Betty Boop stands in front of a colorful tent and a wagon labeled 'Betty Boop's Traveling Department Store' in a rural, vintage cartoon setting with hillbillies and log cabins.

Be Up to Date (the final episode of the third season of Cheyenne that aired on July 1, 1958) In the 1938 Betty Boop cartoon of the same name from Fleischer Studios, Mae Questel bid adieu to voicing Betty with this less than hilarious short which finds Ms. Boop taking a mobile dry goods store to some yokels up in the hills. It's notable that Betty's look has continued to evolve, perhaps slightly but still noticeably. But in the 1958 episode, Clint Walker reprises the role to voicing Cheyenne Bodie. In Be Up to Date (1938), Betty visits Hillbillyville "Down the Road a Piece," with Hoagy Carmichael's "Lazybones" as an instrujmental on the soundtrack, & an unusully well designed set with three-demensional backdrop. It's a whole town of run-down cabins & moonshine swillin' lazy hillbillies lounging everywhere. Betty Boop arrives in her smart little sports car pulling a huge wagon that says "Betty Boop's Travelling Department Store," singing as she goes about all the stuff her store offers for sale, ending with the lyrics, "I'm coming round the mountain, round & round the mountain, to bring you hillbillies up to date." "Boy oh boy do I expect to do business," says she, unfolding her tented department store & performing more of her song, "Be up to date! Be up to date! You & you & you, before it's too late." The hillbillies find novel uses for modern items. A toaster is used to fire objects for target practice. A motor for a motor boat operates a plow. A waffle iron shapes a See more