wait...that's what they're doing here?

Yes. This short is a parody of The Rover Boys books.

So they're parodying an old series of books? Thanks for the info.

I'd love to see what a live-action movie version of this cartoon would look like. Hollywood needs a young Mel Brooks to make it. Too bad there aren't many directors of comedy around.

103 year old actually.

Well it's a parody of the Rover Boys (and to lesser extent other similar Stratemeyer Syndicate juvenile book series like The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc.) that had dozens of books.

Yeah, I thought it would be a new one!

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@@Big_Mike001 Thank You for the Help

@@Big_Mike001thank you, I found your comment to be very insightful.

that’s the joke

Man, my country's dub of this loon gives him a voice that's definitely not as loud, but it definitely is more... I think "scheming" and is the best way to describe it. It makes him feel almost as cunning as a weasel.

​@@masonasaro2118What language was the dub

He says calmly.

CONFOUND THOSE DOVER BOYS!!! THEY DRIVE ME TO DRINK!!!

"...pin in a bowling alley...?" Perfect metaphor!

All this cartoon is animated by the great Chuck Jones himself. 😊

One of the most progressive toons ever

She's an android, robots like to watch how human beings try to perform feats with the help of our pathetic organic bodies and no less meager minds.

I've never thought of that. That would be awesome!

It is coloured lik him

Getting into my car at Walgreens: A Chevy. I’LL STEAL IT!! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!1!

Dan Backslide stole his own car? DAN WILL NEVER KNOW!

That line always made me think! But since I just found this on YT, I never could rewind to make sure I’d heard correctly!

I dont get it

@@3b106 um... three brothers are meeting their FIANCEE. Family togetherness is fine but...

@@barrylangille3523 i get it

Very progressive for the time.

And steel and drive a runabout

And could still read a book correctly

He has a liver of adamantium to pull that off

Not only was he able to walk, he also managed to drive safely, speak coherently, and uproot a fully-grown tree.

@@AtheistPirate That’s high-functioning alcoholism for you. Some of them can even function better drunk than sober

Hark. The Dover Boys

*meet

CONFOUND THEM!!!!

Dora is straight up dabbing. In 1945.

Then 10 minutes later they dive head first into it 😂

Um....Somehow.. I think everyone knows...lol...

It's because Dan backslides meme became a hit

That's nothing, Big Chungus had only 1.8 seconds yet enjoys equal fame to Bugs Bunny.

It's because Warner Brothers forgot to renew the copyright on it, so it became a meme. But also, it's pretty good.

Brings into mind how Charlie Collins and Sid the Squid, in spite of being unfortunate one-shot villain minions, became memetic bad****s in Batman: The Animated Series.

Quite

He didn't have a choice, did you see what she did to that tree?

Same thing when he steal a runabout and said no one will ever know even tho he say it out loud

“oh okay, ill back up to make sure you address all of them”

He must like making it harder on himself

Just because he's a coward, bully, cad and thief doesn't mean he can't be considerate.

Holds up? Considering today’s humor, I’d say it’s gotten funnier over time!

@@bluethelucario6194 It was almost prophetic to 2020s humor senses XD

It's very Zoomer, off puttingly so. If I didn't already know better, I could believe this was a tribute cartoon by a Millennial or Zoomer animator (like with the Cuphead game) Evidently, surrealist satire and memetics are not quite so much the wave of the future.

@@Hagashager Okay grandpa, time to head back to bed

@@Hagashager🤓

You mean for those who were not keeping count. The people who were keeping count would already know the count.

Dan has to have a liver of battleship armor grade steel to do that and still remain coherent as well as drive a car

​@@connormclernon26 he's a toon. That's why he's able to drink that much.

That’s a morning for some folks

You THINK nobody's there! The smoke obscures!

The joke is that she doesn't realize that she doesn't need help. She's actually the danger, which is why Dan calls for the boys to save him.

She’s just waiting for the hobo to get there lol

It's the done thing for a proper young lady to cry out for help if she's being assaulted by ruffians 🧐

​@@theskycavedin Beaten up Dan: *HELP TOM, HELP DICK, HELP LARRY!* (faints on the floor)

​@@MinisterManDan His tune is catchy

Who share one fiance

Good old Times i guess

An unsolved mystery

Legend also has it, Dan was so hammered, he didn't even realize he was stealing his own car. 😀

I think he stole his own car, and thats the reason why no one will ever know

NO ONE EVER KNEW!

Oh everyone knew. They were just too drunk to care....lol.....

Hope he pays the rent

Probably because it's less slapsticky than the other toons

I know I still ride my giant wheel in the front bicycle everywhere.

True artists' works are timeless. Watching Looney Tunes as a kid in the 90s, I thought it was only a decade or two old, given how it was better than a lot of other shows on

I’ve found some older stuff (especially stuff inspired by vaudeville like old cartoons) has that same surreal style to jokes that modern/gen z audiences really like. It’s good to know we as people have always found nonsense and non-sequiturs hilarious

This is something that could run on Adult Swim today and it would fit in.

Dan Backslide is not entirely visually unreminiscent of Mel Blanc about the eyes.

So did he do all 3 boys AND Dan Backslide?

The only other VA in existence who compares to Mel Blanc is Frank Welker.

Mel Blanc was indeed an amazing voice talent. However, due to a rather silly contractual agreement (albeit somewhat understandable due to how voice actors back then largely went uncredited and had to live with it), he was able to make it that he was the only VA ever credited for Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts after he became the breadwinner for them. So basically, no, he wasn't the only VA in this short, and in fact it is readily apparent he only voiced two characters, Dan Backslide and the telegram guy. Everyone else was random people including a few animators themselves (which was common for Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts). The most recognizable voice is that of the narrator himself, John McLeish, who did some voicework for Disney (he's got prominent roles in Ichabod and Mr. Toad, plus those old goofy informative shorts of goofy being a average dude in the late 40s, early 50s), and he even did this other cartoon, one year after the Dover Boys came out, for a future UPA guy that was basically kind of a pastiche/homage/tribute/ripoff of the Dover Boys.

Anyways Mel Blanc was a great voice actor, but it sucks that he kinda screwed over his fellow VAs at the time by making it that he essentially "stole" credit for a good period of time in all those famous shorts of the 40s and 50s. It was only with the advent of TV cartoons and research that this nonsense started to be cleared up, and you can't exactly blame Mel Blanc fully given the aforementioned industry nonsense that made VAs kind of an afterthought. He was on good terms with his most famous performing partners, like Elmer's original VA Arthur Q. Bryan, and he considered June Foray his equal.

With all the shots Dan drank he's so wasted he doesn't realize he's stealing his own car

Mel Blanc just had WAY too much fun at his job and he became a flippin' legend for it! XD

​@@snakes3425I figured it was his own, but I never connected it to his drinking / impairment. That's a really good detail! Although he also drives totally fine so IS he drunk? Now im tangled lmao

To quote James Rolfe. "Nothing short of poetry."

If they add vehicles to bioshock

@@SpaceShip-Orion I always associate the word "Bioshock" with Rapture before I think of Columbia, so it took me a minute lol

HOW I LOVE HER (father's money)

She invented Dabbing and Trad Thotting (never showing an inch of skin and dating way older guys)

Nah. The best character is the "Shetland sailor", lol

That’s DAINTY Dora Standpipe to you, old boy.

Her voice actress, Marjorie Tarlton, is still alive. She'll be 101 this year

He's like a Klingon from Star Trek with his alcohol tolerance.

It was another time, before we knew being hammered impaired us, so it didn't

Dan has a liver of battleship armor grade steel to pull that off

It would be an achievement. Cars of that era were not exactly easy to operate.

If he drank more he prolly wouldn't be feeling the effects of Dora's asswhooping

It's like a musical fart, possibly the funniest instrument next to the literal slap-stick.

@@Bactchan I've occasionally seen people giving Stalling grief for using so much existing music in the toons, but it really DOES take a musical genius to make them work in the context of what's on screen. Stalling's musical work MADE those toons what they were just as much as the animation or the voice overs. They ALL have to be there.

@@samsignorelli Stalling used what was in either public domain or what was in the Warner Brothers' music library, so no rights had to be bought. Leon Schlesinger didn't want to spend a penny he didn't absolutely have to.

@@Donleecartoons All true....but having unfettered access to the music and knowing how to alter and USE the music are entirely different. Stalling's strength was that he knew exactly what to do with (and to) his source material for the best effect. Without his efforts, these toons wouldn't be nearly as funny.

@@samsignorelli Oh, no doubt about that at all; I was responding to your first observation about the grief Stalling got for using existing music. It doesn't at all take away from HOW stalling used it.

Polyandry, as it happens.

And then guess who won in the end?

@@michaelandreipalon359you guessed it: Frank Stallone

They were mormons I guess

You sir have won the Internet

and goes back to her meek tapping at the door. Such an Edwardian damsel.

*Dora

Suffering succotash, I never caught it could be foreshadowing. Thanks

Shaggy has some competition now

It's Dan Backslide, but I like your way better.

That just indicates that your humor is perfectly functional.

Just like with their fiancé, the Dover Boys have only one sarsparilla between them.

Mel Blanc was one of the greatest voice actors in history.

@@matthewgagnon9426 agreed

NYOOOOOOOOOOM

It's one of the many bits of genius satire. One of the chief villains of the Rover Boys novels was named Dan Baxter, who was all at once a coward-bully-cad-and-thief.

This cartoon is alone and unprotected. Anyone can steal it, and no one will ever care!

Said ​@@OldsVistaCruiser Calmly

…and no one will ever know!

We might have gotten a whole series about the Dover Boys if Chuck Jones hadn't been on thin ice for creating this. Apparently smear animation did NOT go over too well.

@@fubukifangirl You wanna know the reason why Chuck Jones was on thin ice? Believe it or not, it was because of the first character he created for Looney Toons.

Dover Boys vs Florida Man

I heartily concur ! This is one classic cartoon !

It's Public Domain. I'll steal it! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!

Indubitably ! That would be a very useful book to have !

I will go to a library I'LL STEAL IT NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW

My Favourite Looney Tunes Characters

Imagine that using a real life Police Be like FBI open up!

Dan: NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!!!

Not if Dora has anything to say about it...

The archetype of the lantern-jawed blond himbo is eternal.

Blonde Stan Smith

Bruh, Dan Backslide the Green Bőí.

3:45 is actually the song of "While Strolling Through The Park One Day" by, ah I forgot

I think they're called Rube Goldberg machines

Casual polygamy was apparently a thing back in early 1900's.

It's a parody of the Rover Boys! Appearantly the three characters were so similar to one another in the book, that Dora might as well have been engaged to all 3.

@@dinolil1474 Really?

Siblings share everything i guess

@@AtlasAS7D When the woman has several fiancées it’s polyandry.

They made an appearance in Animaniacs...in a Slappy Squirrel toon, IIRC.

@@samsignorelli I remember that

"it's fragrant odor scents the air"🤣

Gotta show that PU spirit

He's so frigging loud lmao

And I thought it was Sportaflop

Seeing as it’s a parody, I’d say most iconic shitpost.

Definitely not the worst this is so genuinely funny, and very well animated as well

@@colewright3790 In the book “The 50 Greatest Cartoons” it was voted #49

I also have to mention that this was the first cartoon that used such exaggerated smear frames. This was done to cut time and the amount frames needed to be made. Some considered it lazy but it worked for the humor and made it feel like nobody, even the characters themselves wanted to take part in the story and wanted to finish it as fast as possible.

​@@No-Ink Apperantly Chuck Jones was almost fired because of this short due to smear frames and reused animation

Apparently smear frames and reused frames were unheard of back then.

She ain’t very good at counting though.

@@MrRyan-wu4jx Eh, think of it as God's way of compensating or whatever.

Hey, we're getting in a rut!

@@ggrarl Stand up and fight, you coward, bully, cad and thief!

@@ggrarlstand up and fight you cowardly canon (?) thief

@@amp2 coward, bully, cad, and thief, and archenemy of the Dover Boys "Drat them! Double drat them!"

​@@amp2"Stand up and fight you coward, bully, cad, and thief!"

Brings into mind a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Forgot its name a bit, but I think it was the ep with the castor oil.

@@michaelandreipalon359 it's called "Baby Puss" You're welcome.

@@michaelandreipalon359 Baby Puss, where Tom was dressed up as that little girl's baby.

@@BlazeHeartPanther Ah, kind thanks!

*merry merry . . .