Mumbly

Mumbly
Mumbly in "Taking Stock."
Species	Dog
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Chief Shnooker Dynomutt Really Rottens
Mother	Mrs. Mumbly
Other relative(s)	One cousin, Muttley
First appearance	TMCS: "Fleetfeet Versus Flat Foot" (1976)
Played by	Don Messick
Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special

Mumbly is an anthropomorphic dog and the main title character in The Mumbly Cartoon Show. He was voiced by Don Messick. He is modeled after Muttley, one of the main villains and a foil to Dick Dastardly from Wacky Races. As a result, the two are sometimes confused due to their similar appearance.

Mumbly would later appear in the Laff-A-Lympics TV series as the captain of the Really Rottens team.

Character description

Mumbly is an bipedal dog with blue, scruffy fur and a black tail. He is always seen wearing a bright orange trenchcoat. Like his progenitor Muttley, Mumbly is rather mischievous and likes to snicker at misfortune. He does not like to get humiliated and harshly yelled at, and would grumble when things do not go as planned.

In The Mumbly Cartoon Show, the detective canine dedicates himself in catching criminals using an array of skills. He works with the human Chief Schnooker, who assigns him on extravagant missions. He also drives in an old car that is always in the verge of breaking down.

In Laff-A-Lympics, he is the captain and member of the Really Rottens. Though he was a hero in his earlier cartoon, the character acted more or less like Muttley here. Working as a sidekick to Dread Baron (a derivative of Dastardly), he cheats by tricking the athletes of other teams and laying traps. In the end, the two are sore losers and would often fail on their backs in competitions.

Appearances

TV series

• The Mumbly Cartoon Show
  • 1.1 "Fleetfeet Versus Flat Foot"
  • 1.2 "The Great Hot Car Heist"
  • 1.3 "The Magical Madcap Caper"
  • 1.4 "The Big Breakout Bust"
  • 1.5 "The Return of Bing Bong"
  • 1.6 "The Super-Dooper Super Cop"
  • 1.7 "The Big Ox Bust"
  • 1.8 "The Great Graffiti Gambit"
  • 1.9 "Taking Stock"
  • 1.10 "The Littermugg"
  • 1.11 "The Perils of the Purple Baron"
  • 1.12 "The Fatbeard the Pirate Fracas"
  • 1.13 "The Big Snow Foot Snow Job"
  • 1.14 "Sherlock's Badder Brudder"
  • 1.15 "The UFO's A No-No"
  • 1.16 "Hyde and Seek"
• Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
  • 1.3 "The Great Brain... Train Robbery"
• Laff-A-Lympics
  • 1.1 "The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan"
  • 1.2 "Acapulco and England"
  • 1.3 "Florida and China"
  • 1.4 "The Sahara Desert and Scotland"
  • 1.5 "France and Australia"
  • 1.6 "Athens, Greece and the Ozarks"
  • 1.7 "Italy and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina"
  • 1.8 "Egypt and Sherwood Forest"
  • 1.9 "Spain and the Himalayas"
  • 1.10 "India and Israel"
  • 1.11 "Africa and San Francisco"
  • 1.12 "The Grand Canyon and Ireland"
  • 1.13 "Hawaii and Norway"
  • 1.14 "North Pole and Tahiti"
  • 1.15 "Arizona and Holland"
  • 1.16 "Quebec and Baghdad"
  • 2.1 "Russia and the Caribbean"
  • 2.2 "New York and Turkey"
  • 2.3 "South America and Transylvania"
  • 2.4 "French Riviera and New Zealand"
  • 2.5 "New Orleans and Atlantis"
  • 2.6 "Morocco and Washington D.C." (no lines)
  • 2.7 "Canada and Warsaw, Poland"
  • 2.8 "Siam and the Moon"
• Super Secret Secret Squirrel
  • 1.8 "Agent Penny" (no lines)
• Velma
  • 1.4 "Velma Makes the List" (mentioned)

Movies

• Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose

Comics

• Laff-A-Lympics
• Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
  • #1A "Jellystone Dark" (no lines)

Development

What led to Mumbly's exact creation originally is unknown, but it likely has to do with Hanna-Barbera not being able to use Dick Dastardly and Muttley, both of whom were co-owned by Heatter-Quigley at the time of its production. Due to this issue, Dread Baron and Mumbly were created as replacements and (quite possibly) are rehashes of them.

Apart from being "inspired" by Muttley, certain aspects of him (including his car and occupation) were based on Columbo, a homicide detective from the titular TV crime series played by Peter Falk.

Gallery

Main article: Mumbly/Gallery

In popular culture

• In the Robot Chicken skit "Laff-A-Munich" segment of the episode "Ban on the Fun", after getting tired of always losing (although the Really Rottens did manage to win in some episodes of the actual series), the Really Rottens take hostage the Yogi Yahooeys and murder them. However later, shortly after Dread Baron and Mumbly receive a call from Captain Caveman, a bomb goes off killing both of them.