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Willie Whopper
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Willie Whopper was a short lived series of cartoons produced and directed by Ub Iwerks, running for 13 shorts from 1933 to 1934. The series was made as a replacement for Iwerks' previous series Flip the Frog, alongside his Comi Color Cartoons shorts.The shorts all follow a simple formula—Willie, a young, eager boy, tells his friends (or sometimes, the audience) about some outlandish adventure he went on recently, which serves as the story in question for the short—naturally, the stories turn out to be nothing but exaggerated lies (or, "whoppers", hence his name). Like other Iwerks cartoons, the shorts are rife with cartoony animation, as well as a stylized rubberhose art style, courtesy of designers such as Grim Natwick and Berny Wolf. Carl Stalling would also provide pleasant, if pedestrian scores for the shorts. The series was usually produced in black and white, although there were three entries which were filmed in color, and Iwerks still had his cels colored in spite of the black & white footage, to see if he could get different shades of gray in the photographing.While the series was fairly well received when it was released, it came to an abrupt end when MGM dropped distribution of Ub's cartoons, instead choosing to distribute Harman and Ising's Happy Harmonies shorts. As such, Ub abandoned the character and shifted focus towards his ill-fated Comi Color Cartoons, with Willie becoming yet another one of many forgotten stars of the Golden Age of Animation.Fortunately, some of his cartoons have fallen into the Public Domain, and as such are easy to find, giving his films a chance to see the light of day again. In late 2015, Thunderbean animation released a restored Blu-ray & DVD set of all of his cartoons. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Amelia Earhart makes an appearance in "The Air Race". | |
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Easter Egg: In "Air Race", one of the shops Willie crashes into has the name Iwerks. | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: In a decidedly anti-clerical joke, "The Air Race" gives us an angry St. Peter, who is waiting on the cloud trying to hitch a ride with a plane rider, gets passed up, and angrily flips the bird at him—with four fingered hands. | |
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Bandito | |
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Bandito: "Viva Willie" features Willie taking on Pancho Villa. | |
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Batman Can Breathe in Space | |
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Batman Can Breathe in Space: Willie demonstrates this in "Stratos-Fear" when he gets inflated with laughing gas and floats off into space. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Whopper was a classic phrase for a lie. | |
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Four-Fingered Hands | |
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Four-Fingered Hands: And they can still flip the bird with them, going by St. Peter's brief appearance. | |
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Fire and Brimstone Hell | |
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Fire and Brimstone Hell: Which is convieniently located under a volcano in "Hell's Fire". | |
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Falling Chandelier of Doom | |
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Falling Chandelier of Doom: In "Viva Willie", Willie corrals Pancho and his gang by dropping a wagon wheel chandelier on them: trapping them between the spokes of the wheel. | |
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Drinking on Duty | |
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Drinking on Duty: In "Viva Willie", Willie's horse drinks almost all of an unattended barrel of beer while Willie is visiting the cantina. As a result, he is staggeringly drunk by the time Willie needs him to chase after Pancho. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: The quote that introduces this page popped up in many of the shorts. | |
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Inflating Body Gag | |
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Inflating Body Gag: In "Stratos-Fear", Willie gets filled with too much gas at the dentist, causing him to inflate and fly off into space. | |
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Satan | |
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Satan: A cartoony version of him appears in "Hell's Fire". | |
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iSophagus | |
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iSophagus: In "Viva Willie", Willie accidentally swallows his harmonica while riding his horse. For the rest of the cartoon, he speaks only in a string of strangled harmonica notes. At the end, his girlfriend gives him a passionate kiss and ends up with the harmonica stuck in her throat. | |
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Fluffy Cloud Heaven | |
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Fluffy Cloud Heaven: In "The Air Race", we get a glimpse of St. Peter at the gates of Heaven, trying to hitch a ride with the plane racers. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: Willie initially looked like a boy version of Betty Boop, but Ub didn't feel he was funny enough, and quickly altered his design to be fatter and lankier than before. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: The ending of "Stratos-Fear", where Willie awakens from his laughing gas induced nightmare by having his tooth yanked out. | |
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Behind a Stick | |
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Behind a Stick: The fat-cat villain of "The Air Race"/"Spite Fight" eavesdrops while leaning out from behind a very narrow tree that somehow conceals the rest of him. | |
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Bandito / int_558c4cb1 | |
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Covered in Kisses / int_558c4cb1 | |
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Falling Chandelier of Doom / int_558c4cb1 | |
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Inflating Body Gag / int_558c4cb1 | |
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The Great Depression / int_558c4cb1 | |
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Willie Whopper |
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