Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical-joking cousin, Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical-joking cousin, Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical-joking cousin, Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?
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Everett Clark
- Grampy
- (voice)
Pinto Colvig
- Irving
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Jack Mercer
- Irving
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Mae Questel
- Betty Boop
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Thomas Johnson(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaPractical joke items were hugely popular at the time and could be seen advertised in the back of popular magazines and comic books. Everything from hand buzzers to whoopee cushions to pepper flavored chewing gum.
- Quotes
Betty Boop: [baking a layer cake] Ooooh, what a lovely set o' cakes, oh boy! That was some batter, mm-mmmm, and what a recipe! Ohhh, I'll have to use that all the time!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Futurama: My Three Suns (1999)
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Betty Boop, Irving and Grampy
A good deal of the pre-Production Code Betty Boop cartoons are daring and creative, with content that makes one amazed at what's gotten away with. While the later Betty Boop cartoons made after the Code was enforced are still watchable and exceptionally well-made, they are so toned down that they feel bland.
Fleischer were responsible for some brilliant cartoons, some of them still among my favourites. Their visual style was often stunning and some of the most imaginative and ahead of its time in animation. The character of Betty Boop, one of their most famous and prolific characters, may not be for all tastes and sadly not as popular now, but her sex appeal was quite daring for the time and to me there is an adorable sensual charm about her.
She has not lost her charm and is fun to watch, even when toned down and with not a whole lot to do (much of her material is reacting to Irving's tricks).
Even though not as risqué, daring or surreal as the pre-Code cartoons and Irving (even when meant to be an irritating presence) occasionally gets on the wrong side of annoying, 'The Impractical Joker' while not a Betty Boop classic does fare favourably among the post-Production Code cartoons.
The animation is beautifully drawn and detailed and the music infectious, toe-tapping and dynamic. Adorable and hilarious Grampy once again steals the show, a riot of a character with imaginative and enormously fun inventions and easily one of the best Betty Boop supporting characters. The voice acting is well done.
Hilarious it mostly isn't, but 'The Impractical Joker' is very amusing often in Irving's tricks and especially everything involving Grampy so it's far from lacking in the laughs (or imagination for that matter) department.
All in all, fun later Betty Boop cartoon enlivened especially by Grampy. 8/10 Bethany Cox
Fleischer were responsible for some brilliant cartoons, some of them still among my favourites. Their visual style was often stunning and some of the most imaginative and ahead of its time in animation. The character of Betty Boop, one of their most famous and prolific characters, may not be for all tastes and sadly not as popular now, but her sex appeal was quite daring for the time and to me there is an adorable sensual charm about her.
She has not lost her charm and is fun to watch, even when toned down and with not a whole lot to do (much of her material is reacting to Irving's tricks).
Even though not as risqué, daring or surreal as the pre-Code cartoons and Irving (even when meant to be an irritating presence) occasionally gets on the wrong side of annoying, 'The Impractical Joker' while not a Betty Boop classic does fare favourably among the post-Production Code cartoons.
The animation is beautifully drawn and detailed and the music infectious, toe-tapping and dynamic. Adorable and hilarious Grampy once again steals the show, a riot of a character with imaginative and enormously fun inventions and easily one of the best Betty Boop supporting characters. The voice acting is well done.
Hilarious it mostly isn't, but 'The Impractical Joker' is very amusing often in Irving's tricks and especially everything involving Grampy so it's far from lacking in the laughs (or imagination for that matter) department.
All in all, fun later Betty Boop cartoon enlivened especially by Grampy. 8/10 Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- Feb 13, 2017
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- Also known as
- Grampy & the Impractical Joker
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Impractical Joker (1937) officially released in Canada in English?
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