History Trivia / BettyBoop

** "Accordion Joe" (1930) was originally thought to be lost until Tom Stathes found the short in 2016 and was later posted to YouTube in 2023.

* BeamMeUpScotty: While Betty's "Boop Oop A Doop" CatchPhrase is sung in some of the opening titles (which was dropped later in the series), a fan might be surprised to find that it is very rarely said in the actual cartoons.

* UnisexSeriesGenderedMerchandise: Despite the character being the UrExample of a cartoon MsFanservice for men, much of her merchandise is aimed at women.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://bettyboop.wikia.com/wiki/BETTY_BOOP_Wiki The Betty Boop Wiki]].

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: There is a viral hoax that Betty was based off of a black woman named Esther Jones. It's actually a modern day cosplay from 2008.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Four shorts from 1938 - "Honest Love and True," "Pudgy and the Lost Kitten," "Buzzy Boop," and its sequel "Buzzy Boop at the Concert" - were left out by Paramount when they sold the Betty Boop cartoons to TV. While the second and third aforementioned made their way online, "Honest Love and True" is (as of 2022) only available through a print with French text and translations. "Buzzy Boop at the Concert" was located at a Russian archive in 2019.
* MissingEpisode: "Accordion Joe" (1930).

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: There is a viral hoax that Betty was based off of a black woman named Esther Jones.It's actually a modern day cosplay from 2008.

** In 1996, Richard Fleischer was close to getting Fred Wolf Films to greenlight the production of a new ''Betty Boop'' animated series about the character becoming an [[RecycledINSPACE intergalactic waitress]]. Unfortunately, it never got of the ground due to issues with licensing and budget.

** In 1993, MGM put a ''Betty Boop'' animated film in pre-production, with Bernadette Peters attached to play the title role. It would have been comedic love story about Betty and her friends going to Hollywood to become famous, as well as Betty reconnecting with her estranged father, Benny Boop. It also would have been set in the 1930s but would have had a "decidedly modern twist" to it. The film was reportedly 75 to 90 percent storyboarded and ready to begin voice over recording when it was canceled due to administrative changeover in MGM as well as legal disagreements between the three major license holders of the franchise at the time. Various concept art and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiaodCj0pak a storyboarded music scene]] from the film has found their way to the internet over the years.

* DorkAge: The second half of Betty Boop's output was devastated by UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode's extremely prudish rules regarding sensual scenes. Gone was Betty Boop's ''boop-oop-a-doop'' and Bimbo and in came the housewife dress. While the later cartoons aren't all bad - especially the episodes featuring her Grampy and the one-off friend character Sally Swing (which has since been resurrected in modern media as Betty's BFF) - the series never recovered, and it got to the point that ''the last cartoon was a one-shot that featured no Betty whatsoever''. Talk about going out with a whimper.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Four shorts from 1938 - "Honest Love and True," "Pudgy and the Lost Kitten," "Buzzy Boop," and its sequel "Buzzy Boop at the Concert" - were left out by Paramount when they sold the Betty Boop cartoons to TV. While the second and third aforementioned made their way to Website/YouTube, "Honest Love and True" is (as of 2022) only available through a print with French text and translations. "Buzzy Boop at the Concert" was located at a Russian archive in 2019.

* MissingEpisode: To date, there have been three lost Betty Boop cartoons: "Accordion Joe" (1930), "Honest Love and True", and "Buzzy Boop at the Concert" (both from 1938).