Mister Peabody
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Mr. Peabody is a fictional dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s television animated series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show (collectively referred to as Rocky and Bullwinkle). Peabody appeared in the segments entitled Peabody's Improbable History created by Ted Key. All were Jay Ward productions.
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[edit] Background
Peabody appeared in these segments alongside "his boy" Sherman (in a twist on the "boy and his dog" cliché). Peabody, who was a genius, decided to adopt Sherman so he'd have some company in his life. Sherman's personality was that of a naive but fairly bright, energetic young boy. They both wore black, over-sized horn-rimmed glasses. The voices of Peabody and Sherman were provided by Bill Scott and Walter Tetley, respectively.
In the series, Peabody constructed for his and Sherman's use the WABAC (pronounced "wayback") machine, its name also a play on early computers such as UNIVAC and ENIAC. The WABAC was a time machine which Peabody and Sherman would use to travel back in time to witness various historical events. However, on each visit, they would discover that things didn't happen the way they were supposed to (such as Paul Revere not being able to make his ride due to only having a statue of a horse instead of a real one), and would subsequently wind up working to fix whatever the problem was (using Peabody's great intellect to do so), so that history would be accurate. Mr. Peabody's technological genius also was able to tune any tongue to English. In addition to performing on-screen, Peabody would voice-over a narration of key events of each episode, as a way of moving the story along.
At the end of each episode, Peabody and Sherman would talk to each other about what had just transpired, with Peabody always offering a bad pun related to the events or people being discussed. This is similar in construction to the shaggy dog story or specifically a type of story called a feghoot. For example, when the Battle of Little Big Horn was completed, Peabody directed Sherman's attention to a hot dog vending booth and said that was the real "Custer's Last Stand".
[edit] Segments
- Napoleon
- Lord Nelson
- Wyatt Earp
- King Arthur
- Franz Schubert
- Lucretia Borgia
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Robert Fulton
- Annie Oakley
- The Wright Brothers
- George Armstrong Custer
- Alfred Nobel
- Marco Polo
- Richard The Lionhearted
- Don Juan
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- First Kentucky Derby
- P. T. Barnum
- Stanley and Livingstone
- Louis Pasteur
- Robin Hood
- Robinson Crusoe
- Juan Ponce De Leon
- John L. Sullivan
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Paul Revere
- Confucius
- Nero
- Francis Scott Key
- Captain Matthew Clift
- Balboa
- Peter Cooper
- The Battle of Bunker Hill
- The Pony Express
- Stephen Decatur
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Robert Peary
- Pancho Villa
- Lord Francis Douglas
- Sitting Bull
- Christopher Columbus
- The French Foreign Legion
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Scotland Yard
- John Holland
- Louis XVI
- Francisco Pizzaro
- Daniel Boone
- Jesse James
- William Shakespeare
- Zebulon Pike
- The first golf match
- William Tell
- James Whistler
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Kit Carson
- The first caveman
- Johann Gutenberg
- Buffalo Bill Cody
- Hans Christian Oersted
- Leif Ericcson
- John Sutter
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Calamity Jane
- The surrender of Cornwallis
- The first Indian nickel
- Jules Verne
- Casanova
- Lawrence Of Arabia
- Bonnie Prince Charlie
- Geronimo
- Paul Reuter
- The Great Wall of China
- The Marquis of Queensbury
- Jim Bowie
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Charge of the Light Brigade
- The Royal Mounted Police
- The first bullfight
- The building of the Great Pyramid
- James John Audubon
- Mata Hari
- Galileo Galilei
- Wellington at Waterloo
- Florence Nightingale
- Henry The Eighth
- The first Indianapolis Auto Race
- Captain Kidd
- The Texas Rangers
- Cleopatra
[edit] References
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=362824 Dreamworks to bring Mr. Peabody & Sherman to the big screen.
