Friday, February 26, 2021

Tooniversary: Mumbly in Hyde & Seek (1976)

 One plot that often was used in cartoons was a riff on Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. We saw this with Sylvester & Tweety and Bugs Bunny at WB, for example.

At Hanna-Barbera, the classic novel was central to a season 1 plot of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, but the classic was parodied 7 years later in the series finale of Mumbly.

The canine detective (Don Messick) meets Dr. Seek (Messick again), with the predictable results.


In a way, this deviated from the Droopy-inspired format, but not by much.

Rating: B.

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