Sea Grunt

Sea Grunt
And this is just the rehearsal.
Premiere date	November 6, 1965
Run time	6:36
Starring	Paul Frees John Stephenson
Music composed by	Ted Nichols
Writer(s)	Tony Benedict Dalton Sandifer
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Squiddly Diddly	Paul Frees
Chief Winchley	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."

Legacy

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

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Squiddly l'acteur	Squiddly the Actor
Japanese	空中サーフィン	Air Surfing
Portuguese	E uma Agua	And Some Water
Spanish	El Pulpo Actor	The Octopus Actor

Home availability

• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • 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.