Walker Edminston was "Dishonest John" in the animated version; Shoemaker was "Cecil" in the later live puppet episodes (1953-'54) and the cartoon. Clampett never bothered to list the regular cast [and "special guest voices", like Arlene McQuade and Paul Frees] in the credits, but made sure HIS name (and image) was prominent.
This was the opening title used after Mattel withdrew their sponsorship and their portion of the title {"MATTY'S FUNNIES WITH BEANY AND CECIL"} in mid-1962, and the sequences featuring "Matty Mattel" and "Sisterbelle" were eliminated and refilmed.
Is it me or does Cecil look like a penis? "I'm comin' Beany, I'm coming!" takes on a whole new meaning!
Kidding aside these cartoons are part of my first memories as a kid in Hazlet New Jersey. Captain Kangeroo, Romperroom, Bozo, and that one week they didn't show cartoons in November, 1963
Beany and Cecil were originally hand puppets (I saw them on TV in New Jersey when I was a kid). It's probably why Cecil still looks like a puppet even animated.
This was a great kids classic show. Dishonest John ("DJ, you dirty guy!") and that distinctive laugh of his (EEEEEEEEYA-AH-AHHHHHHHHHHHH). Hilarious.
@JakeLL If Clampett did have a larger than average ego, it was probably nothing more than a defensive response to the almost constant beat downs that he and other animators who had worked for Warner Studios received. Boss Warner HATED the animation department!
Aah, such gd relief from a stressful day & world. When I had nothin' 2 do but watch b/w tv & do homework, eat dinner.. Again, tks 4 keeping me outta jail! great stress reliever. Watching these old cartoons? No one needs meds. Truly comforting. Tks again!
What year did this cartoon start? I was born in 1961 and I remember Rocky and Bullwinkle as one of the first cartoons I viewed. Alvin and the Chipmunks too. But this theme song sound familiar...1:06 rings a bell. And love the MidCentury Modern feel! Do you think those kids are sitting Eames chairs? Oh swoon! Anyway, I live in the St. Louis, MO area. Did it run in our part of the country? And seems like the Sinclair gas stations had a blow-up dinosaur that I had, and it's name was Cecil.
We had a TV just like that too, LosAngeleno1959! And I LOVED this show! I was also fascinated by how long it took for our TV to turn off 'competely'. You would see a little dot get smaller and smaller 'til it disappeared.
Next to Rocky and Bullwinkle, B&C, I think, was the best cartoon of its kind in TV history, in terms of being entertaining for kids and satiric for adults.
OMG I just took a ride on a time machine...At 53ish I can remember this cartoon. I loved it then and I'm glad it is not forgotten. Feeling like a kid again.
I am 54 years old. So I am getting out of the shower and suddenly I announce to my wife: "The Beany and Cecil Show!" Had to look this up on YouTube! ......"I'm coming Beanie Boyyyyyy!"
@MissMinnieMousegirl I do at times. She was a funny woman. Sports and cartoons was all she watched. And only a hundred, thought it might be more...lol.
@Adjusting It said, among other things, "Have You Ever Been Kissed By A Sea Serpent?". The doll was one of Matell's Talking Puppets, and I have the 1962 ad for it on my homepage.
I know I used to watch this show all the time & loved it, but I'd forgotten what the opening theme was like....brings back lots of memories. I even had a Beany Halloween costume one year...sssshhhhh.
I had the Cecil doll and my little brother had the Beanie. We would sit in front of the the big black & white floor model Emerson TV we had (but not too close or we'd hurt our eyes!) and act out the episodes as we watched them. Peanut butter and jelly with milk for lunch. Cool breeze coming in from the back window and the sound of the train going past the house. Wonderful memories. Thanks
Sonofabitch! An early. diabolical attempt to corrupt America's youth! Freeze frame 0.23 and take a good 'hard' look at what the villain is sitting on...
My cousin use to make us watch Beany & Cecil. She was obsessed with it. She still has, to this day, her Beany Doll. In beautiful condition I might add.
This is probably going to freak most of you out....Steve Marinaccio brought up "Winky Dink TV Screen" today and I believe that was advertised by this cartoon get out you Winky Dink Kit Kids........
LOL, I remember this when I was younger. It now occurs to me that Bob Clampett had to be pretty egotistical to have " A Bob Clampett Cartoon right @ the end..Oh well, lol
I had a beany boy doll, complete with a pull string voice box. How I adored that thing---took it with me everywhere and made believe Beany boy was my own little brother. Yep, those were the days!
My mother got me a Beany copter; all my friends wanted to play with it along with me. The theme song has a mighty catchy beat to boot. The cartoons of the 50's and 60's were the best of the best.
D.J.!!!! YOU DIRTY RAT!!! yah hah hah!! anyone remember the game? you pushed down D.J. in the middle of the board. and when he popped up someone lost! not to mention Beany's beany! we all had them! The program replaced the Mickey mouse club in the transition from the 50's to the 60's.
I remember the original lyrics. It seems once Mattel Toys stopped sponsering the show, the original lyrics disappeared. Maybe some kind of copyright thing, i don't know.
Thank you for taking me back to my wonderful childhood days. Just hearing the theme song takes me back to the livingroom of my childhood home. Great stuff!
Yes, the kinescopes of the original "TIME FOR BEANY" series (1949-'54) exist, 'chuckl'. Four of them were issued on DVD a few years ago...the cartoon series, originally known as "MATTY'S FUNNIES WITH BEANY & CECIL" [this is the "reissue" title, minus original sponsor Mattel's segments featuring "Matty" & "Sister Belle"], lasted just 26 episodes during 1962...and was repeated through the '70s.
From the posts I've read, it looks like everyone here is too young to remember that the original "Beanie and Cecil", was not a cartoon, but a live show done with hand puppets. It was much funnier than the cartoon, with more sophisticated and biting humor. Cecil was especially funny, in the wise-guy vein used by Warner Brothers characters Bugs and Daffy. Maybe there are some old kinescopes around of those early episodes?
I know of those, Chuck. It was one of the first teleivison shows ever produced, though the black and white puppet verison was ten years+ before my time pI was born 1960].
Totally agree!!! These cartoons are classic and make me remember (a lot) my childhood... Thanks 4 this intro!!! And thanks, Mr. Clampett, wherever U are...
Wow! My memory just went back to the early 60's and our living room with the old Black and White set which made a loud klunk everytime we changed the channel. Such sweet memories of me and my brothers all piled in front of the Tv while my Mom made us lunch. How I wish I could go back to those simple times.
@LosAngeleno1959 If you have kids you relive it all. believe me. that's why people get so weird about their kids--it's a return to paradise. Unless you're a jerk and don't get it.
Bob Clampett first became famous with the Warner Bros. cartoons. His 1950s puppet show, "Time for Beany," was Albert Einstein's favorite TV show (I kid you not).
I watched these cartoons as a little boy. I didn't realize until much later just how hysterically funny they were. I'm not sure, but I believe "Beany & Cecil" is tied with "Bullwinkle" for the most number of puns per half hour.
These were great cartoons. Does anyone know if they are on home video of DVD? I'd love to see them again.
Wow...I have not seen this since the early "60's. Never in reruns...as with some of the other classic cartoons. It's great to see it again! I did have a Beany and Cecil record player and a Cecil puppet with the pull string.......and as someone else mentioned, I'm sure they would be worth a fortune now.....
I'm admitting this to potentially a billion people (at least 67,000 as of May 2009), but when I was about five I had a Cecil toy. You pulled a string and Cecil would make one of about five canned comments. ("I love you!" and "Just a darn minute!" are the ones I remember.) It's long gone. It would probably be worth a fortune now!
I've never watched this cartoon, but found out about it from the video interviews with Dan Burisch (Majestic 12 member and ex-Area 51 employee)... it's a long but intensely fascinating story, if you are curious.
Also, the name Bob Clampett rung a bell for me because John Kricfalusi (creator of Ren & Stimpy, my favorite cartoon ever) listed Bob as one of his influences. Watching this clip I can see that influence.
I LOVED this show when I was very little, My Great Grandma bought me a Beanie propeller hat and I LOVED it! but, the bloody propellers flew off the hat and kept getting stuck on the roof!, till they were lost! One of my most favorite toys that I still remember!, I would pull the strings under my chin to make the propellers fly off just like Beanie's!!
This was one of my favorite shows from childhood! I'm 46 now, and they were reruns by the time I was watching them. Most shows I used to love when I was a kid seem a little hokey now, but this cartoon is still great!
I remeber watching this on Sudays during the time when it was in reruns.I love the laugh of Dishonest John.I am sad that cartoons are like this today.I also miss Hanna-Barbera.
My brother says all the time that I used to love this show when I was little. I'm 26 now, and the funny thingis, I don't remember a thing about it and it doesn't look even remotely familiar to me in any way.
One of the best cartoons from the 60's.Clampett was a genius....Yeah it was "trippy"--I'm 57 now and do have to say these show were pretty wacked out.
Hey, I have been saying "HELP CECIL HELP!!" for over 40 years now....hahahaha!!! I think I'll search for that song "Puff the Magic Dragon"..I haven't heard that in a while.
I watched all the Beany and Cecil shows and all the reruns until I was 12/13 and they went off the air.I really missed them and was thrilled to be able to get all the videos years later.
Oh my god .I have not seen this intro of Beany And Cecil in over 40 years.Bring back so many memories.I'am 49 and for a second I felt like a little kid looking at my black and white T-V again.
When I was 4 or 5 I wanted a stuff Cecil doll for my b-day. They were very popular at the time & hard to come by but my grandfather was determined to get one so he dragged my mother all of Pittsburgh until he found a store that carried them. I was so happy, I never knew until I was an adult all the trouble he went through. Still wish I had that doll, whatever happens to all our stuff? Old lunchboxes, Barbies & Matchbox cars would be worth a fortune.
EXACTLY!! I remember that Calvin cartoon, and I remember that it made me think of my Beany Copter! It was a red plastic helmet with a propeller inside a ring that you wound up, and then when you pulled the chin strap the propeller flew off and usually landed on the roof!
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I had read that they purposely made Cecil a phallic symbol. And seeing the smiling, tickling scene and Cecil squirming and eventually "sneezing" confirms this.
im only 15, and even though i didnt watch it in the 70's when it was brand new, i did watch it when i was younger on cartoon network, and i miss it soooo much.. i remember i would stay up til like 11 just to watch this.. i wish they would bring this back, or release it on dvd..
I'm now but I have fond memories of this show I watched it when I was 6 years old. I don't know why this cartoon has been forgotten since. No one replays it and I get a kick out of Dishonest John. Well at least I can watch it here.
I was born in 1960, and I remember this show at a VERY young age...maybe 3 or 4 years old...I always cried when the cartoon came on because the way Cecil looked scared the crap outta me! I saw a B&C cartoon many years later as an adult - now I understand why I was so scared! GOD is Cecil soooo ugly!
For some reason I'd thought this show was originally on NBC and then moved to ABC. If you listen to the song, when the characters get stacked on top of each other, you hear the NBC chimes. I know now that the show originated on ABC so maybe the chimes were inadvertent or perhaps an inside joke?
Walker Edminston was "Dishonest John" in the animated version; Shoemaker was "Cecil" in the later live puppet episodes (1953-'54) and the cartoon. Clampett never bothered to list the regular cast [and "special guest voices", like Arlene McQuade and Paul Frees] in the credits, but made sure HIS name (and image) was prominent.
fromthesidelines 7 months ago
This was the opening title used after Mattel withdrew their sponsorship and their portion of the title {"MATTY'S FUNNIES WITH BEANY AND CECIL"} in mid-1962, and the sequences featuring "Matty Mattel" and "Sisterbelle" were eliminated and refilmed.
fromthesidelines 7 months ago
This is my first memory of television - very early 50's.
jraeice1 7 months ago
Geez...I watched these all the time!
dennisl2008 9 months ago
Thanks for posting. I looooovve these classic cartoons!
rgasp11 10 months ago
Did Stan Freeburg do the voice of Cecil?
daffydoug 11 months ago
@daffydoug According to Wikipedia, Irv Shoemaker voiced both Cecil and Dishonest John in this series.
MrUnidyne 9 months ago
Gosh, I love these old cartoons. "Beany and Cecil" was another one of my all-time faves. Thanks for posting!
zasco1957 11 months ago
Oh my god that brings back memories. Thanks for putting this up
Christheatheist1 11 months ago
Is it me or does Cecil look like a penis? "I'm comin' Beany, I'm coming!" takes on a whole new meaning!
Kidding aside these cartoons are part of my first memories as a kid in Hazlet New Jersey. Captain Kangeroo, Romperroom, Bozo, and that one week they didn't show cartoons in November, 1963
stynqueone 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@stynqueone You noticed that too?
lphvm 1 year ago
@stynqueone I wouldn't say that if I were you, there's a guy, oh there he is, who gets turned on by this cartoon.
He is always on here, getting people to hear his fantasies.
MrElectrician59 11 months ago
@stynqueone Actually I just noticed that myself ha ha ha .
oldsmar2 10 months ago
sweet childhood memories.
therealraybaby 1 year ago
Ahhhhh John Kricfalusi's first cartoon.
resserection1 1 year ago
My Gosh, I'm old.
MujerWOW 1 year ago
Beany and Cecil were originally hand puppets (I saw them on TV in New Jersey when I was a kid). It's probably why Cecil still looks like a puppet even animated.
gregsoni1 1 year ago
This was a great kids classic show. Dishonest John ("DJ, you dirty guy!") and that distinctive laugh of his (EEEEEEEEYA-AH-AHHHHHHHHHHHH). Hilarious.
megjonaslove333 1 year ago
I watched this in black and white as a little kid, thanks for the great memories!!!!
terry46619 1 year ago
Damn Bob Clampett had a giant ego.
JakeLL 1 year ago
@JakeLL If Clampett did have a larger than average ego, it was probably nothing more than a defensive response to the almost constant beat downs that he and other animators who had worked for Warner Studios received. Boss Warner HATED the animation department!
PagingMaxHeadroom 9 months ago
@JakeLL Why do you say that?
Ryoku75 8 months ago
Aah, such gd relief from a stressful day & world. When I had nothin' 2 do but watch b/w tv & do homework, eat dinner.. Again, tks 4 keeping me outta jail! great stress reliever. Watching these old cartoons? No one needs meds. Truly comforting. Tks again!
princessgraification 1 year ago
Help Cecil HELP!!!
NickCave13 1 year ago
What year did this cartoon start? I was born in 1961 and I remember Rocky and Bullwinkle as one of the first cartoons I viewed. Alvin and the Chipmunks too. But this theme song sound familiar...1:06 rings a bell. And love the MidCentury Modern feel! Do you think those kids are sitting Eames chairs? Oh swoon! Anyway, I live in the St. Louis, MO area. Did it run in our part of the country? And seems like the Sinclair gas stations had a blow-up dinosaur that I had, and it's name was Cecil.
passionateaboutmusic 1 year ago
We had a TV just like that too, LosAngeleno1959! And I LOVED this show! I was also fascinated by how long it took for our TV to turn off 'competely'. You would see a little dot get smaller and smaller 'til it disappeared.
bhinderbinder 1 year ago
my last name is cecil...and even though i wasnt around to enjoy this cartoon.....i still hear about it...and its great!
spudwrenchgirl 1 year ago
Que recuerdos mil gracias!!!
gruesacam 1 year ago
captain huff n puff is a beatnick stoner. who says the pot wasnt as good back then.
solomonkane23 1 year ago
Next to Rocky and Bullwinkle, B&C, I think, was the best cartoon of its kind in TV history, in terms of being entertaining for kids and satiric for adults.
WSenator1 1 year ago
@WSenator1 I totally second that, and wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.
Juliaflo 1 year ago
@Juliaflo - Glad you agree. Thanks for the greetings. Hope you and yours enjoy as well!
WSenator1 1 year ago
Loved this show when I was 5 years old. Had a Cecil puppet/Jack in the box toy.
Snocamo164 1 year ago
@starhand403 Dead.
yardlet6 1 year ago
I am really showing my age here.. does this take anyone back?
tatertomato 1 year ago
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Juliaflo 1 year ago
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Juliaflo 1 year ago
Woooow I was like 2 or 3 years old watching this in the early 60's.
exnewsanchor 1 year ago
nya ah awww... I'm amazed the GLBT community didn't embrace this cartoon like they/we did with others...
switcherdawna 1 year ago
@switcherdawna mmmmm
lphvm 1 year ago
OMG I just took a ride on a time machine...At 53ish I can remember this cartoon. I loved it then and I'm glad it is not forgotten. Feeling like a kid again.
SonnyChiba57 1 year ago
I am 54 years old. So I am getting out of the shower and suddenly I announce to my wife: "The Beany and Cecil Show!" Had to look this up on YouTube! ......"I'm coming Beanie Boyyyyyy!"
lebarosky 1 year ago
I remember my Grandmother having a Cecil stuffed toy that had a pull string. Can't remember what he said now, but I remember it was cool.
Adjusting 1 year ago
@Adjusting I bet you wish you still had it. On ebay it probably goes for hundreds of dollars....in working condition that is.
MissMinnieMousegirl 1 year ago
@MissMinnieMousegirl I do at times. She was a funny woman. Sports and cartoons was all she watched. And only a hundred, thought it might be more...lol.
Adjusting 1 year ago
@Adjusting It said, among other things, "Have You Ever Been Kissed By A Sea Serpent?". The doll was one of Matell's Talking Puppets, and I have the 1962 ad for it on my homepage.
towringer 1 year ago
Warped
johnericgreenberg 1 year ago
I watched this show as a kid in the 80's!!! I must have made my mom rent episodes of this show over 100 times. :) I loved it!
katiebird317 1 year ago
My mom use to have this on vhs or something when I was a kid. Me and my brother grew up on this :) good times
Runikaruma 1 year ago
I know I used to watch this show all the time & loved it, but I'd forgotten what the opening theme was like....brings back lots of memories. I even had a Beany Halloween costume one year...sssshhhhh.
TeatroEquis 1 year ago
I had the Cecil doll and my little brother had the Beanie. We would sit in front of the the big black & white floor model Emerson TV we had (but not too close or we'd hurt our eyes!) and act out the episodes as we watched them. Peanut butter and jelly with milk for lunch. Cool breeze coming in from the back window and the sound of the train going past the house. Wonderful memories. Thanks
Wharfomatic 1 year ago
How in the heck can anyone get turned on by a cartoon? Weird. I watched
this as a kid and never once thought of something like that!
MrElectrician59 1 year ago
I never saw the back end of Cecil's body. Did it just continue on forever? And why did Bob Clampett have to pump his self in every cartoon opening?
kevinjUtube 1 year ago
@kevinjUtube one long phallic symbol.
lphvm 1 year ago
oh my god, does this ever take me back...and the fairy was used as a logo for Mattel Toys!
imajeepster 1 year ago
BOY IS THIS A OLD ONE
guitarsock7 1 year ago
Sonofabitch! An early. diabolical attempt to corrupt America's youth! Freeze frame 0.23 and take a good 'hard' look at what the villain is sitting on...
DatBluesGuy 1 year ago
@DatBluesGuy it did corrupt me. I have some serious fetishes from Beany & Cecil!
lphvm 1 year ago
@DatBluesGuy Why do people have to always turn stuff into something sexual. My God, it was a KID'S SHOW. Cecil was a sea serpent, not a giant penis.
If people are taking these things sexually they are either a sexual deviant or just an immature idiot.
katiebird317 1 year ago
@katiebird317 Obviously they were not around when we were, so they are pretty clueless. Sadly, I find this a LOT now. Sick generation.
MissMinnieMousegirl 1 year ago
@katiebird317 Tell me about it! My wife commented on this
and then some guy emailed her and she said how much
this brought back memories as a kid. He then started
telling her he got some sexual fetishes from watching it.
She blocked him. VERY WEIRD.
MrElectrician59 1 year ago
This cartoon is brought to you in part by.......Camel Cigarettes, kids remember you might be as cool as Joe Camel just by lighting up.
DaDeadMako 1 year ago
wow this cartoon is well animated for is age.. good color
STBNY 1 year ago
As fate would have it we discovered later that my wife had a beany and I had a cecil--it was kismet.
zyxquark 1 year ago
Wow, thanks.
zyxquark 1 year ago
Some cartoons from back in the day
iodanical 1 year ago
Wow! Benito y Cecilio (as we know it in México)
Himura17unleashed 1 year ago
Man I wanted one of those hats really bad.
scottdavene 1 year ago
My cousin use to make us watch Beany & Cecil. She was obsessed with it. She still has, to this day, her Beany Doll. In beautiful condition I might add.
wasaranda 1 year ago
@wasaranda My brother had a Beany doll. It was well loved!
fireflyzip 1 year ago
'A Bob Clampett CartOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!'
Way to over-sell it, Cecil.
hotelmario510 1 year ago
This is probably going to freak most of you out....Steve Marinaccio brought up "Winky Dink TV Screen" today and I believe that was advertised by this cartoon get out you Winky Dink Kit Kids........
obamatheimposter 1 year ago
The original Cecil puppet was made from the leg of a footy pajama suit.
RocketTCoyote 2 years ago
I was never really a big fan but I watched it when there was nothing better on.
ktlam1955 2 years ago
I know who Bob Clampett is from Looney Tunes. I've never seen Beany & Cecil before (70s kid), yet the same thing occurred to me looking at this.
I've seen photos of him from the 1930s, and he was an extremely handsome young man. Hmm, you think he knew it?
murielsartre 2 years ago
LOL, I remember this when I was younger. It now occurs to me that Bob Clampett had to be pretty egotistical to have " A Bob Clampett Cartoon right @ the end..Oh well, lol
gblueslover2 2 years ago
Bob Clampett made the best Looney Tunes shorts so it's justified.
Joe402 1 year ago
Oh I'm CERTAIN Bob Clampett made sure it was justified, LMAO !
gblueslover2 1 year ago
"A Whole Half-Hour."
RoyFive 2 years ago
I had a beany boy doll, complete with a pull string voice box. How I adored that thing---took it with me everywhere and made believe Beany boy was my own little brother. Yep, those were the days!
onelilbirdie 2 years ago
My mother got me a Beany copter; all my friends wanted to play with it along with me. The theme song has a mighty catchy beat to boot. The cartoons of the 50's and 60's were the best of the best.
kachoo2135 2 years ago
let's flip our lids!
lphvm 2 years ago
I actually had one of those beanies with the flying off spinner. I loved when Cecil went, "What the heck!!"
supermandisco 2 years ago
Wowee...I must've been 4 or 5 when this came out....takes me back a few years...
SonnyChiba57 2 years ago
cecil
XFootball4Life22X 2 years ago
D.J.!!!! YOU DIRTY RAT!!! yah hah hah!! anyone remember the game? you pushed down D.J. in the middle of the board. and when he popped up someone lost! not to mention Beany's beany! we all had them! The program replaced the Mickey mouse club in the transition from the 50's to the 60's.
michaeljohndudley 2 years ago
I grew up watching beany and Cecil ... Still makes me smile and dishonest johns laugh is my fav
pfitzwater 2 years ago
cute
bijeto 2 years ago
Wow, I was so little when this was on, I barely remembered it. All I really remembered was that I adored Cecil. Now I see why. He's adorable.
racookster 2 years ago
I remember the original lyrics. It seems once Mattel Toys stopped sponsering the show, the original lyrics disappeared. Maybe some kind of copyright thing, i don't know.
olddude521 2 years ago
That's not the original music, BTW, there were lyrics sung referrring to Bob Clampett (that guy with the glasses at about :50)
Staszu13 2 years ago
should also beside we got see both open credits verison of the Beany and cecil intro
Lehnerd57 2 years ago
aww ceicl slurped kissed us
onearmedmario 2 years ago
Thank you for taking me back to my wonderful childhood days. Just hearing the theme song takes me back to the livingroom of my childhood home. Great stuff!
OldMrMemories 2 years ago
the sea onster realli freak me out lol
ModernNovember95 2 years ago
Wow! that really made me happy! Thanks!
pudddingnpie 2 years ago
another childhood flashback via U Tube
JacksonPerdue 2 years ago
Yes, the kinescopes of the original "TIME FOR BEANY" series (1949-'54) exist, 'chuckl'. Four of them were issued on DVD a few years ago...the cartoon series, originally known as "MATTY'S FUNNIES WITH BEANY & CECIL" [this is the "reissue" title, minus original sponsor Mattel's segments featuring "Matty" & "Sister Belle"], lasted just 26 episodes during 1962...and was repeated through the '70s.
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
oh poor cecil!! hang on!
lphvm 2 years ago
I remember when Cecil was known as "Cecel the Seasick Sea Serpent".
That's why he looked so bilious in the intro...
SyvetheShairks 2 years ago
I remember a while back (3 or 6 years ago) they were talking about Beany And Cecil on toonheads. it might be on here somewhere, it was interesting.
Bp1033 2 years ago
From the posts I've read, it looks like everyone here is too young to remember that the original "Beanie and Cecil", was not a cartoon, but a live show done with hand puppets. It was much funnier than the cartoon, with more sophisticated and biting humor. Cecil was especially funny, in the wise-guy vein used by Warner Brothers characters Bugs and Daffy. Maybe there are some old kinescopes around of those early episodes?
chuckl8 2 years ago
I know of those, Chuck. It was one of the first teleivison shows ever produced, though the black and white puppet verison was ten years+ before my time pI was born 1960].
SteveCarras 2 years ago
Totally agree!!! These cartoons are classic and make me remember (a lot) my childhood... Thanks 4 this intro!!! And thanks, Mr. Clampett, wherever U are...
researcher4cpe 2 years ago
It's truly amazing how these old TV shows can put you right back into childhood.
mookeychase0907 2 years ago
Wow! My memory just went back to the early 60's and our living room with the old Black and White set which made a loud klunk everytime we changed the channel. Such sweet memories of me and my brothers all piled in front of the Tv while my Mom made us lunch. How I wish I could go back to those simple times.
LosAngeleno1959 2 years ago 19
@LosAngeleno1959 If you have kids you relive it all. believe me. that's why people get so weird about their kids--it's a return to paradise. Unless you're a jerk and don't get it.
zyxquark 1 year ago
@LosAngeleno1959 take me with you.........
VenusGrnys 1 year ago
@LosAngeleno1959 Seeing as I was born in 87' I have no knowledge of these type of toons at all,lol!
leon102 1 year ago
What famous Rockstar watched this show when he was a kid?
Arrivedearly 2 years ago
Angus Young AC/DC guitarist. The song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is an homage to Beany and Cecil.
edcaldeira 2 years ago
seriously? i thought it was literally about dirty deeds, done dirt cheap. who woulda thunk it?
alfredunhill 2 years ago
Bob Clampett first became famous with the Warner Bros. cartoons. His 1950s puppet show, "Time for Beany," was Albert Einstein's favorite TV show (I kid you not).
I watched these cartoons as a little boy. I didn't realize until much later just how hysterically funny they were. I'm not sure, but I believe "Beany & Cecil" is tied with "Bullwinkle" for the most number of puns per half hour.
These were great cartoons. Does anyone know if they are on home video of DVD? I'd love to see them again.
Schweinhundt 2 years ago
You can rent the DVD from Hollywood Video.
lphvm 2 years ago
Wow...I have not seen this since the early "60's. Never in reruns...as with some of the other classic cartoons. It's great to see it again! I did have a Beany and Cecil record player and a Cecil puppet with the pull string.......and as someone else mentioned, I'm sure they would be worth a fortune now.....
xanadu77 2 years ago 5
I used to watch this show everyday when I was 5 years old,
Certainly brings back memories, Course we watched it in Black and White back then.
Nice to see it in colour finally.
I think every kid on our block wanted one of those beanies when I was a kid,
The stores could have made a fortune back then, If only they knew.
dolawren 1 year ago
@dolawren Bambergers then now Macy's sold them & guess who thought she wuz 2 cool 2 keep hers and threw it out? ME!
princessgraification 1 year ago
I'm admitting this to potentially a billion people (at least 67,000 as of May 2009), but when I was about five I had a Cecil toy. You pulled a string and Cecil would make one of about five canned comments. ("I love you!" and "Just a darn minute!" are the ones I remember.) It's long gone. It would probably be worth a fortune now!
TWELS20 2 years ago
Hold on, Beany Boy! I'm comin'!
Rickvid 2 years ago
@Rickvid or is it cummin?
lphvm 1 year ago
We used to love this cartoon when we were kids. I used to have a Cecil stuffed animal doll, and my sister had the Beanie Boy!
J3whitebean 2 years ago
I've never watched this cartoon, but found out about it from the video interviews with Dan Burisch (Majestic 12 member and ex-Area 51 employee)... it's a long but intensely fascinating story, if you are curious.
Also, the name Bob Clampett rung a bell for me because John Kricfalusi (creator of Ren & Stimpy, my favorite cartoon ever) listed Bob as one of his influences. Watching this clip I can see that influence.
Weird how everything is connected.
QuantumAnomaly 2 years ago
memories
cheyenne86 2 years ago
I LOVED this show when I was very little, My Great Grandma bought me a Beanie propeller hat and I LOVED it! but, the bloody propellers flew off the hat and kept getting stuck on the roof!, till they were lost! One of my most favorite toys that I still remember!, I would pull the strings under my chin to make the propellers fly off just like Beanie's!!
wheezer 2 years ago
One of my friends had one of those hats--it's the Beaniecopter! It was soooo cool!
nsavage24 2 years ago
This was one of my favorite shows from childhood! I'm 46 now, and they were reruns by the time I was watching them. Most shows I used to love when I was a kid seem a little hokey now, but this cartoon is still great!
lookin4space 2 years ago 2
this brings back good times!
appaulledwilly 2 years ago
I remeber watching this on Sudays during the time when it was in reruns.I love the laugh of Dishonest John.I am sad that cartoons are like this today.I also miss Hanna-Barbera.
quarqill 2 years ago
My brother says all the time that I used to love this show when I was little. I'm 26 now, and the funny thingis, I don't remember a thing about it and it doesn't look even remotely familiar to me in any way.
uofm97 2 years ago
One of the best cartoons from the 60's.Clampett was a genius....Yeah it was "trippy"--I'm 57 now and do have to say these show were pretty wacked out.
Aww! I never did get a Beany copter!
sirwatchalot 2 years ago
Hey, I have been saying "HELP CECIL HELP!!" for over 40 years now....hahahaha!!! I think I'll search for that song "Puff the Magic Dragon"..I haven't heard that in a while.
TREYCEMONE 2 years ago
Bob Clampett (the same) passed away on May 4, 1984, 'star'- his family still keeps his "legacy" alive....
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
I watched all the Beany and Cecil shows and all the reruns until I was 12/13 and they went off the air.I really missed them and was thrilled to be able to get all the videos years later.
RJRanke 3 years ago
Oh my god .I have not seen this intro of Beany And Cecil in over 40 years.Bring back so many memories.I'am 49 and for a second I felt like a little kid looking at my black and white T-V again.
PREZ150 3 years ago
Wow- i thought I had imagined it all. LOL- this will undo years of therapy.
willminkorea 3 years ago
Ha ha This made me laugh along with
the video- Thanks! I watched this as a
kid and all I could remember was the
Cartooooon! I saw the whole thing
now and was laughing hysterically.
And it's trippy too!
wannagoback052 3 years ago
O_O
Trippy.
bluemoondeichneumon 3 years ago
I had [back in 1960s] a Beany toy too..and since the 1980s when the show was on video a Cecil hand puppet.
SteveCarras 3 years ago
When I was 4 or 5 I wanted a stuff Cecil doll for my b-day. They were very popular at the time & hard to come by but my grandfather was determined to get one so he dragged my mother all of Pittsburgh until he found a store that carried them. I was so happy, I never knew until I was an adult all the trouble he went through. Still wish I had that doll, whatever happens to all our stuff? Old lunchboxes, Barbies & Matchbox cars would be worth a fortune.
wlhardy 3 years ago
I got a pet rock.
shadyman2000 3 years ago
I had a Beany Copter hat. Didn't let me fly like Beany, though. False advertising!
katwoman9999 3 years ago
Sounds like when Calvin ordered a propeller beanie with a battery motor and got furious when he found out that it didn't fly.
"What a ripoff! I ate all that cereal, waited weeks and weeks for it to come, assembeled it myself and the dumb thing doesn't even FLY!"
Flashmikko 3 years ago
EXACTLY!! I remember that Calvin cartoon, and I remember that it made me think of my Beany Copter! It was a red plastic helmet with a propeller inside a ring that you wound up, and then when you pulled the chin strap the propeller flew off and usually landed on the roof!
katwoman9999 3 years ago
Beanie...with that damn propeller hat...
parkman35 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I had read that they purposely made Cecil a phallic symbol. And seeing the smiling, tickling scene and Cecil squirming and eventually "sneezing" confirms this.
lphvm 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
lol a kid hanging out with a penis
Twilightzoneiac 3 years ago
I always thought so...
lphvm 3 years ago
Man this brings back some memories
fastone56 3 years ago
BoB Clampette was part of the Bugs Bunny ,Warner Bros Family!
1975tooto 3 years ago
I remembering my mom renting me this on VHS in the late 80's/early 90's.
AragornIsStrider 3 years ago 3
WHAT-THE-HECK!!!
ledzeptwo 3 years ago
im only 15, and even though i didnt watch it in the 70's when it was brand new, i did watch it when i was younger on cartoon network, and i miss it soooo much.. i remember i would stay up til like 11 just to watch this.. i wish they would bring this back, or release it on dvd..
angrydeathh13 3 years ago
this wasn't on in the 70's. It was the early 60's!
clbaker58 3 years ago
o crap dude i didnt even realize that.. its amazing how things from so long ago are still so great.. its waaay better than any new cartoons can be
angrydeathh13 3 years ago
I'm now but I have fond memories of this show I watched it when I was 6 years old. I don't know why this cartoon has been forgotten since. No one replays it and I get a kick out of Dishonest John. Well at least I can watch it here.
biffarone 3 years ago
YAH-HAH-HAH!!!!!
bregman1155 3 years ago
I actually owned a BeanyCopter Cap.
albanybeardguy 3 years ago
Brother-you and me both!Aint we old!?
newrochellephoenix 3 years ago
I saw this on WFLD Chicago in the early 70's.
britfrenir 3 years ago
Definitely one of the great cartoon shows.
There something somewhat surreal going on here.
finylvinyl66 3 years ago
I was born in 1960, and I remember this show at a VERY young age...maybe 3 or 4 years old...I always cried when the cartoon came on because the way Cecil looked scared the crap outta me! I saw a B&C cartoon many years later as an adult - now I understand why I was so scared! GOD is Cecil soooo ugly!
madsixtian 3 years ago
Brings me back memories.
an147 3 years ago
I not only used to watch this show, I remember having a Cecil Jack-in-the-box!
misharyutubbee 3 years ago
Man this intro really brings me back. I haven't seen nor heard from it for at least 35 years.
powergirl901 3 years ago
For some reason I'd thought this show was originally on NBC and then moved to ABC. If you listen to the song, when the characters get stacked on top of each other, you hear the NBC chimes. I know now that the show originated on ABC so maybe the chimes were inadvertent or perhaps an inside joke?
KirksaCab 3 years ago
that's not NBC's chimes; a couple of notes are out of order (DONG-Ding-ding), while NBC chimes go Ding-DONG-ding
zekepig 3 years ago
my earliest memory of tv was this show. i was about 3 yrs old at most.. born in 1961
surfstyley 3 years ago
me too...i even had a cecil hand puppet
brabon 3 years ago
Thanks for upping it, brought back memories
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago
Does anybody remember an episode with a little oilcan character? I think it was called"The Indiscreet Squeet" ??
dragthreetwo 3 years ago
Yeah, it was. Very funny titles for those cartoons..
SteveCarras 3 years ago
This was the first cartoon I ever saw,it was a favorite of mine, circa 1962.
Eliopolous 4 years ago
This is one of the first ones I can remember to from back in 1962! LOL!
DetroitD60 3 years ago
was there another cartoon like this with a sea monster seymour the sea monster or something like that
angie4777 4 years ago