![]() The famous slanted shape of Gumby's head was based on the hair style of Clokey's father Charles Farrington in an old photograph. Gumby's legs and feet were made wide for pragmatic reasons: they ensured the clay character would stand up during stop-motion filming. Gumby was green because it was Clokey's favorite color. Gumby was inspired by a suggestion from Clokey's wife Ruth that he base his character on the Gingerbread man. Featuring lots of Clokey's puppet films, as well as variety, interviews and games, it was hosted by Robert Nicholson ("Nick") from March to June, then by Pinky Lee until November. Gumby was an NBC series (a Howdy Doody spin-off) during 1957. "Robot Rumpus," was the third pilot which was used for the second season in 1957. This was a huge hit on the Howdy Doody show, so Tom gave Gumby his own show on NBC. NBC executive Thomas Warren Sarnoff saw and loved Art's first pilot and had Art make another one (Gumby on the Moon). In 1953 Clokey showed Gumbasia to movie producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by adding figures. Clokey and wife, Ruth ( née Parkander), invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art finished film school at USC. Described as "massaging of the eye cells," this technique of camera movements and editing was responsible for much of the Gumby look and feel. Gumbasia was created in a style Clokey's professor Slavko Vorkapich taught at USC called Kinesthetic Film Principles. Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia. ![]() Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s after finishing film school at University of Southern California. The later syndicated series in 1988 added Gumby's sister Minga and mastodon friend Denali. ![]() Also featured are Goo, a flying blue mermaid who spits blue goo balls and can change shape at will, and Gumby's parents, Gumbo and Gumba. Other characters are Gumby's dog Nopey whose entire vocabulary is the word "nope," and Prickle, a yellow dinosaur who sometimes styles himself as a detective with pipe and deerstalker hat like Sherlock Holmes. The Blockheads were inspired by the Katzenjammer Kids, who were always getting into scrapes and causing discomfort to others. His nemeses are the Blockheads, a pair of humanoid, red-colored figures with block-shaped heads, who wreak mischief and havoc. #SNL /SXwVfEfdbL- Saturday Night Live - SNL DecemFor more TV news, here's a Witcher series character guide, some news about FX developing a series based on Stephen King's Carrie, and our review of Star Wars: The Mandalorian's Episode 7.Gumby's principal sidekick is Pokey, a talking orange pony. Here's the Gumby segment from Weekend Update. Finally, Velvet Jones popped up as a contestant on Black Jeopardy. Then it was Gumby causing chaos on Weekend Update. #SNL /UzHoagFGGM- Saturday Night Live - SNL DecemAfter this, Buckwheat showed up as part of a Masked Singer skit, being revealed as the signing celebrity inside a giant Ear of Corn costume. Let's check in on our old friend, Mister Robinson. Check out the full sketch, from SNL's Twitter, below. Robinson's Neighborhood has undergone a significant amount of gentrification, with some of Robinson's neighbors now paying over a million dollars for an apartment in his building. Rogers satire), Buckwheat (the Little Rascals character as a crooner), Gumby (as a cranky showbiz vet), and Velvet Jones (seller of get-rich-schemes) all made big appearances.
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