I realize from time to time how old I am. Like the other day I said something about "Biggy Rat and Itchy Brother" and everyone just looked at me with blank expressions.Biggy Rat and Itchy Brother were cartoon characters from my childhood. They were the bad guys on a show called The King and Odie. The King was a big dumb lion named Leonardo and his sidekick was a brilliant skunk named Odie Cologne (pronounced Odie Kalonie). Their arch-rivals were the King's flea-infested brother, Itchy, and his gun-toting sidekick Biggy Rat.
I also grew up with Bullwinkle and Rocky. I loved this show! Rocket J. Squirrel was too cool. And there was Boris Badenov and his evil sidekick Natasha Fatale, whose attempts at killing "moose and squirrel" (as he referred to them) always ended in failure, usually by their own schemes backfiring.
There was also Dudley Do-right of the Mounties (with his nemesis Snidely Whiplash, and the perpetual Damsel in Distress, Nell Fenwick), Fractured Fairy Tales, Aesop and Son, and (my favorite) Peabody's Improbable History. All these on one cartoon show. Thanks Bullwinkle!
Another of my favorites was Bugs Bunny, the always irreverent, always hillarious carrot-munching trickster rabbit. After being bullied by the bad guys, Bugs, using his carrot as a cigar prop, would utter those great Groucho Marx words, "Of course you know, dis means war." After which the fun would begin. He would always pop up out of his tunnel knowing that he should have taken that "left turn at Albuquerque."
There were so many great cartoons "back in the day." Remember Mister Magoo? How about The Pink Panther, Heckle and Jeckle, Mighty Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Chip 'n Dale, Felix the Cat, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Underdog, The Chipmunks, Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, and of course The Flintstones.
Was there anything better as a kid then laying on the floor in front of the TV in your pajamas with a bowl of cereal and watching cartoons?
I also grew up with Bullwinkle and Rocky. I loved this show! Rocket J. Squirrel was too cool. And there was Boris Badenov and his evil sidekick Natasha Fatale, whose attempts at killing "moose and squirrel" (as he referred to them) always ended in failure, usually by their own schemes backfiring.
There was also Dudley Do-right of the Mounties (with his nemesis Snidely Whiplash, and the perpetual Damsel in Distress, Nell Fenwick), Fractured Fairy Tales, Aesop and Son, and (my favorite) Peabody's Improbable History. All these on one cartoon show. Thanks Bullwinkle!
Another of my favorites was Bugs Bunny, the always irreverent, always hillarious carrot-munching trickster rabbit. After being bullied by the bad guys, Bugs, using his carrot as a cigar prop, would utter those great Groucho Marx words, "Of course you know, dis means war." After which the fun would begin. He would always pop up out of his tunnel knowing that he should have taken that "left turn at Albuquerque."
There were so many great cartoons "back in the day." Remember Mister Magoo? How about The Pink Panther, Heckle and Jeckle, Mighty Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Chip 'n Dale, Felix the Cat, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Underdog, The Chipmunks, Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, and of course The Flintstones.
Was there anything better as a kid then laying on the floor in front of the TV in your pajamas with a bowl of cereal and watching cartoons?
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'Course instantly I'm having theme songs running through my head. Like the Woody Woodpecker show and his little laugh, Underdog (speed of lightning, power of thunder, Underdog!), Felix the cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat; whenever he gets in a fix, he reaches into his bag of tricks.
Ahhhh, memories.
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