Gopher Broke

[Xenith4494]

4:08

hahaha

[DaveWollenberg]

What DID cause the musicians' strike in late '58? Anybody know?

[jgbennie]

@DaveWollenberg Warners, MGM, Paramount, Fox and Columbia were recording outside the U.S., and therefore the funding formula to pay into the AFM Trust Fund didn't kick in. The strike was under way by March and over some time after June. President of the Local, btw, was Elliot Daniel, who wrote the 'I Love Lucy' theme.

[DaveWollenberg]

@jgbennie Thanx for the info. How'd ya happen to know all of that?

[jgbennie]

@DaveWollenberg Old copies of 'Billboard' on-line go into what happened.

[DaveWollenberg]

@jgbennie Thanx, JG. Have a blessed week!

[jgbennie]

@DaveWollenberg Same to you, Dave.

[roger62mar]

One of my all time favorite toons. From my childhood to adult hood.

[stacilily]

@roger62mar I agree! It's the music for the pig when he cracks that's always done it for me. lol!

[cyberyanmar]

but their voices suck

[cyberyanmar]

their relationship may be suspicious but this cartoon is awesome!

[bluecatky]

I love the pig in this cartoon. At 3:16 he's like "WTF dude, get a grip!"

[bluecatky]

4:07 QUACK! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHH!

[SteveCarras]

@sygo7g

Many TV studios such as Columbia and Don Fedderson as well.

[BadNews88]

The final scenes with the poig getting a subtle nervous twitch, and the encounter with Dr. Cy Kosis (YA GOTTA love it!!) were the BEST bits of all! And for once, the canned muic by John Seeley was indeed VERY appropriate.

Thanx fer this, m8..

[6891man]

The dreamy music for when the dog takes the sleeping pills was an excellent choice.

[SteveCarras]

@6891man

AGrred. It's TC-22 Sublime Ghost. It's annoted at the bottom.

[YoshiAngemon]

Well, the gophers are called Mac & Tosh.

[SteveCarras]

@sygo7g

Also used in "My Three Sons" for the first four or so years.

[SteveCarras]

The pond cue, where TC-24 VIBE GHOST turns up, is where the ole' Foghorn Leghorn series ornery barnyard Beagle gives NEW meaning to the term "to freak out".

[TheTP54]

THANK YOU for 'loading this, but it's amazing to me the difference in quality what with Carl Stalling missing. The animation is still TOP DRAWER quality, but they would have been better served with NO music sound track at all IMHO.

Dave

[skytrain73]

LMAO at the bird at 5:30.

[SteveCarras]

@sygo7g

Jay Ward and Larry Harmon as well.

[Murdercide626]

Gotta love those gophers! Poor ol' Dawg. lmao

I really loved that extra bit at the end with the pig. XD

[TheTallMan35]

I wonder if these gophers went to college.

[Firstborn0Raz]

This always cracks me up, the dog is the one who goes crazy and the pig is the one who ends up seeing a psychiatrist. Never gets old.

[mag237]

That's stupid, dogs cant fly!

[TheTallMan35]

@mag237 Well gophers can't speak proper english but you didn't complain about that.

[SteveCarras]

@sygo7g

Courageous Cat, Sinbad Jr. [NOT H-B but Couraegous producer Sam Singer/Trans-Artists, who thanks to the 'net I was able to identify as one studio!],Fractured Fairy Tales, some of the New Three Stooges and Bozos, and a handful of Beany and Cecils, too.

[pwninator345]

Dr. Cy Kosis

lol puns

[BleedingBambi]

QUAAAAK :DD

[Anew17vid]

they are so polite and adorable

[gurlzrool]

slipping on banana peels, classic :D

[lampshade1227]

4:25 That is the face of a junky suffering from withdrawal

4:30 That is the face of a junky that is happy again

[joxergirl]

I love these guys...my fave one is the cartoon with Elmer Fudd...AHHHHH NUTS! lolol

[laphongtudo]

I'm trying to find the goofy gophers clip where they are hanging about at a logger place ! Where they cuts logs and stuff.

[SteveCarras]

Compare this with another Seely Six, the only Bugs Bunny short, "Pre-Hysterical hare", in the bunch using fuller cues and those more associated with Huckleberry Hound, Yogi, and such rather than QUick Draw [for Hanna-Barbera Capitol Hi-Q music use comparisions; Ruff and Reddy was far less discriminate in using it.]

[wileyk209zback]

I heard this cartoon is going to be released on DVD this November on a Foghorn Leghorn DVD set. Let's hope WB doesn't run into music rights issues and redub the cartoon with a synthesizer score and new voices, or something like that

[Robbie80015]

Sigmund Fraud! XD

[starchboy71]

The pig's face is the funniest, especially at the end when he twitches.

[luam2006]

i love goofy gophers can u post their other videos please?

[boru25]

So that's why the Barnyard Dawg is wearing a gerdale. I waited since 2003 to find this episode. I just thought he might of thought he was getting fat.

[WackyWadslow]

I loved this cartoon when i was little but when i was little i never understood why the dog was all shook up :P

GOLD I love this :D

[wileyk209zback]

The music cue at 4:30 was also used on the "Ren & Stimpy" episode "Haunted House," when the ghost in the episode floats up to a closed door and says "Hmm... where are they?" I imagine that was the only Capitol Hi-Q music piece from a "Seely Six" cartoon ever used on "The Ren & Stimpy Show"

[Nyiddle]

good stuff.

[SteveCarras]

4:23 is "Comic Cues 26" by Cadkin and Bluestone. Glad to see you mentioned TC-200. And a certain VERY famous recoridng artist wrote that one..

[SteveCarras]

And many of the others..aka David Rose [hope I didn't spoil anything there].

[Aldaboy]

4:07

LOL

"QUACK!" XD

[slydawg221]

3:07 seriously! a bail of hay weighs more than that dog?

[jgbennie]

Anything's possible in them there cartoony pictures!

[writchey1]

@jgbennie yes it does

[zkafel]

smaller bales are "baled" with 2-3 strands of twine or wire around the long way and can weigh between 60 and 130 pounds. i live on a farm we have 5 horses ;)

[slydawg221]

wow! it doesn't look that heavy.

[goraidersndodgers]

@slydawg221 that was about the only realistic thing in the whole video. seriously animals can speak English?

[Mirandasiwillja]

@slydawg221 ever lifted a hay bale? of course it's possible

[showiproute]

@slydawg221 You would be surprised at just how much a big bail of hay weighs. I was!

[lovelydrayboo]

so hes a psychologist saying dogs dont fly when pigs cant even talk..

hehehe crazy all along

[pittland44]

Somebody should tell the farmer his dog is a pill popper!

[cusil518]

bwhahahaha....LMBO!!! the farmer is in denial...hahaha XD

[tatibosque]

Quiero ver este video en español, alguien que me diga el nombre, gracias

[tatibosque]

quiero ver este video en español, alguien puede ayudarme a encontrar el nombre

[TIPTON340]

Thanks for the musical score intros.

[jgbennie]

Tip, it'd take forever to do the whole thing and you'd see cue names flashing on the screen all the time. But I've put up some of the longer and better-known ones.

[Lottech96]

Hmm the way you put seem as the pig was there just to be the "Straight Man" in a sense. I always wondered about the pig in this one.

[AEMoreira81]

Which is odd, because the Barnyard Dawg normally plays that role.

[SteveCarras]

It had been gone long before that, cut since the late 60s.Good use of the cue Light Mechanical EM-115B by P.Green with a cue oft-heard on Augie Doggie at 2:02 [also, at 2:15 are some sound effects in CARLIN PRODUCTION MUSIC, CPM 1 or 2, credited to GREEN/CADKIN/LOOSE.

[SteveCarras]

4:32 Sonic the Hedgehog eyes! [PS Track playing is said to be "Comic Interludes" or something, by CADKIN/BLUESTONE].

[SteveCarras]

Some parts of other later WB shorts had parts of this music and their stuff for Bell Sceince FIlms with Dr.Baxter had that as well.

[SteveCarras]

No, it was the fourh. Also Warner Bros. used the music for parts of others like "Woolen under Where" and Dr.Baxter "Bell Science Theatre".

[jgbennie]

I don't know about "scored" but it was the fifth according to contemporary records. 'Weasel While You Work,' 'A Bird in a Bonnet' and 'Hook Line and Stinker' were the last releases of the 1957-58 season. 'Pre-Hysterical Hare' starts the 58-59 release season and 'Gopher Broke' came out two weeks later on Nov. 15. 'Hip Hip Hurry!' was Dec. 6.

[SteveCarras]

PS 2:03 is the Augie cue "Picnic or Country Scene" by PHIL GREEN..just noticed it a week ago..

[SteveCarras]

L 992 is by "Spencer Moore," the Green cue is the one that is now called by Carlin LLC "Drunken Dandy"...Interlude Film'

s "One Got Fat" with voiceover by the late and ever so Fractured Edward Everett Horton uses a variation on this as the final music.

[TheLogicJunkie]

They are Niles and Frasier Crane !

[PunkR4wk3r]

As an adult, I can watch the ending light-heartedly and chuckle about it. As a kid, it kind of disturbed me. Makes sense though don't it? It's kind of a weird way to end a looney tunes cartoon.

[4sh70nGal]

lol ''dogs can't fly'' =]

[springofpiesucks]

it's all right about the time compressed thing. i think these cartoons sound better time compressed.

[JeoMummy]

Heh heh heh! You gotta' admit, those two were the gayest cartoon characters ever. I didn't see it as a kid, but...

[lulita1234]

QUACK! lmao

[wilek209]

Was "Comedy March/Fred Karno's Army" ever used on Gumby?

[jgbennie]

Can't tell you, Wiley. I"m not really a Gumby fan. That's Steve Carras territory.

[professortheremin]

I'm pretty sure that wilek209 is right. I remember hearing this "Dennis the Menace"-style music on Gumby, and some early Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons. I read that Seely grabbed all this stock music while the local musician's union was on strike. It makes sense.

[jgbennie]

Hi, Prof. Wile was asking about a specific piece of music, not the Hi-Q stuff in general. I'm afraid I don't have the answer.

And, yes, apparently Warners went to Seely at Capitol and had him pick out some stock music. I'm presuming he wrote a score of sorts from it; some of the pieces last only a couple of seconds.

[SteveCarras]

LOL! No, but anyway, the pieces form this that WERE used, as I KNOW of:

the piece "We gotta get the beast out.,."used on that MST3K favorite, Robot Rumpus [Gumby climbs up}

"C-5-C" - that's the one where the gophers plan phase 2, they say say, used in:"Liuon Drive","In the Dough", and "Lawn party", not yet uploaded here.

/LOOSE

most of these were used....

[AEMoreira81]

Nice cartoon---but the Bill Lava-esque scoring could be done without.

[wilek209]

Are you kidding? This music's actually BETTER than Bill Lava at times. This music is actually more like the music used on "The Ren & Stimpy Show"

[sunshineunc]

hahaha, the ending is so funny, lol, this is just too cute.

[jravage77]

Oh the facial expressions and wild fits the toons have are priceless.LOL!!!

[wiley207]

The Capitol Hi-Q at 0:15 - 0:31 shows up on my Hanna-Barbera's Pic-A-Nic Basket of Cartoon Classics CD set, but it plays at normal speed, here it was speeded up (the original speed version of this cartoon also had that cue speeded up)

[jgbennie]

Wiley, you know I like parts of the Hi-Q library, but it really detracts from the animation in this one.

[wilek209]

Exactly! I liked the music when it was used on Gumby and Ren & Stimpy though

[honeegrrl]

I love mac n tosh, they're so cute and overly polite.

[jgbennie]

Steve Carras wrote:

Great to see the notes onscreen for this and for JBennie's other upload.Also, Stan Freberg in possibly his last cartoon appearance for years as one of the gophers.And that beagle from Foghorn shorts..(I think that "Barnyard Dawg" is a beagle like Snoopy..:))breed wise, thay-at is..ah sday..

[OprahruruFenrir]

Look at 3:27

Sigmund Fraud. Hahahaha.

[SteveCarras]

It's "Pests for Guests".

[jgbennie]

Hi, Steve, sorry I removed your comment. I was supposed to be hitting reply.

I didn't do a complete musical breakdown; it'd take forever and I don't know all the cues. I didn't realise this was Freberg's last role at Warners; he was certainly busy with other stuff by that time.

[metallooney]

Does anybody know the title of the Goofy Gophers cartoon that had them storing their nuts in Elmer Fudd's dresser!!!!!

[lexbates]

"Pests for Guests"(1955).

[metallooney]

thanx!!!

[SteveCarras]

Glad to see this..the freaky basoon cue [Spencer Moore's L-1158 from the Cap.library] was used on Augie Doggie, but more so on Yogi, Huck, Ruff and Reddy, Gumby, and Pixie and Dixie's, a rare case of a stock music cue on a Huck or Quick Draw used on the other, not that it mattered.:)