Anybody Know What This Piece Played on "Courage the Cowardly Dog" Was?

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I caught part of a Courage the Cowardly Dog cartoon that had Courage being chased in a boat by some kind of rat-like thing, while a classical sounding piece of a woman singing “Ahhh, ahhh” was playing. Anybody know what this was? It sounds kind of like some music from Blade Runner but definately wasn’t that.

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Human Habitrail is the epsiode in question.

They say the chase scene is a parody of Moon Raker. Is it from there?

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I don’t remember any sort of music like that in Moonraker, although I do remember a chase where a gondola drives up on land.

And I can’t help but end my post with:

It’s Doc Gerbil’s world
It’s Doc Gerbil’s world…

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That’s it. Looks like the song’s an original to the episode. Pity that. Would have liked to have a copy of it.

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I love Courage.

My mom IS Muriel and she married
a Eustace.

Does anyone know cool trivia about the show ?

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Peter Fernandez, the voice director, was also the voice of Speed Racer and Racer X back in 1967.

I believe that’s his face used for the bizarre live-action white head with the eyes blacked out as seen in the opening sequence.

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The Music of Courage The Cowardly Dog

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Since some of us are going off a bit of a tangent, I’ll point some Courageous stuff out, per heygeno’s request:

Somehow, at one time cartoons made for TV were eligible for Academy Award nominations. The first Courage short, The Chicken from Outer Space, was. I believe it lost to one of Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit shorts.

Lionel Wilson, the voice of Eustace (who sadly passed away this April), has a long history in cartoons. He did all the voices for Tom Terrific, a cartoon produced by Gene Dietch at Terrytoons for Captain Kangaroo.

See John Dilworth, Courage’s creator, and his other achievements at the official site of his New York studio, Stretch Films.

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Oh my, the news about Lionel Wilson, and his being the voices for Tom Terrific, bums me out. Waaaaaay back when I watch the Captain I loved Tom. I can still remember the little ditty the villian, Crabby Appleton, sang.

*My name is Crabby Appleton, *
I’m rotten to the core.
I do a bad deed every day,
And sometimes three or four!

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Very sad about LW. I thought when his voice changed , that maybe he had been sick.

I watched Tom T. when Iwas 4-5…my first cartoon. Crabby A. and Isotope Feenie !
Thanks for the song-- Icould not remember the words !