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28-496: The Peter Potamus Show is divided into three segments: Peter Potamus and So-So , Breezly and Sneezly and Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey . Peter Potamus was broadcast as a companion series to The Magilla Gorilla Show . Both series premiered in first-run syndication before being picked up by ABC in January 1966. Peter Potamus ran on Sunday mornings and The Magilla Gorilla Show went to Saturday mornings before moving to Sundays

56-566: A four-year-old boy who was drafted into the Army. Beginning in 1962, Morris played a variety of voices in many Hanna-Barbera series including The Jetsons as Jet Screamer who sang the "Eep opp ork ah ah!" song, (said to be Morris' first work for Hanna-Barbera) and The Flintstones . He was the original voice of Atom Ant and provided the voice of Mr. Peebles in The Magilla Gorilla Show , teaming up again with Allan Melvin who performed

84-517: A new career in voice directing. Among the projects he directed are Police Academy , Richie Rich , Bionic Six , Goin' Coconuts , Pole Position , Galaxy High , The Snorks , The Mighty Orbots , Rose Petal Place , The Dogfather , Dragon's Lair , Tom and Jerry: The Movie , Turbo Teen , Little Clowns of Happytown , Space Stars , and Kidd Video . Morris directed some episodes of The Andy Griffith Show , Gomer Pyle , Hogan's Heroes , The Dick Van Dyke Show ,

112-480: Is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com. Breezly and Sneezly Breezly and Sneezly is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon series first broadcast on September 16, 1964, as part of The Peter Potamus Show . From 1964 to 1966, 23 episodes were produced, 14 of which were aired on Peter Potamus with the remaining nine aired on The Magilla Gorilla Show . Breezly Bruin (voiced by Howard Morris )

140-622: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Howard Morris Howard Jerome Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American actor, comedian, and director. He was best known for his role in The Andy Griffith Show as Ernest T. Bass , and as "Uncle Goopy" in a celebrated comedy sketch on Sid Caesar 's Your Show of Shows (1954). He did voices for television shows such as The Flintstones (1962–1965), The Jetsons (1962–1987), The Atom Ant Show (1965–1966), and Garfield and Friends (1988–1994). Morris

168-468: Is a comical, resourceful, polar bear , much like Yogi Bear himself. His friend is Sneezly Seal (voiced by Mel Blanc ), a droopy green seal with a perpetual cold whose sneezes pack devastating power. They live in an igloo in the Arctic. Many of their episodes deal with Breezly's ambitious yet ultimately doomed plans to break into the local army camp for various reasons while trying to stay one step ahead of

196-464: Is actually upstaged here by his second second banana (that is, after Reiner): Howard Morris, who plays Duncey’s long-lost Uncle Goopy, who, overcome with emotion, repeatedly clings to and slobbers over his favorite nephew. Shamelessly milking the moment, Morris throws in all sorts of extra embraces, even clinging to his leg as a lumbering Caesar drags him to the couch. It was a dangerous thing to do, but evidently Morris felt he could do it. This opinion

224-703: Is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Vol. 1 . The episode Wagon Train Strain is available on the Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's Vol. 2 set. The episode Cleo Trio is on the Hanna Barbera 25 Cartoon Collection DVD, part of The Best of Warner Bros. series. On November 1, 2016, Warner Archive released The Peter Potamus Show- The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection . This

252-759: The koala in TV commercials for Qantas from 1967 through 1992 (saying the tagline, "I hate Qantas"), and voiced " Gopher " in the Disney featurettes Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day . Also in 1989, he voiced a French gangster cat named Monte De Zar (Fat Cat's Cousin) in an episode of Disney's Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode "Le Purrfect Crime". While Morris continued to make himself available for voice and sound effect roles, he also began

280-460: The 1998 movie of Ray Bradbury 's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit . He appeared on "The Love Boat" (S8 E13) as "has been" comedian Billy Banks in a Christmas-themed vignette "Santa, Santa, Santa" which aired on 12/15/1984. In 1986, he reprised his famous role as Ernest T. Bass in the highly-rated television movie Return to Mayberry . In 1989, he guest starred on Murder, She Wrote . From 1997 to 1999, he voiced Flem on Cow and Chicken . Morris

308-445: The 4:14 mark. He also appeared twice in 1957 in episodes of the short-lived NBC comedy/ variety show The Polly Bergen Show . He notably played the wily and over-the-top mountain man character Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show . Also, he played George, the TV mechanic in the episode, "Andy and Helen Have Their Day." (He had lampooned southern accents while in the army at Fort Bragg , North Carolina.) He starred in one of

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336-660: The Lion ) and his diminutive sidekick So-So the monkey (voiced by Don Messick ). Peter is big, purple, and friendly, dressed in a safari jacket and hat. Episodes generally consist of Peter and So-So exploring the world in his hot air balloon , which has a gondola shaped like a boat and is capable of time travel at the spin of a dial. When faced with a precarious situation, Peter uses his Hippo Hurricane Howler to blow away his opponents. A polar bear named Breezly Bruin (voiced by Howard Morris ) and his friend Sneezly Seal (voiced by Mel Blanc ) use various schemes to break into an army camp in

364-598: The animated series Galaxy High . He voiced Mayor McCheese and later the Hamburglar (taking over for Larry Storch in 1986) in McDonaldland ad campaign for McDonald's , which Morris also directed. He provided the voice of Wade Duck in the U.S. Acres segments of Garfield and Friends , and voiced Webbly in Bobby's World and Flem in Cow & Chicken . Morris supplied the voice of

392-607: The army camp's leader Colonel Fuzzby (voiced by John Stephenson ). The episode "All Riot On The Northern Front" is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's vol. 1. Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's vol. 2 has the episode "Missile Fizzle". Breezly and Sneezly segments are on the MOD release of the complete Peter Potamus Series . This Hanna-Barbera -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an animated character

420-559: The black and white pilot episode of Get Smart and later, episodes of One Day at a Time , Bewitched , and single episodes of many other comedy shows. He directed Doris Day in her final film, With Six You Get Eggroll (1968). Other films he directed were Don't Drink the Water (1969) and Who's Minding the Mint? (1967). Mel Brooks occasionally cast Morris in his films. For example, he played Brooks' mentor psychiatrist Dr. Lilloman in

448-643: The comedy High Anxiety (1977), the emperor's court spokesman ("Here, wash this!") in History of the World, Part I (1981), and played a bum named Sailor living in the streets in Life Stinks (1991). In 1984, he played Dr. Zidell in Splash , a film directed by Ron Howard (the two had first worked together on The Andy Griffith Show ). He worked with his old friend and trouping partner Sid Caesar as nervous Jewish tailors in

476-506: The following year. At that time, the Breezly and Sneezly segment was swapped with Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long , a segment on The Magilla Gorilla Show . After the ABC run ended in 1967, cartoons from Magilla Gorilla and Peter Potamus shows were syndicated together. The Ideal Toy Company sponsored the television series, and during the original run of the cartoon, the theme song ended with

504-567: The frozen north, while trying to stay one step ahead of the camp's leader Colonel Fuzzby (voiced by John Stephenson ). Three dogs named Yippee (voiced by Doug Young ), Yappee (voiced by Hal Smith ), and Yahooey (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Jerry Lewis ) aka The Goofy Guards, work for the King (voiced by Hal Smith ), a short, complaining ruler who is often on the receiving end of their antics. The trio's plumed hats and swords are reminiscent of The Three Musketeers . The episode Fe Fi Fo Fun

532-507: The leprechaun opposite Bobby Howes as Finian. He played the role of Schmidlap in Way... Way Out and appeared in the movie, Boys' Night Out (1962). Morris was first heard in animated cartoons in the early 1960s. He and Allan Melvin teamed up for a 50-episode King Features Syndicate series, Beetle Bailey , for which he and Melvin co-wrote a number of episodes. He provided the voices for Gene Deitch 's Academy Award-winning Munro , about

560-462: The more comical early hour-long Twilight Zone episodes, " I Dream of Genie ." Other roles included that of Elmer Kelp in The Nutty Professor , a movie studio clerk in the short film Star Spangled Salesman , and an art appraiser in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show . He also appeared in several Broadway shows including the highly regarded 1960 revival of Finian's Rainbow as Og

588-656: The phrase: "And there he goes Peter Potamus, our ideal". A similarly subtle sponsor reference appeared in the Magilla Gorilla theme song lyrics: "He's really ideal". Early promotional materials for the series carried the title Peter Potamus and His Magic Flying Balloon , but that title never appeared on screen. The original Peter Potamus series was broadcast on the cable TV channel Boomerang , often as part of its anthology series Boomerang Zoo . The main segment features Peter Potamus (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Joe E. Brown ; Butler uses an identical voice for Lippy

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616-576: The unit. Based in Honolulu , the unit entertained American troops throughout the Pacific. He came to prominence in appearances on Sid Caesar 's Your Show of Shows (a live sketch comedy series appearing weekly in the United States, from 1950 to 1954). In April 1954, Morris joined Caesar and Carl Reiner in "This Is Your Story," an 11-minute takeoff on Ralph Edwards's This Is Your Life . Morris claimed it

644-460: The voice for Magilla . In another series, Morris was heard as the voice of Breezly Bruin which was similar in tone with the Bill Scott vocalization of Bullwinkle . Morris had a disagreement with Joseph Barbera prior to production of the 1966–1967 season of Magilla Gorilla and Atom Ant and all of his voices were recast, mostly using Don Messick . Years later, the two men reconciled and Morris

672-502: Was back doing those voices and others. He also lent his voice to Forsythe "Jughead" Jones on Filmation's series The Archies through the life of the franchise, 1968–1977. Moreover, he was the voice of Leonard Blush, "The Masked Singer" - he had a skin condition - as well as the regular voice of the Mount Pilot radio station's host on The Andy Griffith Show . Morris also voiced the characters Professor Icenstein and Luigi La Bounci in

700-550: Was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York , the son of Hugo and Elsie (née Theobald) Morris. His father was a rubber company executive. Morris attended New York University on a dramatic arts scholarship. During World War II , he was assigned to a United States Army Special Services unit where he was the First Sergeant . Maurice Evans was the company commander and Carl Reiner and Werner Klemperer were soldiers in

728-458: Was his favorite sketch role. As The New Yorker ' s David Margolick wrote in 2014, Though the competition is stiff, many feel that this sketch is the funniest that “Your Show of Shows” ever did . . . . That night nearly sixty years ago, the show produced what is probably the longest and loudest burst of laughter—genuine laughter, neither piped in nor prompted—in the history of television. Never afraid to have talented people around him, Caesar

756-401: Was married and divorced five times. He was first married to Mary Helen McGowan from 1945 to 1962. He married his second wife, Dolores A. Wylie, later in 1962; the marriage lasted until 1977 when they divorced. He had three daughters and a son, along with three grandchildren. On May 21, 2005, Morris died of congestive heart failure , at the age of 85. At his funeral, the "Uncle Goopy" sketch

784-400: Was shared by The New York Times and Hollywood.com, among others. Conan O'Brien tweeted in 2014, "Saw this Sid Caesar sketch when I was a kid. It made me want to make people laugh." Billy Crystal later called it a defining early influence: "That's how I used to go to bed. I'd grab my dad's leg, and he'd drag me to bed like Sid Caesar." The sketch can be viewed here , Morris enters at

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