any of his contemporaries, it’s still fair to give Tex Avery credit for his directorial work. Everything he brought to his cartoons, from his reaction shots to his control on timing and editing, became highly influential in not just animation, but filmmaking as a whole 80+ years on. And the recent Blu-Ray set released by the Warner Archive only highlights his genius.
This is one of his most acclaimed shorts, for good reason. The plot isn’t too complicated for a cartoon- a black cat sees a little kitten being harassed by a bull dog, and offers his services to get vengeance. It’s easy to assume the hijinks.
Again, there is no such thing as too much credit that can be given to Avery’s sense of timing. Every gag delivers flawlessly, even if you can easily guess each result. This is simply a masterclass in using superstition in comedy.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Group Headcanons
General:
-Outside of Tom and Jerry (being that the two were MGM's prime stars) MGM Toons tended to view themselves as loners during the Golden Age of Animation. They never really associated with Toons from other studios. However, as the studio was nearing its end in the 1950s, some of the other Toons like Red, Slick, Droopy, and even Screwy Squirrel began to make connections to other Toons to have a safety net just in case. This worked in their favor when MGM closed in 1957.
-The posters depicting MGM Toons in various situations were carefully taken and posed by the MGM toons themselves. They weren’t all too fond of being photographed in general, but they needed any advertisement and publicity they could get.
-MGM Toons weren’t paid very well for their work. At first they didn’t mind. But this slowly fostered a deep upset within them the longer this went on, especially after witnessing Harman and Ising consistently fight with MGM over the budget.
Culture:
-MGM Toons tended to view themselves as more “high-class” than Toons like the Looney Tunes, aiming for a more "sophisticated" or "surreal" brand of chaos compared to their peers. This translated as a misplaced sense of superiority, which other Toons didn’t like.
-MGM Toons, especially from the Happy Harmonies series by Harman and Ising, don't have the connection to their creators that Tom and Jerry or Red, Slick and Droopy have. Truthfully, they often had to witness Harman and Ising fight with MGM over their budget...and when it culminated in them leaving, they were at a loss at what to do. Especially since it meant MGM wouldn't use them again.
-The Metro Goldyn Mayer (MGM) Toons weren't all that close during their time at the studio...mainly because they never had a chance to interact with each other. When the studio closed down in 1957, many of them (aside from the bigger names like Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Slick Wolf, and Red Hot Riding Hood) were out of a job. Nowadays, the lesser MGM Toons have a BIG resentment for the "bigger names" of what was once MGM. None of said-bigger names know how to fix this...and they're not sure they even can.
-With the exceptions of Tom and Jerry and MGM’s other “stars”, MGM Toons were rarely seen out and about Toontown. After MGM shut down and the work dried up, an MGM Toon is only seen once in a blue moon. And that’s IF they haven’t been forgotten (which most of Toontown assumes they are).
-Because of how closely tied their origins are, MGMs (but especially Toons from Harman and Ising) hate being compared to Disney. Tell them they look like a Disney Toon will have them go red with anger.
The best thing that could happen to a golden age cartoon fan (besides some lost footage arriving- the rest of the missing Oswald shorts and blue ribbon-replaced title cards for instance) is finally happening!
I cannot emphasize how excited I am to own this. Avery is responsible for some (heck, many) of the best cartoons ever made, and it’s time we get to own them, restored in high def.