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Wiffle Piffle
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Wiffle Piffle |
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Gender |
Male |
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Human |
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First Appearance |
Whoops! I'm a Cowboy |
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Last Appearance |
Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery |
Wiffle Piffle is a character that the Fleischer Studios attempted to develop out of the Betty Boop series. Piffle is an Egghead-type character whose only distinguishing feature was a funny walk. The Fleischers were unable to do much with him, and he proved to be very unpopular to the general audience, whom found him to be annoying.
In a majority of his appearances he can be seen pestering Betty, by trying to make her his girlfriend or sell her items.
His first appearance was in a Screen Song titled I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze, which released in 1936. He appears as a waiter in the opening.
The animation of the character's walk sequence was animated by Tom Johnson. Two follow-up films were made with this side character in Betty Boop shorts. The first, released in February 1937, was Whoops! I’m a Cowboy, and the second, in March 1937, The Hot Air Salesman. The opening scene features an expensive multiplane shot behind him.
Quotes
- Wiffle Piffle: "Betty will ya marry me?"
Betty: "No!"
- Wiffle Piffle: "Why?"
Betty: "I want a cowboy for a sweetheart!"
Filmography
- I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze
- I Wished on the Moon
- Talking Through My Heart
- I Don’t Want to Make History
- I Never Should Have Told You
- You Took the Song Right Out of My Heart
- Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
- The Hot Air Salesman
- Brotherly Love
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery
Gallery
Trivia
- Wiffle Piffle makes a cameo appearance in The Betty Boop Movie Mystery as a telegram messenger, in which he can be seen giving a telegram written by Diner Dan to Betty.
- In Whoops I'm a Cowboy Wiffle shows a romantic interest for Betty.
- Makes a cameo appearance in the 1936 Popeye cartoon short Brotherly Love as a street brawler.
- Wiffle Piffle also makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.