Grampy is an animated

Animation

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 cartoon

Cartoon

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 character

Fictional character

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 appearing in the Betty Boop

Betty Boop

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in...

series of films produced by Max Fleischer

Max Fleischer

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 and released by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

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Grampy is an ever cheerful and energetic senior citizen with a bald head and a white beard. His primary activities include singing, dancing and building Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg

Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor.He is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. These devices, now known as Rube Goldberg machines, are similar to...

 style devices out of ordinary household items. When presented with an unexpected new problem, he will put on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top). In short order the lightbulb lights up and Grampy builds a new gadget to solve the problem.

It is not clear whether Grampy is actually related to Betty Boop, because everyone calls him "Grampy" and he seems to be equally affectionate to almost everyone he meets. There is also some inconsistency as to living arrangements. In some shorts like Betty Boop and Grampy and House Cleaning Blues he and Betty live in separate houses; however, in The Impractical Joker he is shown to live in an apartment one floor above hers—suggesting they are neighbors, or that he is perhaps her boarder

Boarder

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Grampy appeared in nine of the later Betty Boop cartoons, often having a larger role than Betty. He also made one appearance without Betty, in the 1937 Color Classics

Color Classics

Color Classics were a series of animated short subjects produced by Fleischer Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1934 to 1941 as a competitor to Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies. As the name implies, all of the shorts were made in color, with the first entry in the series, Poor Cinderella, being the...

short Christmas Comes But Once A Year.

Filmography

• Betty Boop and Grampy
  Betty Boop and Grampy
  Betty Boop and Grampy is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy in his first appearance.-Plot:Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy...
  
  (1935)
• A Song A Day
  A Song A Day
  A Song A Day is a 1936 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and featuring Grampy.-Synopsis:At Betty Boop's Animal Hospital, various animals have appropriate ailments - a giraffe has a sore throat, a herring is pickled, etc. Morale becomes a problem until Professor Grampy comes...
  
  (1936)
• Grampy's Indoor Outing
  Grampy's Indoor Outing
  Grampy's Indoor Outing is a 1936 Fleischer Studio animated short, starring Betty Boop and Grampy.-Synopsis:Betty offers to take her nephew Little Jimmy to see the carnival. Before they can leave the house, a thunderstorm blows in, making it impossible to attend the carnival...
  
  (1936)
• Be Human
  Be Human (1936 cartoon)
  Be Human is a 1936 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and Grampy. It is now public domain.-Plot:Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals...
  
  (1936)
• Christmas Comes But Once A Year
  Christmas Comes But Once a Year
  Christmas Comes but Once a Year is a 1936 animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and released on December 4, 1936. It is part of the Color Classics series.-Summary:...
  
  (1936)
• House Cleaning Blues
  House Cleaning Blues
  House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.-Synopsis:Betty wakes up after the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shambles, and Betty is not looking forward to cleaning up. She sings the title song while struggling...
  
  (1937)
• The Impractical Joker
  The Impractical Joker
  The Impractical Joker is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.-Synopsis:Betty Boop is baking a cake, when Irving the practical joker comes for a visit. Betty becomes the victim of such pranks as shaking a false hand and getting squirted in the face...
  
  (1937)
• The Candid Candidate
  The Candid Candidate
  The Candid Candidate is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and Grampy.-Synopsis:Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy for Mayor who finds out the job isn't as glamorous as he thought....
  
  (1937)
• Service with a Smile
  Service with a Smile (1937 cartoon)
  Service with a Smile is a Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and Grampy.-Plot:Betty Boop runs the Hi-De-Ho-Hotel. Guests have lots of complaints. Grampy remedies the guests' complaints.-External links:**...
  
  (1937)
• Zula Hula
  Zula Hula
  Zula Hula is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.-Synopsis:Betty and Grampy are on an around-the-world flight when they are forced to crash-land on an apparently deserted island. Betty's upset with their situation, but Grampy quickly invents a...
  
  (1937)