1959 Modern Madcaps - T.V. Fuddlehead - tv print

[@ericj.s.4392]

Wow! I've been searching for this cartoon for years! I've kept Mr. Fuddlehead in mind to fend off the manipulative effects of advertising. Thanks for uploading! :)

[@VeganPopTarts]

Eric Silkowski You're very welcome :-)

[@SteveCarras]

I remember this, but not so much as the music..from other cartoons..Felix, Popeye..wonder if they named him after WB's Elmer Fudd, both were dimwit..:) Veyr funny

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

It really was a pleasure to see this again. HILARIOUS at the end,as Fuddlehead's wife KICKS the TV out to sea and also the way the announcer's voice seems to gurgle as the TV sinks into the water-"And now,a word from our sponsor-are you thirsty?...." (Gurgle,as the TV sinks)-WipWip,WipWipWipWip. WIP!!! (one of the famous HILARIOUS end music punchlines at the end of funny Sesame Street segments, in the Old School era.)Thanks for posting,Vegan Pop Tarts,typical plot,or premise of these Modern Madcap cartoons- a husband and wife's domestic issues; others include Giddy Gadgets, Electronica and Talking Horse Sense. I saw all of those(and this)when I watched the Woody Woodpecker and Casper the Friendly Ghost show when I was a kid.

[@SteveCarras]

Felix ythe WOnderful CAT!

[@DebsWombat]

It's been so many years since I've seen ANY of these HarveyToons that this is actually the first time I've seen any of them in colour. THANK YOU SO MUCH for the uploads!

[@VeganPopTarts]

Thank you and you're very welcome :)

[@princeofpop8]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I really wanna see it again, but thank you for having it here so I can watch it over and over again. Man that was the funniest. My mom recorded it during "Casper The Friendly Ghost" show on YTV in about 1990 ( I was about 3-4 years old that time I guess) or so and glad she did.

[@VeganPopTarts]

Aww you are so very welcome, MJ 😊❤

[@princeofpop8]

I'm glad myself yes. But seriously, I'm not MJ, just PrinceofPop8 or PoP.

[@VeganPopTarts]

@@princeofpop8 Sorry your screen name is just really cool

[@SteveCarras]

@@princeofpop8 Ha I get it now..

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in October 1959.

[@SuperCartiel]

My Year of Birth! (Born 03-22-1959.)

[@kurtkauffman4326]

That Episode is Hilarious!

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

You SAID it; I was just ROFL all over again, especially at the end as the wife kicks the TV set out to sea and the announcer’s voice seems to gurgle as the TV sinks.

[@SpectrumAssociates]

Welp, they predicted color television taking the nation.

[@jackbuckley7816]

Sharply-drawn, very funny cartoon, doesn't waste a moment, utilizing clever, surprise laughs. I'm sure "Modern Madcaps" have been forgotten, though I remember seeing Harveytoons, the TV package which bought them from original producer Paramount, I think, as a very young child but no recollection of specific ones. As a decades-long animation buff, and connoisseur of its history, these are like discovering a lost world!

[@SuperCartiel]

This cartoon was kinda prophetic. Advertisers said anything to get you to buy their products (kinda like most politicians). Most consumers buy this gibberish hook, line and sinker. And not only has this propaganda hasn't changed. Thanks to the Net, the stuff has gotten worse.

[@VeganPopTarts]

Well said!

[@SteveCarras]

BTW The happy TV music is a re-u se of Win Sharples's happy string cue of the HOUNDABOUT (1959) baseball overture..very funny.

[@el_puma_real]

Still relevant after 64 years.

[@kaikobak1698]

The moral of the story:Never trust TV commericals.

[@SteveCarras]

Egg theme originally in 1956's H=Cousin Hoiman and his gang/cuzzins and Katnip psychological short ,FROMMAD TO WORSE; another reused cue in the Seeger-Sharples-Scroll cue library..;) And another H &K, short, the semi-musical YA SAID A MOUSEFUL, which had Katnip singing the parent studio (Harvey/Paramou nt) Dean Martin #1 from THE CADDY , THAT's AMORE (who could EVER forgety...WHEN..the..stars MEET the SKIES like a big pizza pie..THAT's Amore...)

[@SteveCarras]

Familiar lul,labye was introduced in 1958 in OWLY TO BED, and can be heard in the Snuffy Smith A HOSS CAN DREAM and in countless Popeyes (TV; he'd alrteady retired from the big screen) and Felix's show. But TV FUDDLEHEAD (which has other resuses "Seeger-Sharples" cues as I write of), DOES offer its own original score (that also got reused..)--and reu se of thewir Fleischer "hap hap happy day" t une from 1939,

[@Caine7ify]

You know, they got a helicopter, they could just hire a pilot to take them anywhere

[@Caine7ify]

Not that that shrew of a wife is any more intelligent than her dunce of a husband

[@user-vh2pk6bd3g]

First loan payment must be made 1 hour after loan was made, it may be a cartoon but some of this stuff is not to far fetched from the real thing

[@dougshoemaker7733]

Less television, more radio.

[@VeganPopTarts]

Amen!

[@kaikobak1698]

@@VeganPopTarts You mean Big Mac?

[@VeganPopTarts]

@@kaikobak1698 sure, but a veggie burger for me lol

[@kaikobak1698]

@@VeganPopTarts What's a veggie burger?

[@garethdean6382]

From this we learn that if anything adverts have got slightly better over time.

[@VeganPopTarts]

I'd say more subliminal over time

[@garethdean6382]

Subliminal doesn't work. I think advertisers realized we don't trust them anymore so they had to cut back on the in-your-face approach. Indeed I think a lot of advertising\sponsorship now is 'just throw it out there and hope they remember.'

[@VeganPopTarts]

It worked with me when I was a kid in the 90s. I ate so many happy meals just for the free toys. I ate a lot of sugary cereal too. Advertising works now by having a really suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat show with commercials. Instead of ignoring the commercials, you stay put in your seat and wait for the show to resume. People's intentions are already engaged by the show, so they're more likely to watch the commercials and pay attention to them. Even if you don't pay attention to them and you're doing something else when the commercials come on, if you leave the tv on, you'll still be subliminally influenced by them. For all of this, I just don't watch tv. I just watch DVDs or stream things.

[@garethdean6382]

And that's why advertising is failing. For all that it 'works' people hate it, they try and avoid it. Kids, kids are dumb enough. You ate happy meals for the toys, not because you were advertised to. That was plain bribery. The natural state of man is to avoid adverts as distracting nonsense and it is HARD now to get people to watch. Of course, just think, if advertising is so subliminally powerful... what about the shows you watch? How many murders, fights, rapes have been seen? How much hatred and violence and 'action'? What does THAT do to a mind?

[@VeganPopTarts]

Gareth Dean I heaven't heard from you in a while. How are you?

[@sr3232]

LOL

[@shawnmalone9711]

A ripoff of Terrytoon's John Doormat ,lol

[@shawnmalone9711]

Happy New Year! It's good to hear from you! I've found some cartoons of the late 1960s, and early 1970s in a block of Saturday morning era cartoons.

[@shawnmalone9711]

Vegan Pop Tarts

[@VeganPopTarts]

@@shawnmalone9711 what kind of cartoons did you find? How have you been doing?

[@Klook6950Extras]

There’s a connection between both Terrytoons and Paramount when it comes to the late 50’s