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Mr. Boop |
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Gender |
Male |
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Species |
Human |
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Family |
Mrs. Boop (Wife) |
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First Appearance |
Minding the Baby (Mentioned) |
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Last Appearance |
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Mr. Boop is a Jewish-Polish immigrant that immigrated to America. With his wife and children he settled down in New York City. Betty Boop's father Mr. Boop forces Betty to eat the food set out for her, Betty refuses so her father ends up losing his temper, which led Betty to run away. His main reason as to why he is upset with Betty is because she doesn't follow his rules.
When Betty responds to him, he tells her not to speak to him. According to her father in Minnie the Moocher, Betty goes to school and studies hard but won't do as he says. He can also be heard muttering that he makes all the money in their household.
He then morphs into a phonograph. In the 1931 animated short Minding the Baby, Betty refers to him as "Papa" and tells Bimbo that her father has gone away to business. In the 1933 cartoon titled Snow White, he is supposedly married to the Wicked Queen.
In the 1932 cartoon Betty Boop, M.D., he makes a small cameo with a different design.
In Hurray for Betty Boop, Betty tells her father that she wants to be woman president of the United States of America, which angers Mr. Boop, who then tells her to listen to his song.
After he finishes singing, Betty tells the audience that her papa thinks women are only good for scrubbing floors and having babies, and states that he does not realize that the Statue of Liberty is a woman.
Betty then adds that she cannot take it any longer and decides to leave home and show her father that a woman can do anything a man can. Betty leaves home and moves in with Grampy.
Mr. Boop does not appear in Boop! the Broadway spin-off.
Quotes
- Mr. Boop: "Why don't you eat? Why don't you eat?" (Minnie the Moocher)
- Mr. Boop: "Then I must once more tell you to eat!" (Minnie the Moocher)
- Mr. Boop: "Just tell me once why you don't eat!?" (Minnie the Moocher)
- Mr. Boop: "I won't have it! I won't have it!" (Minnie the Moocher)
- Betty Boop: "Oh, papa..." (Minnie the Moocher)
- Mr. Boop: "Don't talk to me!" (Minnie the Moocher)
- Mr. Boop: "You hear? I won't have it!" (Minnie the Moocher)
- Mr. Boop: "Well I don't mind trying that." (Betty Boop's M.D.)
- Mr. Boop: "Are you outta your mind Betty?" (Hurray for Betty Boop)
- Mr. Boop: "A woman president?" (Hurray for Betty Boop)
- Mr Boop: "That's worse than women playing sports!" (Hurray for Betty Boop)
- Mr. Boop: "Wanna hear a song about it?!" (Hurray for Betty Boop)
- Mr. Boop: "I'm a Boop, you can't take the oop out of a Boop..." (The Betty Boop Movie)
- Mr. Boop: "Sorry, I only eat kosher, and the way you threw that ain't kosher! (The Betty Boop Movie)
Betty Boop's M.D.
It is not made clear, but an older version of Betty's father makes an appearance at Betty's travelling medicine show. This version of Mr. Boop has aged drastically and seems to be in poor health. He appears at the show holding Betty's little brother Billy Boop's hand, and it is indicated that he is growing older. Betty asks, "what's a matter daddy?" and then goes on to say, "oh gee dad, I've got the thing that's gonna fix you right up, here try it." Once Betty hands her father the medicine, it rejuvenates him. However it turns him into a giant baby. Billy responds by saying, "aww, da da." Billy takes a sip and turns into an old man. It finishes with Mr. Boop carrying Billy away, while Billy says da da da. The affect of the medicine are possibly only temporarily, as near to the end of the cartoon, Billy appears to be sipping more, and this time transforms into a monster.
Betty Boop Comic Strip
Betty introduces her entire family, including her mother, father and Bubby Boop during a scene in the Betty Boop comic strip series. But it is not specified, or made clear, who is who.[1]
Filmography
- Minnie the Moocher (1932)
- Betty Boop, M.D. (1932)
- Hurray for Betty Boop (1980)
- The Betty Boop Movie (1993)
Gallery
Trivia
- In the scrapped 1993 Betty Boop movie The Betty Boop Movie, Mr. Boop is called Benny Boop and would have originally made an appearance as Betty Boop's estranged father. Like Grampy he is also an inventor, which suggests that Grampy is his father. The film was never made, which makes his appearance in the unreleased film and name Benny Boop non-canon, unless King Features Syndicate and the Fleischer Studios suggest otherwise.
- The creators of Drawn Together used Mr. Boop's Betty Boop's M.D., and the Lecherous Old Man's design to create Toot Braunstein's father.
- He is also the parent of Betty Boop's baby brothers Billy Boop and Bubby Boop.
- According to the Fleischer Studios of the 1930s, Betty's real father was "Uncle Max" who was better known as the animated innovator and inventor Max Fleischer. Betty would call him her uncle, however Max Fleischer would state in interviews that Betty Boop was his daughter.
- A Betty Boop fanatic Alec Robbins (aLec robBins), took on the name of Betty's father "Mr. Boop"[2] in a satirical comic strip, in which Robbins is married to Betty Boop. Robbins was cited as, "a note-perfect satire of a very specific time on the internet" and "fascinating about fandoms and dumb about copyright law." The comic is not to be confused for Betty's father.