The hilarious Tim Conway was #botd in 1933
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The New Scooby-Doo Movies
S02E04 - The Spirit Spooked Sports Show (1973)
Hanna Barbera Productions
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Live Action 2: Funny Fellas Fightin
Son of Flubber v George of the Jungle 2 v The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Son of Flubber {original: The Absent Minded Professor (1961)}
Fred macmurray is daddy and Flubber is a great fun concept. Also, this could be considered Disney's very first sequel
George of the Jungle 2 {original- George of the Jungle (1997)}
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again {original- The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)}
Love Tim Conway and Don Knotts as bandits funny and cheerful to watch lots of laughs
Bandits join the cavalry
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If you’ve been watching closely, you may well have asked yourself...
…who is that dapper guest star, hangin’ out with the gang?
Why, it’s Tim Conway, a terrif–…
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…well, an unnerving rendition of a terrific comedian.
He sadly passed away fairly recently, but was one of the greatest physical comics to ever live... case in point:
(here’s a link starting right before the action, for those on a time budget)
Highly, highly recommend watching for a taste of Tim as more than just a guest voice... as well as breaking Harvey Korman in front of a live audience.
Again, and again, and again, just ‘cause he was that kind of guy.
Really, he fits remarkably well into the Scooby-Doo world...
...and I don’t mean normal Hanna-Barbera stuff, like vibrating walls with magic.
Of all the celebrities to get, those with real-world cartoony antics make sense...
...and judging by this reaction shot...
...Daphne’s totally into it.
Either that, or plotting his demise. Hard to tell.
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Cartoon Network Friday Spotlight: The New Scooby-Doo Movies- “The Spirit Spooked Sports Show”
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries is the second Scooby series to be made, airing just after Where Are You? and before The Scooby-Doo Show’s return to form, and it feels like a logical next part, containing similar aesthetics and the same musical cues that made the original series instantly iconic. Yet, these episodes aren’t quite as strong, stretching the formula into double length without adding much justification for the length besides to show off whichever special guest they could score that week. While we would get solid feature length Scooby stories even 15 years later, I don’t think Hanna-Barbera’s crew at the time were ready to make the characters fit into extended periods at this time.
Some episodes are more iconic than others, with the Batman and Harlem Globetrotters episodes widely available in individual videos before getting partly-complete DVD releases. It helps that Batman, Robin and the Globetrotters remain recognizable to this day, but a lot of actual celebrity appearances feel closer tied to their day, like Tim Conway here. While Scooby continues to draw kids in to this day, I don’t think there were many young fans of The Carol Burnett Show when stories like this were airing frequently on CN in the late 90′s and early 2000′s... but hey, prove me wrong! (I’d suspect that I have more fans of his Disney work with fellow Scooby guest star Don Knotts on here)
But anyway, onto the story. In this one, Velma has the gang drive to her old high school- which begs the question, how old are the Mystery Inc gang, and if they didn’t go to the same high school, how did they meet?- to view and participate in their upcoming sports expo. The problem is that the school is haunted by the ghost of the school’s most iconic athlete, who has scared away anyone who dares to take his place, and is threatening the closer of the school, as one of their biggest backers is planning to fall out if they can’t support one winning team.
Tim Conway factors in because he’s signed up as the school’s coach to gain real world experience for a movie and wow does this sound convoluted for a damn Scooby-Doo story. But because these are meddling kids, they insist on sticking around to help Mr. Conway and the school, but the ghost keeps coming around and messing with them.
It’s fun enough, but does feel bloated as a double length classic Scooby story that doesn’t need to be so long. Still, it’s fun to see Tim Conway match Scooby and Shaggy as the biggest coward on campus, and see the latter two become shockingly decent athletes. I also dig how old-timey the ghost looks, like a remnant of the gay 90′s. I believe you can get this and most of the other episodes in the recent almost full series release- IIRC, only the Addams Family episodes are missing.
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Sketch o'the Week- McHale's Navy!
Here’s another one for the “Sketch o’the Week” series “TV shows Tom watched after school as a kid”. This week we weigh anchor with a sketch of three of the main characters from “McHale’s Navy”, Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway and Joe Flynn!
This show was one that wasn’t in syndication as much as some others in my area, so I didn’t see it a lot. For a year or so it was on pretty regularly and I was…
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