Great Big Bunch of Used

There’s no gang rescuing the girl for the hero in A Great Big Bunch of You but just about all the Harman-Ising clichés of 1932 show up in this cartoon. It’s your basic “everything comes to life and sings and dances” short.

Celebrity Takeoffs
The discarded department store mannequin portrays Maurice Chevalier, Ted “Is Everybody Happy” Lewis, borrows Walter Winchell’s “magic carpet” and “Okay, America!” from the Lucky Strike radio show of that period, and then sprouts curly red hair and plays the harp like a certain Marx brother.



Slide Step
I’ve lost track of how many cartoons had characters do that little stomp/slide step dance. Hugh and Rudy even had Cubby Bear do it in the cartoon they made for Van Beuren. The dummy does it in this one three times.



Chirping Female Chorus
The Rhythmettes (as identified by Keith Scott) showed up throughout the 1930s at a number of cartoon studios. Here they are mannequins.



Whoops My Dears!
This time the gay character is a cuckoo clock bird.



So Long, Folks!
Tom McKimson and Ham Hamilton are the credited animators.



By the way, the title is from a Harry Warren/Mort Dixon song copyrighted on May 6, 1932.