Betty Boop-1932-Betty Boop's Ups and Downs

[@fussymuller7875]

Saturn is the Planet assosciated with the Juice. The dude knew exactly what he did and had the proper knowledge.

[@plumplekoon]

Yeah Max (((Fleischer))) wonder how he learned their deep secrets

[@jahzd4028]

3:15 - Oy vey! The Saturn cries out in pain as he buys Earth.

[@rhojif.2043]

Incredible symbolism.

[@stevepaul6955]

I'm always puzzled when they put Betty Boop in with 50's icons like Elvis, James Dean , and Marilyn Monroe. Betty Boop was from the 30's and the depression era.

[@dejota1136]

Steve Paul what I'm guessing the there must have been TV producers that bought up the rights to the 1930s Betty cartoons and re-aired them after school in the 50s or something like that.

[@wesdotwesdot3246]

Betty Boop remains a icon and is as popular today as she was from her beginning. Keep in mind, during the great depression era Betty Boop as well as any and all entertainment was a certified escape from terrible times

[@manager-nim2623]

Probably because a lot of people were too poor to think of paying to watch her cartoons in the cinema

[@stevebez2767]

David Westapher 'GD'untuned yell rings bell 'all back'spy pry ring hell ceaser geezer lie cents swell?

[@darknessanddistance4469]

@@manager-nim2623 too poor to pay a dime?

[@Fellipe2k5]

This is not a cartoon but a documentary

[@xdashlydia]

It's definitely about the Depression.

[@samanthavictoria3308]

IS NO ONE GON TALK ABOUT THE COW WITH A DRINKING PROBLEM AT THE BEGINNING

[@RIXRADvidz]

was that a 'Cow'?

[@davidwesley2525]

A cow drinking her own milk . That's kinda gross.

[@madhatter6790]

You'd drink too if you had to leave your home with no choice

[@mr.president9220]

That was a bull. He was not getting milked.

[@davidwesley2525]

@@mr.president9220 HOW GROSS !

[@metaleater9]

At first it didn't make sense to me that the lowest bid was the one to win but I quickly realized the planets symbolize the different methods of attaining land and its associated cost. Mars is war and the first to bid but the most expensive. Venus is love bids love and is almost as expensive as Mars. Then a clearly Semitic Saturn comes last and undercuts Venus by half.

[@Kirke182]

I think it's that it was the Depression and prices were tumbling and many thought the Jews were behind it and were profiting from it and the Fleischers were poking fun at it.

[@jsl151850b]

In the process of selling a house that needs $$$ in renovations by the next owners, this hit a little too close to home.

[@AngelSamael]

Man, 1930 times were weird.

[@nicholasramsey5331]

Mind-altering drug use was quite frequent and abundant in the 1920s and early 1930s. The 1920s and early 30s was a very liberal era with the encouragement of mind-altering drug use, the trying out of new social norms, etc. Cartoons didn't start to be censored until the mid 1930s.

[@artisticagi]

Nicholas Ramsey which kind of drugs?

[@darknessanddistance4469]

Cocaine and marijuana

[@dementedpurplechicken]

Another JonTron and 1930s cartoon viewer I see

[@terranceaddison4599]

Very emotional times i believe. The fact its the great depression. I would loose my mind too if just lost my whole livelihood in a single bound

[@emojonal]

3:28 I noticed.

[@QuisquamHam]

deeply drenched in allegory and even some esoteric Saturnian secrets.

[@Shavenhamster]

Am I alone in noticing that the Saturn caricature had a Jewish vibe also? Alot of these older cartoons are saturated with esoteric and occult symbolism.

[@nickg5341]

@@Shavenhamster also people were just extremely antisemitic

[@Shavenhamster]

@@nickg5341 The Fleischer brothers were Jewish. But there is a connection between Saturn and Jews.

[@neetweasel6277]

@@Shavenhamster What cartoons out there got these esoteric and occult symbolism?

[@Shavenhamster]

@@neetweasel6277 The Fleischer brothers cartoons. Watch Bimbos initiation there is a few others also and some of the Disney stuff.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

Hands rubbing intensifies by Saturn.

[@rustykuntz94]

An obvious depiction of a Jewish fellow

[@_Patton_Was_Right]

We fought the wrong people

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

I have many freinds of an older religion. I will never subscribe to blanket statements, but there is a there, there.

[@yeehaw4403]

Mfs love being cryptic man say it clearly or take that weird woke-virtue signaling back to ur fr*ckin diary

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

@@yeehaw4403 Should I write in my diary in pen or pencil?

[@TechTins_Projects]

Very funny for sale signs. For those at the time this came out were living in the great depression when everything was for sale but there were no buyers.

[@royalwilson3197]

Why am I hooked on cartoons from the 30s ask- my great grandma

[@stoic521]

Based and cubepilled.

[@Spineless-Lobster]

I think it’s cool how they portrayed the planets as the Roman gods, Mars (Ares in Greek) is the god of war, Venus (Aphrodite in Greek) is the goddess of love, and Saturn (Chronos in Greek) the father of Jupiter (Zeus in Greek)

[@anthonymarchese2488]

Saturn is clearly being represented as a caricature of a jew

[@nonyabuisness6642]

@@anthonymarchese2488 It is the Jewish star

[@gmontenegro9711]

@@nonyabuisness6642 666

[@EddVCR]

This is what the Great Depression must’ve felt like... feeling like you could never have a stable living anywhere in the world which seemed to have flipped upside down. With the recession (if not depression... fingers crossed it won’t be) that will surely result from the COVID-19 pandemic, I wonder if we will feel like this too.

[@eriaizawa670]

Trust me you’re not alone

[@e.tezani3877]

People are too busy making stupid tik toks to create anything visionary..

[@intoTheCosmos_]

its starting soon Edd.

[@AlseyMiller]

Took 2 years, but we all say this coming in 2020, now we just wait for the jews, I mean the Fed, to buy all the assets.

[@tinabonnemann2971]

The message is clear. There is no Comfort Zone. Thanks 💖

[@mryes413]

Why was Saturn's nose big?

[@bull1234]

Esoteric! He called the moon a Gollum after he paid

[@Disintegral]

So much coded information in this, wow. Reset.

[@HooDatDonDar]

P.S. Saturn in myth, is the father of Jupiter, and is usually shown as an old man (see the scary Goya picture "Saturn devouring his son"). The Fleischers showed Saturn as the kind of old man *they* knew from the old neighborhood. Their version of 'down home' humor. It is as valid as any other immigrant group's experience.

[@Sage.Whisperer]

I just looked up the painting, you weren't lying about it being scary. It actually caused me to jump a bit haha.

[@EddVCR]

Thanks for the explanation!

[@user-tf5lg7fc9s]

Except he isn't being shown as just any old man, but a member of the tribe of Satanist who worship Saturn and wear tiny hats and have big air sucking appendages on their face. Who are also famous for rubbing their hands together when they scheme.

[@derklaus9515]

No it rubbed its hands together lol. They were definitely oveying it as a merchant.

[@domagojcapko4152]

In Greek mythology he is called Kronos I think

[@wesdotwesdot3246]

So Cool! This is what cartoons can be about. (used to be about) Sureal... absolutely, as well as simply fun. Wonderful imagination. Great Escape! dw

[@williamhanekom9882]

3:53 I adore that shot with the trees and houses being pulled up into the sky. Very dreamlike. Don't see that kinda artistry in modern cartoons now.

[@Fazbear-official]

That’s how physics work in cartoons

[@nicholasramsey5331]

The poor, sad, depressed cow drinking away his sorrows with bottles of milk!

[@Ichijoe2112]

Did you just assume that Cows gender?

[@davidwesley2525]

@@Ichijoe2112 a cow is a SHE .

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

I wish I could buy a house that's falling apart for only a few thousand bucks. That's a steal.

[@theghostofsw6276]

You'll get houses cheaper than in the cartoon in Detroit.

[@charlesmangum3108]

Silly and weird. LOVE IT!!

[@RUSSVJM]

The Jazz section toward the end is a 1932 commercial recording by Billy Banks Rhythmakers-- Bugle Call Rag with Red Allen, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Sullivan etc. This was a Brunswick-ARC recording. Fleischer seemed to have an arrangement with them because Cab Calloway, Don Redman, Sol Hoopi and Dave Rabinoff, musicians who appear in these cartoons, were all Brunswick artists. Louis Armstrong was the exception

[@mtlicq]

Wow !!! Your comment is from 11 years ago already ! and I'm the first to comment back? Wow!!! Your information on the music history is phenomenal !!! Thanks very much !

[@k1elbasa]

I love how the soundtrack drives the action. Everything is in time with the music ... and some pretty hot jazz.

[@CJODell12]

Fun fact: The two animators who worked on this cartoon (Willard Bowsky and Ugo D'Orsi) also animated Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions.

[@OzCroc]

"Bae come over" "I can't there's no gravity" "My parents aren't home" 4:26

[@笹原煌太]

Tom and Jerry - Mouse Ups and Downs (1945) Opening Title & Closing

[@笹原煌太]

A MGM Cartoon Release On October 20, 1945 and got reissued On January 6, 1951

[@Canuckster1169]

do some research on ancient gnostic history on saturn and things may make a little more sense.

[@itsacoinkydink]

Why does it steal our gravity?

[@unstrungstudios818]

We saw a little action on this theory when saturn at its closest ..dudt storms on Mars and on earth in places like Arizona and new Mexico.. haboobs I think there called.🤔

[@foxopossum]

I’m lazy, just tell me pwetty pwease?!

[@lex.cordis]

@@UkrainianHistVideo Hence, SATURday. In fact, every day of the week is named after a planet/star.

[@dpf4058]

I love the old animation,Betty sure had some crazy adventures,I prefer the earlier 30's over the later because of censorship,she started out as a sexy girl and by the end of the decade she was turned into a homebody.

[@davidwesley2525]

The HAYES CODE couldn't allow BETTY BOOP to be SEXY & FOXY anymore. When BETTY BOOP became a modest homemaker her popularity declined.

[@eriaizawa670]

Her adventure started to get a little too plain as soon as they start the censorship. But I understand it was for respecting women and all that but stillThey could’ve kept the old style by making in animate objects come to life

[@ErikaTBus]

She origibally started out as a sexy, anthromorphic dog, but I agree. Anything pre-code is always better. The addition of Pudgy made the more 'wholesome' later cartoons better IMO

[@lesb_socal]

Early Boop cartoons were unbridled creativity

[@lakeembryant4290]

Saturn was a Joooo

[@krazeecats]

thanks I have never seen this one before!

[@greenyvilanboy6794]

1:12 I swear to god if that’s A Bull i’m Going to Have to Question what’s Inside Those Bottles....

[@rachelsealesg.3314]

Look where the cat is pulling 🤣

[@davidwesley2525]

@@rachelsealesg.3314 THAT'S GROSS !

[@theghostofsw6276]

Well.......anybody can milk a cow.

[@yohannbiimu]

It isn't racist. There's the obvious Jewish stereotype in it, but Max and Dave Fleischer were Jewish themselves, so it was hardly a case of antisemitism.

[@sanctionskillkids3541]

The fact that Fleischer was a Jew doesn't mean he wouldn't borrow from anti Jewish themes that were dominant in the culture of his time and place.

[@lisahinton9682]

@@sanctionskillkids3541 It doesn't mean he would, either! Calm down and quit making everything you see into something ugly.

[@Shavenhamster]

This cartoon is deep if you understand the symbolism.

[@mtlicq]

We are a spoiled and ultra hyper sensitive society nowadays

[@TheLouis3877]

@@lisahinton9682 you seem like the person frothing at the mouth clutching your pearls, You big MARY! the person above only stated that Jewish people can also use antisemitic stereotypes.

[@PauloDLara]

Saturn moon matrix lol

[@necelticsox]

the giant elephant turning into america could be a symbolic thing because the country was ruled by a republican at the time

[@AngelSamael]

And the entire world is for sale is obviously referencing all the properties that would have been repossessed.

[@manager-nim2623]

You can't miss America since it's the biggest elephant in the room

[@jacklynlopez2323]

Excellent point!!

[@bloodmoonphoenixrising8049]

@Paul Boccuti Mars

[@yeehaw4403]

The entire video is dripping in symbology

[@Bizarronumber4]

I love these early 30s Fleischer cartoons. They're so zany and surreal!

[@yohannbiimu]

@ 0:27 Ugo D'Orsi would later go on to work for Walt Disney where he would animate some huge scenes involving LOTS of water, namely "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in Fantasia and the sequence in Pinocchio where Monstro the whale chases him and Geppetto. He and Cy Young were the basis for the Disney effects department during their hey-day during the mid 30's and early 40's.

[@seizuresalad91]

Saturn's voice sounds suspiciously Jewish...just saying.

[@DeepEye1994]

There's something endearing about the moon selling the Earth to a bunch of planets.

[@megg3223]

DeepEye1994 indeed

[@christinaeve546]

but he sold it to the lowest bidder :/

[@mtlicq]

@@christinaeve546 sold to the lowest bidder because gravity etc was reversed

[@leifharmsen]

The lowest bidder winning was a comment on the economy at that time. Boop cartoons are littered with such commentary. In one a baby in business man drag reads the "Stuck Market" section of a newspaper, etc.

[@OneWhoKN0ZE]

The economy went down because the cycle is a manipulation by the Jesuit Banksters. Saturn is symbolic of the adversarial enemy we battle for control while under a spell of black magic in this COOY version of the whirled.

[@balukrishna5827]

Classic cartoon Beautiful Betty Boop i always love it

[@kpyng]

Betty Boop walking on air makes me walk on air. ;-)

[@michiganmadeproduct5657]

Saturn, uh. Interesting.

[@yungdynamic471]

very interesting

[@InTheGardenOfGethsemane]

innit

[@dangerjoe8911]

Moon: "How much is this big ball worth? Full of mirth since it's birth - It's the cheapest buy on earth!" Mars: "I bid 50!" Moon: "mmh - 50 is the bid? I'll die! Me-oh-my, don't be shy! Folks, the limit is the sky!" Venus: "I bid 40!" Moon: "40 is the bid so far? Park your car, where you are! It's your wagon to a star!" Saturn: "I'll bid 20!"

[@Blondie42]

Never said wtf so often while watching an old cartoon.

[@Shako_Lamb]

I LOVE the music that plays from 4:00 5:26.

[@danielafreedman]

A hidden message from Betty Boop? We learn in earlier cartoons that Betty's parents were Jewish. She is the wandering Jewess. Notice the old Jew is dressed up like Saturn and Mars and Venus like the old warrior of Europe and the beautiful maiden. Who owns the world-- the Old Jew even though he bids only 20. He takes the wealth and gravity out of the earth and the whole place floats away into outer space. Luckily it all comes crashing back after WWII.

[@user-sc69]

Lol brimgs back memories of the 70s but i never seen the sublime msg then.thanks for the vid

[@Skrimpish]

How shocking, there is not a wikipedia addendum stating juice and saturn don't rub their hands emphatically...

[@sandrixhozart7838]

That episode was new to me

[@jillthepilloneal1107]

Gravity related to Magnets Truth!!

[@gracegrace7600]

Did the mood just buy the earth😌😌😌🙄🙄

[@Magnetron33]

Don't remember seeing that one. Sufficiently bizarre Fleischer! . Was opium big back then or were they just that alternate universe?

[@ErikaTBus]

This is my favorite Betty cartoon. I love them all, but this one always makes me laugh so hard for some reason :)

[@keenkeen92]

So the person who bought the world and ruined it was a Jew? Did anybody miss that?

[@veronical.lianmaseras4543]

where’s the lie?

[@openrealm]

Noone missed it. I found it insightful that it was Saturn that depicted Jewish consciousness.

[@itsacoinkydink]

Good one

[@MediaSubliminal]

How could we miss it? We live it everyday.

[@michaelr.singer5910]

Isn't it amazing that they claim the media is owned by Jews when this sort of this is what the media shows? I was reading into that the whole time. Not sure how the auction thing worked or compelled, unless the comment about the body politic is the people that sold the world to Jews were fools that couldn't do math. Was there a knock in that generation on auctioneers as a class of people? Usually Mars would have got the bid at $50. Venus bids down at $40 and the auctioneer decided that would be winner if no one spoke up. Suddenly I was totally confused. At this point there's nothing anti semetic in the episode, it's just a rigged game. Then comes Saturn, Planet: Jew, who wasn't clealy Jewish at first, so the $20 low ball just seems like it's how the game is played. What was extremely interesting and telling was the choice to make Saturn -- and Saturnine means beautiful, so not sure what the slam there was -- the Jew, rather than her slightly larger neighbor that had all the hallmarks of being the right choice if you're trying to get subliminal messages to the public about a group of people you don't like: largest planet, full of hot air aand most convincingly, the planet's literal first consonant is "Ju", or, of course "Jew". Why didn't they go with "Jewpiter"? At first I thought it was a visual thing, the rings around Saturn's head make it seem like the orthodox Jew's brim hat, because the time, Jews were largely coming to the country through Ellis Island and lived in New York, so it was the association with the brim hat that made it the most convincing Jew. I mean, maybe at the time the public conception of the Jew was an orthodox jeweler in Brooklyn. Even though American Judaism was well established by 1932 and it was a reformed-conservative movement that looked more midwestern than Brooklyn where men shaved and maybe at most wore a yarmulke. I guess that the brim hat was a stronger association even that "Jewpiter" -- no one would have missed that. Could they have? Or were they stating a preference for the assimilated Jew? Maybe it's just that, even in 1932, you wanted to try and sneak in canard so there's less chance people complain against the studio and cancel your organization. Bad press is bad news, after all. Jewpiter would have definitely pissed off American Jews, who were not rich at all at the time (not to suggest they are not, most aren't; there's a handful of well known wealthy Jews, though, who are a real problem for the rest of their middle income class, just ask any of them). Better you make a cerebral game in ascribing the Jewish features to Saturn to prevail in the courts of law and of public opinion. It's a giant tease, in other words, because it just gives an anti semitic judge or studio head a chance to say "what? I don't see it, it's not JEWpiter next door, I don't see why you people are complaining" insincerely and snidely, knowing full well what the media is peddling. Sort of like like most of anything that comes from Trump communication deck. Things don't change, do they. Indeed, the cartoon on its whole isn't an anti semitic purpose. But this episode was suddenly metaphorical about global politics. It truly came out of nowhere. Like, have you seen the Betty Boop Halloween episode? The only thing I can get out of that episode is that cocaine and heroin are some great drugs that make you cold and sick when you withdraw. Most other episodes extol jazz and multiculturalism, and on this episode you even see acknowledgment of scientific law in the Planetary arrangement and the focus on Earth's magnetism as the reason for gravity. Of course the most defining anti-Christian element to Betty Boop is the woman herself, who is a sexualized non-church going S&M sub (I think sub, her whole demeanor is submissive, because let's not forget how women were viewed then, also), so it's interesting -- nay, depressing, truly, given the year and what we knew happened to the Jewish people after that, it's depressing -- to see an agnostic liberalism suddenly cotton to a distinctly anti-semitic view. Weren't the Jews their friends? What happened there?That does not compute with conspiracy theorists who are the usual peddlers of anti semitic canards. Wasn't Hollywood Jewish and liberal? Isn't the media Jewish owned, in their dumb machinations? Because here's a cartoon proving that Jews weren't welcome and that they were outright disparaged by the media. There's jazz and science and sexiness. And also a real disdain for Jews. So many things don't follow. But back to the auction: the comment must have been about the "idiots in charge that would sell the world to the cheap, formless, bumbling Jew". This is also an interesting statment if you consider the anti semitisms of yesterday and today. Back then, it appeared that the Jews weren't scheming or thoughtful. I mean Saturn is such an aloof idiot. Doing things for nothing like pulling the magnetism from the Earth and then reinserting it. That's like tactile learning of a two year old, not exactly the stuff of a people supposedly of The Book. The ultimate statement: Jews are bumbling, dumb, infantile, thoughtless, formless. Their money is old money --- they just have it, right around their necks. And their bumbling idiocy will get us all killed and is the reason for our problems. The can inflate and crash a market because of their lack of awareness. In a moment, I'll explain the implications of that understatement, because they're not small. But now, at least, compare the view of the Jew as bumbling do-nothing'er with today's ant-semitism's contention about the Jew. It's completely opposite of today, where antisemitism seems to have largely tossed that view of the International Jew for one of being a clever, scheming, deep state institutionalist with an agenda. The Jew of today would have been far more purposeful. At some point between then and now, Jews began to rub their hands together. They didn't then, that's for sure. The hands rubbing canard is apparently new, which is new to me. Thanks Betty Boop, I guess. But yeah, about those horrific implications are actually horrific: this view of the Jew fits neatly into a 1932 calendar, doesn't it? Jews were seen as wastes of life, too stupid to help man, only concerned with self indulging themselves with global ramifications in fucking literally everything up, everywhere, because of their bumbling. That ledge is not a huge leap to: it's okay to genocide them, then, because they weigh humanity down and have all the money and are unpurposeful as a rule. I'm sure Hitler saw this cartoon, he had to have. It's just SOOOOO nazi, it's uncanny. I sincerely doubt Hitler did not see this cartoon and like it. He definitely liked American politics of purposeful marginalization, the US wrote the book he read from. We do know that. But anyway, after the auction, suddenly the shot of anti semitism into the arm dissipates: for no particular reason, Saturn pulls out the Earth's gravity, and this pointless occurrence actually leads to a good fucking time. At first people are enjoying no gravity. Though the episode began about Betty looking for a new residence, there was nothing recognizably vilifying to Jews. We didn't hear that Betty couldn't afford the house and that the owner must have necessarily been Jewish. Simply that it is not a home she can live in, for whatever reason. Maybe after 1929 and some years into the Great Depression, it wasn't necessary to say why you could not have something. It was obviously because you had no money. So there's no relation to the original struggle and to the sudden introduction of anti semitism. It would seem that *because of the cheap Jew's bumbling, a good time was had by all*. It's when Jew-Saturn puts the magnetic back that the blame of global recession and deflation gets pinned on the Jews. Even here though, he is still a bumbling infant, he doesn't rub his hands before putting the magnet back in. He just does and flies away, like "oh not sure why I bought this earth for $20, i guess i'll leave". ??? But it's the homes and buildings in the air and then their sudden descent and crash back to Earth with the overcast being the Jewish face of Saturn flying away in a fit of self-involvement that makes the point of this short stupid cartoon: "this [depression] was all because of a cheap Jew". Wow. WOW. That's really damning. We were always taught that it was in Nazi Germany that anti semitism was bred, but this cartoon proves otherwise. Internationally, Jews were condemned. I suppose the only reason Germany went to the lengths they did is because they were starving more than America was. If America had lost World War 1, the Holocaust would have absolutely happened here. It still could. We've got camps on the Southern Border, but the way the economy is going makes me wonder if there trial balloons for the real scapegoats.

[@hoodatdondar2664]

6:06 A Higher Power puts a stop to this fooling around.

[@neetweasel6277]

Was it the Plasma Event?

[@InTheGardenOfGethsemane]

El-Elyon

[@jacklynlopez2323]

Oh...I like this cartoon..it's so corny but I love it!!

[@marypalmer00]

ugh i freaking love this so much

[@sillygrl23]

@yohannbiimu Its like they say "If you can't laugh at yourself than who will." :)

[@darknessanddistance4469]

Actually I think it's if you can't laugh at yourself everyone else will.

[@earthangelpuppy]

I Like Me Better Intestifies When Saturn Shows His Face Like This

[@hulakan]

>Implying that I'm not aware of gnosticism and the occult connotations of Saturn. You presume. I suggest you think. Describing, to a mass audience, something as "weird" in no way implies that one considers that said something to be meaningless.

[@pedrogonzalocaballerotorre409]

Funny video. Thanks

[@IzludeTingel]

Saturn Moon Matrix

[@maruniboshi5915]

発想の源が狂ってる(褒め言葉)

[@mtlicq]

so creative !

[@wesdotwesdot3246]

Still my beaten heart! Betty Boop is truly hot.

[@davidwesley2525]

BETTY BOOP is still a FOX.

[@alexmckenna1171]

Surreal. And then some. Loved every second. Isn't the very last snatch of music "It's got to be Spring" ?

[@ARedMagicMarker]

5:03 Cleveland: Oh no, no, no, no, no , no, no , NO-OOOH!!!!!!!!

[@otchyibarra0361]

4:32 and that’s how you know Betty Boops early cartoons weren’t made for kids

[@cinthia9602]

Earth called, it wants its gravity back...

[@gregorkrause]

nice to see an english dubbed version of this cartoon since i saw the brazil/portugal version of this cartoon.

[@hulakan]

Yes, I pointed that out in my note on the video.

[@livingcorpse349]

Why am I not surprised Venus looks like a Flapper

[@mtlicq]

Betty Boop, Godess of Love ♥ Boop oopy doop !

[@Bethelehem2458]

Would be great to watch at a rainy day.... 🌙

[@jebengee9326]

So... nobodys gonna talk about the fact that the cat is MILKING a BULL?

[@sirchi8731]

😂

[@InTheGardenOfGethsemane]

Filthy Fleischer.

[@Fazbear-official]

What milk flavor is it? It’s called Bullshit flavor LOL😂

[@sophie-kun]

2:37 guys! This was the first Solarballs cartoon before Solarballs OMG!

[@richmcgee434]

Everyone comments on Saturn here, but the other bidders are interesting too. Mars is likely a jab at Mussolini, what with his fondness for Roman iconography that he used to bolster his regime. Venus is probably someone from the era, but I can't guess who offhand - the hairstyle's more late-1920s than 30s though. Older movie star maybe?

[@hoodatdondar2664]

Mae West

[@Mamaluigi13]

WE’RE GETTING SOCIAL SECURITY WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥

[@caroltenge5147]

dumb commercials but Betty's worth the wait.

[@zion190]

i cant believe wrestling got me here

[@lilyarnaout7369]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@marcosgojira7553]

HAHAHA THE JEW SATURN THO. SO 2023

[@foxopossum]

Hmmm...all my life I thought the highest bid won. Go figure

[@earthangelpuppy]

Boog, What Are You? Uh, A Heavy Lifter?

[@t.c.bramblett617]

Wow, who knew Saturn was Jewish

[@LumpyBumpyAcidFish]

saturn being a jew

[@thebamboozlerette1824]

I don’t think the moon knows how auctions work. The bid started at 50 and went to 20

[@unstrungstudios818]

How adorably weird.

[@tomoyo.b]

Well well well,

[@RayPointerChannel]

@yohannbiimu It was a "characterization" based on a type of person that exists. It doesn't make it any less antisemitic being portrayed by the Fleischers than by a non-Jewish person. And for the record, the Fleischers were not practicing Jews due to a disdain of their childhood environment. Many of the Fleischers and their children associated with and married Christians.

[@hoodatdondar2664]

It was a type they observed, born abroad. You call it anti Semitic, but it is just ( old world) semitic. You don’t like it? You goniff, you.

[@kenharrison741]

These days that sign would read “For rent”.

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

And renting it would cost as much in a matter of 2 or 3 months.

[@Aristocles22]

So, the Great Depression caused gravity to disappear?

[@richmcgee434]

If economic collapse actually does that, 2021 should be an interesting year for physicists.

[@chriswinkler284]

Gravity isn't just a law, it's also a good idea :P

[@inssurrexxit]

Its a theory

[@chriswinkler284]

@@inssurrexxit It's a line from Duckman, from episode Ajax and Ajaxer, where Cornfed 'accidentally' dricks a 'Get Dumb' potion and he and Ajax become pals for a while until the potion wears off toward the end of the episode...Anyway, you probably don't care. I'm just naming my source :P

[@rlgood]

I wonder if the gag, where the elephant (republican symbol) falls on the earth and re-forms America, is a political comment of the time? Just an odd observation I picked out.

[@kingofnerds1841]

It's the end of the world as we know it! and I feel fine.

[@necelticsox]

5:08 so i guess this means he was sleeping half naked?

[@cattjohnson1114]

Do you sleep with your full outdoor clothes on?

[@willday9316]

Nightshirt.

[@GregJay]

This is a very eye opening cartoon. because it is Hollywood's way to putting in our face that they've known we live in an electromagnetic universe since the time and before this came out and yet they still sell the masses the gravity big bang myth . Nobody gets enough to see we've been had. It would lead to free energy that Tesla was working on and they can't have that.

[@williegillie5712]

Greg Jay ah Tesla dabbled too. Wisdom didn't do Solomon anything good. Discernment comes to those who are humble.

[@terrasoars5006]

The Fleischers had worked on a film explaining Einstein's Theory of Relativity back in the 1920s. Their take on the universe in this Betty Boop cartoon was obviously influenced by that earlier science-based film.

[@jamesparkerlangston3342]

Do you have a link or any more info on that film? I'd love to see it!

[@Ichijoe2112]

And yet nobody knows how these fiscking magnets work.

[@HooDatDonDar]

I like comment threads - you never know when you will see some new lunatic theory.

[@lrgogo1517]

I might have to lie down for a bit after seeing an elephant _unfurl_ like that..

[@lrgogo1517]

If someone again pilfers the Earth's Magnet, I may have to lie up instead.

[@neetweasel6277]

I have something to tell you. The elephant is the symbolism for the Republican Party for when Herbert Hoover was in office from 1928-1932. Time to literally address the elephant in the room. When the United States Federal Government cannot get their act together during the Great Depression...it is blatantly obvious that the crises is beyond the powers of the feds.