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The Box That Socks
No, Huckleberry Hound, it’s not a present for you, we hear in this Pixie and Dixie cartoon-between-the-cartoons. “It’s a jack-in-the-box SURprise for Jinks,” Dixie tells Huck. Jinksie grabs the box....
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Hocus Pocus Focus/Muni-Mula Mix-Up
Don Messick had an odd voice that I first heard on The Herculoids. I don’t know exactly how he did it; probably by wiggling his tongue inside his mouth. Gloop and Gleep weren’t the first Hanna-Barbera...
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Yuletide Yogi, Holly Jolly Jetsons and Twisting Tom Cat
Yogi Bear got into the spirit of Christmas (the secular, not religious version), though not on his TV show. A couple of storybooks with Yuletide Yogi were published in the early ‘60s. One was a Little...
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Adults and Quick Draw McGraw
TV critics managed to find ways to watch The Quick Draw McGraw Show even when they didn’t have to. Larry Thompson of the Miami Herald outlined his subterfuge in his column of December 6, 1960. At least...
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Creepy Creature Feature
Ruff and Reddy may have had a low budget but there were attempts at making them visually interesting. Unlike later series where every cartoon was laid out like it was taking place on a stage, Ruff and...
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On the Road With Huck and Yogi
Thanks to the folks at the Leo Burnett ad agency, fans of Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear got to see them in the... Well, we can’t say “in the flesh” because the flesh was buried under furry suits...
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Quick Draw on TV?
It would appear fans of Quick Draw McGraw will be able to see the series on TV once again. Eventually. An announcement on this web site says: Tubi has confirmed a list of 100 different series from...
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The Creepy Creature
There’s a lot of running in this episode of Ruff and Reddy’s Muni-Mula adventure, and you know what that means—less footage for Ken Muse and more money saved by Bill Hanna. From a story standpoint,...
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Julie Bennett is a Scream
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera apparently weren’t altogether content with having Daws Butler or Don Messick do all the female voices in falsetto on the first season of the Huckleberry Hound Show. They put...
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Rushing Reddy
How’s this for an in-between? I’ve mentioned before I’m not a big Ruff and Reddy fan, but some of you reading this are, so here are some frames from Surprise in the Skies, the tenth cartoon from their...
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Play the Quick Draw McGraw Game
The Yowp blog has some great readers. Earlier this year, we posted some pictures of a Quick Draw McGraw board game sold by Milton Bradley in 1960. The rules were helpfully included. Reader Stephen...
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Run, Carlo, Run
Re-use animation cycles? Not Carlo Vinci. At least in some early Hanna-Barbera cartoons. In Big Bad Bully, there’s a lot of chasing and running going on, as Yogi Bear tries to get past a bull to reach...
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Crowds in the Clouds
We’re not exactly dealing with the brightest characters at times in the Ruff and Reddy cartoons. Witness the events in 11th part of the Muni Mula adventure, Crowds in the Clouds, which first aired on...
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More Than Cartoons
There’s a generation out there that gets wistful for afternoon blocks of syndicated cartoons, or an American cable channel that pumped out nothing but animation. Your yowping reporter pre-dates that. I...
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Reddy's Rocket Rescue
One of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera’s first hires when they (with silent partner George Sidney) opened their own studio in July 1957 was someone who hadn’t worked with them at MGM. It was a writer named...
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Scaredycat Lah
Hanna-Barbera needed some outside help to get the Huckleberry Hound Show on the air. Three animators were on staff, but Hanna brought in Mike Lah (their wives were sisters) on a freelance basis to pick...
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Rocket Ranger Danger
The first Ruff and Reddy adventure may not have featured an awful lot of animation, but the uncredited background artist was pretty busy. In the final cartoon in the Muni Mula adventure, from the time...
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Exit, Stage Lah
We’ve talked about how the early Hanna-Barbera characters went from one pose to the next without in-betweens. We’ve also mentioned in a previous post that Mike Lah animated movement in his cartoons at...
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Show Biz Bear Background
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, I’m sure, didn’t mind it when writer Warren Foster opened a cartoon with a slow pan over a background painting. No animation was required, which saved a buck or two. Show...
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Jolly Good Huck
The Huckleberry Hound Show was incredibly popular upon its debut, not only in the U.S. where Kellogg’s placed it on nearly 200 stations, but in other countries as well. The Huck show got write-ups in...
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Quick Draw McGraw Coming
It's actually happening. After years, and years, and years of waiting, the Warner Archive Collection is finally able to get The Quick Draw McGraw Show on a home video format. The company's Facebook...
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Boy, Is My Face Brown!
There were occasional boo-boos at the Hanna-Barbera studio, and we don’t mean the little bear kind. Mouths on separate cels would be out of register, colours wouldn’t match. This also happened at the...
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Quick Draw Goes Postal
“The boys are givin’ me a hand with the mail this week,” says Quick Draw McGraw in one of short cartoons before the end credits of his show. The gags aren’t terrific, but pleasant. Augie Doggie and...
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Ping Pong Puss
Dixie is playing table tennis with Jinks in a little cartoon before the next Pixie and Dixie cartoon. Pixie is just standing there so Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera don't have to pay Don Messick to voice...
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Don Messick, Musical Comedy Star
He sings! He dances! He’s Don Messick. Don would have turned 100 today, and I can think of nothing better than to highlight a likely unknown aspect of his career. An extremely long shopping list of his...
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