The Impractical Joker

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The Impractical Joker
Directed byDave Fleischer
Produced byMax Fleischer
StarringMae Questel
Jack Mercer
Pinto Colvig
Animation byFrank Endres
Thomas Johnson
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
June 18, 1937
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Impractical Joker is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.[1] Pinto Colvig (the voice of Goofy) provides the voice for Irving.[2]

Synopsis

Betty Boop is baking a cake, when Irving the practical joker comes for a visit. Betty becomes the victim of such pranks as shaking a false hand and getting squirted in the face. Betty calls on Grampy for help, and he quickly rigs his apartment to counteract Irving's pranks and send him on his way. Irving gets the last laugh, when Grampy lights the candle on the cake. Irving replaced the candle with a firecracker before he left.

In other media

A short clip from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode "My Three Suns".

Some clips of the redrawn colorized version were used in the compilation Betty Boop For President: The Movie (1980).

References

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ Full cast and crew at the IMDb.

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