TROPES!!!! and some other corrections ot earlier blog entries

I've been reading TVTROPES.org, that famous site of plot devices, cliches, and crazy real life stuff. A change to this is, I'm gonna start adding tropes for these starting after I write this..for each.and I haven't done all the Gumby (pre-1980s) episodes (I only go up to the late 60s).

Tropes like
Anti-Hero
Anti-Villian
Cassandra Truth
Jerkass has a point/


For Gumby, 1967's INDIAN COUNTRY has Cassandra Truth:Goo, Prickle, and Pokey repeatedly, when seeing Indians, try and warn Gumby, who doesn;t know of it.

Soundtrack Dissonance: The cues in each could go from one style to another.
Style dissonance: Gumby's look changed in 1950s from one to another..


But you knew all of that. :-)

I'm also adding more informaiton and correctin some earlier entires..I am also most like starting what may be the ONLY in depth FELIX the CAT (Trans LUX version) blog within the next day or two..

Gumby and Pokey's new studiomates, Davey, Sally, Goliath and the Hansons

When Art Clokey enjoyed some years of success with GUMBY and me, he came up with the new DAVY AND GOLIATH series in 1959, in association with The Lutheran Church. This had Davey (Dkick Beals, whpo'd soon guest on Gumby) and Hal Smith (GOliath). Davey was a kid, and Goliayth, his wise but GOOFY sounding dog.."Oh, DAVEY"..it used tons of CInemusic and Capitol stock music piec,es a lot of 'em different than the Gumby ones..Davey and Goliaht would appear a few times like on one of the attempted Pokey solo spinoffs, 1962's SANTA WITCH, and also was with both the boys in that 1961's STRANGE PLANETS

Another New Year..

And happy belated multiple holiday seasons and New Year!

Gumbasia Remixia

Pretty good, better than the soundtrack replacement for legal reasons, regarding the 1980s remakes of the original era episodes, dontcha think??

Gumbasia, Before Gumby (1953) - Art Clokey

Sorry for being dormant on this but for the 65th anniversary of pilot, "Gumbasia", 1953, here's the pilot itself---and NO re - sound - tracking as with the show itself!



This one was made in 1953 with backing by a Fox executive, which thus makes it kind of wierd that 20th.Century Fox never took up the Gumby series distribution (and everything to the video distributions..of course we are glad that the rights for everything within it Clokey and company's.)



Anyway, hope that you enjoy this post...



Pokey..SC



PS none of us Gumby characters actually in it,though naturally..

RIP, JOE CLOKEY

It grieves me to report that another member of the Gumby family, Art Clokey's son Joe, has passed away. I don't know of the causes, but apparent his widow Ruth who cowrote the recent GUMBY IMAGINED book, will take over the empire. Art himself died back in 2010 (1921-2010).

New Book Out

In case you haven't heard, (Art's son) Joe Clokey (and sister/) Ruth(?) Rock Clokey have a new book out, supposed to be very in-depth, "Gumby Imagined". It's on Amazon, but I haven't gotten enough previews past the opening to see if it has my, and the others's adventures in=depth in the 50s and 60s (it has the IMHO rotten 1980s show on cover..).It'd be great to see the complete cast voices for the original two decades and (with ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE!) original broadcast dates, even stock music cues..