Flip's method of restoring the fellow to his original appearance and behavior is probably going to cause the more hypersensitive to cry, "Foul!" and call for burning the whole thing (or at least editing the offending scenes), but cartoons shouldn't be sanitized-any more than life can be. The fellow orders a drink and said drink causes a Jekyll and Hyde type of transformation in him and Flip's day is pretty much ruined.
GLAAD would not care for this characterization overmuch. Before too long, however, a new party is heard from: a gentleman who would have made Liberace look like Sylvester Stallone strolls in. For the grand opening of Flip's new soda shop, various celebrities come out to wish him well (while visually quite good, the voices on several leave much to be desired) in his new endeavor. Like virtually all the animation departments and/or studios of the classic era, Iwerks incorporated caricatures of film stars easily recognizable to the audiences of the day. The Marx Brothers all trying to drink - with four straws - a soda, was one example of the topical humor.
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There weren't many laughs in here but it was a fast-moving, entertaining cartoon and it's always fun to see these old movie stars parodied. Hyde" and demolishes the place before being squirted a "pansy spray" and returning to normal. The gay guy drinks a strange potion and suddenly turns into a "Mr. UB Iwerks often made fun of gays and had them look like the guy in here, so this cartoon will definite and justifiably offend members of that group.
Also inserted in this story is a flaming homosexual type. The frog makes a total fool of himself over Mae. Who knew that drug stores were that big a deal? Anyway, we see some clever ways Flip serves these famous people at the counter. We get the normal ones you'd see in a Flip The Frog cartoon, namely Laurel & Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Charlie Chaplin (or Eddie Cantor, I couldn't tell), The Marx Brothers (all four of them!), Mae West and a few I didn't recognize. There is a spotlight, a red carpet and a list of celebrities that all show up for this momentous occasion. Flip is the owner of a brand new drug store, and you'd think it was the Academy Awards night.