Let us now praise "Beany and Cecil"

[mac56]

http://povonline.com/cols/COL281.htm



My favorite cartoon as a kid, hands down.

excerpt:

On February 28, 1949, a puppet show called Time For Beany debuted on KTLA, channel 5 in Los Angeles. It was instantly one of the best shows on television.

That is not much of a compliment, given how little was on television in 1949. KTLA only broadcast a few hours per day and most shows looked like what you and I might throw together with a budget of twelve dollars, an empty garage and the security camera from a 7-Eleven store. But over the next few years, TV rapidly improved and Time For Beany remained one of the best shows on television.

It was that rarest, most elusive of creatures: A kids' show that adults enjoyed watching -- and not just any adults. Among its declared fans were Groucho Marx, Albert Einstein and the kid who would grow up to be Frank Zappa. (Allegedly, Einstein once cut short a high-level meeting on quantum molecular mechanics by announcing, "Excuse me, gentlemen, but it's Time For Beany!")

If you're going to do a show for no money and attract that kind of audience, you'd better be damned clever. Time For Beany was damned clever. Actually, there were many clever folks involved in its production but its producer-creator and its two performers were three of the cleverest humans ever in show business. They were, respectively, Bob Clampett, Stan Freberg and Daws Butler.

[CO Liberal]

1. "I'm Comin', Beany Boy!!!"

"Dishonest John, you dirty guy!!"

:-)

[mac56]

3. "There goes a good sea serpent!"

"Makes a guy sore!"

[Richardo]

5. Nya-ah-ah!!

[CatWoman]

16. DJ has got to have the BEST villian laugh!!!

[Richardo]

2. Best 'adult' joke: "No-bikini Atoll"

Loved that show...

[mac56]

4. or "Tearalong the Dotted Lion"!

nm

[CO Liberal]

11. Or "Jack The Knife"

:-)

[BurtWorm]

6. Raggmopp. R-A-G-G-M-O-P-P. Raggmopp.

It used to be one of my favorite shows, too, but I have a feeling it would not live up to my memory of it. I had a Cecil hand puppet, too. I adored that thing.

[teach1st]

7. So come on kids, let's flip our lids

MP3

http://www.tuff-teach.com/pics/beany.mp3

[tekriter]

8. OK, sing along with me...

Oh, R

I say R A

R A G

R A G G...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. "A-Bob-Clam-PETT-car-TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!"

I got Beany & Cecil in my bloodstream, along with my white & red corpuscles. It was the electronic babysitter of my youth.

[Richardo]

10. I was just going to post that: CartoooooOOOON!

GMTA, Bush-Eats-Beef :D

[CatWoman]

14. Hey, where's my Dishonest John?????

:hi:

[Richardo]

15. See #5...

:hi:

[Burma Jones]

12. I LOVE Beany and Cecil, so do my kids

I vaguely remembered seeing some reruns when I was a kid back in the 70s. I bought the DVD. My 6 and 4 year old kids love this show. The whole Beatnik thing is great. And Beany talked like a stone-cool stoner most of the time.

NOW, MORE DVDs.........

[soothsayer]

13. I just saw a beany and cecil book at a garage sale this weekend!

Shoulda bought it.

[mulsh]

17. I love that show

My mother was always amused that my dad would watch it with my twin brother and me. for our 5th birthday we each got 5 Beany copter caps from our friends. Years later when videos were new my dad somehow found 3 Beany & Cecil Videos which the 3 of us continue to watch every now and then. Mom never saw the charm but my wife and my brother's kids all love Beany & Cecil. I Didn't know it was out on DVD.