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* FairForItsDay: Putting aside the caricatures, and bleached up blackface, stealing a chicken was a much graver sin back when food was relatively scarce.
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* ForTheEvulz: The last verse of the song has the ghosts stating this as the motivation for their sadism.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: The spirits in the cartoon take the forms of several objects, including tombstones, a haystack, two separate examples made of the graves' soil, a scythe, and a pair of shoes.
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* CreepyJazzMusic: The short features a big jazz number including some unhinged scatting, where a bunch of ghosts torment Bimbo the dog after he tries to steal a chicken.chicken.
* DangerouslyCloseShave: One of the ghosts turns into and emerges from a barber pole, promising Bimbo this and lampshading it.
* DangerouslyCloseShave: One of the ghosts turns into and emerges from a barber pole, promising Bimbo this and lampshading it.
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* DerangedAnimation: Let's just say ''everything'' in the short is wildly animated, even before the Graveyard sequence. The climatic chase sequence with the barnhouse and freakish monsters chasing Bimbo (animated by Creator/GrimNatwick) especially stands out.
* GainaxEnding: After a long chase, Bimbo gets whisked off into a bizarre ghostly world where he gets eaten by a giant skull.
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* DerangedAnimation: Let's just say ''everything'' in the short is wildly animated, even before the Graveyard graveyard sequence. The climatic chase sequence with the barnhouse barn and freakish monsters chasing Bimbo (animated by Creator/GrimNatwick) especially stands out.
* GainaxEnding: After a long chase, Bimbo gets whisked off into a bizarre ghostly world where he gets eaten by a giant skull. The End.
* InformedFlaw: The ghosts let us know that Bimbo is a gambler and a womanizer on top of being a thief, but we only ever see evidence of the latter.
* GainaxEnding: After a long chase, Bimbo gets whisked off into a bizarre ghostly world where he gets eaten by a giant skull. The End.
* InformedFlaw: The ghosts let us know that Bimbo is a gambler and a womanizer on top of being a thief, but we only ever see evidence of the latter.
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* SapientHouse: Once Bimbo leaves the barn, it becomes an ambulatory spirit.
* SwallowTheKey: This is done to keep the cemetery gates locked. Most menacingly, it's the ''[[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext gate]]'' that does so.
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Done with a stone wall that appears on the horizon and phases through the scenery to enclose Bimbo in a tight circle.
* SwallowTheKey: This is done to keep the cemetery gates locked. Most menacingly, it's the ''[[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext gate]]'' that does so.
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Done with a stone wall that appears on the horizon and phases through the scenery to enclose Bimbo in a tight circle.
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->''"Officially, LSD was first produced in 1938. We say "officially" because this cartoon says it's from 1930, [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs and there's no way it was created without massive doses of acid being pumped into everyone involved]]."''
-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19979_5-old-childrens-cartoons-way-darker-than-most-horror-movies.html "5 Old Children's Cartoons Way Darker Than Most Horror Movies"]]
-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19979_5-old-childrens-cartoons-way-darker-than-most-horror-movies.html "5 Old Children's Cartoons Way Darker Than Most Horror Movies"]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bimbo gets harassed by an army of ghosts and eventually whisked off into oblivion, all for the petty crime of trying to ''steal a chicken.''
** Of course, this ''was'' made during TheGreatDepression, when food was scarce, and people often went for days, sometimes even ''weeks'' without food. So stealing a chicken in those days was a far graver sin than what modern viewers would think.
** Of course, this ''was'' made during TheGreatDepression, when food was scarce, and people often went for days, sometimes even ''weeks'' without food. So stealing a chicken in those days was a far graver sin than what modern viewers would think.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: To modern viewers, Bimbo trying to steal a chicken is a petty crime at worst and certainly doesn't warrant being whisked off into oblivion, but this film ''was'' made during TheGreatDepression, when food was scarce, and people often went for days, sometimes even ''weeks'' without food, so Bimbo's crime is far was a far graver sin than what modern viewers would think.
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''Swing, You Sinners!'' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1930]] WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}} short, produced by Creator/FleischerStudios and featuring their character [[UnfortunateNames Bimbo]] the dog.
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** Of course, this ''was'' made during TheGreatDepression, when food was scarce, and people often went for days, sometimes even weeks without food. So stealing a chicken in those days was a far graver sin than what modern viewers would think.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bimbo gets harassed by an army of ghosts and eventually whisked off into oblivion, all for the petty crime of trying to steal ''steal a chicken.
chicken.''
** Of course, this ''was'' made during TheGreatDepression, when food was scarce, and people often went for days, sometimes evenweeks ''weeks'' without food. So stealing a chicken in those days was a far graver sin than what modern viewers would think.
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''Swing, You Sinners!'' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1930]] WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}} short, produced by Creator/FleischerStudios and featuring their character Bimbo [[UnfortunateNames Bimbo]] the dog.
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* VisualPun: Right after entering the graveyard, a block of ice briefly appears on Bimbo's feet - because he's [[DontExplainTheJoke getting cold feet]].
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''Swing, You Sinners!'' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1930]] {{Talkartoons}} WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}} short, produced by FleischerStudios Creator/FleischerStudios and featuring their character Bimbo the dog.
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** Of course, this ''was'' made during TheGreatDepression, when food was scarce, and people often went for days without food. So stealing a chicken in those days was a far graver sin than what modern viewers would think.
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** Of course, this ''was'' made during TheGreatDepression, when food was scarce, and people often went for days without food. So stealing a chicken in those days was a far graver sin than what modern viewers would think.
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* VillainProtagonist: Bimbo, although he barely qualifies as a villain.
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Contrast to {{Disney}}'s TheSkeletonDance, a short with a similar macabre theme (but not nearly as wild). Also of note is VanBeurenStudios own [[FollowTheLeader knockoff]] of the film, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grs4j3sFfm4 "Panicky Pup".]]
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Contrast to {{Disney}}'s TheSkeletonDance, Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheSkeletonDance'', a short with a similar macabre theme (but not nearly as wild). Also of note is VanBeurenStudios own [[FollowTheLeader knockoff]] of the film, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grs4j3sFfm4 "Panicky Pup".]]
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* DerangedAnimation: Let's just say ''everything'' in the short is wildly animated, even before the Graveyard sequence. The climatic chase sequence with the barnhouse and freakish monsters chasing Bimbo (animated by GrimNatwick) Creator/GrimNatwick) especially stands out.
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* TheVillainSucksSong: The opening chorus when Bimbo first gets in the graveyard.graveyard.
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* DerangedAnimation: Let's just way say ''everything'' in the short is wildly animated, even before the Graveyard sequence. The climatic chase sequence with the barnhouse and freakish monsters chasing Bimbo (animated by GrimNatwick) especially stands out.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Stand up, you sinner, we got you at last!"]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Stand up, you sinner, we got you at last!"]]
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''Swing, You Sinners!'' is a 1930 {{Talkartoons}} short, produced by FleischerStudios and featuring their character Bimbo the dog.
The short begins with Bimbo making a nighttime raid on a hen-house, attempting to steal one of the chickens. After a humorous scuffle with one of the hens, a police officer shows up and begins chasing him. Bimbo evades capture (albeit losing the hen and its chicks along the way) but winds up trapped inside a graveyard, where a legion of wily ghosts unite to not only scare the life out of him for his crime, but eventually spirit him away.
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* AcidTripDimension: Bimbo ends up in this in the ending, with lots of dancing ghosts, frogs, and a giant skull that eats him.
* AnimationBump: The GrimNatwick scenes, most notably the climatic chase sequence.
* BedsheetGhost: Many of the ghosts have this appearance.
* TheDeadCanDance: And swing like crazy too.
* DerangedAnimation: Let's just way ''everything'' in the short is wildly animated, even before the Graveyard sequence. The climatic chase sequence with the barnhouse and freakish monsters chasing Bimbo (animated by GrimNatwick) especially stands out.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bimbo gets harassed by an army of ghosts and eventually whisked off into oblivion, all for the petty crime of trying to steal a chicken.
* GainaxEnding: After a long chase, Bimbo gets whisked off into a bizarre ghostly world where he gets eaten by a giant skull.
* MickeyMousing: The part where Bimbo evades the cop is directly timed to the music.
* OffModel: Bimbo's appearance frequently changes throughout the cartoon, depending on who was animating him.
* TheVillainSucksSong: The opening chorus when Bimbo first gets in the graveyard.
The short begins with Bimbo making a nighttime raid on a hen-house, attempting to steal one of the chickens. After a humorous scuffle with one of the hens, a police officer shows up and begins chasing him. Bimbo evades capture (albeit losing the hen and its chicks along the way) but winds up trapped inside a graveyard, where a legion of wily ghosts unite to not only scare the life out of him for his crime, but eventually spirit him away.
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* AcidTripDimension: Bimbo ends up in this in the ending, with lots of dancing ghosts, frogs, and a giant skull that eats him.
* AnimationBump: The GrimNatwick scenes, most notably the climatic chase sequence.
* BedsheetGhost: Many of the ghosts have this appearance.
* TheDeadCanDance: And swing like crazy too.
* DerangedAnimation: Let's just way ''everything'' in the short is wildly animated, even before the Graveyard sequence. The climatic chase sequence with the barnhouse and freakish monsters chasing Bimbo (animated by GrimNatwick) especially stands out.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bimbo gets harassed by an army of ghosts and eventually whisked off into oblivion, all for the petty crime of trying to steal a chicken.
* GainaxEnding: After a long chase, Bimbo gets whisked off into a bizarre ghostly world where he gets eaten by a giant skull.
* MickeyMousing: The part where Bimbo evades the cop is directly timed to the music.
* OffModel: Bimbo's appearance frequently changes throughout the cartoon, depending on who was animating him.
* TheVillainSucksSong: The opening chorus when Bimbo first gets in the graveyard.
