Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-5653781-20151210190316/@comment-26884760-20151210203218

it's an interesting look into the earlier stages of animation, sadly it can have unfortunate implications due to changing culture (like African Cannibals and so on) but it was also pretty progressive in some ways as it had a lot of jazz etc in a time when such things weren't necessarily welcomed by the social elites.

I personally find it funny how every Betty cartoon's solution to violence is to violently beat some one for it, however this is a trait of MANY older media (also fun fact, Popeye first appeared in a Betty cartoon alongside Bluto and Popeye was exceptionally violent in it..).

Anyway, the original topic was why is Old Man a villain when all he seems to do is sing and dance? everyone sings and dances in Betty cartoons.. Old Man is the "bad guy" because he tries to have sex with a woman many times smaller than him who clearly doesn't want to (or alternatively he wants to eat her but I'm going for sex, since that's the style of these shorts).. so Unseelie, sorry to say but just watch it again and you'll see it's really not terribly subtle about it.. he's far from the worst but he's at the very minimum a fearmonger and bully.