It's Not What You Think

There should be a drinking game where you glug down something every time someone in a Bosko cartoon says “Ain’t that cute?”

In The Tree’s Knees (1931), we get it twice in a little over three minutes.

After the second time, something falls from the sky and lands on our hero.



Cut to the bird above. No, Bosko, it’s not what you think.



I guess it’s tree sap.

Inevitably, Frank Marsales plays Otto Rasbach's Trees in the background, and we get Walkin’ My Baby Back Home, then Joe Burke and Al Dubin’s Dancing With Tears in My Eyes when a waltzing weeping willow is, well, you can guess.

Friz Freleng and Ham Hamilton are the credited animators.

Copies from battered old Sunset Productions prints are better than nothing, but it’s a shame that’s the way we have to see much of Bosko’s Warners career.