R.I.P. Gumby & Pokey

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/art_clokey_gumbys_creator_dies.html
LOS OSOS, Calif. -- Gumby animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation became a pop culture phenomenon through countless satires, toys and revivals, has died at age 89.

Caretaker Chrisanne Wollett Clokey says Clokey died Friday in Los Osos on California's Central Coast.

Clokey first molded Gumby for a surreal student project at the University of Southern California called "Gumbasia." That led to his making shorts for the "Howdy Doody Show" and several series through the years.

He said he based Gumby's swooping head on the hairdo of his father, who died when Clokey was nine.

Clokey also created the moralizing and often satirized claymation duo "Davey and Goliath."

Eddie Murphy brought a surge in Gumby's popularity in the 1980s with his send-up of the character on "Saturday Night Live" as a cigar-smoking primadonna.

Gumby IS a part of me...

Never much cared for Davey and Goliath...that Goliath was a bit too self righteous for me. This was an okay episode...

ok, I'll say it:

I'm Gumby damn it, I'll rip your heart out

Agent 13 wrote:

Never much cared for Davey and Goliath...that Goliath was a bit too self righteous for me.

Yeah. He was no Winky Dink.

i95 wrote:

Agent 13 wrote:

Never much cared for Davey and Goliath...that Goliath was a bit too self righteous for me.

Yeah. He was no Winky Dink.

Winky Dink was an douchelord.

He got me in trouble for drawing on the TV with a felt tip marker...craypas and crayons didn't work...I tried. How was I to know I needed to buy some lame ass "drawing kit" first? I was 6 fucking years old and messed up my dad's fancy schmancy black and white RCA. I was in trouble long time.

yikes

Agent 13 wrote:

Never much cared for Davey and Goliath...that Goliath was a bit too self righteous for me. This was an okay episode...

Wow. With special guest star, Claymation Michael Hoffman.