Their first cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot, features a cat named Jasper and an unnamed mouse (now known as Jinx). It was released to theaters in 1940 and served as the pilot for the long-running theatrical short subject series Tom and Jerry. Though the studio executives were unimpressed, audiences loved the film and it was nominated for an Academy Award.
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is the further adventures of Wacky Races characters of Penelope Pitstop and the Ant Hill Mob. In each episode, Penelope's guardian, Sylvester Sneekly, attempts to claim Penelope's inheritance for himself by attacking her in the disguise of his sinister alter-ego the Hooded Claw.
Penry transforms himself into Hong Kong Phooey by jumping into a filing cabinet. In so doing, he always gets stuck and is unstuck by his pet cat Spot. He then bounces off an old sofa, through an open window, into a dumpster outside, and emerges driving his "Phooeymobile," which can transform itself into a boat, a plane, or a telephone booth, as the need arises.
In Orbit City, all the homes and businesses are built on columns that allow buildings to be elevated into the sky.
The Flintstones, which debuted in 1960, was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons, which debuted in late 1989, eventually outlasted it.
Jabberjaw, a 15-foot air-breathing great white shark, is the drummer for The Neptunes, a rock group that also includes four teenagers--Biff, Shelly, Bubbles and Clamhead--who live in an underwater civilization in the year 2076. Jabberjaw and The Neptunes travel to various underwater cities where they encounter an assortment of megalomaniacs and supervillains who want to conquer the undersea world.
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines is commonly called Stop the Pigeon due to the fact that the show's theme song repeats the phrase "Stop the pigeon" seven times in a row.
In addition to his speed, which enables him to outrun bullets, Ricochet Rabbit uses trick bullets against criminals, including a bullet that stops in mid-flight and strikes the target with an impossibly oversized mallet.
He made his debut in October 1958 as a supporting character on The Huckleberry Hound Show, but Yogi became so popular, he was given his own show in 1960.
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