Uploaded February 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
"This little piggy stayed home..."Betty Boop usually was the sole "solid" figure in a world of rubber hose animation, but those are some flexible toes. "Mother Goose Land" now seems like a precursor to the "Shrek" films, with its jumble of nursery rhyme characters and fairy tale figures. This set a theme of sorts however, and over the next episodes Betty would often return to the land of fairy tales.
And you, dear viewer, should visit Tales from Weirdland: youtube.com/channel/UCqje4E9YkfGV9IA19AeHygw.
From Wikipedia:
Mother Goose Land is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. Betty, while reading a book of Mother Goose stories, wishes she could visit such a wonderful place. Betty's wish is granted when Mother Goose appears, and gives her a tour of Mother Goose Land. Betty has a wonderful time until Little Miss Muffet's spider chases her, with lecherous ends in mind. All of the characters are terrified of the spider (during which, the Three Blind Mice are revealed to not be blind at all), but the blackbirds from "Sing a Song of Sixpence" come to Betty's rescue by catching the spider in a web and carrying it in the air, using it like a trampoline until the spider falls through the web. Betty wakes up in bed with all the fairy tale characters surrounding her while dancing, and then they jump back into the book, and when Mother Goose tries to imitate Betty's "boop oop a doop" catchphrase, her hat, wig and dentures fall out.
"This little piggy stayed home..."Betty Boop usually was the sole "solid" figure in a world of rubber hose animation, but those are some flexible toes. "Mother Goose Land" now seems like a precursor to the "Shrek" films, with its jumble of nursery rhyme characters and fairy tale figures. This set a theme of sorts however, and over the next episodes Betty would often return to the land of fairy tales.
And you, dear viewer, should visit Tales from Weirdland: youtube.com/channel/UCqje4E9YkfGV9IA19AeHygw.
From Wikipedia:
Mother Goose Land is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. Betty, while reading a book of Mother Goose stories, wishes she could visit such a wonderful place. Betty's wish is granted when Mother Goose appears, and gives her a tour of Mother Goose Land. Betty has a wonderful time until Little Miss Muffet's spider chases her, with lecherous ends in mind. All of the characters are terrified of the spider (during which, the Three Blind Mice are revealed to not be blind at all), but the blackbirds from "Sing a Song of Sixpence" come to Betty's rescue by catching the spider in a web and carrying it in the air, using it like a trampoline until the spider falls through the web. Betty wakes up in bed with all the fairy tale characters surrounding her while dancing, and then they jump back into the book, and when Mother Goose tries to imitate Betty's "boop oop a doop" catchphrase, her hat, wig and dentures fall out.
