Here Comes the Grump is an animated cartoon series produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises

DePatie-Freleng Enterprises

DePatie-Freleng Enterprises was a Hollywood-based animation production company, active from 1963 to 1981. They produced theatrical cartoons, animated series, commercials, title sequences and television specials. Notable among these is The Pink Panther film titles and cartoon shorts and the Dr....

 and aired on NBC from 1969 to 1971.

History

The main character was a small, grumpy wizard named Susanne who put a spell of melancholy on the kingdom of the Princess Dawn. The Princess and her friend Terry Dexter (a boy from the "real" world) searched for the Cave of the Whispering Orchids to find a crystal key to break the spell, while the Grump tried to stop them. In each episode the Grump flew a dragon named Dingo, chasing Terry and Princess Dawn. This led them to bizarre places with strange characters, such as the Blabbermouth of Echo Island, where the mountains were made of living Swiss cheese.

The Princess had a pet named Bip — a vaguely doglike creature with tentacular legs, that sniffed clues like a hound dog, turned around by pulling in its tail and head and popping them back out at opposite ends, and communicated in the sounds of a soprano bugle. In most episodes, the Princess and her friends traveled in a flying car supported by a big balloon.

A recurring gag was that at the very last minute when the Grump was about to catch up with Princess Dawn, the Dragon would sneeze and burn the little wizard.

The character of the Grump was based upon Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam is an American animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The name is somewhat alliterative and is inspired by Yosemite National Park...

, also created by Friz Freleng

Friz Freleng

Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....

. The Grump's Dragon was similar to Sam's in Knighty Knight Bugs

Knighty Knight Bugs

Knighty Knight Bugs is a 1958 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons and released by Warner Bros....

, right down to the fiery nasal explosions upon its master.

Broadcast

The series was broadcasted by NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 from September 6, 1969 to December 27, 1969. NBC continued to air reruns until December 28, 1970.

The series lasted one season and was rerun, the most recent the airing on the Sci-Fi Channel

Syfy

Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...

 in the mid 1990s. The complete series was released on DVD on January 31, 2006.

The series was called Ahi viene cascarrabias in Spanish and was in retransmitted into the 1980s by Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

. It was "Grump, o feiticeiro trapalhão" in Brazilian Portuguese and was in retransmitted until 1993 by Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

.

Episode guide

There were 17 episodes, each containing two ten-minute shorts, giving a total of 34 separate cartoons.

1. The Bloonywoonie Battle (First aired: 9/6/1969)
2. The Great Grump Crunch (First aired: 9/13/1969)
3. The Great Thorn Forest (First aired: 9/20/1969)
4. The Eenie Meenie Miner (First aired: 9/27/1969)
5. The Good Ghost Ship (First aired: 10/4/1969)
6. Grump Meets Peter Paintbrush (First aired: 10/11/1969)
7. The Lemonade Sea (First aired: 10/18/1969)
8. Beware Of Giants (First aired: 10/25/1969)
9. Joltin' Jack In Boxia (First aired: 11/1/1969)
10. Visit To A Ghost Town (First aired: 11/8/1969)
11. A Mess For King Midix (First aired: 11/15/1969)
12. The Shoes Of Shoe-Cago (First aired: 11/22/1969)
13. Witch Is Witch? (First aired: 11/29/1969)
14. The Yuks Of Gagville (First aired: 12/6/1969)
15. Toilin' Toolie Birds (First aired: 12/13/1969)
16. Grand Slam Of Door City (First aired: 12/20/1969)
17. Under The Pea Green Sea (First aired: 12/27/1969)
18. Sugar And Spite (First aired: 1/3/1970)
19. The Great Shampoo Of Snow White City (First aired: 1/10/1970)
20. The Grump Meets The Grough-Grooch (First aired: 1/17/1970)
21. The Wily Wheelies (First aired: 1/24/1970)
22. The Blabbermouth Of Echo Island (First aired: 1/31/1970)
23. With Malice In Blunderland (First aired: 2/7/1970)
24. Apachoo Choo Choo (First aired: 2/14/1970)
25. A Hitch In Time (First aired: 2/21/1970)
26. The Shaky Shutter Bugs (First aired: 2/28/1970)
27. Sno Land Like Snow Land (First aired: 3/7/1970)
28. Good Grief, Mother Goose (First aired: 3/14/1970)
29. The Bailed Up Bloonywoonies (First aired: 3/21/1970)
30. Cherub Land (First aired: 3/28/1970)
31. Meet The Blockheads (First aired: 4/4/1970)
32. Hoppy Go Lucky Hippetty Hoppies (First aired: 4/11/1970)
33. The Blunderful Flying Machine (First aired: 4/18/1970)
34. The Absent-Minded Wizard (First aired: 4/25/1970)

Voices

• Rip Taylor
  Rip Taylor
  Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor, Jr. is an American actor and comedian.-Early life:Taylor was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Elizabeth, a waitress, and Charles Elmer Taylor, Sr., a musician. As a young man, Taylor served in the Korean War while in the U.S...
  
   - The Grump
• Stefanianna Christopherson
  Indira Stefanianna
  Indira Stefanianna, born Indira Stefanianna Christopherson, and also credited as Indira Danks, Stefanianna Christopherson, and Indira Stefanianna, is an American singer and actress, of Icelandic heritage, who is perhaps best known for role as the original voice of Daphne Blake on Scooby-Doo, Where...
  
   - Princess Dawn
• Jay North
  Jay North
  Jay North is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of six, North became a household name during the early 1960s for his role as the well-meaning, but mischievous, Dennis Mitchell on the CBS situation comedy Dennis the Menace, based on the comic strip created...
  
   - Terry Dexter
• John Byner
• Bob Holt
• Marvin Miller
• Athena Lorde
• Larry D. Mann
• Howard Morris
• June Foray
• Lennie Weinreib
• Pat Harrington Jr
• Ted Cassidy
• Paul Frees
• Larry storch
• Hans Conried
• Daws Butler
• Mark Skor

Staff

• Direction: Gerry Chiniquy, Art Davis, George Gordon, Sid Marcus, Hawley Pratt, Grant Simmons
• Story Supervision: John W. Dunn
• Stories: Don Christensen, Nick George, Bill Lutz
• Layout: Pete Alvarado, Bob Givens, Herb Johnson, Jack Miller, Dick Ung, Don Sheppard, Martin Studler, Al Wilson
• Character Design: Art Leonardi
• Animation: Warren Batchelder, Robert Bentley
  Robert Bentley (animator)
  Robert Bentley was an animator. He is noted for his contribution to such animated cartoons as Star Trek: The Animated Series , Spider-Man and Max Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels .-1937:...
  
  , William Carney, Edward DeMattia, Xenia, John Gibbs, Manny Gould, Ed Love, Ed Rehberg, Manny Perez, Bob Richardson, Ed Solomon, Robert Taylor, Lloyd Vaughan, Don Williams
• Backgrounds: Richard Thomas, Mary O'Loughlin, Tom O'Loughlin
• Film Editing Supervised by Lee Gunther
• Film Editing: Allan Potter, Todd McKay, Lloyd Friedgen
• Music: Doug Goodwin
• Production Supervision: Jim Foss
• Prod. Coordinator: Harry Love
• Sound by Producers' Sound Service, Inc.
• Produced by David H. DePatie, Friz Freleng

External links

• DePatie-Freleng fansite