Ringmaster |
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Name |
Ringmaster |
Gender |
Male |
Species |
Human |
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Voiced by |
William Pennell (Boop-Oop-a-Doop) |
First Appearance |
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Last Appearance |
The Ringmaster appears as the main antagonist in Boop-Oop-a-Doop.
He owns the circus and is Betty Boop's boss. He can be seen announcing every event that happens in the circus.
After singing "Do Something" on the highwire, 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.
Betty begs the ringmaster to cease his advances. Betty sings "Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away".
Koko the Clown who also works at the circus as the clown is outside, practicing his juggling, and hears the struggle.
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, laughing with self-satisfaction.
But Koko is hiding inside the cannon, and strikes the ringmaster out cold with a mallet, returning with the last laugh.
Quotes
- Ringmaster: "A-hyuck-hyuck-hyuck-hyuck!" (Boop-Oop-a-Doop)
- Ringmaster: "Call me old will you?" (Hurray for Betty Boop)
- Ringmaster: "I made you and I can break you in this business Betty Boop!" (Hurray for Betty Boop)
- Ringmaster: "Eats too much!" (Hurray for Betty Boop)
- Ringmaster: "She has fleas!" (Hurray for Betty Boop)
- Ringmaster: "Too slippery my dear!" (Hurray for Betty Boop)
Trivia
- While in the tent with Betty, she can be heard screaming for help.
- He was voiced by William Pennell, the voice of Bluto.
- While announcing he can use his mustache as hands.
- Betty slaps the Ringmaster for feeling her leg up and down and asking her to "Boop-Oop-a-Doop" with him, he then goes on to strangle her for a short while up until he is pushed away.
- The Ringmaster is knocked out by Koko the Clown. When Koko expresses concern about Betty's welfare, she answers in song, "No! He couldn't take my 'Boop-Oop-a-Doop' away."
- A parody of the ringmaster appears in Toot Braunstein's universe in Drawn Together.