"Didjya' get that "thing" I sentcha?" Love it! That's what I LOVE about Harvey Birdman: Attourney at Law! They brought back all these obscure characters!
This was the second series H-B produced for Ideal Toys in the fall of '64 {"MAGILLA GORILLA" was the first}. This opening title seems to come from the 1966 ABC version, where the opening was slightly edited and more than one sponsor was billboarded than Ideal (who fully sustained the show in syndication). The "curtain call" substituted "Ricocchet Rabbit" for "Breezly & Sneezly" {originally featured on Peter's show; they were seen on Magilla's series at the time}.
In the original syndicated opening title, Peter said, at :26, "'THE PETER POTAMUS SHOW' is presented by...(opening his mouth to reveal sponsor's logo) I-I-I-I-I-DEAL TOYS! They're WONDERFUL toys...they're Ideal!", followed by the chorus singing, "Yes, it's time to meet Peter Potamus...our IDEAL!". The sponsor insisted their name be included in the theme song's lyrics {as in "MAGILLA GORILLA"}.
What irks me is there are none, zilch, totally fun, escapist programs for kids anymore on TV. But I suppose if parents just buy what's on home video or record from places like You Tube, then PBS and Nickelodeon and the little that's offered on the networks can be avoided. Heck, even Disney Channel has been mostly overtaken by the "No Fun Squad"--very little Mickey, Donald and Mary Poppins anymore. Walt would be mortified. No more "Lassie" or "Flipper" either. I'm glad I was a kid when I was.
Also, not only was commercial sponsorship more prominent on cartoons & game shows, but on variety shows (Dinah Shore asking us to "See the world today in your Chevrolet"), dramas & sitcoms as well. It was part of the contracts that series regulars do commercials for the shows on which they appeared, but the actors also got paid extra residuals, so they did them.
Parents were aghast or "went ape," to use a colloquialism of the era, when "Barney" and "Fred" lit up Winston cigs on "The Flintstones," so "Pebbles" began drinking Welchade grape juice instead. Actually, that ad campaign led to those Welch's grape jam & jelly jars which could be used as drinking glasses after the intended product was used up, something Welch's occasionally does to this day.
What do you mean by "future interests?" Was the character of "Peter Potamus" reprised in another cartoon series? I'm getting something about "Harvey Birdman" here, but it must have been after I stopped watching cartoons as a kid.
The original "Flintstones" glasses, with a different series character on the bottom of each, are now highly collectible. I regret washing the lead paint off of mine in the dishwasher, but I don't think ingesting small amounts of lead paint caused me any real HaRm . . . now get that purple ostrich outta my tulip patch, you snork!)%&> Gerazzlbooba!
Sponsor plugs were a common phenomenon in the early days of television. If you think it's blatant here, watch the 1950's and '60's panel game shows, the sponsor's name plastered across the panel desks, the emcee doing short commercial spots within the program, etc.
Some of them were just as entertaining as the regular part of the shows they sponsored, too--"The Andy Griffith Show" Post cereals & Sanka coffee spots, for instance, filmed by Griffin & Don Knotts, sometimes "Aunt Bea" & "Opie," all in character.
Right, I remember an ending that went something like this: "We hate to go, it makes us feel so sad/Awfully sad, even mad./We wish we never had to go away./We'd like to stay/So we say," etc. Then it continued, "we know that you will be around for a peek/When we come back next week," etc. Is that the closing you are talking about? If so, I wonder where we'd find it mow?
Actually, I kind of liked that practice--one felt as though one was getting extra programming that way, albeit with a commercial twist. But in those days capitalism & promotion of commerce weren't viewed as something shameful the way we've been brainwashed today.
I certainly didn't find the commercials of that era as annoying as those horrible, endless pledge drives one sees interrupting PBS programming, bribing viewers that "Big Bird" and "Barney The Dinosaur" will be kidnapped & held hostage if you don't "give till it hurts" to PBS--Politburo Broadcasting System.
Geeze, those awful PBS kids shows--all with a social engineering (read "communist") bent! I preferred it when kids TV shows were just fun--no heavy "messages," and when sponsors were unrestricted--endlessly plugging away their toys & cereals, the latter loaded with sugar, a substance that has been labeled as contraband by these now-adult, hippie parents, the same hypocrites who smoked & rolled their own as young people and now tell their kids to "just say no."
Things were better in an era when boys were allowed to play with toy guns with no shame attached. No wonder we've raised a few generations of wimps now! And bring back fun Saturday morning cartoons & programs--no more Commie crapola!
"Didjya' get that "thing" I sentcha?"
Love it!
That's what I LOVE about Harvey Birdman: Attourney at Law! They brought back all these obscure characters!
this was the absolute first cartoon i could remember at 5 years old...i truly miss those days...
Didja get that thing I sent ya?
the closing theme is all i remember...i am 50 years old now and this song still rings in my head......i am programmed...go buy toys...go buy toys...
that thiiiiinng...
This was the second series H-B produced for Ideal Toys in the fall of '64 {"MAGILLA GORILLA" was the first}. This opening title seems to come from the 1966 ABC version, where the opening was slightly edited and more than one sponsor was billboarded than Ideal (who fully sustained the show in syndication). The "curtain call" substituted "Ricocchet Rabbit" for "Breezly & Sneezly" {originally featured on Peter's show; they were seen on Magilla's series at the time}.
No, did you get the thing I sent you?
Did you get....that thing...
It's sad, In Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law they stripped Peter Potamus of his innocence.
you forced me to use my secret weapon...
MY HIPPO HURRICANE HOLLAR!!!
Did you get that thing I sent you?
In the original syndicated opening title, Peter said, at :26, "'THE PETER POTAMUS SHOW' is presented by...(opening his mouth to reveal sponsor's logo) I-I-I-I-I-DEAL TOYS! They're WONDERFUL toys...they're Ideal!", followed by the chorus singing, "Yes, it's time to meet Peter Potamus...our IDEAL!". The sponsor insisted their name be included in the theme song's lyrics {as in "MAGILLA GORILLA"}.
What irks me is there are none, zilch, totally fun, escapist programs for kids anymore on TV. But I suppose if parents just buy what's on home video or record from places like You Tube, then PBS and Nickelodeon and the little that's offered on the networks can be avoided.
Heck, even Disney Channel has been mostly overtaken by the "No Fun Squad"--very little Mickey, Donald and Mary Poppins anymore. Walt would be mortified.
No more "Lassie" or "Flipper" either. I'm glad I was a kid when I was.
they're wonderful toys.....they're IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDEAL!!!!!!....and don't forget the Screen Gems "S-From-Hell"!!....i'm a completist, y'know......
How come no one has the original ending uploaded here.
Also, not only was commercial sponsorship more prominent on cartoons & game shows, but on variety shows (Dinah Shore asking us to "See the world today in your Chevrolet"), dramas & sitcoms as well. It was part of the contracts that series regulars do commercials for the shows on which they appeared, but the actors also got paid extra residuals, so they did them.
Parents were aghast or "went ape," to use a colloquialism of the era, when "Barney" and "Fred" lit up Winston cigs on "The Flintstones," so "Pebbles" began drinking Welchade grape juice instead.
Actually, that ad campaign led to those Welch's grape jam & jelly jars which could be used as drinking glasses after the intended product was used up, something Welch's occasionally does to this day.
What do you mean by "future interests?" Was the character of "Peter Potamus" reprised in another cartoon series? I'm getting something about "Harvey Birdman" here, but it must have been after I stopped watching cartoons as a kid.
The original "Flintstones" glasses, with a different series character on the bottom of each, are now highly collectible. I regret washing the lead paint off of mine in the dishwasher, but I don't think ingesting small amounts of lead paint caused me any real HaRm . . . now get that purple ostrich outta my tulip patch, you snork!)%&> Gerazzlbooba!
Sponsor plugs were a common phenomenon in the early days of television. If you think it's blatant here, watch the 1950's and '60's panel game shows, the sponsor's name plastered across the panel desks, the emcee doing short commercial spots within the program, etc.
Some of them were just as entertaining as the regular part of the shows they sponsored, too--"The Andy Griffith Show" Post cereals & Sanka coffee spots, for instance, filmed by Griffin & Don Knotts, sometimes "Aunt Bea" & "Opie," all in character.
Right, I remember an ending that went something like this: "We hate to go, it makes us feel so sad/Awfully sad, even mad./We wish we never had to go away./We'd like to stay/So we say," etc. Then it continued, "we know that you will be around for a peek/When we come back next week," etc. Is that the closing you are talking about?
If so, I wonder where we'd find it mow?
Actually, I kind of liked that practice--one felt as though one was getting extra programming that way, albeit with a commercial twist. But in those days capitalism & promotion of commerce weren't viewed as something shameful the way we've been brainwashed today.
I certainly didn't find the commercials of that era as annoying as those horrible, endless pledge drives one sees interrupting PBS programming, bribing viewers that "Big Bird" and "Barney The Dinosaur" will be kidnapped & held hostage if you don't "give till it hurts" to PBS--Politburo Broadcasting System.
Geeze, those awful PBS kids shows--all with a social engineering (read "communist") bent! I preferred it when kids TV shows were just fun--no heavy "messages," and when sponsors were unrestricted--endlessly plugging away their toys & cereals, the latter loaded with sugar, a substance that has been labeled as contraband by these now-adult, hippie parents, the same hypocrites who smoked & rolled their own as young people and now tell their kids to "just say no."
Things were better in an era when boys were allowed to play with toy guns with no shame attached. No wonder we've raised a few generations of wimps now!
And bring back fun Saturday morning cartoons & programs--no more Commie crapola!