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  • 6/10/2025
๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿถ๐ŸŒ€ In Boy Meets Dog (1938), young Bobby learns that strict discipline and outdated parenting donโ€™t mixโ€”especially when a dream world turns the tables! This pre-WWII animated short from Walter Lantz Productions is as surreal as it is charming, blending a wholesome message with jaw-dropping dream logic and stunning 1930s animation.

๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Plot Summary:
After a scolding from his overbearing father, Bobby escapes into a fantastical dream world where anthropomorphic dogs, animated barbers, and twisted fairy tale justice take center stage. The film is both a strange anti-spanking PSA and a showcase for wild, Looney Tunes-style imagination.

๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ Year Released: 1938
๐ŸŽญ Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
๐ŸŽฌ Produced by: Walter Lantz Studios
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Notable Characters: Bobby, Mean Dad, Dog Jury

๐ŸŽฏ Why Watch It?
โœ”๏ธ Wildly creative visuals and dream sequences
โœ”๏ธ Moral lesson wrapped in classic cartoon weirdness
โœ”๏ธ Early Walter Lantz innovation before Woody Woodpecker
โœ”๏ธ Great for fans of vintage educational shorts with a twist

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๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ‘ฆ A boy, a dog, and a bizarre dream trial. Boy Meets Dog (1938) is one trip you wonโ€™t forget!
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Transcript
00:00The
00:30Down by the old mill street, there's a shady fishing pool, where lads find time to drop
00:49a line before they go to school.
00:58We go to school for knowledge, we study and recite, and this is how we always start our day out right.
01:07Just out, stomach in, that's the way you should begin. A little brushing here and there is beneficial to the hair.
01:15Children now are very wise, they do a dental exercise. With your fingers, not your thumb, practice to massage your gums.
01:23First above and then beneath, takes good care of all your teeth.
01:28Even by this little rhyme, and keep your teeth a long, long time.
01:33Good stuff! School's dismissed.
01:39Just get a picture until we're done now. Oh, my God!
01:42Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
01:46Hey, come on, Bobby. Have a Sunday.
01:50Oh, I can't. My father won't want me.
01:54Well, then, let's go fishing. No, my father won't want me.
02:00Oh, gosh! Oh, gee! You're cute as you can be. You poor little dog. You come on home with me.
02:19My daddy won't let me have a dog. I'll clean you up all nice and bright. Then he'll think you're quite all right.
02:42Soap and water will make you neat. Then I'm gonna brush your teeth.
02:49Brush your teeth twice a day. Keep away your tooth decay. And like my other little chum, you also must massage your gum.
02:52Gum massage? Bah! I told you never to bring a dog into this house. Get that mutt out of here! Get out of here! Get out of here, you!
03:07Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
03:23You go to bed without your supper. Then maybe you'll learn to obey your father.
03:29It's time you grew up and quit acting like a baby.
03:32I don't know what's the matter with that boy.
03:35Why, when I was a boy, I learned...
03:51I told him to put those skates away.
03:54This time, I'll teach him a lesson that he won't forget.
03:59Bobby!
04:01Bobby!
04:06Oh!
04:09I guess they got it now.
04:11Yeah, we should be...
04:13That was easy. Now we've got to be all crap out of him.
04:17I'm sorry, come on, you threw something out of him.
04:19All right.
04:23They took him to the land of gnomes
04:25Where else than pixies have their home
04:27And in a very little while
04:29The father will come up for trial
04:33The jury all had gathered
04:35The lawyers too were there
04:37And everything was ready for a trial fair and square
04:41A pipping town, eh?
04:43Elves of all description
04:45We're waiting patiently
04:47Because the case in pixie court
04:49Is lots of fun to see
04:51Here comes the foot
04:53Here comes the judge
04:55Guilty! Guilty!
04:57Here comes the judge
04:59Here comes the judge
05:01Here comes the judge
05:03Here comes the judge
05:05The prisoner is charged with being neurotic and erratic
05:09He's very childlike in his views
05:11He's also charged with static
05:13He's nervous and perfidious
05:15His knowledge is insidious
05:17In fact, his manner with his boy is absolutely hideous
05:19Lose me
05:21I'm going to thug you
05:23I'll smash you
05:25I'll smash you
05:27Hey, a jack!
05:29We all a jack to the lies about that client
05:31He hasn't got a childish brain
05:33The man's a mental giant
05:35He's very childlike in his views
05:37He's also charged with static
05:39He's nervous and perfidious
05:41His knowledge is insidious
05:43In fact, his manner with his boy is absolutely hideous
05:45He'll smash you
05:47He's a liar, Jack!
05:48We all a jack to the lies about that client
05:51He hasn't got a childish brain
05:53The man's a mental giant
05:55He's a mental giant
05:57He's a mental giant
06:03Water, water!
06:05Go to fight's witness
06:07Go to fight's witness
06:09Yeah!
06:11Oh!
06:13Do you solemnly swell
06:15Do you solemnly tear
06:16Do you dwell the cell
06:17Toot the toot
06:18Oh, let it go, let it go, let it go
06:20Tell in your own words
06:21What the defendant did
06:27He said he hit him
06:28He said he kicked him
06:29He said he hit him
06:30And then he kicked him
06:31Order, order!
06:33What's the matter here?
06:34You can't do that
06:35What's the idea?
06:36What?
06:37He hires lawyers that are bums
06:39And he don't even must haunt his gums
06:42We all agree
06:43It's plain to see
06:44The man has no mentality
06:46He spent four years in college
06:48But still he has no knowledge
06:50Perhaps no dental knowledge
06:52He has no mental knowledge
06:54Mental, dental
06:56It's inconsequential
06:58He's childlike in his dental knowledge
07:02Childlike in his mental knowledge
07:06And we agree
07:07He's guilty as can be
07:08Guilty, guilty
07:09Though he went to college
07:10He's childlike in his knowledge
07:11He's guilty, rah, rah, rah
07:12He ought to swing
07:13He's gonna swing
07:14Everybody's gonna swing
07:15Swing, swing, sing, sing
07:16Like a birdie in the spring
07:17Hi-ho, hi-ho, hi-ho
07:19Everybody's on that swing
07:20Harlem down, that's in the queue
07:21Hells and pixies do it too
07:22Peckin', peckin', peckin', watch them go
07:23Oh-oh, pixies, oh-oh-oh
07:24How about the guillotine?
07:26No, he gets the youth machine
07:28He gets the youth machine
07:29He gets the youth machine
07:30He gets the youth machine
07:32He gets the youth machine
07:34He gets the youth machine
07:36He gets the youth machine
07:38He gets the youth machine
07:39He gets the youth machine
07:40He gets the youth machine
07:41He gets the youth machine
07:43He gets the youth machine
07:45He gets the youth machine
07:47He gets the youth machine
07:49He gets the youth machine
07:51He gets the youth machine
07:52Time marches backwards.
08:22Sorry.
08:24She's right.
08:28Bobby's a smart boy.
08:32He's a regular fella.
08:34Why the guy?
08:36I don't know.
08:38I don't know.
08:40I don't know.
08:42I don't know.
08:44He's a smart boy.
08:46He's a regular fella.
08:48Why by the guy?
08:50He's a regular fella.
08:51Boy, but a guy.
08:52Well, he's well.
08:53He's well.
08:53I love you.
08:55He's a regular fella.
08:56He's a regular fella.
08:59Oh.
09:00Oh.
09:01Oh.
09:02Oh.
09:05Oh.

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