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Post subject: Goodbye Harvey
 Posted: May 30, 2008 - 12:20 PM
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Posted: May 30, 2008 - 12:57 PM
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 Why do I feel part of my childhood slipping away? |
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Posted: May 30, 2008 - 10:19 PM
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| Well bummer! He was such a talented actor, and he brought joy to so many. From the Carol Burnett show, to the many Mel Brooks films, he made me laugh so many times. I was going to go and see him and Tim Conway when they were doing a tour, but didn't get the chance. I wish I had...... |
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Posted: May 30, 2008 - 10:23 PM
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Posted: May 30, 2008 - 10:33 PM
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The Great Gazoo is Gone...
The Great Gazoo is a character from The Flintstones animated series. He first appeared on the show on October 29, 1965. He has many similarities to Mr. Mxyzptlk of the Superman comics, and may have been inspired by him. He is a tiny, green, floating alien, voiced by Harvey Korman, having been exiled to Earth from his home planet Zatox as punishment for having invented a doomsday machine, a weapon of immense destructive power, and was discovered by Fred and Barney when his flying saucer crashed. His invention was a button which would destroy the universe if pressed, though he insists he made it on a whim with no intent of using it.
Gazoo often appears before Fred and Barney in random, often inopportune moments. He refers to Fred and Barney as "dum-dums" and constantly causes problems for them. Even when he attempts to help Fred and Barney out, he usually ends up causing even more trouble. The only people who are able to see him are Fred, Barney, and the children (because they believe in him). It is also possible that Dino and Hoppy can also see Gazoo, which means that Wilma and Betty are the only ones who can't. A running gag is that Fred argues with Gazoo while Wilma believes that he's talking to himself. When their daughter, Pebbles, says "Gazoo," Wilma thinks Pebbles is sneezing.
Gazoo's name actually derives from the 1909 hit song, "King of the Bungaloos," by Charles Straight and Gene Greene. In it, the narrator explains, "I just received a cable 'spatch from my ancestral home. It tells me I'm the great Gazoo, successor to the throne."[1]
Because Gazoo was introduced into the show midway through the final season and is considered quite an absurd character, being a futuristic alien that appears in the middle of the Stone Age, he is often cited by fans and critics of the show as being an example of the show having "jumped the shark." Indeed, the show was cancelled shortly after his first appearance, although it cannot be said with any certainty that Gazoo contributed in any way to the series' conclusion.
The story arc regarding Gazoo's trying to return home was never resolved because of the cancellation of the original series, and the character did not appear (nor was he referred to) in the immediate series follow-up The Man Called Flintstone or any of the later spin-off TV series or animated movies, rendering him effectively dropped from continuity. Apart from the original TV series, he appeared in a Fruity Pebbles cereal commercial as part of a promotion for a contest where consumers would have to try to find boxes of all-orange cereal pieces, and more recently has become the mascot for Marshmallow Mania Pebbles cereal. If you look closely you will find he is a character in the popular Flintstones vitamins. He also had a part in the second live-action movie, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, where he was played by Alan Cumming and, instead of being sent to Earth as punishment, he had to study the humanity's mating habits because he was the most expendable of his people. Charlton Comics also published a short-lived comic book focusing on the character in the mid-1970s.
The Great Gazoo also appears in The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy NES game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gazoo
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Posted: May 30, 2008 - 10:34 PM
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| To me he will always be Ed Higgins the hapless husband of Eunice. I wish they could have done a skit where Eunice gets trapped on an elevator with Mickey Hart. |
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Posted: Jun 01, 2008 - 07:07 PM
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He'll always be Hedley Lamarr to me.
| Hedley Lamarr wrote: | | I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. |
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| BWW wrote: | He'll always be Hedley Lamarr to me.
| Hedley Lamarr wrote: | | I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. |
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| I always loved the Carol Burnett show when I was a kid, and looked forward to it all week. She spent part of her childhood being raised by her grandmother not far from where I live. The house is still there. I think my favorite skits with Harvey were the take-offs of Gone With the Wind and Jaws. Also the skits with Tim Conway as the really, really slow, old guy who would absolutely frustrate Harvey's character. Oh, and his character of the large Jewish grandmother who was always hugging some hapless victim. |
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Posted: Jun 01, 2008 - 11:48 PM
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| Susie wrote: | | I always loved the Carol Burnett show when I was a kid, and looked forward to it all week. She spent part of her childhood being raised by her grandmother not far from where I live. The house is still there. I think my favorite skits with Harvey were the take-offs of Gone With the Wind and Jaws. Also the skits with Tim Conway as the really, really slow, old guy who would absolutely frustrate Harvey's character. Oh, and his character of the large Jewish grandmother who was always hugging some hapless victim. |
My favorites were where Carol was writing a story and the others were behind her acting it out as she wrote. In the middle of writing, she would change her mind, crumple the page and start over. The cast members had to pull themselves out of the situation and get ready to start over. |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 02:43 AM
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| BWW wrote: | He'll always be Hedley Lamarr to me.
| Hedley Lamarr wrote: | | I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. |
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