Buddys Show Boat

Summary

Buddys show boat merrily rolls along a river as "Bam Bam Bammy Shore" plays & Capt. Buddy whistles in tune; to his brief dismay, one of the ships whistles blows out of tune, which Our Hero corrects by holding an handkerchief up to the steamwhistle, such that it appears to "blow its nose." A new musical number, "Swanee Smiles," begins, & we see a series of scenes of those aboard the vessel: four blackface minstrels shovel coal into the engine, &, as a gag, descend markedly in height, from the tallest, standing near the engine, to the smallest, to whom the shovel is passed, near the coal pile; two sleepy gentlemen hold on to fishing rods holding aloft sausages, which are slowly pursued by two dogs, which, in the process of locomotion, move the ships rudder; Cookie peels potatoes; and the same brute from Buddys Beer Garden spits into the water, only to be spat back at by an annoyed fish. A ferry boat passes, and Buddys vessel drops anchor at a dock near which a parade heralds the boats coming. Buddy collects tickets as a band of minstrels sings "Sweet Georgia Brown."

On board the ship, "Mlle. Cookie, Show Boat Star" readies herself for a performance & blows a kiss to a picture of Capt. Buddy; in the next room, the bruiser-villain perfumes himself & similarly blows a kiss, but to a picture of Cookie. Buddy picks up the receiver of a ship telephone and rings Cookies room; she picks up, and they exchange kisses. Having spied the event, the bruiser picks up the phone, blows Cookie a kiss, but receives, instead, a punch in the face. Buddy and Cookie perform a rendition of "Under my Umbrella," after which Buddy introduces, to his pleased crowd, an Aboriginal performer called "Chief Saucer-lip", who, upon the captains departure, immediately becomes a caricature of Maurice Chevalier, who recites "So I Married the Girl," with a kangaroo at the piano.

Cookie watches from behind the curtain, & the villain easily abducts her with a stage hook; dragging Cookie to the main deck, the bruiser is caught by Buddy and his injunction: "Unhand that woman!" The villain obliges, and punches Buddy that he flies backward into a device that spins him around and sends him flying into the bruiser, who then doubles back into an electrical device with catches his rear end & painfully shocks him. Back in pursuit, the villain is halted by Buddy, who cleverly knocks his adversary backwards, with a wooden life boat, into the cage of "Wally the Trained Walrus," who, now free, bites the rapscallions behind & chases him into a lower deck. Buddy pulls the villain back up with the ships wench, & positions him such that the ships rudder continually bumps his posterior. Buddy & Cookie celebrate together, but part to allow some proper revelry to the true champion, Wally.

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