tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post3155160570225931171..comments2024-03-27T01:21:03.543-07:00Comments on Yowp: Snooper and Blabber — Chilly ChillerYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-52306307935398528572023-02-23T15:52:52.676-08:002023-02-23T15:52:52.676-08:00What’s the rhyming slogan for this episode?What’s the rhyming slogan for this episode?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-41072080378610576832014-11-24T18:33:21.326-08:002014-11-24T18:33:21.326-08:0011/24/14
RobGems.ca Wrote:
I agree, Pokey, there m...11/24/14<br />RobGems.ca Wrote:<br />I agree, Pokey, there must have been a connection to designs/logos/art direction of the late 50's-early 60's that could be copied from one competing company to another. "Thriller" was a Revue/MCA/Universal Production, so competitor Columbia/Screen Gems must have taken notice to use the line/dots/sticks/circles ideas for company logos and opening sequences as feedback towards each other without any lawsuits pending at the time. I wish I knew who was the designer of both "Thriller's" opening and The Dancing Sticks were. As for puns, Your millage will vary. Yowp also described above that the puns were "cringe worthy", of which I agree. Soup Sales and his writers' puns were just as cringe worthy at the time he used them on his show.(being a Detroit-area veteran, Soupy still is considered a huge legend over here, even five years after his death.) That Tic-Tac-Toe joke was seen in another H-B gag on "The Flintstones", so it looks like they were recycling some of the gags. The resemblance of Mr. and Mrs. J. Evil Scientist to The Addams Family is also apt. I still think that Hal Seeger copied the design of "Junior" for Milton The Monster, which debuted in 1964. Around that same year, H-B came up with "The Gruesomes", a direct parody of The Addamses', and possible distant cousins to Mr.And Mrs. J. Evil Scientist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-68860800617679565372014-11-23T23:05:44.488-08:002014-11-23T23:05:44.488-08:00Anonymous, smack dead one about the possible Scree...Anonymous, smack dead one about the possible Screen Gems opening logo (and with the connection at the time between SG and HB, it's even more on topic). I enjoy the puns myself..<br /><br />Scarecrow33, just think of The Gruesomes as the Scientists reborn (and the Addams reborn) as the appeared on the Flintstones.And now we hang up our "film noir" coats as the 45 cartoons have all now been reviewed.<br /><br />Steve CPokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-43853659037219054182014-11-23T09:11:33.159-08:002014-11-23T09:11:33.159-08:0011/23/14
RobGems.ca Wrote:
Regarding the "Thr...11/23/14<br />RobGems.ca Wrote:<br />Regarding the "Thriller" opening sequences, is this where Screen Gems got their idea for the Dancing Sticks logo with the lines jumping and scrawling allover the screen? Their designer of logos at the time may have gotten some ideas for a new 1963 logo, taken from a 1961 opening design . Hmmmm....makes you think, not all ideas are as original as they are, don't you think? All SG's designer had to do was add some circles at the bottom. I can see that Mr. & Mrs. Evil J . Scientist is back with their ogre of a son who looks a lot like Milton The Monster. How can a Vampira like lady and a goblin like Mr.Evil J. possibly give birth to a Frankenstien's monster, oh never mind, it's only a cartoon. Mary Shelly can never predict things like this if she lived long enough to see these cartoons. The Werewolf jumping out of the TV screen was my favorite part.That would have been scary and funny if it was seen in 3-D! Mike Maltese & crew were having fun with this one. Those awful puns, though, eww...Soupy Sales wouldn't have done better with more crappy puns while doing his "Words Of Wisdom" shtick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-40277111159880178832014-11-22T20:42:34.493-08:002014-11-22T20:42:34.493-08:00One of the best of the S & B's. Fortunatel...One of the best of the S & B's. Fortunately, this one has been released to DVD.<br /><br />Mr. and Mrs. J. Evil Scientist and family deserved a series of their own. However, they did get exposure in a few Snooper and Blabber cartoons and one Snagglepuss cartoon, plus as a backup feature in The Flintstones comic book for a few years, as well as their own limited four-issue comic book mini-series. They were good while they lasted...scarecrow33https://www.blogger.com/profile/10552306802823617940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-43917645365915713702014-11-22T17:40:40.309-08:002014-11-22T17:40:40.309-08:00I heard Snooper's line as "You had best g...I heard Snooper's line as "You had best go prune a Danish, or something." Maltese was an expert at witty dialogue like that.bgraumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07481033911573623806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-388327194782611182014-11-22T17:15:08.151-08:002014-11-22T17:15:08.151-08:00Great review of the final S & B. Love the tit...Great review of the final S & B. Love the title card.spacecathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860215412728632666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-12961194565712874412014-11-22T16:23:37.820-08:002014-11-22T16:23:37.820-08:00Snooper and Blabber might not have been the ONLY H...Snooper and Blabber might not have been the ONLY Hanna-Barbera production influenced by Boris Karloff and “Thriller”.<br /><br />Aw, just indulge me on this, will ya, and take <a href="http://tiahblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/do-scoobys-origins-lie-at-bottom-of.html" rel="nofollow"><b>THIS LINK</b></a>! <br /><br />…Perhaps you’ll be as amazed as I was. <br />Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-44546217966635127562014-11-22T11:48:05.856-08:002014-11-22T11:48:05.856-08:00I love Snooper and Blabber and I truly enjoy your ...I love Snooper and Blabber and I truly enjoy your analysis of these H-B classics. <br /><br />However, I think you need the know the specific function of layout. In those days, the layout artist, using the somewhat minimal storyboards, would create very specific character poses, design various secondary characters and props and delineate backgrounds, as well as indicate fielding and re-use of backgrounds and poses. Other than the writing and voiceover work, layout was probably the most essential step to making the cartoons we love so much. Therefore, those backgrounds you single out -- indeed ALL of the backgrounds in this short -- were designed by the megatalented Jerry Eisenberg, a second-generation cartoonist who did Harvey, his father, very proud. Scott Shaw!noreply@blogger.com