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Thanks for reading. It was a classic of its time.

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That is so great. I think that Quick Draw can be loved by any generation. Thanks for reading🤩

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What a lovely, fun choice today, Jon!

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Thanks, Jon! I recently had the pleasure of turning my grandkids (ages 8, 7, and 4) on to Quick Draw and Baba Looey. During a game, I said “I’ll do the thinnin’ round here, Baba boy!l” and of course they had no idea. Found the original cartoons online, which they loved!

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A firm favourite from the Hanna Barbera stable of Saturday morning cartoon superstars!! :)

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Shame on you. It’s all good 😊

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I think Quick Draw must have been a bit before my TV time! But he sounds like a lot of fun. I love that he uses a guitar as a weapon!

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I accidentally unsubscribed from Animated while looking for the recommend button! Soooo sorry! I’ve immediately resubscribed! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Was the famous nickname for Howard Stern producer, Gary Del’Abbate ( Bababooey) at least partly inspired by Queek Draws sidekick?

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You might be on to something there

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I first got a chance to see this show a few years ago, and it holds up very well. When the show debuted in 1959, westerns were indisputably the most popular genre on American television, so there was no shortage of cliches available for the show to parody.

The writing was a big part of it. Hanna-Barbera lured Michael Maltese and Warren Foster from Warner Brothers to write for their shows and their influence became pretty clear. Maltese had produced several Western parodies working with Chuck Jones at Warner, so it was child's play for him to do this show.

Butler's acting was another part of it, with an occasional assist from Don Messick. They were the mainstays of the studio's voice actors. Butler knew many different regional accents and dialects, and he was able to use two of them for Quick Draw and Baba Looey. But Snuffles was a clear scene stealer-his repeated almost orgasmic responses to eating dog biscuits was hilarious.

I didn't realize he aired on "Banana Splits" or was featured in "Jellystone" (which is really more an act of H-B fan fic animation than anything else). But as I said, he has broad appeal.

He would certainly be exposed to a wider audience if Warner Brothers, who owns the H-B library, would issue his show on DVD as they have for much of what the studio made. Unfortunately, there have been some legal problems with the music rights that have gummed up the works, but I'll dearly welcome it when it happens.

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Thanks for this David. Your insights and comments are always enlightening and you are spot-on again. Westerns really influenced TV at this time and HB were brilliant at reading and developing their animations around popular culture. Thanks again David.

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