History WesternAnimation / SwingYouSinners

* AcidTripDimension: Bimbo ends up in this in the ending, with lots of dancing ghosts, frogs, and a giant skull that eats him.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Swing" can mean either "dance", befitting the [[LyricalDissonance upbeat, jazzy song number from which the short takes its name]], or it can mean "what someone does at the end of a noose", and sure enough there's no shortage of hanging references in regards to poor Bimbo.

* OffModel: Bimbo's appearance frequently changes throughout the cartoon, depending on who was animating him in a given scene.

* SurpriseCreepy: It starts out like any other funny little old rubber-hose cartoon, but it doesn't take long for things to start getting ''dark''.
* SwallowTheKey: This is done to keep the cemetery gates locked. Most menacingly, it's the ''[[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext gate]]'' that does so.

* ExcitedShowTitle

* 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, even ''weeks'' without food, so Bimbo's crime was a far graver sin than what modern viewers would believe.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: The ghosts are on Bimbo's case for his history of chasing girls, stealing chickens and gambling. This is, apparently, enough to warrant a mercilessly and gleefully delivered death sentence. [[note]] It's only a misdemeanor from a modern viewpoint, back when this cartoon was made during the TheGreatDepression, stealing farm animals was considered a major felony due to the famine and food shortages at the time.[[/note]]

* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Done with a stone wall that appears on the horizon and phases through the scenery to enclose Bimbo in a tight circle.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: The ghosts are on Bimbo's case for his history of chasing girls, stealing chickens and gambling. This is, apparently, enough to warrant a mercilessly and gleefully delivered death sentence.

* {{Scatting}}: In the final few minutes before the ending, a frog with especially long limbs manages to pull off an excellent example.

"Swing, You Sinners!" is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1930]] WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}} short, produced by Creator/FleischerStudios and featuring their character [[UnfortunateNames Bimbo]] the dog[[note]]The name Bimbo was chosen because in the 1920s the word was mostly associated with men who liked to fight.[[/note]].

"Swing, You Sinners!" is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1930]] WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}} short, produced by Creator/FleischerStudios and featuring their character [[UnfortunateNames Bimbo]][[note]]The name Bimbo was chosen because in the 1920s the word was mostly associated with men who liked to fight.[[/note]] the dog.

"Swing, You Sinners!" is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1930]] WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}} short, produced by Creator/FleischerStudios and featuring their character [[UnfortunateNames Bimbo]] the dog.

Contrast to Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheSkeletonDance'', a short with a similar macabre theme (but not nearly as wild). Also of note is Creator/VanBeurenStudios own [[FollowTheLeader knockoff]] of the film, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grs4j3sFfm4 "Panicky Pup".]]

->''"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]]."''

* DoubleMeaningTitle: 'Swing' could either mean 'dance', befitting the [[LyricalDissonance upbeat, jazzy song number from which the short takes its name]], or it could mean 'what someone does at the end of a noose', and sure enough there's no shortage of hanging references in regards to poor Bimbo.

* GainaxEnding: After a long chase, Bimbo gets whisked off into a bizarre ghostly world where he gets eaten by a giant skull. The End.

* OffModel: Bimbo's appearance frequently changes throughout the cartoon, depending on who was animating him.
* PrepareToDie: The first half of the song in the graveyard is basically the ghosts telling Bimbo this.

* SapientHouse: Once Bimbo leaves the barn, it becomes an ambulatory spirit.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A dark-colored character is chased by a gang (of "ghosts", at that) who want to kill him over a petty crime. Many have noted the eerie similarities between this cartoon and a lynch mob.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A dark-colored character is chased by a gang who want to kill him over a petty crime. Many have noted the eerie similarities between this cartoon and a lynch mob.

Contrast to 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".]]

* InformedFlaw: The ghosts let us know that Bimbo is a gambler and a shameless womanizer on top of being a thief, but we only ever see evidence of the latter.

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.

* DangerouslyCloseShave: One of the ghosts turns into and emerges from a barber pole, promising Bimbo this and lampshading it.

* 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.

* 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.

* FairForItsDay: Putting aside the caricatures, and bleached up blackface, stealing a chicken was a much graver sin back when food was relatively scarce.