{"id":481,"date":"2012-08-19T23:41:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T06:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-08-19T23:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T06:48:24","slug":"spoonin-scrappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/spoonin-scrappy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoonin’ Scrappy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scrappy<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s yet another inexplicable early Scrappy ad, from an August 1931 issue of The Film Daily<\/em>. As you’ve no doubt already noticed, Scrappy is ladling delight moviegoers out of a bowl, whereupon they turn into coins. The idea is to depict the money-making power of Scrappy shorts, and once again, it seems almost certain that nobody at the Mintz studio was involved in this oddity. If nothing else, it presents a rare opportunity to see Scrappy wearing long pants.<\/p>\n

The ad claims that Scrappy is the only human<\/span> character now in cartoon movies. I don’t think that was true: Farmer Alfalfa was still a working cartoon character at the time, and Bosko had been around for a couple of years. And Van Beuren’s human Tom and Jerry were getting going at nearly the same time that Scrappy was. But Betty Boop was still a dog in 1931, and Popeye hadn’t yet shown up in animated form. Scrappy probably did stick out in an era that was utterly dominated by Mickey Mouse’s anthropomorphic influence — even though he had a Mickey-like black-button nose at first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s yet another inexplicable early Scrappy ad, from an August 1931 issue of The Film Daily. As you’ve no doubt already noticed, Scrappy is ladling delight moviegoers out of a bowl, whereupon they turn into coins. The idea is to depict the money-making power of Scrappy shorts, and once again, it seems almost certain that … Continue reading Spoonin’ Scrappy<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ads"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-7L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}