oscaralbert Review of Buddy's Show Boat

Buddy's Show Boat (1933)

Warner Bros. decides to put a more realistically human couple . . .

[6/10 · 25 January 2017]

. . . out as the faces of the Looney Tunes with the advent of Buddy and his gal Cookie, since America was beset with so many REAL problems in the 1930s. Then, as today, Racism Ran Rampant, with the "Strange Fruit" of routine Lynchings hanging from every other tree. You can hear the poignant resignation to this Major Problem in the voices of the Blacks-in-Blackface quartet as they sing and shovel coal in the bowels of BUDDY'S SHOWBOAT. Sexual Perversion was the other main problem facing SHOWBOAT's contemporary audience, as it is Today. From the stripped-down-to-her-panties Sexy Saxophonist dominating the show parade Drum Major Buddy leads down Main Street to the seven Black Bikini-clad back-up dancers on exhibition behind Buddy and Cookie as they perform, Sex is Everywhere. It's small wonder that Cookie is soon grabbed by a misshapen scruffy dude, who'll immediately put Today's viewers in mind of self-confessed serial finger rapist and court-documented marital sexual assaulter, White House Resident Rump. Too bad William Howard Taft's pet walrus is not around to bail out the Girl Scouts visiting the Oval Office, like the walrus saving Cookie in this cartoon.