Which cartoon featured 'Benny the Ball', 'Spook' and 'Officer Dibble'?
"suddenly find themselves in Mr. Big's office. Mr. Big then forces them to tell him where his diamonds are and TC suggests that he would show him. Mr. Big agrees and tells Bad Dog to go with them. When they got to Benny's house TC asks him where the diamonds where but Benny forgot so TC tricks Bad Dog to get eaten by a chair and the two escape from the house. The next day Mr. Big's goons make wanted posters for Top Cat and Benny so the two call Officer Dibble to help them but Dibble suggests Granny Dibble"
"include ""Dennis the Menace"", ""Minnie the Minx"", ""The Bash Street Kids"", ""The Numskulls"", ""Roger the Dodger"", ""Billy Whizz"" and ""Tricky Dicky."" Earlier characters who have been phased out include ""Ball Boy,"" ""Ivy the Terrible"", ""The Three Bears"" and ""Pansy Potter"". Some old characters, like ""Biffo the Bear"", ""Lord Snooty"", ""Baby Face Finlayson"" and ""Little Plum"", have more recently made a return as ""funsize"" quarter-page strips. The style of ""Beano"" humour has shifted noticeably over the years, though the longstanding tradition of anarchic humour has remained. For decades strips have appeared to glorify immoral behaviour, e.g. pranking/bullying (""Dennis the Menace""), dishonesty"
"Murray Ball Murray Hone Ball (26 January 1939 – 12 March 2017) was a New Zealand cartoonist who became known for his ""Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero"" (the longest running cartoon in ""Punch"" magazine), ""Bruce the Barbarian"", ""All the King's Comrades"" (also in ""Punch"") and the long-running ""Footrot Flats"" comic series. In 2002 Ball became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services as a cartoonist. Ball was born in Feilding in 1939; his father was All Black rugby player Nelson Ball. He grew up in New Zealand before spending some years in Australia and South"
"early-1980s to 2004. The middle feature of the 1978–81 series was ""Dinky Dog"", the misadventures of a humongous sheepdog and his mistresses, Monica and Sandy. Unlike cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, ""The All New Popeye Hour"" did not contain a laugh track. In 1981, a new feature in the series was """"Private Olive Oyl"""", where Olive and Alice the Goon join the Army, then proceed to drive their drill sergeant, Sgt. Bertha Blast (voiced by Jo Anne Worley) nuts, yet impress the base commander, Col. Crumb (voiced by Hal Smith). This cartoon is based on the idea"
"in descending order, ""Dennis the Menace"", ""Minnie the Minx"", ""Bash Street Kids"", ""Roger the Dodger"", and then the last holder of the title before ""Dennis"", ""Lord Snooty"". ""Dennis the Menace""'s famous red and black jersey had formed the colours of a few of the ""Beano"" characters' clothes (""Minnie the Minx"" has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different; ""Ball Boy""'s was a vertical red and black; ""Roger the Dodger"" has a chessboard design top, and Danny (from the ""Bash Street Kids"") has a similar cap), but they have changed for ""Minnie"" and ""Ball Boy"" (""Minnie"""
"1938 to 1940, where he worked on ""Gulliver's Travels,"" among other series. During World War II he befriended Richard Smith, showing him the concept of two characters, Bubble and Squeak. After the war Moreno Jr. and Smith developed British Animation Productions studio, and produced the characters and cartoons. The cartoons revolve around the adventures of its two main characters. Bubble is a taxi driver. Squeek is the taxi whom Bubble drives. The cartoons visit a variety of places, from the funfair to a haunted house. Their adventures are light-hearted. Bubble is a taxi driver who drives Squeek. He wears a"
"The Screwball The Screwball is the seventh animated cartoon short subject in the ""Woody Woodpecker"" series. Released theatrically on February 15, 1943, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. A local crowd gathers at a baseball park for a game between the Droops and the Drips. A lone policeman stands at the park gate discouraging spectators who have not paid to see the game. Woody notices that kids returning baseballs can get in for free, so he tosses the policeman a cannonball and enters the park. Woody tries to watch the game but the"
"comedy whose lead character (Sergeant Bilko, played by Silvers) was a crafty con-man. Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman in ""The Phil Silvers Show"", provided the voice for Benny the Ball in ""Top Cat"", and Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield's. Additionally, Arnold Stang's vocal characterisation of the lead character, the eponymous Top Cat, was based on an impression of Phil Silvers' voice. Other influences include the movie ""Guys and Dolls"", in which actor Stubby Kaye played a short, stout, streetwise gambler: a virtual Benny the Ball prototype. Lastly, an unlikely contender (as it also came from Hanna"
"Billy DeBeck William Morgan DeBeck (April 15, 1890 – November 11, 1942), better known as Billy DeBeck, was an American cartoonist. He is most famous as the creator of the comic strip ""Barney Google"", later retitled ""Barney Google and Snuffy Smith"". The strip was especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and featured a number of well-known characters, including the title character, Bunky, Snuffy Smith, and Spark Plug the race horse. Spark Plug was a merchandising phenomenon, and has been called the Snoopy of the 1920s. DeBeck drew with a scratchy line in a ""big-foot"" style, in which characters had"
"Dink Shannon Dink Shannon was an early 20th century American cartoonist. Shannon's career is only documented for the years 1902 to 1909. He drew a number of strips, including: ""Sallie Snooks, Stenographer"" was the first strip to feature a female office worker, preceding ""Somebody's Stenog"", ""Winnie Winkle"", and ""Tillie the Toiler"" by more than a decade (""stenographer"" was a then-current appellation for a secretary). ""Sammy Small"" was a bad-little-boy strip in the mold of ""The Katzenjammer Kids"". Shannon worked for the World Color Printing syndicate of St. Louis, which distributed a ""boiler plate"" Sunday section. (""Boiler plates"" were pre-printed sections"
"Lord Snooty Lord Snooty (or Lord Snooty and his Pals) was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic ""The Beano"", first appearing in issue 1, dated 30 July 1938, and was the longest running strip in the comic until Dennis the Menace and Gnasher overtook it. The central character was Lord Marmaduke of Bunkerton, known to his friends as ""Snooty"", a very ordinary boy who just happens to be an Earl. The strip was mostly drawn by Dudley D. Watkins until his death in 1969, though Leo Baxendale and Albert Holroyd occasionally filled in for Watkins."
"when Bill Thompson had been unavailable due to radio engagements. Instead, Butler recommended Don Messick, another actor and Butler's lifelong friend, who could imitate Thompson. Thus, Messick voiced Droopy in several shorts. In 1949, Butler landed a role in a televised puppet show created by former Warner Bros. cartoon director Bob Clampett called ""Time for Beany"". Butler was teamed with Stan Freberg, and together they did all the voices of the puppets. Butler voiced Beany Boy and Captain Huffenpuff. Freberg voiced Cecil and Dishonest John. An entire stable of recurring characters were seen. The show's writers were Charles Shows and"
"after the 75th Anniversary Special, fourteen new comic strips joined ""The Beano"" with twelve of these becoming the new Funsize Funnies stories, all of which are parodies of either a celebrity or television show: ""High School Moozical"", ""Neigh-Bours"", ""Celebrity Believe It or Not"", ""I Pity the School"", ""Murs Attacks"", ""Ashley's Banjo"", ""Coronation Bleat"", ""Jose's Back"", ""Simon's Bowel"", ""Guess Who?"", ""Watch-Hog"" and ""Danny Diddly O'Donoghue"" as well as two new one-page stories to replace ""Tricky Dicky"" and ""Big Time Charlie"": ""El Poco Loco"" and ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turkeys"". Stu Munro also took over as both puzzle page artist (as he did"
"Luck Blackie"" (1949). While Avery preferred to focus on gags instead of characterization, he established several popular MGM cartoon characters, including Screwball ""Screwy"" Squirrel, the ""Of Mice and Men"" derived pair of George and Junior, and his best-known character, Droopy. Droopy, voiced by Bill Thompson (a.k.a. ""Wallace Wimple"" on NBC Radio's ""Fibber McGee and Molly"" show) debuted in 1943 with ""Dumb-Hounded"". He appeared in several more Avery cartoons (including ""Northwest Hounded Police"") before being officially given his own series in 1948 with ""Senor Droopy"". The influence of Avery's cartoons was felt across the animation industry; even Hanna and Barbera adapted"
"Company"" videotape. It is also included as an extra on the DVD of the feature film ""The Big Store"". Officer Pooch Officer Pooch is a 1941 short cartoon produced by Fred Quimby, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The cartoon is mostly done in pantomime. A canine officer (modeled after the Keystone Cops) is called out to rescue a kitten, harassed by an aggressive bulldog. He continues to tangle with the situation, then finds a basket full of kittens. He carries the basket into an alley where he runs into a whole pack of dogs."
"Bennett to be voted into the comic by readers, though The Three Bears was the winner. The basic premise of the strip was expanded to include that Dicky's father now owned a joke shop, explaining where he got all these jokes from. In Issue #4 of BeanoMAX, Tricky Dicky makes a surprise guest one-off appearance with a new look trying to trick Ball Boy, but it doesn't work. Tricky Dicky also starred alongside ""Roger the Dodger"" in the ""Beano Summer Special 2003"". Tricky Dicky reappeared in a new strip in ""The Beano"" in 2013, this time drawn by Laura Howell."
"Bunny (comics) Bunny Ball is a teenage-girl character in humor comic books published by Harvey Comics. She was created by a separate company as a projected doll toy, with Harvey Comics having the comic-book license. The comic was originally written by Warren Harvey, a son of one of the company's founders, and featured artwork by illustrator Hy Eisman. Other artists who worked on the series included Sol Brodsky and Howard Post. The ""Bunny"" series initially ran 20 issues (cover-dated Dec. 1966–Dec. 1971), with a final, 21st issue published five years later (Nov. 1976). Bunny also appeared in ""Harvey Pop Comics"""
"animated films. Between 1924 and 1926, FBO released the work of John Randolph Bray's cartoon studio, including the ""Dinky Doodle"" series created by Walter Lantz. From 1925 to 1927, the studio put out approximately three dozen animated adaptations of George Herriman newspaper comics directed by William Nolan, featuring characters from Herriman's famed ""Krazy Kat"" strip. FBO picked up the ""Krazy Kat"" cartoons from the distribution team of Margaret Winkler and her husband, Charles Mintz. In 1926, FBO struck a deal with the Winkler–Mintz operation for another series, one that, like Bowers' shorts, involved both animation and a live performer: the"
"Beanstalk Bunny Beanstalk Bunny is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon released on 12 February 1955. The cartoon's story is derived from the classic fairy tale ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" and stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck as Jack, and Elmer Fudd as the giant. The cartoon was directed by Chuck Jones. The story begins with Daffy Duck in the role of Jack summing up recent events: Frustrated with having traded his cow for the three beans, Daffy tosses them away and they land in Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole. A beanstalk erupts shortly after, and Daffy decides to climb it for"
"Bubble and Squeek Bubble and Squeek is a British animated cartoon created in 1947 by George Moreno Jr. It was released by a British Animated Productions in Harringay. The films revolve around the adventures of the two main characters: Bubble and Squeek. Their names are derived from the British dish Bubble and Squeak. The series contained 4 films and 1 spin-off which were produced between 1947-1948. The cartoon's humor is mostly British. The cartoons have faded into obscurity and the only copies online are poor-quality copies from videotapes. George Moreno Jr. was an animator for Universal/Lantz and Fleischer Studios from"
"(Rik Mayall) and Neil (Nigel Planer). Alexei Sayle starred as Reggie Balowski, a wisecracking used car dealer and son of the students' landlord Jerzei. Roger Sloman appeared as the television license officer named ""Right Bleedin' Bastard"". The episode features a performance from Dexys Midnight Runners performing a cover of Van Morrison's ""Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)"". A cut-away sketch 'Dicky and Dino' (played by Mayall and Planer) parodies The Rat Pack, primarily their family-friendly image as depicted in television specials (and the inherent contrast this provides with their supposed involvement with organised crime). Bomb (The Young"
"Don Messick Donald Earle Messick (September 7, 1926 – October 24, 1997) was an American voice actor, best known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. His best-remembered vocal creations include Scooby-Doo, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in ""The Flintstones"", Astro in ""The Jetsons"", Muttley in ""Wacky Races"" and ""Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines"", Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith in ""The Yogi Bear Show"", Sebastian the cat in ""Josie and the Pussycats""; Gears, Ratchet, and Scavenger in ""The Transformers"", Papa Smurf and Azrael in ""The Smurfs"", Hamton J. Pig in ""Tiny Toon Adventures"" and Dr. Benton Quest in ""Jonny Quest""."
"pinball game was released in 1978. The game featured Scooby-Doo, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Blue Falcon, Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Grape Ape, Mumbly, Dread Baron, Mr. Creepley, Dalton Brothers, Snagglepuss, and Mildew Wolf. In 1979, Hanna-Barbera released a ""Laff-A-Lympics"" Old Maid card game that included Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, Dynomutt, Blue Falcon, Hong Kong Phooey, Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Grape Ape, Quick Draw McGraw, Pixie and Dixie, Yakky Doodle, Mumbly, Dread Baron, Snagglepuss, and Mildew Wolf. Laff-A-Lympics Laff-A-Lympics is an American animated comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series premiered as part of"
"strip he is referred to as ""Nipper"".) 7. the Cook: 1914-1970. 8. the Cowboy: 1914-1970. --. Danny Dunce: see ""the Dunce."" 9. the Doctor: 1914-1970. 10. the dog: 1914-1917(?). 11. Dorothy (Dot) Guff: born 3/11/1923. Not seen after 1924. 12. the Dunce: 1914-1970. (Note: in one strip he is called ""Danny Dunce"") 13. the Dutchman: 1914-1918(?). --. the Fire Department: 1914. Like the Army, an unnamed band later replaced by individual Teenie Weenies. 14. the General: 1914-1970. Leader of the little village. --. the Giant: see ""Paddy Pinn."" 15. Gogo: 1916(?)-1924, 1941-1970. The Teenie Weenie ""colored man."" 16, 17. the"
"Bamm-Bamm Show"", The ""Pebbles, Dino and Bamm-Bamm"" segments on ""The Flintstone Comedy Show"", ""The Funky Phantom"", ""Speed Buggy"", ""Jeannie"", ""Jabberjaw"", ""The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan"", ""Inch High Private Eye"", ""Goober and the Ghost Chasers"", ""Clue Club"", ""Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels"", ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids"", and ""The New Shmoo"". In 2005, ""Scooby Doo, Where Are You!"" came 49th in Channel 4's ""100 Greatest Cartoons"", in the UK, and was more recently voted the 8th greatest ""Kids' TV Show"" by viewers of the same channel. It was ranked the 24th greatest cartoon on IGN's ""Top 100"
"Billy Boy (1954 film) Billy Boy is a 1954 animated short cartoon released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Fred Quimby, and directed by Tex Avery. It is a spin-off of Avery's previous creation, Droopy, and stars his unnamed Southern-accented wolf, who previously appeared opposite Droopy in ""The Three Little Pups"" and in ""Blackboard Jumble"" and ""Sheepwrecked."" He would later serve as a basis for the character of McWolf, Droopy's archenemy in ""Droopy, Master Detective."" The Southern-accented Wolf is having breakfast on his farm when there is a knock on his door. A letter is pushed under it, which reads: True to"
"cartoons. The redraw quality of ""Big City"" is low, and there are a lot of animation mistakes. In order to retrace the cartoon, the company used animators from South Korea, which were known for their poor quality, due to them poorly recolouring other cartoons. Bubble and Squeek Bubble and Squeek is a British animated cartoon created in 1947 by George Moreno Jr. It was released by a British Animated Productions in Harringay. The films revolve around the adventures of the two main characters: Bubble and Squeek. Their names are derived from the British dish Bubble and Squeak. The series contained"
"to 'The Naughtiest, Cleverest (he thinks) goblin in Beanotown Woods'. Throughout this run, the strip was drawn by Ken H. Harrison. He made a brief appearance in the Beano Christmas Special 2007 pushing presents into Edd's head so his Numskulls could have presents. However, this strip was a reprint from an earlier Christmas issue when Splodge was still a current character. Splodge Splodge was a British comic strip, created by Charles Grigg. It ran between 1969 and 1974 in the British comics magazine ""The Topper"". Splodge is a goblin, the last of his species. He is a mischievous character who"
"Me Out to the Ball Game"" can be heard in the background score during the establishing shot of the baseball park. The music is used sporadically throughout the film. The Screwball The Screwball is the seventh animated cartoon short subject in the ""Woody Woodpecker"" series. Released theatrically on February 15, 1943, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. A local crowd gathers at a baseball park for a game between the Droops and the Drips. A lone policeman stands at the park gate discouraging spectators who have not paid to see the game. Woody"
"work was the first new ""Footrot"" material which Ball had published since 1994. It was the last of the ""Footrot"" series. Murray Ball and Charles M. Schulz each admired the other's work. One ""Footrot Flats"" strip shows Dog laughing at a Snoopy cartoon. Schulz wrote the introduction to the only ""Footrot Flats"" published in the United States (it appeared as ""Footrot Flats"" there, but as ""Footrot Flats 4"" in Australasia.) Murray Ball Murray Hone Ball (26 January 1939 – 12 March 2017) was a New Zealand cartoonist who became known for his ""Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero"" (the longest running cartoon"
"his Manhattan apartment, as evidenced by recently filed public records. Since then, he moved to Los Angeles to work on other Jim Henson Company productions. Kevin Clash Kevin Jeffrey Clash (born September 17, 1960) is an American puppeteer, director and producer whose characters included Elmo, Clifford, Benny Rabbit, and Hoots the Owl. Clash developed an interest in puppetry at an early age and, in his teen years, performed for local TV children's shows in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. He joined the cast of ""Captain Kangaroo"" in the early 1980s and began performing on ""Sesame Street"" in 1984. He was"
"published from late 1948 to mid-1949, with only issue #4–5 given cover dates (June & Aug. 1949) but postal indicia given as February to August 1949. The series starred the movie studio Terry Toons' funny animal characters Heckle and Jeckle in issues #1 & 3; the romance-themed ""Diary Secrets"" in issues #2, 4 & 5 (the last two fully titled ""Teen-Age Diary Secrets""), and, in the final issue, the funny animal feature ""Dinky"", starring Dinky Duck. In the 2000s came two issues of a fan publication, ""Blue Ribbon Fanzine"" (Nov. 2005 & March 2006), published by Mike Bromberg and dedicated"
"appeared in ""The Big Budget"" around 1900, and was later continued by Ralph Hodgson aka ""Yorick"". His comic, Dan Leno, portrayed the Victorian English music hall comedian and appeared in ""Dan Leno's Comic Journal"" in 1898. Echoes of his impudent urchins can still be seen in The Beano and The Dandy today. More of his characters were 'Little Willy and Tiny Tim', 'Mr. Stankey Deadstone and Company', 'The Rajah' and 'Don Quixote de Tintogs'. Browne died after surgery for cancer at the age of 39. He was buried with military honours at Shooter's Hill. Tom Browne (illustrator) Tom Browne born"