Line #37 WesternAnimation/TheRomanceOfBettyBoop


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Betty Boop with Uncle Mischa (left) and Johnny Throat (right)]]
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5	->'' "A girl gets so lonesome reaching for the stars all by herself..."''
6	--> '''Betty Boop'''
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8	''The Romance of Betty Boop'' is a 1985 animated television special aired on CBS starring Desiree Goyette as WesternAnimation/BettyBoop and produced by Creator/BillMelendez.
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10	Set in 1939 [[BigApplesauce New York]], Betty Boop is featured as an independent girl with big dreams; as of the present though, she is working two jobs to make ends meet during the Great Depression - a shoe clerk by day and a chorus girl by night at the Club Bubbles of her Uncle Mischa. A local iceman named Freddy is in love with her but Betty only has eyes for the rich playboy Waldo Van Lavish.
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12	Unfortunately for Betty, Uncle Mischa is severely in debt to a local mobster named Johnny Throat. During Betty's performance, Mr. Throat comes to collect the money, accompanied by his two thugs Punchy and Chuckles. When Mr. Throat sees Betty Boop though, he takes an interest in her.
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16	!!This work features examples of the following tropes:
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18	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Waldo's dad laughed when an angry Betty knocks out his son for trying to make her his maid.
19	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Johnny Throat has greenish skin.
20	* AssKicksYou: Betty does this to get rid of the two women with Waldo Van Lavish during her "I Wanna Be Loved By You" musical number.
21	* BigApplesauce: The entire special takes place in New York City (specifically near the end of TheGreatDepression).
22	* BigDamnHeroes: Betty and Waldo fall from the tall buildings in Times Square while pursued by Chuckles and Punchy. But Freddy rescues them in a net as he rides in a police helicopter.
23	* ChorusGirls: Betty Boop performs as one at the Club Bubbles. The other girls quit, so Betty had to perform on her own.
24	* DamselInDistress: Betty is this when Chuckles and Punchy tie up Betty to take her to Johnny Throat's apartment. [[DamselOutOfDistress She does get out of their clutches though]].
25	* DidNotGetTheGirl: Implied with Freddy--though he and Betty confess their love for each other at the end of the special, Betty immediatelly gets a call to travel all the way out to Hollywood for a screen test, leaving a dumbfounded Freddy staring at the viewers.
26	* DirtyCoward: Waldo Van Lavish; he is terrified when confronted by Johnny Throat's goons, forcing Betty Boop to take charge.
27	* ExactWords: Waldo tells Betty he wants her to meet his parents. Betty interprets this as a marriage proposal but ends up finding out that Waldo wanted Betty to be an upstairs maid to his father!
28	* {{Expy}}: Chuckles, one of Johnny Throat's henchmen, is one of Tommy Udo from ''Film/KissOfDeath'' according [[https://bettyboop.fandom.com/wiki/The_Romance_of_Betty_Boop_(Script) to the script]]. His trait of eerie laughing was taken from Udo's character.
29	* FilmNoir: The special has elements of this with its dark, muted backgrounds of black and gray.
30	* GirlyBruiser: Betty is quite rough on the {{terrible trio}} both times she encounters them.
31	* HandbagOfHurt: Betty wields one against Johnny Throat's thugs and Waldo Van Lavish.
32	* TheHyena: Chuckles is this, hence his name.
33	* HumanFocusedAdaptation: The cast consists entirely of human characters--Betty's FunnyAnimal-cast (and Koko the Clown) are AdaptedOut.
34	* KarmaHoudini: We never see or hear of Chuckles, Punchy or their boss Johnny Throat being arrested for kidnapping Betty Boop or trying to kill her.
35	* ALadyOnEachArm: Waldo was accompanied by two debutante tramps named Tracy (blonde) and Mimsey (redhead). They both take an instant dislike towards Betty, due to her knocking them off their table with her hips while singing for Waldo.
36	* LoanShark: Implied with Johnny Throat as Uncle Mischa is heavily in debt to him.
37	* PeriodPiece: A TV-special from [[TheEighties the mid-1980s]] that takes place in [[TheGreatDepression the late-1930s.]]
38	* RealPlaceBackground: Many of the backgrounds resemble photographs with the various cartoon characters animated over them.
39	* TerribleTrio:
40	** TheDon: Johnny Throat
41	** TheDragon: Chuckles
42	** TheBrute: Punchy
43	* TheUnintelligible: Johnny Throat is this, always communicating in mumbles, grunts and groans. Chuckles [[TranslatorBuddy translates what]] Mr. Throat says.
44	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see what happens to Punchy and Chuckles as they chase Betty and Waldo through the New York City rooftops and light-up signs. According to the script, the two end up [[ItMakesSenseInContext falling into a beer glass]] on a beer billboard.
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