History WesternAnimation / BoskoTheTalkInkKid

* UsefulNotes/LooneyTunesInTheThirties: From 1929 to 1933 for Bosko. Buddy took over around mid to late 1933, and was retired in 1935.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Understandably, if you're a modern Looney Tunes fan who is used to all of the later characters like WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner, etc., these early shorts will be quite an odd experience. The art style, music direction, set of characters and brand of humor are such a day and night contrast from the later entries, that one would be hard pressed to believed that Bosko and Bugs Bunny are both part of the same series.

Due to the characters roots and the nature of his cartoons coming off as rather quaint in contrast to the more iconic Looney Tunes, Bosko has remained in limbo for decades; his cartoons very rarely air on TV, save for the earliest days of television (when the first package of ''Looney Tunes'' shorts were initially released to television) and on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} in the late 80s and 90s (they weren't very popular there, either. When Nick dropped the Bosko cartoons from their Looney Tunes catalog, they lampshaded it in a commercial, saying "More Bugs, more Daffy, and no Bosko. Sorry Bosko!"); fortunately, 25 of his 37 Warners shorts have made their way into the PublicDomain, and many of his cartoons have appeared in the ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection'' series. The character also made a brief comeback in the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode ''Fields Of Honey'' (albeit with a mild redesign to look more like the dog-esque characters of the then upcoming ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''). Buddy, his ne'er-do-well successor, would get a few of his own shorts released on DVD as well, and he would also make an appearance in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', ''The Warners 65th Anniversary Special'', in a scheme to get revenge on the trio, who in their universe were responsible for destroying Buddy's (in real life, non-existent) stardom. ([[TakeThatScrappy Specifically, they were brought in to spice up his boring cartoons by whacking him in the head with a mallet over and over.]])

* Bosko's Mechanical Man

* OffModel:
** One glaring example in "Bosko's Knight-Mare"; the first couple scenes of Bosko riding a horse feature an lavishly drawn, well-animated semi-realistic horse--and the scene where Bosko reaches the castle has the horse abruptly change into a lightly armored rubberhose horse.
** The colorized version of "Ups n' Downs" infamously has the last twenty seconds or so completely changed -- either because the copy shipped to the Korean animators was missing its ending, or because network censors demanded that it be changed due to the original ending appearing to show Bosko winning the race by cheating -- resulting in the new ending not only having everyone's outfits suddenly change color for no obvious reason, but the characters being drawn very inconsistently, and the animation frequently resorting to having them just sat or stood with their eyes spinning around in a way that looks just plain weird (not unlike in the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoons by Creator/GeneDeitch).

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The ending of "Congo Jazz".

Not to be confused with the Creator/NipponAnimation series ''Bosco Adventure''.

Bosko was a success when he debuted and gave Creator/WaltDisney's MickeyMouse some good competition, but it all crumbled by 1933--Hugh Harman, who was known for holding a rivalry towards Walt, began relentlessly pushing for Leon Schlesinger to increase the budgets of the Boskos, in order to gain the upper hand over Disney; Leon refused to budge, resulting in Hugh and Rudy deciding to pack up and leave for MGM, taking many of their staff, and the rights to Bosko, with them -- learning from Walt's debacle with [[WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit Oswald]], the duo wisely made sure they owned Bosko in case somebody tried to screw them over. Leon quickly assembled a new team in an attempt to compensate for this loss, and having animator Earl Duvall creating a replacement for Bosko--Buddy, [[RecycledInSpace who was basically a whiteface version of him]]. Those shorts are noteworthy, if only for being some of the dullest, blandest, and crudest cartoons to ever come out of that time period -- in particular, the first short ''Buddy's Day Out'' was reportedly so bad that it nearly killed this new studio before it even got off the ground; it was Creator/FrizFreleng's timely return to the studio and reedit of the film that allowed the cartoon to receive approval, and thus allowing the studio to avoid going belly up.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Done by a ''[[NonMammalMammaries palmtree]]'' in "Congo Jazz".

* PricklyPorcupine: Bosko lands rear-end onto one in "Bosko At The Zoo".

Bosko was a success when he debuted and gave Creator/WaltDisney's MickeyMouse some good competition, but it all crumbled by 1933--Hugh Harman, who was known for holding a rivalry towards Walt, began relentlessly pushing for Leon Schlesinger to increase the budgets of the Boskos, in order to gain the upper hand over Disney; Leon refused to budge, resulting Hugh and Rudy deciding to pack up and leave for MGM, taking many of their staff, and the rights to Bosko, with them -- learning from Walt's debacle with [[WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit Oswald]], the duo wisely made sure they owned Bosko in case somebody tried to screw them over. Leon quickly assembled a new team in an attempt to compensate for this loss, and having animator Earl Duvall creating a replacement for Bosko--Buddy, [[RecycledInSpace who was basically a whiteface version of him]]. Those shorts are noteworthy, if only for being some of the dullest, blandest, and crudest cartoons to ever come out of that time period -- in particular, the first short ''Buddy's Day Out'' was reportedly so bad that it nearly killed this new studio before it even got off the ground; it was Creator/FrizFreleng's timely return to the studio and reedit of the film that allowed the cartoon to receive approval, and thus allowing the studio to avoid going belly up.

At MGM, Bosko became a recurring star of Harman And Ising's ''WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies'' series of shorts. He initially retained his inkblot design in his first two appearances; "Bosko's Parlor Pranks" and "Hey Hey Fever", but this design and his original characterization (or lack thereof) were scrapped in favor of an African-American kid with a curious personality, [[InNameOnly sharing only the original name of Bosko]]. While the new Boskos were lavishly animated and featured impressive craftsmanship, they often suffered from weak gags and overbearing, mawkish sentimentality, not to mention very sluggish pacing, and as such, the character failed to regain any of his original popularity, and vanished altogether after a handful of shorts.

* PantyShot: "Sinkin' In the Bathtub" plays Honey's gams for a gag, as her gyrating to Bosko's music causes them to fall down.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Done with the baby monkeys in "Congo Jazz".

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid is the original, all-but-forgotten debut cartoon character of Creator/WarnerBros animation. Created by ex-Disney employee Hugh Harman of the Creator/HarmanAndIsing duo, Bosko is, as his name tells, a "[[PunnyName talk-ink kid]]" -- or more specifically, an inkblot blackface character. His first appearance was in the short pilot [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcPlODOPRRg "Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid"]] in 1929, and was noteworthy for being one of the earliest cartoons to feature properly synchronized sound and dialogue in a cartoon. However, his official theatrical debut (the pilot was never shown to the public) came the following year in the first original ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub".

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome[=/=]DemotedToExtra: Despite being the original star of the franchise, Bosko very rarely makes appearances in modern Looney Tunes artwork, and hasn't appeared in any cartoons since his redesigned cameo in ''Tiny Toons''. Understandably, this is due to his roots as a blackface character making him an unacceptable character to put into the mainstream today. It doesn't help that his esoteric nature compared to the mainstream WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes (due to his cartoons being off the air since the 80's), not to mention his vague personality, do not make him a popular character among fans.