HCC788 - 1987 CHUCKLES - vintage G. I. Joe toy review! HD S02E20
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Sources and Information:
Chuckles on YoJoe.com:
www.yojoe.com/action/87/chuckl...
Chuckles on 3DJoes.com:
www.3djoes.com/chuckles.html
Colt Commander
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Com...
hole-and-corner:
www.thefreedictionary.com/hole...
Miami Vice (1984-1990):
www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/
Don Johnson:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Johnson
Don Johnson image:
www.imdb.com/media/rm358308864...
Don Johnson image:
www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/miami-vi...
Magnum PI Image:
www.liketotally80s.com/2012/11...
Miami Vice Theme HD:
• Miami Vice Theme HD
GI Joe - BeachHead Training (1987):
• GI Joe - BeachHead Tra...
Image from G. I. Joe: The Movie:
www.joetoonarchive.com/display...
www.joetoonarchive.com/display...
Music:
Take the Lead, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - บันเทิง
My childhood friends and I used to call him "Duke on vacation".
Bart 'D Man 95 Lobby Wurkz lol I thought that too lmao
Same here bro
Lol!
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I know by today's standards it's not pc but me and my friends thought he ways well GAY
1987 wasn't "the height of popularity" for "Miami Vice." The best seasons were the first and second. The 1986-1987 season was when it became routine, and then things got repetitive and even weird after that. It was obvious Chuckles was inspired by Crockett's character from "Miami Vice" and not so much his appearance. His face actually looks more like Robert Palmer. The artwork on the Spy Hunter arcade game also resembled Don Johnson. I never got the figure, finding him too simple, but now I look back and see how he could have been useful if I would have played in a more elaborate manner.
I remember one line in that comic. A secretary told Chuckles that he needs an appointment and Chuckles replies, "I'm trouble and trouble doesn't make an appointment."
But how effective can Chuckles be going undercover. Even with different clothes his build and personality would stand out. I can picture a Cobra agent saying to and undercover Chuckles, "hahaha You're a really cool guy, Smith. You know you remind me of this other funny guy I met a few months ago. He wasn't afraid to head butt a cop car the way you just did either. Come to think of it, if you put on a Hawaiian shirt and dyed your hair ... --- You're HIM!!!"
I owned this figure growing up. I was sold on the holster accessory.
His art work always reminded me of Uncle Joey from Full House (Dave Coulier). Funny jokey guy too.
Growing up Full House was one of my favorite TV shows! I got to see Dave Coulier do his stand up show back in 2001, and he was hilarious. Also I own one of his comedy album called Songs In The Key Of Beaver, despite it being aimed at kids, I really enjoyed listening to it.
Ha! Knew you hadn't forgotten since we briefly talked at Joe Con. It's much appreciated to see you give Chuckles a fun and fair review!
Guillermo Mejia I hope it was good enough. I have been trying to get to this review for so long. I didn't have a lot of personal information to add, so hopefully there's enough to make it an interesting review.
He could pose as a mercenary in South America or Southeast Asia. I had the figurine as a kid, but I don't remember how I used him.
sirkowski At least you had him, which is more than I can say. :) I wish I had given him a chance back then.
As a kid, I used him during play time to spy on Cobra and gather information as Chuckles file card suggests. Despite his strange look, I agree that he could pose as a mercenary in South America or South East Asia no problem. Looking back at him, it would have been nice if Hasbro gave him Lady Jaye's mini video camera, Sneak Peek's binoculars or some other tools for an Intelligence operative to use to gather information.
I am glad that his future appearances in both the main G.I. Joe series and Special Missions used him to better effect. Larry Hama even him appear towards the end of the Marvel series, long after his action figure was no longer being sold. I like how his file name of Philip Provost is honor of a friend of Larry Hama's, like how Barbecue's file name of Gabriel Kelly is a tribute to another friend of Hama's.
The ending is hilarious. Throwbacks.
After retiring from gi joe he got a job as a principal in the small town of South Park Colorado.
I always thought he was misrepresented in cartoon and comics. I thought he was more of a detective type guy who wasn't a beefcake. He was also a bit like Surf from the Miami Vice episode 'Bushido'.
When I was six or seven years old, I vaguely remember watching some news program maybe 60 minutes. They where doing a story on GIJOE and they had a ceo or line developer said that Chuckles was based on his appearance.
It makes sense that was the case, since at the time of Chuckles release Hasbro was modeling the faces of certain action figures on real people. Bazooka is modeled after New England Patriots player Steve Grogan, Leatherneck is modeled after Hasbro illustrator Ron Rudat, Law is based on Hasbro executive Kirk Bozigian( who was responsible for the launch of the 3 and 3/4 scale G.I. Joe line up) and most famously Tunnel Rat was based on Larry Hama. Also, at one point a female secretary at Hasbro, was used for a model for a planned Baroness action figure that would have been released in 1995 had the decision not been made to end the line in 1994.
I remember buying this guy just so I could switch out his legs with my Tunnel Rat figure.
Actually I take that back. Law's legs went to Tunnel Rat and Chuckles legs went to my Duke figure because I was unable to perform the surgery known as "The Bobett" with any degree of long term success.
Brillant review!
This guy reminds me of Robert Redford in Havana....
Chuckles was a special gift to me for a really good report card int he 3rd grade!
While I never thought the Hawaiian shirt was too out of place on Chuckles, I got tired of the sports themed figures as a kid. Bazooka, Red Dog, The Fridge, and Hardball all drove me nuts. And then Capt. Grid Iron came along with his football grenades and really made things dumb.
I can agree with you on the sport themed figures, though I didn't mind having a few sport references. It very quickly got out of hand and ridiculous.
I stole this figure from KB Toys...
WoW, this video brought back memories from 30 years ago ! ! !
I never minded the look of Chuckles as a kid because he wasn't a specialty that would have required a more military look, unlike many other sillier looking figures in the line.
8:36 wow dude... Tell us who from Arkansas hurt you.
I'm from Arkansas and I say HCC788 is a dick.
Thank you for these reviews HCC, I just love how in depth they are and your sense of humor is great. I love Chuckles too, kind of a cool figure. I have a later version of him without sleeves. They gave more of the muscle detail he deserved on that figure but unfortunately he didn't have the working pistol holster. That's okay, he came with a badass sub machine gun and a street sweeper shot gun.
Flash in my head: Chuckles is more like Dinozzo from NCIS. I know G.I. Joe and NCIS were years apart, but if I was to play with my G.I. Joe toys today I would use Chuckles as an NCIS or JAG member.
Chuckles and Hawk were my 2 favourite figures. I used them as buddy cops.
Don Johnson ? I would of guessed the figure was based on Magnum PI
In the idw comics the shirt is for an alternative idinaty of a merc he uses.
He was bad ass in that series. Smoked Cobra Commander, nuked half of Cobra Island by detonating a nuclear sub.....
This character is my all time favorite. Thanks for this review!
I loved my chuckles figure, lost him at my grandmother's house when I was a kid
Tropical shirt, Miami Vice, G.I. Joe got more love and play in Florida back yards then all the snow guys from Joe and Star Wars combined. Don Johnson love also made Falcon my top two favorite Joe.
It's very odd that a talkative character like Chuckles had no lines in the movie, and my theory is that Don Johnson was originally intended to play him, until they decided to switch Chuckles and Falcon's roles around. He would have filled the same role Falcon ended up in, as a ladies man and Duke's half brother, especially since he looks a lot more like Duke (with the blonde hair, and green legs) than Falcon does.
Chuckles was also believed to be Snake eyes in civilian garb; hiding in plain sight.
Interesting theory
I seen him in comics and in G.I. Joe the Movie. In the movie version he has no speaking lines. He's about as silent as Snake Eyes.
Your outfit is PERFECT!!!!!
Hello!
The correct occupation is CID Special Agent, and they work for the US Army Criminal Investigation Division or CID for short. Also, fun fact, some real CID agents do come from the military intelligence field. But CID agents can come from any other Military Occupation, so a CID agent can be a prior Army Band member, Administrative clerk or even former Green Berets. Also, there was an awesome little known movie called Off Limits. It was about two CID agents in Vietnam (Willem DaFoe and Gregory Heinz) who investigated murders by a possible high ranking US general. It would seem that Chuckles was maybe somewhat inspired by Willem’s character in that movie. Great video BTW. Laters!
It would not surprise me at all if that was part of the inspiration along with Magnum P.I. and Miami Vice both of which were airing on TV at the time of Chuckles release. After the 1960's G.I. Joe action figures take their name from the 1945 World War II movie, The Story Of G.I. Joe, so it does stand to reason that Hasbro would mine other movies and some tv shows for inspiration of new action figures.
"Criminal Investigation Division" was an earlier name for what is now part of the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command and "CID" is still used in reference to their agents. But the real agency uses a singular Investigation as opposed to the toy's plural Investigations. Long story short, he's Army.
Ah, that shirt is hilarious for an undercover agent. He sticks out like a sore thumb! That's the joke.
Yet I still wanna rock that shirt
In Miami or Honolulu in 1987, he'd blend right in.
Is kind of funny and ironic that Former Miami Vice & Nash Bridges star Don Johnson played or voice Duke's half younger brother Lt.Falcon in G.I Joe: the Movie, I didn't know Chuckles was based on him. thanks that holster on my Chuckles broke. I store it in my Mobile Command Center weapons rack. good review.
have you done a review of big ben the S.A.S commando ?
“I’m not wearing any socks!” Very Miami Vice of you!
I was never a big fan of Chuckles either, just never could figure out his place in the Joe team, then I read his dossier in the Essential guide to Gijoe and come to find out, he is part of Military Intelligence and the CIA. Plus when the top brass were putting together the new team they turned to Chuckles for his investigative work to sort out and find worthy candidates. His search led him to find the first two operatives of the modern Gijoe team: Hawk and Stalker. Of course they had no idea Chuckles was involved.
One of the last G.I Joe's, I purchased as a kid...
I'm thinking maybe He's DEA, DIA, or CIA. He "Chuckles" reminds me of Gary Busey's character he played in Point Break.
"I'm not wearing any socks!"
Great review.
Loved this guy
Love this figure!
Love Vice sound track
Great video. Thanks. Chuckles is another one of my favorites even as a kid. Maybe the Hawaiian shirt was a nod to Hawkeye and Trapper in M*A*S*H. But a big guy like Chuckles can get away with that. He definitely can shove my head in gutter water.
Neal G I didn't make the MASH connection, but maybe. I don't mind the civilian attire for an undercover agent. It's the military lower half that throws me.
Good point. Never thought about that. But that's what popped into my head. When Hawkeye and Trapper wore the Hawaiian shirts with their olive drab pants. Ha.
@@nealg6810 Excellent point. Never thought of that.
@@HCC788 Couldn't it just be corduroy pants, or something? Not necessarily military. There's no camouflage or anything.
Hey Buddy,
Because of your videos I have gotten my boys into GI Joe in a big way.
I ended up getting them the F.O.E Striker and the Cobra Basilisk combo pack for Christmas.
It is basically a repackaging of the Awe Striker and the Snowcat, but so much cooler.
The Driver for the F.O.E., Chuckles.?. Not sure why, but it brought me here.
I have to say those toys are pretty cool the articulation and the more realistic looking weapons, I greatly appreciate.
You might want to check them out.
My VERY FIRST G.I. Joe. Him and Psyche-Out.
Very cool video brother
TheDarthvalen Thank you!
Hooded Don Johnson, you forgot to roll your sleaves
he's an Off duty soldier on R & R in Miami or Hawaii :)
I had to pause this video to order a blue Hawaii shirt so i can be cool like Chuckles 😂
You should read the modern IDE Cobra comics as the last series star Chuckles and they really manage to make him interesting.
Have you done one on AVAC and the Firebat? If not Id like to know more about it.
+Byron Kellogg I don't have that one complete. When I get one, I will probably review it with the Terror Drome. I will get to it eventually!
HoodedCobraCommander788 sounds good, have you covered Blizzard yet? I have a spare if you need to complete one.
I think is face kinda looks like Hannibal from the A-team. I was weary when I first got this figure. But, when I actually got him in hand, he could pose wonderfully with his holster and pistol. Still, not my favorite, but is much cooler than he looks.
I never got Chuckles but if I had, he would have been great Cobra cannon fodder along side Quick Kick and the Havoc driver!
my favorite GI Joe Next to V1 Storm Shadow & V3 Snake Eyes !!
johnny Stratos That's an interesting combo, but all great figures!
He was supposedl to be similar to Don Johnson? Funny, considering Lt. Falcon was voiced by Johnson in the animated movie, which was the first animated appearance for Chuckles.
Love the holsters
What about his relationship with jinx in the comics.
I remember that movie with him . It & We always wonder why he doing that fool action with missile . So we never like him too much . By the way nice review !
You know in my country the Hawaiian shirt is very strange type of clothes but you can find many guys in military pants ...
If I remember correctly, was not Chuckles used as part of the DEF? Headmaster and the like? It seems as though, SWAT, CID, Ahem, GI Joe partnered with other agencies. Chuckles is dressed for Southern United States, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, trying to look cool like Huggy Bear. Unfortunately he comes off more like Anthony Lapaglia's character in So I Married an Axe Murderer. Also, think about how Arnold dressed in Commando: Hawaiian shirt, khakis, and boots. Great review. Hasbro should have offered that holster as DTC items in packs of five!
No, Chuckles sadly never appeared again in the vintage line after his first action figure. Despite this, Larry Hama still used him in the comic book series in the later issues( Chuckles went undercover at Destro''s Scottish castle as a gamekeeper). He would have been a natural fit for D.E.F. in my imagination, given that to bust drug dealers law enforcement personnel use undercover operations to get close to their targets.
The pistol kinda looks like they combined the beretta 92 and a 1911
Indeed it does, the pistol that Hawk version 2 has is the closest I have seen a handgun in the vintage line come to looking like a real world weapon. The Colt Commander is not a bad choice for some one in the Intelligence and C.I.D. work, given that they would need a handgun that is easy to conceal.
I wasn't too surprised when I found the figure of Chuckles wasn't released in the UK, and only in the States (it could have been to do with him always being mute in the movie) [but, had we gotten the third season, post-movie, where we'd have seen *more* of the 1987 figures, as well as the 1988 figures, would he have spoken *then*?]
Possibly, I do not recall if Hasbro had considered working with Sunbow on a third season of the cartoon series. I do believe that G.I. Joe cartoon writer Buzz Dixon said in one interview that had a third season been done, he would have tired to bring the show back towards its roots and keep out the stranger characters/ elements like Serpentor and Cobra La that the second season and the movie had brought us. Chuckles might have gotten a chance to speak then, I would think.
I got him for my eighth birthday.
Is there a cat meowing in the background at approx 7:00?
Had this one as a kid, going from his accent in one of the movies, I always thought Chuckles was a Cajun. IDK?
Chuckles is one of the very few G.I. Joe toys I didn't like as a kid. Even the bizarre brightly colored outfits from later on didn't bother me anywhere near as much. My problem with him is that he didn't look like he belonged on any kind of battlefield.
Im surprised you never mentioned the Connection between Chuckles and Snake Eyes and the Myth the are the Same person?
I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything while watching this one! "I'm not wearing any SOCKS!" I'd have spit my grape soda out my nose if I had been!
I can see how some kids could have made Chuckles work - but I hated his code-name and his shirt. I like everything else about him though: cool pants, nice face sculpt!
do you have lifeline
Everything should be classified.
HCC788 can you do a bomb disposal review?
give that comic another try, i read it recently and enjoyed much of it
Why *is* Chuckles mute in the movie, anyway?
Would you ever wear a Hawaiian shirt like Chuckles?
As a kid I always like him because he didn't look that military. I wish he was a little more civilian, blue jeans and no sculpted knife.
My favorite feature was the holster for the gun. It was a great feature and you are right I wish other guys had them.
I do, but I'm a GI JOE costumer and Chuckles is one of the JOEs I costume as. Of course I use a wig for the blonde hair.... and I look ridiculous. Wjay over at The Finest does Chuckles, too. And his looks amazing. He puts mine to shame.
You want to see a real life facsimile of Chuckles, check him out. He's good people... all of those guys over at The Finest.
Bill Kohlleppel I thought it would be cool to make a real Hawaii shirt like Chuckles, but my wife said I was crazy. No one would wear it in public. I wouldn't mind having one.
Troy Smith I didn't make one exactly like the action figure. I went to goodhawaiianshirts.com (I think that is the site) and got me the "blue hibiscus" shirt, if I remember right. It's close enough that the casual observer of chuckled immediately recognized who I was costumes as.
Another thumbs-up review! Chuckles is no Lady Jaye! I like the holster a lot, but the gun sculpt isn't very good. The Hawaiian shirt makes him a fun looking figure (but don't match the pants), but he doesn't look like Don Johnson, facially. The figure looks closer to Hannibal (George Peppard) from the A-Team. That said, "inspiration" doesn't mean that he has to look like the guy. Just that they were going for that sort of feel. I'm not really sure that they succeeded either way. The figure is a little strange, but compared to Refrigerator Perry, Chuckles doesn't seem so out of place as a Joe. Love the Miami Vice segments of the review!
He killed cobra commander dam you Chuckles. Long live cobra commander.
I would say he's more a blonde magnum pi, the floral shirt and his backstory sound like magnum
kinda reminds me of BJ Honeycutt honestly with his Hawaiian shirts he used to were
Don't you watch James Bond? It's a play on Felix...the James Bond CIA character in several films that goes all the way back to 1960s CIA depiction during the Sean Connery days. He always wore a hawaiian shirt to look like a typical American tourist.
I would say the 1993 Mace was the replacement for Chuckles. Mace and his long ass hair!
He had a colt 43 not a 45.
Head sculpt reminds me of actor Christopher McDonald or even Joe Piscopo.
It's Snake Eyes undercover as Chuckles.
CID is the Army version of NCIS.
were you a fan of bionic six
Prequel to Jason Bourne
Got him MOC
I guess because he didn't talk in the (ugh) movie, I used him as Snake Eyes incognito.
Chuckles was one of the very few figures I did not buy at this point in time. He didn't have much of a role in the original comics. But the movie made him mute which was bizarre. But the main reason I didn't get it was it didn't look like... anything. If he'd been in a suit or jeans and a t-shirt I would've thought he was cool and unique. But the top half is vacation and the bottom is army. Makes no sense.
If I recall, they made him mute because they couldn't afford to pay someone to VA him, since they got Don Johnson to play Falcon.
Ah Chuckles the original Boogaloo boy.
Keel Haul reminds me of Tom Selleck.
+Alamo Patriot Magnum or Riptide ?
Jakub Buszko Have to say Magnum since I don't know Riptide.
Alamo Patriot
Riptde was some kind of Magnum series but they added few guys more like Jack Stils & all use old Sikorsky Green Jelly chopper in criminal adventures ... Sorry for my English !
Chuckles reminds me of a San Francisco Magnum PI
I don't know if I would put him in my top 10. definitely top 15. i watched a parody video showing how 007(Daniel Craig) is really chuckles or vise versa. I paired him with law and order and junkyard and mutt.
He could have introduced some cloak-and-dagger, 007-style stories to G.I. Joe, and I guess he did somewhat in Special Missions. I have been told he was used well in more recent comic books, but I haven't read them yet.
+HoodedCobraCommander788 I think Sam (Bruce Campbell's character) from burn notice would be the closest thing to chuckles besides James bond. Groovy!!!!! hail to the king.
+HoodedCobraCommander788 tape buzzers chain on his hand and viola ash from evil dead
put rock n roll v2 rifle and buzzers chain saw . he is ash. okay after saying that yep have to put him in top 10.
I like Chuckles my brother had the figure I like the movie with his appearance that part with him what they have they can use in the rocket launcher use the rocket that take out the Cobra hiss tank I'm just using a bazooka and a 45 the fight the Cobra forces and being a undercover character I really like the character
I never got the Miami vice feeling from him. To me he always seems like a CIA guy in country, the ones that walked around saying they were tourists
Funny story. I can't remember my name today.
Don Johnson should have voiced Chuckles, instead of Falcon, in G.I.Joe The Movie.
As a kid I found Chuckles confusing to use, in appearance I think his head shoulda had a sleeker suave face and head and a better codename the codename chuckles just sucks lol
When I was a kid I never read the cards. I thought they were stupid.