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Swing, You Sinners!

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Swing, You Sinners!	comment	"Swing, You Sinners!" is a 1930 Talkartoons short, produced by Fleischer Studios and featuring their character Bimbo the dognote The name Bimbo was chosen because in the 1920s the word was mostly associated with men who liked to fight..The short begins with Bimbo making a nighttime raid on a hen-house, attempting to steal one of the chickens. After a humorous scuffle with one of the hens, a police officer shows up and begins chasing him. Bimbo evades capture (albeit losing the hen and its chicks along the way) but winds up trapped inside a graveyard, where a legion of wily ghosts unite to not only terrorize him for his life of crime and debauchery, but eventually spirit him away.An outstanding example of the surrealism which characterises both Fleischer Studio's art style and that of other producers at the time, Swing, You Sinners! has been referenced numerous times in media since its original release.Contrast to Disney's The Skeleton Dance, a short with a similar macabre theme (but not nearly as wild). Also of note is Van Beuren Studios own knockoff of the film, "Panicky Pup".
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Swing, You Sinners! / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Right after entering the graveyard, a block of ice briefly appears on Bimbo's feet - because he's getting cold feet.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_1e30fd35	type	Dangerously Close Shave
Swing, You Sinners! / int_1e30fd35	comment	Dangerously Close Shave: One of the ghosts turns into and emerges from a barber pole, promising Bimbo a "permanent shave" and lampshading it.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_23b059ec	type	Bedsheet Ghost
Swing, You Sinners! / int_23b059ec	comment	Bedsheet Ghost: Many of the ghosts have this appearance.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_4a9c731e	type	When Trees Attack
Swing, You Sinners! / int_4a9c731e	comment	When Trees Attack: Some of the spirits are animated trees, one of whom gets a good caress of Bimbo's butt.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_5581b443	type	The Walls Are Closing In
Swing, You Sinners! / int_5581b443	comment	The Walls Are Closing In: Done with a stone wall that appears on the horizon and phases through the scenery to enclose Bimbo in a tight circle.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_58977071	type	Creepy Jazz Music
Swing, You Sinners! / int_58977071	comment	Creepy Jazz Music: The short features a big jazz number including some unhinged scatting, where a bunch of ghosts torment Bimbo the dog after he tries to steal a chicken.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_7aea8bae	type	Murder Ballad
Swing, You Sinners! / int_7aea8bae	comment	Murder Ballad: Once Bimbo enters the barn, the ghosts start singing about all the horrible deaths they'd like to make Bimbo suffer.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: The Grim Natwick scenes, most notably the climatic chase sequence.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Most of the ghosts are this 'cause their exaggerated facial expressions.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Swing, You Sinners! / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: After a long chase, Bimbo gets whisked off into a bizarre ghostly world where a scatting frog breaks it down, then, he gets eaten by a giant skull. The End.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_84545521	type	Sapient House
Swing, You Sinners! / int_84545521	comment	Sapient House: Once Bimbo leaves the barn, it becomes an ambulatory spirit and starts chasing after him.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Swing, You Sinners! / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Bimbo, although he barely qualifies as a villain.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Swing, You Sinners! / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: To modern viewers, Bimbo trying to steal a chicken is a petty crime at worst and certainly doesn't warrant being whisked off into oblivion, but this film was made during The Great Depression, when food was scarce, and people - particularly those in rural areas - often went for days, sometimes even weeks without food, so Bimbo's crime was a far graver sin than what modern viewers would believe. However, stealing is a sin in contravention of the Holy Ten Commandments, so, regardless of how one might have felt about "petty" theft, it's still a sin in the eyes of God-fearing folk, such as people mostly were in 1930. Also don't forget the other terrible things Bimbo is said to have done, which in any era, are mighty abhorrent.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_97334924	type	Profile View Gag
Swing, You Sinners! / int_97334924	comment	Profile View Gag: At one point, we see a dancing creature that looks like a circle with eyes, legs, and hair. Then it turns to the side, and we see that not only is its body long rather than sphere-shaped, but that the hair is on its tail rather than on its head, and there are two identical creatures behind it.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_9dd0f9bf	type	Acid-Trip Dimension
Swing, You Sinners! / int_9dd0f9bf	comment	Acid-Trip Dimension: Bimbo ends up in this in the ending, with lots of dancing ghosts, a Scatting frog, and a giant skull that eats him.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Swing, You Sinners! / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "Swing" can mean either "dance", befitting the upbeat, jazzy song number from which the short takes its name, or it can mean "to be executed (as if by hanging)", and sure enough there's no shortage of hanging references in regards to poor Bimbo.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_a6ed3cd6	comment	Scatting: There are two rather energetic scat solos once the ghosts begin their torment, with the first provided by a rooster in the barn and the second coming from a frog in the void moments before the ending.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_a73cfb7f	comment	Animate Inanimate Object: The spirits in the cartoon take the forms of several objects, including tombstones, a haystack, two separate examples made of the graves' soil, a scythe, and a pair of shoes.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_ad62678e	type	Living Shadow
Swing, You Sinners! / int_ad62678e	comment	Living Shadow: The ghost who chastises Bimbo for chasing girls is formed from his own shadow.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Swing, You Sinners! / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: The last verse of the song has the ghosts stating this as the motivation for their sadism.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
Swing, You Sinners! / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: The opening scene establishes that Bimbo's a thief. The ghosts let us know that Bimbo is a gambler and a shameless womanizer, as well, but we never see any evidence of those.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: The part where Bimbo evades the cop is directly timed to the music.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_b70b1e3b	comment	Institutional Apparel: Bimbo imagines himself wearing this and pounding on a rock in prison when he first sees the police officer.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_c1d57cf7	type	"The Villain Sucks" Song
Swing, You Sinners! / int_c1d57cf7	comment	"The Villain Sucks" Song: The opening chorus when Bimbo first gets in the graveyard.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Swing, You Sinners! / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: The ghosts are on Bimbo's case for his history of chasing girls, stealing chickens and gambling. This is, apparently, enough to warrant a mercilessly and gleefully delivered death sentence. note It's only a misdemeanor from a modern viewpoint, back when this cartoon was made during The Great Depression, stealing farm animals was considered a major felony due to the famine and food shortages at the time.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_d42fb539	type	Our Monsters Are Weird
Swing, You Sinners! / int_d42fb539	comment	Our Monsters Are Weird: They sure are. Alongside more recognizable things like Bedsheet Ghosts, animated trees and giant bats, Bimbo is terrorized by living piles of hay, singing gravestones, giant leering heads, a caricature of Monroe Silver, and ghosts who are considerably more abstract.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_d5f518d3	type	The Dead Can Dance
Swing, You Sinners! / int_d5f518d3	comment	The Dead Can Dance: And swing like crazy too.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Swing, You Sinners! / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: The short ends abruptly after Bimbo is eaten by the skull, without resolving such narrative as there is.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_ed23decc	comment	Big Ball of Violence: Every time Bimbo dives in to try and catch the chicken it results in a ball of chaotic dust, and the two emerge wearing each other's clothes or with parts of each other traded until the final tussel when they return to normal upon falling out of the cloud of dust.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_f727b9c5	comment	The Body Parts That Must Not Be Named: A ghost that transforms into a scythe replaces the name of some unknown organ with scatting, which is easy to take as a Freudian Threat.
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Swing, You Sinners! / int_fa4a59a3	type	Prepare to Die
Swing, You Sinners! / int_fa4a59a3	comment	Prepare to Die: The first half of the song in the graveyard is basically the ghosts telling Bimbo to get ready to be lynched.
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