They aren't talking to the boss if the boss isn't there to hear them. They are talking to an animatronic with his face stapled on, like a baby talking to a t shirt of a dad that's away on business with his face put on it.
40s/50s. No more black and white bopping characters, before the cheaper limited animations of the 60s. Bugs bunny and Tom and Jerry would stretch, transform and push what the medium could do with huge expressiveness and inventiveness.
This better not awaken something in them