Betty Boop (Like Father, Like Son)

I really enjoy those brief moments in life when you notice something that ties you and your family together at a level no other person will be able to match. My father and I, upon his discovery of this blog, had the following conversation:

Pops: You should do Betty Boop. Betty Boop's a boner.

Then he did that thing that people do when they roll their tongue, making like a "overweight cat gagging on an entire bottle of cough medice while being raped by an otter" noise.

But you know what? He's right.

Betty Boop is a cartoon from the 1930's and she, as a character, is still a huge sex symbol in our country. That's crazy! How could that even happen? How could we, as an entire nation, decide that we'd totally hit that?

Oh.

That's Betty Boop, with a killer tan, doing the hula, without a shirt on. In 1937. It's been a few years since I studied American history, but I'm pretty sure that, back then, women hadn't even been transported in boats from the jungle. Betty Boop was changing the world.

Betty has reimagined herself a few times and shows up on lunchboxes and plastic backpacks every 9 years. That's not something a lot of women can say. The backpack thing, I mean.

That video there is a rad look at the past and what seems to be a crazy person.

My favorite Betty Boop memory? Easy. That time that Yakko, Wakko, and Dot went back in time and hung out with her on Animaniacs.