The Bum Bandit is a Talkartoons cartoon by Max and Dave Fleischer with Grim Natwick as one of the animators (uncredited).
Originally released on April 3, 1931, This short stars Bimbo the dog and Betty Boop; 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, he runs into his wife, Dangerous Nan McGrew.
Tropes Used In This Short:
- Action Mom: Nan McGrew boasts a lot of how tough she is and easily tosses her husband around like he was a doll, all while being a mother of ten.
- Animation Bump: 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.
- Bullet Seed: 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.
- Cigar Chomper: Nan smokes one while scolding her husband, though seconds after Bimbo lights it, it vanishes into thin air onscreen.
- Cuckoo Clock Gag: A train passenger throws a cuckoo clock onto the blanket as Bimbo was robbing them.
- Domino Mask: Bimbo wears one and so do all ten of his children.
- Everything Talks: Bimbo's guns and the train come to life multiple times in the short.
- False Teeth Tomfoolery: Among the possessions the passengers threw on a blanket while Bimbo was robbing them included a pair of false teeth.
- Fur Is Clothing: Bimbo robs the fur off of a squirrel as if it was an article of clothing.
- Goofy Print Underwear: 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.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: 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.
- Little Black Dress: About the only reminder that Nan McGrew is a version of Betty Boop is her wearing her little black dress in the family photo.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: Bimbo and Nan McGrew's family photo shows them with ten kids.
- Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: A hippo with his hands up sweats so much out of fear that he turns from very fat to very skinny in seconds.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: 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.
- Parent Never Came Back from the Store: 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!?
- Stomach of Holding: The train engineer hides his pocket watch by swallowing it whole.
- Tailfin Walking: A bunch of fish walk out of the lake after Nan backs her husband into it.
- Train Job: Bimbo robbing the passengers of a train is the basis of this short.
- "Wanted!" Poster: Bimbo sees one of him attached to a tree and shoots a hole into it, causing the squrriel living in it to flee.
- The Wild West: The short's setting.
- Uncle Tomfoolery: 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
