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What A Cartoon! - The Gumby Show "Moon Trip" (Patreon)

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2021-07-19 04:01:01
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Thanks to the generous patronage of James Eldred, we're taking a look at the cartoon that defined stop-motion animation on TV: Gumby! Art Clokey's animated chunk of clay delighted Baby Boomers during the earliest decades of TV, and returned in the late '80s to entertain their children before completely dropping off the face of the earth. This week, listen in as we explore the truly interesting life of Gumby's creator, and dig into one of his earliest, trippiest shorts. Why should you care? He's Gumby, dammit!

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Erin Sale

For some reason my boomer Dad always referred to Gumby as a ‘stick of gum’ and not ‘made of clay.’

WaitWhat

Gumby had a rough time trying to be "revived", and not just the Jim Henson 2015 project . There were supposed to be an adult swim-esqe Gumby project done by National Lampoon called "Gumby: The Lost Tapes" that was supposed to be for college dorm TV networks. After the press release from 2005 nothing much happened with that either. Either that or it might have happened but was never uploaded to any early 00 comedy video websites due to it turning out to be garbage.

Devin Hoffarth

I have to wonder if Gumby was at all popular in the UK. I say this because Wallace and Gromit (another outstanding claymation series) began with its titular characters also going to the moon. Makes me wonder if Nick Park was taking any inspiration from ol' Cloakey. That or going to the moon is just a stock story and a case of 'Mouse in a piano'. Great podcast you two!

Taylor Garofalo

Glad to hear the Worthikid shout out at the end of this podcast. I couldn't stop thinking of Captain Yajima after hearing the soundscapes in the Gumby episode.

Paul

Here is a strange tale for you. Content Warning: Body Horror? A clown harming himself for money? There was this mill that had been converted into art space and exhibition with like goat milk soap and consignment and record stores and performance areas and such, and I went there one night to see a Burlesque/Clown Variety show. Very bizarre stuff. The clowns did things like walking on nails or getting hit with sledgehammers or hanging heavy dumbbells from a septum piercing between rounds of the Burlesque show. The whole time there was somebody in the audience dressed as Gumby in a full foam costume. I don't know why. As the grand finale of the show, the lead clown brought out a staple gun with the proposition that people could staple money to his body, the higher the denomination the more theoretically painful of an area. People were stapling 5s and 10s and 20s, but somebody came up with a 100 dollar bill, and the clown asked who should be the one to staple gun and where. The crowd started chanting "Gumby, Gumby, Gumby, Gumby" and well, a few minutes later about 60 people witnessed Gumby stapling a one hundred dollar bill to the taint of a clown. If there is a lesson to this story I don't know what it is, but I will say the clown did not seem bothered. No clowns were permanently harmed in the making of this anecdote.

crystalhearts

This is a little to the side but I highly recommend checking out the Gumby Winter Fun Special comic from the late 80s, written by Steve Purcell. You will never guess what the cover of this thing looks like.

SilkiePJ

A rat bit my sister Nell and Gumby's on the moon.

Christmas Ape

A friend and I have regularly found ourselves in a Gumby Hole over the last few years, watching batches of random episodes from every era on Youtube (I agree with you that Gumby with Teeth is the worst Gumby.) It's a truly bizarre experience, with cartoons that can go from the lamest, most milquetoast excuses for entertainment you've ever seen to baffling psychedelia in the span of five to ten minutes. Even the quality of the puppets can vary wildly from short to short. It was always really hard to tell if the borderline surrealism in the show was intentional or not, but after listening to this episode and watching the documentary you recommended, the weirdness of Gumby makes a lot more sense.

M

While watching the short when Gumby is on the way to the moon, at 3:;27, the zoom-in on the moon happens. All I could see was the MST3K moon. It has such a similar texture and lighting. The Gumby moon doesn't rotate but it made me wonder if the MST3K moon is an homage or if I am reading into it. Great episode.

KaiserBeamz

I remember watching Gumby short on Nick from the ages of 4 to 6 and this is actually one of the shorts that stuck with me if only because of how quietly unsettling it was.

Tyler M.

I can totally get not being as into the 80s episodes, but to a young child at the time, his band made the most out of this world, psych rock those young ears ever heard.

Dayken

Dug up the version of this from the 80s series to see if they edited anything out, and sure enough it just jumps from Gumbo picking Gumby's lifeless body off the ground right to Gumby waking up in the hospital (though we still get that shot of him laying there with Xs eyes). Though to their credit, they DO leave in the original, creepy as hell soundtrack.

Joe Hodgson

I had a few run-ins with Gumby as a kid, but never liked him. The sound design just freaked me out so it wasn't a thing I sought out (but if I only had Gumby available then, yeah, I watched it because TV is god). So I'm not down with Gumby, but Gumbercules? I love that guy!

Jonathon

I only watched Gumby here and there when there was basically nothing else to watch on Nickelodeon, so I don't have a ton of memories of it. But man did I get a punch of nostalgia in the face when you played the 80s Gumby theme song. Holy cow. Also, that 60s garage band styled theme song rules.

Rhomega

Does anyone else think the asteroid looks like a Cacodemon from Doom?

choopercabra

Oddly enough, I do remember having Gumby toys when I was very little. But I don’t remember seeing the actual show until the Nickelodeon reruns. I was born in 1986 so maybe my mom bought them during the revival? Anyway I didn’t know Gumby was on Amazon prime, guess I have something else to watch on there.

SlothIsLegend

This is a really funny episode. Bob and Henry were on fire poking fun of this little green freak’s bizarre behavior.

Manic Rainbow

Im so glad to hear you guys talk about Gumby! I’m surprised you didn’t talk more about the crazy bearded main voice actor for Gumby. Dallas McKennon was known for being in a bunch of Disney cartoons as well as the theme parks. Specifically you can hear him in the line for big thunder mountain. He also originated the high pitched Hyena laugh heard in lady and the tramp, which has been reused in several cartoons movies and games... it was even used as the laugh for Ripper Roo in Crash Bandicoot. He had a crazy life story and you can watch crazy interviews with him on YouTube

withasilentG

Ya'll didn't mention his mom lived in Visalia. It really was a blessing to get sent away from that shit hole.