Goopy Geer (short)

Goopy Geer is a 1932 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising.
== Plot ==
Goopy Geer comes onto the stage to entertain nightclub patrons. As he plays the piano and sings, various customers accompany him by eating loudly. He plays a duet with his gloves and is soon joined by a girl who jokes and sings. Even the coat racks begin to dance. A horse drinks firewater, sees increasingly disturbing reflections in the mirror including Gandhi, then belches fire and burns up the piano, but Goopy goes on with the show.
== Availability ==
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-2-F.jpg|(1992) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 2, Side 1: Musical Madness
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored)
lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - ) (restored)
== Censorship ==
* When Cartoon Network aired this as part of their late Sunday night compilation show, Late Night Black and White, the part where the gorilla says, "Yessir! Yessir" as he is walking through the restaurant with a plate of beer mugs was cut due to it being an alcohol reference.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-g.aspx However the same scene with the Gorilla waiter was shown in the Toon Heads special "The Lost Cartoons" in it's original usage from "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!".
== Notes ==
* This is the first appearance of the short-lived character Goopy Geer; he would appear in two later Merrie Melodies shorts until eventually staying with the non-recurring character formula, up until the late 30s and early 40s.
* The scene involving a waiter and the one with the drunken horse are reused from an earlier Merrie Melodies short featuring Foxy, "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!"
**At the end of the scene where the horse sees visions in the mirror, a new one is added where he sees a vision of a laughing Mahatma Gandhi.
* One of the customers, a fat lady hippo, previously appeared in two earlier Merrie Melodies shorts featuring Foxy, "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!" and "One More Time".
* The animation of the dancing coat racks would be reused the same year in another cartoon, "A Great Big Bunch of You".
* This cartoon entered the public domain in 1961 as United Artists did not renew the copyright in time.
*This cartoon was shown in theatres with The Crowd Roars during its original release.
== Gallery ==
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Goopy.jpg
GoopyRESTORED.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of the 2020 restoration
== References ==
== External links ==
* "Goopy Geer" at Bosko.ToonZone.Net
 
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Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Goopy Geer Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:1932
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Hugh Harman
Category:Cartoons directed by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons with music by Frank Marsales
Category:Cartoons animated by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons animated by Rollin Hamilton
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons produced by Hugh Harman
Category:Cartoons produced by Rudolf Ising
Category:Caricatures of real people
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Public domain films
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown
Category:Cartoons that reuse footage from earlier cartoons