Gumby - Indian Trouble

[NonstopRam]

3:03 !

[robphilll22]

Having the Injuns Shaped like TEE PEES.Clever.

[SegaSatern]

if this is supposed to be a kids show, then why is pokey smoking a pipe at 2:37?

[BetaArchiveCommunity]

Was this recorded off a high-quality brodcast on NBC because of the intro watermark.

[gearboxhpc]

Jeez, those pesky Indians are always getting in the way of the clay man's expansion into the "New World".

[SteveCarras]

Norma was also on Underdog, and on Gumby played Goo, as well as other females in the later 60s. Allison Angrim's the mean girl on Little house, and in '77 tried a "proto-Amanda Bynes" [i.e., teenage girl doing shtick] album on then president Jimmy Carter! Ya-HOO!

[heat45jc]

Squaw rock? wow. peter pan said squaw and engine too. i'm going to rewatch aladian and see if it says paki and sand-nigger.

[FromA2mee]

I heard on the "today show" from the mean girl from "little house on the prairy" that her mother was the original voice of gumby...was this true? is this the girl's mom's voice? the 1950's gumby?

[SteveCarras]

@FromA2mee

TheGumby WAS that mean girl's mom, Norma MacMillan. It seems to be Dal McKennon or Nancy Wible playing Gumby here, and Art Clokey as Pokey. Both voices Dal McKennon himself took over later, Pokey to the end of the 60s, after he'd stopped playing Gumby.



[robphilll22]

Love that tee pee look!

[Optimalillusion]

In one of the later episodes, it showed Gumby working for the BIA, which really explains a lot!

[TheSturgeonGeneral]

the end made no sense

[shadowvowed187]

wow I never knew Gumby was raciest

[SignOfTheUnderground]

i like when gumby transforms into things

[die4tomarrow2day]

This is so ethnicly offensive today. It wood never be aired on any media network. I LOVE IT!!!!!

[SteveCarras]

Not to mention a small problem of music rights, though they seem to have been cleared up..the scene at 4:48 is similiar to a scene in "Magic Show" [also a Gumby episode].

[lawrenceglr]

yeah the fuck right! real natives would fight to the death, death was a true honor to us native, brave TRUE warriors! This is fucked up tho! peskies, thats what the europeans were to us, lol

[missmental]

Did they just refer to that Indian tribe as the "peskys"? How racist!

How did they end up getting along with the Indians in the end of the flick? One minute, they're acting all racist and the next they're posing with the Indian leader!

[SteveCarras]

Papoose.

[MyTubeViewingOnly]

Yes - get real. It's ONLY a cartoon, keep in mind it was made in 1957!! The techniques used in making this cartoon inturn gave us Wallace & Grommit, theCalifornia Raisins, James and the Giant Peach, Nightmare on Elm and many, many more. Educate yourself about Gumby before knocking him or anyone associated with the show.

[EBanonymous]

These cartoons claim that Native Americans were agressors going after peaceful settlers

The land you live on wasnt empty until someone "cleansed" it. That's called Holocaust w/ 95% people killed.

How can you condemn German crimes but make "sweet & fun" cartoons about your own?

Don't you know you blokes sold Native American slaves at Wall St? You enslaved & killed NA for their land.

U talk of freedom of speech; so we speak & then u say 'shut up!'

U enjoy these fairytales?

Outreagous.

[MyTubeViewingOnly]

Agressors - part of life for eons.

You're all over the place with your response. We're talking about Indians (Native Americans), not Germany or Holocaust. No parallels there.

It's fun to watch Gumby zip around - early TV. Early TV's purpose was NOT educational OBVIOUSLY!

Wanna discuss how some cartoons are harmful to its viewers - it's a HUGE can of worms, my friend. Just men-tioning Looney Toons is enough.

Grow up, enjoy the cartoons or whatever strikes you blokes' fancy.

[EBanonymous]

@MyTubeViewingOnly - Ur wrong. There are parales w/ Holocaust and what they did to Native Americans. If you're serious, you'll know that Hitler claimed to get his inspiration for Holocaust from 2 sources 1) Armenian genocide & 2) The Amenican treatment of Native Americans.

Some people can't 'enjoy' this propaganda because they see its message & know what happened.

Genocide was outright committed against 'Indians'. slavery, Manifest Destiny. Where did millions of people go? - that's real.

[MyTubeViewingOnly]

EBanonymous - If you have a problem with a script for Gumby - TALK TO THE CREATORS.

Gumby is Gumby - a great green TV favorite of mine - regardless of what YOU think.

More than 200 Gumby episodes were made - all GOOD ones, too!

Gumby lives on in hearts and memories of many.

[pcampbell0]

I think you are letting your nostalgia get in the way of your critical faculties. We all like Gumby but we can also criticise it. Just because it is an animation for younger audiences does not position it outside the realm of critique.

[StickStickly118]

@pcampbell0 So many faggots talkin' big.

[SteveCarras]

@MyTubeViewingOnly

There was one creator and sadly he died in this year, 2010.RIP.

[PawzNClawz09]

@MyTubeViewingOnly Gumby's creator Art Clokey passed away last year. I have a tribute video to him on my profile if any of you care to watch ^^ Gumby 4 Ever!!!

[pcampbell0]

No one is knocking "him" and the animation technique is irrelevant.

[copnite12342]

since when did gumby become so political?

[Girlytown1220]

its not political... it was for fun

[copnite12342]

yea for fun but in another episode he ta;lks of israiel and palestine.

kids dont usually care for history.

[24thingstodo]

wow fugged up.

[Muckus26]

get real, it's a cartoon!

[YakAV8R]

Obama=Gumby Peskies=Republicans It's so clear to me now!

[blekk100]

Basically if you don't see the racism in this video you are an ignorant white person or an first nation who doesn't know his/her own history.

[thatlegorandomguy]

@blekk100 your being racist because you assume that people who dont see racism in the video are all white.

[blekk100]

@thatlegorandomguy

who the fuck isn't a racist in this day and age? you can't tell me that you have never thought something somewhat racist towards another person. but the point is that white people were the major root of all the slander to other races and the fact that this show is north american backs up the fact that this was made and written by racist whites from the 50's(?)

[thatlegorandomguy]

@blekk100 ok ok ok this is a kids show so shutup about racism! it was the 50's where no soccer moms were worried about what kids were watching. just enjoy the show!!! and no i cant recall a time when ive had racist thoughts. everyones culture is strange one way or another.

[MeesterCrumpet]

@blekk100

You do realize you made yourself look like the dumbest piece of racist ghetto shit ever? "OH ALL YOU MUHFUGGIN CRACKAHS IS SO RACIST"

Btw, F ("an first nation") is not a vowel. Dipshit.

And before anyone opens their goddamn mouth I am a fucking mixed race girl, not a white male, so shut the fuck up.

[SteveCarras]

@blekk100

Racist or not it came out same year, 1957. Most of the stock music seems to be from Capitol's "X" series, whcih contained a lot of different "world music" themes. Amos and Andy and Rochester were probaly more racist, and thye,too were form a different time. Personally, Aaron Carter and Eminem are more racist00whites raplping?

[blekk100]

also the "peskies"??? you know they called them that becasue they are "pesky" about getting the land back that the whites stole from them.

[blekk100]

well racist overtones: First nations, not indians. first nations is the politicaly correct term and indians is better refered to east indians.

[satinjoe]

Racist overtones my ASS! You are one dumb mf'er. You are pathetic to bring this kind of crap up concerning a children's cartoon about cowboy's and indians. I find nothing wrong about it. Indians were in fact wild murderous thieving immoral uncivilized ignorant savages, you stupid douchebag.

[Mima57775]

Actually, I believe the correct term for that definition would be "Americans"

[fathermckenzie1]

the animation is so shoddily done, i can imagine that the people who made it had brains so small that you really shouldn't expect any semblance of awareness of racial sensitivity.

[SteveCarras]

Nice to see more of this..When G&P are in the pottery cups at 0:36, John Seely and Bill Loose's classic "TC-203 Wistful Comedy" plays, later during the clone scene, Phillip Green's "Tin Dragoons" is heard.

[only257]

same here stevecarras!

[MovingDrawings]

This is awful! Makes me sad to see stuff like this. But I'm glad you posted it, helps people get a understanding of the amount of racism that went on and even still goes on in this country against native americans

[clokster]

Art Clokey did not write this particular episode. Art himself is 1/4 Native American and I think you will see his respect and awe of Native Americans in Rain Spirits and The Kachinas which came out the same year as this one, 1957. Even this one though is playful (the arrows are suction cup) and in the end Gumby and Pokey are obviously friends with all involved. It was playful. Gumby multiplying. Gumby turning into a pot. There was no ill intent here. Check out School for Squares too.

[pcampbell0]

I think racial caricatures are degrading regardless of intention. It is not about intention. They are referred to as peskies.

[SteveCarras]

Well, you uploaded it, my pony pal, Pokey, too!

BTW, immensely shameless plg.

My blogspot,. Your pony pal Pokey too.. [SJCARRASBLOG]

[MeesterCrumpet]

@pcampbell0

I was raised to believe indians were teepees with faces and arms. I hold firm to my belief

[clokster]

@clokster Art did not include this episode in the 80's series. His awareness had obviously grown from the early 50's. He was always proud of his Native American heritage.

[only257]

thanks for posting gumby i am a huge fan!