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Quick Draw McGraw - The Hanna-Barbera cartoon QUICK DRAW MCGRAW/SYN/1959-61 featured a bumbling, gun-totting New Mexico marshal in the guise of a horse named Quick Draw McGraw and his Mexican burro sidekick, Baba-Looey (a.k.a. "Baba Boy"). The cartoon's theme song describes Quick Draw as "the high-falootin'est, fast a-shootin'est cowboy you ever saw." Quick Draw got his name by being fast with a pencil when drawing mustaches on faces during his younger pony years.

Quick Draw battled such outlaws as Big Chief Little Runt, Bow-Wow Bandit, Horse Face Harry, Slippery Earl Slick, Sundown Sam, and a pirate named Walker de Plank. Quick Draw's  catchphrase is "I'll do the thin'in (thinking) around here," and "dooooon't you forget it!" His girlfriend is a cute little filly named Sagebrush Sal.

Quick Draw's hound dog Snuffles tracked down the bad guys only after Quick Draw gave him a doggie biscuit treat. When he ate the treat, Snuffles floated happily up in to the air and then slowly returned to the ground. 

Sugar Smack's Cereal Box
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Quick Draw's crime fighting alter-ego El Kabong!, a Zorro look-alike, subdued bad guys by hitting them on the head with a guitar ("Kabong!") 

Additional animated segments on the program included "Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy," a canine father  and son ("Dear Ol' Dad") and a cat and mouse detective team called "Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse."

Quick Draw McGraw Show Title Card


  THEME SONG LYRICS

Yippee yi-o ki-a, 
Galloping all the way 
Here comes Quick Draw McGraw. 

Yippee yi-o ki-a, 
Galloping all the way 
Great big star on his chest. 
Outdraws all of the rest. 
Fastest gun in the west. 

Yippee yi-o ki-a, 
Riding around your way, 
Here comes Quick Draw McGraw. 
The high-falutin'est, 
Fastest shootin'est, 
Cowboy you ever saw. 
That's Quick Draw McGraw.

TRIVIA NOTE:  At the end of each show the closing song lyrics ask "Hey, Babalooey, Are You Alright? to which Babalooey says "SOOright!" Baba Looey was named after Desi Arnaz's theme song "Baba Loo."

 
     
 
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