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* ColorWash: The short makes use of vivid color tinting to convey the mood of a scene. For instance, the bar is awash in a seedy dark green, Honest John's version of events features white backgrounds to highlight his testimony about Frankie's purity, and the courtroom makes use of strong yellow tones to convey the threat of conviction. [[spoiler:When Frankie kills Honest John, the scene additionally shifts from the red of passionate victory to a blue-gray color as the court realizes that she is indeed a short-fused killer.]]
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* MistakenForCheating: The Bartender states that Frankie believed that Johnny was cheating on her with Nelly Bly, who in turn clarifies that she was just meeting up with him to rehearse a musical number.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Frankie and Nelly Bly, the only two female characters in the short, are direct opposites, and not just in terms of what color dress they wear. Frankie, the woman in red, is notorious for her violent temperament, which incriminates her as Johnny's killer [[spoiler:and fuels her killing of Honest John at the end]]. Nelly Bly, the woman in blue, is calm and sedate, and when Frankie interrupts her testimony to call her a liar, the worst that Nelly does is shoot a stern look and get her dress and hair ruffled up. The two's differences are also highlighted in their animation -- Frankie's motions are quick and snappy, Nelly Bly's are slow and smooth.
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* WhiteIsPure: Honest John's account of Johnny's killing claims that Frankie is too pure-hearted to possibly shoot anyone. This is highlighted by the entire scene featuring white backdrops instead of using the vivid color tinting seen in the bartender and Nelly Bly's accounts.
* WomanScorned: According to the bartender's testimony, Frankie shot Johnny because she thought he was cheating on her with Nelly Bly. [[spoiler:At the end of the short, when Frankie sees Honest John celebrating her victory by dancing with Nelly Bly, she grabs the gun from the stand and shoots him dead in retaliation.]]
* WomanScorned: According to the bartender's testimony, Frankie shot Johnny because she thought he was cheating on her with Nelly Bly. [[spoiler:At the end of the short, when Frankie sees Honest John celebrating her victory by dancing with Nelly Bly, she grabs the gun from the stand and shoots him dead in retaliation.]]
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* MeaningfulNames: Frankie's lawyer, though he's nicknamed "Honest John [=McCrook=]," is actually named "Jonathan Bailey" -- likely in a reference to "the Old Bailey," London's famous central criminal court.
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'''"Rooty Toot Toot"''' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] animated short (distributed through Columbia Pictures as part of the ''Jolly Frolics'' series), directed by John Hubley. The short depicts the trial resulting from the old MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny", with prosecution and defense depicting their rival reconstructions of the crime to a hot jazz version of the tune. Despite the fact that TheBartender and her rival, ''chanteuse'' Nelly Bly, testify against Frankie, she is, through her shyster lawyer's machinations, brought in "Not Guilty" -- until she proves to the jury very thoroughly that their estimate of her deadliness is mistaken, by means of ''solvitur ambulando''.
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* DeathByWomanScorned: Johhny, Johnny, allegedly. [[spoiler:And Honest John, definitely.]] Johnny also attempts to kill Frankie for spurning him in Honest John's version of the events.
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'''"Rooty Toot Toot"''' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1953]] [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] animated short (distributed through Columbia Pictures as part of the ''Jolly Frolics'' series), directed by John Hubley. The short depicts the trial resulting from the old MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny", with prosecution and defense depicting their rival reconstructions of the crime to a hot jazz version of the tune. Despite the fact that TheBartender and her rival, ''chanteuse'' Nelly Bly, testify against Frankie, she is, through her shyster lawyer's machinations, brought in "Not Guilty" -- until she proves to the jury very thoroughly that their estimate of her deadliness is mistaken, by means of ''solvitur ambulando''.
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'''"Rooty Toot Toot"''' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1953]] 1951]] [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] animated short (distributed through Columbia Pictures as part of the ''Jolly Frolics'' series), directed by John Hubley. The short depicts the trial resulting from the old MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny", with prosecution and defense depicting their rival reconstructions of the crime to a hot jazz version of the tune. Despite the fact that TheBartender and her rival, ''chanteuse'' Nelly Bly, testify against Frankie, she is, through her shyster lawyer's machinations, brought in "Not Guilty" -- until she proves to the jury very thoroughly that their estimate of her deadliness is mistaken, by means of ''solvitur ambulando''.
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'''"Rooty Toot Toot"''' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1953]] [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] animated short (distributed through Columbia Pictures as part of the ''Jolly Frolics'' series), directed by John Hubley. The short depicts the trial resulting from the old MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny," with prosecution and defense depicting their rival reconstructions of the crime to a hot jazz version of the tune. Despite the fact that TheBartender and her rival, ''chanteuse'' Nelly Bly, testify against Frankie, she is, through her shyster lawyer's machinations, brought in "Not Guilty" -- until she proves to the jury very thoroughly that their estimate of her deadliness is mistaken, by means of ''solvitur ambulando''.
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'''"Rooty Toot Toot"''' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1953]] [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] animated short (distributed through Columbia Pictures as part of the ''Jolly Frolics'' series), directed by John Hubley. The short depicts the trial resulting from the old MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny," Johnny", with prosecution and defense depicting their rival reconstructions of the crime to a hot jazz version of the tune. Despite the fact that TheBartender and her rival, ''chanteuse'' Nelly Bly, testify against Frankie, she is, through her shyster lawyer's machinations, brought in "Not Guilty" -- until she proves to the jury very thoroughly that their estimate of her deadliness is mistaken, by means of ''solvitur ambulando''.
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* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Frankie's defense lawyer, Honest John [=McCrook=], is clad in a white suit. His animation makes it nearly impossible not to see him as a stand-in for the Devil.
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* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Frankie's defense lawyer, Honest John [=McCrook=], is clad in a white suit. His animation makes it nearly impossible not to see him as a stand-in for the Devil.Devil.
* VirginInAWhiteDress: How Frankie is depicted in Honest John's account of events, a care-free innocent skipping and picking flowers in a white flowing dress.
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* LadyInRed: Frankie, as she is portrayed as a WomanScorned; though she becomes the WomanInWhite in Honest John's revisualization of the crime.
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* ManInWhite: Frankie's defense lawyer, Honest John [=McCrook=]. His animation makes it nearly impossible not to see him as a stand-in for the Devil.
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* AltumVidetur: Honest John is inclined to spouting Latin lawyerese.
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'''"Rooty Toot Toot"''' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1953]] [[WesternAnimation/ColumbiaCartoons [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] animated short (distributed through Columbia Pictures as part of the ''Jolly Frolics'' series), directed by John Hubley. The short depicts the trial resulting from the old MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny," with prosecution and defense depicting their rival reconstructions of the crime to a hot jazz version of the tune. Despite the fact that TheBartender and her rival, ''chanteuse'' Nelly Bly, testify against Frankie, she is, through her shyster lawyer's machinations, brought in "Not Guilty" -- until she proves to the jury very thoroughly that their estimate of her deadliness is mistaken, by means of ''solvitur ambulando''.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Frankie is described as having one in the opening song number. [[spoiler:It's what leads to her defeat after she sees Honest John flirting with Nellie Bly and shoots him.]]
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* NotablyQuickDeliberation: The jury rushes into the deliberation room and spend all of half a second before rushing back in to deliver the verdict.
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* RubberHoseLimbs: Nelly Bly is able to twist her arms and legs like pretzels. She is animated by Creator/GrimNatwick, who started his career in the Rubber Hose era of animation.
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* ObsessiveCompulsiveBartending: The bartender even takes his rag to the courtroom, and compulsively wipes the witness stand with it.
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* DancePartyEnding: The whole courtroom breaks into dance when the verdict is read. [[spoiler:It comes to a crashing halt when Frankie shoots Honest John.]]
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* LadyInRed: Frankie, as she is portrayed as AWomanScorned; though she becomes the WomanInWhite in Honest John's revisualization of the crime.
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* DeathByWomanScorned: Johhny, allegedly. [[spoiler:And Honest John, definitely.]] Johnny also attempts to kill Frankie for spurning him in Honest John's version of the events.
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Creator/ThurlRavenscroft Tony the Tiger]] as Honest John.
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* NotablyQuickDeliberation: The jury rushes into the deliberation room and spend all of half a second before rushing back in to deliver the verdict.
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The short has been voted number 41 of The50GreatestCartoons. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37B7uRuURXs&feature=related here]].
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'''"Rooty Toot Toot"''' is a [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1953]] [[ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] animated short (distributed through Columbia Pictures as part of the ''Jolly Frolics'' series), directed by John Hubley. The short depicts the trial resulting from the old MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny," with prosecution and defense depicting their rival reconstructions of the crime to a hot jazz version of the tune. Despite the fact that TheBartender and her rival, ''chanteuse'' Nelly Bly, testify against her, she is, through her shyster lawyer's machinations, brought in "Not Guilty" -- until she proves to the jury very thoroughly that their estimate of her deadliness is mistaken, by means of ''solvitur ambulando''.
The animation is, as was customary at UPA, ''extremely'' [[DerangedAnimation stylized]], making use of LimitedAnimation techniques to pare the story down to its essence.
The short has been voted number 41 of The50GreatestCartoons. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37B7uRuURXs&feature=related here]].
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!!Tropes Associated With "Rooty Toot Toot" include:
* AltumVidetur: Honest John is inclined to spouting Latin lawyerese.
* BlackComedy
* DownerEnding: Frankie goes to the Big House, for shooting [[spoiler:Honest John]].
* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[ThurlRavenscroft Tony the Tiger]] as Honest John.
* LadyInRed: Frankie, though she becomes the WomanInWhite in Honest John's revisualization of the crime.
* LastSecondWordSwap: As Honest John says, "You have asked for the truth, without compunction; I have performed that fiction -- eh, uh -- ''function''."
* ManInWhite: Frankie's defense lawyer, Honest John [=McCrook=]. His animation makes it nearly impossible not to see him as a stand-in for the Devil.
* RashomonPlot: The murder is told in three different versions: the bartender's, Nelly's and Honest John's. The latter is particularly outlandish, with Johnny firing the shots himself and the bullets ricocheting all over and ''chasing him across town'', but it nevertheless gets Frankie acquitted.
* RhymesOnADime: As when the bartender says Frankie shot Johnny, "with a Rooty Toot Toot, right in the snoot" -- despite the fact that he is actually shot in the torso.
* TitleDrop: Rooty Toot Toot, the onomatopoeia for the gunshots that laid Johnny low, is repeated as a chorus throughout the short.
* UnmovingPlaid: Frankie's hair during Honest John's story.
