Hit or Miss: Gabby Goat

[Marty26]

Personally, I think Gabby Goat was a good character. He and Porky actually had a lot of chemistry (in some ways, even more so than Daffy). And the timing was perfect for WB to give Porky such a sidekick since, now that Mel Blanc took over vocal duties, they didn't have to worry about a voice actor who couldn't get a single sentence out without constantly stuttering. So they could actually give Porky a personality (rather than just leaving him as the generic cartoon character he was in his Joe Daugherty years).

Of course, I know a lot of people disagree with me and can't stand Gabby Goat. So what's the overall consensus here?

[looneymaniac]

I agree with you Marty after all Gabby Goat was actually a good character for comedy. I mean sure he was cranky but consider this everybody gets cranky at some point. If you ask me Daffy Duck was just as bad as Gabby Goat in the later episodes of Looney Tunes. I enjoy watching Gabby Goat it's too bad he only had 3 episodes. Also does anybody know if can download the computer colorized version or Black & White version of Get Rich Quick Porky because I've only seen the Redrawn version on Boomerang?

[Matt the Y]

Definitely a miss! The character was superfluous, in my opinion, and not funny at all. Actually, the character is much too boisterous and obnoxious to even remotely be funny and proof that the character wasn't needed when Porky could've had a much better co-star is shown in "Tick Tock Tuckered" in which Daffy replaces Gabby from the original "Porky's Badtime Story" and we get the same cartoon only with funnier gags and a much better character filling in for the unlikeable Gabby Goat.

Gabby is one of those characters that will go down as "forgotten" among today's public and rightfully so. He was a character that was just an experiment which failed dismally.

[captchucky]

Personally, I think Gabby Goat was a good character. He and Porky actually had a lot of chemistry (in some ways, even more so than Daffy). And the timing was perfect for WB to give Porky such a sidekick since, now that Mel Blanc took over vocal duties, they didn't have to worry about a voice actor who couldn't get a single sentence out without constantly stuttering. So they could actually give Porky a personality (rather than just leaving him as the generic cartoon character he was in his Joe Daugherty years).

Of course, I know a lot of people disagree with me and can't stand Gabby Goat. So what's the overall consensus here?

Gabby Goat cracks me up! I never understood the bad reviews he got. He should have been a cartoon superstar featured on toys and lunchboxes throughout america!

[dandu]

Gabby should have had a longer run, and could've replaced the angry daffy... and left daffy with his WOO HOO self in the 1950s. Also I liked his role in Get Rich Porky, especially the part with the pnumatic hammer.

[Eugene the Jeep]

I've never cared for him, myself.

[Leviathan]

I'll give Gabby Goat this; he's nowhere NEAR as obnoxious as the Fleischer's Gabby.

Plus Bob Clampett did make 2 good cartoons with him.

[Eugene the Jeep]

I'll give Gabby Goat this; he's nowhere NEAR as obnoxious as the Fleischer's Gabby.
that's setting the bar pretty low. :)

[Mr. Semaj]

The only successful Gabby cartoon was Porky's Badtime Story.

At least at the time, they had better judgement on which characterizations worked and what didn't. Didn't it ever occur to anyone during the 1960's that Daffy was far removed from his likeable side?

[J Lee]

A miss (which is why Clampett started concentrating on Daffy), but not for a lack of trying.

Between 1937 and 1946, Warners made an effort to develop both angy and non-angry fast-talking characters. Gabby was in the first category, while the second was placed into various non-Daffy ducks from "She Was An Acrobat's Daughter"/"I Wanna Be A Sailor"/"It's an Ill Wind"/"Porky's Hotel" and from there into Little Blabbermouse, the bat from Chuck Jones' "Brave Little Bat" and finally into Sniffles. In the end, they never were able to figure out how to make the character(s) appeal to the audience on a long-term basis (Friz made Daffy into a fast talking agent for "Yankee Doodle Daffy", but agents are supposed to be fast-talkers, and Daffy did enough oher crazy stuff so that he wasn't as static a character as the others were in most of their appearances).

[Ray Pointer]

MISS! GABBY GOAT is an annoying one dimenstional character with no attractive qualities. He reminds one of a spoiled child. Porky was a much better character, and that is why he has remained. In fact, Porky was the first Warners' character of merit that started the whole line of characters that emerged in the 1940s, including DAFFY DUCK BUGS BUNNY.:daffy: :bugs2:

[Douglas E.]

I dislike the character itself but I like all three cartoons he stared in.

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