Scrappy's Big Moment

Scrappy has a fight to end all fights! Heck--at least it's a good overall print and the animation is very good. Part of this week's Thunderbean Thursday at cartoonresearch.com. You can also follow the doings of Thunderbean on the Blu-ray forums at Blu-ray.com.

[@thishandleistaken425]

This print looks amazing.

[@J50Fan20]

That makes 21 Scrappy cartoons to Steve has scanned!

[@DeepEye1994]

Raging Bull is a lot wackier than I remember it being

[@DrFishopolisPHD]

Scrappy's opponent seems like he's supposed to be a caricature of someone specific. Max Baer?

[@ariverbythesea]

I guess Scrappy was really more well preserved than Flip the Frog and other contemporaries.

[@MamonFighter2ndChannel]

So far one of my favorite cute animated greats over Scrappy's infamous series of shorts. I see Betty Boop as a cameo at 2:33.

[@natethefighter]

I've heard the phrase "give it to heem!" in this cartoon as well as in the other short you posted, "Scrappy's Invention". Was this a radio catchphrase or something to that effect?

[@LyricJCartoons]

I got this response when I asked the same question a few years ago - back in the '30s the actress Lupe Velez was known as "The Mexican Spitfire". She was considered a bit of a wild woman, and she loved to go to prize fights and jump up on her seat and throw punches in the air and yell out to her chosen ones. Her favorite was the Mexican-American heavyweight Bert Colima."Geeve eet to heem Colima!! GEEVE EET TO HEEM!!" she'd scream. She played a version of herself in the 1934 film "Palooka". So it was a popular boxing catch phrase in the 1930s-40s.

[@natethefighter]

@@LyricJCartoons I *knew* it had to be something like that. Thank you so much for clarifying!

[@GigsVT]

What is the joke with the plank on the shoulder? Is that some old idiom lost to time?

[@adamlane7454]

I think it's a "chip on his shoulder". An idiom for "looking for a fight".

[@GigsVT]

@@adamlane7454 I guess that's the only thing I can think of as well.