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in his first appearance.

Plot

Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm On My Way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop—all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party. Grampy is an eccentric inventor, whose labor-saving devices are of the Rube Goldberg variety. For example, he has a device that moves his entire house to the front entrance whenever the doorbell is rung. The glass shade of his ceiling light is rigged to double as a punch bowl, and he has modified an old umbrella to slice a cake into wedges. Grampy entertains his guests by building self-playing musical instruments out of household gadgets (which then play "

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"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberant Grampy.

In other media

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". A segment of music from this cartoon was sampled for the episode "Fire Dogs 2" of ''

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'', when Ren dances to a flute song by Stimpy.

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1935 films Betty Boop cartoons 1930s American animated films American black-and-white films 1935 animated films Paramount Pictures short films Fleischer Studios short films Short films directed by Dave Fleischer {{BettyBoop-animation-film-stub