Will They Do the King Felix Pops Again
The glory days of theatrical animation were passing on, and several studios, to quote an ofttimes-used Irish phrase, were "not long for this world." But animators were finding "greener" pastures in the new medium of television. Two studios in detail – Hanna-Barbera and Paramount – would render to their recent past for character and plot inspiration, mining once again into the realm of the leprechauns, and simultaneously testing how thinly a crock of golden could be spread into finished footage on a TV upkeep.
Leprechauns – drawn by Jim Tyer – from a Felix The Cat drawing detailed below.
Gold Burglar (Hanna-Barbera (H-B Enterprises), Ruff and Reddy, 1958-59 season) begins a 13-chapter story centering on the wee folk. A newspaper headline announces that a gold burglar is still at large, and has baffled police. While Ruff fails to see the importance of this story to them, Reddy boards up windows in a panic, assertive the burglar may soon be later on a solid aureate scout (that doesn't work) inherited from Reddy's gramps. "That clock's a clinker", Ruff insists. Yet, late at night, the sleeping duo are aroused to hear something sentry-sized dropping in the living room. They investigate, and find the drawer where the watch was stored open up. "My watch is gone", moans Reddy. "Not gone, Reddy. Going!", shouts Ruff, pointing to the floor. There nosotros see the watch, actualization to have sprouted legs, running at total speed for an go out – equally the narrator points out "The outset fourth dimension it's run in twenty years." Ruff brings a broom down on it, stopping it in its tracks. When the lookout is lifted, a pocket-sized leprechaun is found out cold underneath. As he revives, Reddy holds him for the constabulary. He admits to being a leprechaun, only not a burglar. "Are you actually from Republic of ireland?" Ruff asks. "That I am" says the leprechaun – "And don't exist after askin', 'How are things in Glocca Morea' – 'crusade they're terrible, terrible, terrible." The lilliputian man tells a woeful tale of the capture of the leprechaun princess past a monster known as the Goon of Glocca Morra, and held prisoner in Banshee Castle. While the leprechauns have given up their pots of gold to ransom her, the Goon merely takes their aureate only increases his demands – forcing all the leprechauns to hunt out gold wherever they tin find information technology, to continue the Goon from bringing impairment to the princess. And the worst is that no one will offer the leprechauns assistance, because they're all likewise scared of the Goon. Braggart Reddy, nicknaming himself "One Punch Reddy", claims he doesn't know the meaning of fear (taking center in the fact that he and Ruff are nowhere hear Ireland to offering whatsoever actual assistance). But the leprechaun takes their mockful assertions of assistful intent every bit if words of gold – and with a magical incantation, transports them soaring through the skies for a "free ane-way trip to Ireland".
Upon inflow, the leprechaun refuses to take a proactive role in entering the castle, afraid that if the Goon spotted one of his kind invading his domain, he'd bring harm to the princess. Instead, Reddy tries to gain entrance past a rope lasso hooked to the indicate of a turret roof. But a large arm wielding a broadsword slices away at the rope, dunking a water-logged Reddy into the moat. The leprechaun suggests a makeshift catapult of a giant prophylactic ring strung betwixt two tree branches. Reddy plays the bean in the beanshooter, but is too plump and smashes into the castle wall without gaining sufficient altitude. A substitution of smaller Ruff equally the catapult jockey produces a bulls-eye shot into a tower window. But all that follows is silence, with no signal of success. The leprechaun finally hits upon the idea of Reddy using a secret leprechaun entrance to get inside – the only problem beingness Reddy'south size. No "big" problem for the piddling man, who utters the words, "With a jig-a-jig-jig and a slap o' me human knee, you'll exist shrinkin', me boy, 'til you're niggling as me". Reddy assumes leprechaun proportions, and reacts past walking up to the wee man below a mushroom, and threatening, "How would you like a fat lip?"
Reddy eventually gets inside the castle, finding Ruff locked in a cell. Some sequences will bring back memories of one of H-B'southward last theatrical projects – Tom and Jerry'south "Robin Hoodwinked" (1958), with a atomic Reddy using his ingenuity to steal a key twice his size out from under the nose of the Goon and a large pet true cat. Ruff is freed, merely the Goon gives chase. Ruff and Reddy divide up on the castle wall, and Ruff hides within a small turret room. The goon lines up a cannon to blast the room to pieces – and to make matters worse, Reddy is hiding in the mouth of the cannon. Reddy plays a game of bravado out the cannon fuses, but is caught in the act. Nevertheless, the distraction gives Ruff time to flip the cannon butt over, launching the missive dorsum at the Goon. While our heroes take the opportunity to search the Goon's treasure room, the Goon is but momentarily stunned past the blast, and corners them. Ruff is locked in a wall oven, and the Goon tosses a dagger at Reddy, which lodges in the floor inches from its target. Resourceful Reddy bends the dagger blade astern, and places a large gold coin on the dagger handle. A la David vs. Goliath, Reddy launches a direct striking of the coin correct between the Goon'southward eyes, causing him to collapse on the flooring. Just the Goon'south big Irish gaelic hat is still moving – and out of it pops the hidden leprechaun princess. Equally soon as she is gratuitous, the leprechaun who brought the boys there materializes in the castle, graciously bows to the princess, and says he'll take over from here. While Reddy is restored past the princess to his original size, the leprechaun repeats the shrinking incantation at the Goon, with i change of lyric – "'til y'all're littler than me." The huge Goon shrinks to pint size, and runs away a coward, uttering Irish epithets in unintelligible chipmunk speed. To speed his exit, his ain true cat doesn't recognize him, and pursues the Goon the same way he pursued Reddy for another total-speed chase as the scene irises out.
Sure'north an article on leprechauns wouldn't be complete without at least a tip o' the cap to Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People (6/26/59). While mostly a live-activeness feature, there are some scenes involving the banshees and/or the midnight autobus that seem to utilize a wee scrap of drawing for effects and highlights. And the venerable Ub Iwerks, at present in charge of "special processes", would outdo himself in not only realizing on film banshees and ghostly flying coaches, but an underground kingdom of leprechauns dancing fevered jigs amidst giant harps and aureate treasures, and parading their stable of galloping Petty horses to the melody of Darby's dabble. And only for good measure, the moving-picture show introduces u.s. to a youthful, singing Sean Connery! The feature would non only provide indelible visual memories in its several theatrical reissues, but inspiration to later Disney animators for directly references and lampoons in subsequent productions to come, to be discussed in after installments of this series.
Paramount, the studio that nearly invented the drawing leprechaun, was in its waning days, having lost all its star characters in the Harvey comics bargain for purposes of theatrical animation. Only information technology was finding new outlets to augment its income in churning out tons of footage for various television set series at bargain basement prices. Among its earliest television efforts were the entire "Felix the Cat" television series of 1959-61, produced past Fleischer veteran and Famous Studios alumnus Joe Oriolo. These films were incomparably "on the cheap" and employ every trick in the volume to cut corners. Filmed as two function "cliffhangers", the episodes gave every excuse to reuse extensive sequences twice in overly-long "recaps". Most "activeness" scenes are endless repeating cycles – and even these are few and far between.
Directing continuity is bad-mannered and inconsistent to the point of actualization amateurish, and visibly rushed. Several three-part story arcs, such equally that described below, give additional chances to reuse shots between multiple cartoons. And the series makes heavy use of Jim Tyer animation – a man whose reputation for speed of pen and erratic ramshackle movement could churn out reams of drawings in record fourth dimension without need for being too careful, at affordable prices. Seeking plot inspiration for a mass production of seemingly hundreds of these Felix cartoons, the Paramount boys inevitably turned to their onetime standby Irish settings, at least with a few fresh ideas to take them out of the formulaic rut of their previous quartet of theatrical cartoons.
In The Leprechaun, Detective Felix receives a visit at his office from a pocket-size green stranger. Instead of entering in the usual style, a trap door appears in Felix's floor, then vanishes once admitting its user into the room. The visitor identifies himself as a leprechaun king, and tells a tale of "worra worra worra" of leprechaun abductions at the Fairy Ring, past the Professor and Rock Bottom. They charge in using nets, spring snare traps, carry traps, and fly paper, to capture fifteen leprechauns, leaving a bribe note demanding "15 pots of gold – Make information technology snappy!" Felix takes the case to find the hostages. Every bit the king leaves the style he came, the door again disappears. "Why, there'south no trap door here", remarks Felix. The rex reappears with the door momentarily, to respond, "There is when y' need one!"
At the Fairy Ring, Felix searches for a clue. He finds i fast plenty, as he falls into the Professor's latest trap – a lobster pot. Rock Bottom hears the trap snap, and carries Felix into their hideout, where the missing leprechauns are tied up in a corner. The Professor considers Felix no threat so long every bit he's caught in the pot, and leaves him at that place while Rock alerts the boss of more leprechauns in the glen for the taking. Felix asks the leprechauns how to become free, and they suggest a special high and low whistle for the chief leprechaun. Hearing aforementioned, the master over again appears through a magical trap door. Taking accuse of the state of affairs, he uses his Irish pipe like a blowtorch, and cuts the elevation off Felix'due south trap to gratis him. The other leprechauns state, "Now Felix tin costless the states, as only a human tin practise that." (Yes, just isn't Felix a feline?) Felix unties them, then races out toward the Fairy Band. In a cheap repeat of all the capture shots we saw in the first half of the episode, the remainder of the leprechauns are captured. But Felix arrives in the nick of fourth dimension, and unties them. The other freed leprechauns appear on the scene with the chief, and now amassed, the chief orders they give their one-time captors a "shillelagh shellacking". All pull out their walking sticks, and bung them in a non-ending barrage against the Professor and Rock for an all-out "Donnybrook", chasing them over the farthest hills, every bit Felix, wearing a leprechaun chapeau and belongings two large shamrocks, gives his trademark laugh.
The Leprechauns' Aureate picks up right where the last affiliate left off. In appreciation for saving their gilt, the leprechauns present Felix with a pot of it, then engage in the task of hiding their own. Though no one ever established in the last picture show that the leprechaun fortune was above ground, they continue en masse to bury their pots in the glen. Stone Bottom, even so, has returned to the glen, and eyes them through a telescope. He and so rushes back to the hideout to tell the Professor – and so winded when he arrives that the Professor has to remind him to exhale in social club to talk. Rock tells the news, and the Professor (qualifying for the Guinness Book of Records for earth's fastest invention manufacture) displays his latest device – a gold magnet, consisting of a cerise horseshoe magnet fastened to a gun in identify of its barrel. Ane pull of the trigger, and Stone'due south belt buckle is pulled away. A second shot extracts his gold molar. (Very interesting phenomena, considering that gold has no magnetic properties. In fact, the Internet recommends testing gold with a magnet to see that it doesn't stick – if information technology does, it's fake!) Anyway, the leprechauns must exist using a cheap alloy, considering without having to reduce himself to heavy manual labor, the Professor merely aims his new device at the surface of the glen, and pulls pot after pot right out of the ground.
The leprechaun king has accompanied Felix domicile. Only both are summoned by a hoarde of leprechauns in the magic trap door, telling them of the robbery. Felix returns with them through the trap door, choosing for unknown reasons to take along his pot of gold. Back at the scene of the criminal offence, he and the leprechauns discover the culprits from under a mushroom, then hibernate equally they arroyo. Plot signal becomes a little muddied hither, as the Professor's magnet pulls Felix and his pot out of the footing so that they come across face to confront. Did Felix exercise this intentionally? Couldn't he have but leaped out from under the mushroom instead of putting his pot at risk? Or was he just too stupid to leave the pot at home? Stone Bottom pulls a hollow tree stump out of the footing (a Herculean task in and of itself), and slams it over Felix, trapping him inside, and so hurls the trunk and Felix into the river, while he and the Professor cart their pots on a dolly back to the hideout. One and half million dollars (in 1960 rates of exchange). As Rock observes, "Not bad for an hour's work." Meanwhile, Felix floats toward a waterfall, just is caught by the feet by leprechauns on an overhanging tree limb, and freed. Within the tree, they hold council. The leprechauns tell him of a 2nd kind of golden, known equally "fairy golden', which looks like the real affair, simply vanishes. "And nosotros can get tons of it", they observe. Felix has them engage in another mass burial of pots in the glen, with the substitute fools' bait. Rock of course falls for the ploy hook, line, and sinker, saying, "That's a nice habit", and gets the Professor for another haul. While the crooks are out, the leprechauns and Felix come up in, and make off with the dolly total of gold. As the villains complete stacking another pile of gold on a 2d dolly (presumably finding fake aureate to be all the more than magnetic), the king appears nether a mushroom, and tells them that its fairy gilt – nothin' but nothin'. Now you run into it, at present you don't – and the entire stack, pots and all, vanishes. Fourth dimension and budget not permitting, nosotros never run into what the leprechauns did with the real golden to prevent further excavations. We are simply left with the flabbergasted crooks, and another Felix signature express joy.
The Capturing of the Leprechaun King may have been produced a chip apart from the other two episodes, as the writers appear to have suffered from a lapse of memory – and assume we have, too). Felix is dorsum in his office, in the identical pose he started the commencement drawing in – only this time, instead of reading an unidentified bewspaper or pamphlet, he'due south reading Felix the True cat comics in a free plug. The magic trap door appears again, with a messenger leprechaun inviting Felix to tea with the king, now named King Barney, at the fairy ring. When Felix arrives, the King appears together with an already-fix tea service under a giant toadstool. "You're Rex Barney?", says a terribly forgetful Felix. (Well, he was at least 41 years one-time when this picture was made – peradventure an early instance of Alzheimer's was setting in.) The male monarch states he'due south worried that something might be happening soon, equally the Professor and Rock have taken up new residence in nearby Kerry Castle. At that place, the Professor, instead of inventing, pours over old volumes of leprechaun law books – and finds a "loophole" – a forgotten leprechaun police that states if a leprechaun male monarch is captured, he must grant his captor or captors three wishes each. (Why do leprechauns write these terrible laws anyhow?) Rock reacts, "With three wishes each, we can own the world!" The two go to piece of work with an odd weapon – a fishing pole, with line divided in three at its terminate, to which are tied 3 large corks. How would they know in advance they'd encounter two leprechauns playing checkers on a tortoise's chest. The leprechauns duck inside the armholes of the shell with the turtle, and Rock flings the line, plugging upward the head and arm holes with the corks. (As Babs Bunny might have said, "How convenient!") Of course, Felix makes his move, grabbing the line and cut it, then unplugging the corks.
Rock casts the line over again, and handily winds it around Felix to hogtie him. Later on the usual repetitious plot exposition to let Felix in on the villain's plans for the start of chapter 2, Stone put Felix "into orbit" with a mighty cast of the line. Felix sails over Male monarch Barney, who grabs a microphone from under his toadstool and puts out an "all points bulletin" for the other leprechauns to salvage Felix at all costs. The leprechauns try to position a safety internet nether the descending Felix – but Felix keeps hitting with such impact that he bounces upwardly into the stratosphere again. Meanwhile, the Professor and Rock spot Barney looking skyward – and drop a net over him, challenge their three wishes each. Barney reluctantly promises to grant them all. Rock wishes for a yacht. The Professor tops him with an ocean liner. Rock adds a airplane, and a million bucks in gold. The Professor wishes bigger once again, getting 5 million in aureate. But forth comes Felix, finally on the ground. Fed up with Felix's meddling, the Professor uses his 3rd wish for something that may testify fatal – "Felix! I wish yous were out of this world!" But Stone chimes in, "I double that wish." For once, Stone has wished too big, and his double wish seems to count for both of them, as King Barney cheers, "Hooray! You've made a fourth wish. And because of that, you lose all your wishes. It's the leprechaun law!" (See, Professor. You should have read the asterisk and footnote in that old constabulary volume.) The wealth disappears, and nosotros suddenly are at the concluding shot, with the Professor and Rock in a prison cell and wearing prison house stripes, while jailer Felix laughs outside, holding the primal.
Paramount'south other early idiot box outlet was a revival of their "Popeye" series by Rex Features, where Paramount gained the lion's share of product duties on another massive body of television productions – this time splitting production duties with Jack Kinney, Gene Deitch, Larry Harmon, Format Films, and Halas and Bachelor. With this many diverse hands, production quality of course varied all over the map. But Paramount, while rigid in movement and posing, generally produced a superior product in terms of storylines and neatness of cartoon. I don't think Jim Tyer got to animate a single frame, all episodes being nominally credited to Paramount's A-listing director Seymour Kneitel. Simply even Kneitel had his off days, as evidenced below.
The Leprechaun is a decidedly disappointing outing, lacking in annihilation more than than going through the motions. Perhaps the only distinctive point about information technology was an unusual move in which, perhaps reflecting Kneitel's personal opinion that the Paramount background section was no longer capable of convincingly pulling off a lush background of emerald green to present an enchanted forest, the flick opts to substitute in all woodland settings photographic shots of real forests, embellished with a drawn tree or prop here and there. Despite the now stilted and minimal grapheme animation, the thought really presents a few hitting shots, with Popeye actualization to walk through surfaces of thick light-green undergrowth rather than the usual blank solid colors.
The Ocean Hag and her vulture are afoot, sailing to Ireland on a whim to capture a leprechaun and brand him reveal his crock of gold. Lighthouse keeper Popeye abandons his post (so, Popeye, who keeps the other ships off the rocks while you're out on a wild goose chase to Ireland?) and follows the Hag'southward ship to see what's upwardly. In Ireland, a chief leprechaun reminds the others that their gold must merely exist used for the poor, and that they are honor bound not to reveal its whereabouts. (Isn't the mythos a chip messed up since "The Wee Men"? I thought they were accolade leap to reveal the treasure if they got caught!) In some other part of the woods, skulking Popeye overhears the Hag's plans and attempts to interfere, but is bopped on the head with a log by the Hag's vulture. A young leprechaun passes by and revives Popeye with a dose of shamrock juice. (Considering this works on Popeye, are shamrocks of the same genus as spinach?) Popeye thanks the leprechaun, but never issues him so much as a discussion of warning of the Hag's plan. (Don't you fifty-fifty know a leprechaun when you meet 1?) Further down the trail, the Hag poses every bit a destitute old lady, and the leprechaun tries to cheer her up with a gilded money. Convinced she's institute the real McCoy, the Hag invites the leprechaun to a hovel, and pours him a cup of tea laced with truth serum – then asks the crucial question as to the crock's location. The crock is stolen, and the immature leprechaun banished from the ranks until the pot is returned.
Popeye, who even so hasn't accomplished a thing with his ain investigation, happens by once again and is finally filled in on events by the sad ex-leprechaun. He races (non on screen, of course – running would toll as well much blitheness budget) to the docks, where the Hag and her vulture are loading a large chest on board ship. Popeye creeps upward behind the vulture and returns the favor from before, bopping the vulture unconscious. He yanks the chest abroad from the Sea Hag, and turns to return it – but the Hag hits him with am "evil eye whammy", visualized equally a yellow lightning bolt from her eyes. Popeye is frozen in his tracks. "Oh, my gawsh. I forgot about her evil heart whammy", he states. (Later all these years, Popeye, and you but turn your back to her? You're really slipping!) Popeye of class retains only plenty forcefulness to eat his spinach, sock the lightning bolt, and reverse it dorsum on the Hag to knock her unconscious. Does Popeye clap her in irons? No! He merely returns the chest, leaving her free to spread havoc another day! Popeye is appointed an honorary leprechaun, with a green outfit just his size, and sings, "A friend I am told is worth more than pure gilded, says Popeye the leprechaun!" With all the plot holes large enough to drive a Mack truck through in this script, it's a wonder Popeye didn't end the short with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new freeway.
Huck of the Irish (Hanna-Barbera, Huckleberry Hound, 12/iv/61) finds our hero as ace lensman for Strife Mag, on a mission in Republic of ireland to be the first to photograph a leprechaun. Always 1 to have no clue upon existence faced with the obvious, Huck observes a little human in green, sitting on a pot of gilded, and concludes he'south just one of the locals – the perfect one to ask if he'due south seen a leprechaun anywhere about. Huck introduce himself with greetings of, "Superlative o' the mornin', y'all, begorrah, begosh, and Erin Get Bragh", and then tells the audience, "That's Irish talk for howdy. You got to know all the gimmicks in this business." The little man says he tin can't be certain if he'southward seen a leprechaun without a description. Huck gives him a perfect description of the self aforementioned fiddling homo from a travel brochure, adding that they're also known to exist "plum total of devilishness." "A prankster, eh? Similar so, maybe?", reacts the leprechaun, pulling Huck'southward lid down over his eyes. "I guess everyone round here likes to joke it up a might", Huck responds. When he gets the hat off, the leprechaun gives him a hotfoot. Huck finally sees the leprechaun disappear and reappear atop his pot of gold, and wises up to the situation. Hearing that Huck wants his photo, the leprechaun states that he can't resist a skillful hunt, and if Huck tin catch him, he'll get the photo. The leprechaun ducks into a cavern. Before Huck tin enter, a door drops from the ceiling, which Huck narrowly misses. "I'm likewise smart to fall for that old slammin' into the door routine", Huck states. Of a sudden the door swings opens from the inside, now miraculously hinged on the right, nifty into Huck and causing Huck's head to pop right through the door's wooden face. The leprechaun nonchalantly asks a favor, indicating he'south a "shutter bug" himself, and asks Huck to pose for the cover of the merchandise magazine, "The Leprechaun Ledger". Of course, he has Huck back upwards for the shot – right into an open up well. "He'due south a real practical joker – he practically kills me!" states Huck.
More chasing ensues, with the leprechaun having Huck follow him off a cliff edge into thin air, allowing the leprechaun to display "the advantages" of being himself by defying gravity while Huck falls. The leprechaun hides on a high ledge, and Huck tries to lasso him Western-style from below. But Huck simply lassos the Blarney Stone, pulling information technology down into the canyon atop himself. The touch on, nevertheless, cracks the stone ledge on which the leprechaun is standing higher up, and he falls in a heap into the canyon also. (How come he didn't simply defy gravity again?) The leprechaun is a human being of his word, and poses for a series of photos, including with his shillelagh, wearing a new greenish ensemble, and sitting atop his pot of gilded. With more repeats of his Irish phrases for "so long", Huck returns to the mag.
Emerging from the darkroom, Huck shows his photographs to the editor. "Oh oh, I was afraid of this", the editor replies, every bit he looks at three photos, absolutely bare. "A leprechaun just doesn't register on film. But, nice attempt anyway, Huck." Huck confides to the audition, "I haven't the nerve to tell him I forgot to take the cover off the lens when I took the pictures!"
Sham-rocked (Hanna-Barbera, Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har, 6/24/63) – Lippy and Hardy are jump for Ireland with a makeshift dirigible, fastened in a higher place a bicycle-built-for-ii with a propeller hooked to its pedal mechanism. The balloon is marked, "Ireland or Bust" – and bosom information technology does, depositing the duo in a rough landing on the Emerald Isle. No sooner can they say "leprechaun" than they see i, with a pot of golden yet. He ducks into a hollow tree with the pot. Uttering the magic words "Blarney Killarney Alakazam", the leprechaun performs a quick change, transforming himself into an old cobbler, and the pot into a cobbler'due south bench. Lippy pokes his caput in and asks if the leprechaun came this mode, and the old cobbler gives a dislocated response, pointing in 2 directions at one time. Lippy leaves Hardy as sentry at the front door, while he checks effectually the back. The leprechaun performs another quick change, and transforms himself into a duplicate of Lippy, who gives Hardy a butt to smash downwards on the leprechaun when he comes around the tree. Of course, Hardy whomps it down on the existent Lippy. The fake Lippy tells Hardy to get under the barrel as well and agree the leprechaun – then pushes both of them off a cliff. As an angry Lippy rises from the splinters, Hardy reacts, "Oh dear. Oh, utter confusion!" The leprechaun returns to cobbler disguise equally Lippy checks inside the tree again, and gives Lippy another prepare of misdirections. "Never mind!", shouts Lippy. Another utterance of the magic words, and the leprechaun transforms into Hardy's double, conveying the pot of gold. Lippy, on seeing the pot, yells, "We're rich!" "Y'all mean, I'm rich", replies the false Hardy. "Finders keepers, you know", and ducks back into the tree. Becoming the cobbler again, the leprechaun points Lippy to the real Hardy exterior. When Hardy "won't talk" as to what he did with the pot, Lippy gives hunt with intent to strangle – but the leprechaun decides to interruption upwardly the party. Reappearing as himself, he tells them, "Sure I was just havin' me little joke", and hands over to them the pot – simply with a lid on it. The duo heads for home, with a happy Lippy remarking at what a practical joker the leprechaun was. But the joke's not over 'til the last laugh – every bit the pot now contains zippo just a hearty helping of Irish stew. Lippy'due south laughter turns to weeping for the iris out.
This coloring volume has nothing to practice with the Sinbad cartoon – but the pirate IS wearing a greenish shirt.
Irish Stew (Hanna-Barbera, Sinbad Jr. and His Magic Chugalug, ane/8/66), a "piece of work for hire" episode produced for American-International, picking up the pieces for the failed Sam Vocalist studios, really presents null new or clever. Sinbad Jr. and Salty the parrot voyage to Ireland, and fins a leprechaun in a bottle cast into the bounding main. He tells of an ogre after their gold, who cast him away when he wouldn't tell the location. Sinbad decides to confront the ogre, but finds out information technology'due south really his quondam nemesis Blubbo. (How user-friendly for the animators, who don't have to come up up with a new graphic symbol pattern.) Blubbo challenges Sinbad to a off-white fight, provided he takes his magic belt off. Sucker! – Blubbo of course conks Sinbad with a club. Sinbad and Salty are tied to a tree, while Blubbo leaves with a leprechaun on a leash to atomic number 82 to the gold, and Sinbad's belt in his hip pocket. The original leprechaun Sinbad rescued arrives with reinforcements. Piled atop each other'due south shoulders in totem pole fashion, the leprechaun and his friends retrieve the chugalug from Blubbo'south pocket, and brand the band toss of a lifetime – launching the belt at Sinbad so that it non but passes over his broad shoulders and down backside the ropes with which he is tied, but wraps neatly around his waist for Salty to pull. Someone draw for me the physics behind the miraculous trajectory of that shot. From there on, it'due south a routine day for Sinbad – communicable a cannonball fired past Blubbo and tossing it back into his gut, and socking him over the rainbow – where Blubbo evidently doesn't find a pot of gold – only lumps. Salty dances an Irish gaelic jig for the fade out.
Other titles missing in action and unavailable for review include Laurel and Hardy's "Leaping Leprechaun" (Hanna-Barbera/Wolper), for which just an IMDB description has been located, referring to the boys finding a leprechaun while disposed to their garden, who has escaped from a circus and is seeking shelter. The boys of course only encounter him equally a pot of gold, and the results are probably highly predictable. Another missing title include Bozo the Clown'southward "Real Gone Leprechaun" from Larry Harmon productions, shifting all attention from Bozo to a leprechaun friend (my afar memories of this championship seem to recall the leprechaun also being named Paddy, and running a merry chase for Big Shorty and Brusque Prodigious). The leprechaun'south curtain line when asked how he subdued his pursuers was "With a bit o' luck, and a four leaf clover!"
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Source: https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/beware-the-leprechauns-part-2/
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