All right, so Wikipedia brought me to this article about The Oddball Couple …
It’s a mid-70s DePatie-Freleng cartoon …
It’s a Saturday Morning Cartoon version of The Odd Couple …
The Oscar character is a dog named Fleabag. He’s voiced by Dick Dastardly actor, ventriloquist, and artificial-heart pioneer Paul Winchell …
The Felix character is voiced by … yyyyyyyyyyes, it says Frank Nelson.
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Did I make this up and slip it into Wikipedia as a gag and then forget?
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While on the topic of Frank Nelson….I know Jack Benny had many running jokes, but was one of them having a troop(?) of penguins waddle across the stage? Reason I ask is I just watched two of his NBC specials and they both had a spot with a group of penguins waddling by Jack at one point.
I just didn’t remember that as one of his bits.
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I don’t remember penguins specifically. But there was a running thread in the late-30s/early-40s about Jack Benny having his private zoo. I think that joke pretty much whittled down to Carmichael the Polar Bear, whom Rochester wanted even less to do with. Possibly it’s a riff on that, with penguins being way easier to deal with on-camera than polar bears could be?
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Kudos to you,Professor,this opening credits sequence you made is very convincing although I gotta admit I recognize the Spike Jones effects record you used in the background. I’m almost ready to believe that “That Girl” cartoon was legit. When you prank Wikipedia you go full throttle!
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Boy, can you imagine what I’d be like if I could ever put these bursts of energy to a useful purpose? Insufferable, is what I would be.
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One more question if I may…is the cow/bull in the special extended director’s cut of this commercial Frank Nelson or J. Nebus doing his famous Frank Nelson imitation?
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Sounds much more like Frank Nelson to me. I’m afraid my own voice sounds more like I seem to be getting my lines wrong, but you can’t pin down just what is off about it.
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Never noticed until someone pointed it out to me…but ‘smart owl licks’ is a pun of ‘smart alacks’ Wonder if it was intentional.
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Seems like a plausible pun, sure. Um … Is this something from The Oddball Couple? I haven’t actually seen any of the show because I’m a little afraid that you or I or someone we know made it up and slipped it in as a prank and I don’t want to know how much work we put in to faking it.
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You no longer need doubt Frank Nelson’s involvement with “The Odd ball Couple”! The FB group TV CARTOONS THAT TIME FORGOT just did a post on the show, as well as posts (pun intended)on Linus the Lionhearted which had both a raccoon and kangaroo character.
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This is interesting stuff to know! But I admit that even having seen episodes of The Oddball Couple I can’t believe it’s real. To have other people reporting on it … well, you’ve heard the phrase ‘an orgy of evidence’, I’m sure.
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