Sea Grunt

"Sea Grunt" is the sixth episode of Squiddly Diddly season one, and came as a segment of The Secret Squirrel Show. It aired on November 6, 1965 on NBC. It was written by Tony Benedict and Dalton Sandifer, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Squiddly gets cast in a TV show filming at Bubbleland.

Memorable quotes
Squiddly: ♫ Oh, give me a home, where the octopi roam, and the whales and the manta rays play! ♫

Director: Say, you're a for-real octopus! Squiddly: Well, I'm not an aardvark.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Squiddly Diddly
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Paul Frees
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Chief Winchley
 * style="background-color:#clear"| John Stephenson
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Chief Winchley
 * style="background-color:#clear"| John Stephenson

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Bubbleland

Music

 * 0:00 - Main title theme (Ted Nichols)

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: November 6, 1965 on NBC

Behind the scenes

 * Sea Grunt is a parody of the old show Sea Hunt.
 * Floyd Bridges is a parody of actor Lloyd Bridges.
 * Squiddly sings a parody of "Home on the Range."

Everlasting influence

 * Floyd Bridges is mentioned in "Squid on the Skids."

Home availability

 * In the United Kingdom:
 * June 10, 1985: The Video Collection releases Squiddly Diddly on VHS.
 * November 3, 1986: The Video Collection releases Squiddly Diddly on VHS.
 * In the United States:
 * November 3, 2015: Warner Archive Collection releases The Secret Squirrel Show: The Complete Series on DVD.