tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post5148437216216593582..comments2024-03-28T21:16:57.556-07:00Comments on Yowp: Augie Doggie — Pipsqueak PopYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-2184597725375936972012-07-26T08:48:45.623-07:002012-07-26T08:48:45.623-07:00Hi, Anon. I've got Doug's birth year on th...Hi, Anon. I've got Doug's birth year on the blog somewhere. Doug's in his 90s and served in WW2 so 1931, as reported by make-it-up web sites, is incorrect.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-3429088316269758752012-07-23T02:24:15.643-07:002012-07-23T02:24:15.643-07:00Ask Mark Evanier for confirmation, but most likely...Ask Mark Evanier for confirmation, but most likely Doggie Daddy was born Douglas H. Young on December 21, 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland, not February 10, 1931.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-46848339046220987072012-07-22T14:50:50.657-07:002012-07-22T14:50:50.657-07:00SOme others not mentioned (all embarrassment-relat...SOme others not mentioned (all embarrassment-related) are the final original Flinstones-also a Gazoo.."My Fair Freddy", (Fred being laughed at by his jackass Water Buffalo lodge friends for being in a ballerina costume as part of Gazoo's latest scheme)Huckleberry, "Red Riding Huck" (the wolfe when noting that the college kid's not Huck in his latest costume), "Who's Cookin' Who" (The wolf scaringWoody casuing him shrink), "Goofy Groceries" (the first appearance of SUperman being reduced to a crying baby by a Gorilla villian), and "Donald's Birthday" (Donald finding out just WHO the cigars that he made his nephews smoke WERE for!!!!!). AMong others. The "Wilma/Betty" song that 'The Drive Inn" showcases and that Anon. mentioned is the "Charlie/Irving" one sung by Nancy Wible and the just deceased Ginny Tyler (profiled last week here) with reritten lyhrics. <br /><br />Also the beleagured cops appeared in episodes of "The Flinstones", even a cop with no Irish accent but an Irish name O'Reilly (Herb Vigran in March 1962's "The Mailman COmeth" where he winds up on his kneews to John Stephenson's stock in trade sargeant/Chief. HB must have used this dumbfoduned cop thing better than anyone, in this early era...postmen had the same reaction.<br /><br />Finally the camera pulling back and showing the our eyes played tricks on us was used at least once in an earlier Maltese-penned WB Jones short, the Claude Cat solo, "Mouse-Warming", one of the "softer" Jones shorts.'<br /><br />"Back to Augie, he was alsways shrinking himself, or making up oidd forumals. The one mentioned by Chris Sig, "It's a Mice Day", is also one of several with Philibert (sic), Augie's invalid mouse friend (not to be confused with the later Bigelow).<br /><br />StevePokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-27222447239085841872012-07-22T13:38:15.484-07:002012-07-22T13:38:15.484-07:00Yowp:
Your comparison to “The Incredible Shrinkin...Yowp:<br /><br />Your comparison to “The Incredible Shrinking Man” is more accurate than one might realize, as its title character ALSO lived in a doll house and was menaced by a cat. Though, the cat didn’t have the benefit of Daws Butler’s vocals. <br /><br />The appeal of “shrinking characters” went well beyond H-B, into things like Irwin Allen’s LAND OF THE GIANTS, and Disney’s “Honey, I shrunk…” franchise, and too much more to mention. But, H-B sure did do it a lot, didn’t they? <br /><br />Joe T.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-32602515037900658882012-07-22T00:07:04.035-07:002012-07-22T00:07:04.035-07:00In the Flintstones, episode "The Drive Inn&qu...In the Flintstones, episode "The Drive Inn", at the end after Wilma and Betty publicly embarass Fred and Barney with a song reminding them of their goof-ups of the episode, Fred and Barney, metaphorecly to realisticly, "shrink" from embarassment.<br /><br />''Pipsqueak Pop'' actually was the first HB cartoon, where a character was actually shrunk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-76122625606334852542012-07-21T20:07:02.795-07:002012-07-21T20:07:02.795-07:00Just tonight I watched the Flintstones' "...Just tonight I watched the Flintstones' "Boss for a Day" where the Great Gazoo does a switcheroo between Fred and Mr. Slate. Then upper management shows up and Fred, embarrassed and humiliated, shrinks bit by bit in reaction. But of course it's exaggeration, as he's clearly back to normal in the next shot.raccoonradiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09097464094942935414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-17144146175282474002012-07-21T11:52:16.663-07:002012-07-21T11:52:16.663-07:00Despite not seeing this particular short for a whi...Despite not seeing this particular short for a while, even I remember the "cater-ta-pillar" scene for the same reasons mentioned.<br /><br />Mind you, Mike reused the shrinking formula element for a later Augie short, "It's a Mice Day". That one I recall rewatching daily as a nipper on an ageing VHS.Chris Signorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12308489347614565068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-11575101799792118222012-07-21T08:51:20.800-07:002012-07-21T08:51:20.800-07:00Popeye steam-shrank Bluto for part of 1943's &...Popeye steam-shrank Bluto for part of 1943's "Too Weak to Work", but other than some Alice In Wonderland parody storylines, I can't think of any other theatricals before then that used shrinking as part of the plot.<br /><br />...but H-B did use the surprised Irish cop in their final Tom & Jerry, "Tot Watchers", and Maltese had used the shocked-at-a-miniature-animal gags with Chuck Jones twice, with Gossamer for 1952's "Water Water Every-hare" and again a year later with "Punch Trunk". In the former case, Chuck and Mike really didn't do anything with the idea other than the call-back end gag and in the latter, the story's all about the reaction to the miniature elephant, not to the tiny elephant's problems with big things. So this one's a little different spin for Mike, but in both the WB cartoons and with Doggy Daddy here, Maltese seems kind of uninterested with the shrinking process itself and far more with the reaction gags he could dream up from the premise (which may be why the first half of this cartoon at times feels like we're in Charles Shows "stretch for time" territory).J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-26819911015364808772012-07-21T08:42:07.582-07:002012-07-21T08:42:07.582-07:00"The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons&..."The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons" both used the shrinking character plot device("Itty Bitty Fred" and "The Little Man", respectively).top cat jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16248949443799986766noreply@blogger.com