Gumby: Difference between revisions

 

Bizarrely, ''Gumby'' was turned into the mascot for a [http://www.gumbyspizza.com/ pizza chain] catering to [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx|college]] towns. They name a fair amount of stuff after characters in the series (e.g., Pokey Sticks), and the green, stretchy one himself appears on their boxes.

* [[The Ace]]: Gumby, naturally.

* [[Acid Reflux Nightmare]]: One cartoon has Father Time accidentally causing various time-related problems for the world because he ate too many sweets before bed.

** Another instance is in "Prickle's Baby Brudder", where Prickle's little brother (who is a giant dragon from the book 'Saint George') comes to hide from the angry villiagers, who accuse him of burning down the villiage. They soon realize it's actually lightning doing the scorching, and set up a lightning rod to fix the problem.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Pokey's "Holy Toledo!" and Prickle's "Oh, dinosaur chips!"

* [[Deranged Animation]]: Art Clokey briefly experimented with LSD in the 1960s.

** After he made the classic Gumby shorts and had sworn off drugs by the time he returned to film-making. The claymation was still weird though.

* [[Descended Creator]]: Art Clokey himself voices Pokey and Prickle, as well as Gumby's father Gumbo.

* [[The Eeyore]]: Pokey, but it depends on the episode.

* [[Era Specific Personality]]

** Takes a turn for the disturbing in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3iVfq47H_k "All Broken Up"] ... The Blockheads develop a method for shattering Goo to pieces. Gumby manages to get her back together and shatters the Blockheads in retaliation, only to find out he re-shattered Goo into a pile of clay pieces. Cue Pokey Gumby and Prickle laughing over the shattered remains of their friend.

'''Pokey, Gumby and Prickle''' Ha ha ha ha ha ha! }}

* [[Eye Pop]]: Pokey, whenever he's surprised or gets scared.

** [[The Hero]]: Gumby

** [[The Lancer]]: Pokey

* [[Foil]]: The [[Deadpan Snarker|cynical,]] [[Cowardly Sidekick|cowardly,]] [[The Drag Along|content-at-home]] Pokey is a foil to Gumby, the [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|plucky,]] [[The Pollyanna|optimistic,]] [[Determinator]] and vice-versa.

* [[Force Feeding]]: One episode had Gumby constantly mooching snacks from his friends, then he has a nightmare about being force-fed ice-cream, soda, and hamburgers by a humanoid Pokey.

** '''The Optimist''': Gumby.

** '''The Cynic''': Pokey.

* [[Hot Mom]]: "[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mrs. Gumby is stacked!]]"

* [[Housewife]]: Gumba, Gumby's mother, to the extreme.

** Also Goo and... whoever the episode calls to action.

** Gumby's gradmother is human, and because Gumba and her sister are both more humanoid than the other clay-people, I think it's pretty safe to assume...

* [[Nice Guy]]: Gumby.

* [[No Dialogue Episode]]: Several shorts from the 1950s were these.

* [[Portal Book]]: Gumby and his friends could step inside books and meet the characters.

* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Gumby and all other clay people have unlimited shapeshifiting abilities. This sometimes applies to Pokey, Prickle and Goo as well.

* [[Revival]]: The 1960s and 1980s series.

* [[Rubber Hose Limbs]]

* [[Shrink Ray]]: Professor Kapp's "Shrink-A-Dink".

* [[Souvenir Land]]: Pumpkin Land.

* [[The Speechless]]: The Blockheads.

* [[Sphere Eyes]]: Pokey.

* [[Stop Motion]]

* [[Talking Animal]]: Pokey, Prickle, Denali the mammoth and Tillie the hen.

* [[Disney Death]]: This happens to Goo, when she was kidnapped and frozen by the Blockheads, and later was saved by Gumby at the end.

** At the end of the lightsaber fight between Gumby and his robot clone, the latter finishes it by slicing Gumby into pieces. Upon seeing this death, the Blockheads rejoice by dancing happily, but just then, Gumby comes back to life by ''transforming into miniature versions of himself'', much to the Blockheads' surprise.

* [[Epic Fail]]: The robot waiter at the café always does this.

** At the end, before the music video "Take Me Away" begins, Nobuckle accidentally jumps into a wagon after waking up, and rides on it crashing into the Clayboys.

** Also, after "Take Me Away", Lowbelly rides his skateboard over to the Clayboys, but accidentally jumps in front of Gumby and pushes him on Fatbuckle's drum.

"No time for that now." }}

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Lucky Claybert talks like W. C. Fields.

 

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