The music-happy Bosko and Honey take a car ride, but bad luck briefly interrupts their fun.The music-happy Bosko and Honey take a car ride, but bad luck briefly interrupts their fun.The music-happy Bosko and Honey take a car ride, but bad luck briefly interrupts their fun.
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- Stars
Rochelle Hudson
- Honey
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Carman Maxwell
- Bosko
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Hugh Harman(uncredited)
- Rudolf Ising(uncredited)
- Writer
- Friz Freleng(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film is the first in the "Looney Tunes" series. Honey makes her first appearance. Bosko makes his first appearance in a theatrical film, and his second appearance of any kind. (His first appearance was in a demo reel called Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid (1929), which was never released commercially.)
- GoofsIn different scenes, Honey's hair bow switches between having and not having polka dots.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Pee-wee's Playhouse: Accidental Playhouse (1990)
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I hate (and I really mean HATE, which is odd of me) to say that this cartoon is slightly racist.
In this Looney Tunes short, the first Looney Tunes short ever made (the first proper one anyway), the main characters, Bosko and Honey, are black people. This makes watching the cartoon very sad, because Bosko and Honey are portrayed more as animals than people (otherwise it would not be a big deal at all). You grow to love them, but I cannot come over the fact that I am watching cartoon PEOPLE rather than cartoon ANIMALS. Even though I am seethingly against racism, I cannot help but love this cartoon (like a few other racist Looney Tunes shorts, but not in the same way).
Anyhow, in this very odd (for today's standards) cartoon, there are two characters called Bosko and Honey. They are both black people, Bosko is a person who manages to make an instrument out of everything and Honey is his sweet sweetheart. They both go out together and find themselves in some quite turbulent adventures, but everything becomes all right in the end and shows that (not avoiding the cliché) love always finds a way. :-)
I loved this short because I found Bosko and Honey such cute characters, I liked the "oddness" of the episode and I enjoyed the old type of slapstick involved (which ran through both Looney Tunes and Walt Disney's cartoons at the same time, in very similar ways).
I recommend "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" to people who can understand the racism of this episode and not let it spoil the short, and to cartoon historians. It is worth it for every Looney Tunes fan to watch just for the fact that this was the first Looney Tunes cartoon (which was a series that ran until 1969). Enjoy "Sinkin' in the Bathtub"! :-)
8 and a half out of ten.
Anyhow, in this very odd (for today's standards) cartoon, there are two characters called Bosko and Honey. They are both black people, Bosko is a person who manages to make an instrument out of everything and Honey is his sweet sweetheart. They both go out together and find themselves in some quite turbulent adventures, but everything becomes all right in the end and shows that (not avoiding the cliché) love always finds a way. :-)
I loved this short because I found Bosko and Honey such cute characters, I liked the "oddness" of the episode and I enjoyed the old type of slapstick involved (which ran through both Looney Tunes and Walt Disney's cartoons at the same time, in very similar ways).
I recommend "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" to people who can understand the racism of this episode and not let it spoil the short, and to cartoon historians. It is worth it for every Looney Tunes fan to watch just for the fact that this was the first Looney Tunes cartoon (which was a series that ran until 1969). Enjoy "Sinkin' in the Bathtub"! :-)
8 and a half out of ten.
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- Mightyzebra
- Oct 18, 2008
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By what name was Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930) officially released in Canada in English?
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