Huckleberry Hound

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Huckleberry Hound
The Huckleberry Hound Show character
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First appearance Huckleberry Hound Meets Wee Willie
Created by
Voiced by
In-universe information
NicknameHuck
SpeciesDog (Bluetick Coonhound)
GenderMale
Occupation Folk ballad singer
Origin Memphis, Tennessee [8]
Musical instrument

Huckleberry "Huck" Hound is a fictional cartoon character, a blue anthropomorphic coonhound dog that speaks with a North Carolina Southern drawl. He first appeared in the series The Huckleberry Hound Show . The cartoon was one of six TV shows to win an Emmy Award in 1960 [9] as an "Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Children's Programming"; [10] the first animated series to receive such an award. [11]

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Most of his short films consist of Huck trying to perform jobs in different fields, ranging from policeman to dogcatcher, with results that backfire, yet usually coming out on top, either through slow persistence or sheer luck. Huck does not seem to exist in a specific time period as he has also been a Roman gladiator, a medieval knight, and a rocket scientist. He also appears in futuristic cartoons, as an intergalactic space policeman, alongside other Hanna-Barbera characters. The trademark of Huck was his tone-deaf and inaccurate rendition of "Oh My Darling, Clementine", often used as a running gag. [12]

Concept and creation

In 1953, Tex Avery created a character known as the Southern Wolf (later Dixie Wolf in The Tom & Jerry Show ) for his MGM cartoons The Three Little Pups and Billy Boy . Introduced as an antagonist to Droopy, the wolf had a southern drawl and laid-back mannerisms provided by Daws Butler. The most memorable trait of the character was that whenever something painful or unpleasant happened to him, the Wolf never lost his cool; instead, he calmly talked to the audience or kept whistling the song "Year of Jubilo". After Avery left MGM, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera produced two more shorts with the character. In two of his cartoons (Billy Boy and Blackboard Jumble) the wolf plays a role that was exactly like a usual Huckleberry Hound short, aside from his frequent use of slang, and the echo-like repetition of words he had only in Billy Boy. Sheep Wrecked was the wolf's final appearance.

Huck's name is a reference to the 1884 American novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , written by Mark Twain. Hanna and Barbera almost named Yogi Bear "Huckleberry Bear". [13]

He was voiced in the original cartoons in 1958 by Daws Butler, who had given a similar voice and characterization to the dog characters Reddy in The Ruff and Reddy Show and Smedley in Walter Lantz's Chilly Willy shorts. The voice for Huck was actually inspired by a neighbor of Butler's wife, Myrtis Martin, in her hometown Albemarle, North Carolina. Butler would visit Myrtis and her family and would talk to the neighbor who was a veterinarian. Butler found the man's voice amusing and remembered it when it came time to voice Huck. [14] [12] The voice bore similarities to that of Andy Griffith, who likewise based his character accent on a rural North Carolina town (in Griffith's case, Mount Airy), and Hanna-Barbera was known for its characters' voices being parodies of known celebrities; Butler, who had been using the accent for about a decade before Griffith became famous, denied this rumor. [13]

Huckleberry's voice was originally loud, enthusiastic and joyful, to fit his occupation of a circus showman. As the show progressed, it became deeper, and calmer.

Role in later productions

Guest appearances

In other media

In other languages

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Quick Draw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound LP (1959) [1]
  2. ↑ Movie Wheels Present Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear (1960) [2]
  3. ↑ Howl Along with Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear (1960) [3]
  4. ↑ Hokey Wolf and Ding-A-Ling/A Wolf's Work is Never Done (1961) [4]
  5. ↑ Huckleberry Hound Tells Stories of Uncle Remus (1965) [5]
  6. ↑ Wake Up, America! LP (1965) [6] [7]

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