The Dover Boys (1942) 

"I'll steal it! No one will ever know!!" he yelled. Loudly. Right outside of a bar with only a swinging door to block his voice.

So not only is Dora a strong female character, but you also expect me to believe she invented the dab? No one is _that_ perfect.

U N H A N D H E R D A N B A C K S L I D E

This is like the cartoon version of a shitpost.

Who would've guessed something made in 1942 would equate the the humour of our memes today

Even though it was essentially a shitpost from the 40s, there was still a lot of great animation and comedy bits.

5:26 - Even Dan Backslide knows that you have to save the environment. He could've just tossed that tree away, but no! He did the responsible thing and planted it back again. Good man.

She could have unlocked the door from the inside I'm dying

*steals a car and proceeds to be very loud and vocal about it*

I wish they made more cartoons with Dan Backslide

Dora Standpipe: strong independent female character with like five boyfriends in 1942

I remember as a kid I laughed so hard cause I couldn't understand why Dan Backslide kept yelling every time he spoke lol

HOW I LOVE HER (father's money)

That moment when a cartoon from 1942 has smoother animation than most cartoons in 2016.

If they ever make a GTA-style game set at the turn of the century (Red Dead doesn't count, those are firmly the Westerns genre), they had better have an achievement called "NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW" earned by very publicly stealing a car.

holy shit they had quite the sense of humor in the 1940s

03:06- "Dear, rich Dora Standpipe; how I love her... father's money."

Despite any supposed memes, this is honestly pretty funny and well made.

Damn, 15 shots in 4 seconds. The dude can hold his liqueur!

*THEY DRIVE ME TO DRINK*

I'LL JUST POST THIS COMMENT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!

AN OLD MEME! I'LL REUSE IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!

I didn't know that Phantom Blood has an OVA.

3:15 lol who noticed the foreshadowing of how strong Dainty would be when she defends herself in peril?

_"Pimento U, oh sweet PU"_ _"Thy fragrant odor scents the air"_ _"A pox on Yale, Pooh Pooh Perdue"_ _"Pimento U, my college fair."_

A roundabout, I'll meme it! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!

*I HATE JONATHAN I HATE JOSEPH AND I HATE JOTARO! THEY DRIVE ME TO WRYYY!*

How does a fad from 5-6 years ago become a fad again? (When it's left ALONE AND UNPROTECTED)

Dang, Dainty Dora is the best. With her three boyfriends, rich daddy and super human strength its no wonder she barely give a fuck.

I'LL STEEAAL IT! NO ONE WILL EEVER KNOW!

I'm very surprised this was the only Dover Boys cartoon ever made. It's so darn good!

Suddenly, and without warning, the words "Hark! The Dover boys." floated out from a smoke clouded pool table in the deep recesses of my conciousness. I cannot believe I still remembered the exact wording and scene that line was from in a cartoon I may have only watched a handful of times nearly two decades ago.

Dora Standpipe is the first strong female character™

I just realized that when we first meet Dora, she acts like a cuckoo clock. "Yoo-hoo. Yoo-hoo. Yoo-hoo." It is 3PM sharp. LOL

*CON-* Brief interruption by nonsequiter dancing man *-FOUND THEM!*

2:32 And thus, the dab was born.

Dan Backslide did nothing wrong.

it may be a mixture of it being 4am and how badly the internet has warped my sense of humor, but this is hilarious. Or perhaps Chuck knew exactly what he was doing.

2:40 I can't believe dabbing was a thing in the 1940s.

they went OUT OF THEIR WAY to not name one of them Ben Dover

For anyone wondering, the Flag Semaphore at 7:02 actually spells out "H E L P | D O R A | I N | D A N G E R | H U T A | S U T |" I don't know what HUTA SUT is, but there was a song called "The Hut Sut Song" which came out in 1941. Interesting.

N O O N E W I L L E V E R K N O W

Dan Backslides voice actor must’ve been having the time of his life oml.

The motion-blur frames are the BEST.

Boy, old-timey cartoons were on some other shit

this cartoon from the 1940s still manages to be funny 76 years later

I've watched this about eighty times in the past week I need help.

You know how we always make fun of the trends and culture our parents grew up with in the 70s? Well in the 40s they always made fun of the trends and culture their parents grew up with in the Edwardian era.

Wait, so Dora's _their_ fiancee? so like, they all share a fiancee? Why am I suddenly hung up about this.

I love this original and the reanimated version

CONFOUND THOSE DOVER BOYS!

can we just talk about like...how a bunch of sober collage age students are playing hide and seek in the park?? the 40's must have been boring as fuk

this villain is the ancestor of lemon grab and no one can tell me otherwise

This was made in the 40s? I'm surprised. This animation is quite high-quality compared to that of most other studios around this time.

To enhance the experience, (try to) pause everytime a character makes a sudden and quick movement.

I'm so glad this is a meme now, because I've always thought it was hilarious

I can't believe this middle finger from Chuck Jones to WB has become a Tumblr meme...

A runabout!(yells loudly in a public street)*I'LL STEAL IT! **_NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!_*

4:55 I'LL STEAL IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW! Yeah, especially now that you've yelled it at the top of your lungs.

3:15 is foreshadowing to how strong Dora is

A lot has been written about Chuck's use of highly stylized, limited animation on this groundbreaking cartoon, but nothing has been said concerning WHY he did it like this. This is my guess: Chuck wanted to emulate a silent movie being projected at the wrong speed. Allow me to elaborate. Silent film speed is 16 frames per second, sound speed is 24. After the advent of sound, if you wanted to see a silent movie (in a revival house or on TV), you'd see it at 24 fps, making the characters skitter around all herky-jerky, EXACTLY AS THEY ARE IN THIS CARTOON. Only since the '60's was anything done to correct this problem. Add to this the corny, melodramatic storyline, a favorite of early silents like 'The Perils of Pauline', and you have a recipe for satire, both visual and verbal. In closing, I think that on a day in 1942, Chuck Jones said, "A cartoon! I'll stylize it!! AND NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!!!

This is one of the strangest cartoons I've ever seen.

I'LL STEAL IT! NO ONE WILL EEVER KNOW! 4:53

Delete this post, Dan Backslide

Little known fact: The Dover Boys and the girl have superpowers: The blonde one can alter gravity (look at his bike). The short one has telekinesis (can pedal with his thoughts). The ginger can break the 4th wall. The girl has super-strength. The sailor can stop time.

N O O O N E N E W I L L I L L E V E R V E R K N O W N O W

"HOW I LOVE HERRR...father's money."

This is essentially the Looney Tunes version of a dril tweet.

When you think about this, this is oddly progressive for the times considering that she really didn't need any saving at all.

Ironic considering PU is the worst tier.

UNHAND HER, DAN BACKSLIDE! UNHAND HER, DAN BACKSLIDE! UNHAND HER, DAN BACKSLIDE1 Hey! We're getting in a rut!

"Telegram for the Dover Boys! Messirs Tom, Dick and Larry, care of Wayward Tavern, Upper Bottleneck, New York says quote, *'HEEELLLPPP!!'* Unquote. Signed, Dora. Thirty-five cents collect."

"They drive me to drink!" (15 drinks later)

Where would WB cartoons be without the William Tell Overture?

Unhand her, Dan Backslide!

...I think I just found something so funny that I can't laugh at it. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen and yet I can't laugh at it. It's too beautiful.

a ROUNDABOUT, I'll STEAL IT!

This 'toon was obviously made as a middle finger to Jones's bosses at WB. They were squeezing him on help b/c of the War, were trying to get everything done on the cheap, and had even criticized him for being in a rut creatively, so he came up with this crap. It was supposed to demonstrate a technically new, less labor-intensive animation technique, but failed utterly because of the low quality it displayed in storyboarding, in its (pun-laden) writing, characterization, and in other departments. Mel Blanc was certainly Jones's co-conspirator -- you can tell by his inappropriately loud and overacted dialogue performance, never repeated elsewhere, over which he had total control per contract, such that he could have had it re-written and/or re-recorded if he'd wanted to. The whole piece was "inspired" by a sappy and now long-forgotten kid's book series from the turn of the last century called The Rover Boys; half-forgotten even in 1942, it had no chance to resonate with a mass audience -- and predictably didn't. Jones basically threw away the entire budget he'd been given to work with, and was rightly almost canned for the insubordination and lack of professionalism he displayed. Likely the only reason Jack Warner didn't fire him outright was fear of the competitive consequences if Jones went somewhere else.

7:30 one of the best parts

2:31 tho

2:31 SHE DAB

The legendary Mel Blanc. This is such a great short.

2:31 Did...did Dora just fucking Dab?

That girl doesn't even have a running animation

3:23 ok we get it, you're not gay

Has nobody else realized that the villain of the whole thing is... ...Dan "Green"?...

i'm glad this became a meme again this is some good shit

Tonight on Marvel's Agent Carter, they had a scene showing an old B&W film reel. It was THIS film, which was made within the same time frame but before the events of Carter. The part we saw is around the 5:50 mark. I remember seeing this on an old VHS that had a collection of old WB cartoons YEARS ago.

This cartoon is in public domain now guys you can ytp this as liberally as you want

I swear to tits I've watched this cartoon so many times and it has never gotten old. Such a masterpiece, from start to finish. Everything about it, the animation, the pure absurdity of its plot, characters, and humour, and even the voice acting. I would go as far to say that Dan Backslide is the best one-off character that Mel Blanc has ever done.

"And now it is time so say goodbye. Goodbye." 😂👌

I'm surprised how much of this I remember considering it must have been over 20 years since I last saw it

I'm glad this cartoon is now a meme, it just feels like everything in the universe lead up to this

The cartoon is almost 80 years old, and it's still amazingly hilarious!

Can someone explain to me how Dainty is Tom, Dick, *and* Larry's fiancee? It all sounds like a very biblical arrangement.

God I loooooooooove that part when the green man asked for help (Help Tom!!!, Help Dick!!!, Help Larry!!!)

6:30 Dora, Dora, sweetheart, I'm pretty sure you don't actually need help.

[screaming voice] I'LL STEAL IT. NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW.

Not even gonna lie. This is one of the funniest old cartoons out there. Like normally I don't think old cartoons are anything more than cute but this one actually got me.

Holy shit, that was actually really fucking hilarious.