Beany and Cecil is an American animated television series created by Bob Clampett for the American Broadcasting Company . The cartoon was based on the television puppet show Time for Beany , which Clampett produced for Paramount Pictures company and its Paramount Television Network beginning 1949. The series was broadcast first as part of the series Matty's Funnies during 1962, later renamed Beany and Cecil . A short-lived revival, The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil , was produced in 1988.
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40-490: A home movie of Beany's Drive-in Restaurant in 1952. Marvel Comics has a minor character code-named Warstar who is two separate aliens named "B'nee" and "C'cil". The puppet origins and the form of Cecil inspired the famous science fiction author Larry Niven to invent an important extraterrestrial race called Pierson's Puppeteer as part of his Known Space series of novels and short stories (as originally stated in
60-409: A mix between Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and Beany and Cecil shorts. All Beany & Cecil shorts are marked with an asterisk (*), otherwise all shorts are produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. Beany and Cecil Although a children's show, it incorporated satirical references to current events and personalities that adults found entertaining, and the show also attracted adult viewers. Some of
80-500: A surname Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Clampett . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clampett&oldid=822780509 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
100-570: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Bob Clampett Show The Bob Clampett Show is an animated anthology television series which ran from 2000 to 2001. The show features animated theatrical shorts from the Warner Bros. library that were animated or directed by Bob Clampett , as well as a selection of shorts from the Beany and Cecil animated television series. It originally
120-507: Is said to have originated the idea for Cecil when he was a boy after seeing the top half of the dinosaur swimming from the water at the end of the 1925 movie The Lost World . Clampett originally created the idea as a television series named Time for Beany , which was broadcast from February 28, 1949, to 1955. Time for Beany , a puppet show, featured the talents of veteran voice actors Stan Freberg as Cecil and Dishonest John, and Daws Butler as Beany and Uncle Captain. Clampett revived
140-631: The 1938 version of Injun Trouble (ironically, its color remake, Wagon Heels aired), Pilgrim Porky , and the Censored Eleven shorts Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves and Tin Pan Alley Cats were the only Bob Clampett shorts that never aired on the show; the version of Farm Frolics shown was the Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies reissue with a missing tobacco spitting joke and a truncated beginning that, as of 2023,
160-651: The Ames Brothers' song "Rag Mop" throughout the series. One episode ("Beanyland") featured Tchaikovsky 's well-known celesta piece, Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy , from The Nutcracker . Other famed pieces of The Nutcracker were used in the series as musical interludes such as the Chinese Dance and Dance of the Reed-Flutes . Many other well-known classical music pieces were featured in
180-647: The Special Edition" DVD in 2000, with 12 cartoon shorts and various show bumpers remastered from their original 35mm camera negatives. Bonus features included four complete episodes of Time for Beany , audio tracks of original story sessions, backstage footage, lost animated works from Bob Clampett's studio, and a still gallery. After a considerable delay, Volume 2 was released by Hen's Tooth Entertainment during 2009, containing 11 cartoon shorts, plus two more Time for Beany episodes, archival audio interviews with Bob Clampett, video interviews with celebrity fans of
200-534: The lyrics of the often-repeated B&C theme song to gain more recognition with viewers and from the animation industry. Clampett finally got the rights from ABC to market his Beany and Cecil cartoons by video during the 1980s. The entire series was released on VHS and Betamax as thirteen volumes (each containing two episodes) by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video in 1984, with the final releases issued by their "Magic Window" children's subsidiary imprint. Image Entertainment released "Bob Clampett's Beany and Cecil
220-672: The music for the Guided Muscle. The tune of "When The Saints Come Marching In" was used in several episodes, by the Singing Dinosaur, So What & The Seven What-Knots & the Boo Birds. The AC/DC song " Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap " is titled after the business cards of character Dishonest John, which read "Dirty deeds done dirt cheap. Holidays, Sundays and special rates". Bob Dylan painted Beany in his 2017 Beaten Path painting Hamburger Stand, Long Beach , based on
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#1732772331240240-588: The next two years and on Sunday mornings for three more. The cartoon featured characters Beany, a boy, and Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent embarking on a series of adventures, often to discover ancient civilizations and artifacts. These escapades were rife with cartoon slapstick and puns . Before the animated series, but concurrent with the puppet show, Clampett created a comic-book series of Beany and Cecil adventures for Dell Comics . The artwork for this series of comics, published from 1951 to 1954,
260-555: The plots and remarks were recognizable as lampoons of current political issues. Along with The Jetsons and The Flintstones , it was one of the first three color television series by the ABC television network (the initial season, though, was originally shown in black and white, as ABC was unable to broadcast color programs until September 1962). Beany and Cecil was created by animator Bob Clampett after he quit Warner Bros. , where he had been directing short cartoon movies. Clampett
280-513: The series in theatrical animated form, though Freberg and Butler did not reprise their roles. On 11 October 1959, the animated series was introduced as Matty's Funday Funnies , named for " Matty Mattel " the animated spokesperson for its primary sponsor Mattel Toys company. However, the series at that time featured old Paramount theatrical cartoons. The new Beany and Cecil cartoon series took over Matty's Funnies (sans "Funday") in January 1962 and
300-661: The show as well, including The William Tell Overture (in the episodes "Beanyland" and "The Phantom of the Horse Opera"), Ride of the Valkyries and Flight of the Bumblebee . Some of the background music was also recycled from Leave It to Beaver , as well as some early Walter Lantz cartoons and incidental music from The Alvin Show . "The Can Can" was used in the episode Harecules Hare & The Golden Fleecing as
320-422: The story " The Soft Weapon ". Beany and Cecil was also an inspiration for Joel Hodgson to create the show Mystery Science Theater 3000 . The credits of the series did not show traditional job titles, but pictorial symbols indicating their jobs. Bob Clampett's writing credit was indicated by a typewriter typing out the words "...by Bob Clampett", for instance. Clampett also made sure to include his name in
340-638: Was broadcast prime time Saturdays during the remainder of the 1961-62 television season , by the ABC Television Network . The newer cartoons replaced the Famous Studios cartoons of Casper the Friendly Ghost and Little Audrey among other parts of Matty's Funday Funnies . The program was later retitled The Beany and Cecil Show . After 1962, the 26 shows (including 78 cartoons) were repeated during Saturday mornings for
360-464: Was drawn by Jack Bradbury . In 1988, the show was revived as The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil by DiC Entertainment . Only eight episodes were made, and only five episodes broadcast. This version of the show was produced and directed by John Kricfalusi , who would later create The Ren and Stimpy Show , and made use of voices from Billy West , who also did voices for the characters Ren (for season 3 and later) and Stimpy. Cecil often sang
380-538: Was found; and, while there was mention of the violent "director's cut" ending of Hare Ribbin' , the version that aired had the general release ending instead. The show's opening title sequence was nominated for an Annie Award in 2000 in the category "Outstanding Achievement in An Animated Special Project", but it lost to The Scooby-Doo Project . All shorts featured this season were produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons . This season features
400-525: Was produced by and aired on Cartoon Network , with reruns airing at the tail end of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block in the mid-2000s. Twenty-six episodes were made in all. This was one of two animated anthology shows on Cartoon Network (joining The Popeye Show ) that aired uncut and uncensored shorts, as well as shorts that would normally get little to no airtime on American TV due to racially insensitive and outdated content (such as Russian Rhapsody and Bacall to Arms ), though Kristopher Kolumbus, Jr. ,
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