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Shuffle Off to Buffalo (1933)
Character: Old Man - Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
An animated singing and dancing revue of babies (representing a variety of stereotypes) who are being prepared for delivery by stork.
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Abdul the Bulbul Ameer (1941)
Character: Flight Commentator (voice)
The familiar song is adapted into a cartoon short. Abdul The Bulbul-Ameer, a rotund Arab, gets into a brawl with Ivan Skavinski Scavar, a preening Russian Cossack, over an offense to Abdul's pride. Groucho Marx and a newsreel crew provide running commentary as the pair pummel each other and the surrounding square.
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A Great Big Bunch of You (1932)
Character: Mannequin / So Long Folks Guy (voice) (uncredited)
A mannequin in the city dump improvises a working piano from junk, then plays and sings the title song. Various discarded items join in with song or dance.
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Bosko's Dizzy Date (1932)
Character: Bosko / Wilbur (voice) (uncredited)
Honey is trying to teach the violin to Wilbur, the one who hates music. Honey calls Bosko over. Bosko and Honey sing, dance, and play music while Wilbur continues to express its disdain.
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Bosko's Woodland Daze (1932)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
While romping through the forest, Bosko falls asleep and dreams of giants and gnomes.
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Bosko and Bruno (1932)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko and Bruno escape from a speeding train via a handcar; make a failed attempt to steal a chicken; and end up on a runaway boxcar.
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Bosko's Store (1932)
Character: Bosko / Wilbur / Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.
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Bosko at the Zoo (1932)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko and Honey go to the zoo. Honey is frightened by the lion, but Bosko is the one who ends up in danger.
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Bosko the Drawback (1932)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko is the star player in a wacky game of professional football.
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Bosko in Dutch (1933)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Set on a frozen pond in Holland, various animals attempt to skate on the slippery ice.
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Yodeling Yokels (1931)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps until a series of disasters end with Honey rushing downriver on an ice floe.
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Bosko's Soda Fountain (1931)
Character: Bosko / Bosko's Old School Teacher / Wilbur / Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later, he must contend with Honey's bratty Wilbur.
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The Tree's Knees (1931)
Character: Bosko / Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music.
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Ups 'n Downs (1931)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko runs a hot dog stand at an amusement park; but Bosko sneaks away to the racetrack to ride his mechanical horse.
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The Queen Was in the Parlor (1932)
Character: Goopy Geer (voice) (uncredited)
The last Goopy Geer cartoon. The king returns to his castle, and asks where the queen is; she's in the parlor, and won't be seen, according to the title song. He goes to his throne and summons his jester, Goopy Geer. A black knight arrives and threatens one of the young ladies in court; Goopy Geer fights him off, first with an ax, then in armor from kitchen utensils, then butting him with a mounted animal head, which makes the knight's armor fall apart. He pulls it together again and runs away.
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You're Too Careless with Your Kisses! (1932)
Character: Wilbur (voice) (uncredited)
A bee returns home late after a night out having too much honey. His wife leaves him, but quickly ends up in the clutches of an evil large predator.
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Bosko and Honey (1932)
Character: Bosko / Wilbur (voice) (uncredited)
This is an unreleased cartoon that eventually went on to have most of its animation recycled by Bosko's Dizzy Date. Honey is trying to teach the violin to Wilbur, the one who hates music. Honey calls Bosko over. Bosko and Honey sing, dance, and play music while Wilbur continues to express its disdain.
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Red-Headed Baby (1931)
Character: Napoleon
The old toymaker goes to sleep, and his toys immediately come to life and sing "Red-Headed Baby." A red-haired baby doll begins the song. She's soon joined by her sweetheart, a toy soldier named Napoleon. A spider briefly spoils the fun when he descends upon the toys and grabs the doll. It's up to Napoleon to save her.
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Bosko the Doughboy (1931)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko is a doughboy in the Great War. Bullets and bombs are everywhere. (A bomb even blows up the title card.) Bosko and his fellow infantrymen are hardly safe in their trench. Bosko is happily eating from a pan full of beans when a bomb hits the pan and destroys his meal. Bosko misses Honey; he pulls out her picture and kisses it. A cannonball tears through it, making her head a gaping hole. Now Bosko is angry. He vows revenge but the moment his helmet appears above the trench, it’s hit with dozens of bullets, knocking him back down. Another soldier briefly cheers him up with harmonica music. Bosko gets his chance to be a hero when his buddy swallows a cannonball.
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Ride Him, Bosko (1932)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Ride Him, Bosko! is a western-flavored cartoon with lots of shooting gags involving body reduction, and card characters singing! There's also an alcohol gag that has a really strong one turning a male piano player into a woman instantly!
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Hey-Hey Fever (1935)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
This MGM "Happy Harmonies" entry stars Bosko. He falls asleep at a sign promoting Mother Goose bread, and Mother Goose characters come to life.
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Pagan Moon (1932)
Character: Native Boy (voice) (uncredited)
On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life.
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Hold Anything (1930)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
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The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (1933)
Character: Elves (uncredited)
Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild. He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.
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Battling Bosko (1932)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko is a brave little boxer who battles the champion, Gas House Harry. The enormous brute proves a bit much, even for a plucky underdog. Some of the animation is later reused in "Bosko's Parlor Pranks" by M.G.M. in 1934.
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Honeyland (1935)
Character: Spider's Yells (voice) (uncredited)
A group of brave honey bees attempt to rescue a girl bee who's been abducted by a spider.
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Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee (1932)
Character: Indian (voice) (uncredited)
An American Indian boy and girl sing and dance in the forest along with the animals. Trouble begins when a fire threatens baby birds in their nest.
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Bosko in Person (1933)
Character: Bosko
Bosko and Honey perform a wacky stage act that includes doing imitations of Maurice Chevalier, Greta Garbo and Jimmy Durante.
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Congo Jazz (1930)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
Bosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals.
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The Organ Grinder (1933)
Character: Fat Woman (voice) (uncredited)
A beloved Italian organ grinder plays his music and sings his song through an immigrant-filled ghetto neighborhood, where hard-scrabble kids and well-proportioned matrons get hep to the beat that flows from the organ grinder's calliope. There are lots of spoofs of life on the Lower East Side and lots of monkeyshines as the organ grinder's pet performs "42nd Street" and imitates some Hollywood greats. The monkey takes wing and gets behind the wheel of a car, driving all over the area and wrecking everything.
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Dumb Patrol (1931)
Character: Bosko (voice) (uncredited)
During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle.
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