Sweet. This makes HB animation even more depressing than it already is.

She must have been feeling down when she found out about the Letterman scandal.

Markoe pulled off more thoughtful and penetrating satire using H-B raw material than did the pseudohip and self-reverential 1990’s crew in Atlanta. Why all the hating on garbage? Because it was garbage.

Finally Quick Draw makes some sense.

This is just a reminder to me that a new book by Merrill Markoe is long overdue.

In all fairness, I find myself laughing at an old Quick Draw cartoon than 90% of the stuff being made and imported today. Was Quick Draw cheap? You bet. But you can blame Columbia for that, coughing up a mere $3000 per half hour.

Exactly what I would expect from the mind that gave us “Viewer Mail” and “Dog Poetry” (not to mention “Suit O’ Velcro”…)

The last speech of a psychopathic child-murderer selected as the voice-over for this children’s cartoon. Who said comedy writers are drawing from some deep well of dread to fuel the humor.

Funny idea but I kind of got distracted since I know what Peter Lorre’s actually saying and love the film M.

Honestly I think Quick Draw was actually the best Hanna Barbera cartoon.

Nice. Thanks for posting this.

Come to think of it… some Klaus Kinski rantings from “Aguirre: The Wrath of God” might make “Go Go Gophers” interesting…

Aside from loving what this is, I had to rediscover one of Markoe’s earlier products that was develped for Adult Swim but never got greenlit for a series, “The Lewis Lectures”, which is up on YouTube as we speak!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgPEvOSkbY

“Sweet. This makes HB animation even more depressing than it already is.”

very true. I couldn’t help but find the entire thing very disturbing.

I can’t, for the life of me, understand the affection some have for Hanna-Barbera. Yes, Tom and Jerry came close to brilliant at times, and was always well-crafted. But the H/B TV stuff WAS CRAP, okay? It has not stood the test of time, and rightly so. I’m as puzzled by the nostalgia for H/B as I am by some who worship the Muppets. They’re old! They’re moth-eaten! They’re antiques! Move on!

@ Jason

The muppets are just as enjoyable and watchable today as they’ve ever been, and they have all the appeal that hanna barbera never had.

…and that’s why I don’t travel by train…