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Synopsis

Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm on my way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop - all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party.

Grampy is an eccentric inventor, whose labor-saving devices often resemble Rube Goldberg devices. For example, he has a device that moves his entire house to the front entrance whenever the doorbell is rung. The glass shade of his ceiling light is rigged to double as a punch bowl and he has modified an old umbrella to slice a cake into wedges. Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was a Jewish American cartoonist who earned lasting fame for his Rube Goldberg machines; exceedingly complex devices that perform simple tasks in very indirect and convoluted ways. ...

Grampy entertains his guests by building self-playing musical instruments out of household gadgets (which then play "Hold That Tiger"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberent Grampy.

Production notes

This is the first appearance of Grampy, the character that would eventually replace Betty.

External links

• Betty Boop and Grampy at the Big Cartoon Database