That's sexual harassment and I don't have to take it.
A Talkartoons by Max and Dave Fleischer released on January 16, 1932, starring Betty Boop with Koko The Clown and Bimbo.
Betty is working at a circus, but things take a bad turn when the Ringmaster tries to force Betty into sexual relations.
Tropes Used In This Short:
- A Day in the Limelight: This is a heavily Koko focused Betty Boop cartoon, in contrast to his usual role as either The Cameo or Those Two Guys with Bimbo.
- Angrish: When the baby gets mad over thanks to Bimbo (See Running Gag), the baby starts shouting incomprehensible words before an arm from off-screen places tape over his mouth with the word "Censored" on it.
- Annoying Laugh: After The Ringmaster thinks he sent Koko flying, he does a "Yah-yah-yah" laugh. After Koko knocks him out, he copies his laugh.
- Attempted Rape: The Ringmaster tries to force himself on Betty off-screen, luckily Koko came just in time to save her.
- Bald of Evil: The Ringmaster looks balding under his top hat and his actions definitely count as evil.
- Big Ball of Violence: When Koko rushes in to save Betty, a brief fight cloud comes out of the tent's entrance.
- Brawn Hilda: During the parade a dog is using a bicycle pump to repeatedly inflate a woman who keeps switching from skinny to the circus' fat lady.
- Circus Episode: Takes place at a circus.
- Dastardly Whiplash: The Ringmaster certainly fits this bill, he even twirls his mustache while watching Betty during her high wire act.
- Everything Talks: While the audience was applauding, so were the empty seats. Also after the human cannon goes off, it blows a kiss with the barrel acting as a mouth.
- False Teeth Tomfoolery: The trapeze artist swinging by his teeth ends up falling to the ground after his teeth fall out and stay clenched onto the trapeze bar.
- Fanservice: Betty spends most of her screen time in a two piece outfit; a short skirt during the parade and a bathing suit during the circus, both with a bikini top. Her only tame outfit in this short is her lion tamer outfit.
- Fat Bastard: The Ringmaster.
- Girls with Moustaches: The bearded lady in the parade has a beard longer then her body that keeps getting cut by a little bear with scissors, only for it to immediately grow back.
- High-Dive Hijinks: Ms. Jenny's high dive into a pool of soup causes a splash so tall that a fish flies out and lands on the diving platform; the fish then dives back in and the resulting splash causes Ms. Jenny to return to the platform where she originally started.
- Human Cannonball: The Ringmaster tries to get rid of Koko this way, but despite the cannon going off with Koko inside, somehow Koko wasn't blasted away.
- Hyperspace Mallet: Koko knocks out The Ringmaster with a well deserved mallet to the head from behind.
- Mythology Gag: An elephant marching in the parade dips his trunk in a giant inkwell on his back and sprays ink on the ground which forms into Koko the Clown, this being a reference to Koko's previous Out of the Inkwell series.
- Prehensile Hair: The ends of The Ringmaster's mustache briefly turns into hands to gesture and applaud with.
- Rape Discretion Shot: The Ringmaster's attempted rape of Betty isn't shown on-screen as we only see the outside of Betty's tent.
- Repulsive Ringmaster: The Ringmaster that tries to force Betty into relations definitely counts.
- Rescue Romance: Betty lets Koko kiss her after he saves her from the Ringmaster.
- Returning the Handkerchief: During Betty's lion tamer act, one of the lions sneaks up from behind her, it then stands on two legs and politely returns her dropped handkerchief.
- Running Gag: Bimbo keeps getting in a baby's way while selling a basket of peanuts; when the baby finally agrees to buy one, it turns out that the basket is empty with a giant hole in the bottom of it.
- Sexual Extortion: The Ringmaster tries to force Betty into sexual relations or it could cost her job at the circus.
- Shaking the Rump: The short starts with a flag of Betty in a dancer's outfit with it waving back and fourth to look like she's shaking her hips.
- Silent Whisper: The Ringmaster whispers in Betty's ear of what he wants from her, Betty responds by slapping him in the face.
- Tightrope Walking: Betty Boop performs a high wire act while singing "Do Something".
- Totem Pole Trench: It looks like a tall man in a trench coat is marching in the parade, until he trips revealing himself to be four small Funny Animals.
- Unusual Euphemism: Betty in song tells the ringmaster "Don't take my Boop-Oop-a-Doop away" which could be a euphemism for virginity
- Visual Pun: A weiner dog that jumps through a hoop comes out the other side as a bunch of hot dogs.
- Would Hit a Girl: The Ringmaster has no qualms forcing himself on Betty or briefly putting his hands around her neck.
