Tuesday 21 February 2023

Rubber Hose Waitress

Walt Disney wasn’t quite into “illusion of life” in 1929. Witness how, in El Terrible Toreador, the cantina waitress has balls for hands.



And there’s rubber hose aplenty. Spaghetti arms like this would become popular at UPA 20 years later.



Since we’re still in the ‘20s, cartoons are more or less strings of gags around a topic.

The toreador has the Yankee Doodle laugh that artist Ub Iwerks would put in Stratos-fear, produced at his own studio in 1933. It’s the one the gremlin had in Falling Hare at Warners ten years later.

4 comments:

  1. Hi Yowp, the "Yankee Doodle" laugh was comedian Benny Rubin's trademark from the 1920s on. His comedy 78's are loaded with the laugh.

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    1. Thanks, Mark.
      I've never heard him on his own show,so I don't if he did it there. I don't recall him ever doing it on the Jack Benny show.

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  2. Kind of a letdown from the previous year's The Gallopin' Gaucho, which I think is much funnier.

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