Well it's a parody of the Rover Boys (and to lesser extent other similar Stratemeyer Syndicate juvenile book series like The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc.) that had dozens of books.
I'd love to see what a live-action movie version of this cartoon would look like. Hollywood needs a young Mel Brooks to make it. Too bad there aren't many directors of comedy around.
Man, my country's dub of this loon gives him a voice that's definitely not as loud, but it definitely is more... I think "scheming" and is the best way to describe it. It makes him feel almost as cunning as a weasel.
I love that Dora is just a literally doll. Like 0 dress animations (least if she's walking), she moves like a pin in a bowling alley, yet she can easily kick your ass and make it seem like the boys did it.
The throwaway line about the boys going to pick up their fiancee is priceless. The narrator speeds past it and it's just left there for whoever finds it.
It's very Zoomer, off puttingly so. If I didn't already know better, I could believe this was a tribute cartoon by a Millennial or Zoomer animator (like with the Cuphead game) Evidently, surrealist satire and memetics are not quite so much the wave of the future.
Consider this.... Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse have had hundreds of cartoons under their belts in order to build up their fame. The Dover Boys managed to become iconic with just ONE cartoon!
Brings into mind how Charlie Collins and Sid the Squid, in spite of being unfortunate one-shot villain minions, became memetic bad****s in Batman: The Animated Series.
2:18 "Forced to pass a certain public house; a tavern of unsavory repute, our young friends meet the distressing situation with their usual uncompromising moral fortitude." Dora and the Dover boys all pose in abstinence...
For those of you who were keeping count, he drank 10 glasses, then the bartender takes a drink, and then Backslide drinks 5 more glasses before he resumes his rant.
The thing that always gets me is that throughout the entire episode the cigarette smoke over the snooker table is always there, even when no one's there. Lol
Mel Blanc was indeed an amazing voice talent. However, due to a rather silly contractual agreement (albeit somewhat understandable due to how voice actors back then largely went uncredited and had to live with it), he was able to make it that he was the only VA ever credited for Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts after he became the breadwinner for them. So basically, no, he wasn't the only VA in this short, and in fact it is readily apparent he only voiced two characters, Dan Backslide and the telegram guy. Everyone else was random people including a few animators themselves (which was common for Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts). The most recognizable voice is that of the narrator himself, John McLeish, who did some voicework for Disney (he's got prominent roles in Ichabod and Mr. Toad, plus those old goofy informative shorts of goofy being a average dude in the late 40s, early 50s), and he even did this other cartoon, one year after the Dover Boys came out, for a future UPA guy that was basically kind of a pastiche/homage/tribute/ripoff of the Dover Boys.
Anyways Mel Blanc was a great voice actor, but it sucks that he kinda screwed over his fellow VAs at the time by making it that he essentially "stole" credit for a good period of time in all those famous shorts of the 40s and 50s. It was only with the advent of TV cartoons and research that this nonsense started to be cleared up, and you can't exactly blame Mel Blanc fully given the aforementioned industry nonsense that made VAs kind of an afterthought. He was on good terms with his most famous performing partners, like Elmer's original VA Arthur Q. Bryan, and he considered June Foray his equal.
True artists' works are timeless. Watching Looney Tunes as a kid in the 90s, I thought it was only a decade or two old, given how it was better than a lot of other shows on
I’ve found some older stuff (especially stuff inspired by vaudeville like old cartoons) has that same surreal style to jokes that modern/gen z audiences really like. It’s good to know we as people have always found nonsense and non-sequiturs hilarious
They need to have an open world game set in the 1910's* and make the achievement/trophy for stealing a runabout be "No one will ever know!!!" *Red Dead doesn't count; they're westerns.
@@wildharpy6435 Yep. 1942, according to Wikpedia, but it is parodying a series of books called the Rover Boys that (again, according to Wikipedia) were published between 1899 and 1926.
4:56 “A Runabout, I’LL STEAL IT, NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW” *Proceeds to yell at the top of his lungs for everyone to hear, making everyone know that he’s stealing a Runabout*
@@snakes3425I figured it was his own, but I never connected it to his drinking / impairment. That's a really good detail! Although he also drives totally fine so IS he drunk? Now im tangled lmao
@@Bactchan I've occasionally seen people giving Stalling grief for using so much existing music in the toons, but it really DOES take a musical genius to make them work in the context of what's on screen. Stalling's musical work MADE those toons what they were just as much as the animation or the voice overs. They ALL have to be there.
@@samsignorelli Stalling used what was in either public domain or what was in the Warner Brothers' music library, so no rights had to be bought. Leon Schlesinger didn't want to spend a penny he didn't absolutely have to.
@@Donleecartoons All true....but having unfettered access to the music and knowing how to alter and USE the music are entirely different. Stalling's strength was that he knew exactly what to do with (and to) his source material for the best effect. Without his efforts, these toons wouldn't be nearly as funny.
@@samsignorelli Oh, no doubt about that at all; I was responding to your first observation about the grief Stalling got for using existing music. It doesn't at all take away from HOW stalling used it.
3:44 I only saw this cartoon once, MAYBE twice when I was growing up. This moment has lived in the back of my mind for over two decades, and was the one of the few things I absolutely remembered about this short, and is where I first learned the word "confound". I do remember the very ending, with the fiancee doing the weird walk with the wobbly guy. Funny how little things like that stand out to you.
She really didn’t need those guys to save her. Woman was a 1 person army!!!! Edit: When Dan Backside puts Doris’s picture over the strongman in the pub, that foreshadows how strong she really is and when begging for help, Doris goes Ultra Instinct on Dan.
I could watch the animation of them "shielding" themselves from the Bar a hundred times. It's like the only reason they're not in there is to protect Larry's remaining innocence
one of the funniest old shorts of all time-- that period in 2016 where it became a meme was awesome, honestly 😂 the humor in this is timeless, just pure shenanigans and slapstick that always gets a laugh (and just...everything about dan backslide)
Only a few thousand views? Then that means the like button is ALONE AND UNPROTECTED! I’LL PRESS IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
It's one of the many bits of genius satire. One of the chief villains of the Rover Boys novels was named Dan Baxter, who was all at once a coward-bully-cad-and-thief.
We might have gotten a whole series about the Dover Boys if Chuck Jones hadn't been on thin ice for creating this. Apparently smear animation did NOT go over too well.
@@fubukifangirl You wanna know the reason why Chuck Jones was on thin ice? Believe it or not, it was because of the first character he created for Looney Toons.
5:08 it’s the little jokes. Instead of just hand-cranking a couple times to start the engine, he manages to gather enough strength and speed to rapidly spin it to normal engine rpm lol.
"The Dover Boys...then Dora must be alone AND UNPROTECTED!!!" If the boys werent dumb for not hearing that while RIGHT THERE, the episode would have ended right there.😛
I love that green boi screamed out that Dora was alone and unprotected when he was just centimetres away from the Dover Bois. 😂 And also gotta love the fact that Dora keeps crying for help when she can actually defend herself.
I honestly can’t figure out if this is the greatest cartoon of all time, the greatest shitpost of all time, the worst cartoon of all time that’s so bad it’s good, or all 3 at once. Either way I love it.
Can really rank this among the Fleischer Pictures Superman theatrical shorts as on par with even modern (from the 90s onwards at most, mind you) animation like Animaniacs and the DC Animated Universe, I'll say. No wonder it got an also popular reanimated collaboration fan project. Also am impressed that Dora Standpipe isn't a true stereotypical damsel in distress of the era here, for 6:30, 7:33: and 7:41 would make any superhero feel a bit envious, even any Batman, master of offhand backhands.
Its amazing this is essentially a shitpost. Chuck Jones was never a fan of the original books this cartoon was based on, so he decided just to make fun of it. But how they handled the humor is virtually timeless, its unlike any cartoon at the time when it comes to humor but that made it age like fine wine.
I also have to mention that this was the first cartoon that used such exaggerated smear frames. This was done to cut time and the amount frames needed to be made. Some considered it lazy but it worked for the humor and made it feel like nobody, even the characters themselves wanted to take part in the story and wanted to finish it as fast as possible.
I love how Dora just sits motionless in the car while Dan goes to open the door of the hunting lodge instead of running away and continues to sit motionless as he escorts her into the lodge
It's a parody of the Rover Boys! Appearantly the three characters were so similar to one another in the book, that Dora might as well have been engaged to all 3.
How to make a great cartoon Make the most stereotypical, flat characters: The hero(es), The lady in distress The villain (Most importantly) the running gag Then come up with a flat cliche plot Then take all sense of logic and seriousness and cast it out the window, and let the lunacy mold the story. Don't be afraid to point out the obvious, that being that this is supposed taken seriously. 4th wall breaks bring the best efdect. Then there you have it... a masterpiece such as this. 😂😂😂😂
I saw an interview where Mel Blanc said he counted the # of voices he could do. I think I remember the # being 200. This is an example of how he came up with that #.
I can imagine Dan's Bacsklide thought process here: "An unsupervised runabout? Alone and unprotected? at this time of day? in this part of town? right next to this tavern of unsavory repute? and painted in the same color scheme as me?"
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I love that the Dover Boys have a single cartoon, but it feels like you just stumbled upon episode 50 of an ongoing series.
Well it's a parody of the Rover Boys (and to lesser extent other similar Stratemeyer Syndicate juvenile book series like The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc.) that had dozens of books.
Yeah, I thought it would be a new one!
@@HidingAllTheWayGive Me more of this Lore
@@Big_Mike001 Thank You for the Help
@@Big_Mike001thank you, I found your comment to be very insightful.
...an 80 year old cartoon parodying a 120 year old series of young adult adventure books...
I'LL WATCH IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
wait...that's what they're doing here?
Yes. This short is a parody of The Rover Boys books.
So they're parodying an old series of books? Thanks for the info.
I'd love to see what a live-action movie version of this cartoon would look like. Hollywood needs a young Mel Brooks to make it. Too bad there aren't many directors of comedy around.
103 year old actually.
“A runabout! I’LL STEAL IT!! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!” he yells at the top of his lungs.
that’s the joke
Man, my country's dub of this loon gives him a voice that's definitely not as loud, but it definitely is more... I think "scheming" and is the best way to describe it. It makes him feel almost as cunning as a weasel.
@@masonasaro2118What language was the dub
He says calmly.
CONFOUND THOSE DOVER BOYS!!! THEY DRIVE ME TO DRINK!!!
I love that Dora is just a literally doll. Like 0 dress animations (least if she's walking), she moves like a pin in a bowling alley, yet she can easily kick your ass and make it seem like the boys did it.
"...pin in a bowling alley...?" Perfect metaphor!
All this cartoon is animated by the great Chuck Jones himself. 😊
One of the most progressive toons ever
She's an android, robots like to watch how human beings try to perform feats with the help of our pathetic organic bodies and no less meager minds.
until she meets that guy at the end, and they walk in the same non static way 8:40
I love the headcanon that Dan is so hammered, he steals his own car without even knowing
I've never thought of that. That would be awesome!
It is coloured lik him
Getting into my car at Walgreens: A Chevy. I’LL STEAL IT!! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!1!
Dan Backslide stole his own car? DAN WILL NEVER KNOW!
Dan, earlier:
NO ONE WILL EVER STEAL IT! I'LL KNOW!
The throwaway line about the boys going to pick up their fiancee is priceless. The narrator speeds past it and it's just left there for whoever finds it.
That line always made me think! But since I just found this on YT, I never could rewind to make sure I’d heard correctly!
I dont get it
@@3b106 um... three brothers are meeting their FIANCEE. Family togetherness is fine but...
@@barrylangille3523 i get it
Very progressive for the time.
Honestly one of the best Merry melodies ever created. The humor holds up well all these years later
Holds up? Considering today’s humor, I’d say it’s gotten funnier over time!
@@bluethelucario6194 It was almost prophetic to 2020s humor senses XD
It's very Zoomer, off puttingly so. If I didn't already know better, I could believe this was a tribute cartoon by a Millennial or Zoomer animator (like with the Cuphead game)
Evidently, surrealist satire and memetics are not quite so much the wave of the future.
@@Hagashager Okay grandpa, time to head back to bed
@@Hagashager🤓
Consider this....
Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse have had hundreds of cartoons under their belts in order to build up their fame.
The Dover Boys managed to become iconic with just ONE cartoon!
It's because Dan backslides meme became a hit
That's nothing, Big Chungus had only 1.8 seconds yet enjoys equal fame to Bugs Bunny.
It's because Warner Brothers forgot to renew the copyright on it, so it became a meme.
But also, it's pretty good.
Brings into mind how Charlie Collins and Sid the Squid, in spite of being unfortunate one-shot villain minions, became memetic bad****s in Batman: The Animated Series.
Quite
Guy straight up took 14 shots of bourbon and is still able to walk. Mad Props.
And steel and drive a runabout
And could still read a book correctly
He has a liver of adamantium to pull that off
Not only was he able to walk, he also managed to drive safely, speak coherently, and uproot a fully-grown tree.
@@AtheistPirate That’s high-functioning alcoholism for you. Some of them can even function better drunk than sober
2:18 "Forced to pass a certain public house; a tavern of unsavory repute, our young friends meet the distressing situation with their usual uncompromising moral fortitude." Dora and the Dover boys all pose in abstinence...
Hark. The Dover Boys
*meet
CONFOUND THEM!!!!
Dora is straight up dabbing. In 1945.
Then 10 minutes later they dive head first into it 😂
6:04 I love how he backed up just to let her call the Dover Boys for help 😂
He didn't have a choice, did you see what she did to that tree?
Same thing when he steal a runabout and said no one will ever know even tho he say it out loud
“oh okay, ill back up to make sure you address all of them”
He must like making it harder on himself
Just because he's a coward, bully, cad and thief doesn't mean he can't be considerate.
For those of you who were keeping count, he drank 10 glasses, then the bartender takes a drink, and then Backslide drinks 5 more glasses before he resumes his rant.
You mean for those who were not keeping count. The people who were keeping count would already know the count.
Dan has to have a liver of battleship armor grade steel to do that and still remain coherent as well as drive a car
@@connormclernon26 he's a toon. That's why he's able to drink that much.
That’s a morning for some folks
I like how Dora is obviously capable of saving herself at any time, but she likes to let the boys think they're rescuing her.
The joke is that she doesn't realize that she doesn't need help. She's actually the danger, which is why Dan calls for the boys to save him.
She’s just waiting for the hobo to get there lol
It's the done thing for a proper young lady to cry out for help if she's being assaulted by ruffians 🧐
@@theskycavedin
Beaten up Dan: *HELP TOM, HELP DICK, HELP LARRY!* (faints on the floor)
@@MinisterManDan
His tune is catchy
"I'll steal it. No one will ever know," Dumbledore said calmly.
Um....Somehow.. I think everyone knows...lol...
That old geezer who just shows up randomly and end s up the hero lives in my head. And has so for nearly 30 years…
Hope he pays the rent
The thing that always gets me is that throughout the entire episode the cigarette smoke over the snooker table is always there, even when no one's there. Lol
You THINK nobody's there! The smoke obscures!
@@evankimoriNO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
I think my favorite part is that the three "brothers" look and sound NOTHING alike but are so in-sync they're basically one character
For "Dora" yeah... that um makes sense.
Legend has it, the stolen runabout remains unknown to this day...
An unsolved mystery
Legend also has it, Dan was so hammered, he didn't even realize he was stealing his own car. 😀
I think he stole his own car, and thats the reason why no one will ever know
NO ONE EVER KNEW!
Oh everyone knew. They were just too drunk to care....lol.....
Starring the incomparable Mel Blanc. He voiced every cartoon character I loved as a child. When he passed, my childhood officially ended.
Dan Backslide is not entirely visually unreminiscent of Mel Blanc about the eyes.
So did he do all 3 boys AND Dan Backslide?
The only other VA in existence who compares to Mel Blanc is Frank Welker.
Mel Blanc was indeed an amazing voice talent. However, due to a rather silly contractual agreement (albeit somewhat understandable due to how voice actors back then largely went uncredited and had to live with it), he was able to make it that he was the only VA ever credited for Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts after he became the breadwinner for them.
So basically, no, he wasn't the only VA in this short, and in fact it is readily apparent he only voiced two characters, Dan Backslide and the telegram guy. Everyone else was random people including a few animators themselves (which was common for Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts).
The most recognizable voice is that of the narrator himself, John McLeish, who did some voicework for Disney (he's got prominent roles in Ichabod and Mr. Toad, plus those old goofy informative shorts of goofy being a average dude in the late 40s, early 50s), and he even did this other cartoon, one year after the Dover Boys came out, for a future UPA guy that was basically kind of a pastiche/homage/tribute/ripoff of the Dover Boys.
Anyways Mel Blanc was a great voice actor, but it sucks that he kinda screwed over his fellow VAs at the time by making it that he essentially "stole" credit for a good period of time in all those famous shorts of the 40s and 50s. It was only with the advent of TV cartoons and research that this nonsense started to be cleared up, and you can't exactly blame Mel Blanc fully given the aforementioned industry nonsense that made VAs kind of an afterthought. He was on good terms with his most famous performing partners, like Elmer's original VA Arthur Q. Bryan, and he considered June Foray his equal.
It's crazy how modern this feels.
Probably because it's less slapsticky than the other toons
I know I still ride my giant wheel in the front bicycle everywhere.
True artists' works are timeless. Watching Looney Tunes as a kid in the 90s, I thought it was only a decade or two old, given how it was better than a lot of other shows on
I’ve found some older stuff (especially stuff inspired by vaudeville like old cartoons) has that same surreal style to jokes that modern/gen z audiences really like. It’s good to know we as people have always found nonsense and non-sequiturs hilarious
This is something that could run on Adult Swim today and it would fit in.
this is one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen in my life. I can only imagine the roaring laughter in the theaters where it was shown
Dan Backslide is mega-iconic, but Dora Standpipe is secretly the best character in the short :-D
HOW I LOVE HER (father's money)
She invented Dabbing and Trad Thotting (never showing an inch of skin and dating way older guys)
Nah. The best character is the "Shetland sailor", lol
That’s DAINTY Dora Standpipe to you, old boy.
Her voice actress, Marjorie Tarlton, is still alive. She'll be 101 this year
They need to have an open world game set in the 1910's* and make the achievement/trophy for stealing a runabout be "No one will ever know!!!"
*Red Dead doesn't count; they're westerns.
If they add vehicles to bioshock
@@SpaceShip-Orion I always associate the word "Bioshock" with Rapture before I think of Columbia, so it took me a minute lol
This cartoon from from the 1940s though?
@@wildharpy6435 Yep. 1942, according to Wikpedia, but it is parodying a series of books called the Rover Boys that (again, according to Wikipedia) were published between 1899 and 1926.
@@angbandsbane ah, i see
“Now it is time to say goodbye… goodbye.”
Truly beautiful end right there.
To quote James Rolfe. "Nothing short of poetry."
4:56 “A Runabout, I’LL STEAL IT, NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW”
*Proceeds to yell at the top of his lungs for everyone to hear, making everyone know that he’s stealing a Runabout*
With all the shots Dan drank he's so wasted he doesn't realize he's stealing his own car
Mel Blanc just had WAY too much fun at his job and he became a flippin' legend for it! XD
@@snakes3425I figured it was his own, but I never connected it to his drinking / impairment. That's a really good detail! Although he also drives totally fine so IS he drunk? Now im tangled lmao
I love that they share a single Fiance between the three of them.
Good old Times i guess
Carl Stalling's use of a bassoon to convey comedy is sooo underrated!
It's like a musical fart, possibly the funniest instrument next to the literal slap-stick.
@@Bactchan I've occasionally seen people giving Stalling grief for using so much existing music in the toons, but it really DOES take a musical genius to make them work in the context of what's on screen. Stalling's musical work MADE those toons what they were just as much as the animation or the voice overs. They ALL have to be there.
@@samsignorelli Stalling used what was in either public domain or what was in the Warner Brothers' music library, so no rights had to be bought. Leon Schlesinger didn't want to spend a penny he didn't absolutely have to.
@@Donleecartoons All true....but having unfettered access to the music and knowing how to alter and USE the music are entirely different.
Stalling's strength was that he knew exactly what to do with (and to) his source material for the best effect. Without his efforts, these toons wouldn't be nearly as funny.
@@samsignorelli Oh, no doubt about that at all; I was responding to your first observation about the grief Stalling got for using existing music. It doesn't at all take away from HOW stalling used it.
Dan Backslide is driving pretty smoothly considering how much alcohol he had.
He's like a Klingon from Star Trek with his alcohol tolerance.
It was another time, before we knew being hammered impaired us, so it didn't
Dan has a liver of battleship armor grade steel to pull that off
It would be an achievement. Cars of that era were not exactly easy to operate.
If he drank more he prolly wouldn't be feeling the effects of Dora's asswhooping
Give Dan Backslide credit for letting the bartender having a drink midway into his own drinking binge
A classic cartoon from Chuck Jones and one that is remembered for its distinctive lines. A RUN-A-BOUT. I'LL STEAL IT, NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!!
One fiance to three brothers. Gotta love casual polygamy
Polyandry, as it happens.
And then guess who won in the end?
@@michaelandreipalon359you guessed it: Frank Stallone
They were mormons I guess
You sir have won the Internet
3:44
I only saw this cartoon once, MAYBE twice when I was growing up. This moment has lived in the back of my mind for over two decades, and was the one of the few things I absolutely remembered about this short, and is where I first learned the word "confound". I do remember the very ending, with the fiancee doing the weird walk with the wobbly guy. Funny how little things like that stand out to you.
3:50 *CONFOUND THEM!*
2:57 “Coward, bully, cad and thief.” 🤣😂🤣 My hero. 🤪
Some cartoons take a nearly half a season to become iconic.
Dover Boys: "Hold our Sasparilla"
Just like with their fiancé, the Dover Boys have only one sarsparilla between them.
"I'LL STEAL IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!" Said Dan Backslide calmly.
She really didn’t need those guys to save her. Woman was a 1 person army!!!!
Edit: When Dan Backside puts Doris’s picture over the strongman in the pub, that foreshadows how strong she really is and when begging for help, Doris goes Ultra Instinct on Dan.
and goes back to her meek tapping at the door. Such an Edwardian damsel.
*Dora
Suffering succotash, I never caught it could be foreshadowing. Thanks
Shaggy has some competition now
It's Dan Backslide, but I like your way better.
I could watch the animation of them "shielding" themselves from the Bar a hundred times. It's like the only reason they're not in there is to protect Larry's remaining innocence
The fact that this is in the public domain is proof that God loves us.
This cartoon is alone and unprotected. Anyone can steal it, and no one will ever care!
Said @@OldsVistaCruiser Calmly
…and no one will ever know!
7:23 I think my humor is broken cause every time I hear the dude yell “HELP!” At the top of his lungs I die of laughter
That just indicates that your humor is perfectly functional.
Unquote sign Dora that’s will 35 cents please
I love how she’s so strong that she really doesn’t need saving and can beat up Dan Backslide on her own
one of the funniest old shorts of all time-- that period in 2016 where it became a meme was awesome, honestly 😂 the humor in this is timeless, just pure shenanigans and slapstick that always gets a laugh (and just...everything about dan backslide)
The master Chuck Jones' finest work. And the vocal genius of Mel Blanc.
4:53 Origin of the “NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW” meme
"A runabout. I’ll steal it! No one will ever know!"
-Dan Backslide, 1942
Dear Dora Standpipe, How I love her....
Father's money....
CONFOUND THOSE DOVER BOYS!!! OH HOW I HATE THEM!!!!
I HATE TOM!!!!
I HATE DICK!!!!
AND I HATE LARRY!!!!
THEY DRIVE ME TO DRINK!!!!
Confound them *hiccup
The work that went into the music for this is insane.
Only a few thousand views? Then that means the like button is ALONE AND UNPROTECTED!
I’LL PRESS IT!
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
The humor even holds up today.
Dan Backslid is such an amazing name.
It's one of the many bits of genius satire. One of the chief villains of the Rover Boys novels was named Dan Baxter, who was all at once a coward-bully-cad-and-thief.
Saw it on TV as a kid in the 90s with my brother, and we've been quoting to this day.
I'm so happy it has the attention it deserves.
Absolutely priceless piece!
I heartily concur ! This is one classic cartoon !
It's Public Domain. I'll steal it! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
3:45 Friar Tuck’s Popsicle Walk Theme
4:53 It begins…
4:56 A Runabout. I’LL STEAL IT!!! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!!
3:45 is actually the song of "While Strolling Through The Park One Day" by, ah I forgot
More like this! I miss all the good classic cartoons!😥
An underrated gag in this how the Dover Boys stay frozen whenever they’re offscreen, then resume when the camera cuts back to them.
I saw this one today for the first time... and I will rewatch it till my dying day holy shit.
7:37 will never fail to crack me up. 🤣
NYOOOOOOOOOOM
The beginning of the now classic Chuck Jones style.
It’s a crime we never got The Dover Boys in the Everglades
We might have gotten a whole series about the Dover Boys if Chuck Jones hadn't been on thin ice for creating this. Apparently smear animation did NOT go over too well.
@@fubukifangirl You wanna know the reason why Chuck Jones was on thin ice? Believe it or not, it was because of the first character he created for Looney Toons.
Dover Boys vs Florida Man
Why is the "NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!" So smooth
Mel Blanc was one of the greatest voice actors in history.
@@matthewgagnon9426 agreed
The smoothness and pacing of the animated gags is so satisfying.
I like how we all just accept Dick's wizardry on that penny-farthing
This might be the greatest thing ever committed to film. This line might be the best part of the greatest thing ever committed to film.
@8:04 The funniest part: There's possibly a rape in progress, but first we must sing tribute to PU.
Gotta show that PU spirit
I wish the Dover boys come back
They made an appearance in Animaniacs...in a Slappy Squirrel toon, IIRC.
@@samsignorelli I remember that
5:38 I've always loved these kind of overcomplicated schemas for specific situations.
I think they're called Rube Goldberg machines
Mel as Backslide is hilarious...makes one wonder what it was like in the recording booth.😊😊
its a crime that this cartoon was never turned into a series
OH HOW I LOVE HER...... father's money!
Brilliant 😂
You gotta love that Dora just puts on the act
5:08 it’s the little jokes. Instead of just hand-cranking a couple times to start the engine, he manages to gather enough strength and speed to rapidly spin it to normal engine rpm lol.
While drunk
"Con..........found them!" Shades of Yosemite Sam.
Utterly brilliant cartoon!
At first I heard it as the C-word 😅
You know, the one guy Butcher (The Boys) said that C-word
"...the youngest of the three jerks...eh...uh...brothers" Seems to me that someone is showing their Freudian Slip.
I haven't seen this in about 50 years! Thanks
"The Dover Boys...then Dora must be alone AND UNPROTECTED!!!"
If the boys werent dumb for not hearing that while RIGHT THERE, the episode would have ended right there.😛
I love that green boi screamed out that Dora was alone and unprotected when he was just centimetres away from the Dover Bois. 😂
And also gotta love the fact that Dora keeps crying for help when she can actually defend herself.
Bruh, Dan Backslide the Green Bőí.
Classic Cartoons are so golden and ageless!
The fact that Chuck Jones made this to piss off his bosses is priceless.
Fun fact: in the Spanish dub, Dora says 'Get out of my sight!' with a sassy voice every time she hits or throws Dan Blackslide away
What a beautiful copy! This was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. I still love it!
Dan Backslide: "The Cartoon's spotlight... I'LL STEAL IT!"
Dan: NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!!!
Not if Dora has anything to say about it...
I love how theres a page on how to literally remove a lady from a tree
Indubitably ! That would be a very useful book to have !
I will go to a library
I'LL STEAL IT NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW
My Favourite Looney Tunes Characters
Imagine that using a real life Police Be like FBI open up!
1:14 3:45 6:14 8:39 🎵Strollin' through the park on day🎵
🎵In the very, very, month of may...🎵
Brings into mind a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Forgot its name a bit, but I think it was the ep with the castor oil.
@@michaelandreipalon359 it's called "Baby Puss" You're welcome.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Baby Puss, where Tom was dressed up as that little girl's baby.
@@BlazeHeartPanther Ah, kind thanks!
*merry merry . . .
I honestly can’t figure out if this is the greatest cartoon of all time, the greatest shitpost of all time, the worst cartoon of all time that’s so bad it’s good, or all 3 at once. Either way I love it.
Seeing as it’s a parody, I’d say most iconic shitpost.
Definitely not the worst this is so genuinely funny, and very well animated as well
@@colewright3790 In the book “The 50 Greatest Cartoons” it was voted #49
Why does Tom look like the precursor to Brock Samson 🤣
The archetype of the lantern-jawed blond himbo is eternal.
Blonde Stan Smith
Ah, Pimento University. Good ol' "P.U." !! :-)
"it's fragrant odor scents the air"🤣
5:23 DID BRO JUST CASUALLY LIFT A TREE?? Gawww damn 🥶
"I’LL STEAL IT!! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!”
Dumbledore said calmly.
4:38 “Whoops! Sorry!”
Can really rank this among the Fleischer Pictures Superman theatrical shorts as on par with even modern (from the 90s onwards at most, mind you) animation like Animaniacs and the DC Animated Universe, I'll say. No wonder it got an also popular reanimated collaboration fan project.
Also am impressed that Dora Standpipe isn't a true stereotypical damsel in distress of the era here, for 6:30, 7:33: and 7:41 would make any superhero feel a bit envious, even any Batman, master of offhand backhands.
She ain’t very good at counting though.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx Eh, think of it as God's way of compensating or whatever.
Its amazing this is essentially a shitpost. Chuck Jones was never a fan of the original books this cartoon was based on, so he decided just to make fun of it. But how they handled the humor is virtually timeless, its unlike any cartoon at the time when it comes to humor but that made it age like fine wine.
I also have to mention that this was the first cartoon that used such exaggerated smear frames. This was done to cut time and the amount frames needed to be made. Some considered it lazy but it worked for the humor and made it feel like nobody, even the characters themselves wanted to take part in the story and wanted to finish it as fast as possible.
@@No-Ink Apperantly Chuck Jones was almost fired because of this short due to smear frames and reused animation
I love how Dora just sits motionless in the car while Dan goes to open the door of the hunting lodge instead of running away and continues to sit motionless as he escorts her into the lodge
"The three are off to meet their fiancee, Dora Stanpipe." Why does nobody bring up that this girl is engaged to 3 brothers?
Casual polygamy was apparently a thing back in early 1900's.
It's a parody of the Rover Boys! Appearantly the three characters were so similar to one another in the book, that Dora might as well have been engaged to all 3.
@@dinolil1474 Really?
Siblings share everything i guess
@@AtlasAS7D When the woman has several fiancées it’s polyandry.
How to make a great cartoon
Make the most stereotypical, flat characters:
The hero(es),
The lady in distress
The villain
(Most importantly) the running gag
Then come up with a flat cliche plot
Then take all sense of logic and seriousness and cast it out the window, and let the lunacy mold the story. Don't be afraid to point out the obvious, that being that this is supposed taken seriously. 4th wall breaks bring the best efdect.
Then there you have it... a masterpiece such as this. 😂😂😂😂
I saw an interview where Mel Blanc said he counted the # of voices he could do. I think I remember the # being 200. This is an example of how he came up with that #.
Y’all she was the first person to hit the Dab! 2:34
And I thought it was Sportaflop
"I'LL STEAL IT, NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW" Dan says calmly
What where they thinking back then? They almost fired Chuck Jones cause of this masterpiece.
Apparently smear frames and reused frames were unheard of back then.
I can imagine Dan's Bacsklide thought process here:
"An unsupervised runabout?
Alone and unprotected? at this time of day? in this part of town? right next to this tavern of unsavory repute? and painted in the same color scheme as me?"
This feels like a meme before memes were invented.
I’ll steal it! No one will ever know!!! Still legendary to this day ❤❤