Secrets of the Masonic Initiation Revealed—By Betty Boop!

Friday Fun Link: Bimbo's Initiation, a surreal and brilliant Fleischer Brothers cartoon from 1931.

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[Mike Laursen]

If you want to stage your own hilarious Masonic initiation hijinks, a great place to get ideas is the 1930 DeMoulin Bros. catalog:

http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/demoulin_bros_artifacts.htm

[Jesse Walker]

Duly noted!

[Akira MacKenzie]

Number One: This ritual is called...Crossing the Desert.

[Homer gets paddled on the butt by Hibbert, Skinner,Brockman, Krusty, Moe, Quimby, and Willy in succession]

Number One: And this, we call the Unblinking Eye.

[he gets paddled by the same people in reverse order]

Homer: Hey...have you ever noticed that the Crossing the Desert is a lot like the Unblinking Eye. And it's _exactly_ like the Wreck of the Hesperus.

Number One: And now, the final ordeal: the Paddling of the Swollen Ass...With Paddles.

[Chuck]

Snow White is still my favorite

[Akira MacKenzie]

You have joined the Sacred Order of the Stonecutters who, since ancient times, have split the rocks of ignorance that obscure the light of knowledge and truth.

Now let's all get drunk and play ping pong!

[Lowdog]

Akira - or you could play beer pong and kill two birds with one stone!

[Mike Laursen]

Dang! Does that make me a bloggerang?

[Stevo Darkly]

The libertarian message of that cartoon is that, way before the hysterical War on Drugs, people obviously used to do drugs all the time -- and yet we had nothing like the problems we have today.

[Native NYer]

Anyone notice how much Bimbo looked like he was drawn by Peter Bagge?

[Jim Walsh]

Best Betty Boop 'toon ever was Red Hot Momma (also known as Betty Boop In Hell), where you actually get a very quick flash of Betty's...er...boop...

[Warren]

Max Fleischer, great American hero.

[Rhywun]

people obviously used to do drugs all the time

Whoever was responsible for that "Snow White" was doing the most of all - holy crap.

[bago]

Does Focault's pendulum play a part yet?

[Jesse Walker]

Whoever was responsible for that "Snow White" was doing the most of all - holy crap.

Same guys, Rhywun. They also made some Popeye shorts that look like something out of R. Crumb.

[Jennifer]

Have you guys ever seen the Fleischer version of Gulliver's Travels? They totally butchered the storyline, but the animation is stunning. Scenes like Gulliver lying on the beach while the water ran in and out over the sand would be impressive enough if they were CGI, but when you consider that every single frame was drawn by hand it's almost awe-inspiring.

[SteveInClearwater]

This is pretty cool. I have an original reel to reel copy of Bimbo's Initiation which I have not been able to play for over 15 years due to lack of a working projector.

Thanks for the link