Mr. Magoo's original voice was that of actor/comedian Jim Backus. You might remember him as the drunk pilot that Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hacket hooked up with in 1963's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'. However, for some reason, he did not do this cartoon.
its terrible to voice over these classics, Charleys appearance is just as PC-incorrect as his voice so change his clothes too, why youre at it how about Abu from The Simpsons?
lol dang all these comments lol ... when you're a kid watching these shows you don't really seem to pay attention to things like adults do lol this show was before my time but came on in reruns and was also put on vhs and I LOVED IT ..thanks for posting this video :)
The PC gestapo at Turner has dubbed in the voice of the black woman (seen only from the knees down) in the classic MGM Tom and Jerry cartoons. I read an interview with that actresses (whose name slips my mind now) granddaughter who said her grandmother would be outraged that her voice was cut out. She was proud of her work on those cartoons, because of the joy it gave to children. Ted Turner should be ashamed for cutting her voice out.
people need to build a bridge and get over it about racist cartoons. You dont hear the irish complaining that they always make the police men in american cartoons have cork accents do you? People are to sensitve
my god!!!! haven't seen magoo for almost 40 years! loved to watch him in my childhood but then bugs bunny came along and he took a backseat...sorry magoo.
thats funny! I wish I had been alive when cartoons were politically incorrect.....and then again I would settle for buying dvds of the seasons of the show.....
@HeavyMetalAddict14 lol i had to read ur statement twice i was gonna ask u are u dead if so how did u right the comment or even read mine lololololhahahahhablaaaaaa
Why are all Chinese people so bucked toothed, and wearing traditional Chinese clothing in these old cartoons? And the police man is of course Irish, and the Mafia are depicted as stupid.....too funny.
I remember an episode where Magoo wanted to barbeque something, and he accidentally took fireworks out of the shed rather than charcoal, and Charlie yells "Boss! Boss! (PC version) The fireworks! The fireworks!!" And Magoo acknowledges "Yes, Charlie, I know the fire works.
A wonderful cartoon series from my youth. Some years ago, I bought a VHS tape of Mr. Magoo cartoons. Unfortunately, Charlie's voice was re-dubbed to a more politically acceptable style. It sucked! Does anyone know if this series is available on DVD as it was originally aired (politically incorrect)?
Strangely, the DVD is a mix where some are the original untouched, un-PC versions and others are dubbed. Apparently they pulled the source material from different places. Did they actually not notice or not care? Were they too lazy to look harder for all the original versions? "Magoo's Surprise Party" on the DVD is the PC version which is the main reason I left this version posted following the release. If I was able to find an original print, though a number of years ago, why couldn't they?
if anything is deemed politicaly incorrect, does that mean that we shouls fallow suit and forget about incorrect things everytime? the News segment on this when they showed a blind guy commenting on mrmagoo, it sounded like he had rehearsed the dialog a million times, it was pathetic!!! I laughed till I was sick!! LOL
Still like to hear the late Mr Jim Backus. I still recall old Mr Howell from Gilligan's Island !!!
I used to see this cartoon in French, 3 different voices: canadian comedians Ronald France and Jean-Claude Robillard, and France's expert vocalist Roger Carel...
Yea get over yourselves. charlie was a character and a very nice one at that, surely he is a reflection of his time, in that people felt comfort about such a character, even though his establishment was not geared in a cultural understanding.
Show a character with an accent and people accuse you of racism. Bullshit. Charlie was smart and resourceful, he just happened to have a heavy chinese accent. Get over it and yourselves.
@Bogframe smart and resourceful AND cute, especially with THAT voice, and it was MR. MAGOO who was the shitty driver, which also shoots holes in any logic behind accusations of racism.
@imaneightiesbaby You take it wrong. I'm Jewish. I've seen a lot of Jewish stereotypes, and while I find some of them offensive, I'd take more offense if the characteristics of my race were blurred into something less than the sum of their parts.
In the Magoo DVD set that was FINALLY released, most of the cartoons are intact while others (including "Magoo's Surprise Party") have Charlie dubbed in an awkward all-too-caucasian voice (which should be more insulting!). I don't get it?
In the compiling process, did someone not notice the difference between the original and re-issue versions, or were they too lazy to seek out all the originals?
Until sometime in the 80's, TV stations were provided 16mm prints from a company called PAT. It's only due to private collectors snatching these up when the stations went entirely to tape that prints of rare TV shows exist at all. My question is, what happened to PAT's masters? Their prints typically contained all the original bumpers, teases for the next episode and so forth. Yet most DVD releases lack these nostalgic extras. How careless this industry is!
I also suspect that the people behind these DVD releases are too young to remember these shows and figure that the first print they find is all there is. I know this because I recently interviewed for a job at a company that releases on DVD, among other things, vintage films. Virtually everyone there was 20-something. Can you say age discrimination? Yet a caricature like Charlie is considered far more scandalous! How pathetic!
'If Charlie is a racist interpretation,what is Kahn on King of the Hill?' Uh-oh. Another one of these Politically-Correct assholes Who wants to stir shit up with race-baiting. You people will stir up trouble picking out anything that someone else sees in people. The world will NOT be a perfect utopia. Put your hippie bongs and LSD down. Or is it fucking Big city sophisticated yuppie shit? Even worse.Don't like it? Who gives a fuck? Move to Canada...
lol! my teacher showed us this video today in class. i loved it so i'm watching another 1. i like the cartoons the teachers used to watch when they were little.
"Charlie the Houseboy" was specifically created for these TV cartoons (this was first seen in 1961), and was also present in Pete Alvarado's syndicated comic strip version in the mid-'60s.
Thats awesome. Does anyone remember another 60's/70's cartoon with a little mexican dude(human) with a big sombrero..cant remember the name of it but it had an amazing style?? grr!
You must be thinking of Go-Go Gomez. He was one of Dick Tracy's rotating "Retouchable" characters who were the actual stars of those cartoons, voiced by Mel Blanc. He also appeared in a "Waldo And Presley" episode.
Hop Sing from Bonanza died around '64 (hence, the need for Charlie) and Jim Backus was awesome as the voice of Magoo. A true classic that looks and sounds like a forerunner of much of what you see on Nicklelodeon.
Oddly enough when UPA's Dick Tracy cartoons were reran in syndication in the summer of 1990 [to promote the release of Warren Beatty's live action Dick Tracy movie] Joe Jitsu's voice was left untouched, I guess USA thought Charlie's voice was offensive and the syndicators didn't? Of course many local stations pulled the episodes with him in it [and the Mexican character Go Go Gomez] in protest, so somebody was offended!!
When these cartoons were reran on the USA Network weekday mornings from 1989 to 1990 [under the title "Mr. Magoo And Friends", it also showed segments from The Gerald McBoing Boing Show and the 1977-1978 DePatie-Freleng produced What's New, Mr. Magoo? series] Charlie's voice was redubbed to an English accent by 2 anonymous voice actors [one with a deep voice and one with a scratchy voice, neither fit the character]!!
Wow...an Irish copAnyone of you babyboomers over 45 catch that "Magloo's" Asian "houseboy" (the one with the 18-inch long teeth) is also named "Charlie"??? I guess Hop sing was already taken!! Geez.
Yeah its too bad that political correctness becomes such a determining factor here. The boys in Washington D.C. are good at pointing the fingers at others just so as long its not in their direction. Change is coming and NOT in the favor of either the Democrats or the Republicans currently in office. Watch and see!
I agree that all this political correctness is a bunch of "hooey". These are the cartoons of our youth, and we should see them, and others need to know the history. These may not have been the best Magoo cartoons, and whathaveyou, but, it should be there for us.
ROAD HOG! LOLOL
DCUPtoejuice 4 months ago
IRISH COP
dafodil2002 4 months ago
Respond to this video... The Chinese or Japanese character is one
ruissman 4 months ago
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ruissman 4 months ago
He just refuses to open his eyes to anything happening around him......
mzedong001 6 months ago
This dude most probably have been the first CSICOP member.....
mzedong001 6 months ago
Mr. Magoo's original voice was that of actor/comedian Jim Backus. You might remember him as the drunk pilot that Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hacket hooked up with in 1963's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'. However, for some reason, he did not do this cartoon.
Nephthalem 6 months ago
I was hate him and until now I hate him
mu4me1 7 months ago
ITS McCAIN!
john17972 8 months ago
Bruce Lee couldnt stand this cartoon. I think he even mentioned somthing about it once!
starguard 9 months ago
@starguard The last person in the world to piss off is Bruce Lee......
qmcsing 7 months ago
Hummm........ i wonder when he'll get glasses??? I hope he never does! He's hilarious!!!
clubeauty 9 months ago
Love u
AYOMIKIE 9 months ago
This is a classic! So they used a Chinese accent on Charlie. But its OK to use an Italian accent or an Irish accent.
2008ljr 9 months ago
Cholly house bloy makes me laugh. Magoo,though,not so much.
Shashan1977 10 months ago
Poor charley
hblollypopstar 11 months ago
Awesome cartoon and very nonpolitcal correct. Thank you for posting a classic version of the this cartoon.
kissmusiclover 11 months ago
LMFAO CHRALIES HILARIOUZZZ
weezyfan25 11 months ago
this is a good old fashioned way of making fun of blind people.
jbond5150 11 months ago
its terrible to voice over these classics, Charleys appearance is just as PC-incorrect as his voice so change his clothes too, why youre at it how about Abu from The Simpsons?
ericcharlesmokotoff 1 year ago
What we NEED to do, IMO, is to get over the "political incorrcetness" and enjoy the cartoons intact, just as we did when we were kids!
wsbtam 1 year ago
lol dang all these comments lol ... when you're a kid watching these shows you don't really seem to pay attention to things like adults do lol this show was before my time but came on in reruns and was also put on vhs and I LOVED IT ..thanks for posting this video :)
misssiera311 1 year ago
Death, don't have shit On Mr magoo. He's like death repellent! Death.. is afraid of an old blind man XD
666Archimonde 1 year ago
The PC gestapo at Turner has dubbed in the voice of the black woman (seen only from the knees down) in the classic MGM Tom and Jerry cartoons. I read an interview with that actresses (whose name slips my mind now) granddaughter who said her grandmother would be outraged that her voice was cut out. She was proud of her work on those cartoons, because of the joy it gave to children. Ted Turner should be ashamed for cutting her voice out.
danj1701d 1 year ago
people need to build a bridge and get over it about racist cartoons. You dont hear the irish complaining that they always make the police men in american cartoons have cork accents do you? People are to sensitve
nightstargill 1 year ago
farmville
kimletke 1 year ago
you gotta love MAGOO
dropdead46 1 year ago
@dropdead46 i know , i miss these cartoons, couragous cat, top cat and sooooo many more
boomcc1 1 year ago
my god!!!! haven't seen magoo for almost 40 years! loved to watch him in my childhood but then bugs bunny came along and he took a backseat...sorry magoo.
jeepgayguy 1 year ago
life was so simple then the world seemed a more peacefull place oh magoo
edwards21416 1 year ago
i though charlie was a chick
SparkPlugMovies1 1 year ago
Mr Magoo is like one of the guys at my work. He is totally oblivious to anythng that happens around him.
sinwow33 1 year ago
I always got a kick out of Charlie. lol Magoo at the wrong house.
MrElectrician59 1 year ago
hahaha oh mr.magoo, he should be driving but he does anyway haha :D
Bulrog10 1 year ago
1:48 I'm from China and I don't look like that, but did know someone who looked like that before, so It's not 100 percent politically incorrect. LOL
HotForCooking 1 year ago
@HotForCooking LOL Thanks for your sense of humor
MrElectrician59 1 year ago
Quincey MaGoo
buzzlewie 1 year ago
Mr Magloo!
Hahaha, love theese old cartoons!
OtakuPraetorius 1 year ago 2
Hilarious! The Magoo cartoons aren't "stupid" at all. Very witty and thoughtfully designed.
huizilopoxtli 1 year ago
oh leo ,u did it again
thegentelman37 1 year ago
@thegentelman37 he said oh magoo
lol gamagan1 TAKE CARE, I LIKE UR USER NAME THE GENTLEMEN
gamagan1 1 year ago
@gamagan1
nice of bro : )
thegentelman37 1 year ago
@thegentelman37 thanks, but im a girl
gamagan1
gamagan1 1 year ago
It's a good cartoons
936sunflower 1 year ago
this oldie cartoon is so stupid its hilarious my mom is beside me giggling about it every once in a while in the cartoon
RANDOMQT98 2 years ago
thats funny! I wish I had been alive when cartoons were politically incorrect.....and then again I would settle for buying dvds of the seasons of the show.....
HeavyMetalAddict14 2 years ago
@HeavyMetalAddict14 lol i had to read ur statement twice i was gonna ask u are u dead if so how did u right the comment or even read mine lololololhahahahhablaaaaaa
gamagan1 take care thank god for utube
gamagan1 1 year ago
Man, the USA was a better place before we got Politically correct.
djvdz66 2 years ago 3
Then go back to the past...bitch!
GPalaypay 1 year ago
friggin hillarious
choff56 2 years ago
Why are all Chinese people so bucked toothed, and wearing traditional Chinese clothing in these old cartoons? And the police man is of course Irish, and the Mafia are depicted as stupid.....too funny.
acesobrian 2 years ago 3
dude.. it's just a cartoon..
juan1974mendez 2 years ago
I remember an episode where Magoo wanted to barbeque something, and he accidentally took fireworks out of the shed rather than charcoal, and Charlie yells "Boss! Boss! (PC version) The fireworks! The fireworks!!" And Magoo acknowledges "Yes, Charlie, I know the fire works.
cmans79tr7 2 years ago 3
A wonderful cartoon series from my youth. Some years ago, I bought a VHS tape of Mr. Magoo cartoons. Unfortunately, Charlie's voice was re-dubbed to a more politically acceptable style. It sucked! Does anyone know if this series is available on DVD as it was originally aired (politically incorrect)?
ftsjr 2 years ago 8
Strangely, the DVD is a mix where some are the original untouched, un-PC versions and others are dubbed. Apparently they pulled the source material from different places. Did they actually not notice or not care? Were they too lazy to look harder for all the original versions? "Magoo's Surprise Party" on the DVD is the PC version which is the main reason I left this version posted following the release. If I was able to find an original print, though a number of years ago, why couldn't they?
leo81960 2 years ago
@ftsjr you can find this at shoutfactory. com
JAG214 3 months ago
@JAG214 Thanks for the info.
ftsjr 3 months ago
@ftsjr Your welcome
JAG214 3 months ago
I've got an aunt that drives like this Mr. Magoo but its not funny when she is near you in that big car of hers. LMAO
hotpeachjuicy 2 years ago
leslie nelson was a good mr. magoo but not like this cartoon.
ryanadamsfan1 2 years ago 2
The opening titles have been altered on the Mr. Magoo DVD
KrazyKartoonKid 2 years ago 2
lol! at 3:50 a woman on her knees - looks doggie style
evilunixuser1 2 years ago
yeah and she had terrible big teeth. haha!
ryanadamsfan1 2 years ago
So Politicallty Incorrect but funny as hell!!
2008ljr 2 years ago
I get a kick out of this! An Irish-sounding cop, an Italian-looking thief, a Chinese-servant...wow.
anabaptistSue 2 years ago 6
That was the most insensitive depiction of an Asian person I have ever seen. But I still laughed my ass off XD good ol' 60s.
Nutterbutterz95 2 years ago 4
if anything is deemed politicaly incorrect, does that mean that we shouls fallow suit and forget about incorrect things everytime? the News segment on this when they showed a blind guy commenting on mrmagoo, it sounded like he had rehearsed the dialog a million times, it was pathetic!!! I laughed till I was sick!! LOL
tom67264 2 years ago
Haha, still funny!
mevidek 2 years ago 2
magoo not magloo
jhcash09 2 years ago 2
sigh!! good old days!! thank u for putting this up!! :-D now thee r wot i call cartoons!! not the silly stuff nowadays!
bbhaw84 2 years ago
Mr. Magloo!!! Mr. Magloo!!! Oh god....
BoobyMcDoogle 2 years ago
Signed MAX lol hes really blind!
JJNcool 2 years ago
esse desenho e demais :)
laraecarlo 2 years ago
Poor blind bastard! $3000 would have been allot of money in those days.
whatsontv1234 3 years ago
Hi whatsontv1234,
Maybe thats how lots of Tax Dodgers read their "TAX RETURNS"!!! Ha Ha!
Cheers from Ireland!!
Corsaircid 2 years ago
Still like to hear the late Mr Jim Backus. I still recall old Mr Howell from Gilligan's Island !!!
I used to see this cartoon in French, 3 different voices: canadian comedians Ronald France and Jean-Claude Robillard, and France's expert vocalist Roger Carel...
realliveclaude 3 years ago
I remember he had a saturday morning cartoon in the late '70's with Jim Backus still doing his voice.
villain68 3 years ago
lets play pin the tail on the donkey! XD
LuvRemyanJack 3 years ago
I'm 56 and watched them as a kid. And I still watch them.
Rockit8 3 years ago 2
go magoo im 31 i used to watch this when i was very young
noonx101 3 years ago
...Sweet!!!
chillnydia 3 years ago
Yea get over yourselves. charlie was a character and a very nice one at that, surely he is a reflection of his time, in that people felt comfort about such a character, even though his establishment was not geared in a cultural understanding.
metamorphises 3 years ago
dumb punk]
alltops 3 years ago
Unhappy people will always find a way to try and make happy folks sad. Political Correctness seems to be the modern method. Won't work.
Fersommling 3 years ago 24
mary jane is mary jane
jeandepaul 3 years ago
MisahMagloo,I so sorry bloss!!!I think i met this dude on the I 95 south bound in NJ(blind)
richbonnie220 3 years ago
Show a character with an accent and people accuse you of racism. Bullshit. Charlie was smart and resourceful, he just happened to have a heavy chinese accent. Get over it and yourselves.
Bogframe 3 years ago 20
@Bogframe smart and resourceful AND cute, especially with THAT voice, and it was MR. MAGOO who was the shitty driver, which also shoots holes in any logic behind accusations of racism.
00RockyAngel00 1 year ago
@Bogframe I take it you're not from a minority group. If you're Asian or from Asian extraction you might not have such a flippant attitude.
imaneightiesbaby 1 year ago
@imaneightiesbaby You take it wrong. I'm Jewish. I've seen a lot of Jewish stereotypes, and while I find some of them offensive, I'd take more offense if the characteristics of my race were blurred into something less than the sum of their parts.
Bogframe 3 months ago
Cuando tradujeron Mr. Magoo al castellano escogieron muy bien al traductor, pues su voz es muy parecida al que habla inglés.
nandito2411 3 years ago
funny!
hermajesty24 3 years ago
Just great. Love it
soupdragon42 3 years ago
I love magoo..hillarious thanks!
saphopoem 3 years ago 2
is this our next president? Mc Cann?
appleoak 3 years ago
Mr. Magoo.... was my cartoon!! other the Woody woodpecker....
NSugaBuga 3 years ago
u cn tell its old u can see by the way they epict chinese ppl:P
rastaman36 3 years ago
and the cops...
NSugaBuga 3 years ago
Jim Backus was one of the funniest actors out there.
NinjaGhostScorpion 3 years ago
I love mr magoo! Thanx
aldolfboy 3 years ago
Thanks a lot for posting this lost treasure. Private prints and bootleg collections ftw!
conniechung4000 3 years ago
lol charlie....racist but back then it was no big deal...shit you could say the "N" word on tv
banderse 3 years ago
If charlie is a racist interpretation, what is Kahn on King of the Hill? Hmmmm?
diddymuck 4 years ago
In the Magoo DVD set that was FINALLY released, most of the cartoons are intact while others (including "Magoo's Surprise Party") have Charlie dubbed in an awkward all-too-caucasian voice (which should be more insulting!). I don't get it?
In the compiling process, did someone not notice the difference between the original and re-issue versions, or were they too lazy to seek out all the originals?
leo81960 4 years ago
Until sometime in the 80's, TV stations were provided 16mm prints from a company called PAT. It's only due to private collectors snatching these up when the stations went entirely to tape that prints of rare TV shows exist at all. My question is, what happened to PAT's masters? Their prints typically contained all the original bumpers, teases for the next episode and so forth. Yet most DVD releases lack these nostalgic extras. How careless this industry is!
leo81960 4 years ago 2
I also suspect that the people behind these DVD releases are too young to remember these shows and figure that the first print they find is all there is. I know this because I recently interviewed for a job at a company that releases on DVD, among other things, vintage films. Virtually everyone there was 20-something. Can you say age discrimination? Yet a caricature like Charlie is considered far more scandalous! How pathetic!
leo81960 4 years ago
"Can you say age discrimination?"
My God, you've got that right. It seems the highest qualification these days is being someone who thinks the universe began the day you were born.
EndCredulity 3 years ago
'If Charlie is a racist interpretation,what is Kahn on King of the Hill?' Uh-oh. Another one of these Politically-Correct assholes Who wants to stir shit up with race-baiting. You people will stir up trouble picking out anything that someone else sees in people. The world will NOT be a perfect utopia. Put your hippie bongs and LSD down. Or is it fucking Big city sophisticated yuppie shit? Even worse.Don't like it? Who gives a fuck? Move to Canada...
Coullion43 3 years ago
you're a douche
Bassmaster3250 3 years ago
lol...I happen to agree....and I'm from Canada! So much for stereotypes, eh?
oopik 3 years ago
Too bad people consider this racist. Charlie was a lovable character, and saved MaGoo many times.
JoeT13 4 years ago 5
omg my uncle asked me what mr.magoo was ihad no clue so thakns for ading this
SouljaGurl613 4 years ago
my 16 yr old daughter never saw mr magoo we can change that as soon as she gets off work thanx a million
coocoo32489 4 years ago
is charlie supposed to be related to the vietnam war?
funmagicstudios 4 years ago
kinda racist but mr. magoo is my shit
USCHoodman 4 years ago
Thank you so much for uploading this. Being extremely nearsighted myself, I absolutely LOVE watching Mr. Magoo! He's a riot and always will be!
NipkowDisk 4 years ago 3
lol! my teacher showed us this video today in class. i loved it so i'm watching another 1. i like the cartoons the teachers used to watch when they were little.
00YoonEunHye00 4 years ago 2
Yes!!!! is fuccking great Mr Magoo, jajaj, is very similar to friend Sergio Cabrera, from Chile.
nanillo666 4 years ago
Great!!
RAKANKAN 4 years ago
Fucking classic cartoon. a liitle racicst but so am i. fuck i'm old!!
sacobacs 4 years ago
"Charlie the Houseboy" was specifically created for these TV cartoons (this was first seen in 1961), and was also present in Pete Alvarado's syndicated comic strip version in the mid-'60s.
fromthesidelines 4 years ago
Thats awesome. Does anyone remember another 60's/70's cartoon with a little mexican dude(human) with a big sombrero..cant remember the name of it but it had an amazing style?? grr!
wildone106 4 years ago
You must be thinking of Go-Go Gomez. He was one of Dick Tracy's rotating "Retouchable" characters who were the actual stars of those cartoons, voiced by Mel Blanc. He also appeared in a "Waldo And Presley" episode.
RoyFive 4 years ago
haha1 i love mr magoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
balooga4 4 years ago
I always loved Jim Backus in this role.
cha5 4 years ago
Nice. Thanks.
EXIT3A 4 years ago
Oh- Mistah Maa-Gloo,...... Ohh, Charlie !
MIKEKOSH68 4 years ago
classic
necroculto66 4 years ago
Good old Magoo he`ll tell us what to do.
bazzatheblue 4 years ago
lol haha
remainders 4 years ago
I LOVED Mr. Magoo growing up. Always watched intently for that 1/2 second that he opened his eyes!!
tickkledpinkk 4 years ago
that one thug sounded like a total wus
seizetheweakened 4 years ago
BTW, check out Mr. Magoo "Beer Commercials", even funnier.
neluppy 4 years ago
LOL God bless Mr. Magoo...this stuff is actually FUNNY, despite the fact that it's like 40 years old. Pretty impressive.
neluppy 4 years ago
HI MAGOO HA HA HA HA HA
maxmanesh 4 years ago
ahhh, Jim Backus. If he is not remembered as Mr Howell, he surely is remembered as the voice of Mr MaGoo.
JoeT13 4 years ago
OMG an 18th century bucktooth Chinaman, an Irish cop and a stupid blind old man. How America has changed!
loverocket 4 years ago
As for political correctness..not to mention the slapstick gunshots and nearsightedness in addiiton to "Cholly".
SteveCarras 4 years ago
Hehhh Hehhh...My namesake! What a wonderful little fellow! Hehh Hehhh....
JGMagoo 5 years ago
cooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllll
tazmaniandevon 5 years ago
I Loooved Mr. Magoo, he reminds me of my grandfather. hahahaha
Mystery71 5 years ago
AHAHAH the best is the asian dude, cuz he looks like my friend Jimmy Chow! hahahahh crazy ol' Jimmy..he helped me around town too
erick103 5 years ago
Hop Sing from Bonanza died around '64 (hence, the need for Charlie) and Jim Backus was awesome as the voice of Magoo. A true classic that looks and sounds like a forerunner of much of what you see on Nicklelodeon.
fluffyxdestroy 5 years ago
Oddly enough when UPA's Dick Tracy cartoons were reran in syndication in the summer of 1990 [to promote the release of Warren Beatty's live action Dick Tracy movie] Joe Jitsu's voice was left untouched, I guess USA thought Charlie's voice was offensive and the syndicators didn't? Of course many local stations pulled the episodes with him in it [and the Mexican character Go Go Gomez] in protest, so somebody was offended!!
nnaw 5 years ago
When these cartoons were reran on the USA Network weekday mornings from 1989 to 1990 [under the title "Mr. Magoo And Friends", it also showed segments from The Gerald McBoing Boing Show and the 1977-1978 DePatie-Freleng produced What's New, Mr. Magoo? series] Charlie's voice was redubbed to an English accent by 2 anonymous voice actors [one with a deep voice and one with a scratchy voice, neither fit the character]!!
nnaw 5 years ago
Wow...an Irish copAnyone of you babyboomers over 45 catch that "Magloo's" Asian "houseboy" (the one with the 18-inch long teeth) is also named "Charlie"??? I guess Hop sing was already taken!! Geez.
laurken 5 years ago
Yeah its too bad that political correctness becomes such a determining factor here. The boys in Washington D.C. are good at pointing the fingers at others just so as long its not in their direction. Change is coming and NOT in the favor of either the Democrats or the Republicans currently in office. Watch and see!
lostonyounow 5 years ago
I agree that all this political correctness is a bunch of "hooey". These are the cartoons of our youth, and we should see them, and others need to know the history. These may not have been the best Magoo cartoons, and whathaveyou, but, it should be there for us.
matman8540 5 years ago
I remember these being on local TV in St Louis up to the early 1980s. Then one day *poof*, gone, and no wonder. Damn political correctness!
skrag1 5 years ago 2
Awesome! I haven't seen the original Magoo cartoons since at least 1980. Not suprising why you rarely see reruns anymore ("Mista Ma-GLOOO!").
Thanks for sharing - please put up more if you have them!
jcice2 5 years ago