THE NEW ADVENTURES OF GUMBY - "The Abominable Dough Man" (1988)

 

This week's Weird Wednesday feature is an episode of "The New Adventures Of Gumby," and was titled "The Abominable Dough Man."

In the 80's, Gumby is just chillin' while reading a book!

He's got a Sister now named Minga, and she's busy baking a loaf of bread!

While the bread rises, Minga sits down to watch some television.

 

The bread has to rise for thirty minutes.

Uh, Oh! Minga has fallen asleep.

While being ignored, the bread starts rising too much. It might seem farcical, but I had a similar thing happen to my sourdough starter one night!

Now this is getting out of control!

Gumby's Mom flips her lid when she sees the action and her eyes pop out!

Gumby's Dad is a fireman, and is called for help immediately!

 

The dough has now risen to monstrous size and is quickly turning into a giant dough boy!

Just the sight of the dough man makes "words get stuck in my throat!" Where's Kipp Hamilton when we need her?

Poor Minga, she's really scared as she looks up in horror!

Dough Man channels his inner King Kong, and Minga has the role of Fay Wray.

 

The firetruck shoots a tankful of water at the Dough Man, but the truck ran out of water before much damage could be done. It did melt off one of his hands, but he regenerated it immediately!

The call goes out to Gumby and his pals who come to the rescue.

Dough Man really scares this family!

Is there no way to stop this destructive lumbering lummox?

 

Ashes to ashes, dough to dough, make a rue, add enough liquid, and the big bad monster is nothing more than pancake batter!
 

Oh, Heck! It was just a bad dream!!

POPEYE In "Popeye, The Ace Of Space" - 1953

I've been looking for this Popeye cartoon for a long time, and finally, here's one of the wildest adventures you could ever ask for!

It starts with Martians going to Earth to find an average puny Earthling to perform their weird experiments on, and, they have found one...

As Popeye drives his boat-mobile on a bright and shiny day, the Martians close in on him and he's brought into the saucer for the trip back to Mars.

The Martians speak in Martian, so, we get the translations in English to understand what they're up to. He's put on a 'cosmic ager' device for his first test.

The Martian drops the tube over Popeye and ages him to 125 yeas old!

The Martians cheer in delight as they have put the puny Earthling in his place.

But our hero pulls out his trusty can of spinach, pours some down his throat, and reverts back to age 2, he spits out a bit and viola, he's 40 again. The Martians can't believe their eyes.

This could possibly be my favorite atomic science device, up there with Forbidden Planet!

So, Popeye's neck is stretched to its limits, and his 'atom' apple is centered perfectly. But again, he takes another hit of spinach!

And, the huge solid metal smasher breaks clean in half. Popeye quips... That tickles! Needless to say, the Martians are in an uproar!

Next up is the electronic disintegrator, which basically erases him. Popeye is wiped out but his can of spinach rolls over to one of the Martians.

The Martian acknowledges that this can of mysterious weed (has a different meaning nowadays) was responsible for the Earthling's super strength.

Then, other Martians want some too!

Here's what the Martian holding the can has to say...

All the Martians start fighting over it, and during the scuffle, the can of spinach is flung back to Popeye, who slams some down and returns back to normal.

Popeye gets into the Martian scuffle and the brutes start flying. One of their devices breaks down and the Martians end things with a May Pole dance!

Popeye commanders the saucer and heads off back to good old Earth.

Popeye is... The Ace Of Space! Love this one, and thanks to our pal Brian J. Riedel who sent me the link for today's outstanding post, here at The Dungeon!!

13 OF THE COOLEST WOODY WOODPECKER CARTOONS from 1951 to 1963

 

This Saturday Night Special is a presentation of thirteen of the coolest Woody Woodpecker cartoons because they all tie in with either Science Fiction, or Friction in this case, Horror, and/or other things we like.

I'll start with the newest ones first because the title cards just get cooler the older they are.

"Science Friction" was a story about a mad scientist that Walter Lantz Productions released in 1963.

The voice of the mad scientist was Benny (Antonio Zucchini Salami Gorgonzola dePizza) Rubin, and Grace Stafford did the voice of Woody Woodpecker. Grace was Walter Lantz's wife, and she was also the voice of Woody Woodpecker from 1950 into the 1980's! 

 

1962 saw them come out with "Rocket Racket."

In this one Daws Butler was the voice of the Gabby Gator.

Over the years Daws has been the voice of almost everybody in the Hanna-Barbera Studios including Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and Quick-Draw McGraw, just to name a couple.

"Franken-Stymied" came out in 1961.

In this one Daws Butler was the voice of the mad scientist.

Covering all the bases in 1961, they went from Frankenstein to Voodoo!

Daws Butler is back as Gabby Gator again.

Still in 1961 and they had one more movie title to parody!

The art has all been good so far, especially "Franken-Stymied," but now when we drop back down into the 50's you're going to see a big change.

In this one Dal McKennon was the voice of Dirty McNasty. Dallas McKennon has been the voice of Archie and Gumby, just to name two out of hundreds.

 

Getting a little more exciting with "Woodpecker In The Moon" from 1959.

Dal is back as Professor P. Cosmo Klunk.

Simpler but still effective was "Misguided Missile" from 1958.

Dal is the voice of Dapper Denver Dooley.

I don't know if it was Walter Lantz or Director Paul Smith, but somebody was a little obsessed with the planet Mars. This title card from "Round Trip To Mars" in 1957 was superlative!

Dal is Professor Dingledong.

 

This title card from the 1956 "Woodpecker From Mars" was not even in the same league.

Dal is an unnamed Professor in this one.

"Witch Crafty" from 1955 was the only one of these that predominately displayed Director Paul J. Smith's name.

Grace Stafford was the voice of Woody as always, and as it was in many cases, she was totally uncredited!

 

Out of the realm of Sci-Fi and horror, as it is today, wrasslin' was really popular in 1953!

Dal is the voice of Bull Dozer!

 

This was really the title card that made me want to do this!

From 1952......"Termites From Mars."

Dal was the voice of the Radio Announcer, and Danny Webb did the voices of the Termites. Danny was also an excellent impersonator, and when he worked for Warner Brothers, he did almost all the voices that Mel Blanc didn't do.

 

I'm wrapping this up with "Destination Meatball" from 1951.

Speaking of Mel Blanc, he did the voice of Woody in the opening title sequence when he says "Guess Who?"

 Lionel (The Bride Wore Crutches) Stander was the voice of Buzz Buzzard in this one!

Thanx to our buddy, and comix artiste extraordinaire Brian J. Riedel for reminding me about Woody's cool adventures!

13 VINTAGE MEXICAN ROMANTIC MUSICAL COMEDY POSTERS

 Today we gots some examples of great Mexican poster art with a style used in the fifties and sixties, they are colorful with a focus on sexy women, from back in the day when that meant something. The style is unique in the world of poster art. Today, we just use computers to do the thinking for us, which makes up for any lack of talent.

In every case, these movies involved romance, hot women, stupid guys, music and comedy, a formula they used for years, and why not, that's a winning formula. Tin-Tan was in most of them, like in this really nice poster where they're talking about Cats!

Some starred rubber-faced Resortes, looks like this one has to do with cowgirls and lassos (and probably cactus for a laff).

Resortes is back in this hot rumba musical with girls in sexy costumes, and dumb-ass dudes running the show of course.

This time those three gals there are the stars, and I'd bet that they're all on the hunt for guys! That's the other angle with the formula.

Tin-Tan is back in a story about a doctor who is obviously distracted by the beautiful women that come to him for medical help. That poster is indescribable, I'd like to have one. 

This time Tin-Tan goes to Havana, Cuba, for more fun and frolics with scantily clad women and music. Man, that poster is great!

It's fun to throw some ghosts into the mix, which is another well used motif. Love the big intruder on the left eye-balling a gorgeous gal.

Looks like Resortes has his eye on three gals, and you know that route is doomed to fail.

Not quite sure to make of this poster, but, it looks a little kinky. Check out the guy at the bottom there behind the bars, possibly her real boyfriend, making for some whacky hilarity.

Great lobby card, but Hey, Tin-Tan! Watch those hands, pal!!

Uh-oh, I think Cupid is going to cause a lot of trouble here! The title refers to loving, adornment, endearment, being warm-hearted and more. Take your pick.

This one has Tin-Tan playing freaking Sinbad, or something. All I know is, man, those are some tight and revealing bikinis there! Along with the skin.

Looks like Tin-Tan is playing some sort of doofus, a guy named Pito-Perez. I wonder if he even gets a girl in this one! So, hope you enjoyed this trip into the past.