Boy Meets Dog 1938

rare public domain cartoon

[@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?”

[@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.

[@notamagician2096]

“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."

[@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

[@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

[@TheAirstation86]

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

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

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

[@angellicagearcrooner7121]

When your dad is literally Hitler.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@RideMyBMW]

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

[@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"

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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!"

[@oliviaquijano9018]

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

[@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.

[@CJODell12]

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

[@fortress7851]

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.

[@Wipper86]

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

[@BrodyMonteer]

@@kagemushashien8394 one of the best rappers

[@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.

[@DeejayTonyG]

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

[@somethingsomewhere2062]

So did I.

[@daemonyanity2925]

Me too

[@Timbo9213]

Yes man,thanks for the 'button'!

[@laynekurtz3159]

The comment i was looking for 💀

[@Hi-Im-salad]

7:48 is where he gets the youth machine

[@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

[@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😂

[@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.

[@cameronpruitt8339]

Man that machine always creeped the shit out of me.

[@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.

[@SdotVdotHeHott]

This cartoon has so many punch lines shyt crazy. Great childhood memories 😁🤣

[@brendhavldez8491]

This is actually my childhood trauma hahaha

[@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 😂

[@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.

[@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).

[@Djpartypon64]

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

[@julieornelas3787]

Ahh terrifying. Just how I remember it.

[@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.

[@RayanOfficial1]

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

[@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!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@richardholman4092]

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]

@@richardholman4092 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]

@@richardholman4092 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.

[@shaneriggs640]

Tech n9ne - he’s a mental giant 5:47

[@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

[@alanzilla1351]

5:55 TECH N9NE 🎶💥

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

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

[@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

[@tristancranford550]

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

[@joshybratwurst1398]

5:13 For happy times

[@puppycatsbee]

I love that dance

[@DodgeThisBam]

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

[@mr.noble9746]

I also like the music from that part as well.

[@ava2113]

7:48 is what you want to see

[@lunatunes9652]

Mmm

[@fennerguyreloaded]

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

[@TiroDvD]

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

[@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...

[@Eggeire]

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

[@mrnobody2018]

The fountain of youth is a machine.

[@raultrashlord4404]

the crunchiest and crispiest synth ripples

[@theguy10n1]

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

[@lefmike]

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

[@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?

[@johnkelso1492]

Love the music

[@debbiegibson2965]

8:04 Time walk his backwards!

[@megangoad7679]

I. Remember this baby scene

[@TheHypnotstCollector]

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

[@bluedeerfox1478]

I remember seeing that short when I was younger

[@mrnobody2018]

Relatives know they are friendly to one and other

[@AspiringEntity]

Greetings from Midwich Valley…

[@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

[@christianrodriguez7503]

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

[@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?

[@adamkennie9026]

Danny Webb Does Some Of The Voices In This Cartoon

[@mrnobody2018]

8:12 never pays see the effects of the youth machine doing progressive

[@kevinmcnamara8241]

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

[@klynn_nonya7]

I LOVED THIS AS A KID

[@ellasampson2601]

What did you love about it?

[@karinamiddlebrooks2167]

Me too

[@proudMudbl00D_6]

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

[@laurendaley2503]

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

[@dustinmahan1495]

I want this cartoon with Ipana toothpaste commercial.

[@cmills1008]

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

[@chipolata7605]

5:37 my favourite part 😂

[@mrnobody2018]

Never say I told you to be kind to your kid

[@ava2113]

7:50 is why your here

[@cliffordmoffitt5261]

I like the cartoon boy meet the dog and judge and Judy and song

[@moweezy4105]

5:48 Tech N9ne brought me here

[@err0rc0degames]

ESCAPE FROM MIDWICH VALLEY

[@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

[@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

[@madxxradhair]

Just stopping by because of escape from midwich valley no biggie

[@mrnobody2018]

The judge is the boy

[@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?

[@oluwaboriogunafolabi3997]

5:55 Tech N9ne

[@RayanOfficial1]

Dopest sample ever.

[@elagabalusrex390]

This is one of the strangest cartoons I've ever seen. And I watch Adventure Time.

[@davidginyard2308]

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

[@joanhill230]

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

[@kingdelbert]

No, Steve Stanchfield did

[@ARealDorkieHero]

Thumbs up if you Escaped from Midwich Valley, and ended up 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."

[@metra135studios9]

5:55.

[@avremirine8986]

6:58

[@bschnore]

This cartoon is on at :12 into the portugal the man feel it still video

[@MichaelBurmy]

5:55 That's what they say 5:57 To those who nay-say 5:58-6:02