| House Cleaning Blues | |
| Director: | Dave Fleischer |
| Animator: | David Tendlar Eli Brucker |
| Starring: | Mae Questel (Betty Boop) Everett Clark (Grampy)[1] Jack Mercer (Roosters)[2] |
| Music: | Sammy Timberg |
| Producer: | Max Fleischer |
| Studio: | Fleischer Studios |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Color Process: | Black-and-white |
| Runtime: | 7 minutes[3] |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.[4]
Betty wakes up in the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shamble, and Betty is not looking forward to cleaning up. She sings the title song while struggling with her chores. Grampy shows up to take Betty out for a drive, but Betty can't leave until everything is tidy.
Grampy literally puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top), and invents a host of labor-saving devices: a cuckoo clock powered dishwasher, a combination bicycle and floor scrubber, and a player piano that folds laundry. In no time at all, the dancing inventor has the house spic and span, just in time to take Betty for a spin in his automobile (which features a built-in soda fountain).