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



![Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
From Wikipedia:
Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on November 2, 1950. The winner of the 1950 Academy Award for Best Animated Short,[1] Gerald McBoing-Boing is the story of a little boy who speaks through sound effects instead of spoken words.
Directed by: Robert Cannon
Produced by: Stephen Bosustow (executive producer), John Hubley (producer)
Story by: Dr. Seuss (original story), Phil Eastman, Bill Scott
Narrated by: Marvin Miller
Music by: Gail Kubik
Animation by: Rudy Larriva,Pat Matthews, Bill Meléndez, Willis Pyle, Frank Smith
Layouts by: William T. Hurtz
Backgrounds by: Jules Engel, Herbert Klynn
Studio: United Productions of America
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release date(s): November 2, 1950
Color process: Technicolor Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oodq5Qz6htY/mqdefault.jpg)






