Daria Morgendorffer - 41st Greatest Cartoon Character of all time.

http://www.snpp.com/news/pr7_26_02.html

How cool is that? Yeah, I think she's better than 41st, but hey, she made the list, and that's what matters.

(Out of curiosity, who the hell is Gerald McBoingBoing?)

Gerald McBoingBoing was cartoon kid from a short in the early 60's. He didn't speak in words, but rather spoke in noises like "boing" and "clang" and "beep". It kicked ass.

sound effects. He could perfectly mimic a fire truck or a jet plane. His favorite stunt would be to sneak up behind some authority figure and roar like a lion or make a bomb explosion sound and scare the crap out of them. But it was a very obscure show. Did it have a national audience? I thought it showed only in the NYC area. I'm surprised it even would showup on TV Guides list let alone at 20 places higher than Daria. Does anybody remember "Winky Dink and You" from the same era? I guess it could be considered the first "interactive" TV show. You had to send away for a Winky Dink Kit which consisted of a clear plastic sheet that you stuck to the front of your TV screen and a grease pencil. You had to help Winky Dink escape the bad guys by drawing in a bridge between two cliffs then erase it after he got across, but before the bad guys got there. And woe be unto any kid who drew on the screen without the plastic sheet. I can still here my old man bellowing as he sat down to watch the Yankees with blobs and squiggles all over the screen. :-D

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We remember GMcBB. It was out of the same stable as Mr. Magoo (heh heh, by George!) We found this loverly website about toons a while ago and they have a good write-up. It reminded us that some years ago we had read that Gerald was a creation of Theodore "Dr. Suess" Geisel.

http://www.toonopedia.com/gerald.htm

If you think Gerald is obsure, you might be a-mazed:

http://www.seussville.com/seussville/titles/mcboing/pdf/Maze.pdf

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Oh yes. Oh yes. Loved savin' that ol' Winky Dink. Jack Berry was the host and Mae Questel was Winky's voice. Here's a Winky Link. Includes the full length theme song. Just click and say "Winko!"

http://www.tvparty.com/requested2.html

Thanks for the excursion. (Hey, if you are from the early 1950's NYC area, do you know what time it is at 5:15?)

Buffalo Bob Smith: "Hey, kids, what time is it?"

The Peanut Gallery: "ITS HOWDIE DOODIE TIME!!!!"

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Our Dear JOhnF73157,

Good try, but wrong. This was very much local NYC. The Peanut gallery was coast-to-coast (and pre-Space Ghost, but THAT has nothing to do with ANYTHING.)

This show came on at 5:15 on NYC's Channel 7. You will have to be hovering around 50 years old and have lived in a house with a television prior to 1955 to remember this show.

Anyone else want to hazard a guess?

"Nat and Al Enquirer" <Nat_and_Al_Enquirer*YOUR SHOES*@att.net> wrote in news:BbN19.12275$[email]:

The Howdie Doody show lasted until about 1961 or 1962. I remember their farewell episode. End of an era. Born in 1950, I felt I was getting too old for it by then.

Internet Movie Database would probably have the year it went off the air. I haven't checked yet.

Steve Cross

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Our Dear Mr. Cross,

Thank you for the information. The paragraph you quoted did not refer to the venerated Mr. Doody's show. It refereed to the show we are momentarily quizzing this group on. If you were not able to watch NYC channel 7 in the early 50's, you are highly unlikely to know the answer. It was a very local show.

If you were not able to watch NYC channel 7 in the

Sorry, drawing a blank on that one. I was 6 in '55, and if it was on at 5:15 in the afternoon, then the old man , with a can of Rhinegold in one hand and a pack of Chesterfields in the other park himself in front of the TV and tune in Walter Cronkite.

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We realize this thread is dying (if not already dead). For the future benefit of someone who on the off chance might read up to here and wonder what the answer was:

Sandy Becker as the...um...immortal "Hambone." (WNEW Channel 5 NYC, NY late '50s).

Over and out.

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[email] (Rhinomat93) wrote in news:[email]:

I'm sorry, but I thought "Josie and the Pussycats," "Scooby-Doo," and "Speed Racer" were terrible!

BTW, if you're going to include anime, why include "Speed Racer" and leave off "Star Blazers" "Captain Harlock" and "Robo-Tech"?

<Beavis> Hey, Butthead! We're in the top ten and Diarrhea came in forty-first! </Beavis>

<Butthead> Huh-huh, huh-huh. Cool. </Butthead>

I'd put the testosterone-overdosing duo on the list but not in the top 10, and certainly not above Daria.

And yes, I also remember "Gerald McBoing-Boing," but not very well. I know he dates back to before 1960, 'cause I saw him on TV when I was in the first grade, which would be 1956-1957.

Steve Cross

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For better or worse, Scooby-Doo did invent a whole genre that dominated Saturday Morning for almost two decades. And while I understand it's not to all tastes, I'd hardly call it "terrible."

I'll give you Josie. I suspect she got on for "all the wrong reasons" -- hot redhead in cat-print lingerie playing a guitar -- definite impact on many pre-adolescent male ids. Personally, I would have put Sabrina the Teenage Witch in instead.

My guess is that they're included based solely on their impact on American pop culture, without regard to their own importance in their own country. By that standard, Robo-Tech is the only one that even faintly registers, and it didn't really have a dominant character. (Rick Hunter? Please.)

Sure sign that this thing was thrown together by somebody over 50 ... including Pikachu but leaving off Goku from Dragonball Z.

Well, these things work at two levels, and "overall cultural impact" is definitely a bigger one than "quality of writing and maturity of concept." On that scale, B&B definitely romp all over our girl. And really, do any of us really want Daria to be the kind of pop-culture hysteria that B& B was? I don't.

Spongebob is 9?! That is freaking retarded. If Spongebob is 9, Daria should be 1.

[email] (Rhinomat93) wrote in news:[email]:

Tom Terrific was a cartoon that was featured on "Captain Kangaroo" in the 50's, and maybe later. He was a boy with a magic funnel for a hat and could change into any shape he chose, but he was a naive kid who misunderstood every situation he found himself in. His companion was Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, who spent most of his time asleep but, when awake, spent his time making ironic comments (yes, they HAD irony in the Fifties) and explaining to Tom what was really going on.

There was a villain called Crabby Appleton. Tom's signature line was, "Crabby Appleton, you're rotten to the core." Yes, the show was full of puns and wordplay.

The animation style was "mitited animation" and the characters were all drawn in black outline against a white background. If the show hadn't been so flat-out hilarious, it would've looked dreadful.

I haven't seen a Tom Terrific toon in more than 40 years. Man, talk about a trip down memory lane.

Steve Cross

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He didn't have much humility, either. He sang is own theme song, which started thusly:

"I'm Tom Terrific, Greatest hero ever. Terrific is the name for me 'Cause I'm so cleaver...."

The animation house was the immortal Paul Terry's Terrytoons, purveyors of fine Mighty Mice and Farmer Alfalfas everywhere.

Check out Tom the T. here:

http://www.tvparty.com/lostterrytoons.html

See a RealMedia video of the opening here:

http://www.toontracker.com/terry/tomterrific.ram

Great memories, mon!

Yeah, I remember him singing that too. I watched mainly for Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog. He made the show for me.

Steve Cross

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We wanted to name our first dog Might Manfred. Our mother wisely did not allow us to caller her (sic) that. We were very young. 8^P 8^P

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Rubbish! I always suspected that Bubbles was the coolest, and after Three Girls and a Monster, I believe that this is proof. ;)

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Buttercup rocks! She's so cool I named my newest and baddest PC after her. It's going to be my LAN party box. "Buttercup! She is the fiercest fighter..."

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"Michelle Klein-Hass" wrote in message news:[email]...

She does rock. Ah, yes. As does Blossom, in her way.

But: "Bubbles, she is the joy and the laughter." What would this life be without joy and laughter?

I trust implicitly MsGeek's judgement, but, on this occasion, *if* she's implying that Buttercup is a greater PPG than Bubbles, she's clearly gone stark barking mad. Pressure of work, I dare say. ;-)

Martin.

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OK, I like all three PPGs...

However, you cannot deny that Buttercup kicks more butt.

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True. No-one can deny that; not credibly, anyway. <nods>

Martin.

heheh gerald mcboingboing was funny he only spoke sounds oh and blossom sucks ass and buttercup kicks ass bubbles is ok

kmk hehe this is cute

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