Boy Meets Dog 1938

[@amiroid23]

He's childlike in his mental knowledge He's childlike in his mental knowledge Though he spent 4 years in college Still he's childlike in his knowledge And we agree he's guilty as can be Guilty! Guilty! Though he went through college He's childlike in his knowledge He's guilty, wa-wa-wa!

[@mementomori9996]

Escape from Midwich Valley

[@Aggregator_]

@Alex Nordin its: child like in his dental knowledge.... it was a tooth paste commercial tho.

[@bloomcow]

I like that part.😃

[@samirhammoud2097]

7:15

[@anonymouscontributor1520]

“How about the guillotine?”

[@mangoblade3877]

Oh my god I’ve been searching for this cartoon for years! I thought I dreamt this whole up but holy crap I can’t believe it thank you so much for uploading this! I remember it was part of a VHS I had a lot of old cartoons including a lot of the flights your superman cartoons!!

[@kagemushashien8394]

Yup same

[@robjackson4050]

apparently most releases left out a part that mentions it was made for a brand of toothpaste i forget which one though

[@oliviaquijano9018]

Me too, & I used to watch this when I was only, a Child back in the Nineties, before my Grandfather passed away, of a Sudden Heart-Attack!

[@AndrewGFRamsey]

I am just now in your exact same boat, been searching for years. It was almost certainly on a cartoon classics vhs.

[@yakub9933]

Same dawg I was starting to think I made it up. I watched this when I was probably 5 at my grandma’s house and that baby scene fucked my head up so much don’t ask me why

[@shadovvlurking]

i watched this on a vhs at school when i was very young and the ad that plays freaked me out and i referred to it as "Scary George Washington"

[@dappanam]

“What about starting a nuclear holocaust?” “Nah. My father won’t let me.”

[@Reloaded_______]

LMAO!!!!!!!

[@cartoonbackups]

"Well, what about sending America into poverty?" "Nah. My father won't let me."

[@sRp517]

This is my childhood trauma

[@SamoaRowe]

This scared the crap out of me as a kid.

[@steveardila7651]

I don't really see how

[@chipolata7605]

I loved this when I was a kid 😂

[@stephoncaston1192]

I was a fan of this as a kid. I can see the creep factor in it tho

[@diangelo6686]

The best Walter lantz production was scrub me mama with a boogie beat… classic

[@MisterDamocles]

For a cartoon with a title as innocent as "Boy Meets Dog" This cartoon goes off the rails real quick.

[@GalenNight]

Well cartoons back then weren’t story based entirely

[@XavierP333]

The most traumatic part is that those elves took the father to their dimension. As traumatic as this cartoon seems. The father's anger reflects perhaps of him being a lonely, single father. His negative view of everything can be a reflection of his wife leaving him for another man. Leaving her son to her husband for him to care for.

[@_A_G_1]

Idk why i coulda swore he had a bottle of booze in the cartoon. I guess my childhood trauma just assumed he was an abusive alcoholic father 😅

[@DZAladan]

When I was little I often went to my grandparents' house, and this cartoon used to air on TV on some private networks a lot. Back then I couldn't understand a single word (I'm Italian) and now... well, with this audio mixing is just marginally better. lol I've got to say, I didn't remember it being pretty much a musical, and I sure didn't know it was supposed to be an ad. Still, it's nice to see this again after all these years. Brings memories back.

[@oliviaquijano9018]

Me too! I Finally found this other old cartoon, & I used to watch it, when I was just a baby, thirty-one years ago!

[@kagemushashien8394]

Doubles as a add, if we had adds like that, they sure will get calls for their products and be remembered.

[@thepancakereviewer]

I had this on a dvd collection of old cartoons, I was confused as to why they mentioned massaging teeth so much, it wasn't until now that I learned that this was a TOOTHPASTE COMMERCIAL.

[@_A_G_1]

Lmao i just now understood! I remember the little noise it made too (idk why they muted that sound) but as a kid watching, I always thought what the hell was that, so random .. so this whole cartoon is just an AD not an actual cartoon 🤔 😂

[@Megakukko123]

You came here for 6:58

[@Fideon]

You damn right I did. Just left Midwich Valley and had this stuck on my mind when cruising through there.

[@Nidstang_]

true

[@m4ro_]

YOU GOD DAMN RITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ToastytheG]

Weird sample choice but holy shit does it ever sound raw

[@indevidualbeing6488]

Same here; such an awesome track.

[@afranca1825]

I saw this when I was 3 and it scared the heck out of me.

[@ellasampson2601]

What made you scared?

[@clemfandango115]

Same. Though I was like 6 when I saw it. The babality is creepy.

[@aurabennu923]

Facts

[@Trysarahtopps33]

I thought I was the only one

[@angellicagearcrooner7121]

When your dad is literally Hitler.

[@grave367]

Came for Carpenter Brut at 6:58 But I had my mind blown by Tech N9ne at 5:54

[@RayanOfficial1]

Haha

[@jaredmk4897]

Strange music baby

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

I saw this when I was a little kid. Old cartoons were kind of scary.

[@_A_G_1]

Kind of? They were all super fuckn creepy and even demonic. I grew up watching these cartoons as a little kid and I ALWAYS had nightmares.

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

@@_A_G_1 The conspiracy theorist part of me thinks it's intentional. Yeah, I grew up watching this kinda shit and I've had paranormal experiences. Levitated off the floor and tickled.

[@_A_G_1]

@@1d10tcannotmakeusername holy shit. I also had weird ass shit happen. I used to sleepwalk and scare the shit out of my family . That shit definitely was intentional.

[@НиколаСтаменковић]

What exactly is creepy in this cartoon i watched as kid and i didn't scare of that​@@_A_G_1

[@ojaiboy805]

Took me forever to find this!! I remember this from my childhood

[@oliviaquijano9018]

Me too! I watched it, when I was just a baby, though.

[@Skipper86]

My favorite part was 5:53 where they say " He's a mental giant, he's a mental giant. "

[@Timbo9213]

Then listen to 'He's a mental Giant' from Tech N9ne.. ;)

[@kagemushashien8394]

@@Timbo9213 what's tech n9ne

[@Stingraycoolpodcast6996]

yep tech nine did sample that

[@wesleyhunt7599]

That's what they say...to those who nay-say

[@CranjusMcBasketball20]

@@kagemushashien8394 one of the best rappers

[@CJODell12]

8:51. The original intended plug for Ipana toothpaste.

[@_A_G_1]

I just googled it cuz i couldn't believe this cartoon was just a commercial the whole time haha creepy ass old people man

[@oliviaquijano9018]

I remember this old Cartoon, when I was just a baby!

[@anonymouscontributor1520]

“He said he hit him, he said he kicked him. He said he hit him and then he kicked him!”

[@vortexsblazingtime6538]

"Order, order! What's the matter here? You can't do that! What's the idea, here? Quiet, quiet!"

[@KGSRWare]

​@@vortexsblazingtime6538"Behind here's glues than our bumps, and he don't even message his gums."

[@Musicradio77Network]

A last, a complete version with the Ipana ad restored. Sweet! I do have the black & white silent version on 8mm with different opening and closing title sequence, because it was a 1941 home release.

[@RideMyBMW]

Carpenter Brut's Midwich Valley ------> min 6:58

[@Bootyyyshaker4000]

What on earth does the elf say at 5:38??? It's haunted me for years. Also, I laughed at the fact that a great rapper used one of the strangest parts of this cartoon as a sample. Warms my heart

[@arnequis]

He said "Woe is me. I'm goin' BERSERK-Y!" (cries) "I'll SMASH YOU!" (laughs insanely)

[@Bootyyyshaker4000]

Hahah, thank you :)

[@The_Huggernaut]

Who’s the rapper that sampled this and what song??? I’d love to hear it lol

[@thehongkongbong]

Geauxboigo I assume he means Tech N9ne - He's A Mental Giant

[@manofmanyinterests]

@@arnequis That was an impression of Joe Penner.

[@mr.noble9746]

I like the part at 4:07 where the dwarf like figures take him away. After all that father deserves it since he's worse than Butters' parents from South Park.

[@cmills1008]

I remember being a kid mad at my parents for punishing me. Id imaging my wall had this world in it and they would punish them😂

[@tamarcusdaise2619]

Yo! I’ve been looking for this cartoon for 10 years! Always sung the song trying to figure out where the hell this came from… ughh my memory is complete now

[@DemetricTaylor-g5l]

❤the Holy different colors in this Old cartoon❤the Holy background in this cartoon❤from Demetric😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@brendhavldez8491]

This is actually my childhood trauma hahaha

[@DeejayTonyG]

Nope...never heard of that. I came for 5:54 sample by Tech N9ne "He's a Mental Giant "

[@somethingsomewhere2062]

So did I.

[@N8iv.Techn9cian]

Me too

[@Timbo9213]

Yes man,thanks for the 'button'!

[@laynekurtz3159]

The comment i was looking for 💀

[@SinEater_]

Had this on old VHS my niece and nephew were watching (I saw it forever ago when I was young but did not remember that until the youth machine part), and heard that. I always knew Tech pulled from all sorts of odd things as my brother would catch a bunch of weird things he referenced, but even this one is way out there.

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

In some copies, the Ipana segment at the end of this cartoon was cut !

[@pumpkinpatch5]

This scared the hell out of me as a kid. I remember the ‘baby machine.’

[@ellasampson2601]

Why did it scare you?

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

@@ellasampson2601 Real question is why didn't it scare you?

[@elpreso4044]

Na it's not creepy it's funny

[@davidginyard2308]

The youth machine lol 😂

[@Trek1663]

The baby machine is not scary it funny justice turning dad into a baby 😂😂😂

[@cameronpruitt8339]

Man that machine always creeped the shit out of me.

[@Schoolbuswaphat]

Does anyone else notice the dad has a mustache like Hitler.. I know it was made in the 1930s but .. did anyone notice

[@virtualpellot933]

That funky stupid 'stache was a thing in the 1920s and 1930s.

[@chocolateGiddyUp21]

He kept it as a baby too

[@CrashNSplash]

This type of mustache was popular in the day...

[@SrakenKraken]

hibler was already in power when this cartoon came out

[@avremirine8986]

You seem to forget about Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.

[@mr.noble9746]

I mean in South Park Butters' parents never punished him for having a pet in the house.

[@predator5775]

No, but they punish him for a small detail such as misplacing the Hamburger Helper because they themselves couldn't bother to read what they had in their hand. And also there was that time the Mother nearly drowned Butters in her car.

[@tristancranford550]

7:31 Heidi ho, Heidi ho, everybody’s got that swing 🎶🎵

[@playmaker7392]

Ok.... I've known this cartoon since I was like six, and to this day I still don't know what the moral of the story was... Was it to let kids be kids? Take care of your gums? Be a regular fella? SOMEONE TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Nasota99]

any and all forms of art are for the person viewing it to construct their own opinion and ideas of what the purpose of its creation truly is. I personally believe it's a cartoon doing it's best in its day and age to try and show the process of what happens to an abusive father's soul after they died. Their children won't sentence them to hell, they will sentence them to be reborn as a child. It happened to this man in a dream and when he woke up instead of beating the dog or the child, he saw and experienced the end result of his ways and decided to be a better man. The use of gnomes, elves, and mushrooms on the child's back wall painting in his bedroom has always since the dawn of mankind's conscious has been used to indicate that there are drugs in play, as one wouldn't naturally come to this conclusion mentally, the gnomes literally say as much "he's gone to college, he is an educated man, compared to his son he is a mental giant, he has the knowledge akin to a being of far greater knowledge and reach then the boy or the dog but he still operates that of a young boy. Violent without any self-control or personal recognization of his actions and behaviors. If this is the way he acts, he should be sent back in time to experience the error of his ways." Babys aren't violent, they are accidentally suicidal because they know no better, but they aren't knowingly violent. And we see that even in the gnome reality the ground opens up and swallows him, he travels the pathway to a hellish landscape where time/death is operating a machine and he actively walks backward to set the rewind in process. Honestly, this is all pretty straight forward, it's not a complicated logical jump to make you just have to understand the connections the cartoon is POTENTIALLY making. It could be my interpretation is miles off from the truth, but that's my interpretation, it doesn't have to be ultimately true or right, that's the freedom of your interpretation, it's yours and yours alone, the thing is can you accurately argue and make a valid point to stand on. If you have no understanding of what this cartoon COULD be about. That is totally and perfectly fine... forget about it and move on. One day if for some reason you see or experience something that returns you to this very comment or video... you'll probably honestly be laughing just thinking about it.

[@EclipseHedgehog]

@@Nasota99 seriously thank you for this comment. ever since i was a kid this cartoon had been haunting me to this day. probably since i was such a small kid i probably judged that THIS was where infants came from.

[@ksol1460tv]

@@Nasota99 Thank you. I agree that this is subjective and conceptual -- the viewer brings her or his own perspective to it. Mine is pretty close to yours, except I thought the elves and gnomes might be real and his experience was in the mythological world, like Faerie (e.g. what Tolkien talks about in "On Fairy-Stories"), drugs didn't occur to me. However, there is a form of LSD psychotherapy where you think back to not only your infancy, but try to re-experience or remember *before and during* birth. And hopefully this helps you with insight and self-understanding in your everyday life and may even help with certain kinds of stress related illness. I may show it to someone I know that has more of the background on that, see what he thinks.

[@julieornelas3787]

Ahh terrifying. Just how I remember it.

[@Mr_Hutt]

I remember somehow having a vhs of this and other cartoon shorts Idk how my family got them but it kept me entertained

[@harrykezelian8009]

I remember having that VHS and we got it like at the grocery store. Were these cartoons that had somehow inadvertantly fallen into Public Domain?

[@Mr_Hutt]

@@harrykezelian8009 I wouldn't know but I feel like I somehow got the cartoons in a similar way like at the grocery store or rented the vhs at local shops

[@dannigro8794]

Same here actually. Can’t remember the other cartoons though

[@oakenmethod]

@@dannigro8794 Casper I think.

[@kinkytheslinky]

I had this on a vhs with woody woodpecker, cobweb hotel, humpty dumpty and another one about a village of dudes who liked being sad

[@livclark8154]

I have so *many* questions... 1. Why is a public school teaching kids about scrubbing their gums? 2. Why does the dad have a Hitler moustache? 3. Why isn't that abusive fuck in jail already? 4. What is up with that trippy troll sequence? 5. Why is a toothpaste commerical also advertising Ice Cream sundaes? 6. How is *any* of this supposed to sell toothpaste?

[@fromthesidelines]

Bristol-Myers marketed Ipana from the 1920's through the 1960's (at the time, they sponsored Fred Allen's "TOWN HALL TONIGHT" radio show).

[@DodgeThisBam]

Huh! I always wondered what the deal was with the focus on Gum Massage! The ad was removed from the version I saw!

[@RayanOfficial1]

5:55 Tech N9ne sampled this part in his song called "He's A Mental Gaint"

[@alanzilla1351]

5:55 TECH N9NE 🎶💥

[@Djpartypon64]

I’ve finally remembered and found it! Thank god 😀

[@joanhill230]

I think the father's abusive behavior stems from the sadness he felt when his wife died...or something like that.

[@dustinmahan1495]

Divorced?

[@XavierP333]

Or maybe he was divorced, or his wife left him for a different man, leaving her son to her ex-husband

[@shaneriggs640]

Tech n9ne - he’s a mental giant 5:47

[@TheTubefan8]

It’s been so long since I last saw this cartoon when I was still just a kid, and during that time, I didn’t give much or any thought about what I was watching.

[@kevindavis296]

I got this on VHS tape in a cartoon collection VHS tape alongtime ago and The Ipana Billboard was not in it. That must be a deleted scene.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It is. Castle Films had to remove that from their prints since the film was made to be an ad for the product.

[@bigmacsama]

Mine had it and it was a woody woodpecker one

[@kevindavis296]

@@ChristopherSobieniak oh really. An actual ad.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@kevindavis296 It was. cartoonresearch.com/index.php/boy-meets-dog-by-walter-lantz/

[@dannigro8794]

What were the other cartoons on the tape?

[@joshybratwurst1398]

5:13 For happy times

[@puppycatsbee]

I love that dance

[@Omegajunior2658]

I thought I never saw any classic American cartoons like that before in my entire life. I'm glad that kid's father has changed his heart. He's not mean to his son anymore and he's not angry at his son anymore either. I am seeing this from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@TheTubefan8]

I mean, after all, it was a cartoon, and to me, that was good enough for me to watch it no matter whether that was on television or VHS since it helped pass the time and kept me from being bored most of the time.

[@gregorkrause]

8:51 never saw this scene in this cartoon when i saw this cartoon as a kid.

[@kevindavis296]

Nether have l. A deleted/extended scene.

[@dustinmahan1495]

I want extended scene.

[@almost_friday9745]

I remember that my parents had this on vhs -- It actually was in the cartoon. I haven't seen this cartoon in about a decade, but J remembered it vividly. It must have been a product placement...

[@cbob6084]

I did. But it was on VHS. I couldn't read that time but I do remember thinking it was really weird.

[@TiroDvD]

Rare my foot. This was on every VHS of 3 public domain cartoons.

[@WillGK300]

@ 8:17 what is that thing that comes out of the floor and why does it look like he's enjoying it?

[@juicito]

That’s creepy asf

[@lunatunes9652]

Pushing his balls back inside?

[@cbob6084]

As a very young kid watching it I thought it was just tickling him for who knows what. As an adult now, I wonder the same. It's weird. That whole scene freaked me out as a kid.

[@tristancranford550]

7:47 No, he gets the youth machine 7:50 (laughing) he gets the youth machine 7:53 (laughing) 7:54 all: he gets the youth machine

[@reubenguttenberg7405]

8:04 8:05 time marches backwards

[@ava2113]

7:48 is what you want to see

[@lunatunes9652]

Mmm

[@cmills1008]

Where can i get the sheet music for that keyboard solo😂

[@aguzza]

I searched it for MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS. Saw it once on an Italian local TV channel and never more. The youth machine scene made me a strange and scary impression, even though it could be connected to more of the hideous behaviours we see nowadays. The fact that I rediscovered it during these hours of bad luck what should mean?

[@viceknightta7584]

Omg now i remember, its all coming back to me hahahha

[@mrnobody2018]

The fountain of youth is a machine.

[@mr.noble9746]

I also like the music from that part as well.

[@fennerguyreloaded]

Oddly the main boy sorta reminds me of Ness/Lucas from Earthbound…and this is like 61 years before Earthbound!

[@lefmike]

1:09 i could repeat that all day its more catchy than the full song

[@yuanyeo9681]

A strict father gets a taste of his own medicine, when he is brought to dream world for his cruelty ways...

[@Trek1663]

It always funny when a strict father is turned into a baby

[@dancepiglover]

Omg! I saw this when I was a kid. I couldn’t remember enough of what happened in it to look it up. But I just came across it.

[@warriorsorb1111]

I don't understand the part with him getting his head beat in with both fists and having a weird spoon drilling up his rear

[@zzascha5512]

Arakus24 Think about it...

[@0hvist]

Arakus24 punching his face and whisking his rear to soften them up. Baby smooth.

[@warriorsorb1111]

Ohvist Small ok. Thank you

[@PissedOffLion]

The machine goes up his butt to make it to where he has no bowel control. That's part of being a baby you know.

[@frankiehamilton7983]

I thought it was "cleaning"his rear

[@megangoad7679]

I. Remember this baby scene

[@_A_G_1]

Hear me out.. i just had this crazy revelation about what this cartoon COULD mean.. So the poor kid was living with an abusive father and then the Dog brought love in his life, because he had none. I would say the dog represented God's love. And then when the dad sees the dog he tries to beat him and he instantly gets knocked out by slipping on a toy down the stairs. Perhaps, that was a glimpse of where'd he be if continued being the way he was, and all the creepy elves were demons. When he woke up he was a changed man and a better person and father to his kid. I think the dog was an angel sent by God who helped them heal ❤

[@kevinmcnamara8241]

8:53 So the whole point of this cartoon was advertising a dental product

[@raultrashlord4404]

the crunchiest and crispiest synth ripples

[@JJ-cp3wp]

What's the song that starts at 7:22 tho??

[@harrykezelian8009]

It's like a remix of Sing Sing Sing, search for the Louis Prima version of Sing Sing Sing (not the much more famous Benny Goodman version which is an instrumental)

[@Eggeire]

god I remember this, been lookin for it for years I barely remembered it

[@Trysarahtopps33]

I finally found this after 30 years of looking

[@reubenguttenberg7405]

Even as a baby he still has a mustache

[@christianrodriguez7503]

5:40-5:43-5:44-5:55-7:16

[@alexandergonzie1200]

For the life of me, I've never been able to remember the name of this cartoon short, but I've never forgotten that youth machine scene, being a punishment for such a mean dad. But I never could read the billboard, I wondered if that pic of the man in a baby hat was supposed to be the dad in live action, seeing his future, and all it was, was a friggin toothpaste ad, lol. I remember having this on a vhs full of classic merrie melodies cartoons.

[@mrnobody2018]

Relatives know they are friendly to one and other

[@klynn_nonya7]

I LOVED THIS AS A KID

[@ellasampson2601]

What did you love about it?

[@karinamiddlebrooks2167]

Me too

[@SarahWestCrazyTaxiQueen]

Originally Released on March 10, 1938, by Universal Pictures into movie theaters with Ipana Toothpaste.

[@AspiringEntity]

Greetings from Midwich Valley…

[@dustinmahan1495]

I want this cartoon with Ipana toothpaste commercial.

[@chipolata7605]

5:37 my favourite part 😂

[@mepsiemopar8991]

5:53 Tech N9ne found inspiration right here and added this to his song "He's A Mental Giant"

[@starmybowl3562]

i have been looking for this for 3 months and i just googled "man turns into baby 1900s animation" and just happened to find a reddit post about it heh i thought it was a fever dream

[@dannyrivera9560]

Used to have one in Spanish before a long time ago, and at 8:53 I don’t recall remembering this scene before.

[@sonicfanboy3375]

that scene is cut out later versions

[@dominickdirienzo8266]

9:08, in the end, Bobby’s father saw the error in his ways.

[@joanhill230]

I have never seen the Ipana ad in this cartoon! Did you restore it?

[@kingdelbert]

No, Steve Stanchfield did

[@proudMudbl00D_6]

My God. Its been too long since I saw this😶

[@mrnobody2018]

Never say I told you to be kind to your kid

[@laurendaley2503]

Saw the youth part, had to see the entire cartoon.

[@MisterLandofLakes]

I thought I had the original movie because I did not see that dental ad in there before. Was a dental one the original one and they cut it out later on?? I grew up with that movie I never saw that part

[@bluedeerfox1478]

I remember seeing that short when I was younger

[@ava2113]

7:50 is why your here

[@keshiaanders6452]

This cartoon was actually a toothpaste commercial? Also some of these gnomes look a lot like the dwarfs from the Disney version of "Snow White."

[@adamkennie9026]

Danny Webb Does Some Of The Voices In This Cartoon

[@ul7185]

Various Public Domain Cartoons from Toon In with Me

[@TheHypnotstCollector]

He was judged guilty and placed in the youthenator where he was healed and went home a nice dad.

[@C4combinedCat]

would've never guess this is what he sampled

[@davidginyard2308]

6:37 He Hires Lawyers that are bums and he doesn’t massage his gums.

[@theguy10n1]

Wait, they're called gnomes, but live in the land of elves and pixies.... so what the hell are they😭

[@JaxRetroGamer]

They're Pixies... Yes I'm not joking they are supposed to be Pixies I think this reuses animation from a Walter Lantz cartoon that came roughly around the same time as this called "Pixie Land"

[@mattheweskender7781]

Boy, Bobby's father was a practical man like Mr. Darling from Peter Pan😢

[@PhoenixPalmer88]

Man people were weird back then.