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{{Short description|1957 American clay animation franchise}}
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{{Infobox Television
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| show_name = The Gumby Show
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| image = [[File:Gumby sm.png|280px]]
{{Infobox media franchise
| caption = Gumby in the episode "Lost Treasure"
| title = Gumby
| genre = Comedy, Family, Animation
| image = Gumby sm.png
| camera =
| caption = Gumby in "Lost Treasure"
| picture_format = Color
| creator = [[Art Clokey]]<ref name="AC-LA">{{cite news|title=Art Clokey dies at 88; creator of Gumby|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=January 9, 2010|last=Felch|first=Jason|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-me-art-clokey9-2010jan09-story.html|access-date=November 7, 2010}}</ref>
| audio_format = Mono
| origin = ''[[Gumbasia]]'' (1953)
| runtime = 30 minutes
| years = 1953–present
| creator = [[Art Clokey]]<ref>{{cite news|title= Art Clokey dies at 88; creator of Gumby|work= The Los Angeles Times|date=January 9, 2010|last=Felch|first=Jason|url = http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/09/local/la-me-art-clokey9-2010jan09|accessdate=November 7, 2010}}</ref>
| owner = [[Fox Entertainment]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Otterson |first1=Joe |title=Fox Entertainment Acquires Rights to Gumby Franchise |url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/fox-entertainment-gumby-1235174899/ |website=Variety |date=February 8, 2022 |access-date=February 10, 2022}}</ref>
| director = Art Clokey
| films = ''[[Gumby: The Movie]]'' (1995)
| executive_producer =
| shorts = {{Plainlist|
| producer = Art Clokey
* ''[[Gumbasia]]'' (1953)
| writer =
* ''Adventures of Gumby: A Sample'' (1955)
| starring =
| voices = [[Dallas McKennon]]<br>[[Art Clokey]]<br>[[Norma MacMillan]]
| narrated =
| theme_music_composer =
| opentheme =
| endtheme =
| company = [[Premavision|Clokey Productions]]
| country = [[United States]]
| location =
| language = asian
| network = [[NBC]] (Original series)<ref>{{cite news|title= Feet of Clay? Sure, but as DVD Debut Shows, He's Still Got Legs|work= The Los Angeles Times|date=April 9, 2002|last=King|first=Susan|url = http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/09/entertainment/et-king9|accessdate=November 7, 2010}}</ref><br/>[[Television syndication|Syndication]] (1988 series)<br/>[[Kids & Teens TV|KTV]] (2012-present)<br/>[[SkyAngel|Angel Two]] (2012-present)<br/>[[Me TV]] (2012-present)
| first_aired = November 12, 1955
| last_aired = December 30, 1989
| status = Ended
| num_series =
| num_episodes = 233
| list_episodes = List of Gumby episodes
| distributor = [[20th Century Fox Television]] (1988 series)<br>[[Universal Television]] (1988 series)<br>[[Warner Bros. Television]] (original series)<br>[[Paramount Television]] (original series)
| preceded_by =
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}}
}}
| tv = {{Plainlist|
* ''[[Howdy Doody]]'' (1955–1956)<ref name="*">As a recurring segment in this series.</ref>
* ''The Gumby Show'' (1956–1969)
* ''Gumby Adventures'' (1988)
}}
| vgs = ''Gumby vs. the Astrobots'' (2005)
}}
[[file:Gumby_and_Pokey_Bendable_Figures.jpg|thumb|Gumby and Pokey figures]]
'''''Gumby''''' is a cartoon character and associated [[media franchise]] created by [[Art Clokey]]. Gumby is a blocky green [[humanoid]] [[Claymation|made of clay]].


Gumby stars in two television series, ''[[Gumby: The Movie]]'', and other media. Upon his debut in 1953, he immediately became a famous example of [[stop motion]] clay animation and an American cultural icon, spawning tributes, parodies, and merchandising.
'''Gumby''' is a green [[clay]] [[humanoid]] character created and modeled by [[Art Clokey]], who also created [[Davey and Goliath]].<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/1012/Art-Clokey-How-Gumby-got-his-name]</ref> Gumby was voiced over the years by Ruth Eggleston, [[Dallas McKennon]], and [[Norma MacMillan]]. Gumby has been the subject of a [[List of Gumby episodes|233-episode series]] of American [[television]] as well as a feature-length film and other media.<ref name="Lloyd">{{cite news|title= Even now, Gumby has that special dimension|work= The Los Angeles Times|date=July 9, 2006|last=Lloyd|first=Robert|url= http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/09/entertainment/ca-gumby9|accessdate=November 7, 2010}}</ref> Since the original series' run, he has become well known as an example of [[stop motion]] [[clay animation]] and an influential cultural icon, spawning many tributes and parodies, including a video game and toys.


==Characters==
==Overview==
Gumby's principal [[sidekick]] is Pokey, a talking orange pony voiced by Art Clokey. He is the first man on the moon. His nemeses are the Blockheads, a pair of humanoid, red-colored figures with block-shaped heads, who wreak mischief and havoc at all times. The Blockheads were inspired by the [[Katzenjammer Kids]], who were always getting into scrapes and causing discomfort to others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gumbyworld.com/memorylane/histblkhd.htm |title=The Blockheads |publisher=Gumbyworld.com |date= |accessdate=July 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gumby.com/memorylane/histpok1.htm |title=Pokey: Gumby's Best Pal |publisher=Gumby.com |date= |accessdate=July 27, 2011}}</ref> Other characters are Gumby's dog Nopey (whose entire vocabulary is the word "nope"); and Prickle (voiced by Clokey and McKennon), a yellow dinosaur who sometimes styles himself as a [[detective]] with pipe and deerstalker hat like [[Sherlock Holmes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gumby.com/memorylane/histpricgoo.htm |title=Prickle and Goo |publisher=Gumby.com |date= |accessdate=July 27, 2011}}</ref> Also featured are Goo (voiced by Norma MacMillan and later Gloria Clokey), a flying blue mermaid who spits blue goo balls and can change shape at will; Gumby's mother Gumba (Nancy Wible and Ginny Tyler) and father Gumbo (Art Clokey). The later syndicated series in 1988 added Gumby's sister Minga (Holly Harman) and mastodon friend Denali (also voiced by Art Clokey).
The ''Gumby'' franchise follows Gumby's adventures through different environments and historical eras. His primary [[sidekick]] is Pokey, an anthropomorphic orange pony. His arch-nemeses are the Blockheads, a pair of silent antagonistic red humanoid figures with cube-shaped heads; one has the letter G on the side of his head, while the other has a J. Their creation was inspired by the trouble-making [[The Katzenjammer Kids|Katzenjammer Kids]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gumbyworld.com/memorylane/histblkhd.htm |title=The Blockheads |publisher=Gumbyworld.com |access-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-date=October 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004043154/http://www.gumbyworld.com/memorylane/histblkhd.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gumby.com/memorylane/histpok1.htm |title=Pokey: Gumby's Best Pal |publisher=Gumby.com |access-date=July 27, 2011}}</ref> Other characters include Prickle, a yellow fire-breathing dinosaur who sometimes styles himself as a detective with pipe and [[deerstalker]] hat like [[Sherlock Holmes]]; Goo, a flying blue shapeshifting mermaid who spits blue goo balls;<ref name="Gumbyworld.com2">{{cite web|url=http://gumby.com/memorylane/histpricgoo.htm |title=Prickle and Goo |publisher=Gumby.com |access-date=July 27, 2011}}</ref> Gumbo and Gumba, Gumby's parents;<ref name="Lloyd">{{cite news|title=Even now, Gumby has that special dimension|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 9, 2006|last=Lloyd|first=Robert|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-09-ca-gumby9-story.html|access-date=November 7, 2010}}</ref> and Nopey, Gumby's dog whose entire vocabulary is the word "nope". The 1988 syndicated series added Gumby's sister Minga, [[mastodon]] friend Denali, and chicken friend Tilly.<ref name="FOC">{{cite web|last1=Gladstone|first1=Jim|title=Musical Feat Of Clay: A Gumby-based Album|url=http://articles.philly.com/1989-10-12/entertainment/26118770_1_gumby-fan-shep-stern-buena-vista-records|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402175605/http://articles.philly.com/1989-10-12/entertainment/26118770_1_gumby-fan-shep-stern-buena-vista-records|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 2, 2015|website=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|publisher=Interstate General Media|access-date=February 28, 2015|date=October 12, 1989}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Harary|first1=Keith|title=The World According to Gumby|magazine=[[Omni (magazine)|Omni]]|date=October 1994|url=https://archive.org/stream/omni-magazine-1994-10/OMNI_1994_10_djvu.txt}}</ref>


==Origins==
==History==
===1953–1969: Origins===
Gumby was created by [[Art Clokey]] in the early 1950s after he finished film school at the [[University of Southern California]] (USC).<ref name="AC-LA" />


Gumby was created by [[Art Clokey]] in the early 1950s after finishing film school at [[University of Southern California]].<ref>Felch, Jason (January 9, 2010). "Art Clokey dies at 88; creator of Gumby". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/09/local/la-me-art-clokey9-2010jan09. Retrieved November 7, 2010.</ref> Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute short called ''[[Gumbasia]]'', a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's ''[[Fantasia (film)|Fantasia]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/trulyca/shorts/episode.jsp?essid=14527 |title=Gumbasia |publisher=KQED |date= |accessdate=July 27, 2011}}</ref> ''Gumbasia'' was created in a style Vorkapich taught called Kinesthetic Film Principles. Described as "massaging of the eye cells", this technique of camera movements and editing was responsible for much of the Gumby look and feel. Clokey and his wife, Ruth ([[née]] Parkander), invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their [[Covina, California|Covina]] home shortly after Art finished film school at USC. In 1955 Clokey showed ''Gumbasia'' to movie producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by adding figures. Of the three pilot episodes of ''Gumby'', the first was done by Clokey on his own, and the next two were done for NBC and shown on ''[[The Howdy Doody Show]]'' to test audience reaction.<ref name="Lloyd"/> The second 15-minute pilot, "Gumby Goes to the Moon", was initially rejected by [[NBC]] executive Thomas Warren Sarnoff. The third Gumby episode, "Robot Rumpus", made a successful debut on the ''Howdy Doody Show'' in August 1956.
Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film, titled ''[[Gumbasia]]'', a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/trulyca/shorts/episode.jsp?essid=14527 |title=Gumbasia |publisher=KQED |access-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091230035650/http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/trulyca/shorts/episode.jsp?essid=14527 |archive-date=December 30, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Gumbasia'' was created in the "kinesthetic" style taught by Clokey's USC professor [[Slavko Vorkapich|Slavko Vorkapić]], described as "massaging of the eye cells". Much of Gumby's look and feel was inspired by this technique of camera movements and editing.


In 1955, Clokey showed ''Gumbasia'' to film producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by animating figures into children's stories.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Studio – 1950s|url=http://www.premavision.com/studio/1950.htm|publisher=Premavision|access-date=February 27, 2015}}</ref> On January 29, 1955, Clokey produced and filmed the first pilot episode starring Gumby, titled ''Adventures of Gumby: A Sample'', but never aired.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hank|first1=Melissa|title=Gumby turns 60: Creator's son reflects on green guy's legacy|url=http://o.canada.com/entertainment/television/gumby-turns-60-creators-son-reflects-on-green-guys-legacy|website=Canada.com|publisher=[[Postmedia News]]|accessdate=March 3, 2015|date=January 28, 2015}}</ref>
Gumby was an NBC series (a [[Howdy Doody]] spin-off) during 1957.<ref>
{{cite web
| title = Art Clokey
| publisher = KQED Public Media for Northern California
| url = http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=14526
| accessdate = February 6, 2009}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
| last = Fritz
| first = Steve
| title = Animated shorts: Growing up with Gumby
| url = http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=110975
| accessdate = February 6, 2009}}
</ref> Featuring lots of Clokey's puppet films, as well as variety, interviews and games, it was hosted by Robert "Nick" Nicholson from March to June, then by [[Pinky Lee]] until November.<ref name=TVP-Butler>{{cite web|last=Butler|first=Kevin S.|title=Gumby on TV|url=http://www.tvparty.com/lostgumby.html|accessdate=6 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Gumby Show, The|url=http://www.toonarific.com/show.php?show_id=1548|publisher=Toonarific Cartoons|accessdate=April 6, 2011}}</ref>


Gumby was inspired by a suggestion from Clokey's wife Ruth that he base his character on the [[Gingerbread man]]. Gumby was green because it was Clokey's [[favorite color]]. Gumby's legs and feet were made wide for pragmatic reasons: they ensured the clay character would stand up during [[Stop motion|stop-motion filming]]. The famous slanted shape of Gumby's head was based on the hair style of Clokey's father Charles Farrington in an old photograph.<ref>{{cite web|author=A. Schneider |url=http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/gumby/index.html |title=Gumby, a segment of NPR's "Present at the Creation" series |publisher=NPR |date=March 25, 2002 |accessdate=July 27, 2011}}</ref>
The name "Gumby" came from the muddy clay found at Clokey's grandparents' farm that his family named "gumbo".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gaylord|first1=Chris|title=Art Clokey: How Gumby got his name|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/1012/Art-Clokey-How-Gumby-got-his-name|website=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|publisher=[[Christian Science Publishing Society]]|access-date=February 28, 2015|date=October 12, 2011}}</ref> Gumby's appearance was inspired by a suggestion from his wife, Ruth (née Parkander), that Gumby be based on [[the Gingerbread Man]]. Clokey saw the color green as both racially neutral and a symbol of life.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Marchesi, Robina (Director) |year= 2006 |title=Gumby Dharma |medium=Documentary |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVpRxUwi8U&t=4m16s| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/iQVpRxUwi8U| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Gumby's legs and feet were made wide to pragmatically ensure that the figure would stand up during [[stop motion]] filming. Gumby's slanted head was based on the hairstyle of Clokey's father, Charles Farrington, in an old photograph.<ref>{{cite web| first=A. | last=Schneider |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/gumby/index.html |title=Gumby, a segment of NPR's "Present at the Creation" series |publisher=NPR |date=March 25, 2002 |access-date=July 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Quintanilla|first1=Michael|title=Feat of Clay : Pop culture: Who would have thought a stretchy green blob could entertain generation after generation? Don't look now, but lovable Gumby is 40 years old.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-13-vw-23436-story.html|access-date=February 28, 2015|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 13, 1993}}</ref>


The pilot episode was seen by [[NBC]] executive Thomas Warren Sarnoff, who asked Clokey to make another one. The second episode, ''Gumby on the Moon'', became a huge hit on ''[[Howdy Doody]]'', so Sarnoff ordered a series in 1955 titled ''The Gumby Show''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Art Clokey Interview|url=http://emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/art-clokey|website=Emmy TV Legends|publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation]]|access-date=February 27, 2015|date=July 19, 2001}}</ref> In 1955 and 1956, 25 11-minute episodes aired on NBC.<ref>{{cite web|title=Art Clokey|publisher=KQED Public Media for Northern California|url=http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=14526|access-date=February 6, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307131243/http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=14526|archive-date=March 7, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> In early episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston, until 1957 when [[Dallas McKennon]] assumed the role.<ref name="Gumbyworld.com">{{cite web|title=Gumby's Name, Personality and Voice|url=http://www.gumbyworld.com/gumby-characters/gumby/gumbys-name-personality-voice|publisher=GumbyWorld.com/Premavision|access-date=June 3, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2009-07-18|title=Dallas McKennon dies at 89; voice actor gave voice to many animated characters|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-dallas-mckennon18-2009jul18-story.html|access-date=2021-08-23|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> Al Eggleston also invented Pokey, the little orange pony who was Gumby's best friend and was introduced during the earliest episodes.
During the initial episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gumby's Name, Personality and Voice|url=http://www.gumbyworld.com/gumby-characters/gumby/gumbys-name-personality-voice|publisher=GumbyWorld.com/Premavision|accessdate=June 3,2012}}</ref>. Starting in 1957, [[Dallas McKennon]] became the voice of Gumby. New episodes were added from 1961 to 1963. Production continued through 1966–1968, by which time [[Norma MacMillan]] voiced Gumby. On some occasions, his voice was provided by [[Ginny Tyler]] and [[Dick Beals]]<ref>{{cite web|last=McLaughlin|first=Erin|title=Dick Beals, Voice of Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Gumby Is Dead|url=http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/06/dick-beals-voice-of-speedy-alka-seltzer-gumby-is-dead/|publisher=ABC News|accessdate=1 June 2012}}</ref>.


Because of its variety format, ''The Gumby Show'' features Clokey's animations plus interviews and games. During this time, the show had two successive hosts, [[Bobby Nicholson|Robert Nicholson]] and [[Pinky Lee]].<ref name=TVP-Butler>{{cite web|last=Butler|first=Kevin S.|title=Gumby on TV|url=http://www.tvparty.com/lostgumby.html|access-date=April 6, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Woolery">{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series |date=1985 |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1651-2 |pages=207–208}}</ref>
==Lorimar-Telepictures years==
{{refimprove| section, except for one footnote,|date=May 2012}}
[[Image:Feed-a-matic chair3.JPG|left|thumb|180px|''Mr. Stuff'' gives Gumby all the goodies he can hold in "[[Pigs Is Pigs (1937 film)#The Gumby Show|Grub Grabber Gumby]]".]]
By the 1980s, the original Gumby shorts had enjoyed a revival, both on television and [[home video]].<ref>{{cite news|title= Cartoon Cassettes To Animate The Holidays|work= The Los Angeles Times|date=December 17, 1986|last=Solomon|first=Charles|url= http://articles.latimes.com/1986-12-17/entertainment/ca-3233_1_animated-features|accessdate=November 7, 2010}}</ref> This led to a new incarnation of the series for [[television syndication]] by [[Lorimar-Telepictures]] in 1988 that included new characters, such as Gumby's little sister Minga and a [[mastodon]] named Denali. [[Dallas McKennon]] returned as the voice of Gumby in new adventures that would take Gumby and his pals beyond their toyland-type setting and establish themselves as a rock band.


In 1959, ''The Gumby Show'' entered syndication, and more episodes were produced in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Perlmutter|first1=David|title=America Toons In: A History of Television Animation|date=March 18, 2014|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|location=[[Jefferson, North Carolina]]|page=104}}</ref> Production started in Hollywood and in 1960 moved to a larger studio in [[Glendora, California]], where it remained until production ended in 1969. During this time, Gumby was primarily voiced by [[Norma MacMillan]] and occasionally by [[Ginny Tyler]].<ref name="Gumbyworld.com"/><ref>{{cite news|date=June 1, 2012|title=Dick Beals, Actor Who Gave a Voice to Gumby and Speedy, Is Dead at 85|author=Dennis Hevesi|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/arts/television/dick-beals-85-who-gave-a-voice-to-gumby-dies-at-85.html}}</ref><ref name="McLaughlin">{{cite web|last=McLaughlin|first=Erin|title=Dick Beals, Voice of Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Gumby Is Dead|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/06/dick-beals-voice-of-speedy-alka-seltzer-gumby-is-dead/|publisher=ABC News|access-date=June 1, 2012}}</ref> The cartoon shorts introduce new characters including a blue mermaid named Goo and a yellow dinosaur named Prickle.<ref name="Gumbyworld.com2"/>
In addition to the new episodes, the classic 1950s and 1960s shorts were re-run as part of the series, but with newly recorded soundtracks, with the voices re-recorded and the original music replaced by Jerry Gerber's score from the 1988 series. (Clokey's rights to use the original Capitol Records production tracks could not be renewed at the time, due to legal issues.)


Several sources claim that [[Dick Beals]] also voiced Gumby in the 1960s series.<ref name="McLaughlin"/><ref name=nyt>{{cite news | date = June 1, 2012 | title = Dick Beals, Actor Who Gave a Voice to Gumby and Speedy, Is Dead at 85 | author = Dennis Hevesi | work = [[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/arts/television/dick-beals-85-who-gave-a-voice-to-gumby-dies-at-85.html }}</ref><ref name="Gumbyworld.com"/> However, Beals himself refuted this claim in a 2001 interview.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dick Beals: He Fizzes But Never Pops|url=http://www.lumandabnersociety.org/DICK_BEALS.html|publisher=The National Lum and Abner Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806223549/http://www.lumandabnersociety.org/DICK_BEALS.html |access-date=May 19, 2019|archive-date=August 6, 2012 }}</ref>
Art Clokey reportedly{{weasel-inline|date=May 2012}} gave many movie industry talents their first break in the business. A number of the clay animators who worked on the new series went on to work for [[Pixar]], [[Disney]] and other studios.


===1982–1989: Revival===
==Movie and beyond==
Beginning in 1982, Gumby was parodied by [[Eddie Murphy]] on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tomashoff|first1=Craig|title=Celebrate Eddie Murphy's Career With A Streampix Salute|url=http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/04/02/celebrate-eddie-murphys-birthday-with-a-streampix-salute/|website=[[Xfinity]]|publisher=[[Comcast]]|access-date=February 28, 2015|date=April 2, 2013}}</ref> In it, when the cameras are off, the sweet Gumby reverts to his true self of an irascible, cigar-chomping celebrity who is highly demanding of the production executives. Whenever they refuse his demands, Gumby asserts his star status by saying "I'm ''Gumby'', dammit!" in an exaggerated Jewish accent.<ref>{{cite web|title=82i: Eddie Murphy / Lionel Richie|url=http://snltranscripts.jt.org/82/82igumby.phtml|website=Saturday Night Live Transcripts|access-date=February 26, 2015}}</ref> According to Joseph Clokey, Art's son, he and Art "thought Eddie was a genius in the way he played that character".<ref>{{Cite web|last=gumbycentral|date=July 31, 2017|title=In the book we're wr…|url=http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6qpq2u/we_are_joe_and_joan_clokey_and_we_manage_all/dkz3pne/|access-date=December 26, 2021|website=r/IAmA}}</ref> In 1987, the original ''Gumby'' shorts were released on home video.<ref>{{cite news|title= Cartoon Cassettes To Animate The Holidays|work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 17, 1987|last=Solomon|first=Charles|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-17-ca-3233-story.html|access-date=November 7, 2010}}</ref> In 1988, Gumby appeared in ''[[The Puppetoon Movie]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=James|first1=Caryn|title=Movie Review – The Puppetoon Movie (1987)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B0DEFDF163CF931A25755C0A961948260|access-date=February 26, 2015|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 12, 1987}}</ref>
[[Image:Gumbygame.png|frame|right|Screenshot of the video game, ''Gumby vs. the Astrobots'']]


This renewed interest led to a new ''Gumby Adventures'' series of 99 seven-minute episodes, produced for television syndication in association with [[Lorimar-Telepictures]] in 1988.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lenburg|first1=Jeff|title=Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators|date=June 1, 2006|publisher=Applause Books|page=51}}</ref><ref name="FocusedAudio">{{cite magazine|last1=Meyers|first1=Paul|title=The return of ''Gumby''| magazine=[[Post Magazine]]|date=1989|url=http://sounddesign.focusedaudio.com/articles/clipPOST_89_RetOfGumby.html| access-date=September 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010075050/http://focusedaudio.com/articles/clipPOST_89_RetOfGumby.html|archive-date=October 10, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Dallas McKennon]] voices Gumby in the new adventures, in which Gumby and his pals travels beyond their toyland setting as a musical band. ''Gumby Adventures'' includes new characters, such as Gumby's little sister Minga, a mastodon named Denali and a chicken named Tilly.<ref name="FOC" />
Beginning in 1982, [[Eddie Murphy]] began a parody of Gumby on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. According to Murphy’s parody, when the television cameras were turned off, the sweet Gumby reverted to his true self: a cigar chomping, irascible celebrity who was highly demanding of the production executives. Whenever the executives refused to give into his demands, Gumby would assert his star status by saying “I’m Gumby, Dammit.”


The new series includes the 1950s and 1960s shorts, with new audio. The voices were re-recorded and the music was replaced by Jerry Gerber's new synthesizer score.<ref name="FocusedAudio" /> Legal issues prevented Clokey from renewing rights to the original [[Capitol Records]] production tracks.
In 1987, the character appeared in ''[[The Puppetoon Movie]]''. In 1995, Clokey's production company produced an independently released theatrical film, ''[[Gumby: The Movie]]'' (aka ''Gumby 1''), marking the clay character's first feature-length adventure.<ref>{{cite news|title= For Feat of Clay, He's Left a Lasting Impression|work= The Los Angeles Times|date=November 27, 1993|first=Michael|last=Quintanilla|url= http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-27/local/me-61520_1_gumby-movie|accessdate=November 7, 2010}}</ref> In it, the villainous Blockheads replace Gumby and his band with robots and kidnap their dog, Lowbelly. The movie featured in-joke homages to such sci-fi classics as ''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars]]'', ''[[The Terminator]]'', and ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Starting in 1992, TV channels like [[Nickelodeon (TV channel)|Nickelodeon]] and [[Cartoon Network (United States)|Cartoon Network]] aired re-runs of ''Gumby'' episodes. The original cartoon, "Robot Rumpus", was featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theatre 3000]]''.


===1990–2021: feature film and reruns===
The [[Library of Congress]] had Gumby as a spokescharacter from 1994 to 1995, due to a common sequence in his shows where Gumby walks into a book, and then experiences the world inside the book as a tangible place. By the end of the decade, Gumby and Pokey had appeared in commercials for [[Cheerios]] cereal, most notably [[Frosted Cheerios]]. Although no new animated Gumby material is planned for the foreseeable future,{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} most of the episodes (with a few exceptions) of the two series are available on home video and [[DVD]].
Starting in 1992, TV channels such as [[Nickelodeon]] and [[Cartoon Network]] aired reruns of ''Gumby'' episodes. In 1995, Clokey's production company produced an independently released theatrical film, ''[[Gumby: The Movie]]'', as the character's first feature-length adventure, with [[John R. Dilworth]], creator of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', as animation consultant.<ref>{{cite news|title= For Feat of Clay, He's Left a Lasting Impression|work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=November 27, 1993|first=Michael|last=Quintanilla|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-27-me-61520-story.html|access-date=November 7, 2010}}</ref> In it, the villainous Blockheads replace Gumby and his band with robots and kidnap their dog, Lowbelly. It has in-joke homages to science-fiction films such as ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]'', ''[[The Terminator]]'', and ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. In 1998, the ''Gumby'' episode "Robot Rumpus" was featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Episode 912- The Screaming Skull|url=http://www.mst3kinfo.com/aceg/9/912/ep912.html|website=Satellite News|access-date=February 26, 2015}}</ref>


On March 16, 2007, YouTube announced that all ''Gumby'' episodes would appear in their full-length form on its site, digitally remastered and with their original soundtracks. This deal also extended to other video sites, including [[America Online|AOL]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2007/03/16/youtube-troubles-are-over-they-got-gumby/| first=Michael | last=Arrington|date=March 16, 2007| access-date = March 16, 2007| work=TechCrunch|title=YouTube Troubles Are Over: They Got Gumby}}</ref> In March 2007, [[KQED-TV]] broadcast an hour-long documentary ''Gumby Dharma'' in its ''Truly CA'' series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kqed.org/arts/truly/episode.jsp?eid=160077 |title=Gumby Dharma: Truly CA |publisher=KQED Public Media |date=March 27, 2007 |access-date=July 27, 2011}}</ref> It details Clokey's life and work, and has new animation of Gumby and Pokey.<ref>{{cite web|title=SFC: "Gumby Dharma" Documentary looks at tumultuous life of Art Clokey|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2007/08/sfc-gumby-dharma-documentary-looks-at-tumultuous-life-of-art-clokey-74143/|website=IndieWire|date=August 3, 2007|access-date=June 14, 2020}}</ref> For these sequences, animator Stephen A. Buckley voiced Gumby and Clokey voiced Pokey.<ref name="Stephen Buckley">{{cite web|title=Stephen Buckley - Senior Character Animator|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-buckley-288bb11/|publisher=LinkedIn|access-date=March 18, 2024}}</ref>
In August 2005, the first [[video game]] featuring Gumby, ''Gumby vs. the Astrobots'', was released by [[Namco]] for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. In it, Gumby must rescue Pokey, Prickle, and Goo after they are captured by the Blockheads and their cohorts, the Astrobots.


In 2012, [[MeTV]] began airing ''Gumby'' in its weekend morning animation block<ref>{{cite web|last1=Miller|first1=Mark K.|title=Me-TV and Broadcast Partners Set Deal|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/56934/metv-and-broadcast-partners-set-deal|website=TVNewsCheck|access-date=February 28, 2015|date=January 23, 2012}}</ref> until the end of the year.<ref>{{cite web|title=AniMe-TV|url=http://metvnetwork.com/AniMeTV.php|website=ME-TV Network|publisher=[[Weigel Broadcasting]]|access-date=February 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104154048/http://metvnetwork.com/AniMeTV.php|archive-date=January 4, 2013}}</ref>
The Gumby images and toys are registered trademarks of [[Prema Toy Company]]. [[Premavision]] owns the distribution rights to the ''Gumby'' cartoons (having been reverted from previous distributor [[Warner Bros. Television]]), and has licensed the rights to [[Classic Media]].


In 2014, the [[Video on demand|VOD]] service [[Kabillion]] broadcast ''Gumby''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kabillion Signs Deal with Clokey Productions for 'Gumby' |url=https://www.awn.com/news/kabillion-signs-deal-clokey-productions-gumby |access-date=2023-01-24 |website=Animation World Network |language=en}}</ref>
On March 16, 2007, [[YouTube]] announced that all Gumby episodes would appear in their full-length form on its site, digitally remastered and with their original soundtracks. This deal also extended to other video sites, including [[America Online|AOL]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/16/youtube-troubles-are-over-they-got-gumby/| first=Michael | last=Arrington|date=March 16, 2007| accessdate = March 16, 2007| work=TechCrunch|title=YouTube Troubles Are Over: They Got Gumby}}</ref> In March 2007, [[KQED-TV]] broadcast an hour-long documentary "Gumby Dharma" as part of their "Truly CA" series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kqed.org/arts/truly/episode.jsp?eid=160077 |title=Gumby Dharma: Truly CA |publisher=KQED Public Media |date=March 27, 2007 |accessdate=July 27, 2011}}</ref>


In 2017, a comic series was published that seemingly takes place after the movie. The series was canceled after three issues.
In 2007, ''Gumby'' was nominated for two [[Eisner Award]]s. In July of that year, it won one of them, Best Publication For a Younger Audience.<ref>[http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eisner07.php "2007 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards"]. Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. Retrieved May 2, 2012.</ref>


===2022–present: Fox ownership===
[[Image:Googlegumbykm sm.PNG|frame|left|Screenshot of Google website – Google doodle celebrating Gumby creator Art Clokey's birthday with Gumby and related characters.]]
In February 2022, [[Fox Entertainment]], the TV production division of the [[Murdoch family]]'s [[Fox Corporation]], announced it had acquired the ''Gumby'' [[intellectual property]] from the estate of Art's son, Joseph Clokey, encompassing all rights including "film, TV and streaming, consumer products, licensing, publishing and all other categories", with plans to launch new series across linear and digital platforms, while adding to the classic ''Gumby'' material available on its free streaming platform [[Tubi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/gumby-classic-kids-clay-character-acquired-fox-new-series-1234928794/|title=Gumby Universe, Including Classic Kids Clay Character, Acquired By Fox With Plans To Create New Series|first=Peter|last=White|work=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|date=February 8, 2022|access-date=February 8, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/fox-welcomes-gumby-to-the-family-in-clokey-ip-acquisition/|title=FOX Welcomes Gumby to the Family in Clokey IP Acquisition|website=Animation Magazine|last=Milligan|first=Mercedes|date=February 8, 2022|access-date=February 8, 2022}}</ref> Before Fox took ownership of the series, Gumby made a cameo in [[The Simpsons (season 17)|the seventeenth season]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]''; he appeared in the episode "[[The Girl Who Slept Too Little]]".


In June 2024, it was announced that two Gumby series are currently in the works: a 2D children's animated series titled ''Gumby Kids'' and an [[adult animation|adult animated]] series. Both series will be produced by [[Bento Box Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/06/gumby-kids-fox-bento-box-1235960185/|title='Gumby Kids' In The Works With Fox's Bento Box Alongside Adult Animated Series|first=Peter|last=White|work=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|date=June 6, 2024|access-date=June 12, 2024}}</ref>
On October 12, 2011, [[Google]] paid tribute to Art Clokey’s 90th birthday featuring clay balls transforming into characters from Gumby. The doodle was composed of five clay balls in the Google colors placed beside a toy block with a "G" on it. Clicking any of the balls revealed the Blockheads, Prickle, Goo, Gumby himself, and Pokey (all characters from Gumby).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://popherald.com/art-clokey-google-doodle-gumby-appears/news/2011/10/11|date=October 12, 2011| accessdate = October 12, 2011|title=Art Clokey Google Doodle: Gumby appears}}</ref>


==Cast==
==Toys and merchandise==
*Ruth Eggleston: Gumby (1955–1956), Gumba (1955), Additional voices
Various Gumby merchandise has been produced over the years, the most prominent item being bendable figures. Several single packs and multi-figure sets by Jesco (later [[Trendmasters]]), as well as a 50th anniversary collection, have been made of the Gumby characters. Also included in the Gumby merchandise catalog are [[plush doll]]s, [[keychain]]s, [[mug]]s, a 1988 [[Colorforms]] set, a 1995 Trendmasters playset, and a [[Kubrick (toy)|Kubricks]] set by Medicom. A tribute album, ''[[Gumby (album)|Gumby]]'', was released in 1989 by Buena Vista records.{{-}}
*[[Dallas McKennon]]: Gumby (1957, 1960–1964, 1987–1989, 1995), Pokey (1960–1969), Gumbo (1960), Prickle (1964–1969), Professor Kapp (1964–1988, 1995), Denali (1988), Nopey (1964–1969), Henry (1987 re-dubbed), Rodgy (1987 re-dubbed), Additional voices
*[[Norma MacMillan]]: Gumby (1964–1969), Pokey (1967–1968), Goo (1964–1969), Gumba (1967–1968)
*[[Ginny Tyler]]: Gumby (1968–1969), Gumba (1957–1962), Granny (1960–1962), Witty Witch (1960–1962), Additional voices
* Stephen A. Buckley: Gumby (1987–1991, 1996, 2007)<ref name="Stephen Buckley"/>
*Betty Hartford: Gumba (1956)
*[[Art Clokey]]: Pokey (1955–1988, 1995, 2007), Prickle (1964–1969, 1987–1989, 1995), Gumbo (1955–1989, 1995), Additional voices
*[[Don Messick]]: Henry (1963), Rodgy (1963), Additional voices
*[[Paul Frees]]: Professor Kapp (1963), Additional voices
*Gloria Clokey: Goo (1987–1989, 1995), Gumba (1987–1989)
*Janet MacDuff: Gumba (1988, 1995), Granny (1988), Additional voices
*Holly Harman: Minga (1988), Tilly (1987–1989), Additional voices
*[[Hal Smith (actor)|Hal Smith]]: Prickle (1964–1969), Dr. Zveegee, Nopey, Additional voices
*[[Dick Beals]]: Naughty Boy (1960)
*[[Pinky Lee]]: Host (1956)
*[[Bobby Nicholson]]: Scotty McKee (host) (1956–1967)

==Episodes==
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==Reception and legacy==
In 1993, ''[[TV Guide]]'' named ''Gumby'' the best cartoon series of the 1950s in its issue celebrating 40 years of television.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[TV Guide]] |date=April 17–23, 1993|page=74}}</ref>

Beginning in 1994, the [[Library of Congress]] used Gumby as a "spokescharacter" for ''Adventures into Books: Gumby's World'', a traveling exhibition promoting the [[Center for the Book]]'s national reading campaign from 1997 to 2000.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Exhibit Supports 'Building a Nation of Readers'|journal=Library of Congress Information Bulletin|date=January 1998|volume=57|issue=1|url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9801/cfb.html}}</ref> By the end of the 1990s, Gumby and Pokey had also appeared in various commercials for [[Cheerios]] cereal, with Gumby voiced by Stephen A. Buckley.<ref>{{cite AV media |year=1996|title=Frosted Cheerios commercial|medium=Television advertisement|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQoC6IwfKSc| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102093346/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQoC6IwfKSc| archive-date=January 2, 2016 | url-status=dead|access-date=February 28, 2015|time=0:20|publisher=[[General Mills]]}}</ref><ref name="Stephen Buckley"/>

On August 4, 2006, the [[Center for Puppetry Arts]] in Atlanta opened ''Art Clokey's Gumby: The First Fifty Years''. This exhibition featured many of the original puppets and sets, along with screening of Clokey's films. This event was conceived by David Scheve of T.D.A. Animation and Joe Clokey of Premavision, and was one of several exhibits that opened around the country, celebrating the 50th anniversary of ''The Gumby Show''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Frye|first1=Shannon|title=Center for Puppetry Arts & Joe Clokey Celebrate Gumby's 50th Birthday|url=http://www.puppet.org/pdf/CPA_R_0607GUMBY.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020084912/https://www.puppet.org/pdf/CPA_R_0607GUMBY.pdf |archive-date=2007-10-20 |url-status=live|publisher=[[Center for Puppetry Arts]]|access-date=February 26, 2015|date=July 2006}}</ref> The children's book ''Gumby Goes to the Sun'' was also published that year to commemorate the anniversary. The book was originally created in the 1980s by Clokey's daughter, Holly Harman (who voiced Gumby's sister, Minga, in the 1988 series).<ref>{{cite web|title=Gumby Goes to the Sun|url=http://isbn.directory/book/9780977655106|website=ISBN.Directory|access-date=February 28, 2015|archive-date=October 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025131715/http://isbn.directory/book/9780977655106|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2007, the ''Gumby'' comic book series was nominated for two [[Eisner Award]]s, Best New Series and Best Publication for a Young Audience, and won the latter.<ref>[http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eisner07.php "2007 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards"]. Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. Retrieved May 2, 2012.</ref> A Gumby graphic novel titled ''Gumby: 50 Shades of Clay'' was released in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/gumby-50-shades-of-clay-graphic-novel/ |title=GUMBY 50 SHADES OF CLAY Graphic Novel|website=www.actionfigureinsider.com |date=September 24, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://comicon.com/2017/09/26/yes-theres-a-gumby-graphic-novel-called-50-shades-of-clay/ |title=Yes, There's A Gumby Graphic Novel Called '50 Shades Of Clay'|first1=Hannah Means|last1=Shannon|website=comicon.com|date=September 26, 2017}}</ref>

On October 12, 2011, a [[Google Doodle]] acknowledged Art Clokey's 90th birthday. It was composed of a toy block with a "G" and five clay balls in the Google colors. Clicking each ball revealed the Blockheads, Prickle, Goo, Gumby, and Pokey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/art-clokeys-90th-birthday/|title=Art Clokey 90th Birthday – Google Doodle|access-date=February 28, 2015|date=October 12, 2011}}</ref>

On December 21, 2019, Eddie Murphy reprised his role while hosting SNL during a sketch on [[Weekend Update]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tvline.com/2019/12/21/eddie-murphy-snl-video-gumby-sketch-2019|title=SNL Video: Gumby Returns During Eddie Murphy Comeback Episode|access-date=April 19, 2022|date=December 21, 2019}}</ref>

== Merchandising ==
[[File:Gumbygame.png|frame|right|The video game ''Gumby vs. the Astrobots'']]

The most prominent of Gumby merchandise is the bendable figure set by Lakeside Toys. Several single packs and multi-figure sets were made by Jesco (later [[Trendmasters]]), and a 50th anniversary collection. There are [[plush doll]]s, [[keychain]]s, [[mug]]s, a 1988 [[Colorforms]] set, a 1995 Trendmasters playset, and a [[Kubrick (toy)|Kubricks]] set by Medicom. A tribute album, ''[[Gumby (album)|Gumby: The Green Album]]'', produced by Shepard Stern, was released in 1989.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ehrbar|first1=Greg|title=Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records|date=2006|publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]]|location=[[Jackson, Mississippi]]|pages=182–183|isbn=9781617034336|edition=First|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGdpWCTdb-IC&q=Shepard+Stern+Gumby&pg=PA183}}</ref>

In August 2005, the first [[video game]] featuring Gumby, ''Gumby vs. the Astrobots'', was released by [[Namco]] for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. The plot follows the Blockheads and their cohorts, the Astrobots capturing Pokey, Prickle, Goo, Gumbo and Gumba and placing them in books. With his friends and parents in trouble, Gumby sets out to rescue them and defeat the Blockheads.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gumby vs. the Astrobots – Gameboy Advanced|url=https://www.ign.com/games/gumby-vs-the-astrobots/gba-726532|website=[[IGN]]|publisher=[[Ziff Davis]]|access-date=February 28, 2015}}</ref> The game is a [[Side-scrolling video game|sidescrolling]] [[platformer]], where Gumby must navigate stages to reach the end, whilst avoiding enemies, pitfalls, and defeating a number of bosses from the game's various worlds. ''Gumby vs. the Astrobots'' received generally average reviews according to [[Review aggregator]] [[Metacritic]], with an average score of 63 out of 100, based on four reviews.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gumby vs. the Astrobots critic reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/gumby-vs-the-astrobots/critic-reviews/ |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=www.metacritic.com |language=en}}</ref>

The ''Gumby'' images and toys are registered trademarks of [[Fox Entertainment]]. [[Premavision]] owned the distribution rights to the ''Gumby'' cartoons, having been reverted from previous distributor [[Warner Bros. Television]] in 2003, and had licensed the rights to [[Classic Media]] until September 30, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lieberman|first1=David|title=DreamWorks Animation Agrees To Pay $155M For Classic Media|url=https://deadline.com/2012/07/dreamworks-animation-buy-classic-media-rocky-bullwinkle-305403/|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]]|access-date=February 28, 2015|date=July 23, 2012}}</ref> At this time, Classic Media was officially acquired by [[DreamWorks Animation]] and branded as [[DreamWorks Classics]], which became a subsidiary of [[NBCUniversal]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Breznican|first1=Anthony|title=DreamWorks buys rights to 'He-Man,' 'Fat Albert,' 'Gumby,' 'Casper the Friendly Ghost' and other Classic titles|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2012/07/23/dreamworks-classic-he-man-gumby-casper|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=February 28, 2015|date=July 23, 2012}}</ref> As of April 2015, NCircle Entertainment owns home video and digital distribution rights to the cartoons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/ncircle_entertainment_acquires_dvd_and_digital_distribution_rights_for_the_iconic_and_timeless_series_the_adventures_of_gumby/prweb12671137.htm|title=NCircle Entertainment Acquires DVD and Digital Distribution Rights for the Iconic and Timeless Series, The Adventures Of Gumby|date=April 22, 2015|work=PRWeb}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
{{Portal|Animation|United States|Television}}
{{Portal bar|Television|United States|1950s|1960s|1980s|Animation}}
* [[List of Gumby episodes]]
*[[List of films featuring clay animation]]
*[[Morph (animation)|Morph]]
* [[Haibao]]
*[[Semper Gumby]]
* [[Morph (character)|Morph]]
* [[Semper Gumby]]
*[[Davey and Goliath]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
{{wikiquote|Art Clokey|Gumby's creator, Art Clokey}}
{{Wikiquote|Art Clokey|Gumby's creator, Art Clokey}}
*[http://gumbyworld.com/ Gumbyworld.com]
*{{Official website|https://gumbyworld.com/}}
*[http://www.premavision.com/ Premavision/Clokey Productions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014091847/http://www.premavision.com/ |date=October 14, 2011 }}
*{{imdb title|id=0050022|title=The Gumby Show}}
*{{IMDb title|id=0050022|title=The Gumby Show}}
*[http://www.premavision.com/ Premavision/Clokey Productions]
*{{EmmyTVLegends title|gumby}}
*[http://www.myspace.com/gumbyparty Official 50th Birthday Party Gumby's MySpace]
*[http://toonopedia.com/gumby.htm Gumby] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://archive.today/20240527225329/https://www.webcitation.org/6kBcC0MTM?url=http://toonopedia.com/gumby.htm Archived] from the original on September 1, 2016.
*[http://www.brensgumbyland.com Bren's Gumbyland – The Ultimate Gumby Memorabilia Collection/Fansite]
*[http://gumby.wikia.com/ Gumby Wiki]
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For other uses, see Gumby (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Gumbo or gumbly.

Gumby
Gumby in "Lost Treasure"
Created byArt Clokey[1]
Original workGumbasia (1953)
OwnerFox Entertainment[2]
Years1953–present
Films and television
Film(s)Gumby: The Movie (1995)
Short film(s)
  • Gumbasia (1953)
  • Adventures of Gumby: A Sample (1955)
Television series
  • Howdy Doody (1955–1956)[3]
  • The Gumby Show (1956–1969)
  • Gumby Adventures (1988)
Games
Video game(s)Gumby vs. the Astrobots (2005)
Gumby and Pokey figures

Gumby is a cartoon character and associated media franchise created by Art Clokey. Gumby is a blocky green humanoid made of clay.

Gumby stars in two television series, Gumby: The Movie, and other media. Upon his debut in 1953, he immediately became a famous example of stop motion clay animation and an American cultural icon, spawning tributes, parodies, and merchandising.

Overview

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The Gumby franchise follows Gumby's adventures through different environments and historical eras. His primary sidekick is Pokey, an anthropomorphic orange pony. His arch-nemeses are the Blockheads, a pair of silent antagonistic red humanoid figures with cube-shaped heads; one has the letter G on the side of his head, while the other has a J. Their creation was inspired by the trouble-making Katzenjammer Kids.[4][5] Other characters include Prickle, a yellow fire-breathing dinosaur who sometimes styles himself as a detective with pipe and deerstalker hat like Sherlock Holmes; Goo, a flying blue shapeshifting mermaid who spits blue goo balls;[6] Gumbo and Gumba, Gumby's parents;[7] and Nopey, Gumby's dog whose entire vocabulary is the word "nope". The 1988 syndicated series added Gumby's sister Minga, mastodon friend Denali, and chicken friend Tilly.[8][9]

History

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1953–1969: Origins

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Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s after he finished film school at the University of Southern California (USC).[1]

Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film, titled Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.[10] Gumbasia was created in the "kinesthetic" style taught by Clokey's USC professor Slavko Vorkapić, described as "massaging of the eye cells". Much of Gumby's look and feel was inspired by this technique of camera movements and editing.

In 1955, Clokey showed Gumbasia to film producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by animating figures into children's stories.[11] On January 29, 1955, Clokey produced and filmed the first pilot episode starring Gumby, titled Adventures of Gumby: A Sample, but never aired.[12]

The name "Gumby" came from the muddy clay found at Clokey's grandparents' farm that his family named "gumbo".[13] Gumby's appearance was inspired by a suggestion from his wife, Ruth (née Parkander), that Gumby be based on the Gingerbread Man. Clokey saw the color green as both racially neutral and a symbol of life.[14] Gumby's legs and feet were made wide to pragmatically ensure that the figure would stand up during stop motion filming. Gumby's slanted head was based on the hairstyle of Clokey's father, Charles Farrington, in an old photograph.[15][16]

The pilot episode was seen by NBC executive Thomas Warren Sarnoff, who asked Clokey to make another one. The second episode, Gumby on the Moon, became a huge hit on Howdy Doody, so Sarnoff ordered a series in 1955 titled The Gumby Show.[17] In 1955 and 1956, 25 11-minute episodes aired on NBC.[18] In early episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston, until 1957 when Dallas McKennon assumed the role.[19][20] Al Eggleston also invented Pokey, the little orange pony who was Gumby's best friend and was introduced during the earliest episodes.

Because of its variety format, The Gumby Show features Clokey's animations plus interviews and games. During this time, the show had two successive hosts, Robert Nicholson and Pinky Lee.[21][22]

In 1959, The Gumby Show entered syndication, and more episodes were produced in the 1960s.[23] Production started in Hollywood and in 1960 moved to a larger studio in Glendora, California, where it remained until production ended in 1969. During this time, Gumby was primarily voiced by Norma MacMillan and occasionally by Ginny Tyler.[19][24][25] The cartoon shorts introduce new characters including a blue mermaid named Goo and a yellow dinosaur named Prickle.[6]

Several sources claim that Dick Beals also voiced Gumby in the 1960s series.[25][26][19] However, Beals himself refuted this claim in a 2001 interview.[27]

1982–1989: Revival

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Beginning in 1982, Gumby was parodied by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live.[28] In it, when the cameras are off, the sweet Gumby reverts to his true self of an irascible, cigar-chomping celebrity who is highly demanding of the production executives. Whenever they refuse his demands, Gumby asserts his star status by saying "I'm Gumby, dammit!" in an exaggerated Jewish accent.[29] According to Joseph Clokey, Art's son, he and Art "thought Eddie was a genius in the way he played that character".[30] In 1987, the original Gumby shorts were released on home video.[31] In 1988, Gumby appeared in The Puppetoon Movie.[32]

This renewed interest led to a new Gumby Adventures series of 99 seven-minute episodes, produced for television syndication in association with Lorimar-Telepictures in 1988.[33][34] Dallas McKennon voices Gumby in the new adventures, in which Gumby and his pals travels beyond their toyland setting as a musical band. Gumby Adventures includes new characters, such as Gumby's little sister Minga, a mastodon named Denali and a chicken named Tilly.[8]

The new series includes the 1950s and 1960s shorts, with new audio. The voices were re-recorded and the music was replaced by Jerry Gerber's new synthesizer score.[34] Legal issues prevented Clokey from renewing rights to the original Capitol Records production tracks.

1990–2021: feature film and reruns

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Starting in 1992, TV channels such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network aired reruns of Gumby episodes. In 1995, Clokey's production company produced an independently released theatrical film, Gumby: The Movie, as the character's first feature-length adventure, with John R. Dilworth, creator of Courage the Cowardly Dog, as animation consultant.[35] In it, the villainous Blockheads replace Gumby and his band with robots and kidnap their dog, Lowbelly. It has in-joke homages to science-fiction films such as Star Wars, The Terminator, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 1998, the Gumby episode "Robot Rumpus" was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.[36]

On March 16, 2007, YouTube announced that all Gumby episodes would appear in their full-length form on its site, digitally remastered and with their original soundtracks. This deal also extended to other video sites, including AOL.[37] In March 2007, KQED-TV broadcast an hour-long documentary Gumby Dharma in its Truly CA series.[38] It details Clokey's life and work, and has new animation of Gumby and Pokey.[39] For these sequences, animator Stephen A. Buckley voiced Gumby and Clokey voiced Pokey.[40]

In 2012, MeTV began airing Gumby in its weekend morning animation block[41] until the end of the year.[42]

In 2014, the VOD service Kabillion broadcast Gumby.[43]

In 2017, a comic series was published that seemingly takes place after the movie. The series was canceled after three issues.

2022–present: Fox ownership

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In February 2022, Fox Entertainment, the TV production division of the Murdoch family's Fox Corporation, announced it had acquired the Gumby intellectual property from the estate of Art's son, Joseph Clokey, encompassing all rights including "film, TV and streaming, consumer products, licensing, publishing and all other categories", with plans to launch new series across linear and digital platforms, while adding to the classic Gumby material available on its free streaming platform Tubi.[44][45] Before Fox took ownership of the series, Gumby made a cameo in the seventeenth season of The Simpsons; he appeared in the episode "The Girl Who Slept Too Little".

In June 2024, it was announced that two Gumby series are currently in the works: a 2D children's animated series titled Gumby Kids and an adult animated series. Both series will be produced by Bento Box Entertainment.[46]

Cast

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  • Ruth Eggleston: Gumby (1955–1956), Gumba (1955), Additional voices
  • Dallas McKennon: Gumby (1957, 1960–1964, 1987–1989, 1995), Pokey (1960–1969), Gumbo (1960), Prickle (1964–1969), Professor Kapp (1964–1988, 1995), Denali (1988), Nopey (1964–1969), Henry (1987 re-dubbed), Rodgy (1987 re-dubbed), Additional voices
  • Norma MacMillan: Gumby (1964–1969), Pokey (1967–1968), Goo (1964–1969), Gumba (1967–1968)
  • Ginny Tyler: Gumby (1968–1969), Gumba (1957–1962), Granny (1960–1962), Witty Witch (1960–1962), Additional voices
  • Stephen A. Buckley: Gumby (1987–1991, 1996, 2007)[40]
  • Betty Hartford: Gumba (1956)
  • Art Clokey: Pokey (1955–1988, 1995, 2007), Prickle (1964–1969, 1987–1989, 1995), Gumbo (1955–1989, 1995), Additional voices
  • Don Messick: Henry (1963), Rodgy (1963), Additional voices
  • Paul Frees: Professor Kapp (1963), Additional voices
  • Gloria Clokey: Goo (1987–1989, 1995), Gumba (1987–1989)
  • Janet MacDuff: Gumba (1988, 1995), Granny (1988), Additional voices
  • Holly Harman: Minga (1988), Tilly (1987–1989), Additional voices
  • Hal Smith: Prickle (1964–1969), Dr. Zveegee, Nopey, Additional voices
  • Dick Beals: Naughty Boy (1960)
  • Pinky Lee: Host (1956)
  • Bobby Nicholson: Scotty McKee (host) (1956–1967)

Episodes

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Main article: List of Gumby episodes
SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
PilotsSeptember 2, 1953 (1953-09-02)
January 29, 1955 (1955-01-29)		NBC
143May 1, 1956 (1956-05-01)November 9, 1956 (1956-11-09)
287January 1, 1960 (1960-01-01)July 9, 1968 (1968-07-09)Syndication
399January 2, 1988 (1988-01-02)December 31, 1988 (1988-12-31)

Reception and legacy

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In 1993, TV Guide named Gumby the best cartoon series of the 1950s in its issue celebrating 40 years of television.[47]

Beginning in 1994, the Library of Congress used Gumby as a "spokescharacter" for Adventures into Books: Gumby's World, a traveling exhibition promoting the Center for the Book's national reading campaign from 1997 to 2000.[48] By the end of the 1990s, Gumby and Pokey had also appeared in various commercials for Cheerios cereal, with Gumby voiced by Stephen A. Buckley.[49][40]

On August 4, 2006, the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta opened Art Clokey's Gumby: The First Fifty Years. This exhibition featured many of the original puppets and sets, along with screening of Clokey's films. This event was conceived by David Scheve of T.D.A. Animation and Joe Clokey of Premavision, and was one of several exhibits that opened around the country, celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Gumby Show.[50] The children's book Gumby Goes to the Sun was also published that year to commemorate the anniversary. The book was originally created in the 1980s by Clokey's daughter, Holly Harman (who voiced Gumby's sister, Minga, in the 1988 series).[51]

In 2007, the Gumby comic book series was nominated for two Eisner Awards, Best New Series and Best Publication for a Young Audience, and won the latter.[52] A Gumby graphic novel titled Gumby: 50 Shades of Clay was released in 2017.[53][54]

On October 12, 2011, a Google Doodle acknowledged Art Clokey's 90th birthday. It was composed of a toy block with a "G" and five clay balls in the Google colors. Clicking each ball revealed the Blockheads, Prickle, Goo, Gumby, and Pokey.[55]

On December 21, 2019, Eddie Murphy reprised his role while hosting SNL during a sketch on Weekend Update.[56]

Merchandising

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The video game Gumby vs. the Astrobots

The most prominent of Gumby merchandise is the bendable figure set by Lakeside Toys. Several single packs and multi-figure sets were made by Jesco (later Trendmasters), and a 50th anniversary collection. There are plush dolls, keychains, mugs, a 1988 Colorforms set, a 1995 Trendmasters playset, and a Kubricks set by Medicom. A tribute album, Gumby: The Green Album, produced by Shepard Stern, was released in 1989.[57]

In August 2005, the first video game featuring Gumby, Gumby vs. the Astrobots, was released by Namco for the Game Boy Advance. The plot follows the Blockheads and their cohorts, the Astrobots capturing Pokey, Prickle, Goo, Gumbo and Gumba and placing them in books. With his friends and parents in trouble, Gumby sets out to rescue them and defeat the Blockheads.[58] The game is a sidescrolling platformer, where Gumby must navigate stages to reach the end, whilst avoiding enemies, pitfalls, and defeating a number of bosses from the game's various worlds. Gumby vs. the Astrobots received generally average reviews according to Review aggregator Metacritic, with an average score of 63 out of 100, based on four reviews.[59]

The Gumby images and toys are registered trademarks of Fox Entertainment. Premavision owned the distribution rights to the Gumby cartoons, having been reverted from previous distributor Warner Bros. Television in 2003, and had licensed the rights to Classic Media until September 30, 2012.[60] At this time, Classic Media was officially acquired by DreamWorks Animation and branded as DreamWorks Classics, which became a subsidiary of NBCUniversal in 2016.[61] As of April 2015, NCircle Entertainment owns home video and digital distribution rights to the cartoons.[62]

See also

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