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Grampy shows up to take Betty out for a drive, but Betty can't leave until everything is tidy. Grampy literally puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top), and invents a host of labor-saving devices: a cuckoo clock powered dishwasher, a combination bicycle and floor scrubber, and a player piano that folds laundry.
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.
The following is a list of films and other media in which Betty Boop has appeared. She was featured in 126 theatrical cartoons between 1930 and 1939 (89 in her own series and 37 in the Talkartoons, Screen Songs and Color Classics series).
Grampy and his "thinking cap", in a scene from the Betty Boop cartoon House Cleaning Blues (1937). Professor Grampy is an animated cartoon character appearing in the Betty Boop series of shorts produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures. He appeared in nine of the later Betty Boop cartoons beginning with Betty Boop and Grampy ...
A short clip from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode "My Three Suns". Some clips of the redrawn colorized version were used in the compilation Betty Boop For President: The Movie (1980). This episode re-uses the same animation of Betty Boop losing her temper from "House Cleaning Blues".
Before they can leave the house, it starts to thunder and rain, making it impossible to attend the carnival. Betty's upstairs neighbor Grampy saves the day by using his crazy inventions to turn the apartment (and eventually, even the whole house with a huge umbrella covering it) into a circus.
The cartoon features the song Be Human sung by Betty Boop accompanying herself on piano. Instrumental renditions of the song are also prominent throughout the cartoon. When the animal-abusing farmer winds up on Grampy's punishment treadmill, a phonograph recording of Grampy's voice is heard singing the
Grampy in "A Song a Day" Directed by: Dave Fleischer [1] Story by: Dave Fleischer (uncredited) Isadore Sparber (uncredited) Produced by: Max Fleischer: Starring: Mae Questel (Betty Boop) Everett Clark (Grampy) [2] Jack Mercer (additional voices) [3] Music by: Sammy Timberg: Animation by: David Tendlar Nick Tafuri Joseph Oriolo [1] Additional ...