George of the Jungle (60s Theme) Sing-Along

George of the Jungle was an American animated television series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, the same people responsible for Rocky & Bullwinkle. It ran for 17 episodes on Saturday mornings from September 5 to December 26, 1967, on the American TV network ABC. The half-hour program was distributed for many years by Worldvision Enterprises, currently part of CBS Television Distribution.

The show actually featured three segments in each episode in the form of three unrelated cartoons. The cartoons were George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken. The voices were primarily handled by the same three people over all three segments, Bill Scott, June Foray, and Paul Frees. The complete series is available now on DVD. [1]

Unlike previous Ward series, the animation production was actually done in Hollywood. Some of the veteran animators who drew the series included Phil Duncan, Rod Scribner, and Rudy Zamora. Each segment's theme song was written by the team of Stan Worth and Sheldon Allman, though the cartoons themselves had little or no music scoring, as with Bullwinkle.

The title segment, George of the Jungle, is a spoof of the popular Tarzan story. The title character, George (voiced by Bill Scott), is a dim-witted but big-hearted "ape man" who lives in the jungle. He is called upon each episode to save its inhabitants from various threats. In the episode teaser, he is famous for not looking where he is swinging and thus slamming face-first into trees or other obstacles to the tune of, "George, George, George of the Jungle." Another running gag is that George keeps forgetting that he lives in a tree, and, as a result, falls to the ground from a high drop every time he leaves his house. George's love interest is Ursula (voiced by June Foray), whom George refers to as, "Fella." He has an ape for a friend, appropriately named Ape (voiced by Paul Frees), who is far more intelligent than George. Then there is Shep, George's pet elephant who acts like a lap dog, or as George calls him, "great big peanut-lovin' poochie." Also of note is the Tooky Tooky (or Tookie Tookie) bird famous for his call: "Ah ah ee ee tooky tooky."

In 1997, the segment was adapted into a live action film, titled George of the Jungle. Brendan Fraser played the title role, with Leslie Mann as Ursula, John Cleese as the voice of Ape, and Thomas Hayden Church as the villain. A direct-to-video sequel, George of the Jungle 2 (without Fraser and Mann), was released in 2003.

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[cellfone2006]

Who's Fella and Ursula? I only remember one girl in the cartoon. Can anyone explain that???

[DisneyVillain]

Ursula is George's wife and he usually calls her Fella cuz he is stupid.

[Rumisonqqo]

Man. The first movie is just awesome and hillarious but the second one sucks :(

[faramaki]

After slamming into trees for so many years, he was in the habit of seeing double. He thought there were two of them.

[angeladevild]

YouTube should be able to create infinite replay loops so I don't need to keep hitting the button.

[warrugul]

@cellfone2006 it's actually Bombella & ursula,and they are the girl- george is just a bit thick

[bradwatson7324]

You know... I always did feel like he was my friend.

[JeopardyandWheelFan]

This was referenced on Blockbusters a lot.

[1scofojr]

WHERS THE LOVE BUTTON ON THIS THING

[vaarkster]

Amazingly enough this was the song played by the bagpipers at Lou's funeral on "Rescue Me" series finale.

[hatman94]

@cellfone2006 you can't explain that.

[darthdragonking]

AHAAAHAAAAHAAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAH­AAHAAH OOOH WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE

[bourky93]

11 people did not look out for that tree