{"id":273,"date":"2012-07-29T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2024-12-31T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T02:59:28","slug":"scrappy-yelp-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/scrappy-yelp-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Look, the First Scrappy Cartoon!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to imagine now, but when Scrappyland first appeared, there was no YouTube, and therefore no easy way to bring you any actual Scrappy cartoons. Today&#8230;well, there still aren&#8217;t as many Scrappy cartoons on YouTube as you or I would hope for. Which isn&#8217;t surprising given that most of them haven&#8217;t been shown anywhere in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s not look free Scrappy in the mouth. In the weeks to come, I&#8217;m going to embed the Scrappy shorts I can find on YouTube. Starting with the very first one, <em>Yelp Wanted<\/em>, which was released slightly over 81 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t one of the best Scrappy cartoons, but it does represent the debuts of Scrappy, Yippy, and either Oopy or an Oopy-like little kid who appears in one scene. In this one, Scrappy has an enormous head and a dog-like black nose; as the years wore on, he became more and more conventionally kidlike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Paul Etcheverry and Will Friedwald <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/animania1\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have written<\/a>, this is a strikingly Fleischeresque cartoon, with a healthy dose of questionable taste and bizarre gags. Dick Huemer, Sid Marcus and Art Davis had all been Fleischer employees before moving west, and they brought their former employer&#8217;s sense of humor and casual attitutude towards story construction and on-model drawing with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yelp Wanted<\/em> ends with a shocking revelation which, as far as I know, was never addressed again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"863\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VSzW7RXru3M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to imagine now, but when Scrappyland first appeared, there was no YouTube, and therefore no easy way to bring you any actual Scrappy cartoons. Today&#8230;well, there still aren&#8217;t as many Scrappy cartoons on YouTube as you or I would hope for. Which isn&#8217;t surprising given that most of them haven&#8217;t been shown anywhere &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/scrappy-yelp-wanted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Look, the First Scrappy Cartoon!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-4p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}