Line #31 WesternAnimation/BettyBoopsPenthouse


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3	->''I'm here in my penthouse''
4	->''Way up in the sky''
5	->''With hinges on chimneys''
6	->''For stars to go by''
7	->''A sweet slice of heaven''
8	->''Way up here so high''
9	->''When I'm alone''
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11	A WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon by Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer released on March 10, 1933.
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13	Bimbo and Koko are mixing up potions in a lab with crazy results. Their work is interrupted when they spot in a nearby penthouse, swimsuit-clad Betty Boop tending to her garden. Unfortunately, their gawking is also interrupted when a concoction in their lab creates a [[FrankensteinsMonster monster]] that sets its sights on Betty.
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15	!!Tropes Used in This Short:
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17	* AshFace: One concoction ashes up Koko's whole face, resulting in...
18	* BlackFace: Koko removes the burnt layer that enveloped his face like it was a mask, then the face yells out, "{{Mammy}}!" to Koko's annoyance.
19	* BonesDoNotBelongThere: Upon seeing the monster, a pair of flowers jump out of their... skin(?) and leave behind two flower skeletons.
20	* ElectricSlide: The monster walks on a pair of telephone wires to get to Betty and continues going even after Bimbo and Koko cut the wires; surprisingly, no one gets shocked.
21	* EvilLivingFlames: One is placed under the potion that would spawn the monster and animates in order to light a cigar with a match. It somehow ends up burning its finger.
22	* ExplosiveResults: The cartoon opens with Bimbo and Koko exploded out of their laboratory due to their chemistry mixtures.
23	* {{Fanservice}}: Betty spends the entire short in a skimpy swimsuit.
24	* ForcedTransformation: A cat accidentally drinks one of Bimbo's concoctions and has its head transform into an ape, a lion and a dragon before changing back to normal.
25	-->'''Cat:''' Gee, that's good stuff.
26	** The monster is also forcibly transformed into a flower at the end, but seemed perfectly content in it's new form.
27	* FrankensteinsMonster: The monster born from the potion looks like a caricature of the monster from ''Film/{{Frankenstein\|1931}}''. Upon seeing it, Bimbo even yells out, "It's alive!"
28	* FurIsClothing: Upon seeing the monster, a bird flies out of its feathers as if they were a coat.
29	* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Even after Bimbo and Koko cut the power lines that the monster was walking on, it still continues walking in the air.
30	* {{Hammerspace}}: Koko absorbs some liquid into an eyedropper and it gets dispersed as two huge drops that fill up two jugs big enough for a water cooler.
31	* ImagineSpot: Koko imagines himself getting a kiss from Betty in a thought bubble; Bimbo pops it.
32	* LivingClothes: Betty's lingerie and stockings, upon seeing the monster, stack one over the other as if someone was wearing them and walks away.
33	* MickeyMousing: The monster doesn't speak but has horns from the music in the background go off at the same time that it roars.
34	* OrganicTechnology: Bimbo and Koko use a bird as a pair of shears to cut the wire the monster was walking on.
35	* OutdoorBathPeeping: Bimbo and Koko spy on Betty on her penthouse roof taking a shower using a water hose; of course, she's still wearing a swimsuit.
36	* ReflectiveEyes: When the monster looks out the window, Betty's image appears in the monster's eyes.
37	* StrippedToTheBone: A potion Koko drinks creates a fire that strips his whole body from the neck down into bones, then oddly enough, it immediately reverses itself with Koko being perfectly okay.

Context WesternAnimation / BettyBoopsPenthouse