This is a cartoon in the Willie Whopper series produced by Iwerks studio. There will be spoilers ahead:
I'm not overly enthusiastic about the Willie Whoppers for the most part, but I like this one. It uses a framing device, with Willie relating his tall tale to his friend, Goofy, in the middle of class.
His claim this time is that he and his girlfriend Mary were sightseeing in Constantinople. There are some great gags in here, like a snake which pulls the lid on its basket because the snake charmer is asleep and snoring. Willie and Mary stop in front of an auction for dancing girls. Given that this cartoon was made some 80 years ago, it almost goes without saying that there's "offensive" material in here (matter of fact, there's probably something in here to offend pretty much everybody). The sultan rejects two girls for various reasons.
Meanwhile, the snake, having spotted Willie and Mary, delivers a rather funny vocal resignation to the sleeping charmer and follows them. It then is the center of some jokes which are rather risqué for the 1930s and also trigger the meat of the cartoon, in that when Mary realizes there's a snake, she freaks out and winds up on the auction platform, where the sultan is smitten with her and buys her.
Willie tries to get her back when he realizes something's wrong and then gives chase, using the snake as a means of transportation. The sultan's slaves are black stereotypes, of course. Willie follows the sultan to his palace, where we see Mary is a horrible dancer, but that doesn't bother the sultan, who has other ideas.
Willie gets in and the sultan knocks him out of the room and he bounces into the harem. The women in the harem all jump on Willie and start kissing him, but Willie gets free and tries to leave. There's a gag in here involving the harem guards that I'm not going to spoil. Willie gets out of the harem and goes back to fight the sultan.
He and the sultan start wrestling and Willie sends the sultan spinning, with the sultan turning into a barber pole and shedding clothes. The closing gag of the scene is good, so I won't spoil it here. Cut back to Willie in the classroom and the final joke of the cartoon, which is perfect.
This short, along with all the others in the series, are now available on a Blu-Ray/DVD combo released by Thunderbean. The shorts look great and this short and the set are recommended.
I'm not overly enthusiastic about the Willie Whoppers for the most part, but I like this one. It uses a framing device, with Willie relating his tall tale to his friend, Goofy, in the middle of class.
His claim this time is that he and his girlfriend Mary were sightseeing in Constantinople. There are some great gags in here, like a snake which pulls the lid on its basket because the snake charmer is asleep and snoring. Willie and Mary stop in front of an auction for dancing girls. Given that this cartoon was made some 80 years ago, it almost goes without saying that there's "offensive" material in here (matter of fact, there's probably something in here to offend pretty much everybody). The sultan rejects two girls for various reasons.
Meanwhile, the snake, having spotted Willie and Mary, delivers a rather funny vocal resignation to the sleeping charmer and follows them. It then is the center of some jokes which are rather risqué for the 1930s and also trigger the meat of the cartoon, in that when Mary realizes there's a snake, she freaks out and winds up on the auction platform, where the sultan is smitten with her and buys her.
Willie tries to get her back when he realizes something's wrong and then gives chase, using the snake as a means of transportation. The sultan's slaves are black stereotypes, of course. Willie follows the sultan to his palace, where we see Mary is a horrible dancer, but that doesn't bother the sultan, who has other ideas.
Willie gets in and the sultan knocks him out of the room and he bounces into the harem. The women in the harem all jump on Willie and start kissing him, but Willie gets free and tries to leave. There's a gag in here involving the harem guards that I'm not going to spoil. Willie gets out of the harem and goes back to fight the sultan.
He and the sultan start wrestling and Willie sends the sultan spinning, with the sultan turning into a barber pole and shedding clothes. The closing gag of the scene is good, so I won't spoil it here. Cut back to Willie in the classroom and the final joke of the cartoon, which is perfect.
This short, along with all the others in the series, are now available on a Blu-Ray/DVD combo released by Thunderbean. The shorts look great and this short and the set are recommended.