The all-color Gabby series would attempt to substitute for a second star-powered replacement for the Boops, though one could hardly call Gabby an adequate successor to the Boop legacy. The studio would attempt to fill the void with less character-oriented fare with casts and plots varying from film to film, including the Stone Age Cartoons, one-shots under the banner of Animated Antics, and an occasional Technicolor two-reeler. Betty would be the second casualty in the studio’s history, dying out in the wake of the exhaustion of the Screen Songs. But it was clear the writer’s tank at the studio was starting to run dry of new inspirations for stories, and, with the studio ‘s emphasis shifting to feature film production while keeping up its quota of Popeye releases, something had to give. This left Betty oddly all by herself, and without her animal friends, forcing her to take on somewhat stronger roles in coping with curious characters in a predominantly human world. There would be one more attempt for Betty to “discover” a new character, but this would only amount to a one-shot. Pudgy had clearly exhausted all reasonable variations on cute little dog stories, and would be the last of Betty’s co-stars to disappear. Betty’s cousin Buzzy (who we will meet below) also lasted only for two episodes. Wiffle Piffle didn’t quite get established in the Boop world, and lasted there only for two pictures. ![]() Grampy somehow ran out of ideas to light his light bulb. However, even some of her co-stars were beginning to lose their luster, and were being phased out one by one. ![]() As we have previously documented, Boop by this time was frequently relegated to second chair, taking a definite back seat to her supporting cast. We reach the final round of Betty Boop screen appearances.
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