User:GrishamAnimation1/sandbox/Chess-Nuts (Talkartoons)

Chess-Nuts is a 1932 short produced by Fleischer Studios under the Talkartoons series.

Summary
Bimbo the good king rescues Queen Betty from a lecherous old man as the evil king, taking place in a chess board game.

Why it Rocks

 * 1) This film is a surreal satire on chess while using the boy rescues girl plot, which is common in the Mickey Mouse cartoons.
 * 2) * Also, Betty is there to help attack the evil king with Bimbo in the film.
 * 3) The bridging sequences in the beginning  and end show two live-action people playing chess, setting up and bookending the cartoon short.
 * 4) Plenty of surreal gags and mild use of adult themes, such as the evil King turning a mouse with a stick of dynamite into an actual bomb.
 * 5) Great voice acting from Claude Reese and Mae Questel.
 * 6) A few songs cleverly satirizing "B-I-N-G-O" and the Mother Goose nursery rhyme of "Old King Cole".
 * 7) Funny Ending: After defeating the evil King, Bimbo and Betty Boop were congratulated for their heroism. Outside the game of chess, the cartoon ends with the two live-action people growing beards, with a spider on the web fading in before an iris out.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Shamus Culhane deemed his stuff as primitive when looking back on it in later years.
 * 2) Alongside many other great pre-Code shorts at the time, it caused controversy back in the day with the complaint of theater operators.

Trivia

 * Koko appears briefly as part of Bimbo's team of animated chess men, but doesn't have much of a big role as he did in "Boop-Oop-A-Doop" and a few other shorts where he shares the screen with Bimbo.