# Google goes Gumby. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436 "2011-10-12T17:01:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/1 "2011-10-12T17:01:46Z")
[Google](http://www.google.com/) celebrates Art Clokey’s 90th birthday. Click on the clay balls, they turn into the characters from the Gumby cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/2 "2011-10-12T17:06:51Z")
I remember watching _Gumby_ when it was on afternoons in the 80s. I really liked the Blockheads. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/3 "2011-10-12T17:15:49Z")
Everybody sing! “He was once a little green slab of clay…” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/4 "2011-10-12T17:19:34Z")
It’s Gumby dammit! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/5 "2011-10-12T18:52:40Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I remember watching _Gumby_ when it was on afternoons in the 80s. Me too, but I also watched it when it was on in the 60s. I was a huge fan. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/6 "2011-10-12T21:32:19Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > Everybody sing! > > “He was once a little green slab of clay…” “…You should see what Gumby can do today…” ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/7 "2011-10-12T22:00:58Z")
I didn’t know he was clay… I suppose my five-year-old brain thought he was plastic or plasticine like the toy I had. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/8 "2011-10-12T23:03:57Z")
We were talking about this yesterday in the office. Quite a few of the younger people had never heard of Gumby. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/9 "2011-10-12T23:08:02Z")
There’s a statue in Toronto informally called “[Gumby Goes to Heaven](http://www.ruthard.ca/art/university/airmen.html)”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/10 "2011-10-12T23:31:57Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > “…You should see what Gumby can do today…” “Gumby!” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/11 "2011-10-13T03:03:41Z")
“He can walk into any book with his pony pal, Pokey, too” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AhczFRlBT2E/hqdefault.jpg "The REAL Gumby Intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhczFRlBT2E) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/12 "2011-10-13T03:06:48Z")
When I go on road trips, I always put Gumby up on the dash–positioned so he’s looking out on the road ahead. When I pass vehicles with kids I hold him up and usually get a smile or a thumbs up. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/13 "2011-10-13T19:15:50Z")
MY…BRAIN…HURTS!! Oops, sorry, wrong Gumby. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/14 "2011-10-13T20:54:47Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > MY…BRAIN…HURTS!! > > Oops, sorry, wrong Gumby. They’re both good.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/15 "2011-10-13T21:20:32Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > They’re both good.🙂 Yeah, but you \*don’t \*want to run into the other Gumby’s pal Pokey. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/16 "2011-10-13T23:17:46Z")
WITH his pals, Pokey Prickle and Goo! I liked Goo the best. She was blue! And a girl, like me! I think that would make a great Halloween costume, actually. ohhh no, Gumbike: [http://teammartys.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Bill-and-Joaquin.jpg](http://teammartys.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Bill-and-Joaquin.jpg) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-goes-gumby/599436/17 "2011-10-14T02:47:29Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > WITH his pals, Pokey Prickle and Goo! Revisionist! 😛