
Betty is strangled when she slaps the Ringmaster for groping her legs.Max Fleischer stated that Margie Hines recorded the vocals and singing for this cartoon on the 1st of October, 1931.This short was originally known as Betty Boop in Boop-Boop-a-Doop but the "B" was later removed making it Boop-Oop-a-Doop.Was released on the 16th of January in 1932.Betty Boop: " You brute keep your hands off me! Ooo! Help me, help!".
Ringmaster: " There'll be no more 'Boop-Oop-a-Doop' outta you!".Ringmaster: " Do you like your job? Well I think if I was you I would.'".Betty Boop: " You can feed me bread and water, or a great big bale of hay!".
Lion: " You dropped your handkerchief!". Betty Boop: " I'll do, you do something, Boop-Oop-a-Doop!". When Koko expresses concern about Betty's welfare, she answers in song, "No, he couldn't take my 'Boop-Oop-a-Doop' away." The film ends with Koko kissing Betty on the cheek. But Koko is hiding inside the cannon, and strikes the Ringmaster out cold with a mallet, having the last laugh. He leaps in to save Betty's virtue, struggling with the Ringmaster, who loads him into a cannon, firing it, thinking that he has sent the hero away as he laughs with self-satisfaction. Koko is outside of the tent, practicing his juggling, and hears the struggle coming from inside. While performing on the high-wire, the villainous Ringmaster lusts for Betty from below as he watches her sing " Do Something," a song previously performed by Helen Kane in the 1929 Paramount Pictures film Nothing But The Truth.Īs Betty returns to her tent, the Ringmaster follows her inside and sensually massages her legs, surrounds her and threatens her job if she does not submit.īetty begs the Ringmaster to cease his advances, as she sings " Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away". Another of the circus' attractions is Koko the Clown. Betty works as a lion-taming artist and tightrope walking artist.
The short film begins with a giant Betty Boop flag, which flies over the big top.