This Ub Iwerks cartoon starring Flip the Frog is typical of many early '30s cartoons that provides a thin plot line and goes in several directions at once though that's part of many of these shorts' charm. In this one, Flip is a dentist who spends most of the cartoon trying to extract some teeth from a frightened walrus. Plenty of funny gags abound like the frog using a skunk for an anesthetic and an animated cash register grabbing another customer back because he forgot to pay! While Flip, like other cartoon characters created so soon after Mickey Mouse's debut, doesn't have much of a personality, the animation and gags were usually enough to provide these now obscure icons some days in the sun. This was another short I found on Federator.
Review of Laughing Gas
