The height of the world-wide Depression: A dingy place for transient funny animals to flop. Flophouses ceased to be a source for amusement by the middle 1930s (though one appears in a tragic scene in Famous' FINNEGAN'S FLEA (late 1950s)).
The derelict goat at 2;10 + was pretty raw but the flop house & its occupants for most of the rest of the cartoon were sanitized. At this time it was a weird idea to try to be upbeat about flop houses, hardly a place for Oopy. Maybe the folks at Famous were watching this, as the gag where the egg is cracked open and the baby ostrich pays its quarter, was a directly quoted in another barely known Famous cartoon, also a Modern Madcap, Travelaffs (if I remember right). GREAT to have another Scrappy
