Would someone please explain?!


Question: i just watched this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2T_9UCT...
and i'm at a loss

what is jippo?
is this a real betty boop episode or a rip off?
is jippo good for you?
what on eartn happened to the baby who used to be her dad.

it was very confusing.


Answers: i just watched this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2T_9UCT...
and i'm at a loss

what is jippo?
is this a real betty boop episode or a rip off?
is jippo good for you?
what on eartn happened to the baby who used to be her dad.

it was very confusing.

Jippo is a patent medicine, and Betty, Bimbo, and Koko are working in a traveling medicine show (and yes, this is a real Betty Boop cartoon, not some sort of fraud). The heyday of patent medicines was from about 1875 through the teens (1911 to 1919). Patent medicines were usually called tonics or elixers and often times sold by the person or persons who made them, often in primative and unsanitary conditions, and outragous claims were made about how good the medicine was and what wonderful effects it would have; usually patent medicines had a high percentage of alcohol or opiates, or more likely both, as an active ingredient, so they did make people feel better. Were they good for you? Well, they didn't cure anything, but they would give you a good buzz (especially if you knocked back a bottle or two in one setting). Once in awhile, someone might get sick or even die after taking a tonic or an elixer, but the traveling road show would have moved on to the next town by then, and sicknesses and deaths resulting from Jippo abuse were fairly rare.

The baby in the final scene turns into Mr. Hyde, and actually looks a good deal like John Barrymore as he appeared in the very first "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" film. Since the good Doctor turned into a monster in human form after taking a home made experimental drug, the last scene wasn't a bad way to conclude this rather harmless spoof of something that was just a fading memory, when the cartoon was made in the very early thirties (the FDA was established in the twenties when films were still silent, but the traveling medicine shows were nearly extinct by then anyway).

The cartoon isn't confusing, if you understand popular culture of the last two centuries; if you don't have any grounding in American history, other than the fundementals taught in public schools, the cartoon probablly does seem mysterious. I find it a very conservative piece, and audiences of the day were probably entertained and amused.

i think jippo is a random name made for the programme

its the real betty boop i think,

it doesn't look like it, it says stops breathing and removes teeth lol

no idea lol
im confused aswel



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