Paul Reubens, Pee-Wee Herman Star, Dead At 70

Mary Poppins Returns - Review!

RIP Yakky Doodle

A few days ago, we lost one of the last remaining of Hanna-Barbera's early voices, Jimmy Weldon, 99-1/2, the original Yakky Doodle. The little yakker duckling,initally a mallard, was derived from early H-B series/Tom and Jerry's "Little Quacker", voiced by funny song singer (no, he didn't have any hits or sing on any)  Red Coffee/Coffey,in turn based on Donald Duck (Clarence Nash). The HB duckling tended to be too self-deprecating and defeatist, making him too emotional (Yeah, we need a Charlie Chaplin type to really pull for, but this is just using us.) 

By 1960-61 HB gave him a spot with Snagglepuss, and, uable to get Red Coffey for whatever, got our local (Los Angeles, California) KTLA ventriloquist Jimmy "Webster Webfoot" Weldon to play Yakky, changing him from mallard to more yellow feller (as his big Vance Colvig-voiced bulldog pal Chopper might put it), and gave him a much more upbeat attitude, and then put him in Yakaky Doodle, on Huckleberry Hound's show (replacing Pixie & Dixie/Mr.Jinks, who went with Yakky and Yogi to Yogi's own show for more originals.) Weldon then continued for a soon to be only occasional (because, honestly folks, how MUCH of Yakky Doodle do you REALLY need, huh folks?) apearance including 1973's YOGI'S GANG.

In the meantime he also did a lot of TV appearanced...you can look around the 'net,including blogspot.yowpyowp.com for more. He was around even for non-Yakky appearances as late as one of the SHIRT TALES (NBC, 1982-84) seasons. See YOWP's blog, Mark Evanier's News From me and again around the net for more, I couldn't do Jimmy Weldon justice.

Our First Disney Day Back - BEST DAY EVER

Here's another INSIDERS Disneyland return video.

Our EMOTIONAL Return to Disneyland! (The FIRST Family in!) and I'm in a new locale

First, a MAJOR update, for the first time since I was three, I'm in a new area in Riverside County, near Orange. Now diff topic,main one:

Not actually animation itsaelf, but DISNEY related, the Bagel (NOT food related) fun loving, wholesome, teen youngsters known as THE (DISNEYLAND) INSIDERS, who dropped the DISNEYLAND part when they started

doing DISNEY WORLD, Eric, Cara, and Adam. Adam and Eric's the twin brothers. Cara's the older sister, with the honey blonde hair.

Here, they're part of the very first return family (post-Covid reopening) to Disneyland!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 Hope everyone had a Merry Christma,sd Hannakuah, etc. and Happy New Year!!

Yowp: How Daws Does It

Yowp: How Daws Does It: Daws Butler is still with us, in a way, even though he’s been gone physically for 32 years. You can pull out a DVD of one of his cartoons an...