Anybody notice the phantom is doing Jerry Colonna? And the reference to "Horrors Heights" probably went over the heads of anybody who wasn't around when Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights were regaling us with swing music. Ah, the nostalgia ...
In the late 80's my parents recorded about 14-15 Beany and Cecil episodes onto a VHS tape that I've seen over 100 times as a kid and on the last episode recorded, it shows the Horse Opera as an upcoming episode and it feels really delighting to finally see it after all these years.
I love the showbiz puns in this toon. Far and away the wackiest part is neat the end when Cecil is fighting the Phantom and Beany is cheering him on... all covered in invisible paint! ("This the greatest fight ever filmed! Too bad you can't see us!") The victory pose where only Beany and Cecil's mouths are seen seals the deal! :D Kinda makes you wonder if Bob Clampett was sniffing paint when he wrote the script for this thing. Rich Rodriguez West Covina, CA
Greetings from Lima-Peru (South America); Fantastic and Very Funny "Benito y Cecilia" (Beany and Cecil)! The spanish version for Latin America kept the songs untouched in it's original english version...quite a challenge and motivation for learning it! Cesar
This is one of the 54 Beany & Cecil cartoons that don't appear on either of the 2 DVD sets. Really funny stuff for kids and adults. Thanks for posting.
Villain's "invisible paint" didn't work, I see, on the hat, saddle, etc. Lucky for him he's just after a foolishly adventuring unarmed boy, old man, sea serpent, and crow,...instead of an armed lawman!
Just a little too young to remember Beany and Cecil on network TV (I was born in '65) but I've seen some of the reruns and I think it's a great cartoon! Very cleverly written! Of course one can't go wrong with Bob Clampett, one of the finest directors ever to come out of the WB studios!
Aww, Cecil really is lovable. I just felt a pang of pity for the kids who came after me (I'm 50). We had Cecil; they had Barney the Dinosaur. No contest.
HORSE HEIDT, and his Mare-sical Knights. Clampett did for Republic a horse cartoon, his last short, for movies, "It's a grnad old nag", with Stan Freberg as a lovestruck (and starstruck!) horse who goes to a Hollywood with many horse punny names (actuallly beginning at the critter's barn, with "Heady La-mare", his love, and "Clark Stable"..:rolleyes")
I recall another time when Cecil was fighting Billy the Squid. It showed Cecil flying through the air into the water as his entire body including his pointed tail went plunging in.
This segment displays the creativity and fun that were a consistent part of the Beany and Cecil series. I wonder . . . has anyone else noticed that at 2:00 - 2:07, one of those giant hamburgers temporarily disappears without the aid of the invisible paint?
I just realized that in one scene Beany says, "Cecil, you shouldn't talk with your mouth full.", yet Cecil talks while flipping the horse like discus with the horse's tail in his mouth. Really, how can Cecil avoid talking with his mouth full, when he has no limbs! Finding Beany and Cecil on RUclips has truly brought back memories of 1962. It has also cleared up some old images I have in my memory. One was the opening of the show of the flying propeller to reveal children around a television.
This series brings back a flood of memories from around 1962, except I saw the original in black and white (no color television yet). I think I'd like to be Beany, the freckled blond, in any cartoon. I get the jokes now! "I'd put a gag in this kid's mouth, but I'm running out of material." I didn't learn of Groucho Marx for another decade, so I did not get "Ain't that a kick in the head?" I'd like to see the country progress toward the 21st century again after decades of reaction.
You're right. My bad. I'm just glad I was in the same general era for that comparison. I should have remembered all the times Jerry made it out with Bob to entertain the troops during WWII.
And the big band riff from Alvin and the Chipmunks used during chase scenes or when someflicte's clobbered somewhere or stepped on some pin was archived and used as a circus theme for Beany!
Run a keyword search for "D.J. the D.J.", in which Cecil writes and sings "Rag Mop" with two dogs under the guidance of Dishonest John. It satirizes teen pop music, Tin Pan Alley and even Alvin and The Chipmunks! BTW, the title is short for Dishonest John the Disc Jockey. :)
@EvilCleric Only in three instances: in the episode "Beany and the Jackstalk" Cecil's entire body is wound up from head to tail in the tension coil of the giant's cuckoo clock; in another episode where Cecil is gagged and mummified and he spells out "N-O-W" with his body when a worm on a fishing line asks "Now?" to help him; and when he turns into Super Cecil, the big green S on his chest is actually a miniature of his body shaped like an S.
Oh the subtle humor kids would never have understood in the 60's. References to "Wuthering Heights" and "Horrors Heights" (a play on Horace Heidt, a popular band leader in the 30-40s. Never got those jokes till now
Nope. It was a tradition carried over from the "Time for Beany" puppet show, where Cecil was a sock puppet whose tail was never seen because in reality Cecil was the arm of puppeteer and voice actor Stan Freberg. Only two cartoons showed Cecil's entire body: "Beany and the Jackstalk", when Cecil is wound up in the spring of a giant cuckoo clock; and another one with a little worm repeating "Now?" to help Cecil, who is mummified and gagged and spells out N-O-W with his entire body. :)
Actually, that voice is supposed to be Jerry Colonna, who was frequently used in many Warner Brothers cartoons. Usually, he was seen with wide eyes, and a big mustache. The real Jerry Colonna was part of Jack Benny's troupe in the 40s.
Yep, and at the end when the Phantom ends up shaped into a stone sphinx, his face takes on Colonna's likeness as well! I also enjoyed Colonna's work with Disney, narrating "Casey at the Bat" and "The Brave Engineer," and voicing the March Hare in "Alice in Wonderland".
I agree as well, a conjecture that I've made before since Bob designed used puppets on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1960 of the Chipmunks for Ross Bagdasdarian. Now who can tell any mor eabout Jack Roberts?? Darrell Calker's "Woody Woodpecker": theme is heard a few themes in other episodes, "Dirtyh Birdy" for example.
It's funny how the animators never decided to give Cecil a body. You just see his upper half. But maybe that's a good thing. Remember the rare instances where you would see Alf's entire body? It didn't look right. Kinda scary.
actually, it WAS on Cartoon Network a few years ago if one looked hard enough. CN used to have a show called the Bob Clampett Show, which was 30 mins of "Bob Clampett cartooooooooons!"...erm, 'scuse me. anyway, it was mostly Bugs Bunny kind of stuff, but if one watched enough eps, they'd occasionally come across a Beanie & Cecil cartoon.
Just saw a video where the person was wearing a beanie boy hat and made think back to my child hood of Bosco and Beanie and Cecil yeah i dated my self but any one watching this has got be as old or older than me so haha
Ollie of Kukla, Fran and Ollie fame was cute, too. We just had better sorta-reptilian critters than subsequent generations did. But... they had Animaniacs. XD
Watching a doc on making of Ren and Stimpy and John K just said he hired Billy West for the show because of the work they did together on The Beany and Cecil Show. Never heard of this before! it's ... interesting..
it was a reboot of the show that he made at DiC in 1988, entitled The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil. this video here is the original show produced by Bob Clampett, and the two shows did not share any of the same crew.
Nothing in this cartoon should be taken so seriously. Remember that male domination (and male bonding) was prevalent in the early 1960's. I suppose Bugs Bunny was gay as well!
Umm...Well all I have to say is I would rather this then some other things...Flap Jack anyone? I'll have to ask my Grandparents or my dad...probably my dad would now sense all I can guess is this came around the younger Woody The Woodpecker cartoons.
"Who writes your dialogue, kid?"
"I'd put a gag in this kid's mouth, but I'm running out of material!"
Heh. I love these one liners, here.
Beany and Cecil was one of my favorite cartoons when I was a child. Not too many people remember it, but I loved it!
Me to. I had the Cecil hand puppet with a pull string which made him talk.
I had talking beanie boy doll. I was never without him lol
I still love Beany & Cecil!
Me too
lori xavier mmm! I love the intro especially. If you have a tickling fetish, that will get you going!
"This is the greatest fight ever filmed, folks. Too bad you can't see it"
lol!
Anybody notice the phantom is doing Jerry Colonna? And the reference to "Horrors Heights" probably went over the heads of anybody who wasn't around when Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights were regaling us with swing music. Ah, the nostalgia ...
I love it at the end when the Phantom crashes into the stones and gets shaped into a sphinx with Colonna's face.
In the late 80's my parents recorded about 14-15 Beany and Cecil episodes onto a VHS tape that I've seen over 100 times as a kid and on the last episode recorded, it shows the Horse Opera as an upcoming episode and it feels really delighting to finally see it after all these years.
I love the showbiz puns in this toon.
Far and away the wackiest part is neat the end when Cecil is fighting the Phantom and Beany is cheering him on... all covered in invisible paint! ("This the greatest fight ever filmed! Too bad you can't see us!") The victory pose where only Beany and Cecil's mouths are seen seals the deal! :D
Kinda makes you wonder if Bob Clampett was sniffing paint when he wrote the script for this thing.
Rich Rodriguez
West Covina, CA
Help Cecil help, help Cecil help, help Cecil help
I HAD A BEANIE COPTER WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND DARN PROUD OF IT.
Greetings from Lima-Peru (South America);
Fantastic and Very Funny "Benito y Cecilia" (Beany and Cecil)!
The spanish version for Latin America kept the songs untouched in it's original english version...quite a challenge and motivation for learning it!
Cesar
i havent seen this show in forever
-with no emotion- "Help, Cecil. Help. Help, Cecil. Help. Help, Cecil. Help."
Phantom: "Who writes your dialogue kid? -mockingly- 'Help, Cecil. Help. Help, Cecil. Help.' "
Thank you for sharing such a wonderful show...🙏✨👌👻🥰🐲❣️
This is one of the 54 Beany & Cecil cartoons that don't appear on either of the 2 DVD sets. Really funny stuff for kids and adults. Thanks for posting.
Villain's "invisible paint" didn't work, I see, on the hat, saddle, etc. Lucky for him he's just after a foolishly adventuring unarmed boy, old man, sea serpent, and crow,...instead of an armed lawman!
Just a little too young to remember Beany and Cecil on network TV (I was born in '65) but I've seen some of the reruns and I think it's a great cartoon! Very cleverly written! Of course one can't go wrong with Bob Clampett, one of the finest directors ever to come out of the WB studios!
Aww, Cecil really is lovable. I just felt a pang of pity for the kids who came after me (I'm 50). We had Cecil; they had Barney the Dinosaur. No contest.
HORSE HEIDT, and his Mare-sical Knights. Clampett did for Republic a horse cartoon, his last short, for movies, "It's a grnad old nag", with Stan Freberg as a lovestruck (and starstruck!) horse who goes to a Hollywood with many horse punny names (actuallly beginning at the critter's barn, with "Heady La-mare", his love, and "Clark Stable"..:rolleyes")
Never forget Tear-A-Long, The Dotted Lion.
Here's wishing this will be on DVD.
Here's wishing YOU a HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
I recall another time when Cecil was fighting Billy the Squid. It showed Cecil flying through the air into the water as his entire body including his pointed tail went plunging in.
OMG! I remember Beany and Cecil from when I was 4 or 5...I'm 50 now. Thanks for finding this!
so many puns...i love it! no way i could grump about this
I barely remember watching this-Mostly I remember Cecil saying "DJ you dirty guy"
I love it more now than then-lol thanks for uploading
been watching sat cartoons today. all beany and Cecil . confidntialy this ending sphinxs. lol pun loaded .
The first cartoon apperance of billy mays!
That cartoon episode bought back memories. Invisibility and all!
I watched them often as a kid.
This segment displays the creativity and fun that were a consistent part of the Beany and Cecil series. I wonder . . . has anyone else noticed that at 2:00 - 2:07, one of those giant hamburgers temporarily disappears without the aid of the invisible paint?
got to be one of my favorite cartoons from my childhood, thanks for the upload
i havent seen this in years! my mom had a bunch of these on an old vhs that i used to watch back when i was like 4 or 5 major nostalgia trip!
@Runespeak : YES.......YES.......YES!!!!! I'm 45 years old and I STILL sing that song to myself sometimes!!!
I just realized that in one scene Beany says, "Cecil, you shouldn't talk with your mouth full.", yet Cecil talks while flipping the horse like discus with the horse's tail in his mouth. Really, how can Cecil avoid talking with his mouth full, when he has no limbs!
Finding Beany and Cecil on RUclips has truly brought back memories of 1962. It has also cleared up some old images I have in my memory. One was the opening of the show of the flying propeller to reveal children around a television.
I love beany & cecil!
Hold on Beany, I'm coming!
This series brings back a flood of memories from around 1962, except I saw the original in black and white (no color television yet). I think I'd like to be Beany, the freckled blond, in any cartoon.
I get the jokes now! "I'd put a gag in this kid's mouth, but I'm running out of material." I didn't learn of Groucho Marx for another decade, so I did not get "Ain't that a kick in the head?"
I'd like to see the country progress toward the 21st century again after decades of reaction.
2:50 HOLD THE MUSTARD! 😡
classic. thanks for sharing!
It isn't Jerry Colonna?
"Ah yes!"
Nice Groucho Marx imitation. "You were expecting Lady Godiva?" LOL
Right into my ANIMATION playlist. Thank you :) ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!
You're right. My bad. I'm just glad I was in the same general era for that comparison. I should have remembered all the times Jerry made it out with Bob to entertain the troops during WWII.
@KitiaraSkie I love the sneezing and tickling scenes
And the big band riff from Alvin and the Chipmunks used during chase scenes or when someflicte's clobbered somewhere or stepped on some pin was archived and used as a circus theme for Beany!
Is there an episode where they show Cecil's entire body?
Awww so sweet...he looks a lot like Johnny Quest...LOL
Run a keyword search for "D.J. the D.J.", in which Cecil writes and sings "Rag Mop" with two dogs under the guidance of Dishonest John. It satirizes teen pop music, Tin Pan Alley and even Alvin and The Chipmunks! BTW, the title is short for Dishonest John the Disc Jockey. :)
@EvilCleric Only in three instances: in the episode "Beany and the Jackstalk" Cecil's entire body is wound up from head to tail in the tension coil of the giant's cuckoo clock; in another episode where Cecil is gagged and mummified and he spells out "N-O-W" with his body when a worm on a fishing line asks "Now?" to help him; and when he turns into Super Cecil, the big green S on his chest is actually a miniature of his body shaped like an S.
This video was released in june 2006. I WASN'T BORN YET
Oh the subtle humor kids would never have understood in the 60's. References to "Wuthering Heights" and "Horrors Heights" (a play on Horace Heidt, a popular band leader in the 30-40s. Never got those jokes till now
Always loved this show when it first appearing...a lot of witty lines!
Nostalgia Critical hit
I Remember Me &' My Dad Would Always Watch This On Cartoon Network
Nope. It was a tradition carried over from the "Time for Beany" puppet show, where Cecil was a sock puppet whose tail was never seen because in reality Cecil was the arm of puppeteer and voice actor Stan Freberg. Only two cartoons showed Cecil's entire body: "Beany and the Jackstalk", when Cecil is wound up in the spring of a giant cuckoo clock; and another one with a little worm repeating "Now?" to help Cecil, who is mummified and gagged and spells out N-O-W with his entire body. :)
oh my god what wonderful memories
love it!!!
I have a bunch of old tapes of Beany & Cecil.
Actually, that voice is supposed to be Jerry Colonna, who was frequently used in many Warner Brothers cartoons. Usually, he was seen with wide eyes, and a big mustache. The real Jerry Colonna was part of Jack Benny's troupe in the 40s.
Yep, and at the end when the Phantom ends up shaped into a stone sphinx, his face takes on Colonna's likeness as well! I also enjoyed Colonna's work with Disney, narrating "Casey at the Bat" and "The Brave Engineer," and voicing the March Hare in "Alice in Wonderland".
lol my fav show when i was lil
GREAT!!!
That was in 'D.J. the D.J.'. It's on the DVD.
Actually, it's more of a cross between Colonna and Groucho Marx.
I still have my stuffed talking Beanie doll with Beanie copter and pull cord. Too bad my dog ripped the stuffin' out of him.
Anyone else notice the "Leave it to Beaver" music at 1:20?
5:13 This is the greatest fight ever been film, Folks. Too bad you can't see it. (I think it's a reference to Screwy Squirrel Happy Go Nutty)
I agree as well, a conjecture that I've made before since Bob designed used puppets on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1960 of the Chipmunks for Ross Bagdasdarian. Now who can tell any mor eabout Jack Roberts?? Darrell Calker's "Woody Woodpecker": theme is heard a few themes in other episodes, "Dirtyh Birdy" for example.
It's funny how the animators never decided to give Cecil a body. You just see his upper half. But maybe that's a good thing. Remember the rare instances where you would see Alf's entire body? It didn't look right. Kinda scary.
Thunderbolt. . . the WONDER COLT!!
LOL at 2:30! "WHUT D HECK?!"
3:00 she sneezes cute🥰
I don't think anybody can say Wut the heck better than cecil lol v
actually, it WAS on Cartoon Network a few years ago if one looked hard enough. CN used to have a show called the Bob Clampett Show, which was 30 mins of "Bob Clampett cartooooooooons!"...erm, 'scuse me. anyway, it was mostly Bugs Bunny kind of stuff, but if one watched enough eps, they'd occasionally come across a Beanie & Cecil cartoon.
@nealbfinn I got the "Wuthering Heights" joke--that was a good book!
thanks!
these were hilarious, and written for the enjoyment of the adults also! get a sense of humour folks lmaoooooooooooo
Just saw a video where the person was wearing a beanie boy hat and made think back to my child hood of Bosco and Beanie and Cecil yeah i dated my self but any one watching this has got be as old or older than me so haha
It features two "U"s. The ghost should have ride the Great Dane instead of a horse. "Scooby Do, where are you?"
This show has absolutely no 4th wall.
So did Cecil have like an infinite body length or what?
Ollie of Kukla, Fran and Ollie fame was cute, too. We just had better sorta-reptilian critters than subsequent generations did.
But... they had Animaniacs. XD
No, it is a take on Jerry Colonna.
Great to see these old cartoons. But where is the episode with Ragg Mopp?!
@scotpens The dress was symbolic, too! Phantom? Christine? *wink wink*
wow how old is this?I can remember as far back as lost in space,underdog tutor the turtle but not this!
ah, gee, ah gee, ah gee gee gee, ah gee....aahhhphew!
Bob Clampett had a sneezing fetish.
I used to have a Beany and Cecil lunch box, I have really dated myself!
ace!!!
Game grumps :D
Steam Train*
helloimrobin GameGrumps.
Watching a doc on making of Ren and Stimpy and John K just said he hired Billy West for the show because of the work they did together on The Beany and Cecil Show. Never heard of this before! it's ... interesting..
it was a reboot of the show that he made at DiC in 1988, entitled The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil. this video here is the original show produced by Bob Clampett, and the two shows did not share any of the same crew.
HOLD THE MUSTARD!!! XD
Why does every single one in this look like they either just smoked 8 kg of weed or won an argument they had with their teacher?
They sailing through a 🏜...lol....
Ain't that a Kick is a lift from Dean Martin, due to his hit song then..
Ah yes violent isn't it? :)
Do you have the one in which Dishonest John encounters a hive full of BEEZZZZZZ?
Nothing in this cartoon should be taken so seriously. Remember that male domination (and male bonding) was prevalent in the early 1960's. I suppose Bugs Bunny was gay as well!
sigh... game grumps
Umm...Well all I have to say is I would rather this then some other things...Flap Jack anyone?
I'll have to ask my Grandparents or my dad...probably my dad would now sense all I can guess is this came around the younger Woody The Woodpecker cartoons.
@vegeta8085 Me too!
4:19 Dean Martin reference.
If I was a pornstar I'd name myself "Leakin' Lena."
How in the world did you find this?!
Do they ever show the rest of Cecil's body?