Bosko's Parlor Pranks is a November 1934 Happy Harmonies cartoon[1] produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring their character Bosko.[2][3] It is the first Bosko cartoon produced in color (two-strip Technicolor), and the first made at MGM following the Harman-Ising studio ending its deal to produce Looney Tunes amd Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros. and Leon Schlesinger. Warner Bros. would later gain ownership of the Happy Harmonies and other MGM cartoons following its acquisition of the Turner Entertainment Co. catalog.
In this cartoon, Bosko appears with the same character design as in his Warner Bros. cartoons. After Hey-Hey Fever, Bosko's second MGM cartoon, the character was redesigned into a more clear caricature of an African-American boy. Most of the animation in the cartoon is reused from the Looney Tunes shorts in which Bosko appears.
