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Gumby and Pokey Awkward Cartoons
Perhaps "awkward" is a little too harsh of a word for this era, but it certainly was a time of experimentation and change for the Gumby cosmos, not all of it for the better. Prickle and Goo are introduced. The modelers play around with Gumby's appearance. The models in general are more refined than in the previous era, but are still crude compared to the 80's cartoons. Gumby himself is more independent, and we barely see his parents anymore. Gumby and Pokey's characters are developed more. It's Gumby's coming of age. Let's watch.
Dragon Daffy
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Prickle isn't allowed into an ice cream store because the soda jerk thinks Prickle is a dragon, and everyone knows that dragons have a tendency to melt ice cream. Naturally, this means that Gumby must go to Dinosaur Land and find Prickle's mother. After being eaten by a Bullysaurus, Gumby finds Prickle's mom, and together they all go harass the soda jerk, who cries, wets his pants, and runs away. Gumby and friends loot the store of its ice cream and everyone goes home happy.
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Point of Honor
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Gumby tells Pokey about how Goo dropped her handkerchief and Prickle picked it up for her. This makes Gumby angry, so he and Prickle decide to battle to the death. Pokey tries to talk Gumby out of it, but Gumby is a murderous idiot. His choice of weapon for the duel is a train, which he uses to completely mash Prickle into the ground. Goo is terribly pleased with Gumby for his glorious victory.
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A Groobee Fight
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A police officer offers to haul Gumby away for kidnapping people with his groobee, a giant insect that builds boxes around things. This never quite pans out, since the police officer is himself kidnapped, and it turns out that it was the Blockheads, who have a groobee of their own and who have taken to kidnapping people. They don't kidnap anyone in particular. Just, you know, whoever comes along. Everyone needs a hobby, I guess. When Gumby's groobee whistle doesn't subdue the Blockheads' bug, he tries to find another whistle that will, and ultimately fails. Eventually, Gumby pits his groobee against the evil groobee, fulfilling the title of the cartoon and winning the day.
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Dog Catchers
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Nopey the nay saying puppy doesn't understand why his skateboard won't go and takes it in to Prickle's skateboard repair shop. Rather than teach Nopey how a skateboard should be used, Prickle attaches a motor to the skateboard, 'cause that way he gets paid more. This turns out to be a mistake, as the dog and his motorized skateboard run horribly amok, mowing people down and smashing things! Gumby, Pokey, Prickle, and a dogcatcher with no speaking role run a merry chase around the toy store and are foiled by the puppy at every turn. Ha ha ha ha! Kill me.
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Piano Rolling Blues
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Previously on Gumby: Prickle narrowly escaped being captured by the evil Dr. Sveegee. Now, tonight's episode. It seems the evil doctor is having problems concentrating on his evil, what with how his neighbor plays the piano all day. So, being an evil brilliant mastermind, he devises a plan to have piano movers remove his neighbor's piano, and then, he will rule the world! BWAHAHAHAHA! The piano movers turn out to be Gumby, Pokey, and Prickle, who find nothing wrong with the fact that the caller asked the piano be given away to someone who wants it or that the owner of the piano isn't at home when they come to get it. Faced with the problem of how to get the piano out the front door, Gumby and friends decide the owner won't mind if they just rip a hole in the wall to get it out. The evil scientist sees that his plan is coming to fruition and notices that the dinosaur that once eluded him is one of the piano movers. So, being an evil brilliant mastermind, he devises a plan to run outside and grab Prickle in broad daylight with two of his friends there. Wackiness ensues as the evil doctor gets stuck on the piano and rolls down a hill. He's locked up for attempted dinosaur-grabbing, and Gumby and friends fix the poor guy's house.
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Son of Liberty
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While cavorting around with Gumby one day, Pokey stumbles into a book about the American Revolution, where he overhears General Cage's plans to move some British troops around. Knowing how badly Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams screwed up when left to their own devices, Gumby and Pokey decide to warn Paul Revere about Cage's plans, but not before fighting off about a dozen British guards in the toy store. When they smash his jeep and his airplane, Gumby fetches his groobee, which makes quick work of them. They finally meet up with Paul Revere, who instantly trusts them and makes Gumby and honorary Son of Liberty. The Revolutionary War starts about five seconds later.
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Pokey's Price
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A pilgrim boy escapes from his book about the Plymouth colony and steals Gumby's apple. (Well, it kinda looks like an apple in a few shots.) Gumby and Pokey pursue him back into the book and tackle him, but decide to go easy on him, what with how his family is starving to death. Pokey discovers a sinkhole where two baskets of corn are buried. The colony is saved from starvation, and the boys are ready to get a quick drink, when some Native Americans arrive, demanding payment for the corn stolen from them, which they'd been saving to plant next season. They decide to settle for Pokey, and they take him home with them, much to Gumby's discontent. Gumby rallies the pilgrims and they go into the Native Americans' camp, shoot off a few rounds, and trade Pokey for three hunting knives and some glass beads. And that's the story of the first Thanksgiving. The End.
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Gumby Crosses the Delaware
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Pokey calls Gumby for help when a soldier from the revolutionary army arrives at his hamburger stand asking for free food. After assuring Pokey that he's not a beatnik, Gumby whips up an order to go that'll feed Washington's army. Of course, this wouldn't be a Gumby cartoon if Washington didn't proceed to send Pokey to Trenton as a spy so they can communicate via Walkie Talkie to see what's going on as they make their famous attack. Unfortunately, Pokey is captured by opposing soldiers, who, impressed by the novelty of a talking horse, take him before their general to be the army's mascot. Gumby chooses to call when Pokey's right in front of the general. Pokey tries his best to shut him up, but Gumby insists on saying everything he knows about what Washington's doing. Fortunately, the general doesn't believe a word he says. Gumby and Pokey proceed to do nothing useful whatsoever until the cartoon is over.
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The Ferris-Wheel Mystery
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Panic strikes when the carnival is robbed of its cheap stuffed animals by hooligans running a black market cheap stuffed animal ring! The Gumby, Pokey, Prickle, and Goo Detective Agency is called in to do a thorough investigation consisting of Prickle, since it's far too complicated and expensive to ask the carneys to keep a closer eye on their stuff. The carnival's problem seems to lie in how they let the Blockheads on the ferris wheel and let them stay at the top long enough to snatch a toy with their fishing pole. Unfortunately, Prickle has the observational powers of a blender, and he has to call in Pokey. The Blockheads mistake Pokey for a prize and try reeling him in, leading, ultimately, to their capture. Justice is deserved!
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Rain For Roo
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Today, Gumby has decided to be the smartest person alive, as evidenced by the graduation cap he wears in every single scene. When Cad Waliter hears Gumby brag about his knowledge of rain, they go to Roo to help a surprisingly angry and vengeful King Ott seed some clouds to make it rain on the parched kingdom. Unfortunately, Gumby uses a bit too much dust, and what do you know, soon several feet of mud rain upon the land. King Ott banishes Gumby to the dungeon, but he has a change of heart when Gumby mentions that the mud is very rich in iron. Suddenly, the fact that his kingdom is buried in mud doesn't matter, and Gumby is celebrated as a hero.
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Haunted Hot Dog
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Gumby and Pokey run out of gas during their Sunday drive down a country road and decide to check an abandoned-looking house for gas. Meanwhile, a dog has stolen some sausages from a butcher shop, and he runs several thousand miles into the country to seek refuge in the same house. They're on a collision course with wackiness! The two parties spend a minute or two scaring each other in a Scooby Doo style chase sequence before building a fire and sharing the hot dogs.
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Santa-Witch
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It's the holiday rush in the toy store, and Pokey's on the run from crazed parents who want to buy him up and give him to their kids. He ducks into a book called "Unusual Stories", where he arrives at the North Pole, meets a seal who might as well be Goo, and discovers that Santa is sick and can't fulfill his duties. Fortunately, Pokey has connections, and he calls up a witch he happens to know. Pokey, the seal, and the witch all fly off to deliver toys. Two naughty children stay up to watch Santa arrive and are scared out of their wits. And, umm, I suppose that's it.
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The Small Planets
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Gumby and Pokey are sick of doing their chores and decide to run away from home. Of course, in Gumbyland, running away from home means hopping in a space ship and colonizing a small planet. Unfortunately, it seems all the good planets have been taken by previous run-aways. The first planet, Mars, has been turned into a giant railroad set by a spoiled little boy who won't share his planet with Gumby or Pokey. They're scared off the second planet by a little girl wearing various dinosaur costumes and who wonders why people won't stay and play with her. The third planet seems perfect, until they stumble upon a werewolf child who's terribly sensitive about people interrupting his piano recitals. Gumby and Pokey return to a life of servitude on Earth with bleak resolve.
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Of Clay and Critters
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It's another one of these cartoons. Okay, while strolling through the desert one day, Gumby, Pokey, and Nopey stumble upon a box. While trying to open the box, they're attacked by Cousin It in a powdered wig and, ultimately, sucked into the box by a one-eyed tentacle. They're turned into umbrellas and they fly away to the forest, where they pursue a weird alien inchworm. It leads them into a brightly colored coffee can, where they are spun around and transformed. Gumby and Pokey become superdeformed (you know, giant heads with tiny bodies) and Nopey is turned into a hot dog. La la.
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Ricochet Pete
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Gumby's the sheriff of an old west town. One day, the dangerous Ricochet Pete comes into town, firing his gun at anything with volume or mass, like Gumby's hat. Gumby nonchalantly orders him out of town, but Pete has a better idea. They'll go to a nearby valley and see who can be the first to scare the other person, and the loser leaves town. Since Pete is in no position to be making demands, Gumby accepts. Pete scares him off with some cheap Indian puppets, and Pokey scares Pete off with a rubber spider. It's sort of a draw, so Pete is merely sentenced to perform violent puppet shows. The end.
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King for a Day
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It's the first cartoon to feature King Ott and the Kingdom of Roo. Gumby stumbles upon the good king's book and finds that Ott is unhappy because, for some vague reason, he has to defeat a knight in a duel or move out of town. He's too smart to risk his own sorry butt, and so are his subjects, but Gumby has something they don't -- a water pistol. During the duel, Gumby squirts the knight in the eyes, hoping to blind him or something. Unfortunately, it's ineffective, and he's knocked off his horse. He tries again with grape juice, which attracts a small swarm of bees into the knight's helmet. He staggers away to have a nice allergic reaction, and Gumby takes over the kingdom -- for a day.
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Motor Mania
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Gumby and Pokey enter a go-kart race with a $500 prize to whoever can come in ahead of the neighborhood's spoiled rich brat. The race is going swell, but no sooner does Gumby mention that he made the racers himself than they fall apart. Gumby makes a makeshift kart out of a motor, four wheels, and Pokey, which somehow or other helps them beat the evil rich kid. Go figure.
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The Groobee
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The zoo's most ferocious lion has suddenly got sick and died. Five years later, Gumby meets Pokey at an exotic pet store, where Pokey is investigating Groobees. When W. C. Fields comes out to give them a demonstration, Pokey warns Gumby to increase his sales resistance, but Gumby won't let the man sell him anything. Doodly doodly doop -- Gumby buys a Groobee, impressed with its ability to build boxes around animals. The next logical step is to go to Africa and get some new zoo animals. Gumby is attacked by a gorilla, a rhinoceros, and a lion all at once, but fortunately, the Groobee boxes them all up, so no harm done. Later, he gives a speech to the happy zoo-goers about his safari and gives them a free demonstration by accidentally losing control of the Groobee, which boxes everyone in the audience up before the bee can be restrained.
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Foxy Box
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Gumby receives a mysterious box in the mail. He opens its tiny door up and pulls out a toy tractor, which is so much fun, until it runs around on its own and tills the living room floor, so he turns it upside-down until it dies. Then he pulls out a plane, which flies around trying to destroy him. He jumps into the box, where he finds a toy train and harasses it for a bit before the box falls off the table and shatters into a million pieces. Sheluby.
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Train Trouble
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The toy store has sent Gumby a complete model train set for no particular reason. He sets it up and watches as it drives itself around. Suddenly, Nopey arrives, and the train starts chasing him around. So, Gumby gets out a catapult and starts pitching melons around. Yes, they really fill five minutes with this premise.
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Puppy Talk
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Gumby and Pokey pass a dog school where dogs are taught to speak English and they watch as a little puppy named Nopey gets thrown out because all he can say is "no". They take pity on him and try to befriend him. Relations are difficult at first, because the dog returns all of their friendly advances with a firm "no". Then a dog catcher shows up to haul Nopey off because, presumably, he's an unowned dog who just happened to be going to dog school. Gumby very easily fools the dog catcher ("Are you the dog who only says no?" "No." "See? He's not the one you're looking for.") and Gumby and Pokey and Nopey become friends forever.
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Mystic Magic
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Prickle really wants to be an artist, but it takes too long to get any sort of talent, so he resigns himself to be just a plain old dinosaur kinda dragon thing. While at the museum, he's stopped by a man on the run, who forces an amulet into his possession with the promise that it'll turn anything into a work of art. He tests it on one of the sculptures in the museum, which turns it into a, umm, different sculpture. He picks it up to show to Gumby and is stopped by a security guard, who "accidentally" gets turned into another sculpture. He tries to throw it out, but the trash can turns into a statue. He explains his dire predicament to Gumby and demonstrates it on Goo. Gumby tries to take the dangerous thing from him, and he ends up becoming a work of art too. Pokey suggests touching the sculptures with the amulet again, which restores them to life, hooray! Gumby notes that using the amulet is an art, and Prickle turns him back into a sculpture to punish him for the terrible pun.
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Goo For Pokey
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For some reason or another, Goo goes to school with Pokey one day and spits clay at him during class. Pokey's rather annoyed by the odd gesture, but it turns out that Goo's just flirting with him. She decides to take a less bizarre approach and buys Pokey an ice cream cone. Things take an uncomfortable turn when she practically sits in his lap (she probably would have if horses had laps), and Pokey excuses himself. Goo will not stand for this, and she vows to pursue Pokey to the end of the world. Everywhere Pokey goes, he sees Goo. Naturally, he concludes that he's going insane and consults a doctor. The doctor gives him some vague advice and, on the way out, Pokey steps on a blue rug which turns out to be Goo. She wraps herself around him and drags him screaming off to nowhere, swearing that he'll never get away.
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The Magic Flute
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Pokey and Prickle watch in amazement as Goo's magic flute makes a table dance. When she sets it down and leaves, they decide to "borrow" it a bit. Not only does the flute make tables dance, it also builds brick walls, scores them some free ice cream, and makes a woman get up from her wheelchair and walk again. Now how much would you pay? Unfortunately, they don't pay attention to where they're driving, and they crash right into a zoo. They're thrown from the car, and the flute lands in the possession of a horribly ill-constructed gorilla. The ape plays the flute and makes them dance until Goo comes along and gets the flute back. For stealing a magic flute and screwing with just about everyone in the neighborhood, they're sentenced to raking the front yard.
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The Zoops
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To earn some money to get his mom a gift, Gumby's decided to become an entrepreneur in the fastest-growing industry in the world: Watermelon raising. To give his venture a kick-start, he trades a watermelon to a wandering wizard for some magic potion. Little does he know that the potion won't, as he believes, make his melons grow better or faster but, in actuality, turns them into zoops, which are, umm. . . strange creature. . . things. . . that run around and. . . well, they look exactly how you'd expect zoops to look. The important thing is that he decides to capture them and sell them to the zoo. After he and Pokey get caught in their own net, we're left to assume that the project was successful, because now the zoo has a cage full of zoops and Gumby and Pokey are off to an ice cream store to eat the profits. Unfortunately, the zoops get out of hand, and the zoo keeper decides to use a hose on them. Presto belando, they turn back into watermelons. Since this is vaguely Gumby's fault, the zoo keeper makes Gumby and Pokey clean out the animal cages.
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The Mason Hornet
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Oh no! The Mason Hornet is on the loose! This is bad, because it builds brick walls around people, the evolutionary advantages of which are obvious. Pokey and Prickle are among the millions to be brickwallified, so Gumby and Goo decide they might as well do something about it. While Gumby breaks down the brick walls around town, Goo gives the Hornet a taste of its own medicine and builds a brick wall around it. It learns an important lesson about how you shouldn't build brick walls around people, and it plays catch with Pokey and Prickle.
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Tail Tale
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Gumby invites his deepest, closest, best friend in the whole world, Pokey, to come over and get in his malfunctioning matter transporter. Seems the thing hasn't been working efficiently enough, despite his extensive knowledge of modern physics (evidenced by E=mc^3 written on the blackboard). Pokey eventually concedes, but his tail is swapped with a bunch of flowers in the process. So, both of them get in at the same time and get their body parts mixed up, but his tail vanishes. An alien appears with Pokey's tail attached to his head, corrects Gumby's problem, and just sort of generally fixes everything.
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Lawn Party
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Pokey calls Gumby in from his yard work to watch the "animated people". What follows is a strange short feature about people who act like they're in a Gumby cartoon. Real, live people. In fact, there's a bunch of stop-motion effects to enhance the experience. It begins with people climbing out of the trunk of a car and going about their business. One of them sets up a picnic while another one puts on some skis and stands behind a lawn mower, which drags him around as it mows. Unfortunately, the lawnmower gets hopelessly out of control and chases him and a woman up a tree. It's up to the picnicking fellow to play torero with the rampant machine, and throws a blanket on it to make it vanish. Gumby is thrilled by the piece, and tries to reproduce the experiment by putting on some skis and standing behind his lawn mower. Unfortunately, this leads to the destruction of the whole world, a grim reminder that we must never trust animated people.
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The Rodeo King
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Pokey loves watching the Buster Bronc show! In fact, he loves it so much that he believes he's Buster Bronc, a legendary rodeo horse of some sort, and proceeds to destroy things. Fortunately, Prickle has taken up quackery, and promises to cure Pokey of his delusion. When destroying the TV and hypnosis have no effect, they decide to enter Pokey into a rodeo, hoping to prove to him that he's not really a rodeo horse. Unfortunately, it turns out that he's a darned good rodeo horse. Whoda thunk it? Pokey gives up his newfound identity when he realizes that he doesn't like all of the attention the media pays him.
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Do-It-Yourself Gumby
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Law of Conservation of Matter? Screw it! Gumby's got hisself a big ol' thing-maker! Type in what you want, and out it comes. A turkey dinner! A piano that plays itself! A kitty cat (that accidentally turns out to be a tiger)! A cage to hold your newly-created tiger in! A robot to do all of your chores! Well, unfortunately, the robot ends up playing with the thing-maker, so Gumby has to put it to sleep with a giant hammer. Remember kids: robots won't do your chores. Don't even think about it.
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The Big Eye
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Gumby's found a new friend inside his blood steam! He's a hemoglobin, and his name is Fred! Unfortunately, all is not well in blood land, as Gumby can see through his microscope. And so, he and Pokey shrink themselves down and visit the microbes on their little slide. It seems the scientist germs are stealing all of the oxygen from the hemoglobin to use as fuel for their rocket ship! Gumby finds out that the scientist germs are interested in firing a rocket up to study the giant eye in the sky. Well, the hemoglobin are more than happy to help, now that they know what it's for. It takes Pokey forever to realize that the big eye they're talking about was Gumby watching them through the microscope, and Gumby vows never to use a microscope again.
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A Hair-Raising Adventure
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Gumby is tired of being bald and decides to lead a more active lifestyle with his new hair! Kapp has created a formula that makes him sprout a rich, natural-looking head of hair that blends naturally in with his existing hair. Prickle, being a reptile, is fascinated with the idea of hair and warm blood and live birth and stuff like that, and decides that the formula is his perfect opportunity to experience a taste of mammal life. Unfortunately, the Blockheads come in wearing gags and packing a machine gun, which pretty much forces them to hand over the formula. There's a chase which quickly spreads to airplanes and becomes a dogfight. The Blockheads escape and overdose on the formula, turning them into hideously hairy things. Prickle finally gets to try the formula, but, being a reptile, all it succeeds in doing is making him horny (in the sense that he grows extra horns).
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The Missle Bird
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Everyone's trying to catch the missle bird, a bird-like creature who, as one would expect, is missle-shaped and flies very fast. The bird is clever enough to send the government's top-secret sleeping gas missle back to its base, but it's not clever enough to avoid Gumby's metal butterfly net. Unfortunately, the bird zips happily along, dragging Gumby right along behind him, and the two are soon in the next county. Guys in labcoats from all over the world meet to discuss the problem, but in the end, all they need is a little horse sense; Pokey's missle bird decoy lures the bird in, and a rather dazed Gumby finally returns to earth.
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This Little Piggy
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Gumby's grandfather warns Gumby that raising a pig isn't easy, but Gumby's determined to win a prize at the fair next month for his pig, Piggy. He almost immediately goes crying back to his grandfather for help when Piggy won't eat anything. Grandpa suggests giving the pig some exercise, so Gumby gets a treadmill for Piggy. Unfortunately, the motorized walker breaks and starts running away with Piggy, with Gumby in hot pursuit. One month later, the walker arrives with Piggy at the fair, where he wins some cruel sort of joke prize for the skinniest pig at the fair. Gumby returns to the farm, pleased with the prize, but still confused about why Piggy won't eat. Grandfather is horrified to find that Gumby's been feeding Piggy nothing but candy and kindly informs Gumby that pigs eat vegetables. D'oh!
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Stuck on Books
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Nopey refuses to follow Gumby and Pokey into a book to have an adventure because of a fear of being stuck in the book. When he won't listen as Gumby insists that it's safe, Pokey gets impatient with the little puppy and just shoves him in. They're somewhat baffled when the dog is stuck halfway and refuses to come out when the pull. Gumby investigates and finds that Nopey refuses to let go of the branch of a tree he's found in the book. Of course, now that they got the little baby in, he refuses to go out, so they have to trick him with a game of fetch. Nopey's fears are cured (either that or he doesn't understand a word anyone says and just answers "no" to Gumby's "Are you afraid anymore?" because that's the only word he ever says).
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Chicken Feed
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The store was out of Gumby's favorite chicken feed, so he has to settle for the special radiation-enhanced chicken feed for Tilly. Unfortunately, he leaves Pokey in charge of feeding his chicken, and she over-doses, becoming ridiculously large. Fortunately, she doesn't instantly become horrible and destructive like most animals would in that situation, though her wandering around and laying giant eggs all over the place is hazardous enough to warrant a visit from the fire department and the vet. The vet gives Tilly some de-bigulating pills and she returns to her normal, happy self. Unfortunately, Pokey tasted some of the chicken food, so. . .
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Pilgrims On the Rocks
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Coming home from shopping for Thanksgiving dinner, Gumby and Pokey run across a Pilgrim who fell out of his book. They return him safely to the Mayflower and proceed to go through your basic "The Story of Thanksgiving" bit. They backtrack a few chapters to meet King James in person, but they're almost instantly imprisoned for their ideas about giving people the right to worship and all. Fortunately, they can just walk through a wall and go forward to the Mayflower again. The storm is so bad that the ship threatens to crack in half, so Gumby fixes it before going back to reality. Pokey doesn't learn a darned thing.
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Pigeon in a Plum Tree
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Gumby and Pokey get tired of reading a fairy tale, so they enter the book to watch instead. It's the story of King Ott's son, Harold, who, in spite of being a prince, was very poor. He wanted to get his fiancee a special Christmas gift and, as it turns out there's a sale on partridges in pear trees, so he goes to get one. However, the salespeople are out of partridges in pear trees and, picking up on Harold being a little slow-witted, they sell him a pigeon in a plum tree instead, which is guaranteed to make his fianc�e hate him forever. Pokey wants to warn the foolish prince, but Gumby insists that they let the story run its course. (When has that ever stopped him before?) On the way to his sweetheart's house, the prince saves an elf (complete with a bag of magic pixie dust) from a wolf and, in return, the elf comes along to keep him company. As Harold goes in to greet his fiancee, Pokey decides to take matters into his own hands and tells the elf what's going on. When Harold's fiancee comes out, they're both surprised and delighted to find a solid-gold tree and bird. Gumby scolds Pokey for selfishly helping the prince find a happy ending.
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Gold Rush Gumby
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Gumby's lookin' for gold deep in the Pesky Indian Reservation with Pokey and Nopey. When he strikes gold, he's captured by the Peskies. Normally they're a friendly people, but the chief's in a bad mood today, so they're gonna hafta get kinda burned to death. Gumby offers to help the chief, whose ailment comes from a toothache. Gumby has no idea about dentistry, so he just pulls it out. Everyone laughs at the gap where the chief's tooth was, so Gumby makes a gold one with the tooth-making kit he brought along. Yeesh.
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Bully For Gumby
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Gumby, Pokey, and Nopey decide to get some apples from Tony Spumoni's push-cart. Unfortunately, they're chased off by a wind-up bull that the Blockheads brought along. With our heroes cowering in fear, the Blockheads come up and steal all of the apples. A whole dollar's worth! It takes Gumby forever to notice the wind-up key on the bull, but when he does, he hatches a plan. When the Blockheads try to repeat their success, Gumby sends a wind-up ape to attack them. Everything's right again, la la la.
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Hot Ice
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The moon boggles have made Goo their queen for the day at the zoo, and my, but she goes on a power trip, ordering buckets and buckets of jewels to adorn herself with. Of course, they're only ice, but this fact escapes the notorious Dr. Sveegee, who watches them through his telescope. He sends his robot cage to steal the jewels, and is surprised when it comes back with a bucket of water. When Gumby and Pokey (ready to be her knight and steed) find out about the robbery, they decide to set a trap for Sveegee in one of the zoo cages. When he goes in to start grabbing all of the ice, they close the door on him. (Where'd he get his mad science degree, a box of Crackerjacks?) "Pah!" says Dr. Sveegee. "Pah!"
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Gumby's Fire Department
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Professor Kapp's latest experiment is to see what effect a firey explosion has on his lab, and when he's not pleased with the results, he calls Gumby's Fire Department. Gumby, Pokey, Prickle, and Goo pile into a fire truck and race down the road, crashing into things and leaving chaos and destruction in their wake. As the boys display no competence whatsoever, Goo forms herself into a life net to save Kapp and then a giant blanket to smother the fire. Goo is renamed head of the fire department, one more step in her campaign to take over the show.
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Hot Rod Granny
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What are all those young kids into these days? Really fast cars, and Gumby's no exception. He and Pokey tear up the road, little knowing that they're on a collision course with wackiness. An old lady who's lost her glasses mistakes Gumby's hot rod for her little car and Pokey for her dog, Hexibar. As Pokey doesn't tell her about her mistake, she takes Gumby's car and drives around half-blind, putting herself in several hilarious and nearly lethal situations, like inadvertently entering a drag race. She's eventually stopped by the police. After serving her term, she decides that she likes the taste of speed, and buys Gumby's car, giving Gumby the funds he needs to buy another car.
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School For Squares
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs has just received a distress call from the Pesky Indians. It seems the conical Indian children are being captured by the Blockheads and taken to a school where they learn how to be turned into cubes. Gumby and friends grab the Blockheads as they try to leave the school. (The Blockheads try to flee in their helicopter, but they don't get far.) For their punishment, the Blockheads are put on a potter's wheel and molded into cones. The end.
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Treasure For Henry
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Gumby will not be here today. Instead, please enjoy Henry the living teddy bear and his friend Roger the vaguely bird-like clay thing. They're hungry, and they're sick of honey and bird seed (respectively). So, they decide to nip into a book, rob a pirate ship, and buy all the cheeseburgers and milkshakes they want. Unfortunately, the pirates catch them and make them walk the plank. Before they get tossed into the drink, a non-pirate ship arrives and starts up a little war with the pirate ship. Henry decides to help get the pirates captured and chops down the mast while Roger gets mistaken for a cannonball and fired at the other ship. All this leads vaguely to the pirates' defeat, so Henry and Roger are generously rewarded with a lifetime supply of honey and bird seed (respectively). Cue the muted trumpets and let's get out of here.
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Space Ball
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Professor Kapp invites some guy over to sit in his new high-tech spherical space ship while he tests a few things. The guy is wary, but when Kapp promises that it's just a test and that it won't even be moving, he agrees. Unfortunately, the ball has some sort of design flaw in the sense that it almost immediately gets up and starts flying through town, smashing through buildings. The guy comes out of it wearing a few casts.
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The Witty Witch
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A witch captures Gumby and Pokey by helicopter (as one would expect) and takes them back to her castle. No matter what they do to try and flee, they witch and her hired help are one step ahead of them. They're sent to the dungeon, where Gumby promises to come up with a plan and never does. They're taken to a theater with hundreds of other prisoners. Gumby, convinced that the witch plans to put on a spook show to scare them to death, closes his eyes and misses the witch's stupid comedy bit, which involves a piano that throws a pie in her face. Turns out the witch just wanted a captive audience for her one-joke show, and everyone goes home. Pokey refuses to tell Gumby what he missed by keeping his eyes closed.
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Turnip Trap
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Prickle's got a secret, evidenced by the way he chants, "I've got a secret!" over and over as the cartoon opens. Seems he's remembered his birthday wish and he must prepare for it to come true. He starts building a giant cage in the back yard. Gumby, Pokey, and Goo, worried about Prickle's strange behavior, offer to help, and accidentally get built into the cage with no way out. (That was pretty easy to avoid.) Prickle goes back inside to wait for his wish to come true as his friends wonder how they'll get out. Along comes a friendly farmer, who offers to dump his turnips into the cage until Gumby and friends can climb out the top of the cage on the turnips. In an amazing blend of luck and planning, Prickle goes outside to find his wish has come true; he has a giant cage full of turnips.
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Dragon Witch
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It's the further adventures of Henry and Roger. Henry's dressed up in a cross between cowboy and knight-errant costumes which, as Roger explains several thousand times in the next four minutes, is daffy. When Henry hears cries of distress from the book "The Bad Witch", he leaps to the rescue. Seems the witch hasn't been feeding her dragon, and he's preparing to eat her to make up for it. Since it's obviously none of his business, Henry stands up to the dragon, only to be chased away by some firey blasts. Roger suggests leaving them to settle their own labor dispute, but Henry has an idea. He lassoes the dragon's tail and ties it to a tree, then bravely sends Roger out as a decoy. The dragon chases after roger until he reaches the end of his rope, then he trips and falls over. Of course, this means the dragon is defeated, so Henry rescues the witch, who is really grateful and everything.
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Northland Follies
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Gumby and Pokey stow away in a box, thinking it's on its way to Hawaii. Surprise! They're dropped right on top of an igloo in the middle of Alaska. Unfortunately, the igloo belongs to a walrus and something that looks like Roger painted yellow. The fourth wall takes a bit of a beating when the now-homeless animals recognize Gumby and Pokey as television celebrities, but they still insist that Gumby and Pokey rebuild the igloo they indirectly ruined. We learn that Alaska is five hundred years behind in its news due to the fact that each year is one day up there, the igloo is rebuilt, and they celebrate with chocolate clam-dandy (chocolate sundaes served on clam shells). Their celebration is cut short when another box starts falling out of the sky, bent on destroying the new igloo, and Gumby and Pokey book it, lest they get asked to rebuild it again.
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The Blue Gooooooo
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Gumby's been shot down by The Black Baron! (He's fine.) So now, it's up to Prickle to defeat the vaguely evil pilot for some reason or another. He's annoyed when Goo wants to ride on the wing, but he tolerates her. As Prickle is ridiculously overwhelmed by the master pilot, Goo flies out and spits clay in his eyes, causing him to lose control and crash. In his stupor, Prickle doesn't notice and thinks that he's brilliantly outwitted the Baron, as does everyone else. Prickle is given a medal of valor for no reason at all and Goo is dreadfully pleased that she didn't receive any credit at all.
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Good Knight Story
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Gumby's trying to read everyone a lovely fairy tale about a nasty fierce dragon, but Prickle keeps ruining it by sneezing fire all over the place. (But he's not a dragon. Nope.) He blasts himself right into the story Gumby's reading, so Gumby and Pokey go in to try and save him. Goo is told to stay behind because of her girlness, but she tags along anyway, only to be instantly captured by the nasty fierce dragon. Meanwhile, a knight is chasing Prickle around, thinking that he's the dragon that's been terrorizing the kingdom (largely despite the fact that Prickle is ten times smaller than the dragon he's looking for). Gumby and Pokey hear Goo crying for help, so they leap to her rescue in a terribly ineffective way. Goo spits clay at the dragon's mouth, which means that it's defeated now. (And she didn't do this in the first place because. . . ?) Gumby returns to the castle with the dragon and the other knight returns with Prickle. The misunderstanding is cleared up and the dragon becomes a chef.
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Hidden Valley
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Hidden Valley is the name of a place which no one has ever been to, no one has ever come from, and no one can locate, but we know it exists because. . .umm. . . . Yet Gumby and Pokey are determined to find it by driving around the forest in their car. When their car overheats, they cool it off with water from a magic spring, which makes it fly to a place which, for the sake of argument, we'll call Hidden Valley. Gumby starts taking some pictures to prove that he's been to a place which has trees in it, while Pokey notices a dinosaur playing with their jeep. Gumby tries to ignore Pokey as he insists there's a dinosaur nearby, but it's kind of hard to ignore a dinosaur when he sets your jeep down in front of you and asks you to take his picture. Gumby gets some good shots of the dinosaur and his friends, but alas, their stay comes to a close when a predator shows up, tearing a wheel off the jeep as Gumby flies away. Gumby and Pokey bemoan the loss of the wheel.
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The Glob
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Pokey delivers some ice cream to Gumby, who has taken up clay sculpting. Of course, in Gumbyland, clay is genetic material, and before Gumby can finish his sculpture, it turns into a living monster head and attacks. Gumby realizes that he created the monster, so it's his responsibility to run the heck away from it. He tries firing some ineffective toy rockets at it, but he eventually falls back on his running away strategy. The monster chases them to the old western town where Pokey grew up for a showdown with Marshall Dill Pickle. Dill's quick draw proves to be useless against the monster's clayness, and it swallows him whole. It spits him out a moment later, and he cries like a baby because it ate his ice cream cone. Seems the thing just has a sweet tooth, so Gumby and Pokey feed it some ice cream and befriend it long enough for the cartoon to end.
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Moon Madness
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Pokey's being attacked by feet with legs attached! Gumby assures him that he's going crazy because of the feet in his head. Prickle's being attacked by feet with legs attached! Gumby tells Prickle that he also has feet in his head, so Gumby has rocks in his head. Goo isn't being attacked by feet with legs attached, so she doesn't understand why Gumby's talking about feet and rocks in peoples' heads. Turns out that no one has feet in their heads, the robot legs from Gumby's go-kart got away, it's a full moon, everyone's in the badlands, and I never should have got out of bed this morning. The end.
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Siege of Boonesborough
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Gumby and Pokey follow Daniel Boone to the Siege of Boonesborough, where hundreds of Native Americans are ready to attack. The fort is hopelessly undermanned, so all of the women and children dress up as men and everyone gets two fake man heads to hold up. Gumby uses his fire extinguisher to neutralize the Native Americans' overwhelming three flaming arrows, and everyone pokes their heads up from behind the wall, making it look like they have several thousand more men than they really do. The Native Americans decide that there's too many men on the opposing side, so they cancel the fight. It just goes to show you, trickery was just as important as brute force in driving Native Americans out of their homelands.
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Shady Lemonade
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It's a hot day, so Gumby, Pokey, Prickle, and Goo decide to go to the local ice cream shop, lured in by the promise of "All the lemonade you can drink" for ten cents. When they request their second round, the soda jerk refuses, insisting that one glass *is* all you can drink for ten cents. (Insert muted trumpets here.) They leave the store in a huff only to come across a gentleman whose cat has trapped itself at the top of a tree. When Gumby's fire engine ladder doesn't reach the top, Goo kills the tree with weed killer (since it's obviously too much trouble for her to just fly up there), and the tree wilts, placing the cat back in the gentleman's arms. The man is so happy to have his cat back that he gives Goo ten thousand dollars, which she uses to set up her own ice cream shop next door to the one they went to, and gives away unlimited lemonade for five cents, driving the soda jerk out of business and into abject poverty.
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Sad King Ott's Daughter
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It's the world of tomorrow, where you can buy just about anything from vending machines! Like Morphs! Gumby and Pokey decide to buy a morph, just to see what it is. Turns out it's a small ball that you can command to turn into anything. This couldn't have come along at a better time, because King Ott's daughter has been stolen away by the Black Knight, who plans to marry her against her will. Gumby sends them a gold cup as an early wedding present. While the knight sleeps, Gumby uses his radio wristwatch to command the morph to turn into an elephant and save the princess. Gumby and Pokey are given a magnificent feast as their reward. Beware clay figures bearing gifts.
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Prickle Turns Artist
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Goo happens by Prickle's crate-building store, and he shows her how he gets Gumby's groobee to build boxes around his customers' prized possessions, like one lady's rare Ming Ding vase. Unfortunately, the process involves painting a face on the object (the groobee only builds boxes around animals), but fortunately, his customers don't notice. Goo suspects that there's going to be trouble, so she goes to get Gumby. Turns out it's unnecessary; by the time Prickle's customers start complaining about how he's defaced their goods, some stupid art critic has decided that Prickle's work is priceless, so Prickle makes a fortune drawing faces on stuff. Pfff.
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Wishful Thinking
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It's Prickle's first birthday, and his friends encourage him to make a wish before blowing out his candles. Flash forward several days, where Prickle has locked himself away from his friends, waiting for his wish to come true, convinced that his friends are going to trick him into telling his wish so that he won't get it. Ironically enough, Gumby and friends decide that the only way to get him to snap out of it is if they trick him into telling them his wish so they can make it come true. They try opening a wish booth, where customers tell their wishes and get them granted, but it doesn't work. Next, they give him a card where he can write his wish down so he doesn't forget it, but he doesn't fall for it. At last, they nail a sheet to the wall of Prickle's room, get on Pokey's back, and bash through the wall to Prickle's room, where they get covered with the sheet and tell Prickle that they are a wish spirit who has arrived to grant his wish. Sometimes the most complicated ideas work the best, and Prickle agrees to tell the spirit his wish. Only problem is, he forgot it. D'oh.
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A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
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Gumby's gonna grow coconuts wherever he darned well pleases, no matter what their native climate is supposed to be! Or, at least, so he thinks. Unfortunately, three months into his coconut-growing endeavor, all he's got to show for it is a field of dead coconut trees. Fortunately, a very plot-specific ad for a miracle-grow formula catches his attention, so he and Pokey take their go-karts to the home of a Colonel Sanders-ish guy, who falls instantly in love with their wheels. Gumby generously gives him Pokey's kart in exchange for some coconut-growing juice. The man drives all around the neighborhood in the go-kart, making no attempts to stay on any sort of road. His reign of terror ends, appropriately enough, in Gumby's coconut grove, where the potion has had the unexpected side effect of making watermelons grow from the trees. Bottom line: Pokey gets his go-kart back.
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Super Spray
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Professor Kapp has discovered that the solution to all the world's problems involves shrinking things. To that end, he's invented a de-bigulation spray with every intention to use it to make the world a better place for everyone. Unfortunately, it falls into the hands of Prickle, Goo, and Pokey, who have no goals beyond shrinking people who get in their way on the street and shrinking zoo animals that scare them. Wouldn't you know it, just as Prickle's about to shrink the gorilla, it steals the can from him, and Pokey and Prickle become tiny. This would be a problem if Kapp didn't have a re-bigulation spray, and he does, so everything's fine. At least, it is until, in a ridiculously contrived mishap, Kapp drops the spray, making making it fire at him until he becomes huge! With his giant brain, he acquires all the knowledge of the universe and brings the world to its knees.
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Behind the Puff Ball
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Prickle and Pokey are having a mini-golf tournament to see who's going to pay for ice cream. Unfortunately, Prickle hits his ball off the fairway, and instead of his ball, he hits a different ball that was lying there. Unfortunately, it was no ordinary golf ball; it grows ten feet across and starts rolling after Prickle and Pokey! Prickle is swallowed up by it, as are Pokey and several other pedestrians, but not before Pokey makes one last, desparate call to Gumby's (Goo's?) Fire Department. Gumby and Goo track down the mischevious sphere. Fortunately, hoses and fire extinguishers are the answer to everything in Gumbyland, so the ball vanishes, leaving its victims behind, none the worse for their experience.
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Making Squares
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Pokey, Prickle, and Goo are riding on a toy train one day. Unfortunately, they forgot their seat belts, so when the train runs into a stack of Lincoln logs, they get flung into a net set up by the Blockheads. Sad, really. The Blockheads take them to their evil lair, where the Blockheads put them into a Blockheadification Machine. Despite typical lax Blockhead security, only Goo escapes. While she goes to get Gumby, Pokey and Prickle are put to work making something or other. Gumby and Goo attempt to assail the evil factory lair place, only to get captured. Though she obviously could have done it the first time, Goo waits until now to escape and tie up the Blockheads. Gumby uses the machine to turn the Blockheads into Cylinderheads, then to mess around with Pokey and Prickle's DNA until he gets something pretty roughly similar to what his original friends were.
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The Gumby League
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Way back from the time when people cared about baseball comes this cartoon about Gumby's baseball team playing the Blockheads' baseball team. It's the bottom of the ninth inning, Gumby's team has scored the only run, and the Blockheads have come up to bat. The first one is out when Kapp catches his line drive in his mouth. The second one hits the ball straight through Gumby's stomach, only to be out when Pokey catches it. The third one hits a fly into the outfield. Everyone rushes to catch it, runs into each other, and gets molded into a sort of ramp that flings the ball back into the infield, where Gumby catches it with the hole that was punched in his stomach. I guess that means they win, 'cause everyone was happy about it.
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The Golden Iguana
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Prickle won a gold iguana in some vague sort of contest. Only problem is, he doesn't know what to feed it, so they go ask Professor Kapp. Unfortunately, the food he gives them makes it grow larger. The Blockheads, watching on, whip out their machine gun and steal the lizard and food and drive it out to the middle of the woods. They feed all of the food to the iguana, which makes it grow really really big! So, what was their plan, exactly? Did they just think the world needed more giant lizards? Oh, uh, the end. No, really. It just stops.
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Prickle's Problem
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Prickle is tired of being a common nobody and yearns to make a difference in the world and be loved by all. Fortunately, some woman was stupid enough to set her baby on the sidewalk and let it crawl out into traffic, giving Prickle the perfect opportunity to save it. The story makes newspapers worldwide, and Prickle is flooded with fan mail. Unfortunately, he attracts some undesired attention in the form of Dr. Sveegee, the maddest mad scientist to ever be the laughing stock of the academy. He's not as interested in Prickle's heroism as he is in his dinosaurness, what with them being extinct and all, and he uses his robot cage to try and catch him. Its first run nets him nothing but a mailbox, but the second run does a bit better, and he catches Pokey. Rather than enjoy what little success he has, he yells at the machine, which prompts it to catch him and take him back to see Gumby and friends. Prickle decides he doesn't want to be famous anymore, which is a lucky thing, because no one cares about him anymore by this time.
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The Golden Gosling
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Once upon a time, King Ott was pretty evil and he hired a witch to put a curse on a goose so that it could only lay golden eggs. This is sort of interfering with its reproduction plans, so it escapes at the first chance, only to wind up with Gumby and friends. Fortunately, Gumby majored in curse-breaking, so he gets the goose all set up. Unfortunately, Cad Waliter has been stalking them, and he takes them all prisoner. King Ott is dismayed to find that the goose no longer lays valuable eggs, but he's delighted when he learns that it has valuable offspring. And so, Gumby and friends are released, and the goose's children are used as legal tender.
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El Toro
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Gumby and Goo are standing around happily one day when suddenly a bunch of people run by like they've seen the Tasmanian devil. Something is amiss! Turns out a bull escaped from the local bullfight, and it chases Gumby and Goo up a tree. Prickle is there too, it seems, and he tries to avoid being gored by acting calm. Unfortunately, the bull attacks him anyway, so he joins Goo and Gumby in the tree. Pokey happens along and comments on how ridiculous they look, until he notices the bull, then he climbs the tree too (quite a feat for a horse). They're at a stalemate for a while, until the branch that they're all sitting on suddenly snaps, and they fall to the ground. Just as they're about to receive horrible, bloody, stabby death, a torero comes along and scolds the bull for picking on Gumby and friends. For his punishment, the bull doesn't get to be killed in public spectacle.
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Who's What
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This cautionary tale about the dangers inherent in dabling with the forces of nature begins with a group of insane dolls playing Hearts. Somewhere else, Henry the Anti-Social Teddy Bear has unwittingly created life in the form of a small clay bird named Roger. As Roger searches for his identity and purpose in life, Henry goes on to mold a cat, refusing to believe that his creations have actually come to life, preferring, perhaps, to think that he's just lost his mind or something innocent like that. He holds this conviction even as the cat tries to eat Roger and the two of them loudly insist that they're living things. Unfortunately, Henry only really appreciates the repercussions of his actions when he finishes his masterpiece, a giant lion which tries to eat him. The clay creatures chase themselves around and around a box until they melt into a river of clay.
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Sticky Pokey
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Yes, it's several years later, and the Blockheads are still trying to get that 100 ice cream cone reward for Pokey. It's driving the little red horse out of his mind! Fortunately, Professor Kapp has created the stickiest glue known to humanity, and he's got a plan. They build a wooden horse that looks like Pokey and cover it with the glue. The next time the Blockheads chase Pokey, they switch him for the wooden horse at a crucial point in the proceedings, and when they grab it, they get horribly stuck. And so, the Blockheads never did anything bad ever again ever.
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Candidate for President
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Gumby is startled to discover that a dog has nominated him for Presidential candidacy, largely despite the fact that he doesn't know the first thing about how to be a president. And so, Prickle and Goo quest off to Mount Rushmore to find out who the greatest presidents ever were and steal their ideas. They then visit books about the presidents in question and ask them for advice, often at points in their lives before they were president. Washington gives Gumby a canoe to sneak up on his enemies in, Lincoln gives Gumby a hatchet to split rails, Jefferson gives Gumby a pen so that he'll be mighter than a sword, and Roosevelt gives Gumby a big stick to carry while he walks softly.
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All Broken Up
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Prickle and Goo are practicing their experimental "modern music" show, where Prickle makes a noise and Goo molds herself into what the noise "looks like". Unfortunately, when they perform the piece in concert, the Blockheads sneak up and play their gong, which makes Goo explode into chunks. Prickle gathers her up and takes her to Gumby's lab, where he reassembles her with his deus ex machina. Unfortunately, the Blockheads show up with their gong again, so Gumby directs his machine at them, which makes them explode into chunks. Unfortunately, Goo has exploded again, and it's just a real pain.
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A Bone For Nopey
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Nopey loves burying bones so much that Gumby decides to take him to Dinosaur Bone Park for some good old-fashioned vandalism. They find an appropriately large femur decorating the park and they start digging a hole to put it in. Unfortunately, the giant fossil refuses to budge, so Gumby gets Pokey, Prickle, and Goo and an array of toy trains to push it in. Their momentum carries them straight into the hole, and Nopey happily buries them alive.
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Scrooge Loose
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Oh no! Ebeneizer Scrooge is loose in Toy Land! Gumby and Pokey track him as he takes steps to push all the toys off the shelf of the toy store. Then he goes into a book about Santa Claus to put an end to Christmas once and for all by replacing the children's toys with rocks. (I know. Don't get me started.) Fortunately, Gumby and Pokey catch up with him and trap him in one of Santa's sacks. Unfortunately, Santa mistakes him for a bag of toys and takes him along. And so, some lucky little boy or girl gets and old, cranky miser for Christmas.
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Gabby Auntie
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Gumby and Pokey are visiting with Gumby's ridiculously dull, talkative Aunt Gumbitty one day. When Pokey nods off, his natural defenses kick in to save him from the conversationalist, and he sleep walks out to the car and drives off. Gumby and his aunt give chase to keep him from destroying himself and others. When Gumbitty's car gets stuck, Gumby "borrows" someone's hovercraft to continue pursuit. He accidentally crashes into a fence, which attaches to the craft, giving it wings and allowing Gumby to reach Pokey. The whole thing reminds Gumby's aunt of a friend of hers who would nod off in the middle of a conversation and starts to wax poetic about it. Meanwhile, Pokey starts to nod off again. . .
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The Indian Challenge
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Some Native Americans are after Prospector Pete for all of the tales he's told about killing their people. He must face Old Joe, the champion of their tribe. He's scared, what with how they were all a bunch of tall tales, so Gumby and Pokey agree to spy on the tribe and see what he's up against. Wouldn't you know it, Old Joe's just a big blowhard too. And so, Pete and Joe enter a tall tale contest where the loser has to stop telling stories. Whatever.
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The Moon Boggles
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There has been a spacecraft sighted flying high above the sky! The Moon Boggles are on the loose, spreading cold everywhere they go! Gumby and Pokey are called in to capture them. Unfortunately, the boggles are more than a match for the duo's silly ruses, and they freeze Gumby and Pokey solid, which results in them having to stay in bed sick for a few days. And so, the day is ruined thanks to Gumby and Pokey!
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Tricky Ball
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The Toy Store is selling a big pile of "tricky ball". Gumby and Nopey have a hard time playing with them, what with how they morph and stretch and shrink and grow without warning. There's your cartoon.
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Pokey Minds the Baby
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Gumby is babysitting Goobilly, largely despite the fact that he isn't there and Pokey's in charge of making sure the gender-neutral toddler doesn't kill itself. Well, he dozes off, and Goobilly is soon crawling out the front door and through the city, putting itself in deadly situations to no end. When Gumby gets back, he scolds Pokey for not doing his job for him and they're soon in hot pursuit of the child. They lose Goobilly at a factory, where the poor baby gets machined away to who-knows-where. Thankfully, the factory just gift-wraps the child and has it mailed back to Gumby.
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