Friday 8 April 2022

Slapping the Bass Bottom

A little combo plays a number while a bird wearing a derby makes a home out of drumsticks in The Fowl Ball, a 1930 Walter Lantz cartoon.

One of the players is a frog that slaps a bass. He turns the bass around during a bar break, rips down its “pants” and starts slapping its bottom. The bass grows a head and starts crying.



The cartoon ends with Oswald the rabbit and frog musicians inside a pelican's stomach.

I don't know the name of the number that takes up the first part of the cartoon.

1 comment:

  1. Hans Christian Brando10 April 2022 at 15:40

    I'm surprised the bass-ass doesn't have cheeks.

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