tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post334527619945779800..comments2024-03-28T21:16:57.556-07:00Comments on Yowp: Yakky Doodle in Full Course MealYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-78877757549393844262020-09-13T09:57:50.915-07:002020-09-13T09:57:50.915-07:00While listening to this cartoon from upstairs in a...While listening to this cartoon from upstairs in another room without the benefit of actual seeing it on TV, the entertainment value to me of this cartoon to me is the absurdity between the way Alfy Gator talks and speaks is in total contrast to his actions. Every time I still think about this it still cracks me up. I can understand why someone said Hanna Barbara cartoons is illustrative radio.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15330392829908376572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-30114644680374177732016-11-07T14:55:05.327-08:002016-11-07T14:55:05.327-08:00We can't all have villains like The Chairman, ...We can't all have villains like The Chairman, Dr. Scratchensniff and Ralph the Guard, Mr. Ruegger. :) Loved your show.Georgihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03926093981963844296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-27718783790945372942016-11-07T14:52:52.806-08:002016-11-07T14:52:52.806-08:00Chopper (busts down the door to save Yakky from Al...Chopper (busts down the door to save Yakky from Alfie): Now that's not very nice!<br />Alfie: I assume you are referring to entering without knocking. LOLGeorgihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03926093981963844296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-1838014767790615602016-11-06T22:24:54.967-08:002016-11-06T22:24:54.967-08:00I did..it was the first episode I broughr up..with...I did..it was the first episode I broughr up..with the obscure Elliott Field as Hitchcock. I almost forgot the title, "Alvin Brickrock Presents".Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-75547776963571286192016-11-06T00:56:52.075-07:002016-11-06T00:56:52.075-07:00I experienced the same confusion over the characte...I experienced the same confusion over the character as a kid. I realized he was a reference to something- possibly because I'd also seen a Hitchcock parody on The Flintstones. Perhaps I'd even caught glimpses of the actual Hitch on TV by that point, but at such a young age, his work was generally too grown-up and/or tense for me, so I didn't really know who he was.<br /><br />I tried asking my parents who this character was meant to be a spoof of, and I'm sure they could have if they'd seen it for themselves or if I'd been able to do a better job explaining it, but they had no clue what I was talking about. rocketdavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574717380856957685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-24661962948386521372016-11-05T23:12:30.764-07:002016-11-05T23:12:30.764-07:00You bring up The Flintstones and Hitchcock and fai...You bring up <i>The Flintstones</i> and Hitchcock and fail to mention "Alvin Brickrock Presents"? top_cat_jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06365510398800837335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-76497222259198112882016-11-05T22:21:50.550-07:002016-11-05T22:21:50.550-07:00I remember seeing Alf, unlike Scarecrow, and of co...I remember seeing Alf, unlike Scarecrow, and of course Yakky was not the only cartoon to make references to him...just using the same TV season, Hanna-Barbera themselves used Hitchcock (as voiced by the occasionally heard, and forgotten, but still living Elliott Field, covered several times on this blog) in "The Flintstones" (on an episode which, DID, like the one where Fred has a weird, "Frederick" amnesia from hitting himself with a bottle after accidentally drinking its apparently poisonous contents, which thankfully have no internal impact, and which guested Howard MacNear as the first of many doctors on the show, Season 1, Episode 5, "The Split Personalaity", DID use the aforementioned Hoyt Curtin "Dance of the Marionettes"-"Hitchock" theme-no Alf connection in the second Flintstone episode mentioned by me except Barney's watching a TV show with a scary theme and thus the music comes when Bea Benadaret as Betty:"BARNEY....WHY can'tcha be more like FREDICK"..) Then there was WB's Sylvester, Granny, and Tweety "Last Hungry Cat' in the theatres (which had Sylvester being guilty thinking he has dined on the bird...then finding Tweety's living, kisses it, but then almost eats it, and gets broom-whacked by Granny who would've whacked Sylvester just for being near Tweety! Then one of the Snooper/Blabber shorts in 1959-60? used a Hitchcock like theme.) And now..Good EVE-EN-ing from Gumby's horse pal (though Gumby never used a Hitchcock caricature, though there was the post-AH Presents "Haunted Hotdog" which introduced Nopey, the little terrier with the "always says only no" gag..a one trick puppy, to twist a phrase.)<br />SCPokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-42636129234340065352016-11-05T21:20:26.739-07:002016-11-05T21:20:26.739-07:00I don't remember ever watching a full episode,...I don't remember ever watching a full episode, but I must have seen promos or at least a portion of the show because I got the reference.<br />Yakky doesn't do a lot in this cartoon. It's pretty much Chopper vs Alfie, and I'm afraid I'm not much of a Chopper fan. Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-91235492317398482172016-11-05T18:26:02.800-07:002016-11-05T18:26:02.800-07:00Alfie was – and remains – my favorite “secondary” ...Alfie was – and remains – my favorite “secondary” H-B character. <br /><br />Then again, I also have memories of seeing “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, as well as “Boris Karloff Presents Thriller”, in first run at the time this cartoon aired. So, I got the joke, when other similar references still passed over my widdle head. <br /><br />Indeed, I daresay it’s those “adult references” (that my good friend Scarecrow33 refers to) that made the early H-B product SO much better than what was to follow for decades to come. <br />Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-44480869250040683072016-11-05T18:03:24.000-07:002016-11-05T18:03:24.000-07:00Just watched it. Wow, Alfie Gator is about as dre...Just watched it. Wow, Alfie Gator is about as dreary and deadly dull as any character out of the HB canon. Yakky deserved better adversaries. Tom Rueggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16509448730816934205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-51602024830806023052016-11-05T12:09:38.753-07:002016-11-05T12:09:38.753-07:00This is one instance where adult references may wo...This is one instance where adult references may work against a cartoon. As I have shared in earlier posts on this character, when I was young I never "got" the character of Alfie Gator. I didn't understand why he was so civilized and "nice" yet he kept resorting to the villainy of trying to eat Yakky. It seemed a contradiction of his personality.<br /><br />Now as an adult, familiar with Hitchcock and the TV show "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (which thankfully still survives in late-night reruns), I can appreciate the humor. Hitchcock's introductions are of a predatory nature, as far as his plan is to thrill or shock his audience to some degree. So it transfers readily (?) to a predatory alligator trying to capture a helpless duck. It's funny, in places howlingly funny, when you understand the reference.<br /><br />My parents and I never watched "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" so I had no clue why the character of Alfie Gator behaved (and breathed) as he did. I wonder if other kids were as bewildered as I was whenever this character showed up?scarecrow33https://www.blogger.com/profile/10552306802823617940noreply@blogger.com