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The Quick Draw McGraw Show
Quick Draw McGraw's Title Card
GenreComedy
Created byHanna-Barbera
Written byWarren Foster
Michael Maltese
Directed byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Presented byQuick Draw McGraw
StarringQuick Draw McGraw
Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
Snooper and Blabber
Voices ofDaws Butler
Don Messick
Doug Young
Julie Bennett
Jean Vander Pyl
Narrated byDon Messick
ComposerHoyt Curtin
Country of origin United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes45 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducersWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time30 Minutes
7 Minutes Per Short
Production companyHanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
NetworkFirst-Run Syndication
ReleaseSeptember 28, 1959 (1959-09-28) –
October 20, 1964 (1964-10-20)
Related
Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
Snooper and Blabber

The Quick Draw McGraw Show is the third cartoon television production created by Hanna-Barbera starring an anthropomorphic cartoon horse named Quick Draw McGraw following their success with The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. The show debuted in syndication in the fall of 1959, sponsored by Kellogg's. Voice actor Daws Butler performed the lead character, Quick Draw. Michael Maltese crafted most of the episode stories.

Screen Gems originally syndicated the series, followed later by Rhodes Productions, Taft H-B Program Sales, Worldvision Enterprises, then Turner Broadcasting, and now Warner Bros. Television (through their 1996 purchase of Turner). Currently, the show is aired on the Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang.

Plot

Quick Draw was usually depicted as a sheriff in these short films set in the American Old West. Each episode was approximately six minutes long; this allowed four episodes per half-hour program with commercial advertisements in between. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey (Desi Arnaz had a hit song in the 1950s called "Babalu"), who spoke English with a Mexican accent and was also voiced by Butler. In the Latin American version, Quick Draw (Tiro Loco McGraw) speaks in a very English-influenced accent, and Baba Looey (Pepe Trueno) speaks in a very Mexican accent, so it was clear that Quick Draw was the alien, and there was no need to adapt any feature of the story.

Quick Draw satirized the westerns that were popular among the American public at the time. His character was well-intentioned, but somewhat dim. Often, Baba Looey was a more astute judge of the problem at hand than Quick Draw. Baba Looey would start to tell Quick Draw what he was thinking: "Queeks Draw, I theen...", whereupon Quick Draw would interrupt with his catchphrase: "Now hoooooold on thar, Baba Looey! I'll do the "thinnin'" around here, and doooon't you forget e-it!" Quick Draw spoke with a heavy drawl, as shown by his catchphrase.

Other Quick Draw cartoons featured Snuffles, a treat-loving canine who would help Quick Draw and Baba Looey only after being awarded a dog biscuit. When given the biscuit, Snuffles would moan in joy, hug himself, float up into the air and slowly return to the ground in total ecstasy. It was clear, however, that Baba Looey was much smarter than Quick Draw but loyal to a fault, similar to the earlier Hanna-Barbera pairing of the whimsical Yogi Bear and his practical sidekick Boo Boo (both teams vaguely referencing the classic team of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza).

Quick Draw was himself a horse caricature who walked on two legs like a human (as did Baba Looey), and had "hands" that were hooves with thumbs and could hold objects such as guns. This did not stop the show's producers from depicting him riding into town on a realistic horse, or, as seen in the show's opening credits, driving a stagecoach pulled by a whole team of realistic horses. This aspect was made light of in the 1980s made-for-television film The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, which featured Quick Draw.

In a series of episodes, Quick Draw would also assume the identity of the masked vigilante "El Kabong" (a parody of Zorro). His introduction went as follows – "Of all the heroes in legend and song. there's none as brave as El Kabong" - As El Kabong, Quick Draw would attack his foes by swooping down on a rope with the onomatopoeiac war cry "KABOOOOOONG!", or, at times, "OLAYYYYEEEE!" and hitting them on the head with an acoustic guitar which is always referred to as a "kabonger", producing a distinctive kabong sound and usually destroying the guitar in the process. The "guitar" was usually drawn as a four stringed quatro. On the cartoon's soundtrack, the "kabong" sound effect was produced by a foley artist striking the detuned open strings of a cheap acoustic guitar. (Without any of the obvious cartoon theatrics, this would also be reprised by several professional wrestlers, referred to then either under El Kabong's name or as the "Acoustic Equalizer".)

Quick Draw McGraw's supporting characters in The Quick Draw McGraw Show's two other segments were Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, father-and-son dogs (the father played as a parody of Jimmy Durante), and Super Snooper and Blabbermouse, cat and mouse detective partners.

Another featured character was Snuffles, the dog who would point to his mouth and "ah-ah-ah-" when he wanted a biscuit, then hug himself, leap up in the air, and float back down after having eaten one. In several cases when Quick Draw did not have a dog biscuit to offer, or if he tried to give Snuffles the reward cash for capturing an outlaw, Snuffles would either shake his said and say, "Uh-uh," or grunt to himself and mumble "Darn cheapskate!" In his first appearance, Bow-Wow Bandit, he was trying to find Quick Draw's assistant Baba Looey, who was kidnapped by a bandit that thinks that he has a tattoo of a map on his back. He wasn't called Snuffles, Quick Draw sometimes calls him dog deputy.

Episodes

Season 1

  • Scary Prairie / Foxhound Hounded Fox / Puss N' Booty (Pilot)
  • Bad Guys Disguise / Watchdog Augie / Switch Witch
  • Scat, Scout, Scat / Skunk You Very Much / Real Gone Ghosts
  • Choo-Choo Chumps / In the Picnic of Time / Desperate Diamond Dimwits
  • Masking for Trouble / High and Flighty / Big Diaper Caper
  • Lamb Chopped / Nag! Nag! Nag! / The Flea and Me
  • Double Barrel Double / Talk It Up Pup / Disappearing Inc.
  • Riverboat Shuffled / Tee Vee or Not Tee Vee / Baby Rattled
  • Dizzy Desperado / Big Top Pop / Not So Dummy
  • Sagebrush Brush / Million-Dollar Robery / Fee-Fi-Fo Fumble
  • Bow-Wow Bandit / Pup Plays Pop / Masquerade Raider
  • Six-Gun Spook / Pop's Nature Pup / Motor Knows Best
  • Slick City Slicker / Good Mouse Keeping / Slippery Glass Slipper
  • Cattle Battle Rattled / Whatever Goes Pup / Monkey Wrenched
  • Doggone Prairie Dog / Cat Happy Pappy / Gopher Goofers
  • El Kabong / Ro-Butler / Impossible Imposters
  • Gun Gone Goons / Pipsqueak Pop / Adventure is My Hobby
  • El Kabong Rides Again / Fan Clubbed / Cloudy Rowdy
  • Treasure of El Kabong / Crow Cronies / Snap Happy Saps
  • Locomotive Loco / Gone to the Ducks / Lion is Busy
  • Bronco Bustin' Boobs / Mars Little Precious / Laughing Guess
  • The Lyin' Lion / Swats the Matter / The Case of the Purloined Parrot
  • Chopping Spree / Snagglepuss / Poddle Toodle-Oo!
  • Elephant Boy Oh Boy! / Hum Sweet Hum / Doggone Dog, Gone
  • Bull-Leave Me / Peck O'Trouble / Hula-Hula Hullabaloo
  • Kabong Kabong's Kabong / Fuss N' Feathers / Wild Man, Wild!

Season 2

  • El Kabong Meets El Kazing / Yuk-Yuk Duck / Ala-Kazoop!
  • Bullet Proof Galoot/ It's a Mice Day / Hop to It
  • Two Too Much / Bud Brothers / Fleas Be Careful
  • Twin Troubles / Pint Giant / Observant Servants
  • Ali-Baba Looey / It's a Worm Day / De-Duck-Tives
  • Shooting Room Only / Patient Pop / Big Shot Blab
  • Yippee Coyote / Let's Duck Out / Big Cat Caper
  • Gun Shy Gal / The Party Lion / Scoop Snoop
  • Who is El Kabong? / The Musket-Tears / Prince Of A Fella’
  • Scooter Rabbit / Horse Feathers / Flea for All
  • Talky Hawky / Playmate Pup / Outer Space Case
  • Extra Special Extra / Little Wonder / Bear-ly Able
  • El Kabong, Jr. / Treasure Jest / Surprised Party

Season 3

  • El Kabong Was Wrong / From Ape to Z / Zoom-Zoom Blabber
  • Dynamite Fright / Growing, Growing, Gone / Eenie Genie, Minie, Moo!
  • Baba Bait / Dough-Nutty / Bronco Bluster
  • Big Town El Kabong / Party Popper Pop / Chilly Chiller
  • Mine Your Manners / Hand to Mouse / Gem Jams
  • The Mark of El Kabong / Vacation Tripped / Person to Prison (Series Finale)

Voice cast

  • In the "Fender Bender 500" segment of 1990's Wake, Rattle, and Roll, Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey are the featured racers where they drive a padded wagon-modeled monster truck called the Texas Twister. Quick Draw McGraw was voiced by Greg Burson while Baba Looey was voiced by Neil Ross.
  • Quick Draw and his partner have also been seen in episodes of other animated programs, produced by studios other than Hanna-Barbera.
  • Greg Burson reprises his role of Quick Draw McGraw when he and Baba Looey appeared in the twenty-ninth episode of Samurai Jack entitled "The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful."
  • More recently, Snuffles, Quick Draw's dog, made a special guest appearance on an episode of Johnny Bravo in which Johnny follows a woman who he mistakes for his mother. In the episode, Snuffles is assigned by the police to help find Johnny - provided, of course, he is given doggy snacks along the way.
  • A clip of a Quick Draw McGraw episode, "Kabong Kabong's Kabong", can be seen in Class of 3000 episode Home, where "El Kabong" hits an impostor with a guitar. The channel is changed shortly afterwards and the same clip plays, supposedly in several other languages.
  • Quick Draw McGraw appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Ban on the Fun" voiced by Seth Green. In a segment that parodies Laff-A-Lympics in the style of the Munich massacre, he escapes out the window and returns as El Kabong only to end up shot by a disguised Dread Baron
  • There are references to Quick Draw in other television shows, stand-up acts and songs from popular culture. There are references to "El Kabong" in the TV series The Critic- Jay Sherman's father, Franklin Sherman, imitates El Kabong, swooping from chandeliers dressed similar to Zorro and hitting people over the head with a guitar. Quick Draw McGraw was mentioned in Dane Cook's stand up comedy, "the Chicken Sangwich/the Heckler and the Kabbash". Quick Draw McGraw is referred to in Busta Rhymes' songs "So Hardcore" and "Everything Remains Raw". The relevant lines are "Hardcore like Quick Draw McGraw / F*** what you heard you ain't heard this before." Quick Draw McGraw is also referred to in MF Doom's Viktor Vaughn song Modern day Mugging in which an old lady is said to have "pulled out and let off like Quick Draw McGraw" Lil' Wayne refers to Quick Draw McGraw in his song Fireman. He raps: "Been in that water since a youngin', you just shark food / Quick Draw McGraw I went to art-school". Quick Draw McGraw is also referred to in House of Pain's song "Boom Shalock Lock Boom (-Butch Vig Mix)." The song appeared on the EP, "Shamrocks And Shenanigans." The relevant lines are, "I'm quick on the draw / like the horse named McGraw / from the cartoon / Boom shalock lock boom." The Game's "One Blood (Remix)" refers to Quick Draw McGraw. T.I. raps, "I'm prepared, in the mall and all with two tools. You can call me Quick Draw McGraw." El Kabong can be seen singing with a group of celebrities in a "We Are the World" parody in the episode Million Dollar Abie of The Simpsons.
  • The Executive Director of The Howard Stern Show, Gary Dell'Abate is eternally branded with the nickname "Baba Booey" after he mispronounced Baba Looey's name during a discussion of original cartoon cels. Dell'Abate was contemplating the purchase of a Quick Draw/Baba Looey cel, but kept referring to the sidekick as "Baba Booey." Stern and his cohorts poked fun at Dell'Abate for wanting to spend so much money on a character whose name he didn't even know.
  • Quick Draw was the mascot for Sugar Smacks in the early 1960s.

DVD release

A DVD release of the series for the H-B classics collection was originally announced by Warner Bros. for 2006 but was later canceled due to the poor condition of the masters and the music right issues.

In 2006, a Warner spokesperson said of the DVDs, "They were pulled because significant remastering work needed to be researched." [1] There have also been issues with music copyright ownership, meaning any sort of future DVD release is extremely doubtful.

Quick Draw McGraw in other languages

Production credits

  • Produced and Directed: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
  • Voices: Daws Butler, Don Messick,
  • Story: Warren Foster
  • Story Director: Alex Lovy
  • Titles: Lawrence Goble
  • Musical Diector: Hoyt Curtin
  • Animation: Kenneth Muse, Leis Mashall, Carlo Vinci, George Nicholas, Ed Love, Don Patterson, Dick Lundy, William Keil
  • Layout: Dick Bickenbach, Walt Clinton
  • Production Supervision: Howard Hanson
  • Backgrounds: Robert Gentle, Art Lozzi,
  • Camera: Roy Wade, Norman Stainback, Frank Paiker, Charles Flekal
  • Film Editing: Greg Watson, Warner Leighton, Donald A. Douglas, Joseph Ruby, Kenneth Muse
  • Quick Draw McGraw © Copyright MCMLIX Hanna-Barbera Productions
  • A Hanna-Barbera Production
  • A Screen Gems Film Presentation
    • Television Subsidiary: Columbia Pictures Corporation

See also

References

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