Review of Stoopnocracy

Stoopnocracy (1933)
6/10
Max Fleischer's Stoopnocracy was quite an amusing Screen Song cartoon with live action inserts of comedy team Stoopnagle and Budd and child singer Harold Nicholas
28 November 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Just watched this Max Fleischer Screen Songs cartoon on YouTube. In this one, an ambulance takes various people to the Nut House, people like one who marries female conjoined twins (or Siamese as they were then referred to) or another one who draws animated cartoons (he's drawing Betty Boop constantly when we see him). At the Nut House, among the patients are the comedy team of Stoopnagle and Budd, Budd being the reporter of the New York Blaze interviewing inventor Colonel Stoopnagle. Among them are wet envelops in a fish bowl. They're that way so you don't have to lick the stamps. Also among them is a Bing Crosby cigar which, when smoked, you sing just like Bing. Budd takes a puff and starts singing "Please" exactly like him (of course, he could just be lip-syncing to Der Bingle himself on a recording). Asked about another invention that makes you sound like a radio singer, the Colonel provides a milk bottle that when drinked, makes you sing like Cab Calloway. Suddenly, a black kid played by Harold Nicholas appears in a baby outfit and warbles in his own voice "Minnie the Moocher" which if you know the words isn't exactly a children's song! He's fine doing it with the comedy team accompanying him in background. Both songs get the Bouncing Ball treatment. Then we're back in animation with some more crazy gags like one of a duck eating whole eggs with a hunter using him to shoot some floating guns! Okay, I though the animated gags were pretty amusing but the routines of Stoopnagle and Budd were quite hilarious, at least the first time I watched this. Oh, and the transfer on YouTube was pretty blurry. But despite that, I do recommend Stoopnocracy.
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