Quick Draw McGraw

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to the 42nd episode of Tooncast, brought to you

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DFG1Mike, and today I am joined once again by

Kevin, Professor Boss Gay Dog Thompson. Hello,

how are you? I am fan -frickin -tastic. Today

we will continue our Hanna -Barbera spotlight

with Quick Draw McGraw. To get things started,

let's get a quick history lesson. And it is a

very quick history lesson. For today's history

lesson, we're going back to 1959 to continue

our spotlight on Hanna -Barbera. You may be confused

by our date because It seems like we've been

bounced around, but, uh, Hannah Barbera's second

new TV cartoon animation project, Quick Draw

McGraw, actually hit the airwaves before last

week's Yogi Bear show, but since Yogi Bear was

part of Huggleberry Hound, that's why the order

is what it is. Um, Quick Draw debuted in September

of 1959 on CBS. The show lasted a total of three

seasons and aired 45 total episodes. Um, that's

actually all the history I got for Quick Draw

McGraw, but, uh, Mike, do you have any memories

of Quickdraw? Yeah, you know, I actually, I like

Quickdraw, it's okay. I think Quickdraw draws

on, no pun intended there, but the Quickdraw

McGraw character pretty much draws on characters

of the past, of the whole... Hey, I'm quick draw.

Oh, no, I'm El Cabong, you know the whole Scarlet

Pumpernickel Thing that Daffy Duck did Yeah,

I I would have to say right off the bat that

I Liked Baba Louie better than quick draw. Oh,

yeah and I think it was because of The fact that

hmm Wait, all right, who did Baba Louie's voice?

Was it really I'm pretty sure he did all the

main character ones. Oh, so then messick and

Bennett are just listed here just because Well,

they did some voicing, but I don't think they

did any main character and I could be wrong on

this It's kind of hard to find information on

quick draw, but this Everything I've read about

quick draw this was basically the Bob Butler

show Okay, so I'm pretty sure he did almost every

main character All right, that's cool. Um, but

yeah, I mean, you know overall You know It was

a good cartoon. It was one of those things where

it wasn't like you couldn't watch it, but I don't

know, for me after a while it kind of got tiring.

I don't know, I kind of have mixed feelings on

this one. Maybe it just depends on the episode,

but for me as far as memories go, The memories

of quick draw for me are very similar to the

memories of Huckleberry Hound You know, I like

last week's topic yoga there I remember a lot

better and the other shows that we have Coming

up later on in Hannah Barbera spotlight have

specific memories because they were different

with maybe the exception of No, no, they're all

very much. I think distinctly different than

To me, Click John McGraw and Huckleberry Hound

almost blend in together as the same show. Basically

the same type of show. At times I like Huckleberry

Hound better, but I think there are a lot more

times where I actually like Click John better.

And I think though, like you said, it's more

because of Baba Louie. He's just a very memorable

character, a very lovable character. And to me

though, this one, the only other show I can compare

this to besides Huckleberry Hound is it's almost

like The old Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons.

A lot of their cartoons have that kind of look

and feel where you're out there in a wide open,

usually almost like a western type open plains

type environment and you have instead of just

the one character, you have Baba Louie and Quick

Draw working together, but it's almost like you

have these different things where it's like pull

out the acne toolbox and have different stuff

that you use as props or whatever. One of the

episodes I watched recently, they were on a train

and basically there was two guys trying to rob

the train and Baba Louie and Quick Draw were

supposed to basically, Quick Draw got deputized

or... got a bad right before the episode and

basically they're trying to be on the train and

get these guys and the train's moving the entire

time and they have different you know little

shenanigans that go on but it to me it's memory

wise I remember like I do Huckleberry Hound or

like I remember the Road Runner and why we've

had you know it's funny now that you're mentioning

this for some strange reason I'm thinking that

this was also even though it's not stated anywhere

as far as I know the takeoff of the Lone Ranger

and Tonto, with the roles actually being reversed

because Quickdraw is pretty much Tonto. He gets

into all kinds of trouble, he gets beat up and

everything else, and Baba Louie pretty much stays

not all banged up to hell. Right. I think the

main difference for me between this one and Huckleberry

Hound is The way they did Huckleberry Hound and

the way that he has that slow draw voice and

very methodical, it's almost easier to lose interest

or to lose focus or maybe at some point to fall

asleep. I'm not saying anything bad about Huckleberry

Hound's voice but it just kind of lends itself

to those types of feelings whereas in this cartoon,

Baba Louie keeps you going and keeps you interested

in it. It's just a quicker -paced cartoon to

me than Huckleberry Island, I guess. Baba Louie

is more of a speedy character, Speedy Gonzales,

without the arriba, arriba, andre, andre. He

didn't do that. The cartoon little skit thing

that I ripped audio from, City Escape, he's like,

YCC quake straw. And it is a Mexican accent,

which is great. I think it lends itself to a

lot of comedy. But it's just one of those things

where, like you said, it kind of kept you on

your toes pretty much. sometimes if huck is walking

down the street singing the horrible condition

of be my darlin clementine or whatever the hell

the damn song is you know it's like oh god can

i fall asleep yet yeah so getting into the voice

actors obviously this was the dawes butler show

uh... which again goes to the credit of mr butler

of how well he was able to change character voices.

Because again, there are no similarities between

Quick Draw, Baba Louie, and Scooby. I mean, you

know, Scooby is the one... Oh, wait, no. No,

that's Don Messick. That's Don Messick. Well,

but still... Alright, well... Even if you take,

you know, the characters he did and... In Yogi

Bear, for example, I mean he was Yogi Bear. Can

you tell the similarity between Yogi Bear, Baba

Louis, Quick Draw McGraw? I don't think you can

tell. No. I think real quickly before we go on,

just in case there's any more, I almost called

people morons, just in case we've had any people

that have no clue what Quick Draw McGraw is or

they've never seen the Hanna -Barbara Air Show,

I guess we haven't mentioned it yet. Quickdraw

was a horse character, basically, who walked

on two legs of a human and had hands that were

hooves with thongs that could hold objects, such

as guns. Again, this had a lot of guns in Quickdraw

and McGraw, which is a big fault for those that

have never seen a gun on a cartoon. And Bob O

'Loury is obviously his deputy Mexican borough,

who spoke English with a Mexican accent, and

the one character we haven't mentioned, Snuffles.

was a treat -loving dog who would help quick

-draw on Baba Louie only after being awarded

a dog biscuit. When given the biscuit, the couple

would moan and joy, hug themselves, float up

into the air, and slowly return to the ground

in total ecstasy. Which often may be inappropriate

for a cartoon. I'm just kidding. It got me thinking,

though, when we were talking about this. Last

week we talked about Yogi Bear and the possible

live -action film that was coming out, slash

live -action animation mix. And we had talked

a little bit in episode 41 about the people that

were cast to voice Yogi and Boo -Boo and all

that. They would have no problem casting Babalu.

They would have all kinds of choices. Oh yeah.

I would say, I know this is probably going to

get me some boos, but just off the top of my

head, George Lopez. Actually right off the top

of my head too. Okay, that's freaky. Knock that

shit off. Other than the sidekick and you'll

be there. Yeah. Going back to what you were saying

with voice casting. You know, most of these old

shows, there is a, you know, Doug Butler or Don

Messick do the main voice, but usually they're

working with one of the other ones. Usually it's

Butler and Messick. playing off of each other.

I haven't seen another one so far unless we come

across one later on where it's just basically

one person playing off of themselves most of

the time. To give you a little insight into,

since I've been doing a lot of looking at these

two, and specifically when I was trying to come

up with my top ten, which both of them were number

two and number three on my list, but Don Butler

actually is responsible for Don getting into

the boy back in business. For those of you who

don't know, Dodge Butler was working with a radio

station and different companies and they were

looking for someone to do a voice of a certain

character and they were actually going for someone

else at first, but Butler recommended them to

basically go take a look at Don Messick as a

choice and the rest is history and that's why

they basically worked together with most of the

shows that they're on. It was just a great, I

guess they were lifelong friends and co -workers.

You know, that's what makes this show almost

unique is the fact that it's basically Jeff Dogg.

Yeah, it pretty much is. Great voice acting on

this one, even though it's mainly just one person.

Good characters. But I think most people would

like Bobby Louie the best on this show. Yeah.

I mean, there might be an occasional person that

likes the horse there. Like Mr. Cook John McGraw.

I actually think I like Quickshot McGraw better

than I like Huckleberry Hound, but probably just

so fun of a character. Like you said, he's a

combination of, like, C's and Z's, and a bunch

of different characters you can think of, but

it works. He's my favorite character, and I think

most people, even if they've never seen the show

before, if you show this to a kid, I think that's

a character that they'd still be, you know, attracted

to, that they'd be drawn to. Oh yeah, I completely

agree. So I guess going into the behind -the

-scenes segment, the idea behind Quick Draw McGraw's

show was to make a take -off of three most relevant

prime -time genres of the time, Western, Private

Eye, and Family Sitcom, which they did pretty

well, I think. I mean, Quick Draw, basically

the focus on Quick Draw was the Western part.

I guess I should jump ahead and say that even

though they did a little Private Eye family type

stuff in Quick Job, the other two, why can I

not think of the other two, there had to be two

other segments, but the other two segments on

Quick Job, which I'm going to figure out what

those were for a second here, I think were the

ones that focused more on the Private Eye and

the family part. I'll let you keep going for

a minute and talk about some of the other stuff

while I figure that out. I'm actually looking

for it myself. I'm trying to steal my thunder.

Rough and Ready Show and the Huckleberry Hound

Show? No, no. The two other series regulars were

Snooper and Blabber. That's right. Which was

part of a crime investigator, so that's the private

eye part, who were operating out of the super

-snooper detective agency, and Augie Doggie and

Doggie Daddy, which is the family sitcom part.

Oh, okay. Father Dog's daddy and his canine son

Augie get caught up in various misadventures.

So yeah, and actually I got a picture in front

of me of them so I can remember what they all

look like. But yeah, Blabber and Snooper, they

were basically a cat and a mouse and they both

are in like a private eye, white suit and he's

got the magnifying glass and stuff like that.

But I forgot that Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy

made their debut basically on the Quick Drama

Garage show. So that's where you get your, you

know, at the time the main prime time genre as

far as live action shows were westerns, privatized

and family sitcoms. So they took all three of

those and made a cartoon show out of it. And

I think, you know, that's... a pretty good idea

for you know especially if you're trying to attract

audiences of kids who at that time I would get

a lot of time to watch cartoons with parents

probably along with them at least at the beginning

right why not take stuff that appeals to the

adults and throw it in there I don't know I don't

know why I didn't have that in the script but

Augie Doggie Doggie Daddy and Snooper and Blager

you're slacking off like usual Going into the

actual show, the Quick Draw McGraw Show is the

third cartoon television production created by

Hanna Barbera starring the anthropomorphic cartoon

horse named Quick Draw McGraw. Following their

success with the Rough and Ready show and the

Huckleberry Hound show, the show debuted in syndication

fall of 1959 sponsored by Kellogg's. Quick Draw

was usually depicted as a sheriff in these short

films set in the American Old West. Each episode

was approximately six minutes long. This allowed

four episodes per half -hour program, with commercial

advertisements in between. Quickdraw satirized

the westerns that were popular among the American

public at the time. His character was well -intentioned,

but somewhat dim. Often, Baba Louie was more

astute judge of problem at hand than Quickdraw.

Baba Louie would start to tell Quickdraw what

he was thinking. whereupon Quickdraw would interrupt

with his catchphrase, Now hold on there, Baba

Louie, I'll do the thinnin' around here, and

don't you forget it. Quickdraw spoke with a heavy

drawl as shown by his catchphrase. It was clear,

however, that Baba Louie was much smarter than

Quickdraw, but loyal to a fault. Similar to earlier

Hanna -Barbara pairing of the whimsical Yogi

Bear and his practical sidekick, Boo -Boo, both

teams vaguely referencing classic team of Don

Quixote and Sancho Penza. In the series of episodes,

Quickdraw would also assume the identity of the

masked vigilante El Cabong, a parody of Zorro.

His introduction went as follows, of all the

heroes in legend and song, there is none as brave

as El Cabong. As El Cabong, Quickdraw would attack

his foes by swooping down a rope with the Onomatopoeia.

There you go. War Cry Ka -BONG or at times Olay

in hitting them on the head with an acoustic

guitar, which is always referred to as a Ka -Bonger.

Okay. Wow. That sounds like a Mega Man X villain.

Boomer Ka -Wonger. Producing a distinctive Ka

-Bong sound and usually destroying the guitar

in the process. Great stuff. Oh God, in the little

cartoon that I watched today that I grabbed audio

for, for the outro of the show, it's called City

Escape, with just the letter E by itself in the

middle, and the mayor of New York City sends

a quick draw, a telegram about crime in the city,

and once they get to the city, He changes into

his El Cabong thing and he goes, El Cabong! And

you see him swing in and then swing like from

right to left, swing in, swing out. He swings

back in and stops and like basically breaks the

fourth wall and looks at the camera and goes,

Black is very trendy! I don't know. The more

I think about it, I think the more I like this

show even better than Huckleberry Hound. I don't

know, there's a lot of good stuff on it and you

know, just the way Quick John Bob will really

talk and interact is good. Yeah. And it's got

those classic high dinks, like I said, of like

a Road Runner cartoon or something like that

where it never gets old. To me, it doesn't get

old. I mean, I guess it would get old if you're

watching episode after episode after episode,

but if you're just watching them at like... so

random times. I wouldn't suggest sitting down

and watching like an hour of this stuff, but

like if you're just watching a little bit here

and there, I don't think you'd get tired of it

very quick. Right, yeah. It's Yogi, but it's

close. Yeah, going into the music, again, I don't

really like, I remember sound effects more than

music in this show. But it was done by the same

person that's done both episodes 41 and 40. Yeah,

Hoyt curtain. Yeah So going into the legacy segment

it was referenced in Mystery Science Theater

3000 A civil action snaggle puss can be seen

in Jerome's briefcase. Oh my god Samurai Jack

kill Bill volume 2 and the spirit As far as DVD

releases Oh God no, I don't want to Bill calls

Beatrix Beatrix quick draw kiddo and the sound

effect of the guitar hitting a body during the

fight between L and the bride There are DVD releases

a DVD release of these series for the Hannah

Barbera classics collection was originally announced

by Warner Brothers and for 2006, but was later

cancelled due to the poor condition of the masters

and the music write issues. How the hell can

this show have music write issues? What the hell?

In 2006, an owner's spokesperson said of the

DVDs they were pulled because significant remastering

work needed to be researched. There have also

been issues with music copyright ownership, meaning

any sort of future DVD release is extremely doubtful.

That sucks. So basically, we're only going to

get Quick Draw episodes on those Saturday morning

cartoon DVD thingamabobbers or whatever. Yeah,

and I can't remember exactly which one he's on,

but he is on the 60 either one or two. He's on

the first one, because that's where I got the

intro outro music from. Your only choice right

now, if you don't watch it on YouTube, your only

choice is to go to Target or somewhere like that.

Get the 1960s, volume one, Saturday morning DVD,

and we can watch a couple episodes at a time.

Yep. So we are going to take a quick break. You're

going to hear that episode, City Escape, as well

as I will probably try to find some Augie Doggie

and Doggie Daddy stuff. Where the meanest villains

run like wild animals! And they never rise in

the... Hey, wait a minute! Quickdraw, you seen

any villains? Well, I nabbed them all. Ain't

that right, Bubbly? I have two, Quickdraw. Who's

had his match? Let me out of here! Message for

Quickdraw McGraw. Why, thank you, Random Messenger.

What's it say, Quickdraw? It's from the unnamed

mayor of New York City. You are the best lawman

in the West! Stop! Crime is out of control in

the East! Stop! Please help us! Stop! We are

scared! Stop! How'd you know that's what it says?

No, Quintro! We're here! Well, I'll be... Someone

is stealing a car just off screen! My car! El

Cabong! Black is very trendy! Look! Some other

criminal activity! El Cabong! Don't frisk me!

Well, I guess that does it for city crime, bubba

boy. That's just like Quickdraw. He thinks he

can wipe out crime, but crime has really wiped

him out. Alright, what are our final thoughts

on Quickdraw? Um, you know, I don't know necessarily.

After watching a few episodes of Puckleberry

Hound, Yogi Bear, and Quickdraw so far as we've

traveled through our Hanna -Barbera spotlight,

I'm actually on purpose not watching episodes

of any of the future Hanna -Barbera ones. I want

to watch them as we go. So I kind of have new

thoughts every time. But so far, the only one

that I'm really going to make sure that I go

out and get on DVD is Will Be There so far. But

that's not to say Quickdraw doesn't have its

good parts. Obviously I couldn't go out and get

it on DVD since it's not out on DVD. But Huckleberry

Hound and Quickdraw McGraw are very similar shows

to me. They're worth a watch. I would probably

end up watching more Quickdraw than I would Huckleberry

Hound. There was an occasional watch, but I don't

know if it's necessarily DVD shelf material,

like He'll Be Bear is. If you've never seen an

episode, you should at least watch one episode

of Quick Draw. Well, see, for me, the thing about

Huckleberry and Quick Draw, their shows, honestly,

I like a lot of the side character cartoons rather

than the main character cartoon, like Huckleberry.

I love Pixie Dixie and Mr. Jinx. It's basically

a different take on the Tom and Jerry thing,

like I said back when we did Huckleberry. And

then Quick Draw, I love Augie Doggie and Dougie

Daddy. Those two characters were always really

cool to me as well. Quick Draw, he's okay in

small doses, but you don't want to take You don't

want to take him and do a marathon Right. Yeah.

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In the immortal words of Optimus Prime, transform

and roll out, and thank you for listening. Until

next time. I hear you calling, dear old dad.

You see how fast I come running? Never mind that,

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the subject. Why haven't you been studying? But

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die. You're going to college first, doggy. You'll

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