There's Good Boos To-Night

There's Good Boos To-Night
Directed by	I. Sparber Animation director: Myron Waldman (uncredited)
Story by	Bill Turner Larry Riley
Produced by	Sam Buchwald I. Sparber (uncredited) Seymour Kneitel (uncredited) Bill Tytla (uncredited)
Starring	Walter Tetley Sid Raymond Jack Mercer
Narrated by	Frank Gallop
Music by	Winston Sharples
Animation by	Myron Waldman Morey Reden Nick Tafuri Wm. B. Pattengill (uncredited)
Layouts by	Anton Loeb
Backgrounds by	Anton Loeb
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Famous Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	April 23, 1948 (1948-04-23)
Running time	8:47
Country	United States
Language	English

There's Good Boos To-Night is a 1948 animated short directed by Izzy Sparber and narrated by Frank Gallop, featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost. It is the second cartoon in the Casper series. The title is a play on "There's good news tonight", the sign-on catchphrase of radio commentator Gabriel Heatter.

Plot

The cartoon opens with Casper sitting beside his grave, decorated with the Bible segment 'love thy neighbor', reading a book on animal friends. Around midnight, while the ghosts at the cemetery, where Casper is buried, are getting ready to go off and "boo" people, Casper is trying to make friends with animals instead of humans. The ghosts leave the cemetery, as does Casper, who wanders off looking for friends in a couple of animals. However, when Casper tries to make friends with a baby calf, it runs away, calling for its "mama"; when the calf's mother goes up to Casper, she runs away from the farm and jumps over the moon.

Later, Casper comes across a skunk and asks it to be friends, but it sprays him and runs away in terror. Casper sits on a log and cries because none of the animals wants to be his friend. While Casper is seated on the log, he catches the attention of a small fox cub who feels sorry for him. Casper and the fox quickly bond, and he names the cub "Ferdie" and considers him his best friend. However, Casper and Ferdie's relationship soon becomes jeopardised while playing a game of Hide and Seek. While Ferdie is hiding, a hunter and two of his hunting dogs come and try to kill Ferdie. They pursue him until he is exhausted and out of breath.

While the hunter is firing gunshots toward Ferdie, Casper flies in the hunter's direction and demands they leave Ferdie alone. When the dogs and the hunter see Casper, they flee in terror. Casper looks for Ferdie to tell him that the hunters are gone but discovers that Ferdie is dead as the bullets had passed through Casper's incorporeal form and hit him. Casper cradles the fox's body and breaks down in tears, having lost the only friend he has ever had in his life. Casper returns to the cemetery, where he buries Ferdie next to his gravestone. Casper begins mourning but soon discovers that Ferdie has returned as a ghost. Reunited, Casper and Ferdie live happily ever after.

Additional voice cast

• Walter Tetley as Casper
• Sid Raymond as Other Ghosts
• Jack Mercer as Other Ghosts, Ferdie Fox, Calf, Hunter

External links

• There's Good Boos To-Night at IMDb
• The short film There's Good Boos To-Night is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.