Posted on 05/20/2026 8:52:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
Alright, who had Betty Boop for Hollywood's next skin-color swap?
This is reportedly a live-action film, by the way, and Brunson will play Betty Boop as herself.
From Variety:
The film will trace the origin and evolution of Betty Boop through the perspective of her creator, Max Fleischer, examining the relationship between the artist and his creation as he navigates the creative and commercial pressures of building one of the world's first animated icons, particularly as that icon begins to take on a life of its own.
You just know this is gonna be super woke 😂
(I can't wait to learn how Betty Boop was actually a Marxist struggle icon in the fight against white Christofascism!)
I jest, but don't discount the rewriting of history that could happen here. Fleischer is on record telling his artists that he wanted a caricature of flapper-girl Helen Kane, who was known for her "boop-boop-a-doop" routine.
I'll link the Wikipedia source here before the woke editors inevitably change history:
One day [in 1930], Dave Fleischer handed Grim a photograph of singer, Helen Kane and asked him to design a caricature. Fleischer had found a sound-alike, and planned to use her in the upcoming Talkartoon, 'Dizzy Dishes'. Grim exaggerated Kane's wide eyes and rosebud mouth, creating a slightly coarse, but strikingly original design.
An excerpt from film magazine Photoplay in April 1932 compared the two. One month later, Kane sued Fleischer for more than $6 million in today's currency for using her likeness.
Despite this, you will see wokies and black revisionists in the comments painting an entirely different picture:
Factoring into the production of this film for the illusive modern audience is a thing called the Third Generation Curse, where the grandkids of notable public figures ruin the legacy/inheritance of their forebears. Fleischer's grandson is involved in the production of the film:
The 'Abbott Elementary' creator and Emmy winner will develop and star as Betty Boop in a feature film adaptation of the nearly century-old animated icon, Variety has learned exclusively. Brunson's company, Fifth Chance Productions, has partnered with Mark Fleischer, grandson of Betty Boop creator Max Fleischer, and Fleischer Studios on the project, which is currently in development and overseen by Fifth Chance's head of creative affairs, Erin Wehrenberg.
I have to include the Redditors making fun of the critics (you and me), because it made me laugh 😂👇
As we like to say around these parts, it's not just about swapping skin colors or genitals. It's about the purposeful Marxist strategy of hijacking and destroying the stories that unite us as a culture and as a nation.
Anyway, that's your Hollywood update for the day!
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At all.
Exactly.
My kids are all Cab Calloway fans due to watching Betty Boop
Betty Poop!
I have no idea what you are talking about. Are you off your medications again?
Fleisher created a white character. He was influenced by a black woman it seems. At the time the use of black characters as sexy and provocative would not be accepted in those times. American cartoons portrayed black people in a buffoonish way…. Fleisher chose to be successful, so made his little sexy character white.
Sometimes history is not attractive.
I'd pay to watch Samuel L. Jackson as Tarzan.
"Say Ape Man one more time."
Now it’s a black Betty Boop? I’ll pass.
Ms. Boop, who now goes by Jazzmin Jumanji Shabazz X Skyhook Brown, says a century of pretending to be white was disheartening enough but being unable to celebrate her race and culture was oppressive and regressive.
Boop indeed has a darker past, one of prostitution, drug addiction, multiple abortions and constant drunkenness as was first revealed in her tell-all book, “A Century of Boop”...
Is she a handicapped transsexual migrant?
This is another DEI movie attempt to rewrite American culture. Making Betty Boop black removes the humor of her character and destroys it. The older generation found her entertaining exactly because she was a white flapper girl doing black jazz style. Today the Woke forbids it. The character is based on a flapper Helen Kane who is white and adapted black jazz style. She was the singer of “I Want To Be Loved By You.”
“Kane attended St. Anselm’s Parochial School in The Bronx, New York City. She was the youngest of three children. Her father, Louis Schroeder, a German immigrant, was employed intermittently as a wagon driver; her Irish-immigrant mother, Ellen (born Dixon) Schroeder, worked in a laundry.”
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Kane
What’s next, taking all the white minstrel show stars and making them black?
No. Betty Boop is a caricature of a white woman doing black style jazz. That is what the older generation found so entertaining. Today we don’t get that because wokeness has sterilized that part of our culture and made it an “appropriation” “race hate crime.”
Betty Boop already had a species swap from dog to human.
Here's link to Betty's first appearance.
So, Betty Boop will add twerking to her repertoire.
I didn’t know the history of Betty Boop. It’s too bad Mae Questal isn’t still around, her insight would be interesting.
For some that might not know, Mae Questal was also the cartoon voice of Olive Oyl in the Popeye cartoons, Betty Boop in the cartoons, and Aunt Bethany in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Another flop.
And one of my favorite Betty Boop cartoons, from 1934...
“In the first Fleischer cartoons ...Betty Boop was a canine.”
Yep. Also, her cartoons were VERY risque until the Hays code kicked in about 1934.
Helen Kane (born Helen Clare Schroeder, August 4, 1904[1] – September 26, 1966) was an American singer and actress. Her signature song was "I Wanna Be Loved by You" (1928), featured in the 1928 stage musical Good Boy. The song was written for Good Boy by the songwriting team Kalmar and Ruby. Kane's voice and appearance were thought to be a source for Fleischer Studios animators when creating Betty Boop.
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Kane attended St. Anselm's Parochial School in The Bronx, New York City. She was the youngest of three children. Her father, Louis Schroeder, a German immigrant, was employed intermittently as a wagon driver; her Irish-immigrant mother, Ellen (born Dixon) Schroeder, worked in a laundry.[3]
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