Hobo Bobo

Hobo Bobo
Merrie Melodies series
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Voices by	Mel Blanc Robert C. Bruce (uncredited) Stan Freberg (uncredited)
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	John Carey Izzy Ellis Manny Gould Charles McKimson
Layouts by	Cornett Wood
Backgrounds by	Richard H. Thomas
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	May 17, 1947
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 min
Language	English

Hobo Bobo is a Merrie Melodies cartoon short released by Warner Bros. on May 17, 1947, written by Warren Foster and directed by Robert McKimson, with narration by Robert C. Bruce, and Bobo's only line delivered by Stan Freberg.

Plot

Bobo, a baby Indian elephant, sees a dark future for himself if he should remain in India to haul logs with his trunk for the rest of his life. After receiving a letter from his uncle in America, he decides to emigrate there to play on a circus baseball team. After Bobo's attempts to stow away aboard a ship bound for the United States fail repeatedly, he is advised by the mynah bird (better known from the Inki series) to paint himself pink. As seeing pink elephants is the traditional hallucination of the drunkard, neither the captain, the crew nor the passengers will acknowledge seeing Bobo, and thus he has the virtual run of the ship for the entire voyage.

When Bobo finally disembarks in New York City, he is likewise unacknowleged, until a street-cleaning vehicle washes his pink paint off, and the populace panics at the sight of a normal gray baby elephant on the street. The police end up arresting Bobo.

Hauled into court by the police, the judge sentences him to life....at the circus. At the circus, Bobo promptly engaged by the baseball team as the official batboy. Bobo angrily utters his only line in the film "Batboy, shmatboy! I'm still carrying logs!"

Sequel

The sequel to this cartoon Gone Batty was originally released in 1954, and re-released as a Merrie Melodies Blue Ribbon classic in 1963.

External links

• Big Cartoon Database article at [1].
• Internet Movie Database article at [2].