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* VisualPun: A giraffe who drinks Jippo has an apple tied to a string slide up his neck and come out of his mouth. Supposedly, this is his Adam's Apple.

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* VisualPun: A giraffe who drinks Jippo has an apple tied to a string slide up his neck and come out of his mouth. Supposedly, Apparently, this is his Adam's Apple.
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** When Betty uses a pointer on a skeleton picture, it gets tickled and laughs (insert funny bone joke here).

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** When Betty uses a pointer on a skeleton picture, picture of a skeleton, it gets tickled and laughs (insert funny bone joke here).laughs.



* PlaceboEffect: Since Jippo is shown just to be city water from a hydrant, either the crazy effects on the townsfolk fall under this or there's something seriously wrong with the water.

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* PlaceboEffect: Since Jippo is shown just to be city water from a hydrant, either the crazy effects on the townsfolk fall under this or there's something seriously wrong with the water.
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* MedicineShow: The whole episode is one big medicine show for Jippo.

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* MedicineShow: The whole episode cartoon is one big medicine show for Jippo.
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* HumanKnot: Koko the Clown does this to warm up the crowd, but it starts to get complicated as he somehow untangles himself with multiple limbs and even an extra torso and head.

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* HumanKnot: Koko the Clown does this to warm up the crowd, but it starts to get complicated as he somehow untangles himself with multiple copies of his limbs and even an extra torso and head.
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* EverythingTalks: Not surprising since this is a Betty Boop short. A bottle of Jippo catches a cork using it's peeled off label like an arm to re-cork itself. A fire hydrant grows an arm to wipe off some excess water where the hose is connected. After an old man creates an InstantGravestone, the grave and flower on it scat to the song being sung. See also LivingCurrency.

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* EverythingTalks: Not surprising since this is a Betty Boop short.cartoon. A bottle of Jippo catches a cork using it's peeled off label like an arm to re-cork itself. A fire hydrant grows an arm to wipe off some excess water where the hose is connected. After an old man creates an InstantGravestone, the grave and flower on it scat to the song being sung. See also Also see LivingCurrency.
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* ArtificialLimbs: One customer pours Jippo on his peg leg and it changes into a mild improvment of a tiny arm holding a cane downwards.

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* ArtificialLimbs: One customer pours Jippo on his peg leg and it changes into a mild improvment improvement of a tiny arm holding a cane downwards.



* EverythingTalks: Not surprising since this is a Betty Boop short. A bottle of Jippo catches a cork using it's peeled off label like an arm to recork itself. A fire hydrant grows an arm to wipe off some excess water where the hose is connected. After an old man creates an InstantGravestone, the grave and flower on it scat to the song being sung. See also LivingCurrency.

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* EverythingTalks: Not surprising since this is a Betty Boop short. A bottle of Jippo catches a cork using it's peeled off label like an arm to recork re-cork itself. A fire hydrant grows an arm to wipe off some excess water where the hose is connected. After an old man creates an InstantGravestone, the grave and flower on it scat to the song being sung. See also LivingCurrency.



* FreezeFrameBonus: If you pay attention while Betty and Koko are exchaning Jippo for money and handing the money to Bimbo, instead of going into his pockets, Bimbo keeps dropping the money back into the crowd.

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* FreezeFrameBonus: If you pay attention while Betty and Koko are exchaning exchanging Jippo for money and handing the money to Bimbo, instead of going into his pockets, Bimbo keeps dropping the money back into the crowd.



* HumanKnot: Koko the Clown does this to warm up the crowd, but it starts to get complicated as he somehow untangles himself with mulitple limbs and even an extra torso and head.

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* HumanKnot: Koko the Clown does this to warm up the crowd, but it starts to get complicated as he somehow untangles himself with mulitple multiple limbs and even an extra torso and head.



* MedicineShow: The whole episode is one big medcine show for Jippo.

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* MedicineShow: The whole episode is one big medcine medicine show for Jippo.



** The first person to try Jippo is a unbelivably skinny rubber limbed man who after drinking it, goes from skinny to obese in seconds.

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** The first person to try Jippo is a unbelivably unbelievably skinny [[RubberHoseLimbs rubber limbed limbed]] man who after drinking it, goes from skinny to obese in seconds.

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* EverythingTalks: Not surprising since this is a Betty Boop short. A bottle of Jippo catches a cork using it's peeled off label like an arm to recork itself. A fire hydrant grows an arm to wipe off some excess water where the hose is connected. After an old man creates an InstantGravestone, the grave and flower on it scat to the song being sung. See also LivingCurrency.


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* EverythingTalks: Not surprising since this is a Betty Boop short. A bottle of Jippo catches a cork using it's peeled off label like an arm to recork itself. A fire hydrant grows an arm to wipe off some excess water where the hose is connected. After an old man creates an InstantGravestone, the grave and flower on it scat to the song being sung. See also LivingCurrency.
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* MindScrew: Even when compared to other Betty Boop cartoons, this one is ''absolutely nuts.'' Only ''WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation'' and ''WesternAnimation/MinnieTheMoocher'' are in the same league.

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* MindScrew: Even when compared to other Betty Boop cartoons, this one is ''absolutely nuts.'' Only The only cartoons in the same league are ''WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation'' and ''WesternAnimation/MinnieTheMoocher'' are in the same league.''WesternAnimation/MinnieTheMoocher''.
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* MindScrew: Even compared to other Betty Boop cartoons, this one is absolutely nuts.

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* MindScrew: Even when compared to other Betty Boop cartoons, this one is absolutely ''absolutely nuts.'' Only ''WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation'' and ''WesternAnimation/MinnieTheMoocher'' are in the same league.
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* InstantGravestone: An old man drinks Jippo and throws off his wheelchair to dance on his bandaged feet, only to create a grave by draping cement from the ground like a blanket over himself to resemble a plot of land and a tombstone just grows behind him. His arm comes out to place a flower on his own grave.

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* InstantGravestone: An old man drinks Jippo and throws off his wheelchair to dance on his bandaged feet, only to create a grave by draping cement the asphalt from the ground like a blanket over himself to resemble a plot of land and a tombstone just grows behind him. His arm comes out to place a flower on his own grave.
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[[caption-width-right:1000:Buy Jippo! It's Betty Boop approved.]]

->''If you're feeling wealthy''
->''And want to be healthy''
->''Now's the time to buy Jippo!''

A WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon by Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer released on September 2, 1932.

Betty Boop, Bimbo, and Koko the Clown sell an all purpose health tonic called "Jippo", which has some rather strange effects on it's consumers.

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!!Tropes Used In This Short:
* ArtificialLimbs: One customer pours Jippo on his peg leg and it changes into a mild improvment of a tiny arm holding a cane downwards.
* BodyPocket: Being a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal, Bimbo pockets their earnings into body pockets on his sides.
* EverythingTalks: Not surprising since this is a Betty Boop short. A bottle of Jippo catches a cork using it's peeled off label like an arm to recork itself. A fire hydrant grows an arm to wipe off some excess water where the hose is connected. After an old man creates an InstantGravestone, the grave and flower on it scat to the song being sung. See also LivingCurrency.
* DemBones:
** One customer who drinks Jippo has his skeleton briefly jump out of his body from the back of his shirt's neck-hole.
** When Betty uses a pointer on a skeleton picture, it gets tickled and laughs (insert funny bone joke here).
* FountainOfYouth: Jippo changes an old man into a baby, but his size remains unchanged resulting in an adult sized baby.
* FreezeFrameBonus: If you pay attention while Betty and Koko are exchaning Jippo for money and handing the money to Bimbo, instead of going into his pockets, Bimbo keeps dropping the money back into the crowd.
* GainaxEnding: Between all the crazy transformations towards the end and the last image of a baby transforming into a Mr. Hyde look-a-like, this ending definitely confuses all who watch.
* HumanKnot: Koko the Clown does this to warm up the crowd, but it starts to get complicated as he somehow untangles himself with mulitple limbs and even an extra torso and head.
* InstantGravestone: An old man drinks Jippo and throws off his wheelchair to dance on his bandaged feet, only to create a grave by draping cement from the ground like a blanket over himself to resemble a plot of land and a tombstone just grows behind him. His arm comes out to place a flower on his own grave.
* LivingCurrency: When a person pays Betty a dollar for some Jippo, the Eagle on it comes to life and hands the customer his change.
* MagicPants: When the old man and baby transform into.. a baby and old man, their clothes also transform to match their new forms.
* MedicineShow: The whole episode is one big medcine show for Jippo.
* MindScrew: Even compared to other Betty Boop cartoons, this one is absolutely nuts.
* NoodlePeople:
** The first person to try Jippo is a unbelivably skinny rubber limbed man who after drinking it, goes from skinny to obese in seconds.
** Towards the end, a whole crowd of Jippo consumers marching behind Koko keeps shifting from stretchy and thin to short and fat.
* {{Panacea}}: Supposedly there's nothing that Jippo can't cure, from baldness, injuries, aging, youth...
* PlaceboEffect: Since Jippo is shown just to be city water from a hydrant, either the crazy effects on the townsfolk fall under this or there's something seriously wrong with the water.
* RapidAging: Jippo turns a baby into an old man, without changing his size.
* RapidHairGrowth: A man rubs Jippo on his bald head and hair instantly grows, but at the same time his beard recedes.
* ShoutOut: The monster the baby transforms into at the very end is Dr. Jekyll from the Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1931 film that Paramount Pictures made just a year before this cartoon was first released.
* SnakeOilSalesman: The Jippo that Betty, Bimbo and Koko sell turns out to be nothing but water from a nearby fire hydrant, but it's effects still work, (to a degree).
* StockVisualMetaphors: When Koko first asks if the crowd wants to buy Jippo, big locks appear on their pockets.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: An old man with two bandaged feet drinks Jippo and throws off his wheelchair and happily dances around; right before he lays on the ground and [[InstantGravestone buries himself in a grave.]]
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: While examining an old man, Betty retrieves a stethoscope from the front of her LittleBlackDress.
* VisualPun: A giraffe who drinks Jippo has an apple tied to a string slide up his neck and come out of his mouth. Supposedly, this is his Adam's Apple.

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