Matties Funnies With Beany and Cecil
"I'm comin' Beany male child!"
This drawing was developed from a local t.v. boob evidence that aired in Los Angeles years earlier by Bob Clampett of Warner Brothers fame. Information technology consisted of the adventures of a ship led by Captain Huffenpuff and his motley crew of Beany (a young male child wearing a - you guessed it - beanie - a plastic hat chosen a "Beanie-Copter" actually was marketed from this series past a toy company - Mattel?), a crow who resided in the crow'due south nest of the send - he was rarely always featured in the series and Cecil, billed as Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent. Cecil didn't ride on the ship - he swam along with Beany and the Helm wherever they went. Cecil, or Cece (Sees), every bit Beany called him, basically had a long cervix sticking out of the h2o and you lot never saw what was below the waterline, which prompted audiences to muse, "Did he have legs and feet, or was there just more neck?" Huffenpuff was essentially a coward who excused himself regularly to skulk off to his cabin whenever danger threatened. Beany was an overly sunny little blond guy with an annoying chuckle and Cecil (basically, the star of the prove) provided the comedy relief with his husky, dopey, gravelly voice.
The antagonist was a crook-nosed baddie in a black greatcoat-and-hat named Dishonest John, who, whenever he showed up in an episode, saturday on the sidelines and tossed monkey-wrenches into whatever the crew's objective was. Many a child on a playground during this fourth dimension would utter Dishonest John's signature dastardly express mirth when plotting a foul act against a playmate - "NYAH ah AAAAH!" D.J., as he was referred to past Cecil, had a phonation reminiscent of Hans Conried, the vocalization of Captain Hook from Disney'south blithe Peter Pan, however, the vocalism was supplied by another actor entirely.
The various episodes placed the crew in plots such as discovering the dreaded Boo Birds, ghostly birds with a penchant for mischief directed toward our heroes, encountering the giant gorilla, "Ping Pong" and also, seeking to capture the "Wild Man," a bongo-playing crackpot artist in a leopard skin whose vocalism was supplied by Scatman Carothers ("Wild, man, wild!" "Don' bug me, man. Dooon' issues me!").
Probably the best episode out of the entire series was one where the crew goes to the moon to commencement a theme park called "Beanyland." As they travel through space, Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" plays along with the starlight backdrop. This drawing was created shortly after Disneyland's debut and definite fun was poked at it (particularly with the mention of where they would place a "Darned Erstwhile Duck Pond"). Helm Huffenpuff would ascent into the air, a la Tinkerbell, and wave a wand issuing sparkles that would cause the park to raise magically from the surface of the moon. The resemblance to Disneyland was obvious.
There were puns aplenty in this serial. It was very, very juvenile in one sense, yet packed jokes that only adults could get. There was lots of lampooning of famous characters which included, of all people, a Keely Smith-type character in the "Vegas" episode. Another episode included a sawfish named "Jack the Knife" who would break into a rendition of a song that sounded all too much like Bobby Darin'south "Mack the Knife," finger-snapping and all.
I loved this series - until it aired as well long on Saturday morning. I could practically recite the dialog from retentivity. Still, the series remains a pleasant memory from my childhood.
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Animated Anarchy (for goggle box)
Although I wasn't even born yet when this series was first aired in the late 1950'southward, I got to finally encounter information technology when it was briefly revived in the early 1990's (I had read about it from a pic collector's publication, where episodes were fabricated available in the quondam 16mm format,and that one of the original directors/animation supervisors was none other than the great Bob Clampett,of many a Bugs Bunny curt). Although the animation manner was carried out on a much smaller upkeep than nigh of the animated shorts released past the major studios,it more fabricated upwardly in the humour department (some of the jokes would take for sure gone right over the heads of most young children at the fourth dimension). I of my favorite segments was the Beany & Cecil shorts (most of which were directed past Clampett). Other segments varied from so,and so (Casper the friendly ghost was a concept that got really old fast),to pretty damned funny (Baby Huey---a gigantic duck that dressed similar a baby & acted like an inbred idiot). This series hasn't got much exposure since the early on 1990'south, so information technology'due south safe to assume information technology's now locked away in some film studio vault & moldering away with time---only to be withal,another 1 of the forgotten aspects of animation.
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I remember Beany & Cecil, just who is Matty?
"Beany & Cecil" first aired on Dominicus mornings nearly xl years ago (!). Their major sponsor was Mattel toys, whose icon at the time was a young animated boy named Matty, hence the name of the show (there was no sign of Matty when the series was brought back for a curt run on cable about six years ago). I seem to remember Matty equally having a crown on his head while he repeated the company slogan, "You tin can tell information technology'southward Mattel- it'south groovy!"
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Harvey Comics breaks into the Electronic Media
We Remember THIS series as an amalgam of cartoon series that had been produced and released theatrically by Paramount Pictures' FAMOUS STUDIOS animation unit. The characters included CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST, HERMAN & CATNIP, LITTLE AUDREY, BUZZIE THE FUNNY CROW and Infant HUEY.
THE RIGHTS TO the character ass well as the existing cartoons were purchased by HARVEY COMICS PUBLICATIONS in 1959. Harvey Comics had been publishing the CASPER Comic Books and had designs on moving their media sphere of influence into kiddie oriented network television.
THE RESULTING Series on ABC Telly was titled MATTY'S FUNDAY FUNNIES and featured the above mentioned characters shorts showcased on the program; which was broadcast on Sunday afternoons. The proper noun of "MATTY" in the show's title refers to its sponsor, MATTELL TOYS; with the character of "Matty" was strictly for existence a sort of Chief of Ceremonies of the opening credits. nothing more, nothing less.*
NEWLY DRAWN TITLE cards and closing fade out title all read HARVEYTOONS. Past utilizing a sort of Jack-in-the Box ascension graphic symbol displaying a sign that said so, the likes of Casper, Audrey, Babe Huey, Buzzie and Herman & Catnip all were proclaimed to the world every bit having been moved from the Paramount Pictures' NOVELTOONS to Harvey; both on the screen and in the pages of Harvey Comics joke-books.**
IN Addition TO these myriad of blitheness characters, the series also introduced the blithe adventures of Bob Clampett's BEANY & CECIL; which somewhen did crowd all else out and take over the show.***
Notation * In much the aforementioned way, Hanna-Barbera'southward HUCKLEBERRY HOUND Show had its opening centering on the animated Rooster from the Kellogg's Corn Flakes box; who introduced Huck, Yogi Behave and Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jynx. Evidently, Kellogg's was its sponsor in syndication.
Notation ** This was the equivalence of the custom of having a traded baseball game player suiting up in the compatible of his new club.
NOTE: *** Mr. Clampett's character originated on the live action puppet show, TIME FOR BEANY (1949-54).
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