''Betty Boop and Grampy'' is a 1935

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film starring

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. The short features

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in his first appearance.

Plot

Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm On My Way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop—all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party. Grampy is an eccentric inventor, whose labor-saving devices are of the

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variety. For example, he has a device that moves his entire house to the front entrance whenever the doorbell is rung. The glass shade of his ceiling light is rigged to double as a punch bowl, and he has modified an old umbrella to slice a cake into wedges. Grampy entertains his guests by building self-playing musical instruments out of household gadgets (which then play "

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"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberant Grampy.

In other media

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." Clips from this cartoon are seen in the music video for The Outhere Brothers' song " Boom Boom Boom". A segment of music from this cartoon was sampled for the episode "Fire Dogs 2" of ''

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'', when Ren dances to a flute song by Stimpy.

References

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