I'm here in my penthouse
Way up in the sky
With hinges on chimneys
For stars to go by
A sweet slice of heaven
Way up here so high
When I'm alone
A Betty Boop cartoon by Max and Dave Fleischer released on March 10, 1933.
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 monster that sets its sights on Betty.
Tropes Used in This Short:
- Ash Face: One concoction ashes up Koko's whole face, resulting in...
- Black Face: Koko removes the burnt layer that enveloped his face like it was a mask, then the face yells out, "Mammy!" to Koko's annoyance.
- Bones Do Not Belong There: Upon seeing the monster, a pair of flowers jump out of their... skin(?) and leave behind two flower skeletons.
- Electric Slide: 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.
- Evil Living Flames: 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.
- Explosive Results: The cartoon opens with Bimbo and Koko exploded out of their laboratory due to their chemistry mixtures.
- Fanservice: Betty spends the entire short in a skimpy swimsuit.
- Forced Transformation: 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.Cat: Gee, that's good stuff.
- The monster is also forcibly transformed into a flower at the end, but seemed perfectly content in it's new form.
- Frankenstein's Monster: The monster born from the potion looks like a caricature of the monster from Frankenstein. Upon seeing it, Bimbo even yells out, "It's alive!"
- Fur Is Clothing: Upon seeing the monster, a bird flies out of its feathers as if they were a coat.
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: Even after Bimbo and Koko cut the power lines that the monster was walking on, it still continues walking in the air.
- 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.
- Imagine Spot: Koko imagines himself getting a kiss from Betty in a thought bubble; Bimbo pops it.
- Living Clothes: Betty's lingerie and stockings, upon seeing the monster, stack one over the other as if someone was wearing them and walks away.
- Mickey Mousing: The monster doesn't speak but has horns from the music in the background go off at the same time that it roars.
- Organic Technology: Bimbo and Koko use a bird as a pair of shears to cut the wire the monster was walking on.
- Outdoor Bath Peeping: 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.
- Reflective Eyes: When the monster looks out the window, Betty's image appears in the monster's eyes.
- Stripped to the Bone: 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.
- Transflormation: When the monster finally reaches Betty, a few spritzes with her flower spray transforms the monster into a giant dancing flower.
