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At MGM, Bosko became a recurring star of Harman And Ising's ''[[Happy Harmonies]]'' series of shorts. He initially retained his inkblot design when he first arrived at MGM, but this design and his original characterization (or [[Flat Character|lack of]]) altogether were eventually scrapped in favor of a full-on blackface kid with a curious personality, [[In Name Only|sharing only the original name of Bosko]]. But the character failed to regain any of his original popularity, and ultimately faded out altogether after a handful of shorts.
While the character has remained in limbo for many years, his cartoons rarely airing on TV, save for the earliest days of television (when the first package of ''Looney Tunes'' shorts were initially released to television) and on [[Nickelodeon]] in the late 80s and 90s, 25 of his 37 warners shorts have made their way into the [[Public Domain]], as well as the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series. The character also made a brief comeback in the ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' short ''Fields Of Honey''. (although he was slightly redesigned to look more like the dog-esque characters of the then upcoming ''[[
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* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Bosko and his girlfriend Honey could well be considered the early studios answer to Mickey and Minnie Mouse. (along with Foxy and Roxy from Merrie Melodies...) His dog Bruno is also a blatant ersatz of [[Pluto the Pup]].
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Bosko very rarely makes appearances in modern Looney Tunes artwork, and hasn't appeared in any cartoons since his redesigned cameo in Tiny Toons. Understandably, this is due to his roots as a blackface character making him an unacceptable character to put into the mainstream today. It dosen't help that his esoteric nature compared to the mainstream [[Looney Tunes]] (due to his cartoons being off the air since the 80's), not to mention his [[Flat Character|vague personality]], do not make him a popular character among fans.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Understandably, if you're a modern Looney Tunes fan whos used to all of the later characters like [[Bugs Bunny]], [[Daffy Duck]], [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner
* [[Dogface]]: his look in [[Tiny Toon Adventures]].
* [[Everything's Better
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: The ending of "Congo Jazz".
* [[Flat Character]]: Moreso with his successor Buddy, though.
* [[Gainaxing]]: Done by a ''[[Non-Mammal Mammaries|palmtree]]'' in "Congo Jazz".
* [[The Golden Age of Animation]]
* [[Looney Tunes in
* [[Music Soothes the Savage Beast]]: Done by Bosko to a tiger in the beginning of "Congo Jazz".
* [[No Ending]]: Taken to the utmost extreme in "Ride Him, Bosko!". Just as Bosko is hot on of the trail of the kidnapped Honey, the film goes to Rudy Ising and his animators [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|get up and leave]] without resolving the [[Cliff Hanger]], obliterating the [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|fourth wall]] in a way that hints at later Warner Bros. more than contemporaneous Disney.
* [[Off
* [[Pie-Eyed]]: [[Depending
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: The aforementioned quote from "Bosko's Picture Show."
* [[Public Domain Animation]]: All of the shorts prior to "Ride Em, Bosko!" are [[Public Domain]].
* [[Rhymes
* [[Stock Footage]]: A huge chunk of animation from the Warner Bros. shorts were retraced for the first two MGM Boskos, albiet colored.
* [[That's All Folks]]: By all accounts, he ''should'' be the [[Trope Namer]], as he technically said the lines first in "Sinkin in the Bathtub", but for some reason it went to [[Porky Pig]] instead.
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