Daisy Mayham

[mammy2shoesfan]

Other than Laff Olympics what cartoon did Daisy Mayham come from. Don't remeber seeing her in anything else.

[STARTOUNZ]

Daisy and the majority of the Really Rottens were featured only on Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics. The lone exception was team captain Mumbly, who was featued on H-B's Tom and Jerry Show in the mid-70s. If you click on the first link of my signature below, you can get all the info you'll need on that show considering I'm the information editor for that show.

[mammy2shoesfan]

Wow I never knew that Dick Dastardly and Muttley/Mumbly and Dread Baron were different charactors I always thought that they were the same with the Gruesomes and Creeplys. I'm still sure the Daltons where on somthing else as well. Go figure.

[J.E.Smith]

The Daltons were enemies in a Huckleberry Hound short, I believe.

[STARTOUNZ]

The Daltons were enemies in a Huckleberry Hound short, I believe.You're probably thinking about the 2-hour movie The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound. There were Dalton brothers, but not the same that were featured on Laff-a-Lympics. Also, there were four of them, one of which was named Pinky, who seemed like the overly vain type, if not kind of gay.

[J.E.Smith]

No, one of the Dalton brothers appeared during the first series of Huck shorts, "Sheriff Huckleberry". It was set in the old west, and Huck had to arrest the last of the Daltons, Dinky(Of course, Dinky didn't look anything like he did in Laff-a-Lympics in that short either).

[Howard Fein]

I always thought that they were the same with the Gruesomes and Creeplys. I'm still sure the Daltons where on somthing else as well. Go figure.

The Muttley/Mumbly conundrum does get a bit confusing. Apparently, the LAFF-A-LYMPIC writers originally wanted to use the 1968-9 versions of Dastardly and Muttley but couldn't because (a) the characters were owned by Heatter-Quigley(sp?), who co-produced WACKY RACES, the show that gave them life in the first place; (b) Paul Winchell was too expensive or otherwise unavailable to reprise the role. Mumbly, who other than his blue color is identical in semi-articulate speech patterns and personality to Muttley, had premiered the previous season as a segment in the TOM & JERRY/GRAPE APE SHOW's second season.

So it made more sense to use Mumbly, who was fresher in the minds of viewers, as captain of the Really Rottens. The Dread Baron somewhat resembles Dastardly, but is voiced by H-B stalwart John Stephenson in what sounds like a Hans Conreid imitation. (To add confusion, the blue-hued capitain was referred to as 'Muttley' in the second half-season of LAFF-A-LYMPIC originals!)

H-B had sporadically used a cheerfully morbid married monster couple in various series since 1959. The common denominator was the character designs: the husband was very short and hairy, and the wife very tall, shapely and green- very Addams-esque. They guested in three Snooper & Blabber and at least one Snagglepuss episode, possibly as a projected spin-off (which is the way many 'second string' H-B stars such as Yakky Doodle and Snag himself started).

The Monsters resurfaced as next-door neighbors the Gruesomes in two fifth-season FLINTSTONE episodes- obviously to plug THE ADDAMS FAMILY, which had just premiered on ABC's prime-time schedule (not sure if the same night the 'STONES aired!). Despite signs that they would become semi-regulars a la Mr. Slate, Arnold the Newsboy and Gazoo, the Gruesomes vanished until 1971, when they appeared in one episode of sequel series PEBBLES & BAMM-BAMM. They retained son Gobby and pet spider Schneider.

One could argue that the Creeplys are the Gruesomes redux, with the retention of their pet octopus Orful, who appeared as 'Occy' in their first FLINTSTONE episode. Throughout all their incarnations, the husband's voice was done in a Peter Lorre imitation by variously Daws Butler, Howard Morris, Lennie Weinrib, Don Messick, Casey Kasem and Frank Welker- with the latter three rotating in the role throughout LAFF-A-LYMPICS!

Ten years later saw the syndicated movie YOGI BEAR AND THE SPRUCE GOOSE which, common to the eighties, banded together many of the earliest H-B crew in a comedic adventure with the Dread Baron and Muttley as villians. The Baron was designed as he was in LAFF-A-LYMPICS, but voiced by Paul Winchell in Dastardly's original voice. It's puzzling why Dick's voice was used but not his name, considering he had fully resurfaced three years earlier in the syndicated YOGI'S TREASURE HUNT along with Muttley- both in their 1969 aviator gear.

[mammy2shoesfan]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who gets confused about some of those Really Rotten charactors.