For over a year I had this year’s TV Western Crossover candidate, the traditional category for August, lined up. I had all the information and pictures – PLENTY of pictures. And if it had not been for a deadline to write a book for a charity auction, I would have had it ready to go by now.
But then I actually read that collected data and quickly realized this was not the year for it. So I shelved it for another time.
Needing a new candidate, I decided to go off the trail just to make it interesting for me, and to reduce any possible stress from a last-minute change in plans.
And so….
[Seen here with Baba Looey]
From Wikipedia:
Quick Draw McGraw is the protagonist and title character of ‘The Quick Draw McGraw Show’. He is an anthropomorphic white horse wearing a red Stetson cowboy hat, a red holster belt, a light blue bandana, and occasionally spurs. He was originally voiced mainly by Daws Butler from 1959 until Butler's death in 1988.
All 45 of his cartoons that originally aired between 1959 and 1961 were written by Michael Maltese, known best for his work at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. The cartoon was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1960.
‘The Quick Draw McGraw Show’ is an American animated cartoon television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and their third television series overall after ‘The Ruff and Reddy Show’ and ‘The Huckleberry Hound Show’.
The show debuted in syndication on September 28, 1959, ending its run on October 20, 1961, and was sponsored by Kellogg's. The series featured three cartoons per episode, with Quick Draw and his sidekick Baba Looey appearing in the first segment, father and son dog duo Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in the second, and cat and mouse detectives Snooper and Blabber in the third. There were also "bumpers," mini-cartoons between the main cartoons that featured Quick Draw and other main characters on the show.
Michael Maltese wrote the stories of all the episodes. Screen Gems, the television division at the time of Columbia Pictures, originally syndicated the series. It ran on Saturday mornings on CBS for three seasons, 1963-66.
Quick Draw was usually depicted as a sheriff in a series of short films set in the Old West. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey (also voiced by Daws Butler), who spoke with a Mexican accent and called his partner "Queeks Draw.”
Quick Draw satirized the westerns that were popular among the American public at the time. His character was well-intentioned, but somewhat dim. His main catchphrases were "Now hold on there!" and "I'll do the thin'in' around here and don't you forget it!" Also if he got hurt he would often say "Ooooh that smarts!" One of the main running gags in the shorts was him accidentally shooting himself with his own six-shooter.
In the Spanish American version, Quick Draw is named Tiro Loco McGraw, while Baba Looey is named Pepe Trueno. In the Brazilian version, Quick Draw speaks in a Portuguese accent, which along with his Hispanized name (Pepe Legal) would suggest he was either a Texan-American or Mexican cowboy.
O’Bservation:
All of those dubbed versions would go into those alternate Tooniverses where a different language was dominant. With these examples, it would be the Spanish Toobworld and the Portuguese Toobworld respectively.
Here are the shows from the Tooniverse which qualified him for membership:
Quick Draw McGraw is the protagonist and title character of ‘The Quick Draw McGraw Show’. He is an anthropomorphic white horse wearing a red Stetson cowboy hat, a red holster belt, a light blue bandana, and occasionally spurs. He was originally voiced mainly by Daws Butler from 1959 until Butler's death in 1988.
‘The Quick Draw McGraw Show’ is an American animated cartoon television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and their third television series overall after ‘The Ruff and Reddy Show’ and ‘The Huckleberry Hound Show’.
O’Bservation:
All of those dubbed versions would go into those alternate Tooniverses where a different language was dominant. With these examples, it would be the Spanish Toobworld and the Portuguese Toobworld respectively.
Quick Draw (voiced by Daws Butler) was usually depicted as a sheriff in these short films set in the American Old West. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey (also voiced by Butler). Although technically the sidekick, or deputy, to the main character of Sheriff Quick Draw, Baba Looey is often portrayed as the more thoughtful half of the duo; at times realizing some detail about a given situation and trying desperately without success to caution Quick Draw of a trap or other danger.
The exchange would always go as follows: Baba Looey would see a fatal flaw in Quick Draw's plan, and begin voicing a warning such as "I don' thin' we should be doing...", to which Quick Draw would angrily interrupt with his frequent catchphrase, "I'll do the 'thin'in' around here and don't you forget it!" His plans would then go disastrously wrong, and Quick Draw would be forced to realize he should have listened to Baba Looey.
Quick Draw was the mascot.
A SLIGHT FRIGHT ON A MOONLIGHT NIGHT
Quick Draw McGraw's name appears in ‘The Ruff and Reddy Show’ episode "A Slight Fright on a Moonlight Night".
O'Bservation:
According to this posted notice, Sheriff Quick Draw McGraw was killed in a shootout. I don't know if his father showed up in any of those 45 cartoons in his series, but it would fit the classic Western trope where the sheriff is murdered and his son takes over for him.
But the fact that Ruff and Reddy have a car and a trailer probably puts the kibosh to that theory. However, it is noted elsewhere that the timeline is amazingly fluidic in the Tooniverse.
“Yogi's Ark Lark” served as the two-part pilot for ‘Yogi's Gang’. Aside from its environmental message, the film marked a milestone in Hanna-Barbera's history: a wide range of the studio’s characters were united in one story for the first time. This set the tone for future series and specials, such as ‘Laff-A-Lympics’ and “Yogi's First Christmas”.
Yogi, Quick Draw, Huck and the rest of the gang encounter a variety of villains such as Captain Swashbuckle Swipe, Smokestack Smog, Lotta Litter, the Envy Brothers, Mr. Hothead, Dr. Bigot, the Gossipy Witch of the West, J. Wantum Vandal, the Sheik of Selfishness, Commodore Phineas P. Fibber, I.M. Sloppy, Peter D. Cheater, Mr. Waste, Hilarious P. Prankster, and the Greedy Genie, who act as their friends, hosts and/or guests, but embody some of the most common human faults and vices. Yogi and crew would often put up with them which ends with the villains either being repelled or outdone by their actions.
The show was a celebrity roast honoring Fred Flintstone on his 48th birthday, and included the following costumed Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi Bear, Jabberjaw, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby-Doo, The Banana Splits, Hong Kong Phooey, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Wally Gator and The Hair Bear Bunch.
O'Bservation:
This was Quick Draw's foray into "live-action", appearing on Earth Prime-Time basically as a Hanna-Barbera version of a full-size Muppet.
The special features guest stars Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, and Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.
YOGI'S SPACE RACE
Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw and several new characters participating in intergalactic racing competitions. Cameo guests included Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Quick Draw McGraw, Grape Ape, Frankenstein Jr. and Jana of the Jungle.
Winners: Nugget Nose, Wendy and Rita.
Prize: Vacation time at a dude ranch. Trouble: It's Fuddy's Dude Ranch.
(Guest star: Quick Draw McGraw)
O'Bservation:
Another timeline discrepancy. There's a little voice in my head which keeps telling me, "Forget it, Jake. It's the Tooniverse."
It doesn't seem to matter to him that my name's not Jake.
Along with Yogi's traditional cast, the characters also met up with many other Hanna-Barbera characters, including Magilla Gorilla and Fred Flintstone.
Huckleberry Hound brings his friends Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber with him to visit Jellystone Park for Christmas and they discover Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo have escaped from Jellystone and hidden out in a department store, where Yogi is posing as a Santa Claus. Along the way, he helps a little girl named Judy Jones rediscover her faith in Christmas when her father, a billionaire named J. Wellington Jones, is too busy for her. Yogi says that many parents have to work hard to support their kids, and since her father is not home, Yogi and Boo-Boo propose escorting Judy through the city to bring her to her dad.
This is the last series to feature Daws Butler as the voice of Yogi Bear and his other characters before his death in 1988. While all 27 episodes were made in digital ink and paint across three seasons, its opening credits were produced in traditional cel animation.
This is a spin-off of ‘Wacky Races’ for the 1990s, in which classic Hanna-Barbera characters drive monster trucks made for racing. Each vehicle has a different theme, specific to its drivers; e.g., Yogi and Boo Boo's monster truck is a motorized giant picnic basket, while Winsome Witch's monster truck is a wheeled cauldron with a sentient skeleton named Axel on it. Game show announcer from ‘The New Hollywood Squares’ and disc jockey Shadoe Stevens provided the voice of the race announcer.
Since they were in the aforementioned series, Dick Dastardly and Muttley reappear in this segment, reprising their roles as cheaters with their own monster truck called the Dirty Truckster, which is basically their Mean Machine on a monster truck chassis. On a few occasions, they actually win a race, though there is always a catch that renders the win meaningless.
Although technically not a series of its own, this is the fourth all-star sports show from Hanna-Barbera. This show also features Paul Winchell's final performance as Hanna-Barbera's long running antagonist, Dick Dastardly.
- Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear in the Jellystone Jammer (#1)
- Huckleberry Hound and Snagglepuss in the Half-Dog Half-Cat Half-Track (#2)
- Wally Gator and Magilla Gorilla in the Swamp Stoner (#3)
- Top Cat and Choo-Choo in the Alley Cat (#4)
- Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey in the Texas Twister (#5)
- Pixie and Dixie in the Cheddar Shredder (#6)
- Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in the Lucky Trucky (#7)
- Winsome Witch and her cat Lucky in the Sonic Broom (#13)
- Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Dirty Truckster (#00)
YO YOGI! (1991)
Synopsis: Taking place in Jellystone Town, the show features Yogi Bear and other popular Hanna-Barbera characters, depicted as teenage crime fighters. The team includes Yogi's friends Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, and Yogi's girlfriend Cindy Bear.
Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Louie are doing a show at Jellystone Mall when Dick Dastardly releases Quick Draw's pet bull Bully in the mall. It is up to the L.A.F. Squad to find him and calm down the bull for the Wild West Show.
O'Bservation:
Yet another temporal glitch! Usually Yogi and Quick Draw were seen as being the same age. But now Quick Draw seems to be an adult and Yogi's a teenager.
I AM WEASEL (1997-2000)
The series centers on I.M. Weasel (voiced by Michael Dorn), a smart, noble and successful weasel, I.R. Baboon (voiced by Charlie Adler), an idiotic and arrogant baboon who is envious of Weasel and acts as both his rival and friend, and the mischievous, flamboyant Red Guy (also voiced by Adler), who returns from ‘Cow and Chicken’ to antagonize the duo.
Weasel and I.R. (now both senior citizens) look back upon their memories.
COUPLE ON A TRAIN (2002)
Quick Draw McGraw makes a cameo appearance, voiced again by Greg Burson.
GUITAR CONTROL (2004)
When Quick Draw McGraw pulls out his trusty six-string in an attempt to put the El Kabong kibosh on the Dalton Gang, he gets hauled off to the hoosegow. So he turns to noted constitutional law expert Harvey Birdman to defend his right to keep and bear guitars. Meanwhile, Harvey's boss, Phil Ken Sebben, takes $12 billion from the powerful guitar lobby to fund his presidential campaign. Not that that would make him beholden to them. And Peanut and Baba Looey get into trouble when they get their hands on Quick Draw's private guitar arsenal. (From the IMDb)
"It's a repeating gitbox made in 1870,
used in the American West.
Out there, guitars like this didn't enforce the law,
they were the law!
I didn't write that, it was on some asshole's website.
I wish I'd written it. It's a good line."
Quick Draw McGraw
used in the American West.
Out there, guitars like this didn't enforce the law,
they were the law!
I didn't write that, it was on some asshole's website.
I wish I'd written it. It's a good line."
Quick Draw McGraw
O'Bservation:
He is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, to sound like Jack Palance.
Class of 3000 follows superstar and music teacher Sunny Bridges (voiced by André), who teaches a group of students at Atlanta, Georgia's Westley School of the Performing Arts.
Quick Draw McGraw in the cartoon "Two Too Much" makes an appearance in an invention by Philly Phil.
O'Bservation:
There are timeline anomalies with regards to the life of Quick Draw McGraw. But this time it might have been a Zonk in which a TV series was made about El Kabong, and that is what is being transmitted on the big screen. (It has to be a dramatization, as Quick Draw's voice is nowhere near to his "actual" voice. (You are missed, Mr. Butler.)
MILLION DOLLAR ABIE (2006)
Quick Draw McGraw - in his guise as El Kabong - appears in the "Springfield Blows" music video.
BAN ON THE FUN (2007)
The Laff-A-Lympics gang faces their darkest games ever: Munich, 1972.
O'Bservation:
Another appearance which shows that Quick Draw McGraw is a multidimensional. This time his televersion is from the Toobworld known as Claymatia. (Yeah, I'm not happy with it either.)
IMAGINATIONLAND III (2007)
It is the third and final episode in a three-part story arc that won the 2008 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More). The three episodes were later reissued together, along with previously unreleased footage, as the uncensored “Imaginationland: The Movie”.
O'Bservation:
I suppose this is one Honking Big Zonk, but it's a lot of fun. Just go with it.
MUCH ADO ABOUT WACKY (2018)
Quick Draw makes a cameo in the Wacky Races episode "Much Ado About Wacky," during the fight scene in the Macbeth play, Penelope Pitstop calls for a horse. Quick Draw appears and charges into battle shouting his famous line, "Hold on there, Baba Louis." This angers Snagglepuss, who is also cameoing in this episode, as Quick Draw is not even an actor. (From the Hanna-Barbera Wiki)
O'Bservation:
He is voiced by Billy West.
The series is a reimagined take on the legendary Hanna-Barbera brand, focusing on a modernized ensemble of its characters as they live, work, and play together but have to solve the problems they have.
All of them have specific roles in the community. Huckleberry Hound is the Mayor of Jellystone, Yogi Bear is a surgeon, Cindy Bear is a genius inventor, Doggie Daddy is a lighthouse keeper who is overprotective towards his daughter Augie Doggie, Jabberjaw and Loopy De Loop work in Magilla Gorilla's haberdashery called "Magilla's", Top Cat and the Hoagy's Alley cats continue with their scam activities, El Kabong doubles as a teacher and superhero, Shazzan is a ticket seller at Jellystone Theatre and does various vendor jobs, and The Banana Splits are cartoonish criminals.
TEEN TITANS GO!
WARNER BROS. 100TH ANNIVERSARY (2023)
In "Teen Titans Go!", Quick Draw McGraw makes a guest appearance in the episode "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary", alongside other classic Hanna-Barbera characters. The episode celebrates the studio's milestone and features various characters from their library of cartoons. (From Google's AI)
Quick Draw made a cameo appearance, teamed up with Yosemite Sam.
Here's one last O’Bservation:
1] Wikipedia has this informistake:
Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey make cameo appearances in the ‘Animaniacs’ episode "Suffragette City".
No they do not!
So here’s to you, Queeks Draw, a welcome addition to the Tooniverse wing of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.
And having posted that mangling of his name a la Baba Looey, I realize there are those who might think I’m dismissing the sidekick’s role. I’m not. One day Baba Looey will make it into the Hall on his own merits.
But there were several qualifications for Quick Draw which did not involve Baba Looey. And once I look into his qualifications for membership, I might even find appearances in which Quick Draw never showed up Maybe….
Welcome to the Hall, Sheriff!
