Beany and Cecil - The Wildman Of Wildsville

[TheBeanyandCecil]

Thanks for your message Fairia. It was actually Lord Buckley who performed the voice of the Wildman in the cartoon, "The Wildman of Wildsville."  Scatman Crothers performed all of the other appearances of the Wildman in bumpers and such. Hope this helps.

[Fairia]

Scatman Crothers is billed as the voice of Wildman, but I read up that another actor is also billed but with the Go Man Van Gogh name.

[Lisha616]

Favorite episode as a kid <3

[bigg34691]

@ 6:12 KOOL was once a television station from Phoenix Arizona owned by CBS. It's now a FOX affilated televiion station KSAZ.

[TheBeanyandCecil]

We always love those analogies to Warner Bros. Cartoons!

[wileyk209zback]

This episode is the Beany and Cecil equivalent to the Three Little Bops!

[TheBeanyandCecil]

No the Captain was longtime voiceman from both the puppet and cartoon era, Jimmy MacGeorge. He also played Beany and many of the incidental characters by the way.

[ertznay]

0:45 "Lenny's Spruce tree"

Is that Hal Peary as the voice of the skipper?

[TheBeanyandCecil]

He was. Not long before Cecil told Wildman, "Ah, you're supposed to let me capture you." For that ditty he got the ultimate putdown back from the Wildman,

"Man, like how square can you get?" Punctuated by the square dotted line drawing.

But all's well that ends well.

[spookiedolly69]

"WHAT'S THE MATTER?! YOU CRAZY OR SOMETHIN'?!?" >:O

Cecil sounds sooo pissed when he said that XD

[TheBeanyandCecil]

Thanks for your comments!

One of the primary battles over the 1988 Beany and Cecil produced by John Kricfalusi was the network kept trying to block the use of incidental characters, except for Go Man Van Gogh. There was an entire cartoon devoted to him and D.J. The show was cancelled before it could get far. If we remember correctly, something about D.J. sucking all of the color out of the world and Wildman restoring it.

Even the network suits were overwhelmed by the power of the Wildman!

[RetroToledo]

@TheBeanyandCecil Well, the networks simply didn't care since it was the late 80's and we hadn't yet seen that sort of thing happen until another decade. No doubt guys like John K. managed to prove 'em wrong!

[wileyk209zback]

Oh yeah, Go Man Van Gogh was DEFINITELY my favorite character on this show. He was really hip and with the times, and today his stereotypical beatnik slang makes him even funnier! (He seems even more "hip" than Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, or even the Looney Tunes tiger Cool Cat!)

[wileyk209zback]

Anyone else notice the newly-recorded opening theme to this episode?

[Sammerkona]

Oh how I love these guys... 

[Ryoku75]

Pretty wild cartoon!