At the ripe old age of 46, I can still count on Heckle and Jeckle to give me a few good laughs! There are just some things in life that you can NEVER OUTGROW!
I think Heckle and Jeckle was a Terrytoon. I loved the music and sound effects in them. I especially liked the Terrytoons with the cat and Gandy Goose in them doing dream sequences.
When I was a kid we had this episode on a reel played on a projector with no sound. I just saw it with sound for the first time. I will share with my kids. Memories!
Give us a house to wreck We'll tear it down by heck Ooh, give us a house to wreck We'll tear it down by heck We'll pull out the pipes and tear down the walls and chop the chimney till it falls We'll hammer and dig and pry and peck Just give us a house to wreck!
To clear up some things in other comments: 1. The Heckle and Jeckle TV cartoon was never banned, Some people did complain about what they saw as racist depictions, but nothing ever really came of it. 2. They're not seen on TV anymore for the same reason the vast majority of classic cartoons are not seen either--there's no real demand for them, and most of the cartoons of that era were mostly mediocre. The classics you see on TV and even on RU-vid nowadays are the few hundred that were the cream of the cop out of the many, many thousands produced during the golden age of animation. 3. The cartoons of today have to be different, having to fill out 22 minutes of a half-hours show vs 5-7 minute theatrical shorts. The format and approach just has to be different, and slapstick can only support so much interest over a half hour. That being said, the good to bad ratio is about the same as it was back then, with most just being average or mediocre and a few standouts that are well worth watching. Just remember, most people today don't see all the bad cartoons from the classic era, but can see all the crappy stuff available today, so they tend to be biased.
Also Viacom which owned the Terrytoons library at the time was most likely trying to promote the cartoons over at Nickelodeon which they own. Yet far as I know it never aired the Terrytoons cartoons on that channel. Around the time the Terrytoons shorts stopped airing on tv, the original three Nicktoons were either nearly ready for their debut or already debuted.
At 5:12, Spike the escaped convict dog has black ears while he's on the stairway. At 5:20, his ears have returned to being white, like the rest of him.
@ZoochanSyn Maybe those watercolors are why so many Terrytoons are so beautiful, but whatever the reason they sure are. It is amazing how intense good watercolors can look. To me the backgrounds on Terrytoons are a very important part of why I like them so much.
Spike's voice is by Douglas Moye, who also did Papa Terry Bear's voice and the first voice of Clint Clobber. He was a cameraman at Terrytoons, and an African American. Can anyone tell that by listening to him??
@2FunnyVersionIV No, I don't think so. All the colors just looked a lot paler and some looked more red than blue (like Spike's clothes). I dunno maybe it's just because it's an old VHS.
No wonder children today are such wusses. The old cartoons had guns, girlie pictures, violence, destruction, explosives, and theft like the one above. Bring back the good stuff!
It would but the PC bastards won't allow them to be shown on TV. Making all advertising aimed at children illegal also ended children's TV, especially Saturday morning cartoons.
First released in August 1952; directed by Connie Rasinski, story by Tom Morrison, and music by Philip A. Scheib {"Give Us A House To Wreck", by Scheib & Morrison}. Some key animation sequences rendered by Jim Tyer. Roy Halee is H&J's voices [Tom Morrison also doubles with Halee on the duet].
Back then most of the plots were good vs bad, cops and robbers, etc. Now the new ones like sponge bob are just kindergarten mentality animation with teenage quips. I didnt even know heckle and jeckle were banned. This world has become a sad sad place.
That is what I read recently Neon. I was wondering why it is not aired anymore so I googled it and there were complaints by the NAACP that it was racial naratives with the way the two acted.
Yeah I'm watching her show now. Lol. Look at Phil Robertson. I agree that he should'nt have gone into the explicit details, but he spoke his beliefs and stood up to them. Now they call him a bigot. How hypocritical.
I 'm Black and my only thought about Heckle & Jeckle cartoon were they were hilarious! I am 58 years old and I still burst into laughter at their antics!
@91Kickflip When you were an American kid growing up with them, you never wondered how two identical twin brothers could include one Briton and one New Yorker... weird, isn't it?
One magpie has a British accent and the other one sounds like New Yorker, Jimmy Durante. The "racist" angle is a long stretch at best. I'm surprised no one's yet played the gay card. This is mindless entertainment meant to divert, little more. Some of junk today so socially engineered most of it is boring, fore getable and virtually unwatchable.
