Dudley Do-Right
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Dudley Do-Right was the eponymous hero of a segment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show which parodied early 20th century melodrama and silent film (by using only a piano as a musical background) in the form of the Northern genre. Dudley Do-Right was a dim-witted Canadian Mountie who was always trying to catch his nemesis Snidely Whiplash, more often succeeding by pure luck than anything else. He romantically pursued Nell Fenwick, the daughter of Inspector Fenwick, the head of the Mountie station. However, a running gag throughout the series was Nell's interest in his horse (called Horse), to the point that she scarcely noticed Dudley's interest.
[edit] Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties
In 1969, Dudley Do-Right was featured in his own show, The Dudley Do-Right Show, which consisted primarily of existing episodes from the series, produced by Jay Ward Productions and Total Television. In latter years, Jay Ward Productions created animation cells intended for sale and not for use in animation.
In 1999, a live-action film starring Brendan Fraser (as Dudley), Sarah Jessica Parker (as Nell), and Alfred Molina (as Snidely) was released. The movie did poorly at the box-office, as it had an opening weekend gross (domestically) of $3,018,345, which then went on to have a "domestic total gross" of $9,974,410. The movie was made on a budget of $70 million.[1]
[edit] Dudley Do-Right Show
The Dudley Do-Right Show was an animated television series assembled by P.A.T. Film Services, consisting of cartoons produced by Jay Ward Productions and Total Television, which aired Sunday mornings on ABC-TV from April 27, 1969 to September 6, 1970. Each half-hour show included two segments each of Dudley Do-Right Of The Mounties and The World Of Commander McBragg, along with one segment each of Tooter Turtle and The Hunter. Dudley Do-Right was a Jay Ward production, while the other segments were products of Total Television. Both companies used Gamma Productions, a Mexico-based animation studio.
The U.S. syndicated version of the show, called Dudley Do Right And Friends, differs from The Dudley Do-Right Show, featuring most of the same recurring cartoon segments, but a different episode selection. The syndicated package features Dudley Do-Right Of The Mounties, The World Of Commander McBragg, The King And Odie, and The Hunter. The latter two originally appeared as part of King Leonardo And His Short Subjects, a series that aired between October 15, 1960 and September 28, 1963 on NBC-TV. Twenty-six new segments of both series were produced for CBS-TV's Tennessee Tuxedo And His Tales in 1963, and these later segments are included in the syndicated Dudley Do Right And Friends.
Actors (voice overs) included:
- Bill Scott - Dudley Do-Right
- June Foray - Nell Fenwick
- Hans Conried - Snidely Whiplash
- Paul Frees - Inspector Fenwick/Narrator
- William Conrad did several (but not all) of the narrations.
[edit] Segments
- The Disloyal Canadians
- Finding Gold
- Mortgagin' The Mountie Post
- Trap Bait
- Masked Ginny Lynne
- The Centaur
- Railroad Tracks
- Foreclosing Mortgages
- Snidley Mounted Police
- Mother Love
- Mountie Bear
- Inspector Dudley Do-Right
- Recruiting Campaign
- Out Of Uniform
- Lure Of The Footlights
- Bullet Proof Suit
- Miracle Drug
- Elevenworth Prison
- Saw Mill
- Mountie Without A Horse
- Mother Whiplash's Log Jam
- Stolen Art Masterpiece
- Mechanical Dudley
- Flicker Rock
- Faithful Dog
- Coming-Out Party
- Robbing Banks
- Skagway Dogsled-Pulling Contest
- Canadian Railway's Bridge
- Niagara Falls
- Snidely's Vic Whiplash Gym
- Marigolds
- Trading Places
- Top Secret
- The Locket
- The Inspector's Nephew
- Matinee Idol
- Snidley Arrested
One segment originally seen on The Bullwinkle Show, "Stokey the Bear", had been withheld from all reissues of the series because the U.S. Forest Service objected to the image of a bear that started forest fires. The segment was finally released on home video in 2005.
[edit] Theme park attraction
Dudley Do-Right is the theme of a log flume attraction at the Islands of Adventure theme park titled "Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls". Guests enter a queue themed to resemble a theater, with Dudley, Nell, Snidely and Horse presented as actors. Riders board cartoon logs and journey "into" the story, where Snidely has sinisterly captured Nell Fenwick. Horse and Dudley make their first appearance in front of a cyclorama backdrop, theatrically "charging" to the rescue.
The ride system contains three drops, the last and tallest of which is 75 feet. It is a hybrid flume/coaster that utilizes steel track to not only shoot guest-filled logs down the final drop, but under the water's surface and over a bunny hill. The ride system was designed and built by Mack GmbH and opened in 1999.
[edit] In popular culture
- The character is mentioned in the 1991 Tony Scott film The Last Boy Scout starring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans. In one scene, Wayans' character accuses Willis's character of pretending to be a "Dudley f***ing Do Right" when, in fact, he is a lowlife.
- In an issue of EGM in Seanbaby's section "The Rest of the Crap" in which that month's topic was a Captain N parody, Seanbaby quoted that Simon Belmont in Captain N "talks like Dudley-Do Right".
- In the episode "Midnight Rx" of The Simpsons Homer goes to a Canadian drug store called "Dudley Do Drugs".
- The athletic bands of the Michigan State University perform the theme song while the students act as if they are each riding a horse at various home games, such as basketball, hockey, and football.
- The theme music for Dudley Do-Right includes a small portion of Franz von Suppé's Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna.
- In the series Due South the Canadian Mountie-hero is referred to in one episode as "Dudley Do-Right"
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