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|mother= [[Ma McGraw]]
|mother= [[Ma McGraw]]
|kids= One son, [[Quick Draw Jr.]]
|kids= One son, [[Quick Draw Jr.]]
|siblings= One sister, [[Matilda McGraw]] in the comics
|siblings= One sister, [[Matilda McGraw]], in the comics
|first= [[Quick Draw McGraw (segments)|QDMG]]: "[[Lamb Chopped]]" ([[1959]])
|first= [[Quick Draw McGraw (segments)|QDMG]]: "[[Lamb Chopped]]" ([[1959]])
|actor= [[Daws Butler]] (1959-[[1988]])<br />[[Greg Burson]] ([[1989]]-[[2001]])<br />[[Maurice LaMarche]] (2001-[[2004]])<br />[[Bernardo de Paula]] ([[2021]])
|actor= [[Daws Butler]] (1959-[[1988]])<br />[[Greg Burson]] ([[1989]]-[[2001]])<br />[[Maurice LaMarche]] (2001-[[2004]])<br />[[Tom Kenny]] ([[2006]])<br />[[Bernardo de Paula]] ([[2021]])
|image2= [[File:El Kabong.png|300px]]
|image2= [[File:El Kabong.png|300px]]
|caption2= Quick Draw as El Kabong.
|caption2= Quick Draw as El Kabong.
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* ''[[The Yogi Bear Show]]''  
* ''[[The Yogi Bear Show]]''  
** 2.7 "[[Yogi's Birthday Party]]"
** 2.7 "[[Yogi's Birthday Party]]"
* ''[[Top Cat (TV series)|Top Cat]]''
** 1.8 "[[A Visit from Mother]]" (mentioned as El Kabong)
* ''[[Yogi's Gang (TV series)|Yogi's Gang]]''
* ''[[Yogi's Gang (TV series)|Yogi's Gang]]''
* ''[[Laff-A-Lympics (TV series)|Laff-A-Lympics]]''
* ''[[Laff-A-Lympics (TV series)|Laff-A-Lympics]]''
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* ''[[Yo, Yogi!]]''
* ''[[Yo, Yogi!]]''
** 1.11A "[[Yippee-Yo Yogi]]"
** 1.11A "[[Yippee-Yo Yogi]]"
* ''[[I Am Weasel]]''
** 2.7 "[[I Am My Lifetime]]" (no lines)
* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]''
* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]''
** 5.7 "[[Rio Ghosto]]" (no lines)
** 5.7 "[[Rio Ghosto]]" (no lines)
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** 4.6 "[[Juror in Court]]" (picture)
** 4.6 "[[Juror in Court]]" (picture)
** 4.7 "[[The Death of Harvey]]" (no lines)
** 4.7 "[[The Death of Harvey]]" (no lines)
* ''Class of 3000''
** 1.1 "Home" (as El Kabong)
* ''[[Wacky Races (2017 TV series)|Wacky Races]]''
* ''[[Wacky Races (2017 TV series)|Wacky Races]]''
** 2.9 "[[Much Ado About Wacky]]"
** 2.9 "[[Much Ado About Wacky]]"
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* ''[[The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound]]''
* ''[[The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound]]''
* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon]]'' (costume)
* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon]]'' (costume)
* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown]]'' (mentioned as El Kabong)


===Shorts===
===Shorts===
* Metlife's "Everyone" commercial (no lines)
* ''Cartoon Network Shorties''
* ''Cartoon Network Shorties''
** "City E-scape"
** "City E-scape"
* ''Cartoon Network Groovies''
* ''Cartoon Network Groovies''
** "El Kabong Rides Again" (no lines)
** "El Kabong Rides Again" (no lines)
* Metlife's "Everyone" commercial (no lines)


===Comics===
===Comics===
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==Biography==
==Biography==
===Here's comes Quick Draw McGraw!===
===Here's Comes Quick Draw McGraw!===
===Yogi's Birthday Party===
===Yogi's Birthday Party===
===Kellogg's Corn Flakes===
===Crossover Era===
===Crossover Era===
In the [[Top Cat (TV series)|Top Cat]] episode "A Visit From Mother", El Kabong is written in graffiti on the walls.
"El Kabong" is written in graffiti on the walls.<ref>''[[Top Cat (TV series)|Top Cat]]'': "[[A Visit from Mother]]," season 1, episode 8. ([[1961]])</ref>
 
====It's Yogi's Gang====
====It's Yogi's Gang====
====Yogi's Ark Lark====
====Yogi's Ark Lark====
====Laff-A-Lympics====
====Laff-A-Lympics====
====Yogi's First Christmas====
====First Christmas: Yogi Edition====
====First Christmas: Casper Edition====
====Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper====
====Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper====
====Casper's First Christmas====
====Yogi's Great Escape====
====Yogi's Great Escape====
====Yogi's Treasure Hunt====
====Yogi's Treasure Hunt====
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====Yo, Yogi!====
====Yo, Yogi!====
Quick Draw appears as a wild west performer in ''[[Yo, Yogi!]]''
Quick Draw appears as a wild west performer in [[Jellystone Township]].<ref>''[[Yo, Yogi!]]'': "[[Yipp-Yo, Yogi]]," season 1, episode 11A. ([[1991]]).</ref>


===I Am Weasel cameo===
===I Am Cameo===
An elderly Quick Draw lives at a retirement home for old cartoon stars in the ''[[I Am Weasel]]'' episode "[[I Am My Lifetime]]."
An elderly Quick Draw lives at the [[Old Cartoon Stars Retirement Home]].<ref>''[[I Am Weasel]]'': "[[I Am My Lifetime]]," season 2, episode 7. ([[1998]]).</ref>


===Harvey Birdman Represents===
===Harvey Birdman Represents===
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This death is later contradicted when he appears formally in "[[Guitar Control]]," when he is put under trial for using a "concealed weapon" (aka a guitar) as El Kabong while trying to stop some bad guys. He sounds like Charlton Heston.
This death is later contradicted when he appears formally in "[[Guitar Control]]," when he is put under trial for using a "concealed weapon" (aka a guitar) as El Kabong while trying to stop some bad guys. He sounds like Charlton Heston.


===Wacky Races (2017) cameo===
===Wacky Cameo===
Quick Draw makes a cameo in the ''[[Wacky Races (2017 TV series)|Wacky Races]]'' episode "[[Much Ado About Wacky]]," during the fight scene in the Macbeth play, [[Penelope Pitstop]] calls for a horse. Quick Draw appears and charges into battle shouting his famous line, "Hold on there, Baba Louis." This angers [[Snagglepuss (character)|Snagglepuss]], who is also cameoing in this episode, as Quick Draw is not even an actor.
Quick Draw makes a cameo in the ''[[Wacky Races (2017 TV series)|Wacky Races]]'' episode "[[Much Ado About Wacky]]," during the fight scene in the Macbeth play, [[Penelope Pitstop]] calls for a horse. Quick Draw appears and charges into battle shouting his famous line, "Hold on there, Baba Louis." This angers [[Snagglepuss (character)|Snagglepuss]], who is also cameoing in this episode, as Quick Draw is not even an actor.


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Quick Draw makes a cameo in the ''Samurai Jack'' episode "Couple on a Train." Baba Looey informs him that a fight is about to commence on the train. Quick Draw states that no one will be fighting on this train as long as the two of them were around. He is then shot in his hat, covering his eyes. He assumes that it's already time for bed due to how dark it is under his hat.
Quick Draw makes a cameo in the ''Samurai Jack'' episode "Couple on a Train." Baba Looey informs him that a fight is about to commence on the train. Quick Draw states that no one will be fighting on this train as long as the two of them were around. He is then shot in his hat, covering his eyes. He assumes that it's already time for bed due to how dark it is under his hat.


In "[[Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown]]" The font that Velma hates so much is called El Kabong.
In the first half of the ''Class of 3000'' two-parter series premiere, "Home," [[:File:El Kabong on Philly Phil's TV.png|Philly Phil makes it so El Kabong appears on the many cartoon stations]] (specifically the episode "[[Kabong Kabong's Kabong]]"), speaking in different languages as the channel is changed.


In the DTV ''[[Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown]]'', the font that [[Velma Dinkley|Velma]] hates so much is based on El Kabong's logo. How someone can get so hysterical over El Kabong's logo is anyone's guess.
===Kellogg's Corn Flakes===
===Quick Draw in the Funny Books===
===Quick Draw in the Funny Books===
====Marvel's Laff-A-Lympics====
====Marvel's Laff-A-Lympics====
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==Behind the scenes==
==Behind the scenes==
* According to a [[Heidi's Song Celebrates Hanna-Barbera's 25th Anniversary|1982 calendar]], he was born on [[November 21|November 21st]].
* According to a [[Heidi's Song Celebrates Hanna-Barbera's 25th Anniversary|1982 calendar]], he was born on [[November 21|November 21st]].
* The studio behind ''[[The Flintstones: On the Rocks]]'' were working on a Quick Draw McGraw special of the same vain as their last work, being allowed more creative freedom as Hanna-Barbera wasn't super protective of Quick Draw. However, the project was scrapped as the studio couldn't be bothered to finish the special. A full storyboard of the special exists but nothing has been found beyond that.
* The studio behind ''[[The Flintstones: On the Rocks]]'' was working on a Quick Draw McGraw special of the same vein as their last work, being allowed more creative freedom as Hanna-Barbera wasn't super protective of Quick Draw. However, the project was scrapped as the studio couldn't be bothered to finish the special. A full storyboard of the special exists but nothing has been found beyond that.
* Quick Draw, among the other canned Hanna Barbera characters, was planned for the film ''[[SCOOB!]]'' Early concept art [https://www.boombhuripun.com/scoob shows him chilling at Blue Falcon's sauna].
* Quick Draw, among the other canned Hanna Barbera characters, was planned for the film ''[[SCOOB!]]'' Early concept art [https://www.boombhuripun.com/scoob shows him chilling at Blue Falcon's sauna].
* Judging by [https://twitter.com/CareenIngle/status/1423024386227900418 this storyboard of a scrapped scene] from the ''Jellystone!'' episode "[[Grocery Store]]," Quick Draw had been planned to appear in the series but was changed to be just El Kabong mid production. The reason was made unclear.
* Judging by [https://twitter.com/CareenIngle/status/1423024386227900418 this storyboard of a scrapped scene] from the ''Jellystone!'' episode "[[Grocery Store]]," Quick Draw had been planned to appear in the series but was changed to be just El Kabong mid production. The reason was made unclear.
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* In an episode of ''The Brady Bunch'', Marcia Brady can be seen watching Quick Draw McGraw on the television.
* In an episode of ''The Brady Bunch'', Marcia Brady can be seen watching Quick Draw McGraw on the television.
* In the ''Saturday Night Live'' episode "Reese Witherspoon/Alicia Keys," the ''Celebrity Jeopardy!'' sketch has Reese Witherspoon play Anne Heche, who puts her résumé as the question in the final round, which includes the number of people she slept with, which includes Quick Draw.
* In the ''Saturday Night Live'' episode "Reese Witherspoon/Alicia Keys," the ''Celebrity Jeopardy!'' sketch has Reese Witherspoon play Anne Heche, who puts her résumé as the question in the final round, which includes the number of people she slept with, which includes Quick Draw.
* In the first half of the ''Class of 3000'' episode "Home," [[:File:El Kabong on Philly Phil's TV.png|Philly Phil makes it so El Kabong appears on the many cartoon stations]] (specifically the episode "[[Kabong Kabong's Kabong]]"), speaking in different languages as the channel is changed. The new lines are done by [[Tom Kenny]].
* In the ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' skit "Laff-A-Munich" segment of the episode "Ban on the Fun," while hearing in on the commotion of the [[Really Rottens]] killing the [[Yogi Yahooeys]], he attempts to escape from the window, but then decides to fight back by dressing as El Kabong, only for him to get shot to death by the [[Dread Baron]].
* In the ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' skit "Laff-A-Munich" segment of the episode "Ban on the Fun," while hearing in on the commotion of the [[Really Rottens]] killing the [[Yogi Yahooeys]], he attempts to escape from the window, but then decides to fight back by dressing as El Kabong, only for him to get shot to death by the [[Dread Baron]].
* In the ''Pointless'' game show, one of the questions was on which characters were from HB, in which Quick Draw was one of the characters listed.
* In the ''Pointless'' game show, one of the questions was on which characters were from HB, in which Quick Draw was one of the characters listed.
* In the ''South Park'' episode "Imaginationland Episode III," Quick Draw is on the good guys side fighting the bad imaginary characters in the final battle.
* In the ''South Park'' episode "Imaginationland Episode III," Quick Draw is on the good guys side fighting the bad imaginary characters in the final battle.
* In the ''Simpsons'' episode "Million Dollar Abie," El Kabong is seen among celebrity impersonators during the "Springfield Blows" musical section.
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Million Dollar Abie," El Kabong is seen among celebrity impersonators during the "Springfield Blows" musical section.
* In the 31st Treehouse of Horror segment "Into the Homer-verse" of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer-Barbera briefly turns into Quick Draw McGraw.
* In the 31st Treehouse of Horror segment "Into the Homer-verse" of ''The Simpsons'', Homer-Barbera briefly turns into Quick Draw McGraw.
* In Ecuador, there is a steakhouse named Tiro Loco, named after Quick Draw's Spanish name.
* In Ecuador, there is a steakhouse named Tiro Loco, named after Quick Draw's Spanish name.


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Revision as of 17:34, 27 February 2022

This article is about the character. For other uses, see Quick Draw McGraw.
Quick Draw McGraw
Quick Draw McGraw (character).png
Quick Draw in "Dynamite Fright."
Species Horse
Gender Male
Affiliation Baba Looey
Snuffles
Yogi's Gang
Yogi Yahooeys
Father Not mentioned
Mother Ma McGraw
Sibling(s) One sister, Matilda McGraw, in the comics
Children One son, Quick Draw Jr.
First appearance QDMG: "Lamb Chopped" (1959)
Played by Daws Butler (1959-1988)
Greg Burson (1989-2001)
Maurice LaMarche (2001-2004)
Tom Kenny (2006)
Bernardo de Paula (2021)
El Kabong.png
Quick Draw as El Kabong.
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Wacky Races
DC Quick Draw.png
Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
JS El Kabong.png
Jellystone!

Quick Draw McGraw, also known as El Kabong, is an anthropomorphic horse and the main title character in the Quick Draw McGraw shorts. His voice was originated by Daws Butler.

In the recent Jellystone! reboot, Quick Draw, only as El Kabong, works as a teacher and crime fighter. He is also Latino, speaking with a Spanish accent.

Character description

Appearances

TV series

Specials

Movies

Shorts

  • Cartoon Network Shorties
    • "City E-scape"
  • Cartoon Network Groovies
    • "El Kabong Rides Again" (no lines)
  • Metlife's "Everyone" commercial (no lines)

Comics

Video games

Biography

Here's Comes Quick Draw McGraw!

Yogi's Birthday Party

Crossover Era

"El Kabong" is written in graffiti on the walls.[1]

It's Yogi's Gang

Yogi's Ark Lark

Laff-A-Lympics

First Christmas: Yogi Edition

First Christmas: Casper Edition

Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper

Yogi's Great Escape

Yogi's Treasure Hunt

The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound

Celebrating another 50 years! 50 years of fun!

Quick Draw appears in Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration.

Yo, Yogi!

Quick Draw appears as a wild west performer in Jellystone Township.[2]

I Am Cameo

An elderly Quick Draw lives at the Old Cartoon Stars Retirement Home.[3]

Harvey Birdman Represents

In "The Dabba Don," he's one of the severed heads delivered to Harvey by Fred Flintstone.

This death is later contradicted when he appears formally in "Guitar Control," when he is put under trial for using a "concealed weapon" (aka a guitar) as El Kabong while trying to stop some bad guys. He sounds like Charlton Heston.

Wacky Cameo

Quick Draw makes a cameo in the Wacky Races episode "Much Ado About Wacky," during the fight scene in the Macbeth play, Penelope Pitstop calls for a horse. Quick Draw appears and charges into battle shouting his famous line, "Hold on there, Baba Louis." This angers Snagglepuss, who is also cameoing in this episode, as Quick Draw is not even an actor.

Everyone's Back in Jellystone!

In "El Kabong's Kabong is Gone," the Banana Splits break Susan, El Kabong's guitar, preventing him from stopping their crimes.

Quick Draw and Baba on Samurai Jack's train.

Quick Draw Sells Out

Quick Draw makes a cameo in the Samurai Jack episode "Couple on a Train." Baba Looey informs him that a fight is about to commence on the train. Quick Draw states that no one will be fighting on this train as long as the two of them were around. He is then shot in his hat, covering his eyes. He assumes that it's already time for bed due to how dark it is under his hat.

In the first half of the Class of 3000 two-parter series premiere, "Home," Philly Phil makes it so El Kabong appears on the many cartoon stations (specifically the episode "Kabong Kabong's Kabong"), speaking in different languages as the channel is changed.

In the DTV Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown, the font that Velma hates so much is based on El Kabong's logo. How someone can get so hysterical over El Kabong's logo is anyone's guess.

Kellogg's Corn Flakes

Quick Draw in the Funny Books

Marvel's Laff-A-Lympics

Flintstones visit New York World's Fair

Scooby-Doo teams up with Quick Draw

In Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #23, in the story "Go West, You Meddling Kids," Quick Draw (as El Kabong) teams up with Mystery Inc. to take down the Fastest Ghost in the West, who turns out to be Ricochet Rabbit.

The Not So Funny Books

In the Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special, he's one of the animals captured at the end of the issue.

In Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Quick Draw is a closeted police officer who is involved with the raiding of Stonewall. After losing his job after being caught with another man and losing his lover Huckleberry Hound to suicide, he becomes a cartoon artist and offers Snagglepuss a job at his animation studio.

Development

Gallery

Main article: Quick Draw McGraw (character)/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Main article: Quick Draw McGraw (character)/Toys

Behind the scenes

  • According to a 1982 calendar, he was born on November 21st.
  • The studio behind The Flintstones: On the Rocks was working on a Quick Draw McGraw special of the same vein as their last work, being allowed more creative freedom as Hanna-Barbera wasn't super protective of Quick Draw. However, the project was scrapped as the studio couldn't be bothered to finish the special. A full storyboard of the special exists but nothing has been found beyond that.
  • Quick Draw, among the other canned Hanna Barbera characters, was planned for the film SCOOB! Early concept art shows him chilling at Blue Falcon's sauna.
  • Judging by this storyboard of a scrapped scene from the Jellystone! episode "Grocery Store," Quick Draw had been planned to appear in the series but was changed to be just El Kabong mid production. The reason was made unclear.
  • In the Spanish dub of Quick Draw McGraw, Quick Draw was renamed to Tiro Loco McGraw and speaks in a very American influenced accent. El Kabong in the dub is El Cabazorro, or the Zorro Horse.
    • Similarly, in the Brazilian bub, Quick Draw is renamed Pepe Legal and speaks in drawn out Portuguese.
    • For Jellystone!, El Cabazorro dons a Spanish Accent.

In popular culture

  • In an episode of The Brady Bunch, Marcia Brady can be seen watching Quick Draw McGraw on the television.
  • In the Saturday Night Live episode "Reese Witherspoon/Alicia Keys," the Celebrity Jeopardy! sketch has Reese Witherspoon play Anne Heche, who puts her résumé as the question in the final round, which includes the number of people she slept with, which includes Quick Draw.
  • In the Robot Chicken skit "Laff-A-Munich" segment of the episode "Ban on the Fun," while hearing in on the commotion of the Really Rottens killing the Yogi Yahooeys, he attempts to escape from the window, but then decides to fight back by dressing as El Kabong, only for him to get shot to death by the Dread Baron.
  • In the Pointless game show, one of the questions was on which characters were from HB, in which Quick Draw was one of the characters listed.
  • In the South Park episode "Imaginationland Episode III," Quick Draw is on the good guys side fighting the bad imaginary characters in the final battle.
  • In The Simpsons episode "Million Dollar Abie," El Kabong is seen among celebrity impersonators during the "Springfield Blows" musical section.
  • In the 31st Treehouse of Horror segment "Into the Homer-verse" of The Simpsons, Homer-Barbera briefly turns into Quick Draw McGraw.
  • In Ecuador, there is a steakhouse named Tiro Loco, named after Quick Draw's Spanish name.

References

  1. ^ Top Cat: "A Visit from Mother," season 1, episode 8. (1961)
  2. ^ Yo, Yogi!: "Yipp-Yo, Yogi," season 1, episode 11A. (1991).
  3. ^ I Am Weasel: "I Am My Lifetime," season 2, episode 7. (1998).
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