Quick Draw McGraw (character)

This article is about the character. For other uses, see Quick Draw McGraw.

Quick Draw McGraw
Quick Draw in "Dynamite Fright".
Species	Horse
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Baba Looey Snuffles Yogi's Gang Yogi Yahooeys
Father	Not mentioned
Mother	Ma McGraw
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) Bernardo de Paula (2021)
Quick Draw as El Kabong.
Quick Draw McGraw
Wacky Races
Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
Jellystone!

Quick Draw McGraw is an anthropomorphic horse and the main title character in the Quick Draw McGraw shorts. His voice was originated by Daws Butler.

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

Biography

Crossover Era

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 Yo, Yogi!

Jellystone!

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

I Am Weasel cameo

An elderly Quick Draw lives at a retirement home for old cartoon stars in the I Am Weasel episode "I Am My Lifetime."

Harvey Birdman Represents

Quick Draw appears in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Guitar Control." 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

Quick Draw makes a cameo in the Wacky Races (2017 TV series) 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.

Quick Draw in the Funny Books

Samurai Jack

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.

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.
• 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.

In popular culture

• 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, one of them being 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 shoot 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.