Studio: Fleischer Studios
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Produced by: Max Fleischer
Short Synopsis
Buzzy, Betty's small tomboy cousin, takes the train to visit her. On the journey she is helpful in her own way, sticking her chewing gum to a sleeping man's toupee and watering the flowers on a lady's hat. At Betty's house she finds the rough boys next door playing marbles and wants to join in; they are not having a girl. Buzzy proves herself: she is better than they are at marbles, walks the fence they fall off, climbs what they cannot, and when they turn a goat loose on her she rides it. By the end she has been admitted as one of the gang, and Betty, watching from the porch, has nothing to add. The cartoon was originally released without a title, and the name Buzzy Boop was attached later.
Why It Matters
- Buzzy was the studio's attempt to give the fading series a new child character, a tomboy in the Our Gang manner, and she is a lively one, animated with more snap than Pudgy; her two films are among the last in which Betty's family, rather than her pets, carry the story.
- The cartoon is public domain in the United States after a lapsed renewal. It is one of the last entries with the original New York cast, with Little Ann Little as Betty and Bonnie Poe, an earlier Betty, as Buzzy; the second Buzzy cartoon, made in Miami, changed Betty's design entirely.
Notes and Trivia
- Buzzy's sequel, Buzzy Boop at the Concert, was a lost film until a print was found in Moscow in 2019.
- The goat-riding finish is a gag the studio had used with Popeye.
- See also: Buzzy Boop at the Concert (1938), Grampy's Indoor Outing (1936), Honest Love and True (1938).
