https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deputy_Dawg&oldid=1146445755, This page was last edited on 24 March 2023, at 22:52. 1010 Campus Drive Big Rapids, MI 49307 [email protected] (231) 591-5873 Vocally speaking, early Muskies catchphrase remains Its possible, its possible, still suggestive of his original name. His speech isnt even depicted like a black stereotype. How about the lamentable Sad Cat?] OOOOOOOH!!!! Vote Now! The cartoons are between four and six minutes long, and were packaged three at a time and shown as a half-hour program in syndication. Much of the comedy in the cartoons is sight gag/action-based, with additional humor provided by comical dialects and stereotypical southern characteristics. He is one of our most famous cartoon dog characters. Save up to 7% when you buy more. Even non-African-American characters were occasionally shown in blackface. Welcome Mischa Mouse (1962) Terrytoons - Deputy Dawg. Chicken Bull. But singling out the marketing of Deputy Dawg in this way is probably also unrealistic. I dont remember seeing Possible at all, though the little white mouse suddenly looks familiar. New York.Terrytoons, CBS Films subsidiary, reports theatrical income for the second quarter this year is up ten . I own Goyetche Institute Inc and Witch Dr Supplements Inc here in New Brunswick, Canada. The character received even greater exposure in the much larger city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Deputy Dawg episodes appeared in two theaters there. Originally from Miami, she holds a masters degree in journalism from USC. The Deputy Dawg Show Episode 4 - Lil Whooper. Thats it, the supervisor said. Moose, in which the dim-witted Southern lawman helps the title character (who speaks in what I assume Dayton Allen intended as an impersonation of Hugh Herbert) as he flees from a hunter. When a portly prison deputy named G. M. Tyson told them in a thick drawl to stop singing or he would take their mattresses, they sang anyway. Danganabit, Rabbit! features Deputy Dawg, Muskie, and Vinnie teaming up to capture a rabbit who is raiding Dawgs Carrot Patch. ago. As a kid, the Deputy Dawg cartoons were never my cup of tea but your article has made me want to go back and take another look. When the tour began in September 1961, it barely missed becoming engulfed in a prolonged civil rights demonstration. Isnt it a shame that we cant just accept the cartoon for what is was meant to be? Your email address will not be published. This was one of the most informative and, to my eye, one of the most well researched blog posts Ive read in quite some time. It is also a fact that 20th Century-Fox distributed the cartoons to theaters that practiced segregationa consequence of the regional popularity. I was aware of the different studios and only cared for a Mighty Mouse cartoon when it was one of the really early ones, when better animation was the standard. Deputy Dawg, the character, was too much of a buffoon to be very threatening as an authority figure, and even if he did put Muskie in the lockup from time to time, it was only so that Muskie could talk his way out. The show actually contained only two Deputy Dawg shorts in the half-hour. Some people just seem hell bent on politicising everything. California fair officials sent deputies after it, The actor, the hairstylist and the eye surgeon: Drugs and death in a Malibu beach house, Have guests in town? Discussion with 1960s Terry mainstay Ralph Bakshi, and close inspection of the earliest shorts, reveals that this was no accident: Muskie Muskrat was indeed originally going to be Possible Possum, and the series was to have focused on him before Bourne made Deputy Dawg the star. By the following month LNBL sold the series to forty-five markets in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and five stations outside the Deep South. The Deputy Dawg Show E089 - Millionaire Deputy. Also, the program attracted three million viewers in over one million households between 1960 and 1962. No ulterior motives. WASHINGTON (AP) The FBI wants to question a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war, two people familiar with the investigation said Thursday. Opossums have prehensile tails and eat eggs, but muskrats dont. Say what you will about the DD cartoons, but they have more action and movement, and more visual gags, than the typical Hanna-Barbera product from the same period. for a mouse, and the garden patch for a house), and made it the entire premise of the series! I had thought that Ralph Bakshi created DEPUTY DAWG or at least directed the first season of them. Deputy Dawg you see is actually grey: http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=34673.120, I found this site because I have an old copper Deputy Dawg head mold. There tends to be too much effort to read personal issues into things that simply are not there. Deputy Dawg is a pretty fun show with a rich history. One officer said a supervisor . because he was part rabbit. Silly Hillbilly was written by I. Klein, and both cartoons with Virgy/Possum Pearl were written by Jack Mercer.). In addition, the shows demise coincided with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the summer of 1964, which made segregation illegal. Both characters starred in three cartoons, all made in 1964: Short-term Sheriff, Oil Thru the Day and The Red Tractor. Racism, the show seems to argue, makes a better target when it's out in the open. But, he added, she lost credibility when she got personal. The author even points out that African-American children showed up at events to see the live-action Deputy Dawg. Now its just going to be painful looking back on those cartoons knowing this! Youre threatening to kill me and my son, she said. So what, then, was Allen voicing in 1959? One of the plots of thoseDeputy Dawgcartoons Big Chief No Treatywas recreated on the Peter Pankids recording. The fact remains that people committed to social justice saw something about Deputy Dawg in 1961 that associated him with enforcing segregation, despite what CBS-Terrytoons intended or not. The Waterboy (1998) clip with quote - by the name of Deputy Dawg? 2. Was that unfair? 2. Also, the programs main charactera southern deputy as a white, anthropomorphic dogbecame an unofficial symbol of southern law enforcement during the Jim Crow era, and skin color influenced how people responded to the figure. I think BBC1 first aired the show . How did I miss it? 60 likes. He became so popular in the South that these cartoons were released theatrically two years later. I guess he ran out of actual racist material to rant on, and needed to create more rants to justify his SJW positions. In time nearly all the Terrytoons product seemed to recede into a few obscure UHF slots; Mighty Heroes sticks in my mind as a last gasp, with Dawg, Mighty Mouse, Hector Heathcote, Sidney and the rest long off the air (a local station had a half-hour of old theatricals for a while). I knew that Hoppity Hooper was Jay Ward, and although not a great series, I trusted it to entertain me with punny jokes, limited animation, but great character voices. I would remember if I had. If the blustering Colonels full name, Montgomery J. Klaxon, seemed too uncomfortably Klannish to be funny, that might be one reason why the show seemed out of its time and did not succeed. featuring Deputy Dawg, Vincent Van Gopher, Ty Coon, Pig Newton, Muskie the Muskrat. 5 that year..very popular!! Oh yeah. this was mostly aired in the south The character of Deputy Dawg originated in 1959 as part of a projected series entitled Possible Possum, intended as a component of the Captain Kangaroo Show. Magoo cartoons. It premiered in syndication in 1959. It is no secret that unfair African-American stereotypes were depicted in various cartoons through the years, in varying ways ranging from Mammy Two-Shoes in Tom and Jerry to Inky and the Mynah Bird. Nice to see this with CORRECT ending titles. Its just a funny concept AND a great character with a silly, ridiculous laugh. Deputy Dawg later appeared in episodes of the 1987 series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures. Deputy Dawg was the none-too-bright lawman in a backwoods Tennessee precinct, Creekmud Junction (the show's creator, Larz Bourne, hailed from Tennessee). Now, here comes Ryan . The marketing, on the other hand, was very likely targeted to white viewers. This also gives me an opportunity to say how much I enjoyed the book The Colored Cartoon that is on my library shelf. Terrytoons did eventually produce a series of Possible Possum cartoons, but that didnt debut until 1965 six years after this interview was printed with Lionel Wilson doing the Possible character voice instead of Allen. Im surprised too. Brand New. Each episode has a Deputy Dawg cartoon, followed by Sidney the Elephant. Dayton Allen, comedian and actor best known for his work as voices of cartoon character Deputy Dawg and grumpy marionette Mayor Phineas T Bluster on Howdy Doody Show, dies at 85 (S) Probation and Parole Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the mental health care industry. Being raised in the deep South, I greatly enjoyed how Deputy Dawg poked at our culture, as well as the exaggerated Southern accents. In the mid-50s he relocated to Terrytoons, and in 1959 the studio began production on his Deputy Dawg series. IN THE CASE of DEPUTY DAWG, those elements are all present; making the series a veritable a highly rated candidate for "Limited Animation's Poster Boy". So what if Muskie was painted brown? He was a Muskrat. On May 17th, 1959, The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution published the earliest-known public statements about the show as part of an interview with its voice actor, Dayton Allen. Opens in a new window or tab. Deputy Dawg Comic Book Values. But,instead of a descending blast on a pennywhistle, or a bit of music sliced out of a previous cartoon, it used a purpose-written piece of music, long enough to fill the time without any dead air. A more problematic romanticization of the Jim Crow era was the animated Calvin and the Colonel (1961), which ran in prime time. Muskie was certainly heard to say, Its possible Its possible. a lot in the early shorts. When one thinks of a possum character and the band of critters in the swamp, one would think of Walt Kellys comic strip Pogo, which was at the peak of its popularity when Deputy Dawg entered production. And, although it was set in the South and targeted mainly to Southern/rural viewers, it was indeed aired and appreciated nation-wide. I couldnt remember the name of the show because the opening of each episode never mentioned the name of the overall series, at least the ones I saw. The reason I linked that Possum cartoon is because it was one of the few I found with original end credits. Terrytoons did not produce new episodes of The Deputy Dawg Show for the 1962-63 season. Its possible! I found that some of the theatricals actually used gang credits thats common in TV animation, like the final 12 James Hound cartoons (the first 5, however, had unique credits for individual shorts). This was pretty much the only real antagonism between them and Deputy Dawg the rest of the time theyre depicted as good buddies. His company invested $400,000almost all of its budgetinto sponsoring the cartoon. But an ongoing series like the planned Possible Possum arguably moved beyond parody. As an added measure, the team switched to making Deputy Dawg the main star instead, with the show now named after him. After two weeks of sales in May 1960, CBS made $600,000 in sales to fifteen major television stations. For me, the only bothersome thing was Dalton Allens portrayal of DEPUTY DAWG somewhat like a Frank Fontaine (Crazy Googenheim) impersonation, sometimes went over the top, sounding more drunk than dumb. Probably, but it was a sign of the times, and had no bearing on the Deputy Dawg show. The prohibition against using cellphones behind the wheel is to prevent distracted driving, said Jody Armour, a law professor at the University of Southern California. So right from the start, theyre shown to be friends, something that would be unusual in the segregated South. Thank you very much. Some officers without official body cameras use personal cameras or audio recorders to document public encounters and protect themselves from false allegations. Carol Vorderman has launched another furious attack on the government.. By the time the costumed Deputy Dawg appeared at a parade in Atlanta, Georgia in the summer of 1962, the city desegregated buses, trolleys, restaurants, movie houses, and some public schools. After 26 years as a Deputy, my new hobby is ..portraying an Old West Deputy! This idea was not novel, for such promotions for cartoons had taken place for decades. Also, additional episodes were aired from 1965-1972, including Big chief, No Treaty (1965), astronaut (1971), and Shotgun Shambles (1972). Tyrion annoys Jorah Mormont. CBSs syndication business (CBS Films) was growing (particularly with I Love Lucy and the Desilu library) and since they owned Terrytoons, whatever they produced would add value to the catalog. More likely, the marketing was targeting white viewers because they were far more likely to spend money on any products advertised during the show (whether Lays potato chips or whatever). I would argue that at least some of the Dawg shorts look better in black-&-white which is how I originally saw them than in color. The "Limited Animation" process, that had been . However, some civil rights activists in the South saw Deputy Dawg as a symbol of police enforcement of segregation laws against African Americans. Free Enterprise (Heckle and Jeckle). It was the last gasp of the braintrust behind Amos and Andy sort of a Deep South Honeymooners with animal characters talking in dialect and getting themselves into scrapes. Some things never cha And I got to seeing how some viewers, especially civil rights protestors, would see racial color symbolism in the relationship between Deputy Dawg and Muskie. The character of Deputy Dawg (a dog) is a deputy sheriff in the Mississippi bayous of the United States. $18.99 to $21.84. The symbols of British identity so self-consciously adopted by Starmer the ubiquitous Union Jack flags and the celebration of the "national" anthem are more the signifiers of a reshaped imperial role as Deputy Dawg to Joe Biden's global sheriff. You betcha. Yes, six of them: Shotgun Shambles, Big Chief No Treaty, Nobodys Ghoul, Rebel Trouble, Where Theres Smoke, and Astronut. I also cant immediately confirm it, but its possible THE YOKES ON YOU may have been released theatrically in the 1970s. Larz Bourne, a southerner from Tennessee, created the series while at Terrytoons in New York. Deputy Dawg Main Page (DD) Page introduced by Iain. For example, in rural areas where people raised their own chickens to provide eggs, muskrats and raccoons were notorious egg thieves, so it made perfect sense to include these characters in a running gag of this sort in a cartoon aimed at rural viewers. For all their relatively low profile, ya gotta give Terrytoons credit for hanging in there all those years. The show was produced by CBS and was the professional animation debut of Ralph Bakshi (as inbetweener) of Fritz the Cat fame. While the lip animation is crude in these limited-animation shorts, a lip reading does seem to indicate that the characters originally said possum instead of muskrat for their friendunlike later on, they finish by pinching their mouths closed in an M. Design-wise, Muskie has a long possum-nose and tail that get shorter after more and more episodes go into production. After serving in World War II, he moved to New York to work as a writer at Famous Studios, and while there he set many cartoons in the South. Did you watch The Deputy Dawg Show as a kid, or was your first and only exposure to the show when you turned a jaundiced academic eye in its direction? A bull flees from Mexico because he doesn't want to participate in bullfighting. I suspect that you couldnt be bothered to track them down. Im glad you enjoyed my post for the month. The notion that Deputy Dawg and Muskie are enemies because theyre of different races is absurd. Following the pattern of Mighty Mouse Playhouse and The Heckle and Jeckle Cartoon Show, only the first and fourth cartoons would feature the title character. As I got older , I noticed the Southern regionalism , especially with the references to the Civil War. Location. You can also follow him on his Tumblr page. A major film company distributed episodes of the series for segregated movie theaters. Same here, but from the perspective of a White child growing up in Montgomery. 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