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And they had released such gems as Yogi bear, Top Cat, Magilla Gorilla and this effort, Quick Draw Mcgraw. Quick Draw was a horse from the wild west,whose sidekick was the Mexican donkey, Baba Louie. Quick Draw was dopey at times but he was a good character and had a dog called Snuffles who'd only react once he got his dog biscuit! Sometimes, he'd dress up as his alter ego, El Kabong- the Zorro-like marksman and instead of wielding a sword, he smashes the bad guys heads with his acoustic guitar-thus it makes a 'KA-BONG' sound, which was frankly, hilarious.

Quick Draw McGraw like many of Hanna Barbera's classic gems was a great cartoon and one that would be remembered as one of the best produced. Fun, enjoyable and a good laugh too also.

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Child hood bliss. Remembering when kids played cowboys and Indians back in the day where the creative times of Quick Draw McGraw. Quick Draw McGraw was a cartoon version of the Apple Duple n gang. Fish out of water Quick Draw with Daba Louie trying to help in an Abot and Costelo way. When Quick Draw turns into El Kabong the skip made me piss my pant when I was 11. The Auggie Doggie and Snooper and Blabber followed other odd skits, and mysteries. Predictable, and dated for today, but has an old charm which I miss. Before everything became so much social message, the fun of watching cartoons for the pure silliness was enjoyable and innocent.

Hanna Barbera - the Kings of Animation for over 4 decades created this wonderful cartoon memory - a western-type horse named 'Quick Draw' ("I'll do the thinnin' around here!") and his (mule? pony? donkey?)assistant Babba-Louie ("Quicks draw!"). Loved that accent for Bubba-Louie. To be honest, I didn't know this cartoon was THAT old. Amazing, I must have seen it in repeats - but I thought I saw it in first run. But it was fun. And my favorite was 'El-Kabbong'. When my parents bought me a guitar at 6 years old, I tried to copy that goofy sound for years! Going off the beaten track ...let me also take the forum to write about two things regarding Quick Draw McGraw: One, this cartoon did not promote violence and again, I was totally ticked off at the 80's parental group that ruined it for the next generation of children behind me to be able to see this....and two - in the 90's when the Arsenio Hall Show was on, I remember he came out and performed a monologue about "El-Kabbong". Many in the audience didn't seem to know who that was or what cartoon was referring to...and Arsenio explained how this cartoon was one of the best cartoons of his childhood. It was one of the funniest monologues he ever did.

I'm loving the Turner Corporation for creating the "Boomerang" Channel where Quick Draw, Babba-Louie and the Zoro-ish alter ego of Quick Draw, "El-Kabbong" now has a home. My children, my little relatives can see what I saw and have a great time too. Hanna Barabara had many hits (and some misses) in their pursuit to entertain children and adults. This is definitely one of the hits.

Quick Draw McGraw was one for the childhood ages, along with The Flintstones and The Jetsons, but well before The Simpsons and Daria. How was Quick Draw McGraw different to the animated series such as The Flintstones and The Jetsons? Well, for one thing Quick Draw McGraw was a talking horse. Now this makes me think that perhaps Quick Draw McGraw not only had Scottish heritage due to his surname, but was an inspiration for BoJack Horseman which features the voice of Alison Brie, one of the stars of Community which in my humble opinion is one of the best TV series of all time.

I wish there was a reboot of Quick Draw McGraw.

I grew up watching an hour of Yogi Bear cartoons Sunday mornings before church. When Christmas was on a Sunday, we didn't have church and lo and behold, two hours of Yogi Bear that morning.

This consisted of Yogi, Huck, Hokey, Yakkee, Snag and Jinx, who I was not aware were from two separate cartoon shows, Yogi and Huck.

Now there were two little Snooper and Blabber cartoons that also would air at times. No idea why this was.

It would be decades later before I would see there was the Yogi Bear show, the Huck Hound show and Quickdraw (tho I had read about them in comic books).

I'll just say Snooper and Blabber are one of the best around. You have to watch them, but they do get some edginess rolling that could outdo Yogi or Snag (unfortunately, these two geniuses cut the edge more).

Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy likewise get some dialogue flowing. The Yogi Bear cartoons et al, are pretty much like Bullwinkle and Rocky. They are more radio programs and could work simply with audio if need be.

But oh, there's Quickdraw. The proverbial one-trick-pony. I just sorted thru what all I have recorded to see how often Baba Looey cut loose with the gibberish masquerading as Spanish, but grew tired with all the tedious Hold On Thar, I'll Do The Thinnin' and Snuffles, as well as El Kabong, over and over again! As it is, I found three moments of Baba's bad mouth; in Shooting Room Only, after being hit by the guitar, it is out and out gibberish, but you hear 'tortilla' in there.

In Baba Bait, Baba must be mad at Quickdraw and you hear 'sombrero'.

But in Who Is El Kabong?, he totally cuts loose with total nonsense.

Political correctness and being offended aside, I guess what bothers me most of all about these moments is it should have been too easy to have found a young hispanic who could have very easily provided the dialogue needed and would have gone uncredited (not discrimination, this has always happened and still happens today).

But at least we would have had a better sounding cartoon without these distracting moments. The first time I heard Baba do this in one of these shows, I had not a clue what he was supposed to be doing, then realized it was supposed to be Spanish.

What made it so disappointing was Desi Arnaz had just finished an eight year run on I Love Lucy, speaking legitimate Spanish.

But the worst thing is to act like it isn't there. It's there. It's an old cartoon. Don't ban it. Don't act like it didn't happen. It's an old cartoon of animation, dialogue and voicework.

Not as breathtaking as Warner Bros. no, but don't act like it wasn't there or it is a Scarlet Letter on our history or something.

Nothing to be proud of either, but just don't act like it didn't happen.