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We've done and we sure hope you enjoy it But first just want to tell you we're on Tuesdays at 6 Wednesdays at 10 and Thursdays at 3 p.m. Here on a CTV If you want to write to us you want to write to box 15 14 11 Columbus, Ohio four three two one five Came right out your mouth right there So Let's talk about Miss Galenius cartoon shows Well when the big studios were slapping together stuff like Bugs Bunny and and Mickey Mouse and You know, there were other people had to put together the little things the little studios the little guys in the industry You know, they just had to get out there and put together whatever they could usually usually tended to be people that were Like outcasts from other companies or people who got sick and tired of working for some guy like Walt Disney or something I'll have Bob cartoons I So well, which one do you want to talk about first? Well by galley speaking of Bob. There's Bob Clampett. Oh, yeah And of course Bob Clampett's big cartoon was beanie and seesaw Let's let's let's see if we can find some information on beanie and seesaw. Well, it was about a kid named beanie See-thaw That's about it And they had that that that boat I Had a hat and you pulled the beanie copter and that's how beanie would get right, you know, it's like And there was a bad guy Yeah And it's probably with a more clever cartoon right it was it was during the same era as like bullwinkle Really, and it had kind of the same kind of of feeling to it, you know, there was kind of like the two There was kind of like two different levels Like the the very Kidlike thing, you know the kid joke and they were the adult jokes on the other level so you could really enjoy them either way Yeah Of course it seems like all those shows they've tried to redo And so there was just recently a beanie and seesaw Saturday morning show like maybe a year or two ago something like that and it was really bad Well, it wasn't real bad Well, well based on Based on what was on one saturday morning. It was wonderful That's not saying much today saturday morning is pretty bad Yeah, well, they you're you're falling into the bad thing of on one hand you got your um Your your half hour long toy commercial and on the other hand you've got the um The parents who say there's too much violence on tv. We need happy little things Yes It was darn blue things They love and share And The beanie and seesaw was merchandise But it wasn't a half hour cart It was a cart too that went a half hour commercial because there was the seesaw doll Yeah, we've had on here before and there was a talking one There was a talking and there was the little hat like I had that you actually pulled the string and the beanie copter flew away And they might have had a puppet that had like the three of them on there And maybe they saw this john too, but that was it I don't know this one's strong Yeah, uh, that is I this honest shot. Well, that's my hand, but And it ain't too honest neither He was he was just a your your your average snidely whiplash kind of guy He had the mustache and everything. There's another reference to another cartoon, which I think we've talked about before Yeah I had a well that's neither here nor there. Well anyway editing himself Well, let's see, uh, right. Well, let's see. Let me let me run back here because there was Thing here talking about mats fun day funnies, which was a harvey thing and The harvey thing the harvey things they came out later, but um They was let me see the cartoons were all reruns of old harvey material Right Okay, and I always always consider harvey to be one of the also rands of not only one of the comic book But the animation industry, you know They just knew all their characters. Can you talk harvey? You got casper Baby, he was didn't know. Oh, I know a casper rumor. Yeah, okay casper rumor This is a story that's told to me is supposed to be the honest truth about casper the friendly ghost Yes, there is supposedly allegedly a little cartoon out there the first one And and allegedly it shows how casper became a ghost. Oh supposedly Casper was a little black child who was crossing the street one day and was hit by a bus As supposedly there was a cartoon out there showing us how he became Was that ever released or was that like one of those in-house things they did just to make fun of it? I don't know. I don't know. It's supposed to be out there A lot of the studios they don't make of course they don't publicize us a lot But almost all the studios even today tend to make these little in-house things just to amuse themselves and they're usually pretty raunchy I suspect that might be one of those because you really can't see it and here's how casper Casper came to be with a black boy hit by a bus. Good night Yes, somehow I hadn't actually heard that story there's a little Audrey and buzzy the crow tolly turtle catnip and herman catnip and herman basically another Tom and Jerry One of the many Well, I'll go don't make my own Tom and Jerry my own cat and mouse show. Oh show them. That's right. They're gonna Baby Huey, yeah, baby Huey the big fat duck Was he a duck? Yeah, he was a duck. He was a great big fat duck Well, I knew a child that would like him. No, his head wasn't twice as big as his body He just was kind of a big pear a big triangular pear shape Yeah, he was just a big thing a heckling jackal Well heckling jackal now there they're another there are terry tubes. Yeah, one of the many terry tubes. Let's talk about them Well, let's let's finish up. Okay. Casper and all these guys. What else you got? There's windy the little witch the the good little witch and spooky the bad little ghost And the ghostly trio The nightmare the horse. That's right. They just went through the whole Superman thing here They just got all these darn now and they keep I think Casper is coming back in me. He probably is He's never really left. Well, but I think I mean he's a ghost like new Casper stuff coming. That's what I've heard Oh, he's still gotta play T-shirt now You know, well now I have to be like, you know little Casper Now maybe we'll get to see how he became Casper You have a little Casper and little Wendy's can handle it. Yeah, the little the little head the little harvies Oh, my sheet to let you see what I'm doing Oh Or it'll be like or it'll be like rapping Casper. It'll be something like that It seems like that's what they all did seven morning cards. Basically Casper a big fabulous shape With a big head. Well, you know Casper's a ghost. He's got your basic figure eight A big old head. He looks like the shoe or something That's true. He's a friendly ghost. That's right. But everyone's afraid of him because he's a ghost. Yeah Yeah, it's like he saved somebody. It's like in Adam and object see him and they're scared There's a thing that bugs me and this and this seems to happen through all the ghosts not just Casper the idea Casper is you know, everyone everyone's afraid of him because he's a ghost And and he's and he's passing through everything and suddenly like he pulls some kid from out of from behind You know like a car's getting hit him or something, you know, maybe in retribution of his What? Oh, he keeps saying it's a waiter. He was passing through everything. How did he grab the kid? Maybe there's like ghosts I just flashed on the on ghosts there just as I was saying there that explained it. Yeah, thank you Okay, I guess that's enough of the Casper and the ghostly thing there. That's right. Okay, and you wanted to talk about him About the terry tune. Yeah, terry tunes, all right And what else did they do? Mighty Mouse Mighty Mouse was opera for a little while Oh and they brought Mighty Mouse back Mighty Mouse got in trouble. Yeah, it was a great cartoon. It was one of the best It was one of the best Saturday morning cartoons ever I would stack it up against It gets bullwink all against, you know, like the good Flintstones, the early Flintstones Of course Columbus doesn't get it until it's like older, but I got to see some smuggled up from another city Yeah, well, I'll never forget the one where they opened up the This is this is the new Mighty Mouse. They opened up the pizza pan or pizza box and the little dog came out with a tire track down the road I'm mashing it down I got to have this, this is funny Yeah, and of course they got in trouble because Because Mighty Mouse was sad or or something and he was feeling down and he was in this in this, uh Like a area of daisies some sort of field of daisies and he smells these daisies and he feels better and people said he's sniffing cocaine I don't get it. He's sniffing flowers. Come on. It's a cartoon. It's a cartoon. Just just stop it So kids are going to go out and sniff flowers and get high apparently the same way kids kids are going to like drop anvils on each other They're going to jump off cliffs. They're going to get these big, you know, like the trampoline shoes or mega or leg vitamins You mean you didn't try any of that? Acme Prada You know what, we figured out that that that was crap because you know what we ate our spinach and we didn't get stronger That's right That boo the whole thing. Well, obviously the Popeye thing doesn't work. The rest of this doesn't work It's all just cartoons just about everybody and except the very very people If you just have your kids, you know, have them have have a little bit of spinach And then see if they can beat up their bigger brother if they can't and they won't be able to Hey, I didn't get the arms. So it didn't work. Yeah You know Yeah That whole Popeye thing, you know, uh, so once you figure that doesn't work, right Other stuff must not work either. That's right. I was never attracted to olive oil There's bogus that bogus Well, we'll have we'll have a bigger chance to see more Popeye now Now that that darn cartoon channel is coming for those of you don't know the cartoon network is supposed to start October 1st And it's another one of these another one of these Turner deals So they're gonna apparently they have enough cartoons now because he bought Hannah Barbera He bought Warner Brothers and he bought, um, mgm stuff. You know, what's nice about it He doesn't just put it in a closet somewhere Right. He just shows it to death until you can do the lines and you're sick of it So so now they say they have enough cartoons that they could show it Continuously from October 1st to like December 5th 24 hours a day and not repeat Three months of cartoons, hey, that's right That's a cool now buy that for a quarter Maybe look into some of those obscure Warner Brothers ones from the 30s that virtually any of the companies that The ones from the early 30s the really racist ones It seemed like that those anyway But the ones you see on tv aren't nearly as bad as the ones you don't see anymore No, I don't think anybody shows Bosco Not much Now there was an obscure cartoon since we're talking about obscure cartoons I don't know how many of you guys saw Roger ramjet and his eagles flying for our freedom Oh, hey, Roger ramjet. He's our man hero of our nation. He has adventure. Just be sure and stay tuned to this station Yeah, we know Roger. I got that on um A kid's show that was produced in Dayton. So I lived between Dayton and Cincinnati. I got both wonderful cities lasting for the side So this was a show called uncle ory show, which was like an afternoon Every every market has yeah playing it. Well, they used to have them now they have now they got obnoxious people Like soothing at the kids club. Let's go to a children's hospital. Let's see what happens if you break your arm. Okay No, no, no stay in the studio. You want pies in the face. That's what you want pies in the face Dr. Bottles. That's what we want. Yeah, that booger diddle with his booger jokes Well, Booger diddle is funny. That bum's a cool guy. I've met bum. He's a he's a great guy But Roger ramjet, I don't know where Roger ramjet came from because the only place I saw it was on The uncle ory show coming out of Dayton. I don't know what company even did though that that's a that's a one of the more obscure Of course, even more obscure what I've mentioned before that I caught on a little station that came out of somewhere I don't even know where It was a UHF station back when nobody had UHF stations and it was batfink Now I've heard of this and that's all I've heard that exists And I was too young to be doing drugs so I know there was a cartoon called batfink That's what we figured Please, if you heard of this cartoon I can't immediately We went confirmation this thing exists I need it, I really do The bad thing, the terrible trick that parents play on their children as they sit them in front of that TV And they're too young to they're too young to get up and write things down Who did this show? What voices are on what what production company? You just sit there and watch it and then years later you're doubting your sanity I figured this must have been about 67 or 68 I'm figuring it was right around in there. Maybe as late as 69, but it couldn't have been somewhere It was well, was that at the same time as um a little as uh, what's his name the uh, the uh, yeah Oh, okay Yes, Tom Slick George of jungle and super chicken. They were they were they were three great ones. Yeah, we've talked about them before too Oh, yeah, we talked about the whole because they were a part of that. Oh captain crunch thing Captain crunch universe There's one we see jeez. We got it. We can't we can't forget talking about Oh What's going on? You know it's actually a lot again I think it's got it Yeah, but until this year Goes up a bar and here for underdog Not that we like Now maybe underdog was a bad The secret entrapment of my ring. I feel with an underdog super energy Underdog energy vitamin pill it became later super chicken drink acid or something What I was gonna say was Until this year just made him think he was better It seemed like like uh cbs and all the networks every year they do their Saturday morning And they'd come out with some dopey idea. They keep getting dopey every year And and they cancel them because they were getting virtually like zero test patterns were getting better ratings And and so what do they do every year around february mart suddenly they start slipping in bullwinkle Slipping in underdog slipping in more bugs bunny. Yeah, they come back to the classics That's it's basically what your networks are doing except networks. They've got so much fodder that comes in, you know All the little shows that don't get it into the fall and they say well, we'll try this one. Yeah, try that again We'll try this one. But underdog will we work it? Yeah, but underdog. He says he's a very standard Underdog your tennessee tuxedo in chumlee And that one that one that one was sneaky though because you'll learn something you had to learn something We're gonna teach you something And mr. Whoopi, I'm sure it's out of bounds. Yeah, thank you, mr. Whoopi We're gonna make the out of bomb now Gee chumlee, don't you get sick of him teaching this stuff? How do we get back into how do we get back to the zoo? Oh here. I've invented this catapult Well, they usually had a slingshot or catapult or something. We're all trying to leave the zoo sneak out to do something come back You flip one there in the book that that Oh, I just found tennessee tuxedo And then the turtle well tutor the turtle Deep in the forest There's a tall tall tree used to be a short tree But it uh grew and down the bottom of this tree is a little old box, which is really the home of mr. Wizard the lizard Yeah, mr. Wizard the lizard He would he would do some magical things and shrink tutor down and bring him into that box and boy He did send tutor all kinds of plays he's There is a little drowsy Mr. Wizard, I think I made a mess of things again Oh, there is a little drowsy drowsy drowsy Time for this one to come home Gee mr. Wizard I messed up real bad All too good. It's just like I always tell you be just what you is not what you is not folks What does this it's the happiest lot? Amazing. Yeah Magoo there Magoo we've talked a little bit about magoo on that on our holiday special, but we never talked about the the regular magoo Yeah, there was a regular magoo a big magoo before he became the famous actor and did all the ever Who are the big studios and realize what I tell him You know he has to do the classics, you know him and him and Olivier pretty much Famous adventures of mr. Magoo Because he had enough you that got left out of the classics, you know, what was there Waldo? Yeah, who had to like kind of bail is behind Every time because magoo basically was blind as it could be that that was pretty much the one the one joke concept Mr. Magoo is a blind old guy Stupid stuff and well it was amusing It was just shows how how easily we were amused that's right. This one this one card this one um one joke one joke basically Over and over and over lasted him a whole year whole year Well, in the same basic time period we had the Alvin show Yeah Alvin this is the Alvin show the Alvin show Much of um A dynasty now. Yeah. Oh really? There's Alvin, there's a lot of shows. Because they brought them back and now they're singing rock stuff because but they brought them back And they made it just too cute. Yeah, they made it too cute. They made a movie even. This is how they really look This is how they were like they were like drawing real fast. Yes It all started basically with that with that um which doctor saw Yeah Anyway, that and that turned into uh, what was there um that hula hoop that christmas song. Yeah, I want the hula hoop When you ready Alvin Alvin Okay Okay, okay. What was that? What was the perspective there where the chipmunks like really big chipmunks are where all the people just really really small Well, it was like the chipmunks started off being small. Yeah, they actually were small but then somewhere along the uh grew Amazing clothes on them and stuff. Yeah I guess that was another one of those parental things. You can't have naked chipmunks running around That's just Well, donald duck he never put no pants on But then well, you look at donald He probably didn't find a pair of pants Now george jesson has pants and he looks pretty much like donald duck That's amazing. He was on the donald's like He ate donald duck And There was one there was another obscure one that they didn't have on for very long um When amos and andy went from radio to television There was suddenly a big outcry because I mean it was always pretty much a racist concept But in the 30s, no one seemed to mind but when they brought it to television It didn't seem to work very well. So they reformulated into calvin and the kernel Which is which is the exact same show concept except well now it's the animals instead But it wasn't very funny. So it didn't last very long I thought the calvin and the kernel was kind of made by the same people that went on to do um Hoppy Hooper and all that well, I might well done. I didn't see that But I had a toad named hoppy I just saw I was so inspired Next page I never saw it, but I but I keep reading it. I remember calvin and the kernel base actually Gee, it was um it was actually from 61 to 62 just about a year And it was done by the people who did the same voices as amos and andy. This was the same voices Okay, um, let's see the amos and andy comedy depicting a mischievous pair of black men Racial stereotype was no long permitted. So they did calvin and the kernel That's right story of a sly friendship of a sly fox and a simple bear That's not like the stereotype to me Sly shawawa He is an asma han chawawa Be clear on that We don't want to offend his breed That's right, but is it mine? All right Happy happy Thing that just makes it so funny is peter lorry and uh And larry fine What a comedy troupe what a comedy pair. Well, that's an obscure cartoon that's just First down become huge. That's right There's another one that's that's today that's obscure that fox has that howie mendel does called bawby's world I've seen which is really pretty neat. Yeah, which is really it's I mean like I said it's obscure, but And that's and that's what we like on Vast Wasteland So Next time on Vast Wasteland, it's sports tv Well, that's it Vast Wasteland. We'll see you next time. Come on everybody