The illustrator for The Flintstones, and many other classic Hanna-Barbera hit cartoons, has died. I'm dating myself, but I remember being allowed to stay up and watch, and if I was good, watching Jackie Gleason and Crazy Guggenheim.

Of course, back then, we didn't realize that Huckleberry Hound was so gay. But it seems obvious now.

I think Huckleberry Hound was just sensitive and artistic.

Boy, Robin, are you naive.

I'll bet you thought that Rock Hudson was a real he-man, too...

Maybe Robin is just poorly sardonic, Rand.

If Huckleberry Hound was gay, what was Snagglepuss the Lion? Old Snag was heavily into the theater, and always wore a opera cape.

What about Pixie ans Dixie? Or should that be spelled DICKSie? Two male mice living together, who knows what happened in that hole in the wall?

What should we have expected from a guy named Hanna, whose partner misspelled Barbara for a last name.

Never did particularly get into Huckleberry Hound (no puns please). But the rest of those things I remember also. Not to mention !Ed Sullivan! (said with angelic voices, from what spoof I don't recall) and Red Skelton.

Huck??? Not Huck…
I remember not so long ago when we first got cable. I came in one day to see a Clem Kiddlehopper skit on the tube and my eight year old daughter fascinated by him. TV really was better back then, in so many ways.

You guys should see what's been done to Yogi Bear, since Hanna-Barbera was acquired by Warner. Whatever you might've thought of Yogi and Boo-Boo is now easier to believe...

OH NO, not Yogi and Booboo too!! I thought all they wanted was a picnic basket, and now to find out that all they really wanted was checkered napkins!!!

I'm crushed!!

That outfit that acquired that rights to Hanna-Barbera was actually a creature of Warners? How perfect. H-B did more than its' share to ruin animated film in this country, and I can think of no better revenge than to watch what Warner Brothers does to it every time Adult Swim comes on Cartoon Network. That made my day, Frank Glover.

The only enjoyable H-B product ever was Jonny Quest, and that's due to amusement at the ungodly Foleyness of it all. In fairness, however, it ought to be noted that it was the only Saturday morning cartoon to ever depict deaths inflicted by violence. I learned to love it as a kid, and grew to laugh at it as an adult.

Suffer, you H-B bastards, suffer!

Jonny Quest was originally ABC friday prime-time in 1964 (I was Jonny's age at the time). When CBS ran it on saturday mornings in 1968 or so, some episodes were sanitized of certain violent scenes (we missed a saboteur frogman being blown up [and badly edited, at that] in 'Arctic Spashdown,' which leaves us thinking [if you didn't know better] that his submarine commander abandoned him, when in fact there was nothing left to abandon. A prisoner being backhanded was cut away from an episode I can't name, and Races's non-PC "...you heathen monkeys!" is gone from 'Pursuit of the Po-Ho.' I'm sure there are others. The DVD release, however, is uncut.)

In fairness, we no longer see Elmer Fudd's face slashed with a razor by Bugs Bunny in the Warner Brother's 'The Barber of Seville' parody, either.

As for Yogi and Boo-Boo...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259222/
http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/_C1/_F4/The_John_Kricfalusis_version_for_Yogi_Bear_P3147/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Bear#Yogi.27s_Influence

"Of course, back then, we didn't realize that Huckleberry Hound was so gay"

So I guess that would make him a Brokeback 'Berry Bitch.