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The Tomfoolery Show
Film History
The Bootleg Files: The Tomfoolery Show
- 1970
- The Tomfoolery Show Television Cartoon Series
- Rankin-Bass Productions, Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films
- Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films
- Cartoon Characters: Enthusiastic Elephant, Fastidious Fish, Outrageous Ostrich, Worrying Whizzing Wasp, Scroovy Snake, The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, The Umbrageous Umbrella Maker, Tic-Tac-Toe Board, Mrs. Jaefer, Mr. and Mrs. Discobolus, The Table and the Chair, The Duck and the Kangaroo, Onomatopoiea, Purple Cow, Goops.
- Vocal Talent: Peter Hawkins, Bernard Spear, The Maury Laws Singers.
- Directed By Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass, John Halas, Joy Batchelor.
Supervising Director: John Halas.
Assistant Director: Haster Goblentz. - Produced By Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass, John Halas, Joy Batchelor.
Assistant Producer: Katy Holland. - Animated By Harold Whitaker, Tony Guy, John Perkins, Terry Harrison, Ginger Gibbons, Mike Pogock, Joan Garrick, John Challis, Santo Villani, Stuart Wynn Jones, Elphin Lloyd Jones.
- Written By Romeo Muller.
Based upon Works by: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear.
Back in 1970, the inspired madmen at Rankin/Bass Productions teamed up with the British animation studio Halas & Batchelor to offer a weekly cartoon series that was inspired by the comic poetry of such writers as Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. The resulting endeavor was “The Tomfoolery Show,” and it was easily among the most bizarre productions to assault impressionable TV-obsessed tykes (including yours truly – I was six years old when the series premiered on NBC).
In terms of style, “The Tomfoolery Show” was a product of its funky and psychedelic era. It eschewed the conventional parameters of animation offered by Hanna-Barbera and the classic Warner Bros. output and chose to follow a free-flowing, surreal visual vibe that was evident in the animated feature “Yellow Submarine” and in the live action shows produced by Sid and Marty Krofft.
Thus, the characters of “The Tomfoolery Show” were an outrageous sideshow of unlikely beings: the Umbrageous Umbrella Maker, a man with an umbrella for a head (he had circular eyes, but no mouth); the Scroovy Snake, whose head consisted of a straw bowler hat (he also had eyes but no mouth); the Fastidious Fish, an oversized goldfish that rested half out of his bowl and used stilts to walk about; and the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, a smiling, bespectacled humanoid whose circular head was roughly the same size as his torso. In comparison, the Enthusiastic Elephant, a bipedal pink pachyderm in a suit and derby, was the closest thing the show had to normalcy.
In terms of substance, “The Tomfoolery Show” relied on a skein of one-liners, puns and non-sequiturs. Or as the cheery theme song insisted: “We’re putting on the nonsense, the funny stuff and nonsense. With riddles, jokes and silly things, it’s all Tomfoolery!”
The show copied the then-popular format of “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” by offering a nonstop skein of one-liners, blackout gags and comic songs. A great many of the jokes could probably be traced back to the Paleolithic Era. For example, a hungry individual’s exclamation that he’s not “had a bite in three days” is greeted by a comrade’s toothy chomp. Elsewhere, a character running about with a case of beer bottles announces that he is “taking his case to court.” He appears a few seconds later, still lugging the beer bottles but also holding a ladder. Why? “I’m taking my case to a higher court!” he proclaims. Ba-dum-bum!
Now, it is important to remember that this program was designed for the Saturday morning kiddie television ghetto. In concept, the nutty wordplay and over-the-top animation might have been utterly inappropriate for a youthful audience that was weaned on Yogi Bear and Fred Flintstone. Yet “The Tomfoolery Show” was a great favorite of mine when I was six years old. Maybe I didn’t appreciate the cleverness of all of the dialogue, but I was hypnotized by the sheer craziness of the production. The program did not look or sound like anything that was on television – indeed, it seemed to beckon to an intriguing horizon beyond the stifling limits of childhood, where nonconformist zany behavior ruled the day.
Personal favorite segments of “The Tomfoolery Show” involved the Tic-Tac-Toe Board, where an anthropomorphic X and O duo engaged in surprisingly bitchy exchanges, and a cooking segment where inane recipes were presented with such advice as “bake at 300 degrees for two days or two degrees for 300 days!” One episode that stands out has the normally cheerful Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo stomping around while yelling, “Somebody ate my ice cream!” Don’t ask me to explain, but I found it very funny when I was a kid and I can still laugh about it today.
And it seems that I am not the only one who feels this way. In researching this subject, I have found a wealth of comments by people who recall the program from the early 1970s. Some people have used online forums to quote the nonsense poems and lyrics that permeated the show’s musical interludes.
“The Tomfoolery Show” only had a single season run on NBC; it left the U.S. airwaves in 1971 and has yet to return. It was broadcast in the U.K., Canada and Australia, but it most likely never played in non-English-speaking markets (I cannot see how its puns and language-twisting riddles could be properly translated).
There are at least two collector-to-collector outlets that can oblige the show’s fans – one has four episodes on a DVD, the other has three. The full series consisted of 17 episodes, but these have never been compiled as a full anthology.
A 10-minute segment of “The Tomfoolery Show” can be found on YouTube. This provides a mere sampling of the unique entertainment of this long-elusive beauty. Hopefully, the powers that control the Rankin/Bass library will dust off “The Tomfoolery Show” and bring it back for today’s audiences to enjoy. Because now, more than ever, we really need the funny stuff and nonsense that this brilliant program provided.
Read more: http://www.filmthreat.com/features/49623/#ixzz3Tu5voJeV
In terms of style, “The Tomfoolery Show” was a product of its funky and psychedelic era. It eschewed the conventional parameters of animation offered by Hanna-Barbera and the classic Warner Bros. output and chose to follow a free-flowing, surreal visual vibe that was evident in the animated feature “Yellow Submarine” and in the live action shows produced by Sid and Marty Krofft.
Thus, the characters of “The Tomfoolery Show” were an outrageous sideshow of unlikely beings: the Umbrageous Umbrella Maker, a man with an umbrella for a head (he had circular eyes, but no mouth); the Scroovy Snake, whose head consisted of a straw bowler hat (he also had eyes but no mouth); the Fastidious Fish, an oversized goldfish that rested half out of his bowl and used stilts to walk about; and the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, a smiling, bespectacled humanoid whose circular head was roughly the same size as his torso. In comparison, the Enthusiastic Elephant, a bipedal pink pachyderm in a suit and derby, was the closest thing the show had to normalcy.
In terms of substance, “The Tomfoolery Show” relied on a skein of one-liners, puns and non-sequiturs. Or as the cheery theme song insisted: “We’re putting on the nonsense, the funny stuff and nonsense. With riddles, jokes and silly things, it’s all Tomfoolery!”
The show copied the then-popular format of “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” by offering a nonstop skein of one-liners, blackout gags and comic songs. A great many of the jokes could probably be traced back to the Paleolithic Era. For example, a hungry individual’s exclamation that he’s not “had a bite in three days” is greeted by a comrade’s toothy chomp. Elsewhere, a character running about with a case of beer bottles announces that he is “taking his case to court.” He appears a few seconds later, still lugging the beer bottles but also holding a ladder. Why? “I’m taking my case to a higher court!” he proclaims. Ba-dum-bum!
Now, it is important to remember that this program was designed for the Saturday morning kiddie television ghetto. In concept, the nutty wordplay and over-the-top animation might have been utterly inappropriate for a youthful audience that was weaned on Yogi Bear and Fred Flintstone. Yet “The Tomfoolery Show” was a great favorite of mine when I was six years old. Maybe I didn’t appreciate the cleverness of all of the dialogue, but I was hypnotized by the sheer craziness of the production. The program did not look or sound like anything that was on television – indeed, it seemed to beckon to an intriguing horizon beyond the stifling limits of childhood, where nonconformist zany behavior ruled the day.
Personal favorite segments of “The Tomfoolery Show” involved the Tic-Tac-Toe Board, where an anthropomorphic X and O duo engaged in surprisingly bitchy exchanges, and a cooking segment where inane recipes were presented with such advice as “bake at 300 degrees for two days or two degrees for 300 days!” One episode that stands out has the normally cheerful Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo stomping around while yelling, “Somebody ate my ice cream!” Don’t ask me to explain, but I found it very funny when I was a kid and I can still laugh about it today.
And it seems that I am not the only one who feels this way. In researching this subject, I have found a wealth of comments by people who recall the program from the early 1970s. Some people have used online forums to quote the nonsense poems and lyrics that permeated the show’s musical interludes.
“The Tomfoolery Show” only had a single season run on NBC; it left the U.S. airwaves in 1971 and has yet to return. It was broadcast in the U.K., Canada and Australia, but it most likely never played in non-English-speaking markets (I cannot see how its puns and language-twisting riddles could be properly translated).
There are at least two collector-to-collector outlets that can oblige the show’s fans – one has four episodes on a DVD, the other has three. The full series consisted of 17 episodes, but these have never been compiled as a full anthology.
A 10-minute segment of “The Tomfoolery Show” can be found on YouTube. This provides a mere sampling of the unique entertainment of this long-elusive beauty. Hopefully, the powers that control the Rankin/Bass library will dust off “The Tomfoolery Show” and bring it back for today’s audiences to enjoy. Because now, more than ever, we really need the funny stuff and nonsense that this brilliant program provided.
Read more: http://www.filmthreat.com/features/49623/#ixzz3Tu5voJeV
The Tomfoolery Show was a short-lived collection of animated shorts based on the nonsensical poetry of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, with occasional nods to other literary classics by Ogden Nash and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Tomfoolery Show was an animated cartoon series based on the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. There were several recurring characters, including the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo from the Lear poem "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo."
The high-minded concept went straight over the heads of its young viewers and the show was cancelled after just one season, but not before introducing us to such amusing recurring characters as the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo (whose head was ever so much bigger than his body), the Scroobious Snake, the Obsequious Ornamental Ostrich, the Enthusiastic Elephant, the Fitzgibbious Fish, the Umbrageous Umbrella Maker and the Worrying Whizzing Wasp.
Tomfoolery Show was an animated cartoon series based on the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. There were several recurring characters, including the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo from the Lear poem "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo."
The high-minded concept went straight over the heads of its young viewers and the show was cancelled after just one season, but not before introducing us to such amusing recurring characters as the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo (whose head was ever so much bigger than his body), the Scroobious Snake, the Obsequious Ornamental Ostrich, the Enthusiastic Elephant, the Fitzgibbious Fish, the Umbrageous Umbrella Maker and the Worrying Whizzing Wasp.
The Tomfoolery Show.com will be based on real life comedy sketches and will be broadcast on our online TV Network at www.219.tv ©2015 All Rights Reserved
