Unsurprisingly, Steve looked around and said: bum bandits, all of 'em Come on, said Malcolm, be cool, he's letting us play here.

Also in 1931, the Talkartoons The Bum Bandit and Dizzy Red Riding Hood were given distinctly "impure" endings.

He had proposed moves against Mandelson until he was appointed Northern Ireland secretary ('can't get near the bum bandit now') and Ron Davis ('we could take him on the common').

The Bum Bandit is an animated short film created by the Fleischer Studios in 1931 as part of the Talkartoon series which features Harriet Lee as Betty Boop.

Officially, Betty was only 16 years old, according to a 1932 interview with Fleischer (although in The Bum Bandit, she's portrayed as a married woman with many children, and also has an adult woman's voice, rather than the standard "boop-boop-a-doop" voice).