Bimbo's Initiation

Wanna Be a Member? Wanna Be a Member?

These Fleiscer cartoons always scare me shitless.

One of the weirdest and most surreal cartoons ever made. Interesting to watch for the sexual symbolic imagery as well as for an appearance by an early incarnation of Betty Boop (who was still doglike at the time).

Made in the time when animation was really weird, but also very creative.

Strange and a lot fun. Fleischer really had a knack for the surreal.

Awesome. Cant get "Wanna be a member?" out of my mind.

W...What the ever loving Christ? I think this is what it would look like if David Lynch made children's cartoons. Beats out The Mascot and Toy Story 3 for the most hell-like experience in an animated movie.

Leader: "Wanna be a member? Wanna be a member?"

Sick. Just the way I like it.

Strange story, but some serious animation.

Entertaining short cartoon with some great visual gags.

quirky but quite entertaining and was well composed

Hardly a Betty Boop cartoon at all -- but so much fun that you don't notice. This is one heckova scarifying hazing incident! -- and very funny.

Saw the Musical for Kids. WEIRD stuff, kinda trippy.

Bimbo's Initiation estreava há 90 anos nos EUA. Primeiramente achei que era a perfeita metáfora do ateu vivendo num país cristão, daí soube que era sobre o monopólio de Disney na animação, o mais curioso é que há 90 anos já era denunciado o que acabou se tornando ainda maior: a total manipulação da Disney dentro da indústria de cinema americana. No Youtube: https://youtu.be/lkUbzw4LU3s

More top-notch surrealism from Fleischer.

Like some brilliant Kubla Khanesque fever dream of pure cartoon insanity.