{"id":807,"date":"2008-07-17T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T19:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2008-08-07T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T20:29:21","slug":"betty-boop-and-pudgy-in-my-friend-the-monkey-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/betty-boop-and-pudgy-in-my-friend-the-monkey-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CARTOON CRYPT: Betty Boop and Pudgy in My Friend the Monkey (1939)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=12\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/headers\/cartooncrypt.gif\" alt=\"THE CARTOON CRYPT\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must confess, I used to really dislike Pudgy and Grampy&#8230; the characters that invaded Betty Boop&#8217;s cartoons after her pre-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Production_Code\">Hays code<\/a> prime. I blamed them for the decline of quality in Betty Boop cartoons, not to mention the unfortunate disappearance of Bimbo and Koko. I&#8217;ve been watching them a lot lately, however, because my daughter LOVES Pudgy&#8230; and they really are fun cartoons. Betty is nowhere near as interesting as in her earlier cartoons&#8230; but I guess it ain&#8217;t Pudgy and Grampy&#8217;s fault. This is the 6th from last Fleischer Betty Boop cartoon, and 2nd from last Pudgy cartoon. This may be my favorite of the Pudgy cartoons I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PLEASE NOTE:<\/strong> This cartoon contains ethnic depictions that some people would certainly find offensive, and you may not want to watch it if this sort of thing bugs you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QrdC-7bOWEU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcdb.com\/cartoon\/1616-My_Friend_The_Monkey.html\">Read more about this cartoon at the Big Cartoon Database.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must confess, I used to really dislike Pudgy and Grampy&#8230; the characters that invaded Betty Boop&#8217;s cartoons after her pre-Hays code prime. I blamed them for the decline of quality in Betty Boop cartoons, not to mention the unfortunate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/betty-boop-and-pudgy-in-my-friend-the-monkey-1939\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,30,111,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-betty-boop","category-fleischer-studios","category-monkey-cartoons","category-cartoon_crypt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-d1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}