Beany and Cecil - The Phantom of the Horse Opera

[vegeta8085]

soo nostalgia right now, this is the earlyest memories i have any cartoon i watch when i was little.

[MobRulesNow]

The Phantom sound like Steve Buscemi.

[megarouge2001]

Does Cecil not have a body?

[Oldiesmann]

@megarouge2001 He's a sea serpent...

[Kroenen117]

dam i nostalgiaed

[starguard]

When was very little, my mom used to force me to watch this show as punisment!

[wkunzelman1]

This show has absolutely no 4th wall.

[wkunzelman1]

4:19 Dean Martin reference.

[wkunzelman1]

-with no emotion- "Help, Cecil. Help. Help, Cecil. Help. Help, Cecil. Help."

Phantom: "Who writes your dialogue kid? -mockingly- 'Help, Cecil. Help. Help, Cecil. Help.' "

[dorsy2]

Anybody notice the phantom is doing Jerry Colonna? And the reference to "Horrors Heights" probably went over the heads of anybody who wasn't around when Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights were regaling us with swing music. Ah, the nostalgia ...

[mocharger06]

@dorsy2 Did you notice that after Cecil smashed the Phantom into the Sphinx, he actually LOOKED like Jerry Colonna?

[Cowgirlsunited]

I love this cartoon!

[classickjr]

This... is amazing!!!! thank you!

[Uncletoolbelt]

When will I learn to just leave my childhood memories alone? First it was McHale's Navy that I LOVED back in the day, and I couldn't finish even one episode as an adult because it was so stupid.. I couldn't even crack a smile! Now I have to add Beany to that list. Thanks so much to kappappa for finding and uploading it, however!

[flikkerflash]

i havent seen this in years! my mom had a bunch of these on an old vhs that i used to watch back when i was like 4 or 5 major nostalgia trip!

[jln55]

This was the type of cartoon that appealed to both kids and adults; pretty sophisticated humor in there, but plenty of visuals for the kids. Loved these as a kids, and appreciate the quality now! Also noticed the Leave it to Beaver music.

[MsLidarose]

Thank you so much for posting these!

[EvilCleric]

Do they ever show the rest of Cecil's body?

[richartrod]

@EvilCleric Only in three instances: in the episode "Beany and the Jackstalk" Cecil's entire body is wound up from head to tail in the tension coil of the giant's cuckoo clock; in another episode where Cecil is gagged and mummified and he spells out "N-O-W" with his body when a worm on a fishing line asks "Now?" to help him; and when he turns into Super Cecil, the big green S on his chest is actually a miniature of his body shaped like an S.

[kyokobaby12]

Haha I'm 14 and I think I'm the youngest person ever to watch this cartoon, let alone know about it... but whenever I win at something I still go NYA-A-A!!!!

[JJtronlady]

@kyokobaby12 perhaps, I just found out about beany and cecil yestarday from my grandperants.

P.S. older than you by a year NYA-A-A!!! JK

[hazelwitchhazel]

LOL at 2:30! "WHUT D HECK?!"

[daffydoug]

Man, you just brought back some WONDERFUL childhood memories!! I LOVED this cartoon!

[DRUMTOY2002]

@Runespeak : YES.......YES.......YES!!!!! I'm 45 years old and I STILL sing that song to myself sometimes!!!

[ivor1]

"who writes your dialog?" indeed. very funny stuff.

[joshnme]

I still have my stuffed talking Beanie doll with Beanie copter and pull cord. Too bad my dog ripped the stuffin' out of him.

[fearlessrider123]

I like how the food just disappears......

[Hawkeye752]

Always loved this show when it first appearing...a lot of witty lines!

[lphvm]

ah, gee, ah gee, ah gee gee gee, ah gee....aahhhphew!

[UserUnfriendly21]

If I was a pornstar I'd name myself "Leakin' Lena."

[Klaaaan1]

I use to watch this on my noon hour when I was in high school in the mid 60s

[AntTheLegend318]

got to be one of my favorite cartoons from my childhood, thanks for the upload

[Tigerpaws9097826]

This segment displays the creativity and fun that were a consistent part of the Beany and Cecil series. I wonder . . . has anyone else noticed that at 2:00 - 2:07, one of those giant hamburgers temporarily disappears without the aid of the invisible paint?

[elscottosg]

Do you have the one in which Dishonest John encounters a hive full of BEEZZZZZZ?

[ChaplainofPop]

That cartoon episode bought back memories. Invisibility and all!

I watched them often as a kid.

[wildwildwest1414]

wow how old is this?I can remember as far back as lost in space,underdog tutor the turtle but not this!

[vinceman]

classic. thanks for sharing!

[Whosile]

Nostalgia Critical hit

[KitiaraSkie]

I love the fact that they are in a boat but not actually in the sea

[lphvm]

@KitiaraSkie I love the sneezing and tickling scenes

[Flayprime]

ace!!!

[igluver15]

Nice Groucho Marx imitation. "You were expecting Lady Godiva?" LOL

[ltglahn]

It isn't Jerry Colonna?

"Ah yes!"

[societysinfection68]

wow what a nostalgia trip that was haha

[schizoidboy]

Ah yes violent isn't it? :)

[ShadowCatGirl1]

Umm...Well all I have to say is I would rather this then some other things...Flap Jack anyone?

I'll have to ask my Grandparents or my dad...probably my dad would now sense all I can guess is this came around the younger Woody The Woodpecker cartoons.

[Oncetwicethreetimes]

I loved this show. I had a Beany & Cecil board game.

[Durlwanger]

It's the first cartoon I remember..I remember watching "Fury" on Saturday morning also.

[evilcosmoproductions]

wOw, this is weird! can't believe angus young used to watch this show! but it's funny compared to the crap kids watch nowadays!

[racookster]

Aww, Cecil really is lovable. I just felt a pang of pity for the kids who came after me (I'm 50). We had Cecil; they had Barney the Dinosaur. No contest.

[CatZilla2007]

I remember watching this growing up. Barney the Dinosaur can get annoying...Beany and Cecil was pure enjoyment.

[racookster]

Ollie of Kukla, Fran and Ollie fame was cute, too. We just had better sorta-reptilian critters than subsequent generations did.

But... they had Animaniacs. XD

[drbotanus]

My mom says she much prefers the hand puppet version from the fifties.

[BuddyNovinski]

I just realized that in one scene Beany says, "Cecil, you shouldn't talk with your mouth full.", yet Cecil talks while flipping the horse like discus with the horse's tail in his mouth. Really, how can Cecil avoid talking with his mouth full, when he has no limbs!

Finding Beany and Cecil on YouTube has truly brought back memories of 1962. It has also cleared up some old images I have in my memory. One was the opening of the show of the flying propeller to reveal children around a television.

[hell0hkitty]

these were hilarious, and written for the enjoyment of the adults also! get a sense of humour folks lmaoooooooooooo

[AxelQC]

This was atrociously bad. Other than a few funny references that kids would never get, the story was awful, the animation primitive and the acting was subpar.

"Help, Cecil, Help" Notice there are no exclamation points used in that sentence. Was Beanie on Valium or something?

Just disturbing to watch.

[SteveCarras]

Huh? You have issue methinks, my friend, get a life [just kidding].

How "ATROCIOUSLY BAD": did people in 1961-62 think it was?

[BuddyNovinski]

This series brings back a flood of memories from around 1962, except I saw the original in black and white (no color television yet). I think I'd like to be Beany, the freckled blond, in any cartoon.

I get the jokes now! "I'd put a gag in this kid's mouth, but I'm running out of material." I didn't learn of Groucho Marx for another decade, so I did not get "Ain't that a kick in the head?"

I'd like to see the country progress toward the 21st century again after decades of reaction.

[SteveCarras]

Ain't that a Kick is a lift from Dean Martin, due to his hit song then..

[richartrod]

I love the showbiz puns in this toon.

Far and away the wackiest part is neat the end when Cecil is fighting the Phantom and Beany is cheering him on... all covered in invisible paint! ("This the greatest fight ever filmed! Too bad you can't see us!") The victory pose where only Beany and Cecil's mouths are seen seals the deal! :D

Kinda makes you wonder if Bob Clampett was sniffing paint when he wrote the script for this thing.

Rich Rodriguez

West Covina, CA

[BigBearPaul]

Beany and Cecil first started as a childrens television program with the characters being puppets in KTLA, Channel 5, in Los Angeles. Stop the Freud talk, Cecil is the shape he is in because, like Kermit the Frog, he was designed out of a sock.

[wannagoback052]

Oh my gosh, now I have heard

everything. I look at cartoons

as good days of my childhood,

nothing more. So Long.

[Djclyve]

It's funny how the animators never decided to give Cecil a body. You just see his upper half. But maybe that's a good thing. Remember the rare instances where you would see Alf's entire body? It didn't look right. Kinda scary.

[E27000]

I wonder what cecils body looks like

[telespring]

en el 1:10 me ponen nervioso.

[luridplanet]

The first TV show in which the three main characters are gay - not that there's anything wrong with that. Did the Captain ever get out of the "hiding box"?

[lphvm]

I agee.

[BuddyNovinski]

Nothing in this cartoon should be taken so seriously. Remember that male domination (and male bonding) was prevalent in the early 1960's. I suppose Bugs Bunny was gay as well!

[telespring]

aqui los unicos maricas seran ustedes ¿no?

here the very gays it´s see ¿isn´t?

[lphvm]

Bob Clampett had a sneezing fetish.

[PatchworkDream]

I barely remember watching this-Mostly I remember Cecil saying "DJ you dirty guy"

I love it more now than then-lol thanks for uploading

[jayelynn432]

I used to think this was great show when I was little

[peternoer]

love it!!!

[jccw227]

"This is the greatest fight ever filmed, folks. Too bad you can't see it"

lol!

[scotpens]

3:46 -- Cecil in a dress! Reminds me of all the times Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd appeared in drag. Definitely a Bob Clampett moment.

These cartoons were WAY hip for their time. Anyone remember Jack the Knife, a jive-talking swordfish who sang like Bobby Darrin? Or Slopalong Catskill, a frog who limped like Chester on "Gunsmoke," wore a cowboy hat, and spoke with a thick Yiddish accent? And those puns! Secondhand Dodge City, No Bikini Atoll, Prince Chow Mein, Tear-A-Long the Dotted Lion. . .

[wiley207]

I remember Jack the Knife, and the puns!

[Juliaflo]

Never forget Tear-A-Long, The Dotted Lion.

Here's wishing this will be on DVD.

Here's wishing YOU a HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

[PhantomoftheOperaOG]

@scotpens The dress was symbolic, too! Phantom? Christine? *wink wink*

[54spiritedwill54]

i havent seen this show in forever

[bluebettle]

I thought the ending really sphinxed.

[mastmedia]

This is terrible.

Why isn't this on cartoon network where it belongs.

Beany is a total stoner. Or is him some mentally challenged adult.

[EmSeeSquared]

actually, it WAS on Cartoon Network a few years ago if one looked hard enough. CN used to have a show called the Bob Clampett Show, which was 30 mins of "Bob Clampett cartooooooooons!"...erm, 'scuse me. anyway, it was mostly Bugs Bunny kind of stuff, but if one watched enough eps, they'd occasionally come across a Beanie & Cecil cartoon.

[nealbfinn]

Oh the subtle humor kids would never have understood in the 60's. References to "Wuthering Heights" and "Horrors Heights" (a play on Horace Heidt, a popular band leader in the 30-40s. Never got those jokes till now

[SteveCarras]

HORSE HEIDT, and his Mare-sical Knights. Clampett did for Republic a horse cartoon, his last short, for movies, "It's a grnad old nag", with Stan Freberg as a lovestruck (and starstruck!) horse who goes to a Hollywood with many horse punny names (actuallly beginning at the critter's barn, with "Heady La-mare", his love, and "Clark Stable"..:rolleyes")

[wileyk209zback]

Yeah; this show was basically "Tiny Toon Adventures" of the 1960s!

[SteveCarras]

but WITHOUT the "tude", [oartly because Clampett, not Jones was involved with Beany], and with totally different characterizations - the TTA in my opinion weren't as syphatetic or lovable as our Leakin' cruising friends..

[PhantomoftheOperaOG]

@nealbfinn I got the "Wuthering Heights" joke--that was a good book!

[geebeeman1]

How in the world did you find this?!

[kappappa]

I have a bunch of old tapes of Beany & Cecil.

[Vincek88]

Do you have the one where DJ keeps trying to get out of jail? Or 'Greenie the Sea-sick Genie'? Haven't seen these in decades; amazing how they stick in the mind.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

@kappappa on dvd and where is 'dishonest john"?

[TheFecalAvenger]

Tee hee! Cecil gives me a boner. WHat th' HECK???

[TheFecalAvenger]

I WOULD LIKE TO KILL MYSELF NOW. Please assist. This cartoon has confirmed my suspicion that suicide is the answer. HERE COME THE ASTEROID!!!! F*ck.

[Quickfitfitter]

thats some quality action

[thecutter67]

Groucho as the Phantom was hilarious! i always wondered if the original versions were as funny as the french versions we had in Quebec. The text and the local comedians voices were incredibly funny. full of second and third degree humour...

[USBeast]

That wasn't Groucho. It was Jerry Colonna, a regular on Bob Hope's radio shows.

[TamarJC]

Did you ever find Ragg Mopp? I've been looking for it. It's gotta be around somewhere.

[cosmicship]

That was in 'D.J. the D.J.'. It's on the DVD.

[danrob8]

Nothing too fancy, nothing too educational, just good time clean cut humor. They sure don't make cartoons like this any more.

[whiteblackbird]

OMG! I remember Beany and Cecil from when I was 4 or 5...I'm 50 now. Thanks for finding this!

[captainbooger]

dude haw old is this?

[wiley207]

I think this short was produced some time between 1960 and 1962.

[wiley207]

The music starting at 1:19 is music from "Leave it to Beaver!"

[royal1leroy]

always my favorite toon! Beany sounds like Michael Jackson. And yes, someone find ragmop. The captains voice was always so weird.

[richartrod]

Run a keyword search for "D.J. the D.J.", in which Cecil writes and sings "Rag Mop" with two dogs under the guidance of Dishonest John. It satirizes teen pop music, Tin Pan Alley and even Alvin and The Chipmunks! BTW, the title is short for Dishonest John the Disc Jockey. :)

[christophe555]

thanks!

[SteveCarras]

And the big band riff from Alvin and the Chipmunks used during chase scenes or when someflicte's clobbered somewhere or stepped on some pin was archived and used as a circus theme for Beany!

[wileyk209zback]

I believe that was because that was a rearrangement of one of the music cues, since Ross Bagdasarian was a friend of Bob Clampett and must've supplied some music in addition to Jack Roberts and Hoyt Curtin

[SteveCarras]

I agree as well, a conjecture that I've made before since Bob designed used puppets on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1960 of the Chipmunks for Ross Bagdasdarian. Now who can tell any mor eabout Jack Roberts?? Darrell Calker's "Woody Woodpecker": theme is heard a few themes in other episodes, "Dirtyh Birdy" for example.

[susantooley]

do you have or remember "guided muscle"?

[ly776]

No, it is a take on Jerry Colonna.

Great to see these old cartoons.  But where is the episode with Ragg Mopp?!

[596586]

THANKS i havent seen this show since like when i was 3

[rickperkins]

I think I was 5 or 6. The bad guy is a take on Groucho Marx.

[silverstinger]

GREAT!!!

[cesardominguez]

Greetings from Lima-Peru (South America);

Fantastic and Very Funny "Benito y Cecilia" (Beany and Cecil)!

The spanish version for Latin America kept the songs untouched in it's original english version...quite a challenge and motivation for learning it!

Cesar