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Hobo Bobo is a 1947 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short directed by Robert McKimson.[1] The short was released on May 17, 1947.[2]

Hobo Bobo
Directed byRobert McKimson
Story byWarren Foster
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byRod Scribner
Richard Bickenbach
I. Ellis
Layouts byCornett Wood
Backgrounds byRichard H. Thomas
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • May 17, 1947 (1947-05-17)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The cartoon stars Robert C. Bruce as the narrator, as well as the voices of Mel Blanc and Stan Freberg.


Plot


Bobo, a baby Indian elephant, sees a dark future for himself if he should remain in India to haul logs with his trunk for the rest of his life. After receiving a letter from his uncle in America, he decides to emigrate there to play on a circus baseball team. After Bobo's attempts to stow away aboard a ship bound for the United States fail repeatedly, he is advised by the mynah bird (better known from the Inki series) to paint himself pink. As seeing pink elephants is the traditional hallucination of the drunkard, neither the captain, the crew nor the passengers will acknowledge seeing Bobo, and thus he has the virtual run of the ship for the entire voyage.

When Bobo finally disembarks in New York City, he is likewise unacknowledged, until a street-cleaning vehicle washes his pink paint off, and the populace panics at the sight of a normal gray baby elephant on the street. The police end up arresting Bobo.

Hauled into court by the police, the judge sentences him to life....at the circus. At the circus, Bobo is promptly engaged by the baseball team as the official batboy. Bobo angrily utters his only line in the film "Batboy, shmatboy! I'm still carrying logs!"


Later appearance


Bobo would appear again as a baseball mascot in Gone Batty, which was also directed by McKimson, and originally released in 1954, and re-released as a Merrie Melodies Blue Ribbon classic in 1963.


References


  1. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 175. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.





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