Can Boomerang add Gumbie?

[RonDrakenfan17]

It was a cartoon but not regular animation it was claymation. Still it used to be on Cartoon Network, and I liked the show it was interesting, Pokey was a hoot. I just am wondering if Boomerang could add it. Your thoughts on this.

[Caffeine King]

It was a cartoon but not regular animation it was claymation. Still it used to be on Cartoon Network, and I liked the show it was interesting, Pokey was a hoot. I just am wondering if Boomerang could add it. Your thoughts on this.
I swear I remember it being on Nickelodeon... :confused:

[Darkness]

gumbie is evil!!!! it should be removed from the history books

[Jeffrey]

I swear I remember it being on Nickelodeon... :confused:It did air on CN some time ago, the furtherest thing I remember it being on was at nighttime. So yeah, why not? Unless they ran out of the rights for this show.

Oh, and it's GUMBY.

[Beat]

If reglular CN can add the kung-fu puppetry of Wulin Warriors, I don't see why Boomerang can't add Gumby.

[Steve Carras]

Just a little perspective here.

The Nickelodeon one is the more modern '80s-90s vcintage.

Gumby started in 1956 on the old HOWDY DOODY SHOW [1947-1960], the black and white live action puppet show starring creator "Buffalo Bob" Smith (RIP,d.1998) and others.[Yes, the GUMBY's themselves were color.]

The character appeared in some clay-animated shorts (the first rather 20 minute,like one being set in space--creator Art Clokey had planned, and eventually made thisa franchise originally into a longer-running epsiode series in 1957-1958 before cutting them into the pairs seen - for instance, two about clay marbles, two about beavers and so forth utilizng some common footage a la The THREE STOOGES and other properties before the subseqent 1950s-70s/80s episodes with largely self-contained shorts*, the early shorts utilizing the sound effect that you MIGHT hear from car alarms (the long "f'weep, F'weep, f'weep" heard in a current flick whenever something unlawful's just been done to a car)**--a very elaborate sound FX indeed.

HD's Scotty McKee & outside comic giant Pinky Lee hosted the first GUMBY series [1957,NBC.] See also www.toontracker.com (http://www.toontracker.com/) (Ron Kurer, webkeeper; I contributed info on that show and on the almost obscure, 1964-69 LINUS THE LIONHEARTED,which is another topic!)
Originally, Gumby only had his parents and was an only child - no Minga (the latterday 1980s addition, a lookalike kids sister) to speak of, and girlfriend Goo was a "tossed blonde hair" fish, not the more upright-standing (literally) one with mop-like hair (cf. GUMBY mercvhandise of today versus that in old 1967 (the year the Prickle and Goo supporting cast was introduced) pictures on various animation sites,including www.gumbyworld.com (http://www.gumbyworld.com/)


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NOTES
*"GUMBY ADVENTURE POLITLINES ARE SELF-CONTAINED in the 1960s SHORTS": a few longer ones,cut into "partnered ones", or those that SHOULD be, were made in 1967: Prickle the dinosaur's birthday episodes WISHFUL THINKING & TURNIP TRAP and the bratty lemonade jerk who won't sell his to our buddies (SHADY LEMONADE, with the whole "Archie like" gang-Gumby, Pokey, Prickle and Goo) and DRAGON DAFFY with Gumby, Prickle and the dino's mom making a one and only-time appearance.) One could also vouch for Nopey the little dog yet another addition at that time, haivng been intended for a longer short.:D



**GUMBY AUDIO: As I've mentioned, it was tampered with due to rights's issues in the eighties---(b)ah, modern legal issues in entertainment--file sharers ain't the only ones here. The music, from the old "public domain" music libraries, compiled by ace music editor John Seely (who left us to go to heaven a year ago), credited for this on six Warner Bros.cartoons made with this stock music ikn 1958 due to a 1957 American Federations of Musicians, strike, (getting back to the music here), was tied up in legal clay, so Art Clokey reluctantly changed it with the help of Jerry Gerber, a Casio organist pal. Gives me, a Casio player myself, a bad name. Wonder if Jerry and cartoon voice (Hanna-Barbera's WAIT 'TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME) Joan Gerber were any relation.). That last studio, of course from 1957-60 until around the time of FLINTSTONES used that music from those libraries as did Columbia Pictures-mate Screen Gems and about a ton of other studios, with the notable expcetiosn of Jack Webb and Walt Disney, who relied on their own LIVE scores.Finally, it might be noted that apparently, since there was little voice or music the first three GUMBY's, the ones I mentioned in the normal size paragraphs as having the car-jack alarm sound, you know, the "Bloop Bloop, Fweep" outer space ones, and the WHOLE soundtrack remains in the otherwise "audio-wise made one" 80s ones .And of course, sound effects are not affected by copyright either!

BTW The space age FX n the early, "Chunky GUmby" moon sagas is NOT the l1957-1963 (c.) repeated siren sound, like the Looney Tunes Wile E.Coyote machine SF used so well in one of Chuck Jones's last great Warner Bros.toons READY WOOLEN AND ABLE (1960), when the wolf ends up and a la Tex Avery's Droopy, there's that sheepdog, only scores of him!!


Those interested can Google on WEB for Production Music.