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Beany and Cecil
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(sidebar) Beany and Cecil
Beanie&Cecil.jpg
Characters from left to right: Crowy, Captain Horatio Huffenpuff, Cecil, Beany, Dishonest John.
Also known as	'The Beany and Cecil Show'
Genre	Animation
Created by	Bob Clampett
Voices of	Jim MacGeorge
Irv Shoemaker
Bob Clampett as Cecil.
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	Academy ratio
First shown in	1959–1962
Original release	January 6, 1962 – June 28, 1969

Beany and Cecil is an animated television series created by Bob Clampett for the American Broadcasting Company. The cartoon was based on the television puppet show Time for Beany, which Clampett produced for Paramount Pictures company and its Paramount Television Network beginning 1949. The series was broadcast first as part of the series Matty's Funday Funnies during 1959, later renamed Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil, and finally Beany and Cecil in the USA. Another season was produced during 1988.

Although a children's show, it incorporated satirical references to current events and personalities that adults found entertaining, and the show also attracted adult viewers. Some of the plots and remarks were recognisable as lampoons of current political issues.

Along with The Jetsons and The Flintstones, it was one of the first three color television series by the ABC television network (the initial season, though, was originally shown in black and white, as ABC was unable to broadcast color programs until September 1962).



Contents (bold) [hide]
1	History
2	Characters
2.1	Main characters
2.2	Minor characters
3	Music
4	Influence
5	The artists
6	Episode list
7	Home video
8	Notes
9	External links

Beany Boy – A young, cupid-faced boy with a propeller beanie cap that allows him to fly (the "Beanycopter", complete with helmet and propeller, became a popularly marketed novelty).

Cecil (or "Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent") – A large green sea serpent with a slight lisp. He is fiercely loyal to Beany but not terribly clever. Cecil's trusting good nature invariably results in him being taken advantage of by the bad people, and he often suffers a great amount of physical abuse (getting smashed flat, losing his head, having his skin burned off, being shattered to pieces), examples of cartoon physics. The end of Cecil's tail was never seen in most episodes; it always extended off-screen, or was hidden behind an obstacle. This is likely a joking reference to the original Cecil, a hand puppet whose tail was likewise hidden (because it didn't exist).

Super-Cecil. In this guise, he wears a modified Superman shirt (complete with cape). It was Cecil who cried "A Bob Clam-pett car-tooooooo-OOOOOOOOON!" at the opening of each episode. Cecil was voiced originally by Irv Shoemaker for the 1960s cartoon and by Billy West for the 1980s cartoon.

Captain Horatio Huffenpuff - Also called "Uncle Captain", he is Beany's kindly uncle and the captain of the ship Leakin' Lena, which takes the pals from one destination to the other. The Captain is always willing to instruct Beany and Cecil on their latest assignment, but is rather cowardly and refuses to put himself in any personal jeopardy, locking himself below deck or under a box labeled "Capt. Huffenpuff's Hiding Box" for most of the episodes. Uncle Captain was voiced by Jim MacGeorge for both series.

Mouth-Full-of-Teeth Keith –

Crowy – The navigator of the ship Leakin' Lena. He is a crow, and unsurprisingly spends most of his time in the ship's crow's nest. He speaks with a squawky voice and has a tendency to faint whenever the ship encounters some sort of hazard. Voiced by Jim MacGeorge.\