Funky Phantom (1971) - OPENING

[khuhjg7]

to bad he was a villion in mistiry incoporated

[TheAverycross]

After all these years, I still love the original opening theme! As hip and jazzy as it is, it reminds me a little of the Brady Bunch theme.

[squeapler]

I love the gratuitous use of hip catchphrases like "funky" and "Bong" in a theme song that is anything BUT "funky" and in fact sounds like the kind of music cartoons had back in 1963.

[britelite2657]

same voice as snagglepuss eveeen hehe

[InsertName125]

@britelite2657 You beat me to it. I was going to say he was the ghost of Snagglepuss.

[zumbadance100]

i miss this show

[acholl980]

September will be the Phantom's 40th Anniversary.

[PunkyBear36]

That darn old phantom fancies himself some sort of 'spirit of 1776' american pride patriot, does he?? Well, rather irronically, this was the first cartoon outsourced to Australlia by Hanna Barbera; because american animation was too expensive.

[sandmarch7]

Hey funky phantom, Im seein' what? a hat, a cravat and what are those san culotte? So I gots ta know, What makes you think you so funky?

[popsicklevideo]

ha ha the Funky Phantom sounded like Snagglepuss!

[61kdi]

In the new Scooby doo mystery inc. show they made

the funky phantom ended up being the bad guy and he said that he really wasn;t a ghost but a thespian trying to get money. so he hid in a clock his friend told him about

don't believe me go here the youtube.com/ watch?v=wqRqcziRdhk&feature=mf­u_in_order&list=UL

[trumbachd1]

OMG I remember this!

[teletubetodd]

This was the earliest of the two different openers. About mid-season it was replaced by a mixed chorus singing the song with a more straightforward beat. This was a fun cartoon — a great way to make your Saturday morning.

[hubacchris]

So I got to ask, what makes you think your so funky?

[rayssonation]

The Funky Phantom originally ran from 1971 to 1972 as part of ABC's Sunshine Saturday Morning schedule that lasted one season. This was close as you can get to being one of the "Scooby" clones that were all over the place during the 1970's.

[pazzensutra]

What, did he listen to James Brown in his spare time? Is that what made him funky?

[declanappleseed]

Mudsy's name seams to cover all of the USA.

[qualitysucks]

alternative scooby doo characters

[ardashir51]

I'd forgotten this. Now all the memories are rushing back -- just like a nightmare! :weeps:

[IrisMG]

Boy. This used to come on just before the Jackson 5 cartoon on ABC Saturday Morning.

[WaffleKing99]

Scooby Was so better!

[Aztecius]

exit, stage left evennnnnn

[chezniki]

We had the vinyl album with pictures on the album cover to follow along. OMG! Im so old! LOL!

[taurnguard]

@chezniki I've got you beat. I had the Top Cat cartoon LP as a kid of the Rootin' Tootin' Diamond episode. I'm so older! :) 

[TunaEars]

i am only 15, but i loved this show when i was little, and i still love it! along with scooby captain caveman and goober of course!

oh yeh and you've gotta love topcat

[cartoonboy180]

GOOD!!!!!!!

[veeganboy]

I've spent most of my adult life trying to find another person who actually remembered this show. I was beginning to think I'd imagined the entire thing.

[SomeFluffer64]

Now where have I seen this before...

[cyberkitkat]

wait so how did they fight discrimination?

[Owlzindabarn]

No lie--in about 1972 I was the Funky Phantom for Halloween. I was about 7 and it was one of those plastic masks and coveralls that came in a box....way way back in the day lol.

Boy--that dog and the ghost cat sure hated each other...

[pleaseloveandcare]

it's a funky phantom! lmao i'd be running

[Blondiegreeneyes72]

this show came out a year before i was born wow i feel old now

[56Mercgal]

@Blondiegreeneyes72 Don't feel so old, I was born in 66'! LOL! And this was one of my favorite cartoon shows! I soo remember the theme song! This is soo cool!

[semcarteira]

booooooo!!!!!!!

[retox]

Woo Hoo, I've been trying to remember the name of this show forever so I could search it. It's fun to have those memories come flooding back. Cheers for posting.

[greg6363]

They were selling shows to the other networks who wanted something similar to either "Scooby-Doo", "Josie and the Pussycats", etc. They weren't in the business of turning down orders which makes the sheer volume of their output even more amazing.

[knowfuture22172]

Hanna Barbera must have crapped out at least 20 different cartoons using that same formula from the late 60s up till well into the 80s. They were all about quantity over quality.

[pazzensutra]

I remember this. So, how's he supposed to be "funky" anyway?

[vonsmitty1313]

He was funky on account of having been dead for 200 years. Furthermore,he seldom took a bath,used deodorant,or laundered his stanky,ghostly britches...

[LBF522]

@vonsmitty1313 Thanks for the explanation. I had wondered about that.

[InsertName125]

@vonsmitty1313 Yes, but did he know James Brown?

[padlockjr]

dam i remeber watching this back in tha day

[MarkVIILSC]

I thought I had imagined this. I blocked it out of my mind. I remember enjoying it, though I don't quite remember what it was about.

[Giblet32]

Wow, that didn't age well. Then again, who does?

[originalhippy]

sounds like snagglepuss

[TIPTON340]

Funky snagglepuss

[RaptorQueen]

the funniest thing was that i use to have the hots for him when i was younger, or maybe it was just hard flirting. XD

[crystalrosebale]

me too, man, me too.

[bluesow]

Yup! I remember eating Quisp cereal and watching this. I'm old,too! (sigh)

[AEROKORN88]

Funky Phantom's voice sounds like Snagglepuss

[KDANIMAL]

It was the same guy

[Scarletspeedster68]

You are right and that voice was portrayed by the late Daws Butler, who also voiced Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Mr. Jinks, Quick Draw McGraw and many other Hanna-Barbera characters.

[george319]

i cant believe im this old

[Sweetbabyvixen]

LMAO! Heyyyyy, what the hell am I laughin' at we're both old, WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!

[skyscraper7474]

believe-believe, i m old too!! but...what a "FUNKY" times!!! surely better than now.

[gaddmanrules]

The Phantom reminds me of Nearly Headless Nick for some reason.

[FaytLinegod]

Hanna Barbera should get on the ball and release some of these older shows on DVD.

[evancortez2]

I found myself singing along to this; even after 35 years I can still remember the lyrics!

[QBCNetwork]

This is the better theme of The Funky Phantom. Sounds more jazzier.

[knarffit]

the blond chick was so hot....looks like melody from josie & the PC's

[mkl62]

@knarffit April may have resembled Melody, but she had more common sense than Skip or Augie had. In the Headless Horseman episode, she showed a hint of jealousy when Skip and Augie were making over Laurie Elwood, who was Icky Crane's girlfriend and the object of Richard Travers V's affections. But she was smitten with a race car driver on April's Foolish Day. I guess she got a little carried away that day, herself.

[mkl62]

@knarffit But April had more common sense than Melody. And she wasn't afraid to stand up for herself, either.

[Jinks1447]

@knarffit All part of the "eye candy" that was used in cartoons of this time.

You had Penelope Pitstop, Daphne from Scooby-Doo, Groovia on the Roman Holidays, Melody, the Teen Angels, and many other nice examples!

[andoc]

@Jinks1447 Cartoon girls back then were sure better than today, nice ladies to look at! Not to mention drawn far more accurately than today... ¬_¬

[denis5555]

Thank you for posting it here. I'm from Brazil and this cartoon was one of my favs as a kid. Oh, good ol' days!

[lovisa31]

I have been trying to remeber the name of this cartoon for ages!

I used to watch it in the morningd before I went to school, along with Captain Caveman.

So I typed in ghost cartoons on google, and I put loads of the names into youtube!

Thank you so much, I've been trying to find it for ages!

[Damaris1972]

This was my all-time favorite cartoon as a kid. So glad you posted this... everyone one earth needs to watch at least one episode of "The Funky Phantom". Just one!!!

[LaDracul]

I think we need the "Phunky Phantom" for today's generation. :D

(I think I've watched "Harvey Birdman" too much.)

[jt3931984]

wow it feels like saturday morning,..wheres my quisp ?

[hoag1964]

I was partial to Quake!

[statlerized]

Remind old friends and people you know who are around 37, if they remember these great cartoons from the 60s and 70s, so they will not be forgotten. These are treasures that take me back to when I was a kid again. No confusion. No stress. Good therapy for me.

[60sThru80s]

Exactly. Back when it was actually FUN to be a kid. A foreign concept today...

[goodboysic]

Wow, I remember saying prayers at my family's dinner table and felt like I was going to hell because I couldn't get the funky phantoms theme tune out of my head

[bijeto]

Hilarious! Way too freaking cool! Another great blast from the past. Thank You!

[TheMikester307]

One of my favorite shows ever! I was dissapointed ABC didn't re-run it during the Bicentennial (1976).

-----mike

[Spealing]

i hated how i had to stay up till like 3am to watch this. But it was great! I use to look forward to it and Fangface.

[bingbong35]

This was rerun in syndication in the late 70's as I remember. The voice of the "FUNKY PHANTOM" is the same as "SNAGGLEPUS." I thought the girl was always cutely drawn.

[visor109]

What is this the ghost of Snaglepuss?

[ruisseau]

Kind of. Daws Butler did the voice for both Snagglepuss and Mudsy

[JDB73]

Thank you for posting this. I saved it to my faves. I miss this show. I agree with groundhog713, I loved Boo as well. I was so happy when Cartoon Network used to play it. That was until the removed all the good cartoons and replaced the channel with lots of anime crap and crud. Such a shame. Gimme old school classics anyday.

[cubbi1977]

YES!

[Photopixel]

i remember...

[Chernabog22]

Ah-ha! When my sister and I went to Kings Island (Cinci) in 1973, the whole kid's section was Hanna-Barbara themed and I never realized until now why the little car ride we rode on was called the "Looney Duny"! As a young kid someone gave me one of those read-along LP records of the Funky Phantom as a birthday gift but I never quite got it since I didn't watch show.

[groundhog713]

It's pretty cool somebody would have to the opening of this show! I used to watch this show when I was a kid. I always liked Boo the Cat, because he always got the best of Elmo!