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(38,521 posts)The spirits are about to speak!
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)PSPS
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(36,458 posts)Alex Anderson (cartoonist)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Alexander Hume Anderson Jr.
September 5, 1920
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Died October 22, 2010 (aged 90)
Carmel, California, U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Cartoonist
Relatives Paul Terry (uncle)
Alexander Hume Anderson Jr. (September 5, 1920 October 22, 2010)[1] was an American cartoonist who created the characters of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right, as well as Crusader Rabbit. He was not directly involved in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, however.
Biography
Anderson was born in Berkeley, California, a nephew of Mighty Mouse producer Paul Terry, and began his career in 1938 at his Terrytoons animation studio. Anderson and Jay Ward grew up together in Berkeley, California, and formed a business in the late 1940s to pitch cartoon ideas to television, including Crusader Rabbit, Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right. Only Crusader Rabbit was accepted, and after Anderson's other cartoon ideas failed to sell, he joined a San Francisco advertising agency, while Ward moved to Los Angeles to try to sell TV studios on a Bullwinkle series.
Following Jay Ward's death, Anderson, who had not received public recognition for creating Dudley Do-Right, Bullwinkle and Rocky, learned the characters had been copyrighted in Ward's name alone. Consequently, Anderson sued Ward's heirs to reclaim creator credit. In 1993 or 1996, (sources differ), Anderson received a settlement and a court order acknowledging him as "the creator of the first version of the characters of Rocky, Bullwinkle and Dudley." Ted Key, creator of the comic strip Hazel, had a similar situation with his characters Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman.
Death
Anderson died due to complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 90 on October 22, 2010, at a nursing home in Carmel, California. He was survived by his wife of 36 years, Patricia Larsen Anderson, his third spouse following divorces from first wife Gail and second wife Beverly. He had two children from his first marriage, sons Terry and Scott, and three stepchildren, Matthew Kennedy, Carolyn Kennedy, and Daniel Kennedy.
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I only mention this bit of useless trivia because my mom grew up with his first wife. And even more tangential if the fact Anderson's first wife and my mom grew up in the same Podunk Sacramento Valley town where Matthew Groening was counseled to protect his property by copyrighting The Simpsons. The Simpsons was NOT copyrighted when it was first seen on the The Tracey Ullman Show!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Presto!
Wrong hat!
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)You must be 60 years and older to get this joke.
Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)There are too many things I'm qualifying for these days. Arthritis medication, blood pressure medication, insoles for my flat feet. Yup, I'm over 60.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)I probably didn't get half the jokes, but I laughed anyway.
gristy
(10,667 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)You're forgetting that it lived on throughout the 70s in syndicated reruns.
Maeve
(42,288 posts)My millennial kids are in on the joke
mopinko
(70,202 posts)i got the feeling that the arrow of time was starting to meander a bit.
time was collapsing. but it also is apparently full of holes. they know who lucille ball was, but not red skelton.
i guess time that is in color is squishy, but black and white time is a little less full of holes.
PSPS
(13,614 posts)I think the memory of Lucille Ball will live for quite some time.
In the Futurama episode from 2001 "A Tale of Two Santas," there's a scene in Santa's overworked north pole toy factory. The conveyor has a speed dial that has three settings: Fast, Faster and Lucy.This is a direct reference to the iconic episode of "I Love Lucy" 50 years earlier ('Job Switching') where Lucy and Ethel are working in the chocolate factory
and if that doesnt work, we can tell the little ones about how smart she was, and how she gave us star trek.
then show them an old movie from her early career, so they can see what a beauty she was.
yes, she is indelible.
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)And you must be 80 years and older to get this joke, too.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)DBoon
(22,396 posts)nt
Hekate
(90,779 posts)All of us kids got it back in the day -- we were making fun of a government that was not our friend. Behind the humor was a reality.
Somewhere along the way this country got amnesia.
murielm99
(30,760 posts)Hekate
(90,779 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)there is a scene where the two characters are trapped way back in time, in Egypt. They get caught in a huge Egyptian statue of a horse. When they escape from the statue, they escape out the horses ass. Now, that was really crude, but few people realized why. That particular scene was meant for the "adult audiences" to understand.
Check the movie out if you think I am wrong.
Hekate
(90,779 posts)The boy and the professorial dog traveled in time -- wasn't it Sherman and Mr. Peabody?
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)to imply that the movie was about the moose and squirrel..It was wonderful fun, and humor about Sherman and Peabody going back in time..
Hekate
(90,779 posts)Good memories!
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Something called, "Fractured Fairytales" and more. It was pure humor and of course ...FUN!
Ohiya
(2,239 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Ohiya
(2,239 posts)Hekate
(90,779 posts)It's coming back to me in bits and pieces.
Midnight Writer
(21,792 posts)Would not be surprised to hear them talking tomorrow about Moose and Squirrel as Ukranian Deep State operatives.
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Yes, there are lots of towns named Woodstock in the U.S.A.
Ohiogal
(32,050 posts)Otherwise known as Rocky and Bullwinkle, ever day after school.
Adult humor abounded,for sure. But we kids got that it was irreverent, and thats what THIS kid loved about it, anyway!
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)Mr Peabody and Sherman Improbable History - William Shakespeare
Mendocino
(7,504 posts)Bugs Bunny
Jonny Quest
Rocky and Bullwinkle