Follow TV Tropes

Following

History WesternAnimation / TheBumBandit

Go To

OR

Added: 231

Removed: 231

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: Nan is not happy about Bimbo never returning from the store:
-->'''Nan [=McGrew=]''': Remember the night you left me and the kids to go after a quart of milk? Well, haven't you found that cow yet!?



* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: Nan is not happy about Bimbo never returning from the store:
-->'''Nan [=McGrew=]''': Remember the night you left me and the kids to go after a quart of milk? Well, haven't you found that cow yet!?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


Bimbo is a robber in the wild west and while robbing a train, runs into his wife, Dangerous Nan [=McGrew=].

to:

Bimbo is a robber in the wild west and while robbing a train, he runs into his wife, Dangerous Nan [=McGrew=].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* StomachOfHolding: The conductor hides his pocket watch by swallowing it whole.

to:

* StomachOfHolding: The conductor train engineer hides his pocket watch by swallowing it whole.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* ActionMom: Nan [=McGrew=] boasts a lot of how tough she is and easily tosses her husband around like he was a sack of potatos, all while being a mother of ten.

to:

* ActionMom: Nan [=McGrew=] boasts a lot of how tough she is and easily tosses her husband around like he was a sack of potatos, doll, all while being a mother of ten.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[quoteright:947:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_bum_bandit.png]]

The Bum Bandit is a WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}} cartoon by Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer with Creator/GrimNatwick as one of the animators (uncredited).

Originally released on April 3, 1931, This short stars Bimbo the dog and WesternAnimation/BettyBoop; well... not Betty Boop per say, but an alternate version of the character named Dangerous Nan [=McGrew=] (sister of Dan [=McGrew=]).

Bimbo is a robber in the wild west and while robbing a train, runs into his wife, Dangerous Nan [=McGrew=].

----
!!Tropes Used In This Short:
* ActionMom: Nan [=McGrew=] boasts a lot of how tough she is and easily tosses her husband around like he was a sack of potatos, all while being a mother of ten.
* AnimationBump: An impressive perspective shot is done where several different backgrounds were used to create a successive first-person zoom-up shot to a gun-wielding Bimbo.
* BulletSeed: Bimbo chomps some chewing tobacco and spit is out at a rock, breaking it into pieces.
** Disguised Nan [=McGrew=] takes a bite out of the barrel of Bimbo's gun and spits out some bullets into a nearby cactus and it runs away.
* CigarChomper: Nan smokes one while scolding her husband, though seconds after Bimbo lights it, it vanishes into thin air onscreen.
* CuckooClockGag: A train passenger throws a cuckoo clock onto the blanket as Bimbo was robbing them.
* DominoMask: Bimbo wears one and so do all ten of his children.
* EverythingTalks: Bimbo's guns and the train come to life multiple times in the short.
* FalseTeethTomfoolery: Among the possessions the passengers threw on a blanket while Bimbo was robbing them included a pair of false teeth.
* FurIsClothing: Bimbo robs the fur off of a squirrel as if it was an article of clothing.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: A dogman's pants drop while his hands were up, revealing some polka-dot underwear. His suspenders stretch themselves to pull his pants back up.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: When Bimbo tries to shoot a stationary metal can, he instead shoots a bird out of the sky who walks away in pain; when Bimbo tries to shoot the retreating bird, he somehow shoots a cow out of the sky. He only manages to shoot the can ahead of him by aiming his gun skyward.
* LittleBlackDress: About the only reminder that Nan [=McGrew=] is a version of Betty Boop is her wearing her little black dress in the family photo.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Bimbo and Nan [=McGrew's=] family photo shows them with ten kids.
* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: A [[HuggyHuggyHippos hippo]] with his hands up sweats so much out of fear that he turns from very fat to very skinny in seconds.
* PaperThinDisguise: It was understandable when she was wearing the fake beard, but that lasted for three seconds and Bimbo doesn't reconize his own wife until she takes off the cowboy hat.
* StomachOfHolding: The conductor hides his pocket watch by swallowing it whole.
* TailfinWalking: A bunch of fish walk out of the lake after Nan backs her husband into it.
* TrainJob: Bimbo robbing the passengers of a train is the basis of this short.
* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: Nan is not happy about Bimbo never returning from the store:
-->'''Nan [=McGrew=]''': Remember the night you left me and the kids to go after a quart of milk? Well, haven't you found that cow yet!?
* WantedPoster: Bimbo sees one of him attached to a tree and shoots a hole into it, causing the squrriel living in it to flee.
* TheWildWest: The short's setting.
* UncleTomfoolery: A dog-man black caricature puts his hands up while saying in a stereotypical voice, "I got my hands up, boss,", revealing five chickens hiding in his clothes

Top