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#34422. fatguy
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There was a cartoon years ago called 'Tennessee Tuxedo.' Does anyone remember his friends, or is there a website?
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Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales was a popular, semi-educational animated cartoon show that originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966. It was produced by Total Television, the same company that produced the earlier King Leonardo and the later Underdog.
It revolved around the title character, a penguin (voiced by Don Adams of Get Smart fame, who would voice Inspector Gadget twenty years later) and his best friend Chumley (voiced by Bradley Bolke), a walrus (loosely based on Lenny of Of Mice and Men). The pair lived (not always willingly) at the Megapolis zoo, under the control of the ill-tempered zookeeper, Stanley Livingston (sic) (an obvious pun on the missionary David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley).
At the zoo, Tennessee and Chumley had many friends to help them out, such as Yakkety Yak, Baldy the eagle, Alfonse the giraffe, Peanuts the elephant, the Gopher brothers, and the Beaver brothers. But they also had a big rival, in the form of Jereboah Jump, the kangaroo rat. They were also constantly bedeviled by Rocky Maninoff (an obvious pun on the composer and musician Sergei Rachmaninoff), a gangster with a Humphrey Bogart-like voice who always called them "dum-dums" and ordered them to do his will at the point of his machine gun.
Tennessee and Chumley regularly escaped from the zoo, only to find trouble in the outside world. When faced with more trouble than they could bear, the pair would turn to their friend, a college professor named Phineas J. Whoopee (voiced by Larry Storch, later seen on F Troop). "Mr. Whoopee", as he was known, was extremely knowledgeable on all subjects, and would frequently lecture the pair...
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Tuxedo_and_His_Tales
Oct 11 07, 10:08 PM
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