"Matty's Funday Funnies" (1959) TV series 1959-1962

Directors:

Robert Clampett
Seymour Kneitel

Writers:

Al Bertino (writer) (1962)
Jack Bonestell (writer) (1962)

Seasons:

1 | unknown

Release Date:

11 October 1959 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family

Plot Keywords:

Sea Monster | Witch | Television | Ghost | Surrealism

Cast

Jackson Beck

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Additional Voices (unknown episodes)

Also Known As:

Beany and Cecil (USA) (new title)
Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil (USA) (new title)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Bob Clampett Productions

Trivia:

In "Beany Meets the Boo Birds", Cecil stops by the haunted Fountain Boo Hotel to borrow a bucket of ice cubes, unaware that the hotel is staffed entirely by ghostly birds. According to a close-up shot of the key rack behind the front desk, every room at the Fountain Boo is room #13.

Quotes:

Beany Boy: Help, Cecil, help!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Catalina Caper (#3.4)" (1990)

Animated Anarchy (for television)

Although I wasn't even born yet when this series was first aired in the late 1950's, I got to finally see it when it was briefly revived in the early 1990's (I had read about it from a film collector's publication, where episodes were made available in the old 16mm format,and that one of the original directors/animation supervisors was none other than the great Bob Clampett,of many a Bugs Bunny short). Although the animation style was carried out on a much smaller budget than most of the animated shorts released by the major studios,it more than made up in the humour department (some of the jokes would have for certain gone right over the heads of most young children at the time). One of my favorite segments was the Beany & Cecil shorts (most of which were directed by Clampett). Other segments varied from so,so (Casper the friendly ghost was a concept that got really old fast),to pretty damned funny (Baby Huey---a gigantic duck that dressed like a baby & acted like an inbred idiot). This series hasn't got much exposure since the early 1990's, so it's safe to assume it's now locked away in some film studio vault & moldering away with time---only to be yet,another one of the forgotten aspects of animation.