Quick Draw McGraw

Hey, Quikstraw ... done u thin u better find ol Snagglepuss before u go kabonggin all over dee place?

The best Hanna Barbera cartoon ever. Period. Paragraph. End of story.

Thank God for the Cartoon Network Super Chunks so I can tape hours upon hours of Quick Draw.

El Kabong got me through graduate school.

I thought the Quick Draw McGraw cartoons were funny because Quick Draw is always getting into trouble a lot when he is trying to bring in some desperados along with his sidekick, Baba Louie. Also Quick Draw sometimes turns into this zorro kind of character called El Kabong and he uses a guitar as his weapon and he swings down and bashes villains with them which I thought was funny! This was the third cartoon made by Hanna-Barbera cartoons. The guest stars on this show were Auggie Doggie and Doggie Daddy which is segment with father and son who go through life in a funny way. The other guest star is a cat and mouse detective team called Snooper and Blabber who solve many capers in various hilarious ways! I met the creators who did this cartoon and the other Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

User Rating: 8/10

BOTTOM LINE: OLE KABONG!

FOLLOWING THEIR SUCCESS with their first syndicated cartoon show in THE HUCKLEBERRY HOUND Show, Hanna-Barbera Productions followed it up about a year or so later. With the release of QUICK DRAW McGRAW, the same format was followed verbatim.

WHERERAS HUCK'S SHOW featured two Huckleberry Hound cartoons in book end positions (first & last). In between there were 6 minutes of YOGI BEAR (with BOO-BOO and Ranger Smith) and a PIXIE & DIXIE Cartoon (Mice) featuring the Beatnik-like Cat/Nemisis, MR. JINX.

THE QUICK DRAW McGraw show did likewise, but this time the back-up features were AUGIE DOGGIE & his DOGGIE DADDY (with the Jimmy Duarante voice) and detective spoof of SUPER SNOOPER & BLABBER MOUSE. "Snoop" has his voice patterned after actor Tom D'Andrea and "Blab" is sort of high-pitched with a pronounced slur.

IN AN ATTEMPT to capitalize on the then very popular Disney ZORRO TV Series, a sort of subplot developed in the QUICK DRAW Cartoons when Quick Draw, himself, took on a masked double identity as "EL KABONG"! Decked out in a very Zorro-like get up, replete with tango-style hat and stringed bolas. Instead of a sword, El Kabong strikes his opponent over his cranium with his GUITAR! The resulting ka-bong sound gives us the name.

WE MUST MAKE mention of "Qweeks Draw's" sidekick. Short and comical, BABA-LOUIE is a burro with a Mexican Accent & Sombereo to boot. His relationship with the star, Quick Draw, is similar to that of BOO-BOO's to YOGI BEAR. Baba-Louie probably couldn't exist today if the series were to have been created today. He belongs to the same school of characters as Warner Brothers' SPEEDY GONZALEZ and UPA's GO GO GOMEZ (from the DICK TRACY animated show). In short, they violate the tenets of Political Correctness.

IN THE FINAL analysis, we must say that while there are many similarities to the previous HUCK Show, this is not a case of cookie cutter copying! And Schultz says he heartily agrees, too!

I always liked horses and cowboys as a kid, so I thought this show ruled simply because it had a talking cartoon horse in it. Years later, I began to appreciate it even more for the background music and the clever humor in the show. I don't know just who or what person or character Hanna and Barbara patterned Quick Draw after, but I know Baba Looey was envisioned to be some kind of cross between the Cisco Kid's sidekick and Desi Arnaz (that's where Baba gets the 'thin' theeng from!). Like a lot of people I've met here in the Southern United States (and hey, I can say that, I'm FROM here!)Queeks Draw is often long on mouth and short on brains but Baba and the rest of us tend to look over that and enjoy him anyway. The Hoyt Curtin background music in the Quick Draw cartoons is good (a lot of it came from Columbia Pictures music library music off old Columbia cartoons) and the animation is often so quirky and crude that it's cute. "Bad Guys Disguise" is my favorite QD toon of all time, it's the quintessential Quick Draw toon. Daws Butler, Don Messick, and Jean Vanderpyl do great voice work on these early toons, too. The humor's good, fresh, and fun, and Butler really hams it up in a silly was as Quick Draw's voice... I didn't really care for Augie Dogie, even as a kid, because I never was much of a Jimmy Durante fan and it's pretty obvious who they were trying to pattern Doggie Daddy after...but Snooper and Blabber cartoons were fun to watch. I haven't seen one in years and I miss them. I like the 1959 to 1960 toons best of all, before Quick Draw got the Flintstoney music and visuals, but you can't go wrong with a QD toon...and "do-oh-ohn't yew fergiht ITTT!"

I absolutely love the Quick Draw McGraw show. Being a huge fan of classic television animation, I came across this program online, and I have to say that it's my very favorite Hanna-Barbera cartoon show; Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, and The Flintstones are favorites of mine as well.

The animation is great, and the colors are earth tones – which fits the western theme perfectly. The background music, which is western themed, is also appealing. The comedic timing is perfect, and Michael Maltese did an excellent job participating in making the characters come to life. What really makes the show stand out are the characters; they are all engaging, lovable and well made. Quick Draw McGraw is my personal favorite Hanna-Barbera character; though he's rather dumb, he is extremely hilarious and so full of life and perseverance that you can't help but love him. His catchphrases and antics are really clever and amusing, and he puts all his effort into getting rid of the bad guys (some of the villains are extremely funny and unforgettable, like Big Chief Little Runt from 'Scat, Scout, Scat'). Quick Draw never gives up – even if he fails most of the time – you have to love him for those qualities. Baba Looey, his Mexican burro sidekick, is extremely loyal to McGraw and is always there for him. He's smart and always warns Quick Draw of danger; he is a wonderful sidekick and has some great lines too. The voice acting by the talented legend Daws Butler is outstanding. Other great characters include Snuffles, the cute biscuit-loving dog, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber, which are great characters as well.

I highly recommend this show for cartoon lovers young and old. It's hugely enjoyable, laugh out loud funny, and down to earth. It's a real shame the Quick Draw McGraw show doesn't have its own complete DVD series, we really need one so that new animation fans as well as baby boomers who grew up with this treasure can look back and enjoy it.

10/10