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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Jan 10, 2010 - 01:36pm PT
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Yeah RIP...That was my show when I was a lad!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 10, 2010 - 01:47pm PT
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hey there jaybro... say, this is very sweet of you to remember this man...
my condolences to his family...
when i was a kid, oddly, what i loved best about the show was that, first, it seemed kind (that part wasn't odd) but that the gumby boy had a HORSE...
and being just a kid, i wondered how he got to be so lucky as to have a horse... (funny the things kids think)...
but--i did love the kindness...
however, i always wondered why he was green---not understanding at the time (until later, when i could buy some), that kid's clay came in:
yellow
blue
green
and that reddish color...
green, i reckon, was great for a "growing boy"
;)
thanks for sharing this note, and remembering a man's art-work
and part of our history...
god bless...
:)
*wondered about the bump on his head(until later), too, as my brothers did not where their hair with the slicked-to-curl-up style...
;)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 10, 2010 - 01:48pm PT
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Somehow, I have no problem believing that, Mike!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 10, 2010 - 09:05pm PT
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And you know, Neebee, not only did he have his own horse, he had his own, yellow dinosaur!
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The beckoning silence
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Jan 10, 2010 - 11:30pm PT
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Ah man... I loved Gumby as a kid. Just the thing to balance out Davey and Goliath. Both shows always seemed to run in tandem on Sunday mornings.
RIP Art.
Eric
EDIT: you know, if it was possible, I would have driven a fire truck off a shelf just like Gumby... if I could have!
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rick d
climber
ol pueblo, az
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Jan 10, 2010 - 11:32pm PT
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Jan 10, 2010 - 11:59pm PT
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Gentle humor for young ones,
Named my pickup Pokey, (slow).
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jan 11, 2010 - 06:10am PT
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I read an obit for him, which had some interesting points:
 Gumby was originally a school project
He made Gumby claymations for the Howdy Doody show, and some others of the era
The head bump is in ode to his father's hair style, that WBITD swish
He was also the creator of Davey and Goliath, which he was contracted to do from the Lutheran Church
Davey & Goliath $ supported his ability to continue making Gumby cartoons
He resisted the idea of making/marketing the Gumby bendable toy because he didn't want Gumby to be seen as a mechanism for kids to be exploited
As with most things, Gumby's popularity faded but was later revived with Eddie Murphy's "Bad Gumby." Clokey enjoyed "Bad Gumby," saying "Gumby can laugh at himself."
Due to the resurge in popularity from the Murphy's SNL character, the Gumby renaissance finally allowed a decent income stream for Clokey.
Clokey was an artist. He lived his dream and stuck with it, creating a gentle, kind, set of characters (and the juxtaposition of the not-so-kind) that gave joy and a sense of marvel to most of us who saw them(who didn't want to ooze through walls like Gumby!?).
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2010 - 06:57am PT
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Interesting list, Hap.
Barely a week before his death, my daughter and I saw part of a biography about him on PBS. I always wondered how the acceptance, promoted in Gumby reconciled with the um, sterner message of Davey and Goliath. I was relieved to learn that Art was a hired gun in that enterprise.
I really like the idea that he could laugh at the Eddie Murphy "I am Gumby dammit" character.
If anyone "with a heart" has a chance to see this 'documentary' it's worth it. Gumby and Pokey are interviewed, talking about Art. There is material from as recently as 2004(?)
We watched that before we split to go see Avatar, interesting, warmup...
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 11, 2010 - 08:08pm PT
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I think Murphy was parodying the sense of Gary Coleman-like self-importance that occasionally accompanies minor celebrity, so I don't see why Clokey would be offended,..
(unless he really believed Gumby was bigtime lol)
I wonder how 5 year olds today, jaded on state of the art animation, would take to claymation.
I suspect that at that age it still works.
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