Beany and Cecil Cartoon - Harecules Hare and the Golden Fleecing

A classic character featured on the Benny and Cecil show.

[@rickandbonnie4689]

I have been wanting to see this again for 40 years!

[@cragarrows]

I've long had the very vague memory of a childhood cartoon where a chorus would start singing "Hurry Hurry Hercules" to a William Tell/Long Ranger tune. Only a few years ago did I finally figure out it was "Harecules," but there were no samples of the cartoon on the site at the time. It's good to finally see a couple of examples, at long last. A really unique character.

[@Juliaflo]

Actually, the chorus was singing to 'Can-Can' (Orpheus in the Underworld).

[@SteveCarras]

@@Juliaflo Just saw it, it's BEN HARE. Ben;s dad is based on AL JOLSON..just as the wolf on John Carradine, but JOlson alreayd die.d.

[@secretsquirrel7300]

Lived Beanie and Cecil!! I remember laughing like crazy, although I couldn't have understood a lot of this humor at the time. I was very young when these came out.

[@howardbeatman2820]

I remember that "guided muscle" from the original airing!

[@Ph1lb]

Thanks for the upload. I can remember this from many years ago. Brings back great memories.

[@ImTheDaveman]

I love these old cartoons! I loved watching the original 60s B&C cartoons as a kid and even now as a big, old, kid. I had to watch it on a Black and White TV, as not a whole lot of people owned color TVs at that time. Now I'd rather see it in B/W for memories sake. I wish I could find the DVDs with the episode what had the Three Headed Threep! I cant find it anywhere.

[@tuxguys]

(12/16/16) "In deference to Mr. Minnow, we must go underground with our violence." If you don't get this early '60's reference, you should know that "Mr. Minnow," former head of the FCC, just received, within the last month, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. If there was ever a hipper cartoon show than Bob Clampett's "Beany and Cecil," I can't imagine what it might be. (In fairness, "Rocky and Bullwinkle"/"The Bullwinkle Show" was close.)

[@fromthesidelines]

5:54- reference to Newton W. Minow, FCC chairman who denounced violence on TV in his famous May 1961 speech before the National Association of Broadcasters (calling the medium "a vast wasteland").

[@ftenzer]

These characters are cute.

[@DLAbaoaqu]

Pretty sure Ben Hare’s an impression of Al Jolson.

[@codytaylor9259]

5:49: That looks like Popeye's arm.

[@sauluribe7082]

These bunny always seems to work. In fact didn't Clampett also worked with Looney Tunes?

[@yosefdemby8792]

Yes. He animated Daffy Duck's first "Woo Hoo!" moment, and he created Tweety. Animation historian Jerry Beck credited him for putting the "Looney" in "Looney Tunes".

[@markschildberg1667]

Bob worked at Warner Bros. for 15 years, then became an independent producer/director. Time for Beany and The Beany & Cecil Show were big hits, plus Bob owned the merchandising rights, which paid very handsomely. Not only was Bob a very creative man, he was a good businessman.

[@packardexelence]

This is 1 of them I've been looking for!!!!!!!

[@Juliaflo]

One of my favorite cartoons. (Don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL).

[@dabunnyman9133]

With John Carridine as the wolf

[@fromthesidelines]

"William Shakespeare Wolf".

[@RocketTCoyote]

That wolf sounds a lot like John Carradine.

[@ianbelardine3212]

+RocketTCoyote YOU ARE CORRECT SIR. LEGENDARY ACTOR JOHN CARRADINE WAS JUST ONE OF MANY A LIST ACTORS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD THAT DID VOICE ACTING.

[@Rtkat3]

+ian belardine Are you sure that's John Carradine as the voice of William Shakespeare Wolf or someone doing an impersonation of him?

[@fromthesidelines]

It's him!

[@SteveCarras]

@@fromthesidelines Hans Conried certainly spent most of his pro career himtiating him and Hans Conreid

[@SteveCarras]

Though Conreid REALLY imitated John Barrymore..some website had BOb (yes, he already died in 1984, I;'m referringt o an archive) telling someone IN the 1950s, so it';s no fake as far as we know, thatr Walker Edminston also did a Carridine, as well as Conreid and Barrymore, all in the same category for that wolf earlier despite John being the voice here, and for Thunderbolt from the same show as well as his own spinoff!

[@kpyng]

That cocktail was definitely what you'd call a stinger...

[@jamieimai9328]

Superb video!

[@lphvm]

very phallic when the "guided muscle" grows!

[@Mikey300]

Where is the one when William Shakespeare Wolf erects the "Iron Curtain" that temporarily wrecks the "Guided Muscle"? Fortunately for Harecules, the Muscle reassembles itself and pounds on Willie the Wolf yet again.

[@SteveCarras]

Got NEVER EAT GRAHAM QUACKERS IN BED with WIllie and Sody Qackert the duck?

[@MrJohnffrey87]

I hear there's another Harecules cartoon called "Hare Today Gone Tomorrow" do you have that one?

[@EddieVBlueIsland]

Thank you - now I can go nuclear fiss'n!

[@packardexelence]

EddieVBlueIsland----Well, in THAT case; just don't forget yer LED-LINED waders!!!!!!

[@daleburrell6273]

@@packardexelence ...THAT'S ONE WAY TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT IN A HURRY-!!!

[@packardexelence]

@@daleburrell6273 & a GREAT way to GUARD against GAMA-rays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kpyng]

Obviously stealing from Victor Borge's "Phonetic Punctuation."...

[@marshacreary2442]

What's with the beanie copter hat?

[@secretsquirrel7300]

Cuz it's..."Beanie and Cecil". That's his name. It's a very old cartoon from late 50s and 60s.