Cartoon Familiarities

Time for a game! Put on a bunch of Harman-Ising cartoons from the early ‘30s.

● Take a drink every time a female character says “Yoo-hoo!”
● Take a drink every time a female character asks “Ain’t he cute?”
● Take a drink every time a male character does that slip-step dance.

I’ve never actually figured out the numbers, but I don’t think you’ll be able to walk after a while.

All three can be found in Moonlight for Two, the eleventh Merrie Melodies cartoon, released June 11, 1932.

Here’s Goopy Geer doing the stomp-in-place. Frames one and 11 are the same. Drawings one and six are held for two frames, the rest are on ones.



And the plant, shift and slide. We won't show the whole thing, just some key frames.



The title song was published in 1932 by Harms (as was The Queen Was In the Parlor, which also became a Merrie Melodie), with words by Irving Kahal and music by Joe Burke.

The credited animators are Friz Freleng and Larry Martin.