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American animated television serial

Beany and Cecil
Characters from left to correct: Crowy, Captain Horatio Huffenpuff, Cecil, Beany, Quack John.
Besides known as	The Beany and Cecil Show
Genre	Animation
Created by	Bob Clampett
Voices of	Jim MacGeorge Irv Shoemaker Bob Clampett
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	Academy ratio
Showtime shown in	1959–1962
Original release	Jan 6 (1962-01-06) – June thirty, 1962 (1962-06-30)

Beany and Cecil is a 1962 animated tv set series created by Bob Clampett for the American Broadcasting Company.^[1] The cartoon was based on the television puppet show Time for Beany, which Clampett produced for Paramount Pictures visitor and its Paramount Television Network beginning 1949. The series was broadcast first as part of the series Matty'southward Funday Funnies during 1959, afterward renamed Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil, and finally Beany and Cecil in the Usa.^[2] Another season was produced during 1988.

Although a children's testify, it incorporated satirical references to current events and personalities that adults found entertaining, and the show besides attracted adult viewers. Some of the plots and remarks were recognizable as lampoons of electric current political bug.

Along with The Jetsons and The Flintstones, it was 1 of the first three color boob tube series by the ABC television receiver network (the initial season, though, was originally shown in black and white, as ABC was unable to broadcast color programs until September 1962).

History [edit]

Beany and Cecil was created by animator Bob Clampett^[iii] after he quit Warner Bros., where he had been directing short cartoon movies. Clampett allegedly originated the idea for Cecil when he was a male child after seeing the top one-half of the dinosaur swimming from the h2o at the end of the 1925 picture The Lost World.

Clampett originally created the idea as a tv set series named Fourth dimension for Beany,^[four] which was broadcast from February 28, 1949 to 1955. Time for Beany, a puppet prove, featured the talents of veteran vox actors Stan Freberg as Cecil and Dishonest John, and Daws Butler every bit Beany and Uncle Captain.

Clampett revived the series in theatrical animated class, though Freberg and Butler did not reprise their roles. On 11 October 1959, the animated series was introduced every bit Matty's Funday Funnies. named for "Matty Mattel" the animated spokesperson for its master sponsor Mattel Toys company. Nevertheless, the serial at that fourth dimension featured old Paramount theatrical cartoons. The new Beany and Cecil cartoon series took over Matty'south Funnies (sans "Funday") in January 1962 and was broadcast prime time Saturdays during the balance of the 1961-62 telly season, past the ABC Television Network. The newer cartoons replaced the Famous Studios cartoons of Casper the Friendly Ghost and Little Audrey among other parts of Matty'south Funday Funnies.The program was later on retitled The Beany and Cecil Evidence.

After 1962, the 26 shows (including 78 cartoons) were repeated during Saturday mornings for the adjacent two years and on Dominicus mornings for 3 more. The cartoon featured characters Beany, a male child, and Cecil the Sea-Ill Bounding main Serpent embarking on a serial of adventures, oft to discover aboriginal civilizations and artifacts. These escapades were rife with cartoon slapstick and puns.

Before the animated serial, only concurrent with the puppet show, Clampett created a comic-book serial of Beany and Cecil adventures for Dell Comics. The artwork for this series of comics, published from 1951–54, was drawn by Jack Bradbury.

During 1988, the show was revived as The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil by DiC Entertainment. Just eight episodes were made, and only five episodes broadcast. This version of the prove was produced and directed by John Kricfalusi, who would later create The Ren and Stimpy Testify, and made utilize of voices from Baton West, who as well did voices for the characters Ren (for season 3 and afterward) and Stimpy.

Characters [edit]

Main characters [edit]

• Beany Boy – A young, cupid-faced boy with a propeller beanie cap that allows him to fly (the "Beanycopter", complete with helmet and propeller, became a popularly marketed novelty). Beany is a adept-hearted lad. In nearly episodes, Beany would be kidnapped by a villain or get caught in a rough state of affairs, crying "Help, Cecil! Aid!" to which Cecil would reply "I'one thousand a-comin', Beany-male child!" as he raced to the rescue. This has get something of a catchphrase. Beany was originally voiced past Jim MacGeorge for the 1960s series and by Mark Hildreth for the 1980s series.

• Cecil (or "Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent") – A large greenish sea serpent with a slight lisp. He is fiercely loyal to Beany, simply he'due south not very clever. Cecil'due south trusting good nature invariably results in him existence taken advantage of by the bad people, and he often suffers a great amount of concrete abuse (getting smashed apartment, losing his caput, having his skin burned off, being shattered to pieces), examples of cartoon physics. The terminate of Cecil's tail was never seen in most episodes; it always extended off-screen or was hidden behind an obstacle. This is likely a joking reference to the original Cecil, a manus puppet whose tail was likewise hidden (because information technology didn't exist). His cervix oft showed folds and creases similar that of a sock boob as well, some other reference to the original Cecil. Cecil'due south tail did appear in "Beany and the Jackstalk" when his entire torso got wound into the tension spring of a giant cuckoo clock. Cecil also has a superhero alter-ego known equally Super-Cecil. In this guise, he wears a modified Superman shirt (complete with cape). It was Cecil who sang "A Bob Clam-pett car-tooooooo-OOOOOOOOON!" at the terminate of the opening song of each episode. Cecil was voiced originally past Irv Shoemaker for the 1960s cartoon and past Billy Due west for the 1980s cartoon.
• Helm Horatio Huffenpuff – Too called "Uncle Captain", he is Beany's kindly uncle and the captain of the ship Leakin' Lena, which takes the pals from one destination to the other. The Captain is always willing to instruct Beany and Cecil on their latest consignment, but is rather cowardly and refuses to put himself in whatsoever personal jeopardy, locking himself below the deck or under a box labeled "Capt. Huffenpuff's Hiding Box" for most of the episodes. Uncle Captain was voiced by Jim MacGeorge for both serial.
• Crowy – The navigator of the ship Leakin' Lena. He is a crow, and unsurprisingly spends nigh of his fourth dimension in the ship's crow'south nest. He speaks with a squawky voice and tends to faint whenever the send encounters some sort of hazard. Voiced by Jim MacGeorge (though Don Messick did and so in 1 episode).
• Quack John (or "D.J.") – A mobster villain and the main antagonist of the testify. He is dressed formally like a Simon Legree character, and he is constantly scheming to foil Beany and Cecil's adventures. His catchphrase is his sinister express mirth, "Nya-ah-ãhh!", and he occasionally refers to Cecil as a "tall toad", "worm" or "big salami" (referring to his big, limbless body). Whenever Dishonest John's schemes are revealed to the heroes, Cecil tends to respond with an aghast "What the heck! D.J., you muddy guy!". When Dishonest John receives his inevitable defeat, it is usually just every bit painful as the corruption Cecil has endured during the rest of the episode. Dishonest John also has a supervillain alter-ego known as The Bilious Beetle. In this guise, he tin can fly by his power and has a painful stinger. "D.J." also appeared disguised on occasion as the mechanical robotic octopus "Baton The Squid" usually in haphazard attempts to simulate sea storms to scare abroad the crew of the Leakin' Lena when on a treasure hunt. Quack John carried a business carte that read: "Dirty deeds done dirt cheap. Special rates for Sundays and holidays". This was the inspiration for the AC/DC song "Dingy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". In the 1980s series, ane episode revealed that DJ is a member of a club called the Brotherhood of B.L.E.C.H. (short for Bad Guys, Losers, Evildoers, Crooks, and Horrible People). DJ was originally voiced by Irv Shoemaker for the 1960s series and past Maurice LaMarche for the 1980s series.

Pocket-sized characters [edit]

• Cecilia McCoy - A she-serpent and Cecil's girlfriend. In the two-episode arc, Beany Blows His Top & Beany Flips His Lid, Dishonest John attempts to sabotage their relationship by disguising himself equally some other sea snake named Rex.
• Davey Cricket – A cricket with a coonskin cap who lives in the backwoods of Eight-Nine-Tennessee. A parody of Walt Disney'due south wildly popular segments on the Disneyland tv show based on the life of American frontiersman Davey Crockett. In Cricket's self-titled episode, Dishonest John tries unsuccessfully to sign Davey to a lucrative Hollywood flick contract. He appeared in the episodes: Davey Cricket & Davey Cricket's Leading Ladybug.
• Go Man Van Gogh – A stereotypical cartoon beatnik/wild homo who lives in the jungles of Wildsville on the Hungry I-Land. He often paints various things with his paintbrush, including paintings, vines to swing on, and fake backdrops to fool enemies (ala Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner). He also often plays a fix of bongo drums, does scat singing, and speaks with various crackpot stereotype slang. Though he did not announced in many episodes, he was somewhat recurring. He was voiced originally past Lord Buckley in "The Wildman of Wildsville" (a 1959 short moving picture that was later broadcast as function of the television series) and then by Scatman Crothers afterward Buckley's decease in 1960.
• Harecules Hare - A rabbit with superior intelligence. Had a computerized Thinking Cap and built a "Guided Muscle", a guided missile with a olfactory organ-cone in the form of a giant fist. Appeared in the episodes Ben Hare and Harecules Hare and the Golden Fleecing.
• Ben Hare - A rabbit and father to Harecules. He was a muscular health nut who believed that brawn was more important than brains and wished that his son would feel the same way. Appeared in the episodes Ben Hare and Harecules Hare and the Gilt Fleecing.
• Jacques the Pocketknife (or "Jack the Knife") – A friendly, jazz-singing sawfish with a heavy French accent. His name was an obvious spoof of Bobby Darin's 1959 hit vocal "Mack the Knife". His sawlike nose is used as a sword to help Cecil defeat Dishonest John in the episode "Hero by Trade". He spoke only in vocal, to a rendition of "My Darling Clementine" done in the styling Bobby Darin's version of the vocal. He also comes to Cecil's aid in the episode The Monstrous Monster
• Little Ace From Outer Space – An astronaut mouse. In his cocky-titled episode, he was used past the people at Cape Banana Peel to discover "whether or whether there was whatsoever weather." Cecil and Quack John competed to go Lilliputian Ace back to the cape for a greenbacks reward. In the episode "Rat Race From Space," he was sent in a rocket to be the showtime mouse on the moon merely to stop up in the ocean. Voiced by Paul Frees.
• Tear-A-Long the Dotted Lion – A muscle-bound lion obsessed with do and vitamins, a possible parody of fitness guru Jack La Lanne, who had a popular television exercise show about the same time equally Beany and Cecil. His proper name is a pun of the phrase "Tear along the dotted line", simply Tear-A-Long himself wasn't spotted. He spoke with a Southern U.S. accent similar to the Warner Brothers blithe character Foghorn Leghorn. One of the original characters on the Time for Beany boob show. Voiced by Daws Butler.
• Devil-may-care the Mexican Hairless – Cecil's jovial pet Chihuahua, introduced in the episode "Cecil Gets Careless" and so named considering of his tendency to knock things over when he happily jumps and dances. He sings to the tune of the Mexican folk vocal "El Jarabe Tapatio". He is chosen a Mexican Hairless for comic effect; the actual brood aka Xoloitzcuintli is much larger.
• William Shakespeare Wolf – A starving out-of-piece of work wolf and actor who was a foil for Rin Can (a robot canis familiaris whose rise to fame coincided with the demise of his own acting career) likewise every bit Harecules Hare and a duck named Graham Quacker, both of whom he attempted to swallow.
• Beepin' Tom – A atomic alien who flew about in an open-top flying saucer. Named for his habit of making beeping sounds. When he spoke, he would hum the first line of The Alphabet Vocal and then sing his phrase to the tune of the next line. A high pitched, accelerated voice similar to the Chipmunks was used for the grapheme and the words he sang/spoke appeared as a rebus in a give-and-take balloon over his head. Appeared in the episodes Own't I a Petty Stinger? and Strange Objects.
• Hopalong Catskill – A frog wearing a cowboy hat who walked with a limp like to that of Dennis Weaver's "Chester" on the TV show Gunsmoke and spoke with a Yiddish accent. His catchphrase was "Hey Shmendrick! Would y'all like a cup of coffee?" The character was voiced by Yiddish comedy vocaliser Mickey Katz.
• Peking Tom – A Siamese aisle cat who sang about being a "very hungry guy; I've got to get some food 'cause I'chiliad too egg-foo-young to die."
• Cora the Clinging Vine (aka Flora) – A vine who has a crush on Cecil while singing "peachy" and Jazz scats to him. Appeared in the episode Wildman From Wildsville
• Venus the Meanest and Venice the Menace – Two infinite robots from Venus who at first were reported to be invading World but came down for a picnic. Venice the Menace'southward name is a play on Dennis the Menace (both the British and American versions), and acts like Linus Van Pelt from Peanuts including his thumb sucking and "dirty old" blanket.
• The Robot Ants – A group of ants brought by Venus the Meanest to be part of her picnic on Earth. They sing a march based on the children's song "This One-time Homo" that is shown in a voice communication bubble.
• The Boo Birds – A gang of mischievous ghost birds that haunt an abandoned castle where Cecil stayed. They sing a tune "Filet of Soul (Sole)" based on the song "When the Saints Come Marching In". Their catchphrase was "Whyyyy not?"
• Edgar Allen Po'south Shadow – A shadow homo who owns the Haunted Retreat Mansion in the episode Beany and Cecil meets the Invisible Man. He is based on Alfred Hitchcock and speaks with an emphasis like that of the cartoon character Elmer Fudd.
• And so What and the Seven What-Knots – A dixie jazz band who performed in a jazz club in Las Vegas, Nevada to the melody of "When the Saints Come Marching In". They are based on the fairy tale, Snow White and the Vii Dwarfs. The names of the 'What-Knots' all spoofed on musicians & actors of the twenty-four hour period, such as $tash-do (Satchmo), Elfis (Elvis Presley), Empty-headed R. Nez (Desi Arnaz), Harpsie McChord (Harpo Marx), Fred McFurry (Fred MacMurray), Spiral-Loose Lautrec (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec) & Loverachi (Liberace).
• Stogie Deport – A detective bear who Beany and Cecil helped to arrest the gangster bears in the episode, The Warring 20's.
• Double Trouble Bubble Animal – A weird underwater creature who appeared in Ain't That a Cork in the Snorkel and Make a Sea-Serpent Sore!
• Dinah Saur, The Singing Dinosaur - a dinosaur named and patterned after Dinah Shore who lived on the isle of No Bikini Atoll & sang to the melody of "When the Saints Come up Marching In".
• Gigi - A french poodle. Featured in the episode DJ The DJ, she repeatedly thought she was being summoned by Cecil each fourth dimension he would utter the "R-A-G-G" portion of the song "Rag Mop".
• Infant Ruthy - Beany's girlfriend. Appears in Beany Blows His Top & Beany Flips His Chapeau. As he leaves to meet her, Huffenpuff tells him "You dine aground..." (even so another Dinah Shore reference).
• Bridget the Crow - Crowy'south girlfriend. Appears in Beany Blows His Top
• U.S. Male - A postal ship, boyfriend of the Leakin' Lena (Yes, even the ship was in love!) Appears in Beany Blows His Peak
• Ida - Sugariness every bit apple cider. Huffenpuff'due south girlfriend. Appears in just one episode, but is referenced in others
• The Fleastone Cops - The assisted Detective Fido Vance when The Pincher kidnapped actress Bridgette Bow Wow.
• Snorky - A mischievous serpent tied to many dubious historical events.

Music [edit]

Cecil often sang the Ames Brothers' song "Rag Mop" throughout the series. 1 episode ("Beanyland") featured Tchaikovsky's well-known celesta piece, Trip the light fantastic toe of the Sugarplum Fairy, from The Nutcracker. Other famed pieces of The Nutcracker were used in the serial as musical interludes such as the Chinese Dance and Dance of the Reed-Flutes. Many other well-known classical music pieces were featured in the show as well, including The William Tell Overture (in the episodes "Beanyland" and "The Phantom of the Horse Opera"), Ride of the Valkyries and Flight of the Bumblebee. Some of the background music was besides recycled from Leave it to Beaver, also every bit some early on Walter Lantz cartoons and incidental music from The Alvin Show. "The Tin can Tin can" was used in the episode Harecules Hare & The Gold Fleecing equally the music for the Guided Muscle. The tune of "When The Saints Come Marching In" was used in several episodes, by the Singing Dinosaur, Then What & The Seven What-Knots & the Boo Birds.

Influence [edit]

The Air-conditioning/DC song "Dirty Deeds Washed Dirt Cheap" is titled later on the business cards of character Dishonest John, which read "Dingy deeds done clay cheap. Holidays, Sundays and special rates."

Bob Dylan painted Beany in his 2017 Browbeaten Path painting Hamburger Stand, Long Beach, based on a habitation picture of Beany's Drive-in Restaurant in 1952.^[5]

Curiosity Comics has a minor graphic symbol code-named Warstar who is two separate aliens named "B'nee" and "C'cil".

The puppet origins and the form of Cecil inspired the famous scientific discipline fiction writer Larry Niven to invent an important extraterrestrial race called Pierson'due south Puppeteer as part of his Known Infinite serial of novels and curt stories (as originally stated in the story "The Soft Weapon".^[6] Beany and Cecil was besides an inspiration for Joel Hodgson to create the show Mystery Science Theater 3000.^[7]

The artists [edit]

• Executive Producer: A.C.R. Stone
• Producer: Bob Clampett
• Animation Directors: Jack Hannah, Dick Kinney
• Story Material/Storyboards: Bob Clampett, Eddie Maxwell, Al Bertino, Jack Bonestell, Dale Unhurt, Lloyd Turner (Go Smart writer)
• Layout: Terrell Stapp, Willie Ito, Tony Sgroi, Homer Jonas
• Master Animator: Art Scott
• Animators: Lou Appet, Harry "Bud" Hester, Bill Nunes, Al Stetter, Frank Gonzales, Nib Southwood, Carl A. Bong
• Backgrounds: Curtiss Perkins, Robert Abrams, Marie Reed
• Music Underscore: Bob Clampett, Sody Clampett, Hoyt Curtin, Jack Roberts
• Music Published by Merrifield Music Co., Inc. (ASCAP)
• Product Administration: Dick Elliott, John Soh, Jeanne Thorpe, Mike Sweeten
• Voice Talents of Jim MacGeorge, Irv Shoemaker and Bob Clampett as Cecil.
• A Bob Clampett Product, in association with Tv Artists and Producers Corporation

The credits of the series did non show traditional task titles, just pictorial symbols indicating their jobs. Bob Clampett's writing credit was indicated past a typewriter typing out the words "...by Bob Clampett", for instance. Clampett also fabricated sure to include his name in the lyrics of the often-repeated B&C theme song to proceeds more than recognition with viewers and from the animation industry. Clampett finally got the rights from ABC to marketplace his Beany and Cecil cartoons by video during the 1980s.

Episodes [edit]

Home video [edit]

The entire serial was released on VHS and Betamax every bit thirteen volumes (each containing two episodes) by RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video during 1984, with the last releases issued by their "Magic Window" children'southward subsidiary imprint.

Image Entertainment released "Bob Clampett's Beany and Cecil the Special Edition" DVD in 2000, with 12 cartoon shorts and various testify bumpers remastered from their original 35mm photographic camera negatives. Bonus features included four complete episodes of Time for Beany, audio tracks of original story sessions, backstage footage, lost animated works from Bob Clampett'southward studio, and a still gallery. Later a considerable delay, Volume 2 was released by Hen's Tooth Entertainment during 2009, containing 11 drawing shorts, plus 2 more than Time for Beany episodes, archival sound interviews with Bob Clampett, video interviews with celebrity fans of the series besides as animator Pecker Melendez, original bumpers from Matty's Funday Funnies and other special features. To date, the entire cartoon collection has not been released on DVD or Blu-Ray disc, nor has it been made available for digital download.

References [edit]

1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Tv Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 69–70. ISBN978-1538103739.
2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Tv set Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2d ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 124–127. ISBN978-1476665993.
3. ^ Beany and Cecil at IMDb
4. ^ Beany and Cecil at IMDb^{[ unreliable source? ]}
5. ^ Beaten Path Series Hamburger Stand, Long Beach Archived 2017-10-17 at the Wayback Auto Retrieved on 16 Oct 2017.
6. ^ and repeated in other Known Space works.
7. ^ In Marvel Comics Universe, there is a spacefaring Purple Guard unit with a fellow member code named Warstar -who consists of two split up aliens, one smaller being riding on top of the other more massive one, named B'nee and C'cil, respectively. "20 Questions But Joel Hodgson Tin can Answer virtually MST3K". Special Feature. Satellite News. January 1999. Archived from the original on 3 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-12 .

External links [edit]

• Beany and Cecil DVD Website
• Beany and Cecil at Toon Tracker
• Beany and Cecil at Toonopedia
• Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil at IMDb

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