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").
Quick Draw got his name by being fast with a pencil when drawing
mustaches on faces during his younger pony years.
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!").
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.
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!")
Listen to
Theme Song
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.
Memorabilia
TRIVIA NOTE:
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.
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
"Babalu."
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