Originally, Bosko was the first cartoon character from Looney Tunes. However, when producers Hugh Harmon and Rudolf Ising went to MGM for more money, they also retained rights to this generally racially ambiguous character. Oddly, after two films with MGM, the pair decided to remake Bosko and turn him into a black kid....and one whose look would probably cause many politically correct folks to have coronaries! However, he is more realistic looking than he had looked.
In "Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals", Bosco is asked by 'Mammy' to take a bag of cookies to grandma. But on the way, his imagination runs wild...and has some adventures with a gigantic frog and his cannibal froggy buddies. By the way, like in an early Bosko effort from MGM, two of the frogs clearly are modeled after Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and 'Fats' Waller.
So is it any good? Well, it's pretty entertaining and the cannibal frogs' singing is much less saccharine than most of the singing in the Bosko cartoons. Also, Buckwheat Thomas (from the Our Gang shorts) is kind of cute voicing Bosko...which he did only on two occasions. It's actually rather cute and enjoyable....but due to changing attitudes and a strong push for political correctness, I can't see them ever showing this on television!
In "Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals", Bosco is asked by 'Mammy' to take a bag of cookies to grandma. But on the way, his imagination runs wild...and has some adventures with a gigantic frog and his cannibal froggy buddies. By the way, like in an early Bosko effort from MGM, two of the frogs clearly are modeled after Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and 'Fats' Waller.
So is it any good? Well, it's pretty entertaining and the cannibal frogs' singing is much less saccharine than most of the singing in the Bosko cartoons. Also, Buckwheat Thomas (from the Our Gang shorts) is kind of cute voicing Bosko...which he did only on two occasions. It's actually rather cute and enjoyable....but due to changing attitudes and a strong push for political correctness, I can't see them ever showing this on television!