Beany and Cecil - The Wildman Of Wildsville

Cecil visits The Hungry I-Land where he meets up with the Beatnik painter Go Man Van Gogh who doesn't dig ANYTHING that's square. Berets, Goatees and bongo drums rule in this world right out of a Jackson Pollock painting.

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[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.

[TheBeanyandCecil]

We always love those analogies to Warner Bros. Cartoons!

[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.

[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.

[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!

[wileyk209zback]

(4:51) Probably one of the first times a naked butt was depicted in a TV cartoon! (Then again, Bob Clampett loved to get crap past the radar, like Warner Bros. or Jay Ward often would.)

But then "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Animaniacs" could get away with a lot more by the early 1990s...

[wileyk209zback]

Go Man: "Hey man, call me a cat!"

Cecil: "You're a cat."

LOL!

I remember my grandfather used to have a Jaguar as well (it was a real car, not a live jaguar being used as a car!)

[wileyk209zback]

@TheBeanyandCecil For the first couple of years on the puppet show, Daws Butler voiced the Captain and Beany. Beginning around 1952-1953, Jim MacGeorge took over, and reprised the roles for the 1960s cartoons (he also voiced the Captain in the 1988 DiC/John K. revival, but Beany was cast to a new child actor to make him sound younger.)

[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.

[wileyk209zback]

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

[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!