Beany and Cecil - Beany Meets the Monstrous Monster

Both Beany and Cecil not only meet the Monstrous Monster but Cecil's undersea buddies Louie the Loan Shark, Snappsy Maxie, Staring Herring and that cut up Jack the Knife.

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[TheBeanyandCecil]

Thanks for your comments everybody. It is not far fetched to place Alan Hale, Jr. and Captain Huffenpuff in the same proverbial boat. Only thing is Huff would have influenced the Skipper and not the other way around because Huff pre-dated both the Skipper and Gilligan's Island. The cartoons were EARLY 60's.

[TheBeanyandCecil]

Good question, MishuTaste,

Depends on how you look at it. One theory is that Beany Boy and Uncle Captain Horatio K. Huffenpuff are perpetually squinting because they are out on the ocean so much and they get that sun reflection off the water. The other theory is that they are just so darn happy all of the time and the squint is really a smile. Or both. Now, you decide.

[TheBeanyandCecil]

All kinds of pop culture references from Steve! Chuck Amuck with "What's Opera Doc?" Friz whatis? with Herr Meets Hare. Bobby Darin, HB, Huckleberry Hound, My Darling Clementine and Ed Wynn all in reference to a Beany and Cecil cartoon.

What a world!

[TheBeanyandCecil]

Outdated dialogue? You could look at it as true to its time. And its not the bland non-descript stuff you get so much from more recent cartoons. Beany and Cecil is all about cultural references i.e.Jack the Knife--Bobby Darin

We just posted Wildman of Wildsville. You could say the same for that cartoon, but I'd prefer to say they captured a reverence for the era. These cartoons are like little charming nuggets that could have easily been left in a time capsule.

Thanks for your thoughts.

[TheBeanyandCecil]

We don't recall Ride of the Valkyries in this cartoon. We haven't seen this for a while but we think Ride... was in the storm sequence of "Beany and Cecil Meet Billy the Squid", the pilot episode for the Beany and Cecil Cartoon series.  Billy the Squid is Dishonest John's robot octopus.

[WytZox1]

I've often suspected that Captain Huunpuff inspired Alan Hale Jr's character on Gilligan's Island.

[MishuTaste]

@richartrod Oh. That makes sense.

[richartrod]

@MishuTaste Beany and Uncle Captain, called "Uncle Admiral" this cartoon because he's sporting an admiral's hat and shoulder swag, squint their eyes as an "in-joke" and throwback to their origins in Bob Clampett's "Time For Beany" TV puppet show. Their solid rubber faces had those same squinty grins. It's also why you never see Cecil's tail; on the puppet show he was an arm puppet voiced by comedian Stan Freberg (and thus the tail didn't exist).

[spookiedolly69]

I remember seeing this one on "The Bob Clampett show" when I was maybe in 3rd or 4th grade. I was so giddy because I've always wanted to know what other episodes were there, other than the ones I've seen on the Vol. 1 VHS.

[MishuTaste]

Why does Beany & Uncle Admiral squint their eyes?

[richartrod]

Indeed, caricatures and puns abound in this cartoo-OOOOOOON! J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, Bobby Darin (Jack the Knife), Peter Lorre (Staring Herring), Ed Wynn (The Monstrous Monster), possibly Louis Armstrong (Snappsy Maxie), tankards of ale (oil), spare ribs (aka "spar" ribs), stereotypical Irish policemen (the starfish like a cop's badge), the stage musical "Show Boat", and others too numerous to mention.

[SteveCarras]

@wileyk209zback

Yes, it was late 1980s, one of the major campaign, with a nightclub/cabaret pianist with crecesent moon head made up to look somewhat like Ray CHarles..

[wileyk209zback]

@SteveCarras I know McDonald's did an interesting parody of the song with "Mac Tonight" in the 1980s.