Gumby eats cookies but then he found out that pokey will let him eat his sandwich so, eventually pokey turns into mr. stuff and stuffs gumby from gaining weight and getting fat from eating, what a nightmare!
My sister (Jillian) saw it first in the 80s before I came along. I watched it in the 90s. Right now......it's not on tv anymore since time passed. I watched "Gumby: The Movie" when I was little. It was pretty good.
Carson Rensch I watched it in the early 2000's when I was in, I think, kindergarten (I'm 17 now). I've only seen snipits of "Gumby: The Movie," but never actually seen the whole thing.
You get it! I always thought this was an LSD inspired animation, even the music is psychedelic...I watched this right before I started smoking weed in the early 70's
It's the Gumby version of the 1937 Warner Bros. cartoon "Pigs is Pigs!" This is another sign on how Art Clokey wasn't involved much with the late 1960s Gumby episodes, with characters acting really out-of-character at times (like here, with Gumby suddenly being obsessed with eating.)
Art Clokey pretty much was in Asia and studying Eastern Asian religions. Art Clokey pretty much wasn't in the later episodes of "Davey & Goliath", another claymation show he also created. It's ironic that the creator of a Christian children's show happened to be a Zen Buddhist. No surprise that Art Clokey prefers Gumby over Davey & Goliath any day.
+Hailey Shannon And reused by Stanley Kubrick in 1971 in the horror classic "A Clockwork Orange", the first SK film made by the Looney Tunes studio, Warner Bros.! Nice to hear the original background music. Gumby is proof that "real boys" DO like ponies!
Expect in the end, Gumby decided to skips dinner after that horrible nightmare he had after mooching off. While in "Pigs Is Pigs", Piggy completely forgot his horrible nightmare and have breakfast in the end. This version have more of a moral in the end.
I wish I'd seen it when I was a young kid, myself. I've seen some episodes at an older age and enjoyed them. It's just too bad we don't see much like this now; nowadays, we mostly get stuff like the Teen Titans acting like goofballs, ducks shaking their butts at the camera, butts bouncing around, and other gross jokes! XP
Sounds like at 1:26 pokey exclaims "damn!" when gumby got down to eating over half his peanut butter sandwich. Like censorship required for it to sound more like "man!" than otherwise. Artfully Slick voice work there (and pun not intended Mr. Art C)!
Unlike in the Warner Bros. cartoon, "Pigs Is Pigs", the character, Piggy who is pretty much of a negative stereotype of a pig of being a greedy and selfish glutton still eats after his nightmare.
in '68 I was 5 yrs old and it was strange , you didn't want it to be because pokey was neat and gumby was all right but even at 5 the imaginary things they would go in to were nothing like what our imaginations would have done . I never stuck it out through each story , definitely creepy . Johnny quest was the shit you just knew hadgi was gonna have to save their ass and you trusted in that " sim sim sala bim" or " bandit! get back in the boat before you get eaten " or whatever . and his scared little ass would come hauling ass around the corner until he had enough people around him to act like badass . makes me laugh even now . and johnnys dad was always a little to busy , just like your own dad was but you made the best of it and cherished the precious few minutes you did get to be part of a whole . being near your dad and just loving him .
In Gumby's nightmare- Pokey reminds me of 3 people 1)Freddy Krueger 2)Arthur Slugworth 3)Francis's friend who stole Pee Wee's bike in -Pee Wee's big adventure.. I mean a little bit of each character right..
Yeah. A reversed centaur. A head of a horse and a body of a man. Mr. Stuff is also like Freddy Kruger in a form of human-horse hybrid wearing a chef's hat.
Are you serious?....of course we did....and we turned out just fine....scary as it may seem....lol......but of course, I was only 5 at the time......however, I will admit....it did disturb me on some level...but in a 'sensible' way....'gluttony' was clearly a bad idea....and it stuck....for all the right reasons....cheers!
Yeah. And while it would scare today's kids, I doubt the kids of the 1960s were horrified since they knew it was pretend (plus it was teaching a lesson).