I'll Take Vanilla

When Tommy Bond tells his aunt, Betty Mack, that he won't eat his spinach if he doesn't get some vanilla ice cream -- Popeye would be shocked -- she enlists the help of ice cream man Charley Chase, much to his destruction.

It's not the best of Chase's sound shorts, but it has its charms, including a song by Chase and Roach staffer Leroy Shields, Bond at his brattiest, and the usual impeccable Chase construction of both plot and gag sequences; the one that ends the short, a horde of policemen pursuing and futilely shooting at Chase's fleeing ice cream truck is as dark and funny as any of his movies.