Heckle and Jeckle: Difference between revisions

 

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* The Talking Magpies (1946)

* The Uninvited Pests (1946)

* Messed Up Movie Makers (1966)

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* [[American Accents]]

* [[British Accents]]

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first cartoon listed, "The Talking Magpies," was actually a Farmer Al Falfa cartoon. The two magpies shown at the start are a married couple whose squabbling over their nest disturbs Al Falfa and his dog (an early version of Dimwit). As Heckle and Jeckle took their more known forms in "The Uninvited Pests," they were voiced by Syd Raymond (Jeckle's voice wasn't the familiar British accent; that would come when Ned Sparks took over as the birds' voices).

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: As much of con artists, vagabonds and reprobates they were depicted as, Heckle and Jeckle could also use their wiles to combat bad guys. "Blue Plate Symphony," "Sno Fun" and "Hair Cut-Ups" are good examples. "Hair Cut-Ups" had them as barbers in the old west facing the outlaw Dangerous Dan. As noted in verse three of the cartoon's song:

By two tenderfoot barbers who trimmed him for good. }}

** Zig-zagged in "Sappy New Year." The boys sign a pledge to give up practical jokes as a New Year's resolution, but when their attempts to do good deeds are misinterpreted as mischief, Heckle starts to revert back.

* [[Reality Warper]]: The magpies realize in ''The Power of Thought'' that they're just in a cartoon, and can do anything they want.

** Yet in ''Pirate's Gold,'' after making off with a buccaneer's treasure, the taxman comes in at the end and glomps 99% of it:

** ''The Lion Hunt'' has them changing scenes and modes of transportation four times in a fifteen second spurt en route to Africa:

* [[Talking Animal]]

* [[Tricksters]]