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Plot

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draws Betty, then leaves her for the night in the studio at 5:00 pm. Koko escapes from the

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and helps himself to a

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left behind by Max. He starts to eat some of it. But, he soon gets a

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. Betty tries to perform some amateur dentistry on Koko, by trying to yank the bad tooth out while dancing. After this fails, she attempts to calm him down but uses too much

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, causing Betty and Koko to laugh hysterically. The laughing gas spreads the room, making a

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and a

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laugh hysterically. The laughing gas then goes out the window and spreads into town. Both people and inanimate objects begin laughing hysterically, including a mailbox, a parking meter, a bridge, cars, and gravestones. The short ends when Betty and Koko get back in the inkwell and it begins laughing, before panting.

Production notes

This is a partial remake of the 1924 Koko animated short, ''The Cure.'' It is also Koko's last theatrical appearance. (For more information about Koko, see

References

External links

Ha! Ha! Ha! on YouTubeHa! Ha! Ha! at the IMDb
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