Goopy Geer (film)

Goopy Geer
Goopy Geer playing the piano.
Directed by	Rudolf Ising
Produced by	Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Leon Schlesinger
Animation by	Friz Freleng Rollin Hamilton Uncredited: Robert Clampett Paul J. Smith Larry Martin Norman Blackburn Max Maxwell
Layouts by	Friz Freleng (uncredited)
Backgrounds by	Art Loomer (uncredited)
Color process	Black-and-white
Production company	Warner Bros.
Running time	7 minutes

Goopy Geer is a 1932 Merrie Melodies cartoon short, featuring the first appearance of the title character.

Synopsis

The customers in a nightclub clamor for Goopy Geer, who then comes out on the stage and entertains them by playing the piano, first with his fingers and his ears, later with his animated gloves. He's soon accompanied by a girl who tells a joke and sings a song.

Meanwhile, the customers eat and carry on in slapstick ways, and two coat racks dance together.

Toward the end, a drunken horse breathes fire and destroys the piano, but Goopy keeps right on playing.

Censorship

On Cartoon Network's former late night program called Late Night Black and White, an early scene of the gorilla waiter dancing and saying "Yes, sir! Yes, sir!" was removed. The other scenes with the gorilla were left intact.

Notes

• Two scenes—one involving a waiter, the other the drunken horse—are reused from the earlier Foxy short Lady, Play Your Mandolin! Also, one of the customers, a fat lady hippo, had also appeared in a Foxy short, Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
• Goopy bears some resemblance to Disney's (unnamed at the time) Goofy who first came along 39 days later.