History YMMV / BettyBoop

* {{Anvilicious}}: ''Be Human'' is definitely this.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Next to figures like [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]], it's hard to imagine a time when Betty Boop was considered genuinely racy and provocative. This is lampshaded in ''Rabbit'' itself, where Betty (who's now waiting tables) nostalgically notes that "I still got it!" next to one of Jessica's performances.

* NightmareFuel: Oh GOD, don't get us started...
** Pretty much all of "Bimbo's Initiation".
** The ghost walrus, skeletons, zombie kittens, toothy ghosts, and flood of hellbeasts in "Minnie The Moocher".
** The Downer Ending of "Swing You Sinners"

* {{Moe}}: Betty herself qualifies as this.

** As mentioned below, Betty's dog Pudgy is this to fans of Bimbo (who was [[InterspeciesRomance Betty's boyfriend]]) due to his more plain personality.

* TheScrappy: Pudgy the Puppy, Betty's pet dog from the later shorts. He is widely disliked by fans of the cartoons, mainly for his overbearingly cloying nature and lack of any personality, and having many shorts centered around or co starring him didn't do the series any favors. He is also a ReplacementScrappy. Pudgy is often seen as a very bland replacement of Betty's more vivid boyfriend, Bimbo the Dog.

* SeasonalRot: Once the Hays Office cracked down on the series in the mid 30s and Paramount's management forced Fleischer to make their works more family friendly, the Betty series went into a steep decline, with the shorts becoming much more dull and generic, and the Fleischers' inability to add any interesting new elements to the series (barring Grampy) didn't help.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Again, Pudgy the Puppy when he gets the central focus on episodes takes grating levels of cuteness in comparison to the ones focused on Betty herself. The short "The Swing School" is the best example of this with addition of him being in a school full of cute animals coupled with them singing "La-la-la-la".

* {{Tastes like Diabetes}}: Again, Pudgy the Puppy when he gets the central focus on episodes takes grating levels of cuteness in comparison to the ones focused on Betty herself. The short "The Swing School" is the best example of this with addition of him being in a school full of cute animals coupled with them singing "La-la-la-la".

* WeirdAlEffect: Betty's design took inspiration from then-superstar Creator/ClaraBow. Clara's popularity dwindled when talkies emerged and now even classic film fans often don't know of her.

* {{Tastes like Diabetes}}: Again, Pudgy the Puppy when he gets the central focus on episodes takes grating levels of cuteness in comparison to the ones focused on Betty herself. The short "The Swing School" is the best example of this with addition of with him being in a school full of cute animals coupled with them singing "La-la-la-la".

* {{Tastes like Diabetes}} Again, Pudgy the Puppy when he gets the central focus on episodes takes grating levels of cuteness in comparison to the ones focused on Betty herself. The short "The Swing School" is the best example of this with addition of with him being in a school of cute animals coupled with them singing "La-la-la-la".

* {{Tastes like Diabetes}} Again, Pudgy the Puppy when he gets the central focus on episodes takes grating levels of cuteness in comparison to the ones focused on Betty herself. The short "The Swing School" is the best example of this with addition of with him having a school of cute animals coupled with them singing "La-la-la-la".

* {{Tastes like Diabetes}} Again, Pudgy the Puppy when he gets the central focus on episodes takes grating levels of cuteness in comparison to the ones focused on Betty herself. The short "The Swing School" is the best example of this with addition of with him having a school of cute animals coupled with them singing "La la la la".

* {{Tastes like Diabetes}} Again, Pudgy the Puppy when he gets the central focus on episodes takes grating levels of cuteness in comparison to the ones focused on Betty herself.

* {{Tastes like Diabetes}} Again, Pudgy the Puppy when he gets the center focus on episodes takes grating levels of cuteness in comparison to the ones focus on Betty herself.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Betty Boop was pretty popular in Japan in her heydays (Where she is known as "Betty-chan"); she even got a special specifically made for Japanese audiences, "A Language All My Own" where Betty sings in Japanese. ''Creator/OsamuTezuka'' was a fan of Betty Boop, so he tended to draw his characters with large eyes akin to Betty's... and considering the influence he had on anime and manga as a whole, it could be said (retrospectively) that Betty was the UrExample of a waifu, long before Japan got onboard with the concept of putting sexy girls in their cartoons!

* HilariousInHindsight: When Betty falls DownTheRabbitHole in the ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''-inspired ''Betty in Blunderland'', she opens a jam jar, causing comedian Ed Wynn to pop out. Almost twenty years later, Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' would feature Ed Wynn voicing the Mad Hatter.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Nowadays, most people have probably seen more merchandise of Betty Boop than her actual cartoons.
* {{Anvilicious}}: ''Be Human''

** The titular character in "The Little King" ditches a boring opera he was attending with his wife and winds up at a theater where Betty is perfoming. One of the first things he does is buy all of a vendor's pretzels and proceeds to hand them out to the crowd for free.

* TheScrappy: Pudgy the puppy, Betty's pet dog from the later shorts. He is widely disliked by fans of the cartoons, mainly for his overbearingly cloying nature and lack of any personality, and having many shorts centered around or co starring him didn't do the series any favors. He is also a ReplacementScrappy. Pudgy is often seen as a very bland replacement of Betty's more vivid boyfriend, Bimbo the Dog.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Next to figures like [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]], it's hard to imagine a time when Betty Boop was considered genuinely racy and provocative. This is lampshaded in ''Rabbit'' itself, where Betty (who is now waiting tables) nostalgically notes that "I still got it!" next to one of Jessica's performances.

** Betty is supposed to be a sex symbol, but she's also underage in some locations (she's sixteen). On the other hand, the cartoons tend to [[VagueAge play fast and loose with Betty's age]].

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[ValuesResonance Surprisingly given the time]], pretty much any time Betty is hit on, pawed at, or otherwise sexually harassed, she fights back against them and the cartoons make it clear that just because she's a sexual being doesn't mean she's "asking for" men to treat her like a sex object.

** Several of the shorts feature {{Blackface}}, American Indians, Chinese and other racial caricatures that would put an animation studio up to its ears in complaints over racial insensitivity. Her old cartoons only get a pass because of the historic conditions back then.

** Sally Swing, despite only appearing in one of the original cartoons, is a surprisingly popular character among fans of the series. Its gotten to where she now [[AscendedExtra pops up reguarly in modern artwork for the series.]]

** Several of the shorts feature {{Blackface}}, American Indians, Chinese and other racial caricatures that would put an animation studio up to its ears in complaints over racial insensitivity.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Betty Boop was pretty popular in Japan in her heydays (Where she is known as "Betty-chan"); she even got a special specifically made for Japanese audiences, "A Language All My Own" where Betty sings in Japanese. ''Creator/OsamuTezuka'' was a fan of Betty Boop, so he tended to draw his characters with large eyes akin to Betty's... and considering the influence he had on anime and manga as a whole, it could be said (retrospectively) that Betty was the UrExample of a waifu, long before Japan got on the concept of putting sexy girls in their cartoons!

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Betty Boop was pretty popular in Japan in her heydays (Where she is known as "Betty-chan"); she even got a special specifically made for Japanese audiences, "A Language All My Own" where Betty sings in Japanese.

* AdaptationDisplacement: More people have seen merchandise of Betty compared to those who have see her shorts.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[ValuesResonance Surprisingly given the time]], pretty much any time Betty is hit on by creepers or touched by them against her will, that's portrayed as being very wrong, even if she is flirty by nature. In general, it's not implied she's "asking for it".

** Several of the shorts feature {{Blackface}}, American Indians, Chinese and other racial caricatures that would put an animation studio up to its ears in lawsuits nowadays.

* RetroactiveRecognition: In "The Betty Boop Movie Mystery", Betty was voiced by the recording studio's then-teenaged secretary, Creator/MelissaFahn. Said secretary would go on to do [[Anime/DigimonTamers bigger]] [[Anime/CowboyBebop and better]] [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim things.]]

* SeasonalRot: Once the Hays Office cracked down on the series in the mid 30s and Paramount's management forced Fleischer to make their works more family friendly, the Betty series went into a steep decline, with the shorts becoming much more dull and generic, and the Fleischers inability to add any interesting new elements to the series (barring Grampy) didn't help.