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This might be the strangest Betty Boop movie I've seen yet. Four
years before the live-action marijuana movie Reefer Madness,
where teenagers toke up on weed and abandon all sense and
false modesty, Ha! Ha! Ha! shows us Betty and Koko getting hi on
laughing gas. Then they get the whole of New York City, some in
life action, hi as well. Cars, bridges, mail boxes, typewriters and
even headstones come to life, sometimes seeming vaguely
menacing (personally, I can't trust a laughing inkwell, another
character brought to life in the film). What's the set-up? Koko has
a toothache and Betty tries to help him out by taking the role of
dentist (after quickly drawing a detailed background setting of a
dentist office on a handy sheet of paper). The odd thing how, every
time Koko screams in pain, she giggles. And when he's sitting in
the chair, she lets him suffer for a few while powdering her nose
and puts on lipstick. But, not too worry. If she didn't do that, we
wouldn't have time to see a duel between a pair of dentures and a
pair of pliers. It's all massively weird, as somebody else noted.
This has to be one of my favorite Betty Boop shorts ever. I love it. I
show it at almost every party I give, and it always gets plenty of
laughs.
This might be the strangest Betty Boop movie I've seen yet. Four
years before the live-action marijuana movie Reefer Madness,
where teenagers toke up on weed and abandon all sense and
false modesty, Ha! Ha! Ha! shows us Betty and Koko getting hi on
laughing gas. Then they get the whole of New York City, some in
life action, hi as well. Cars, bridges, mail boxes, typewriters and
even headstones come to life, sometimes seeming vaguely
menacing (personally, I can't trust a laughing inkwell, another
character brought to life in the film). What's the set-up? Koko has
a toothache and Betty tries to help him out by taking the role of
dentist (after quickly drawing a detailed background setting of a
dentist office on a handy sheet of paper). The odd thing how, every
time Koko screams in pain, she giggles. And when he's sitting in
the chair, she lets him suffer for a few while powdering her nose
and puts on lipstick. But, not too worry. If she didn't do that, we
wouldn't have time to see a duel between a pair of dentures and a
pair of pliers. It's all massively weird, as somebody else noted.
This has to be one of my favorite Betty Boop shorts ever. I love it. I
show it at almost every party I give, and it always gets plenty of
laughs.