Yup! Howard Morris himself! Also known for being a cast member of Sid Cesar's Your Show Of Shows(1950-54) and for his role of Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show(1960-68). 📺😁
@@dariowiter3078It's wild how some of the voice actors were in regular television shows. Mel Blanc was on the Jack Benny show and he was brilliant. I hadn't known about this until one of the digital channels in my area began showing 50's and 60's television shows. Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie, and other classics. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was also one of them. Great shows from before I was born.
Definitely earned a subscriber here! I love classic cartoons. I grew up in the 70's. Saturday 🌄mornings🌄 were the best times. Thanks for these brilliant cartoons.
They were in The Andy Griffith Show and Magilla Gorilla together (Melvin was on AGS in a variety of roles). How many other projects were they in together?
It's too bad the Fleischer Brothers, and later Famous Studios, didn't get to make more cartoons with King Features characters in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s besides Popeye. Their studio seems to be the best fit at the time for all those characters.
General Halftrack: What on Earth could be wrong with me?! Cuckoo clock: *Koko!* *Koko!* *Koko!* General Halftrack: When I want your opinion I'll ask for it! XD
I used to love the Sunday Comics. And the Saturday 🌄morning🌄 cartoons. For me as a kid, the weekends were pure joy. Peanuts, Beetle Bailey, Hagar The Horrible, Ziggy, The Family Circus, Garfield, and many more classics. Looking at those old comic strips as a kid, I was always wondering how they'd sound, and act in "live" motion? Bugs Bunny and the Road-Runner Show was always my favorite. But other Hanna Barbera shows are easily right up there. As are the King Features Syndicate shows. Beetle Bailey and Hagar the Horrible were two that I never got to see very much of. Too bad, I would have loved them back then. But I get to watch them now and I still really love these older cartoons.
I find it strange to hear west coast voice talent like Howard Morris, Allen Melvin, and Paul Frees featured in cartoons made by Paramount Cartoon Studios in New York (Formerly Fleischer Brothers and Famous Studios). I would've expected to hear Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck, and Mae Questel doing the voices.
Beetle Bailey sounds a little like Wade Duck of Garfield and Friends fame, while General Halftrack sounds a lot like Gopher from Winnie the Pooh. If I ever meet the late Howard Morris, I'll have to ask him if he knows why that is?
Anyway ZERO was a stab of Mort Walker against the policy of US Army to admit Virtually EVERYONE to active service. They never, never, never rejected "less intelligent" people into serving army. And so thousands of them met their destiny in Vietnam as cannon fodder. Not to mention the ones killed against Apaches and Sioux or in WWs. ANY European or Asian army would kick Zero out as soon he enters enrolling center. Walker had given a warning that was never understood.
