tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post2928768953889035125..comments2024-03-27T01:21:03.543-07:00Comments on Yowp: Stop That PigeonYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-32511174357528667322017-04-25T15:06:48.183-07:002017-04-25T15:06:48.183-07:00Howard, here's the original duo:http://3.bp.bl...Howard, here's the original duo:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vAZ1SKSoW2M/RiJHXgS8D8I/AAAAAAAAAGc/X-e4Ef0Fxww/s320/Concept+11.JPG<br />Like John K. said, pseudo Disneyesque style. That's probably why I imagined Messick's impersonation of Thompson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-40011942416738093992012-02-13T15:39:45.602-08:002012-02-13T15:39:45.602-08:00There are various episodes from this series (produ...There are various episodes from this series (produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1969), where we can recognize the animations done by Kenneth Muse and Carlo Vinci on them. <br />Among the epsiodes animated by Carlo Vinci, it's included the episode <i>The Balmy Swami</i>, where Dick Dastardly, Muttley and the Vulture Squad appeal to a Hindu swami who comes with crazy ideas for planes to catch the smart Yankee Doodle Pidgeon. <br />Seeing the Hindu swami on this episode, he looks like a Hindu version of Barney Rubble, with a long hair and looks like a hippie. It seems that Ed Benedict made the design of this character.<br />Here's the link which shows the scene where the Hindu swami appears to Dick Dastardly:<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow">http://sharetv.org/images/guide/171831.jpg</a><br /><br />We cannot forget that <i>Dick Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines</i> was produced in the middle of the hippie era (1969).rodineisilveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751345474415214163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-33514361399904967432012-02-12T02:12:10.742-08:002012-02-12T02:12:10.742-08:00I noticed a lot of Maltese-ian dialogue in D&M...I noticed a lot of Maltese-ian dialogue in D&MITFM I have to say, that's one reason I like it. It's almost British that way.AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06953530709242023061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-16591919773842452262012-02-10T08:02:39.422-08:002012-02-10T08:02:39.422-08:00It wasn't H-B that changed their premise to in...It wasn't H-B that changed their premise to include Dastardly & Muttley as the series' main two characters, it was Fred Silverman at CBS. He's the one that told HB to change to characters, and the series would be sold.<br /><br />I think everything about this series is genius. As a kid, I ate it up along with my Fruit Loops.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-29965997625023398242012-02-09T15:51:26.097-08:002012-02-09T15:51:26.097-08:00"Yowp-Yowp" Dodsworth and HB-fanatics fr..."Yowp-Yowp" Dodsworth and HB-fanatics from the whole world, <br /><br />Besides Michael Maltese, more two scriptwriters also were involved on the episodes from <i>Dick Dastradly & Muttley on their Flying Machines</i>, who are Larz Bourne and Dalton Sandifer. I remember seeing their names credited on the closing from this series.rodineisilveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751345474415214163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-86574712915195798372012-02-09T08:35:31.037-08:002012-02-09T08:35:31.037-08:00Forgot to mention that Chuck Jones' and Maltes...Forgot to mention that Chuck Jones' and Maltese's Roadrunner shorts for WB was an obvious ancestor in format and gag structure for this show. So was the relative lack of personality in the pursued creature.Howard Feinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-57611414392155332392012-02-09T08:33:05.898-08:002012-02-09T08:33:05.898-08:00This is the second version I've seen of the or...This is the second version I've seen of the original gensis of this show. Accoding to a documentary in the DASTARDLY & MUTTLEY DVD, the two titular characters weren't even supposed to be in it. The two other human characters were already in the show's 'bible, but the templates for who would turn out to be Dastardly and Muttley were a completely different human and dog. D&M's popularity in the previous season's WACKY RACES inspired Hanna, Barbera and Lovy to use redesigned versions of them for FLYING MACHINES.<br /><br />Animated shows at the time always used gang credits in the end titles, so it wasn't possible to know who wrote what. Maltese's penchants for elaborate, ridiculous critter-catching devices and for his characters to suffer spectacular comedic slapstick punishment are the prominent aspects of this show. But there's an almost total lack of another of his trademarks, namely his witty dialogue and character interaction (which is very evident in the contemporary WACKY RACE spinoff THE PERILS OF PENELOPE PITSTOP.<br /><br />IMO, the animation in this and the other 1968-69 H-B shows is a cut above the studio's output from five years earlier- with the notable exception of the dark, murky, stock footage-ridden SCOOBY DOO, WHERE ARE YOU. Lighter lines around the characters and Disney vet Walt Peregoy's colorful backgrounds might be factors as well.<br /><br />The 1969-70 production season was the last one in which characters were allowed to be routinely blown up, flattened, or crash after falling from great heights. Maltese would work on the following season's HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS which relied on dialogue and less aggressive pratfalling.Howard Feinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-11898709911085466782012-02-08T14:07:32.960-08:002012-02-08T14:07:32.960-08:00Part of the problem with the show was the "wa...Part of the problem with the show was the "wacky" secondary characters, as if someone at H-B or CBS didn't have enough faith in just a three-character show and decided that it needed to have some more sure-fire laugh-getters (The <i>"wacky additions to the familiar cast of characters"</i> thing would really rear its ugly head in the later Yogi revivals).<br /><br />The other 'wacky' part of the plot, the planes themselves, bear a strong resemblance to the airplanes Yosemite Sam used in "Dumb Patrol" Gerry Chiniquy's lone (and not particularly strong) WB directorial effort of five years earlier. But since that cartoon hadn't made it to TV by '69, it ended up being a bit like the Cat Concerto/Rhapsody Rabbit Oscar kerfuffle -- the Warners' cartoon came first, but since most kids saw D&M first, it made it look like Warners was cribbing gag ideas from Hanna-Barbera, and not the other way around.J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com