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Post by kevinharrell on Mar 9, 2015 19:13:36 GMT -5
Who is more macho? Mr. Bill  Gumby  |
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Post by wheelbender6 on Mar 9, 2015 19:45:01 GMT -5
This gets tougher every week.  |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 9, 2015 21:17:08 GMT -5
OK... No contest for this old geezer!
It's gotta be GUMBY...
I grew up on GUMBY on black n' white TV, and while the little clay guy seems sorta wimpy, he ALWAYS won when things got tough... I liked his little burro pal too. I wanted my Dad to buy me a donkey. No luck. so I bought a Harley... Oh, Dad... Ya shoulda got the burro... LOL!
Now, is ANYBODY out there old enough to remember the GUMBY TV STATIC-CLING plastic sheet you put on the TV screen so you could draw stuff to help the hero out? I think that weird idea came from an even more obscure TV kid's show, "WINKY DINK AND YOU". Oh brother, is my old brain straining on THAT one. It dates to the early fifties, and of course, nobody's parents would send off for the "magic screen" or whatever it was called.
So... The little nippers would just take crayons and draw all over dad's $500 TV set ($5,000+ in today's bucks)... A 17" black & white TV back in 1950 cost the equivalent of the price of today's biggest, highest-tech theater-sized monster high-def TV's!
Anyway, I vote for Gumby... Gotta shut down now, I'm starting to crave some Kellog's SUGAR CORN POPS... and an episode of "Captain Video"... and seriously considering putting a propeller on my helmet.
Leo (maybe still gonna get that donkey) in Texas
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Post by SylvreKat on Mar 10, 2015 8:14:36 GMT -5
I never saw much SNL, but I'm familiar with Mr. Bill.
And I have never seen any of Gumby's shows. Just some commercials (I think) that had him.
However--I grew up with a Pokey doll. Loved it. So Gumby gets my vote, by association with Pokey. But wasn't Pokey a pony, Leo? :-/At least that's what Mom told me he was.
>'Kat
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Post by spandi on Mar 10, 2015 10:16:45 GMT -5
It's Gumby. All Mr. Bill could do is take abuse from Sluggo and Mr. Hand!  |
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Post by bandito2 on Mar 10, 2015 11:32:46 GMT -5
Gumby of course... Loved all that old time B&W TV. Captain Kangaroo, Sky King, Flipper, Clutch Cargo, Felix the Cat, Davey & Goliath (another stop action animation will moral messages), Mighty Mouse, The Little Rascals... The 3 Stooges. Time tunnel, Land of the Giants, Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea, The Twilight Zone, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits. Star Trek, Even a kind of spy action thing with marionettes called "Super Car" (i think)... and on and on....
Even had a local show called "Milky the Clown" It was a company sponsored show. (Twin Pines Dairy) Loved it when the big Twin Pines truck would come into the neighborhood to deliver glass bottles of milk, cream & butter etc. to customer porches in the mornings. We were dirt poor as kids, but the driver would often stop by our place and knock off a few chunks of that crystal clear ice that was used as the refrigerant in the trucks and give it to us to slurp on. Living with well water was mediocre at best, so having absolutely pure, clean, clear frozen water was a real treat... I would have sworn it tasted sweet...
Thanx for firing up the nostalgia.
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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 10, 2015 14:54:32 GMT -5
I guess "Pokey" was a pony... Just looked sorta like a little jackass to me... LOL!
I loved all the old oh-so-primitive kiddie shows... Pirates, hobos, clowns and puppets... Lots of cartoons and adventure serials from the old theater days. WWII was still fresh in the memories of us all, and we kiddies loved the Disney WWII propaganda cartoons... Full of adventure, violence and patriotism.
So "politically incorrect" that today's Americans would faint at the racial stereotype portrayals of Hitler as a rooster, Tojo as a chimpanzee, and all the various Axis armies as baboons, apes, rats, buzzards and weasels. Come to think of it, the Three Stooges made some great patriotic film shorts, featuring their truly hilarious spoofs on Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and various dastardly characters from places like "Vulgaria" and the Republik of Canabeer"... Moe made a fantastic comic "Hitler" and Curly was equally effective as "Mussolini" and "generic, fat German officers"...
A whole lot of the kid's entertainment in the late forties, and early fifties centered on obedience to parents, regular church attendance and ferocious patriotism. Genuine PATRIOTISM, NOT "brainwashing"... Basically, listen to your Mom and Dad, go to church and be kind to everyone... Unless they screw around with America... Then kill everybody and their cat. Without mercy.
When one reflects on the low-crime, law and order, solid and peaceful nation of the Truman/Eisenhower era, it wasn't all that bad a setup... Yeah, back then, both Republicans AND Democrats loved what America stood for. We could use a little of that solidarity again today.
The propaganda cartoons weren't all that "racial" but rather a portrayal of the enemy as being "subhuman". Not all that different from much of what goes on today. Lots of subhuman stuff going on around the old world today, and it is NOT in cartoon form.
Keep a smile on your puss, and a watchful eye on "your six"...
Leo in Texas |
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