I'm in my mid 50s and honestly, I don't remember this cartoon...for the life of me, I can't remember ever seeing it! I loved it! Such a heart warming story and so nostalgic! They don't make cartoons like this anymore!
This spelled October for me when I was really little...it was usually the first thing we watched...and of course, THAT filled me with SO much excitement 😁😁😁😁
I think kids these days are not excited to watch shows like this anymore; everything is so readily available anytime instead of having to wait for the networks to show these specials once a year. No one appreciates these old cartoons anymore, except those of us that grew up with them. ❤
What I like about Chuck Jones, especially when his art style got refined, was that it had this innocently youthful, adorable feel to the characters, but they also felt very mature when they wanted to be. And he wasn't limited to this, he could make some really freaky looking characters, the best example being in the Phantom Tollbooth.
Oh my God you know the phantom tollbooth anime fan? That’s one of my favorite shows but yeah they have a lot of weird freaky characters in that show like the doldrums
Oh god yes, those things weighed a ton, and they were even heavier when you added one of those top loading VCRS they added a good extra 50 pounds to the cart, at my school once you were in grade four and up and were well behaved you and two other kids from my class may be selected to go to the office and get it our selves, it was way too heavy for one kid to move it themselves, so you needed a small platoon...
And in my school, no matter how many times they fixed the wheel or replaced the entire cart....a wheel could be heard squeaking and we hoped that it would be heading for our classroom lol.
My sister and I use to watch "Raggedy Anne & Andy" cartoon all the time, ppl actually forgot this was a cartoon back in the day. Thus is even more rare than the show it self.
"The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile" is a 1979 animated television special featuring Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises, it was first televised October 31, 1979 on CBS.
My Dad worked for Polaroid back in the day + they also made blank VHS tapes. My mom taped EVERYTHING lol This was on 1 of our many Halloween themed tapes. Along with The Halloween That Almost Wasn't, The Worst Witch + literally any cartoon "Special" aired on channels ABC, CBS or NBC...Garfield's Halloween Special... of course Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"...so many. I'm 46, probably been 35 years since I saw this. Thank You + Happy Halloween 🎃
Finally I’m not alone! Hehe My mother taped EVERYTHING as well! I have all you mentioned, plus I love having the old commercials if we had time-taped something. 😬 Rewatching the tapes I find amazing things I never knew like…Tori Amos was the one in that Corn Flakes commercial! 🥰 I am watching this now, remembering my first Halloween. I was 2.5yrs old & was the best Raggedy Ann! Mom sewed all my amazing, realistic costumes & has old Polaroids of them all too! I watch this today at 44, all alone while carving my own lil glum pumpkin 🥴🎃 P.S. I’m Pisces also…just noticed your name 😉♓️
(( 🎃 )) oh my gosh here, the pumpkin who couldn't smile. This is one of those halloween cartoons I really did enjoy watching back then. I miss this one and miss other Halloween cartoons as well. I would love to see all these old and classic Halloween cartoons put back on television the way it use to be when we were young kids. Miss and love the 80s, nothing but good times and great memories plus all the great programs we had back then.
@@Nibiru3600X And that one too plus I've got a new one Dear Dracula about a boy who lives with his grandma who loves horror movies and he writes to the king 👑 of the vampires and they help each other with their "problems"Grandmother is voiced by the legendary Mrs.C from Happy Days Marion Ross
I saw this only once before during my early grade school years back in the 80s. I remember we had a section of the school library cordoned off for watching movies and how we all laughed watching the cat riding the pumpkin down the hill. Sure is nice to remember that moment again.
Thank you for bring me back into time when I was a little boy. Sometimes, it's fun to take a trip to the past and remember vividly all those cartoons and shows. These cartoons are special because I remember them.
Love that I can watch this again! I grew up watching this show every fall as a child and absolutely love it. This brings back a lot of great childhood memories.
RIP Ron Dias. He painted all the wonderful backgrounds for this animated show. Out of all the great work he did for Disney and Don Bluth this one really stood out most for me
I am 59 years old and remember watching this with my Girls.I feel so bad for the Pumpkin I want to hug him and i am sitting here watching this by myself and I love the ole cartoons nothing like them!
me too my dad recorded this for me and I watched it so much that the ribbon on the tape got worn down. And I still watched it till the vcr ate the tape. I also watched Halloween that almost wsn't and The worst witch. Is it more or does anyone else remember this being a lot longer when they watched it as kids?
is it weird I'm an adult and I almost cried because of the pumpkin? he kind of reminds me: I have also felt unwanted and then met someone, who is as unhappy. I'm glad Ralph and the pumpkin got a happy halloween after all. this is a great cartoon :)
Chuck Jones rules it.... one of the best in animating....I LOVE this I haven't seen this in about 20yrs.... thank you şo much for beautiful trip back down memory lane
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm 54 yrs.old and this is the 1st.time I had ever seen this cartoon!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I looooooooove pumkins and my smile ain't whut it use to be any more! What a sweet cartoon!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ it makes me want to smile!!❤❤❤❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤
I'm not sure I ever saw it but I was 9 in 85. It sure reminds me of the kinds of movies we saw at school. That's why I'm watching 🙂 for the nostalgia factor.
14:07 I remember that part and not getting it as a kid. Now, decades later, it stands out to me as one of the best 'for the adults' jokes in animation.
4 years ago I carved this pumpkin, (the glum version), for Halloween. Even glued pumpkin seeds as 'tears'. No one recognized it as being the pumpkin from this cartoon, but they did like my carving.
There's a reason why we don't see things such as this anymore. It's because we, as a people on the whole, have forgotten what it's like. Life back then (at least for me when I first saw this as a kid) was relatively simple; Saturday morning cartoons, trick or treating on Halloween, waking up on Christmas morning and seeing gifts under the tree, toys actually being fun, that sort of thing. We've become too politically correct (which may or may not be a good thing, depending how you look at it). Life has gotten complicated over the years. We've traded in our innocence and all things good in the world for something that is probably ugly. I'll admit it, if I had to pick a period in time that I could go back to when it was my best time and I was happy,....it would be when I was a kid. Granted there were things here and there that I didn't like (family problems),....but there were still a few good things that I still cling to. A person putting up treasures such as these is a gentle reminder of what was good in life,....and perhaps showing future generations that the world wasn't always a bad place.
I love the internet. I vaguely remember this as a kid in the 80's. I remember visiting my grandmother on Halloween at the nursing home when she had a broken leg and this being on the TV in her room.
This was shown around Halloween in 1979. I remember seeing it. I don't remember the network it was on, but if I had to guess, I probably would say ABC. I haven't seen this cartoon in years and years, which is a shame as it's a Chuck Jones work and he did some really fine work. Glad somebody decided to upload it to You Tube.
From Wikipedia: Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (a.k.a. simply The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile) is a 1979 animated television special featuring Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises, it was first televised October 31, 1979 on CBS.
@@jpeachy4u482 alvin and the chipmunks Christmas How the grinch stole Christmas Various tom and Jerry shorts Various loony tune shorts Are all chuck Jones works. Probably more.
This is truly my childhood. I used to watch these specials continuously throughout the year and even more during the Autumn. Watching it again at 28 y/o makes me feel 4 years old again. I can't help but get happy and sad at the same time. I work for Disney now and no one can see how much this means to me. I'm so grateful I grew up in the time I did. One day, I'm showing ALL of these to my kids.
"Or threaten aunt Agatha with income tax invasion..." I'm laughing so hard right now that I actually cried! X'D I've seen this a LOT of times, but I never really got that joke till now! X'D That's kinda effed up too though of Andy to suggest! I mean, that could put aunt Agatha and the kid out of house and home! XD
Had this special been done later on, that dog would be a totally radical dog with sunglasses and making very painful cool catchphrases. Just having a dog who acts like a dog who happens to ride on a skateboard is simple enough to be unique on its own merits.
seriously, thank you so much for posting this, I have this on a much beloved (and worn out) VHS tape of halloween shows that my dad recorded for us off of the disney channel when we were kids. The first half of this cartoon is all scattered in black and white nonsense cause I've worn the tape out so much (I'm 35 now). It's always been part of my halloween tradition to watch it tho, and I'm so scared of the year that the tape just breaks. This is a treasure to me, and I love it so much....thank you a hundred times over.
If the tape breaks you can tape it back together with Scotch tape. I too have many Holiday specials taped when I was a kid and I transferred them to DVD on a DVD recorder since many of the shows were not released onto DVD. The quality is obviously not that great when watching on a 1080p screen, but I love to watch the old commercials from the 80s and 90s.
Man, I saw this only once in 1983 in school (Stukey) on that reel-to-reel projector...Strangely, it made such an impression that I'd thought about this many times over the...decades! Glad to find it online.
In case anyone's wondering, while Agatha is a Grinch, it was not an uncommon attitude from the 30s-60s, where a lot of adults found Trick Or Treating to be a form of extortion or begging and not something they approve of children getting into the habit of. You still see this attitude today in a lot of other countries that Halloween got imported to - particularly France.
People used to have attitudes towards the idea of witch craft, slavery, and Nazism. Well, we still have Zionism and that's no different than Nazism, but for a lot of irrational ideas we're finally too smart for.
Wow the animation is the same as the Chipmunks Christmas. lol Awesome. I never noticed that before. And the voice of Andy is the same voice of the bear from Tukiki's search for a Merry Christmas. :D
Thank you so much for posting this! My brothers and I used to watch this every year (along with Witch's Night Out, Halloween Is Grinch Night, and Halloween That Almost Wasnt) around Halloween on Disney Channel. Man, we very lucky to have grown up when we did :) Thanks again for helping me to relive all those wonderful memories.
I've got this on VHS still and I still have a working VHS TV. I also had a Raggedy Ann doll up until a few years ago. This was one of my favorite Halloween films growing up. I'm 20 and I still watch it at least once every year, even if it's not during Halloween. (Since it's kinda hard to celebrate Halloween all month long like when you were a kid when you're in college... :/)
:) thank you for uploading this... I wish I was young again and the only things I had to worry about was watching cartoons like this one :( I have a baby on the way and I can't wait to show him/her this
WOW! I barely remember this but I'll never forget that poor crying, lonely pumpkin or Ann & Andy! This is a very old cartoon, what I immediately noticed was the dog on a modern day skateboard, the kind that became very popular in the 1980's. At the time this cartoon was created, I don't remember actual store bought skateboards, we used an old roller skate's wheels and an 18 inch 2 by 4 piece of wood. But as I said, I was very young when this cartoon was out but it was interesting to catch that. Thanks for cool cartoon, Happy Halloween from your newest subscriber! 🎃✨👍🏽
There was a ton of DVDs in the section with animated Halloween stories. This is the only one I wanted and of course it's wasn't there. Thanks a bunch for putting it on youtube. This was right up there with the another animated classic I also can't find.' The Halloween Tree'.
This cartoon has alluded me for years! Saw it as a kid during the late 90s, and all I could remember was the pumpkin's face and a few of the overhead stills of the town. A little late for a Halloween short maybe, but I'm glad to solve one childhood mystery.
I'm in my mid 50s and honestly, I don't remember this cartoon...for the life of me, I can't remember ever seeing it! I loved it! Such a heart warming story and so nostalgic! They don't make cartoons like this anymore!
that’s because you grew up on Venus
every other Earthling saw this cartoon
@@sonicmagnus5312 😂 I saw many of the others I just don’t remember ever seeing this one
I'm 60 and I;ve never seen it.
@@johnzubil2875 thank you! I see that I’m not the only one who hadn’t seen it and I’m not from the planet Venus! 😂
I'm sorry for your childhoods. I'm 39 watching this now with my 73 year old parents and the memories, it's so beautiful 🎃
This spelled October for me when I was really little...it was usually the first thing we watched...and of course, THAT filled me with SO much excitement 😁😁😁😁
I just love these old Halloween cartoons. Things were so much more fun for kids when we were younger.
Same,and at 33 im doing it for my youngest and October starts in a couple days 🦇🐦⬛🖤🎃👻
I think kids these days are not excited to watch shows like this anymore; everything is so readily available anytime instead of having to wait for the networks to show these specials once a year. No one appreciates these old cartoons anymore, except those of us that grew up with them. ❤
What I like about Chuck Jones, especially when his art style got refined, was that it had this innocently youthful, adorable feel to the characters, but they also felt very mature when they wanted to be. And he wasn't limited to this, he could make some really freaky looking characters, the best example being in the Phantom Tollbooth.
Well said!
@@animefan77 I love that movie Butch Patrick Eddie Munster is in the title role that was before or after Munster Go Home 🏡
the details yes , nobody does animation like these in 2d
Oh my God you know the phantom tollbooth anime fan? That’s one of my favorite shows but yeah they have a lot of weird freaky characters in that show like the doldrums
@ it’s western animation. And one of the few non-Looney Tunes projects he worked on. And it shows how diverse his style can be
I love that he cries pumpkin seeds!
That poor pumpkin!!!
I'd take him home in a heartbeat! 🎃
19:57 Andy's face!!!! LOL
Me too!
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Aww
I was 11 years old when I first, saw this on T.V CBS channel 2 in New York City. It came out in 1979. I sure miss my childhood.
Sure did
The Raggedy Twins are so Adorable! I wanna Cuddle them😊❤
They’re not twins, hehe! Andy is usually about a few days younger than Ann in most of the other media.. I’d say the same here! :,)
I remember watching the pumpkin 🎃 that couldn't smile on the Disney Channel when I was a kid and it's still fantastic to watch in October. 😀👍🎃
Remember those TV carts that maintenance would roll into the classroom?
Oh god yes, those things weighed a ton, and they were even heavier when you added one of those top loading VCRS they added a good extra 50 pounds to the cart, at my school once you were in grade four and up and were well behaved you and two other kids from my class may be selected to go to the office and get it our selves, it was way too heavy for one kid to move it themselves, so you needed a small platoon...
@@phoenixman8569 Those days made since to me. ❤
I remember those at my school
@@stephaniecruzado384 Yes great times
And in my school, no matter how many times they fixed the wheel or replaced the entire cart....a wheel could be heard squeaking and we hoped that it would be heading for our classroom lol.
My sister and I use to watch "Raggedy Anne & Andy" cartoon all the time, ppl actually forgot this was a cartoon back in the day. Thus is even more rare than the show it self.
You mean the late 80s cartoon or that there's more chuck Jones ones?
This is my favorite Halloween special!
"The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile" is a 1979 animated television special featuring Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises, it was first televised October 31, 1979 on CBS.
40 years old in 2019. i thought this was older.
I was 4. I remember!
Yep,my son was born in 79,we watched this his first Halloween ❤️🎃
My first Halloween
I was 10 1/2 the year this came out.
My Dad worked for Polaroid back in the day + they also made blank VHS tapes. My mom taped EVERYTHING lol This was on 1 of our many Halloween themed tapes. Along with The Halloween That Almost Wasn't, The Worst Witch + literally any cartoon "Special" aired on channels ABC, CBS or NBC...Garfield's Halloween Special... of course Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"...so many. I'm 46, probably been 35 years since I saw this. Thank You + Happy Halloween 🎃
Finally I’m not alone! Hehe
My mother taped EVERYTHING as well! I have all you mentioned, plus I love having the old commercials if we had time-taped something. 😬 Rewatching the tapes I find amazing things I never knew like…Tori Amos was the one in that Corn Flakes commercial! 🥰
I am watching this now, remembering my first Halloween. I was 2.5yrs old & was the best Raggedy Ann! Mom sewed all my amazing, realistic costumes & has old Polaroids of them all too! I watch this today at 44, all alone while carving my own lil glum pumpkin 🥴🎃
P.S. I’m Pisces also…just noticed your name 😉♓️
Thanks so much for this, it was like being little all over again. 💜
This just reminds me that we were all young once.
(( 🎃 )) oh my gosh here,
the pumpkin who couldn't smile.
This is one of those halloween cartoons I really did enjoy watching back then. I miss this one and miss other Halloween cartoons as well. I would love to see all these old and classic Halloween cartoons put back on television the way it use to be when we were young kids. Miss and love the 80s, nothing but good times and great memories plus all the great programs we had back then.
I am in my 50s. This is one of my favorite cartoons. I absolutely love Raggedy Ann and Andy.🥰🥰🥰
I was seven years old when I watched this back in 1979, afterwards I went trick or treating dressed as wonder woman.
Love your story ❤️
I just love how he cries pumpkin seeds XD
I've watched it every time during the Halloween 🎃 season... this goes up there with Charlie Brown, Garfield and Grinch's Halloween 🎃 specials
And don't forget Halloween Tree!
@@kevinlee7678That too
And “The Halloween that Almost Wasn’t” 👻🧡
@@Nibiru3600X And that one too plus I've got a new one Dear Dracula about a boy who lives with his grandma who loves horror movies and he writes to the king 👑 of the vampires and they help each other with their "problems"Grandmother is voiced by the legendary Mrs.C from Happy Days Marion Ross
@@garycarpenter6433 Sounds cute!
I just looked it up & it’s on Tubi. I’ll check it out, thanks 🧛♂️👍
I saw this only once before during my early grade school years back in the 80s. I remember we had a section of the school library cordoned off for watching movies and how we all laughed watching the cat riding the pumpkin down the hill. Sure is nice to remember that moment again.
the nostalgia. thank you so much for posting this! this played on tv in my house every Halloween as a child. wasn't Halloween without out.
Thank you for bring me back into time when I was a little boy. Sometimes, it's fun to take a trip to the past and remember vividly all those cartoons and shows. These cartoons are special because I remember them.
Love that I can watch this again! I grew up watching this show every fall as a child and absolutely love it. This brings back a lot of great childhood memories.
RIP Ron Dias. He painted all the wonderful backgrounds for this animated show. Out of all the great work he did for Disney and Don Bluth this one really stood out most for me
I am 59 years old and remember watching this with my Girls.I feel so bad for the Pumpkin I want to hug him and i am sitting here watching this by myself and I love the ole cartoons nothing like them!
Rip June foray I still miss you ya favorite voice over actor of all
This cartoon always melts my heart ❤& puts a smile on my face 😊everytime I see it .Beautiful Halloween cartoon classic !!!
Such high-quality. Cartoons these days don't hold a candle to Chuck Jones.
I agree, but don't be *that* old man.
Excuse me?HIGH quality?
High quality lol
I absolutely adore this cartoon! Ann and Andy are the best.
This is one of my very favorite Halloween shows 🎃
Poor Pumpkin, I feel his pain of loneliness.
Me too
@ichihimefan91 i knw the feeling
I remember watching this as a child. I didn't remember the name, but only that the pumpkin cried. Thank goodness for the internet.
me too my dad recorded this for me and I watched it so much that the ribbon on the tape got worn down. And I still watched it till the vcr ate the tape. I also watched Halloween that almost wsn't and The worst witch.
Is it more or does anyone else remember this being a lot longer when they watched it as kids?
Ikr
Me too and that raggedy Ann was in it. 🎃🖤🎃
Going to the museum to look at rocks!? Hahaha! This is so cute. This whole thing is so darn cute.
is it weird I'm an adult and I almost cried because of the pumpkin? he kind of reminds me: I have also felt unwanted and then met someone, who is as unhappy. I'm glad Ralph and the pumpkin got a happy halloween after all. this is a great cartoon :)
Well, it's like what Maxim Gorky says in Lower Depths; "A miserable being must find another miserable being; this equates to happiness."
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Spoiler alert lol
Not at all, it is always good to be young at heart and to share your life with others!!! Because, there is always someone for everyone else!!!
The voice acting is brilliant. I really felt for the character.
Chuck Jones rules it.... one of the best in animating....I LOVE this I haven't seen this in about 20yrs.... thank you şo much for beautiful trip back down memory lane
Found it here last year..so glad to see its still up!!
I grew up in the 1980’s watching this on Halloween! I love this so much. 🎃🍂🍁👻
So many memories. So glad this is posted. Now I can show my kids, one of my favorite movies. Thank you!!
Ikr I hope it stays on RUclips
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm 54 yrs.old and this is the 1st.time I had ever seen this cartoon!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I looooooooove pumkins and my smile ain't whut it use to be any more! What a sweet cartoon!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ it makes me want to smile!!❤❤❤❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤
I saw this in elementary school, they used a film projector to show it to us, was back in 1985, lol.
Same here--except for me it was in the early '90s. Never thought I'd find this again! :)
For now, film projectors are obsolete and no longer wanted.
Coming very soon, the title “The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile” could come to DVD.
I'm not sure I ever saw it but I was 9 in 85. It sure reminds me of the kinds of movies we saw at school. That's why I'm watching 🙂 for the nostalgia factor.
Had this on vhs and haven't seen it in over 25 years but still remembered every line like it was yeasterday.
".... or threaten Aunt Agatha with income tax evasion ...." 😂😂😂
Chuck jones will always be an Iconic artist for childhood nostalgia.
14:07 I remember that part and not getting it as a kid. Now, decades later, it stands out to me as one of the best 'for the adults' jokes in animation.
I haven't seen this since I was in grade school . It was awesome to see again .
i hope the pumpkin never spoils. He is cool.
Plot twist: the kid got a a hold on some embalming fluids from raggedy Ann and Annie and test it on the jack o lantern.
This aired for the 1st time less than 2 months after I was born. I grew up watching it. Still have the self-recorded VHS that I made when I was 7.
4 years ago I carved this pumpkin, (the glum version), for Halloween. Even glued pumpkin seeds as 'tears'. No one recognized it as being the pumpkin from this cartoon, but they did like my carving.
You're lucky to still have it. VHS can spoil pretty easily., or break, etc.🎃🎃
This film makes me smile!
The aunt sounds like Granny in the Tweety bird cartoons.
Thats her
@@Alicethegoon-q6y No, it is indeed June Foray a.k.a. Magica de Spell.
@@kevinlee7678 look at the intro, it was not her but Hobart Donavan
It's because it is she was on of the greatest voices of her time@!!!❤❤her voice
@@Alicethegoon-q6yHobart is actually a man.
the opening credits "Miscellaneous voices and barks, miscellaneous people and dogs" LOL that was good.
This is so adorable and cute I nearly cried. Why aren't there more treasures like this? I'm ashamed I didn't watch this as a kid....
TopsyTriceratops
Yes?
There's a reason why we don't see things such as this anymore. It's because we, as a people on the whole, have forgotten what it's like. Life back then (at least for me when I first saw this as a kid) was relatively simple; Saturday morning cartoons, trick or treating on Halloween, waking up on Christmas morning and seeing gifts under the tree, toys actually being fun, that sort of thing. We've become too politically correct (which may or may not be a good thing, depending how you look at it). Life has gotten complicated over the years. We've traded in our innocence and all things good in the world for something that is probably ugly.
I'll admit it, if I had to pick a period in time that I could go back to when it was my best time and I was happy,....it would be when I was a kid. Granted there were things here and there that I didn't like (family problems),....but there were still a few good things that I still cling to.
A person putting up treasures such as these is a gentle reminder of what was good in life,....and perhaps showing future generations that the world wasn't always a bad place.
@Genta edgy
RUclips Disney's Halloween Treat
I felt so bad for the pumpkin.... he was so sad! I could relate to the pumpkin as a kid and I wanted to rescue him. It sounds crazy now.... lol!
Haven't seen this since I was in 3rd grade. Great to see it again.
+Jeremy Stephenson I renember back at school my teacher brought in some old VHS taps and one of theme had this film and even some TMNT and Transformrs
I love the internet. I vaguely remember this as a kid in the 80's. I remember visiting my grandmother on Halloween at the nursing home when she had a broken leg and this being on the TV in her room.
Great story, ❤❤❤❤ to see on tv for Halloween!!!!!😅😅😅😅
God, I haven't seen this in over 20 years but can almost remember it like it was yesterday!
Wow what is a classic loved this movie 😊
No one could voice Raggedy Ann and Andy better than June Foray and Dawes Butler!
Elroy jetson
Takes me back to my childhood!
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
I love seeing this movie again brings back good memories when i was little
My favorite Halloween special! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks this was like going back in time. My favorite part was @ 17:21, maybe that's how God feels about us when we come to him with our broken hearts.
This was shown around Halloween in 1979. I remember seeing it. I don't remember the network it was on, but if I had to guess, I probably would say ABC. I haven't seen this cartoon in years and years, which is a shame as it's a Chuck Jones work and he did some really fine work. Glad somebody decided to upload it to You Tube.
From Wikipedia:
Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (a.k.a. simply The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile) is a 1979 animated television special featuring Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises, it was first televised October 31, 1979 on CBS.
I have this on VHS and watch it every year still. It was NBC.
Another wonderful program Chuck Jones did was Rikki Tikki Tavi about a mongoose also done for CBS.
These old specials need to show these again. When I was young I couldn't wait for the holidays to see these.
@@jpeachy4u482 alvin and the chipmunks Christmas
How the grinch stole Christmas
Various tom and Jerry shorts
Various loony tune shorts
Are all chuck Jones works. Probably more.
This is truly my childhood. I used to watch these specials continuously throughout the year and even more during the Autumn. Watching it again at 28 y/o makes me feel 4 years old again. I can't help but get happy and sad at the same time. I work for Disney now and no one can see how much this means to me. I'm so grateful I grew up in the time I did. One day, I'm showing ALL of these to my kids.
Thank you for this. I watched it many years ago and really enjoy it. Happy Halloween to you
Thank you for sharing this 😊
I grew up watching this cartoon, what a treat getting to watch it again after so many decades ❤❤❤
oh my gosh this is so cute! I want that pumpkin!
Ikr
"Or threaten aunt Agatha with income tax invasion..." I'm laughing so hard right now that I actually cried! X'D I've seen this a LOT of times, but I never really got that joke till now! X'D That's kinda effed up too though of Andy to suggest! I mean, that could put aunt Agatha and the kid out of house and home! XD
Had this special been done later on, that dog would be a totally radical dog with sunglasses and making very painful cool catchphrases. Just having a dog who acts like a dog who happens to ride on a skateboard is simple enough to be unique on its own merits.
Chuck Jones was a master of his craft
You've made my day and then some. Been looking for this for years and years!! Just watched and am so happy!
seriously, thank you so much for posting this, I have this on a much beloved (and worn out) VHS tape of halloween shows that my dad recorded for us off of the disney channel when we were kids. The first half of this cartoon is all scattered in black and white nonsense cause I've worn the tape out so much (I'm 35 now). It's always been part of my halloween tradition to watch it tho, and I'm so scared of the year that the tape just breaks. This is a treasure to me, and I love it so much....thank you a hundred times over.
If the tape breaks you can tape it back together with Scotch tape. I too have many Holiday specials taped when I was a kid and I transferred them to DVD on a DVD recorder since many of the shows were not released onto DVD. The quality is obviously not that great when watching on a 1080p screen, but I love to watch the old commercials from the 80s and 90s.
Man, I saw this only once in 1983 in school (Stukey) on that reel-to-reel projector...Strangely, it made such an impression that I'd thought about this many times over the...decades! Glad to find it online.
I loved this as a child.
I still love this. When he cries pumpkin seeds and is so happy ❤
In case anyone's wondering, while Agatha is a Grinch, it was not an uncommon attitude from the 30s-60s, where a lot of adults found Trick Or Treating to be a form of extortion or begging and not something they approve of children getting into the habit of.
You still see this attitude today in a lot of other countries that Halloween got imported to - particularly France.
People used to have attitudes towards the idea of witch craft, slavery, and Nazism. Well, we still have Zionism and that's no different than Nazism, but for a lot of irrational ideas we're finally too smart for.
omg I totally forgot about this one! I love it, thank you for sharing.
Wow the animation is the same as the Chipmunks Christmas. lol Awesome. I never noticed that before. And the voice of Andy is the same voice of the bear from Tukiki's search for a Merry Christmas. :D
Victoria B Andy is also voiced the man who did Elroy Jetson.
Herra Weißewulf Wow I didn't know that. I'll have to watch The Jetsons again because I don't remember what he sounded like.
This is how I feel when it comes to relationships I feel like there's nobody out there that wants to be with a guy like me who has Asperger's
Or every time we relationship they break up with me cuz of stupid stuff that happens
Thank you so much for posting this! My brothers and I used to watch this every year (along with Witch's Night Out, Halloween Is Grinch Night, and Halloween That Almost Wasnt) around Halloween on Disney Channel. Man, we very lucky to have grown up when we did :) Thanks again for helping me to relive all those wonderful memories.
I've got this on VHS still and I still have a working VHS TV. I also had a Raggedy Ann doll up until a few years ago. This was one of my favorite Halloween films growing up. I'm 20 and I still watch it at least once every year, even if it's not during Halloween. (Since it's kinda hard to celebrate Halloween all month long like when you were a kid when you're in college... :/)
"The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile" changed into "The Pumpkin Who Could Smile."
my second favorite Halloween special! after great pumpkin! why am I watching in June when father's day is tomorrow? who knows.
"Oh come on Ann...don't tell me you're gonna be FAIR again."
First Halloween special I ever saw.
I. HAVENT. NOT SEEN THIS. EVEN. CHILDHOOD
I remember when I had this on vhs
:) thank you for uploading this... I wish I was young again and the only things I had to worry about was watching cartoons like this one :( I have a baby on the way and I can't wait to show him/her this
19:57, I'll never get over that face Andy made. Can you? It's priceless! LOL!
19:07
Those creepy dolls trying to manipulate Hagatha in her sleep 😂
WOW! I barely remember this but I'll never forget that poor crying, lonely pumpkin or Ann & Andy! This is a very old cartoon, what I immediately noticed was the dog on a modern day skateboard, the kind that became very popular in the 1980's. At the time this cartoon was created, I don't remember actual store bought skateboards, we used an old roller skate's wheels and an 18 inch 2 by 4 piece of wood. But as I said, I was very young when this cartoon was out but it was interesting to catch that. Thanks for cool cartoon, Happy Halloween from your newest subscriber! 🎃✨👍🏽
This is an amazing childhood memory. Thank you....
My fav character, besides Ann and Andy is Raggedy Arthur!!!
❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
There was a ton of DVDs in the section with animated Halloween stories. This is the only one I wanted and of course it's wasn't there. Thanks a bunch for putting it on youtube. This was right up there with the another animated classic I also can't find.' The Halloween Tree'.
For a pumpkin who can't smile he sure does smile a lot.
Omg! My ole fave for Halloween!
This played on Disney?! :O I had no idea! I always had it on VHS and watched every year that way instead, with my Raggedy Ann doll!
Thank you so much for posting this.
One of my fav's!! ♥ Thank you sooo much for the upload ^.^ Such a Classic ♥
This is one of my childhood favorites and my recorded VHS tape is worn out. Thank you SO much for posting this!!
This cartoon has alluded me for years! Saw it as a kid during the late 90s, and all I could remember was the pumpkin's face and a few of the overhead stills of the town. A little late for a Halloween short maybe, but I'm glad to solve one childhood mystery.