Minnie the Moocher - song only

Edit of Fleischer Brothers' 1932 cartoon "Minnie the Moocher" with middle cut out, leaving only the song.
Copyright has expired on the original cartoon.
I also zoomed in on the live action beginning which is usually seen with thick black borders, and fixed the audio.
I downloaded the original here:
www.archive.org...

[@jonathanb1406]

Love how that walrus shows up IMMEDIATELY. He's been fucking dying to sing that song to someone for ages.

[@OctaviousNight]

Jonathan B well did you see the shinanigans those ghosts did during this cartoon?They probably rehearsed that shit

[@stheticm0onlight41]

His whole life led up to this moment lol

[@mikela1341]

He was born for it. 😅

[@lincolnoliveira3041]

@@mikela1341 jmrsn

[@kalenplant2675]

@@stheticm0onlight41 Correction: His whole afterlife let up to this moment

[@aidanchilders9043]

1. Skeletons drink liquids 2. Skeletons die from drinking liquids 3. Skeletons have ghosts

[@hanyuuhiiragi3544]

you'd have to understand what was going on in those days. Great Depression, Prohibition..gee, 1930's times were scary!

[@animepunk6953]

Aidan Childers makes sense to me :3

[@darkbrotherhoodofficial1351]

Skip the fact the ghost walrus is cab calloway

[@erikmartinez7277]

Bone hurting juice.

[@thespooker2934]

Aidan Childers WHAT IS WITH THESE STEREOTYPES?!

[@DJsaxby16]

Don't you just hate it when you go into a cave and a ghost walrus starts singing Cab Calloway?

[@sammy-bo-hammy]

Everytime, man. Everytime.

[@lenasharmaine8296]

+Sam Adalsteinn lol

[@manuc.260]

I got used to it i guess

[@EvanChannel2000]

+Sam Adalsteinn I've ever heard about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Do you?

[@diegojames8678]

DJsaxby16 I love it

[@oldschoolpixel4190]

"So guys, let's think of an animal with long legs to animate Calloway's dance" "A walrus" Of course.

[@AAAAAAAAAA44]

Just imagine if it was an ostrich instead of a walrus

[@ChameriaDade]

That would be pretty bad

[@waynejones205]

@@AAAAAAAAAA44 Porky Pig had a Rooster do a bit part of Cab Galloway in a cartoon with others playing Bing Crosby, Sinatra and Jolson.

[@クロウ-y9i]

At least they didn’t draw him in a racist way...I mean this was 1930’s. I kinda like the walrus.

[@mindboard8203]

@@クロウ-y9i Cab was the whitest black man back then

[@joshramirez86]

“She was the roughest TOOOOOOOUUGHEST frail”

[@fuckedmywaytothetop]

This comment had me dead

[@TheFourHumors]

i read this comment like 10 seconds before it came up in the song and it didnt prepare me for the toughest part in the slightest 😂

[@crimsondynamo615]

But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale

[@dudefrombelgium]

> < > < _ O

[@OuroborosTheProtobean]

@@crimsondynamo615”HODEHOo deho~”

[@amiefortman7220]

I love the footage of Calloway in the beginning-- he doesn't even seem to know the camera's watching him. He's just having his own private jam session. :)

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

If you watch other videos of him, he always performed that way :)

[@amiefortman7220]

***** Yeah, he did. He's always so much fun to watch. :D

[@NellieKAdaba]

+Amie Fortman I love it too and I love Cab in the Blues Brothers movie too.

[@amiefortman7220]

Nellie K. Adaba He was fantastic in that. :)

[@NellieKAdaba]

Yes Amie Fortman he was.

[@dem7556]

Damn ghost walrus , he has the moves

[@m.mproductions2461]

DeM 2017: DAB 🅱AD

[@damageddrawingglasses2311]

You are damn right he got them moves

[@wojtek1212q]

better than mine :(

[@withboldentreaty]

The singer Cab Calloway did rotoscope for that walrus. The animators took video of him dancing and painted slides right on top of him for the cartoon. Cab was hep with it.

[@VapinicSZN]

Joseph Principe I always wondered if that’s how they did it

[@SneakyLittlePirate]

I adore the history of animation.

[@sketchonomadek5270]

Saaame. I love drawn and animated animation.

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

Same

[@pyskosfan]

@@sketchonomadek5270 what else would you animate

[@framebyframe6357]

@@pyskosfan Think they meant computer animation.

[@pyskosfan]

@@framebyframe6357 maybe

[@kylefrank638]

1930s mentality: "Your child isn't crapping the bed enough. Allow us to remedy that."

[@47ratsinahoodie]

🤣

[@chellejohnson9789]

Not sure these were made for kids

[@kylefrank638]

@@chellejohnson9789 I guess it's up to opinion what audience it was initially aiming for. It's a cartoon with little plot, seemingly for kids, but adult audiences are the ones that really popularized Betty Boop. So... eh?

[@P7777-u7r]

@@kylefrank638 I think it was young adult to teen like say family guy now. Lots of references and social commentary from the time period in these just look at the historical events around the cartoons and it makes perfect sense.

@@kylefrank638 This kind of cartoons weren't meant for kids. They were the kind of cartoons you see in the theatre before a movie late at night. The lack of plot doesn't mean it's aim for kids, it's because it was meant as a musical short film.

[@boldandbrash1707]

1:56 RIP headphone users

[@nafisourang3154]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lilith5865]

LMFAOOOOOOO

[@Sleepyshy712]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jordansalvador316]

Try 4:25 🤣sacred the shit out of me

[@wickedprophet2375]

Watchu talmbout that’s the best part

[@combatarmssoilder]

The reason this scene was so uncanny was because an animation moved at a fluent rate, and looked like a real person as an animation. But the movement was so ghostly and smooth that it seems like movements no human can do. Thus, uncanny.

[@emiliej3322]

It's because they used rotoscope.

[@AJRArcade]

The Fleischer Brothers used a lot of rotoscope in their films, like Popeye and Betty Boop. This style of rotoscope is sort of the same Disney used in some of their feature films such as Snow White and Robin Hood. The Superman cartoon used it wonderfully, making it a fantastic adaptation of the comic book hero.

[@Doomsday-yo7lh]

Also, no one actually understood what the heck was happening.

[@prestonoakley4298]

Anybody else notice the deamon faces in the background? Like as the caves?

[@ZakWolf]

***** Exactly! Think of rotoscoping as an old-timey version of motion capture.

[@batman6207]

i remember my first time walking in to a cave being confronted by a singing ghost walrus. ahh, good times

[@thefiretailedweasel6206]

Right? Those were the good old days.

[@emilysanders3638]

LMBO!!!

[@serenityfaithmontoya3575]

bat man same

[@TylerCharlesFisher]

You never forget your first walrus.

[@nepotisphallus8839]

Man all I ever meet are zubats

[@satan6405]

Drugs are a hell of a drug

[@solacethevagabond]

tis the great quote of the gone but never forgotten Rick James.... BBBIIIITTTCCCCHH

[@Virtualmess32]

I mean...youre not wrong

[@someonenow1]

That's very true, Satan.

[@FlashizzleStudios]

Liked, noticed it was literal Satan, unliked.

[@iambored2094]

Opium baby!

[@robertguttman1487]

For those who aren't hep to 1932 jive, "cokey" is a reference to using cocaine and "kick the gong around" refers to taking opium. The things they let kids watch in the 1930s!

[@RavenLordOfficials]

I think it might've somewhat been trying to keep kids off that stuff

[@MrTophatter]

These cartoons weren't made for children tho, these kinds of toons were made to play before movies

[@varric]

That generation isn't like the current Crystal Generation.

[@canaisyoung3601]

I don't think they let kids watch this. In fact, this was released when they had the Hays Code (though it wasn't enforced until mid-1934), which would go after stuff like female sexuality (male sexuality too, but I'm going by what this cartoon has that would be considered taboo), the appearance of a black man, and drug abuse.

[@guidocosulich5925]

the real good old days

[@mrspeeder247]

Is no one questioning the background as the walrus is singing

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

Emula_777 I’m glad I’m not the only one to notice that!

[@shrekonion8307]

Well actually thats the foreground

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

shrek onion you’re right. Our bad :)

[@sytyanna]

Emula_777 i wish i hadn't looked

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

B B I love how it looks though,looks nice

[@Kroatowa]

3:33 I don't find this animation that disturbing but this part for some reason... A mother cat dying of starvation because her children are happily taking everything away from her. It got to me...

[@frannieface9029]

That Guy Also the ghosts of people who drowned in the well. And the ghosts of people who died from alcohol poisoning (or poison).

[@Kroatowa]

FrannieFace That's what I mean. None of that disturbed me for some reason... But that one cat one did.... 😂

[@frannieface9029]

That Guy Well, duh! Kitter cats!

[@angelofdeath275]

Yeah there’s a dark undertone to this entire short.

[@djbassphase]

Same. That was just wtff

[@Where_Is_She_0]

Don't do drugs kids... or the singing walrus will get you.

[@egyptiangold1480]

ullieeepo 😂😂😂😂

[@brookandethan1356]

Or koko the clown will if walrus doesn't lol

[@NeoRevival]

Just eat your Hassenpfeffer!

[@ecliptik8020]

that would encourage me to take drugs

[@CheezMonsterCrazy]

But if I don't do drugs, Elon Tusk will get me.

[@MidnightBlue766]

The moral of the story: if you run away, you get to met undead blues musicians.

[@shiawasekappukekiful]

Well that...that sounds wonderful, I'll go do that.thankyou

[@amiefortman7220]

shiawasekappukekiful Yeah, that actually doesn't sound all that bad. :)

[@jorgelopez-pr6dr]

In fact, the walrus is warning Betty and try to scare her and Bimbo in order to make her avoid the lot of the character of the song.

[@dakotaborrowdale2791]

I think you mean meet

[@dirteatingtreehugger6717]

My favorite thing about this is how hypnotic it is. I regularly loose interest midway through a video due to my lack of an attention span. But this song always puts me in a trance. I come back to it every few days or so.

[@RAGNAROKghhd]

Olivia Ludwig same

[@FanfictionReader0307]

I want to look away but I can't

[@MAW51187]

Its because its the book of the dead. Its what isaiah said in about remaliah.

[@texassunflower]

The song is creepy and his dancing is magical. The combo is great

[@Vampcamp993]

Perfection it’s really crazy how smooth that shit is

[@Groinkickerman]

This and the koko the clown one are so entrancing.

[@trippcory]

The animators must have studied calloways movements very well

[@trippcory]

***** Yes. Very.

[@Succui]

@@yuh3310 Could you.. not.. and you didn't even spell it right.

[@angelofdeath275]

I have to watch all 3 cab calloway shorts together

[@_JoeyOnAir]

@@yuh3310 smfh

[@Theevil6ify]

love how cool and sneakily music got away with drug references back then. Smokey was "cokey" because he was a coke addict, and showed Minnie how to "kick the gong around", meaning she smoked opium. The 50's and 60's seemed to really crack down on stuff like that (at least in mainstream music) but by the late 70's onward I guess people loosened up again. Weird how that happens.

[@Theevil6ify]

Tyler Bunty...Yes, fully aware. That was what I was pointing out: that this came out before the 50's and 60's, during a far more strict and conservative era, but managed to get past traditional censorship (something that music in the 50's-60's had a far more difficult time doing, even though there was gangs, prostitutes, and drug cultures during those decades as well). Just pointing it out as peculiar.

[@bean3550]

It's pretty fascinating, especially since I'm pretty sure this came out right round the tail end of prohibition? So it was probably Crazy edgy lol

[@jmrwacko]

Betty Boop was an adult cartoon. It wasn't Mickey Mouse.

[@spacecat942]

Itharius I hate the term "adult cartoon" lol adults can watch Mickey too - it's great, especially the old one :) I'm not attacking YOU btw I just don't like the ppl who invented the term ;)

[@Scorpia161]

Oh the references weren't sneaky, pretty much everyone knew what they meant. But this song/cartoon was made and released prior to the Hays Code (1930), a set of 'morality and decency' standards that most Hollywood studios adhered to, to some extent, up through the 60s. It gradually became less and less adhered to, in no small part because foreign films weren't allowed to be censored, until they gave up and the Hays Code turned into the rating system (R, PG, etc).

[@ZakWolf]

The reason why Cab Calloway's character was a walrus ghost was probably to make it easier for the animators to rotoscope Cab's dance moves (rotoscoping is like the old-timey equivalent of motion capture, in case you don't know.)

[@drummerkid21rr]

So that's Cabs voice the singing walrus? Cause this versions sounds different.

[@joseph19012]

@@drummerkid21rr yes but he sang the songs slightly differently depending if it was for a Fleischer cartoon or a performance at the cotton club.

[@angelofdeath275]

the got better over time, with koko the clown, then the old man of the mountain

[@mevb]

@@joseph19012 And he was young back then compaired to when he played Curtis in The Blues Brothers.

[@ZakWolf]

@@mevb Indeed. I love that bit when Cab Calloway basically broke character and did his Minnie the Moocher routine.

[@Octagons_GT]

You know it’s old when copyright is expired.

[@Theo-iz5cx]

"An animal with legs for this dance!" *a walrus-*

[@jessl1631]

I guess koko the clown's dancing was based on this

[@Improperman]

well, it's the same guy. cab calloway

[@peteryoung6738]

really wow

[@jomejamojaime173]

It was rotoscoped from a recording of him dancing just like the one that appears in the beggining of the video. The walrus's dancing in this cartoon? Same.

[@xyon9090]

Yeah, noticed the two same dance moves.

[@SunoxMoon]

Kid Jess well it does, obviously...

[@LilOutlaw03]

"He took her down to Chinatown" is the best line I've ever heard in a song.

[@TraChandler1]

Those rhymes are so melodic and haunting.

[@sandyr5407]

Animator 1: Yo, we should make Cab Calloway into a ghost! Animator 2: *nods* Animator 1: Of a walrus! Animator 2: *stops nodding*

[@bettyboop7689]

W a l r u s

[@MagikarpPoop]

Its fascinating to me to see animation in such an early stage. There’s no lack of ambition and imagination, but it’s before a time the basic principles of animation were even established. You can tell they’re figuring it out. No squash and stretch yet. But still, you can tell they’re experimenting, I just hope that they drew the conclusion to never create a walrus rotoscope nightmares again.

[@Flynn01979]

My dad showed me this when I was a kid, and it's still one of the freakiest cartoon I've ever seen.

[@justinjacquez9321]

Man this shit is disturbing. It makes Courage the Cowardly Dog look like Dora the Explorer

[@arielrose3063]

lol

[@Teggymania]

It does...

[@ColdNorth0628]

When cartoons are not restricted it gets fun.

[@thisismyfirstusernameimade3007]

Dora's more disturbing then anything.

[@zombz2629]

Anything remotely creepy makes me sooo happy 😍

[@angeldelacruz3351]

1:56 calm down

[@depresso5470]

N o

[@ENTR0PY]

1:17 Y'know, my parents probably think I'm watching porn but then they come in and be watchin me groove to that smooth jazzy blues

[@lerlmibea4792]

needs more likes

[@jojo-ll3tt]

I've been here for at least two hours just replaying and over analyzing this the trance is real

[@lindagurrera685]

Same

[@blackbokuto]

Cab Calloways dance is to sick lol.

[@Sleepyshy712]

Yep

[@enhanced6892]

definitely this is where michael jackson got much inspiration

[@livifox365]

I love the fact that the walrus is doing cab calloways dance moves and uses his voice

[@Mohamed-q5mi]

١٢ث

[@sunburst1889]

Cab Calloway the original, one of my favorites and one of my top best dancers ! Him and his orchestra always played so good! 🤍

[@emmerie9010]

This freaking masterpiece gave me a nightmare last night

[@stephenduffy562]

CAB CALLOWAY with brilliant, mind bending animation. A stunning combo.

[@amiefortman7220]

I read somewhere that Calloway was a little unsure of where exactly the Fleischer Brothers were going with this, and when he saw himself as a dancing walrus, he fell out of his chair laughing. :)

[@suchapill3077]

+Amie Fortman Probably because he was Hi-dee-Hi-dee-Hi.

[@davidisawesome6255]

Amie Fortman So he never knew he was being rotoscoped?

[@Mohamed-q5mi]

للل

[@nightmarepuppetgirl1298]

I can't stop thinking about this song

[@SirClawedfrog]

Highway man...

[@SirClawedfrog]

I make ends meet

[@SirClawedfrog]

You cross my path

[@neverknowsbest1717]

Knock you off the road

[@jordanche2903]

Delusional Del its drag you off the road lol and based on my prof. pic, pretty sure I'M the highwayman

[@neverknowsbest1717]

Jordan Che yea i just remembered that homie its been killin me all day... Good looking out tho👍👌

[@evakarin21]

My grandfather absolutely loved music. He always has these classics playing. I’m so great full that he shared his love of music with me.

[@ericpiquion9818]

How did the walrus die in the cave? Why is he haunting the cave?

[@jenmccartney3737]

i like the way ghost/walrus Calloway looks at the screen at 1:46. you can even is mouth form the R when he says moocher. such attention to detail like that is one of the reasons i love this cartoon.

[@jenmccartney3737]

Lol wut

[@jenmccartney3737]

***** what?! no i am not a racist. it is my goal as a person who waves the flag to prove that stereotype wrong. i am a liberal democrat, i support obama, and i don't like a lot of things on the republican party's platform. i use it to represent the ideals not of big confederate politicians but the dreams of the every day soldier. the average young man who didnt know or understand the politics, but instead fought for what he felt was right. i wave it for that dream that my young man ancestors had. also if i was at all racist i probably would've hated this video because you know.....cab calloways kinda sorta........black. i like your username dude!

[@Pixelrelated]

***** I have quite literally encountered you several times on youtube today. I feel like we are on the same video streak.

[@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757]

I like how you enjoy this just because of that walruses mouth

[@Righton2000]

I watched this high with my friend....this is like, the greatest cartoon in existence.

[@t.c.bramblett617]

The ghosts get executed but nothing happens since they're already dead. So they just enact a grim pantomime of the ritual to mock the living. Almost exactly the description of a Rolling Stones concert BA-DA-BOOM!

[@suchapill3077]

That was harsh, very true and obscenely funny. U even included your own rimshot. lmao!!

[@unicornthirteen8237]

This song should come with a warning: Cab Calloway’s Voice Will Put A Spell On You!

[@thunderthruster2338]

Personal opinion, but after seeing about half a dozen other versions, this ones the best.

[@WytZox1]

Wow! Cab Calloway invented the moon walk long before Michael Jackson was born! ☺

[@raringm1849]

Stop with the same emoji.

[@WytZox1]

RaringM WHY? ♣

[@WytZox1]

RaringM ~> I know U R but what am I? I know U R but what am I? I know U R but what am I? I know U R but what am I? I know U R but what am I? I know U R but what am I? I know U R but what am I? ... ☺

[@raringm1849]

WytZox1 no u

[@WytZox1]

RaringM ~> Yo mama! ♣

[@AndreCrema97]

I love Cab Calloway so much But what the fuck was the 30"s? Damn

[@cheddarcedar]

Cab Calloway dances like he doesn't have bones in his legs. I'm about it.

[@armyshope]

I'm addicted to this video

[@hanyuuhiiragi3544]

I was just listening to The Highwayman's Song from OTGW, and it brought me to this.

[@keyd4211]

same

[@EvanChannel2000]

This reminds me from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

[@BriansBrian]

Hanyuu Hiiragi same for me. Otgw FTW

[@mochibunni8942]

I’m pretty sure that song was actually based off of Cab Calloway (the man singing in this and dancing at the beginning)

[@SB-eg5ix]

How many times I watched this walrus dancing and never really paid no mind to the background art.

[@JamesBond-tu9zh]

Minnie the Moocher and Infirmary Blues are the BEST 💙💫

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

Same with “swing you sinners” kzbin.info/www/bejne/lam9oJaaebdsja8

[@Ravi_34]

KZbin: Yo, wanna see something we think you'll like? Me: No- *12 Year old vid that dates back decades ago starts playing*

[@OuroborosTheProtobean]

do you like it

[@Hypercube1729]

The cartoonists back then were really not kidding around.

[@theskullraider5058]

HO DEE HOOOOOO-DE-Hooo!!!

[@bettyboop7689]

HO DEE HOOooooOoOo-DE-HoooOOOO!

[@wackojacko0295]

HA DEE HA DEE HADI!!!!!!!!

[@kaylaleave]

Meg jumps off

[@2137laura]

HA DEE HAAAAA DEE HAAA

[@HubbieRobbie]

Love the coke reference. "She loved him, but he was cokey."

[@mikeysawchyn9415]

Roberto Barela and this is the thirties its amazing 😂

[@austinspencer6201]

The lyrics kick the gong around was referencing opium

[@yerk3]

When Cab Calloway and Max Fleischer collaborated, there was so much awesome concentrated in that one building that it shifted the Earth's axis by seven inches.

[@dudefrombelgium]

This was probably one of the earliest music video spoofs.

[@boffyb]

Yeah, a large part of the purpose of cartoons like this and early Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes was to promote records, so they were effectively the music videos of their day.

[@angelofdeath275]

I’ve been unhealthily obsessed with all 3 shorts fleischer studios made of cab Calloway. There is something to mesmerizing and haunting about this version Cab Calloway performed for this short. All the death and self destruction references, it must be about the hard times people fell on during the depression.

[@lindagurrera685]

Exactly I can’t stop watching

[@adamd0ggg2]

2:10 did the the skeletons just die... and turn into ghosts?

[@lonelyenchantress2172]

Exactly I thought they was already dead..🤷🏽‍♀️

[@TornaitSuperBird]

They died again.

[@lambadajewo.4143]

If there's reborn, why there wouldn't be redeath, well?

[@armyshope]

@@lambadajewo.4143 Good point

[@J8den]

I thought the ghost posesed the skeleton to show how they died... Alcohol poisoning

[@aca9874]

I saw a clip of this from an old movie when I was small, and it was the part with the ghosts singing, and I thought it was funny. I finally found it!

[@mathieumartel-chenard3642]

ACA 987 The movie was Look whos talking right if I was the same lol

[@aca9874]

Mathieu Martel oh, yes that's the one!

[@LordKristine]

I feel as though those cats are symbolic of fat cats who leach off their mothers to become businessmen. Moochers, in short. Maybe I'm overthinking this . . .

[@kr-toons]

I think you're onto something. Remember the note Betty Boop left on the bed, how she was leaving home? That could show how after all the years of mooching off of her parents and how she was being ungrateful by leaving. That could be the point of the ghost singing the song, to get her to realize how much of a moocher she's been acting like to her parents and teach her to appreciate them. :o

[@Mastergoodra]

Finally someone felt uncofterble about those cats! But now that you mention it I bet that what they were going for

[@johnathansandiego6657]

Lord Kristine I thought it sounded like the walrus was singing about Betty . interesting thought

[@thatonecat9662]

Lord Kristine read this as the cats came on

[@ZzCanonBull]

I thought that exact same thing

[@yousufshahkhan5135]

Music back then hits so different and I like it!

[@moonjaded9653]

I love this...it brings back memories that you can't remember

[@wantsomecoffe]

Is it Mr.Cab dancing in the start? :D

[@UberWolf712]

its cool seeing cab calloways moves that inspired saint james and this in the beginning of the vid. dude was slick

[@RealMaurine]

When I was a kid we used to watch cartoons like this on TV. I always liked Betty Boop and any of the old cartoons with ghosts and skeletons in them. "Gypped in Egypt" was another favorite.

[@DCBiscuit]

I had this on a DVD back in the day. I remember watching it when I was maybe 5 or 6. The Walrus always scared me and I vividly remember that scene of the Walrus phasing into existence. Good times.

[@alexvillar64]

I don’t know what I could have watched to possibly warrant this being in my recommended 😂 12 years later

[@EvonneLindiwe]

Lol 👀

[@himurakenshinfan19]

He has the most amazing voice!

[@NaradaC]

I could watch that coreography in the intro over & over and remain amused every time

[@armyshope]

Same I don't get tired of it

[@sladikk]

I'm the highwayman. I make ends meet. I work with my hands. If you cross my path, I'll knock you out, drag you off the road, steal your shoes from off your feet, I'm the highwayman, and I make ends meet.

[@jeniferjoseph9200]

Wish the highwayman song were longer...

[@sladikk]

I'm ok with it being that short. A lot of important stuff happened that episode.

[@Faronwoodss]

Never in my life seen a video that was posted ”15 years ago” before

[@paigeeden4496]

This is what I call a "Bungee Cord" moment. It's slingshoting back and forth from disturbing to funny and back again.

[@sweetlena8518]

I first saw this on look who's talking and have searched for this since then. Thank you for uploading : )

[@AnotherGenericUsername]

I love everything about this video: the sound, the dance in the beginning, the creepy images. You don't entirely see it in cartoons these days :/

[@chuckheppner3374]

Minnie the Moocher kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnnUm4CeeZVnq6M Folks, here's a story about Minnie the Moocher She was a lowdown hoochie coocher She was the roughest, toughest frail But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale Hidee hidee hidee hi Hode hode hode ho Hee dee hee dee hee dee hee A hidee hidee hidee ho She messed around with a bloke named Smoky She loved him though he was cokey He took her down to Chinatown And he showed her how to kick the gong around Hidee hidee hidee hi Whoah Hee dee hee dee hee dee hee A hidee hidee hidee ho She had a dream about the King of Sweden He gave her things that she was needin' He gave her a home built of gold and steel A diamond car with platinum wheels Hidee hidee hidee hidee hidee hidee hi Hodee hodee hodee hodee hodee oh Scurlivou scurlivou scurlivou rlivourlivu Setetetete raburlutu scetete raburlutu toy He gave her his townhouse and his racing horses Each meal she ate was a dozen courses She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes She sat around and counted them all a million times Hidee hidee hidee hi Hooh whoaa oh oh whoa Hidee hidee hidee hi Poor Min, Poor Min, Poor Min Songwriters Gaskill, Clarence / Mills, Irving / Calloway, Cab

[@rawpewpew]

Omg, thanks! X)

[@chuckheppner3374]

You're most certainly welcome, +Rawpewpew. ✌

[@Euniqcorn]

Remember rewatching this so many times. I Love this song.

[@AishaVonFossen]

I recently started getting into a few of these cartoons again thanks to Doug Walker/Nostalgia Critic reviewing them in his Dark Toons series. He's talked about Minnie the Moocher a few times in his review of "Betty Boop in Snow White", but he wants to give Minnie its own review sometime soon. This is also what got me more interested in Cab Calloway as well. I forgot that he was also in The Blues Brothers and sang this song in that movie, catchy as hell. I love it! LOL I also like the idea of rotoscoping here, and how the animators captured almost all of Calloway's movements to a tee with that ghost walrus! You can see that with Coco in the Snow White cartoon as well, really talented artists who worked on these cartoons. I will say, though, that not all the animation here exactly matches up with the music. But I think that's part of its charm. That and it allows me to pay more attention to the original recording, and imagining how much fun it must have been for Calloway and everyone else to record that before animation was put to it, almost like hearing it on the radio or something, really fun. :) I think I wanna try singing like Cab Calloway sometime, he just looks like he had so much fun singing and it's contagious, makes me wanna join in and sing and dance with him! LOL

[@severedghost]

This is my favorite cuphead level

[@BrightBees1]

A secret alternative ending where king dice transforms into a dancing ghostly walrus

[@werewolf873]

the dark souls of animation

[@thefiretailedweasel6206]

Hidden Final Boss: Cab Calloway himself

[@srnoice2134]

This is definitely one of the most video ever made

[@kurentbellsringing4306]

Thanks!! My dad is 1932 , enjoying this childhood memory. Thanks to you 😇

[@thecurious1903]

2:51- 3:12 is my favorite part

[@KOKOGAMER44]

after 15 years any buddy here?

[@cl0vvntiem]

this animation is as weird as cab calloway's performance is timeless

[@manisaphoenix3467]

Surprisingly creepy

[@fwoqma]

nobody: youtube algorithm 2019: Minnie the Moocher - song only

[@liberprimus6874]

That's some pretty dank dancing.

[@dsledge2266]

cab callaway,may he rest in peace, coldest walk in show business..

[@TheFLAMEXD]

Ok, what was with the obsession skeletons?

[@KosaiAvonej]

Am I the only one who totally sees this as where Michael Jackson got his moves from?!

[@Sleight5697]

There was something about him loving the moves from a certain musician that made him taking those moves over to his style. Not sure if it was Cab Colloway but he saw the moves before he used them himself.

[@LVdeo]

He got his moves from James Brown

[@Sleight5697]

Yus! That was the name, thank you! x)

[@mambo_combo]

He did have some James Brown influence but it's undeniable that he was heavily influenced by the great Bob fosse and his broken lines.

[@HemingJulner]

RoughWolf It was more from Sammy Davis Jr than from James Brown, IIRC

[@Jamie-qd6ks]

2:07 In fairness that blood to alcohol ratio would kill anyone just as fast.

[@0ddsandb0dkins]

I remember when I first found this cartoon. I was 20 years old, just started my transition. I remember people telling me that when you start T, your singing voice is the first thing to go. But I wasn’t having that. So I’ve been using this song, and St James infirmary blues to practice with the lower range

[@Tomsfilipsons]

At 3:45 he scats "daddy-o", which is a VERY early appearance of the word.

[@Tomsfilipsons]

Also, when the chorus replies, they sing something more like "laddy-o", indicating that they were not aware of the fact that it's an actual word.

[@redink446]

I'm frightened of how the cat just starts dying of the kittens also, THE VOICE OF THE WALRUS IS LOUD AS A SCREAM. It scares me.

[@xWasabiNekoProx]

No, it's cool; not like I needed to sleep anyways.

[@chs75]

Iol

[@meankid7330]

TanookiPants how is this scary

[@notmagicok7612]

How do you find is creepy

[@constanzacaceres8157]

@@meankid7330 pay attention to the lyrics

[@nightly8392]

@@2_refined well lyrics, and the uncanny feel from bow it was animated.