As *spoon* as Arch comes back from vacation Hepcat will still be Hepcat. 8 8

[Krismusic]

14 hours ago, Hepcat said:

 

 

Hmmmmm. I know of no Looney Tunes crow. Are you perhaps thinking of Buzzy the Crow who first appeared with Katnip in the Paramount Pictures cartoon Stupidstitious Cat in 1947? 

 

Buzzy would appear in a total of eight cartoons from 1947 to 1954. Buzzy would also beginning sometime in the 1950's appear in several comics such as Harvey Hits and as a backup feature in Harvey Giants:

(Not my comics.)

Harvey would in 1959 purchase the rights to all Paramount's cartoon properties including Casper, Little Audrey and Baby Huey as well as Buzzy.

 

you know what I think your right I think its buzzy... 

[Krismusic]

I will still want to double check it as I am just going off memory alone.. but I think it might be buzzy is there a crow that had a cigar in his mouth and sometimes had a gang/group with him in a cartoon..

[ADAMANTIUM]

15 minutes ago, Krismusic said:

I will still want to double check it as I am just going off memory alone.. but I think it might be buzzy is there a crow that had a cigar in his mouth and sometimes had a gang/group with him in a cartoon..

I think one of their names was Jekyl?

[Krismusic]

3 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I think one of their names was Jekyl?

that sounds familiar where is that from?

[Foley]

4 minutes ago, Krismusic said:

8 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I think one of their names was Jekyl?

that sounds familiar where is that from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckle_and_Jeckle

[ADAMANTIUM]

3 minutes ago, Krismusic said:

7 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I think one of their names was Jekyl?

that sounds familiar where is that from?

Well there is Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde, but  I remember on of the Crows being named Jekyl in a Merrie Melodies cartoon my Grandparents had as a kid. They were crows who talked jive or something I think, probably wouldn't be run in today's tv idk

[Krismusic]

3 minutes ago, Foley said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckle_and_Jeckle

yeah I think this was the crows I was thinking of thanks for bringing back some childhood memories.. 

[Krismusic]

3 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Well there is Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde, but  I remember on of the Crows being named Jekyl in a Merrie Melodies cartoon my Grandparents had as a kid. They were crows who talked jive or something I think, probably wouldn't be run in today's tv idk

yeah I think foley got it and yourself thanks for bringing back some childhood memories I totally forgot about I think I remember watching them in a merrie melodies cartoon on VHS.. 

[Hepcat]

5 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I think one of their names was Jekyl?

What?! An outrageous fabrication not to mention a vicious personal attack against Jeckle! How can you say such a thing? He and Heckle were very clearly magpies!

 

Heckle and Jeckle were a rascally but loveable pair of yellow-billed magpies who debuted in the Terrytoons theatrical cartoon The Uninvited Pests in 1944. Though identical in appearance, Jeckle had a British accent while Heckle, the somewhat more rascally of the two, had either a Brooklyn or a Bronx accent with this being a point of contention among Terrytoon fans. Overall the two starred in 44 Terrytoons theatrical cartoons which were all distributed by 20th Century Fox between 1946 and 1957.

 

 

Paul Terry is on record as saying that the Heckle and Jeckle cartoons were the best of his studio's cartoon creations.

The launching of the Heckle and Jeckle Cartoon Show in 1956 prompted the creation of seven more lower budget Heckle and Jeckle cartoons with simpler made for TV animation in the 1959-61 period with Wild Life being the first. One additional theatrical cartoon, Messed Up Movie Makers, was produced in 1966.

Heckle and Jeckle were also the title feature in these comic magazine series:

St. John's 1 (Oct. 1951 - 24 (Oct. 1955)
Pines 25 (Fall 1956) - 34 (June 1959)
Gold Key 1 (Nov. 1962) - 4 (Aug. 1963)
Dell 1  (May 1966) - 3 (Aug. 1967)

Here are scans of a few comics from my collection where the two are the cover feature:

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Their image was also licensed for a whole host of kids' products including (since it's late October)  Halloween costumes by Halco in the 1950's and Ben Cooper in the 1960's:









The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle TV series from the late 1970's introduced a slight change in the dynamic between the two with Jeckle taking more of a leadership role.

Perhaps because of their distinctive ethnic/regional accents or simply because they were magpies and not crows, Heckle and Jeckle never drew the criticism from the politically correct crowd to which some other black cartoon birds were subjected. Heckle and Jeckle cartoons are still widely available on VHS and DVD.

 

[Hepcat]

1 hour ago, Krismusic said:

yeah I think this was the crows I was thinking of thanks for bringing back some childhood memories.. 

 

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yeah I think foley got it and yourself thanks for bringing back some childhood memories I totally forgot about I think I remember watching them in a merrie melodies cartoon on VHS.. .

 

Not true! Not only were Heckle and Jeckle not crows, they were Terrytoons characters not Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes characters.

 

 

Edited November 14, 2019 by Hepcat

[Krismusic]

1 minute ago, Hepcat said:

 

 

Not true! Not only were Heckle and Jeckle not crows, they were Terrytoons characters not Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes characters.

 

 

ahh ok.. where there any crows or magpies birds in any merrie melodies/Looney Tunes cartoons?

[Krismusic]

to be honest I am probably mixing them up and trying to remember the cartoon but wouldn't be able to go back as sadly I think I passed my VHS collection of cartoons on to other family members to enjoy so I no longer have them.. 

[shadroch]

I worked in a club called Heckle and Jeckles. On either side of the Stage was a painting of a six foot crow. One night I jokingly asked the owner which bird was which and he looked at me like I was crazy. Turned out he bought the club from a guy who had a comedy shop and he thought the Heckle part referred to people heckling bad comics. I lost a lot of respect for him that night.

By the way- one of the  house bands was The Bloodless Pharaohs, and when they broke up, members went on to form The Stray Cats.

Edited November 14, 2019 by shadroch

[Hepcat]

15 minutes ago, Krismusic said:

ahh ok.. where there any crows or magpies birds in any merrie melodies/Looney Tunes cartoons?

All I can say is that I know of no recurring black bird of any sort Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes characters.

The other most famous cartoon crows were in Walt Disney's Dumbo movie:

 

 

They've been widely condemned as politically incorrect by the philistine element in today's society:

http://www.zimbio.com/The+Biggest+Disney+Movie+Controversies/articles/q5eGAw5dCRo/The+Crows+in+Dumbo

 

 

Edited November 14, 2019 by Hepcat

[Hepcat]

5 minutes ago, shadroch said:

I worked in a club called Heckle and Jeckles. On either side of the Stage was a painting of a six foot crow. One night I jokingly asked the owner which bird was which and he looked at me like I was crazy. Turned out he bought the club from a guy who had a comedy shop and he thought the Heckle part referred to people heckling bad comics. I lost a lot of respect for him that night.

Yeah, the philistine! He should have explained to you that they were magpies.

[namisgr]

Jose and Manuel were a pair of crows that appeared in a small handful of Looney Tunes cartoons in the 1950s:
 

[Krismusic]

10 minutes ago, namisgr said:

Jose and Manuel were a pair of crows that appeared in a small handful of Looney Tunes cartoons in the 1950s:
 

ahh nice.. I feel like a birdwatcher for cartoons trying to find the crow or magpie bird in the old cartoons..  

[F For Fake]

Few things have made me feel older than this discussion in which some boardies couldn't immediately identify Heckle and Jeckle. I mean...come on! I'm only 42 but we still had Heckle and Jeckle cartoon repeats when I was a kid!

[Hepcat]

59 minutes ago, namisgr said:

Jose and Manuel were a pair of crows that appeared in a small handful of Looney Tunes cartoons in the 1950s:
 

 

Cool! I knew nothing about those two.

 

[Hepcat]

A gathering of Flash's Rogues Gallery in the dining room of the Central City Jail circa 1965:

 

Weather Wizard: "You Piper are so pathetic. A whopping 32 issues four years and four months apart before you got a return appearance in The Flash!

Pied Piper: "Yeah, but I was in Justice League 14 in the interim though!"

Weather Wizard: "Fffffttttt!!!! You had nothing but a bit part so that hardly counts as a proper appearance. Worse yet you were just a lackey of Mister Memory, who himself turned out to be the mind wiped stooge of Professor Amos Fortune!"

Heat Wave: "Yeah, heeeee, heeee! Just the lackey of a mindless stooge!"

Pied Piper: "Actually, speaking of reappearances, I just looked through my collection of Flash comics and you didn't get a return engagement with the scarlet boy scout for a colossal 35 issues spanning four years and five months!"

Weather Wizard: "Did too! I had a whole story in Flash 130!"

Pied Piper: "Hah! You didn't even go up against the Flash though! You were beaten by a little kid and some two-bit superhero with stretching powers who wasn't even good enough to be a member of the Justice League."

Weather Wizard: "See! It was two against one!"

Pied Piper: "What did the Elongated Man have to stretch to put you down? His nose, his ear?"

Trickster: "Giggle! There's only one body part I want stretched."

Top: "Me I wouldn't need no secret potions either. That Sue babe of Dibny's could sure stretch it for me."

Weather Wizard: "I tell you, it wasn't fair! I was double teamed." 

Pied Piper: "You couldn't even beat Aquaman or even Batman let alone the Flash. You're more pathetic than I could ever be."

Weather Wizard: "Am not!"

Heat Wave: "Well you're both beyond pathetic in my book."

Pied Piper: "Look who's talking! The johnny-come-lately who didn't even appear on the scene until I had three appearances under my belt!"

Captain Cold: "Yeah, the kids who were buying my first appearance in Showcase 8 in 1957 had all graduated to Playboy before hot head here arrived on the scene." 

Weather Wizard: "Yeah, junior here wasn't even around when DC comics were still a dime."

Heat Wave: "You should talk! I still beat you onto a cover by five issues."

Weather Wizard: "Not true! I was there on the cover of #110. You just couldn't see me for the flood I was stirring up, that's all."

Captain Cold: "It was my appearance on the cover of The Flash 140 that made it an item on newsstands anyway."

Heat Wave: "Yeah sure, pops."

Captain Cold: "Speaking of which everybody knows I'm the greatest Flash villain of them all! I've been around since the Flash's second newsstand appearance way back in 1957 and I've plagued him ever since."

Mirror Master: "Well you got the plague part right anyway. I'm the one who got the first cover though, and it was for issue #105 the one that relaunched the series! None of you can come close to matching that."

Captain Cold: "Fffffttttt! You play with mirrors like a woman!"

Mirror Master: "Yeah well I still had two cover appearances under my belt before you got your first!"

Albert Desmond: "Can anybody tell me who I am today?"

Grodd: "All nonsense! Everybody knows that I'm the greatest Flash villain of them all!" 

Mirror Master: "Hah! Your waistline may be the greatest, but you're nothing but a big hairy ape! You're so ugly that Julius didn't put you on a cover until your fifth appearance in issue #127."

Grodd: "Lies! I was on the cover of #115."

Mirror Master: "Doesn't count. You weren't your fat hairy self on that cover. Like I say, you were too ugly to get a cover yet."

Trickster: "Hey, who ate all the bananas?"

Abra Kadabra: "It was the overgrown ape again."

Top: "You're all pathetic. Except for the hairy ape and he doesn't count, all any of you losers ever did was rob banks and jewellery stores. I was going to blow up half the world in issue #122 until that meddlesome do-gooder interfered."

Trickster: "Could have, would have, should have!"

Top: "Huh?"

Trickster: "The world's all still here, isn't it? The point is you didn't get it done. The only thing you got done was a fast trip to the hoosegow."

Heat Wave: "Yeah! What a loser."

Albert Desmond: "But why am I here?"

Captain Boomerang: "It's elementary my dear Doctor. You've been a very nasty boy starting way back in your Showcase 13 and 14 appearances before the Flash even got his own title, so nasty in fact that most people haven't forgotten."

Weather Wizard: "Yeah, but despite his multiple IDs it took Desmond here a whopping 44 issues and six and a half years before he got himself onto a cover! Now that's really pathetic."

Professor Zoom: "Actually in defence of my sometime partner he was on the cover of the Flash Annual from the summer of 1963."

Pied Piper: "Annuals don't count though because they're just reprints.. Everybody knows that."

Abra Kadabra: "I'm #1 though! My collection of The Flash ranks above any of yours in the CGC data base."

Heat Wave: "Huh? CGC? What's that?"

Abra Kadabra: "You wouldn't know. That's in the future. I've had the top ranked Flash collection at CGC since 6349."

Captain Boomerang: "Well that won't be for a few years anyway and I'll match my issues #117, 124 and 148 up against anybody's in the right here and now!"

Trickster: "Hmmmppphhfff! Nothing but your own appearances, if you can even call them that. Talk about pathetic. I don't know what's more pathetic, you or your comic collection."

Captain Boomerang: "Yeah well you've never done anything cooler than run across floating soap bubbles or ride around on a tricycle. Me though I sent Flash to the Moon and back!

Trickster: "Well why did you bring him back though?"

Heat Wave: "Yeah, that's what I'd like to know too. Why did you bring him back?"

Captain Boomerang: "Wasn't my fault.  I use boomerangs and they always come back."

Top: "Ffffttt!!!! A feeble excuse if I've ever heard one."

Professor Zoom: "Well I'm going to be badder than any of you saps, just you wait and see!"

Abra Kadabra: "Yeah, sure. What do you want from us? Applause?"

Professor Zoom: "Just wait I say. I'll show you the meaning of the word 'dastardly'!"

Top: "Is that true, Kadabra?"

Abra Kadabra: "Don't know. My comics are all sealed in plastic slabs so I haven't read any of them."

Captain Boomerang: "Huh?! But that doesn't make any sense. Why would you or anybody want comics you can't read?"

Abra Kadabra: "You'll have to wait 35 years before you understand."

Albert Desmond: "But I just wish I knew who I was this week."

Top: "Somebody here could certainly use some more electro-shock therapy."

Captain Boomerang: "Look who's talking. The failed half-a-world destroyer! Hey, who farted?"

Professor Zoom: "I think it was the hairy ape again."

Trickster: "Well that's my cue to run. Hey! Which one of you crooks stole my shoes?"

Edited May 26, 2020 by Hepcat