This is one Night at the Museum she can do without.
A Betty Boop cartoon by Max and Dave Fleischer released on December 16, 1932.
Koko is recruiting customers for a 50-cent sightseeing tour of the museum. Betty is Koko's only passenger and is transported to the museum. Bimbo makes an appearance as a museum worker. After a little sight seeing and losing track of the time, Betty accidentally gets locked inside the museum after it closes and ends up being chased by the skeletons from the displays.
Tropes Used in This Short:
- Blowing Smoke Rings: After the mummy retrieves a cigar and goes back into its sarcophagus and closes the lid, it blows smoke rings out of the sarcophagus' carved face.
- Bookcase Passage: A skeleton pulls Betty through a passage hidden behind a painting on the wall, it also switches it's picture from a field with a house in it to a skull and crossbones.
- Cuckoo Clock Gag: Keeping up with the museum skeleton theme, the museum's cuckoo clock has a skeleton cuckoo bird in it.
- The Dead Can Dance: A lot of dancing skeletons can be seen during Betty's song sequence.
- Dem Bones: There are a lot of skeletons walking around the museum with a lot of skeleton based gags. Some of the less friendly ones force Betty to sing for them and try to eat her.
- Dinner Deformation: Betty feeds a very skinny statue representing hunger some fruit and the shape of the fruit can be seen as it settles in his body.
- Eat the Camera: Inverted: The cartoon begins with the camera exiting Koko the Clown's mouth as he's calling for people to board the bus for the museum.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: Betty's reaction to being surrounded by mice is to pull her skirt down while her legs were shaking.
- Everything Talks: When Betty tries to leave the museum, the lock on the other side of the door can be seen fast asleep. There's also the vast number of museum displays that come to life.
- Fauns and Satyrs: A statue of Pan comes to life.
- Invisible Holes: Bimbo lets a skeleton go drink from a water fountain and, considering it has no skin, the water exits from different holes throughout its body.
- Literally Falling Through the Cracks: A skinny man that Koko tries to flag down for his tour bus ends up falling through a sewer grate.
- Living Museum Exhibit: Pretty much every museum display comes to life, more so once the museum closes.
- Living Statue: All the statues of the museum come to life.
- Magical Flutist: A statue of Pan summons a group of mice à la The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
- Menacing Museum: After the museum closes, it becomes much creepier.
- Mummy: One pops its head out of a sarcophagus to grab a cigar a museum patron dropped.Mummy: I think I'll go back to sleep for another thousand years.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: A statue representing hunger is shown as an extremely skinny man. Betty feeds the statue the fruit from a nearby display, changing him to very fat, but happy to no longer be starving.
- Panty Shot: During her song, Betty wipes the tears in her eyes with the skirt of her dress, revealing her bloomers.
- Real Vehicle Reveal: Koko's tour bus to the museum turns out to just be a single seat car in front of a bus that's missing its front part, with stationed masks in the windows to look like other customers.
- Sentient Vehicle: After all four tires on Koko's car get flats, Koko brings out four roller skates into which the car hops its flat tires and skates the rest of the way.
- Skeletal Musician: One skeleton plays the piano by lowering its hands by string connected to its forearms.
- Spinning Clock Hands: The cuckoo clock's spinning clock hands show the passage of time, which means Betty was feeding the Hunger statue in a closed museum for four hours without noticing that everyone else had already left.
- Standard Snippet: As the skeletons head into their grave, "Home! Sweet Home" plays in the background.
- Stuck in the Doorway: Koko tries to push a fat lady into the bus that's heading to the museum, but she gets stuck in the bus's doorway. After Koko shoves her, she just goes through the window on the other side.
- Supermodel Strut: Betty first enters the museum by strutting in with her hands on her hips; this does not go unnoticed by the lion statues at the entrance. She does this again while walking towards the "Hunger" statue.
- Swallowed Whole: A skeleton cat swallows a group of mice that stay trapped in its revealed rib-cage.
- Swapped Roles: Hercules and the Lion swap places with the Lion holding Hercules' mouth open.
- Totem Pole Trench: A kid uses this trope to try to sneak a sarcophagus out of the museum with it acting as its head and torso while he was the legs. Bimbo catches him, though.
- You Need a Breath Mint: A statue of Hercules holding a lion's mouth open comes to life and spritzes some breath spray into the lion's mouth after disliking the smell.Hercules: Even your best friend won't tell you.
