Favorite "Goofy Gophers" short

[cbrubaker]

Which short featuring two overly polite gophers are your favorite?

[loon E tune12]

Wait a second bob clampett did not do the goofy goofers right?

[gilligan fanati]

Two Gophers from Texas

[Daffysleftfoot]

Wait a second bob clampett did not do the goofy goofers right?

It has been said that Clampett storyboarded the first Goofy Gophers cartoon just before leaving the studio. Then, it was up to Art Davis to take over the unit and finish the rest.

[Jaime_Weinman]

Wait a second bob clampett did not do the goofy goofers right?

Clampett came up with the idea for the Goofy Gophers before he left. How much he had to do with the creation of their first cartoon is an open question (the fact that it includes Clampett's favorite catchphrase, "Well, now, I wouldn't say that," suggests that he had some input into the story), but the cartoon itself was directed by Art Davis alone.

Also, another Gophers cartoon, "A Ham in a Role," had a story that was created for Davis but directed by McKimson (with two of Davis's animators) after Davis's unit shut down.

Considering that these characters were never all that popular, there really seemed to be a lot of interest in them at the studio; director after director kept taking them up, and nobody ever quite let them go away completely. Frankly I can think of a lot of other minor characters who should have been revived instead, but you take what you can get...

I pick "Two Gophers From Texas," too. "Egad! What a book!"

[Thad]

What is a Goofy Goofer?

-Thad

[Daffysleftfoot]

You! :p (jk)

[Sogturtle]

Siiiiiiigh... Here we go again with Bob's megalomania...

Sooooo... being a "Recovering Clampett-head":D I asked Mike Barrier (also a Clampett-head) about the wild Clampett claim about "The Goofy Gophers". Barrier's response was that his stance was that 'The Goofy Gophers' "were NOT much more than a gleam in Bob's eye".

[This from a man who adores Bob Clampett's work and had ample exposure to him in person and via letters etc.]

[guy incognito]

A Ham in a Role gets my vote, chiefly for the presence of the thespian dog. (Wish they'd used that character a few more times. He could've made a good foil for :foggy: .)

[Frank]

A Ham in a Role. Hilarious cartoon!:D

[janiepooh34]

Oh, I hope I am right when I say "Lumber Jerks"-if the below scenario is not from Lumber Jerks, then whichever one it came from.

The Goofy Gophers go through the planing machine and one comes out with the curls on his head and says all sing songy "There once was a girl, who had a little curl!"

When I was little, my mother would recite that whole poem to me when I was naughty. I remember when I saw it in the cartoon, I almost fell off the couch because I had always thought my mother made it up and asked her how she got that put into the cartoon. (I must remind you all this was 1976- I didn't know until I was much older that some these cartoons were older than her!) My little 6 year old image of my mother was crushed when she told me she never made it up, and she had learned it from her mother. That same day I found out she did not make up the "I Love Onions" song either, but had learned it from Casey Jones. :shame:

[Jaime_Weinman]

Yes, that's "Lumber Jerks" (the scene was animated by Virgil Ross). Sort of the ancestor of all the sexually-ambiguous moments on modern shows like "The Simpsons" (mostly involving Homer or Bart).

[J. A. Boschen]

I would have to say "I Gopher You" as being favorite Goofy Gophers film. I always enjoyed the story and the music score that accompanies it.

[frogboxer]

I voted for "A Ham in a Role" even though it's been a long time since I've seen that cartoon.