#Creepella Gruesome

[demidevilqueen]

Recently discovered the Flintstones had a spooky goth family living next door. I think Creepella is neat :3

[clambanana]

Ah yeas, some fanart of Creepella Gruesome, another character that everybody remembers.

[thegrazing-design]

Vitamin G

[terryblas]

I love #creepella from the #gruesomes but I wanted to glam her up a bit for #Halloween ! #flintstones

[helioscopepdx]

.@terryblas writes: I love #creepella from the #gruesomes but I wanted to glam her up a bit for #Halloween ! #flintstones

[mask131]

Creepy Family History: Hannah-Barbera (plus bonus)

Remember when I mentioned that the Hannah-Barbera studios liked a lot the Addams Family? Including them in their Scooby-Doo cartoon, and adapting them into two different cartoon series in the 70s and 90s?

Well, the studios obsession with the Addams dated back to a long time, before even the sitcom. Hannah-Barbera had created their own inspired-by/rip-off “creepy family”, clearly influenced by the cartoons of Chas Addams.

 They were the J. Evil Scientist family. First appearing in 1959 in an episode of Snooper and Blabber, they continued appearing in other Snooper and Blabber cartoons, and also appeared in 1961 in a Snagglepuss cartoon. Contrary to the Addams family, the Evil Scientist family was much smaller. Green-skinned, gothic evil (but affable) scientists living in a cobweb-filled old manor, the father (J. or Boris) was a small, ugly man ; the wife (Goonda) a tall and creepily elegant woman (smoking with a cigarette holder, wearing a black Morticia-like dress in Snopper and Blabber, a red one in Snagglepuss) ; and for a child there is only one progeny, the small and childish if not babyish Junior, a playful son in frequent need of babysitting. Creepy and spooky, the visitors of the Evil Scientists usually had to deal with the trouble caused by their strange experiments and toxic products (Snagglepuss for example had to fight a mouse turned giant by the concoctions brewed by the family). The Evil Scientists even got their own comic book series (a set of comic released for Halloween, and originally appearing in the Hannah-Barbera Bandwagon, from 63 to 66).

 Hannah-Barbera was known to rip-off other television series and cartoons, but they also ripped off themselves. Such as the case with the Evil Scientists family, that was so popular several variations of them reappeared throughout the studios history.

In “The Flintstones”, a reinvented version with slightly different designs of the Evil Scientists appeared as the creepy neighbors of the Flintstones. Called the Gruesomes (Weirdly the father, Creepella the mother, Goblin “Gobby” the son), they were a Stone Age version of the Evil Scientists, with a stronger influence from the Addams Family (for example the Gruesomes had an uncle, Uncle Ghastly, only appearing as a giant furry hand coming out of cave walls, and unusual pets, Occy the octopus and Schneider the giant spider).

The Gruesomes later reappeared, with slightly different designs and an entirely different name (The Creepleys) in “Laff-A-Lympics”. Their last appearance so to speak was in an episode of “A Pup Named Scooby-doo”, in the episode Snow Place Like Home. The gang goes to a snow resort haunted by an ice ghost, and the creepy owners of the station are basically slightly more realistic depictions of the Evil Scientists (though still unsettling, for example they keep their green skin). Spooky and suspicious-looking, this iteration of the family (here a couple named “Morganson” and childless) ultimately turns out to be good guys, whose business is being killed by the so-called “ice ghost”.

  While not an Hannah-Barbera production, I also wish to mention that the famous cartoon “The Real Ghostbusters” also did their own take on the creepy family, as an obvious reference and parody to both The Addams and The Munsters. In the episode “Loathe Thy Neighbor”, the Ghostbusters are called to the spooky and decaying manor of the Micawb family for strange hauntings – however as it turns out the Micawbs as just as creepy and weird as many of the spirits and ghosts the Ghostbusters had to face, and the “haunting” that plagues their house is the result of one of the “games” of their son, who accidentally released an eldritch Lovecraftian abomination in the cellar. The Micawbs take from the Addams (the parents, Bello and Lucretia, are parodies of Gomez and Morticia, they have a grotesque hunchbacked butler named Creegor, and a whole host of grotesque, freakish and monstrous relatives coming at the end for a family reunion) but are also based on The Munsters – their son Thaddeus is a young crazy scientist who built his own pet, the dog Patchwork, while their daughter Lydia is a perfectly normal-looking and even beautiful blond girl, just like Marilyn Munster).

[geekbroll]

Wacky Races S02E14 The Trial of Dick Dastardly - Boomerang November 29, 2018 After Dastardly's cheating goes too far, he is banished from the Wacky Races by the creators of the original show. His friends do their best to defend him before a jury of the worst cartoon villains ever. MAIN CAST RACERS: Penelope Pitstop, Peter Perfect, I.Q. Ickly, Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Tiny, Bella OTHER CAST: Brick Crashman (several times, no speaking), Bud and Jay (creators of Wacky Races) Alternate Versions: classic versions of the cast, various versions of Dastardly and Muttley RACE/CONTEST: The Trial of Dick Dastardly NOTE: This episode is super-packed with classic Hanna Barbera cameos. NOTE: Dastardly and Muttley pull a Wile E. Coyote painting in the dessert gag. NOTE: Penelope Pitstop finds out that Sylvester Sneekly is The Hooded Claw. Hanna Barbera Cameos: Space Ghost, Hong Kong Phooey, Jabberjaw and the Neptunes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Secret Squirrel, Huckleberry Hound, Scrappy Doo,Yankee Doodle Pigeon, The Slag Brothers, Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly, Snagglepuss, Peter Potamus, Great Fondoo, Orful Octopus, Creepella Gruesome/Mrs. Creepley, Dinky Dalton, Dirty Dalton, Dastardly Dalton, Pinky Dalton, The Raven, The Gimmick, Magic Rabbit, Mr. Jinks, Hooded Claw/Sylvester Sneekly, Michael Maltese (Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Hanna Barbera writer), Jellystone Park, Jetsons city, Bedrock.   #wackyraces #wackyraces2017 #marsneedsracers #hannabarbera #spaceghost #jabberjaw #jetsons #thejetsons #laffalympics #cartoonresearch #cartoons #cartooncharacters #boomerangapp #boomerangstreamingservice #penelopepitstop #dickdastardly #muttley #gruesometwosome #peterperfect #brickcrashman #bedrock #jellystone #michaelmaltese #hoodedclaw #sylvestersneekly #thedaltonboys #secretsquirrel #scrappydoo (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx_xkI-BHpV/?igshid=818zg8o0ix09