# Gumby and Pokey **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419 "2005-01-30T11:12:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@deena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deena)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/1 "2005-01-30T11:12:42Z")
I loved them as a kid. And still do. How about you? ---
**Author:** ![4thMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/ac8455/32.png) [@4thMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4thMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/2 "2005-01-30T11:45:27Z")
Count me in as a Gumby & Pokey fan as a kid. Haven’t seen it in years though so can’t comment on whether I would like watching it. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/3 "2005-01-30T12:02:42Z")
> [@4thMonkey](#): > > Haven’t seen it in years though Well, **4thMonkey** , you should see what Gumby can do today. He can walk into any book with his pony-pal Pokey too. ---
**Author:** ![4thMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/ac8455/32.png) [@4thMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4thMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/4 "2005-01-30T12:55:06Z")
I just visited the “official” Gumby website at [http://www.gumbyworld.com/](http://www.gumbyworld.com/memorylane/memlane.htm) because I could only remember Gumby and Pokey but none of the other characters. I recognise all of them except the robot. Interesting how much you can forget about. How long were the episodes? In Australia I think Gumby was shown on the ABC which is a government TV station with no advertisements and Gumby was used as filler material between shows to make up the time that ads would normally take overseas. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/5 "2005-01-30T13:02:03Z")
[Dammit!](http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/tv_pix/nbc/saturday_night_live_episode_photos/eddie_murphy/snl.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/6 "2005-01-30T14:24:07Z")
_He was once a little green slab of clay…_ (GUMBY!) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/7 "2005-01-30T14:52:47Z")
> [@4thMonkey](#): > > I just visited the “official” Gumby website at [http://www.gumbyworld.com/](http://www.gumbyworld.com/memorylane/memlane.htm) because I could only remember Gumby and Pokey but none of the other characters. I recognise all of them except the robot. > > Interesting how much you can forget about. > > How long were the episodes? In Australia I think Gumby was shown on the ABC which is a government TV station with no advertisements and Gumby was used as filler material between shows to make up the time that ads would normally take overseas. At gumbyworld ther are episodes in all [their glory](http://www.gumbyworld.com/gumbysgalaxy/video/intro1967.html) for your viewing pleasure. Watchout for those Blockheads though. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/8 "2005-01-30T16:39:40Z")
When I was a boy, I named the smaller of my two teddy bears “Poky”, either because of Gumby’s Pokey, or the book _Pokey Little Pup_. (The larger teddy bear was named Alice in honor of Alice Kramden, I kid you not.) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/9 "2005-01-30T20:53:23Z")
Last I saw 'em, they were in some movie with Arnold Schwartzenegger and that Miss America porno chick. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/10 "2005-01-31T03:35:25Z")
> [@4thMonkey](#): > > I recognise all of them except the robot. I’ve only seen the robot in one episode; it was shown as a short on Mystery Science Theater 3000. The episode ended with the robot’s head mounted to the side of a building, resulting in much blubbering from Crow and Servo. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/11 "2005-01-31T15:16:55Z")
I loved it when I was little. Recently I rented a DVD of the first season of Gumby from Netflix, though, and it was HELLA TRIPPY. Seriously, if I didn’t know better (the same guy did those Lutheran claymations with the kid and his dog), I’d think he was seriously tripping out. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gumby-and-pokey/287419/12 "2005-01-31T15:32:25Z")
Does ANYONE know the Gumby episode in which Prickle, the yellow dinosaur, suddenly grew a horn and said in a very matter-of-fact way, “Hey, it’s a horn”? That line has been a catch-phrase with my family ever since the mid-'80s, when we bought our first VCR and a Gumby episode collection was one of the first videos we ever rented. Often, whenever something unexpected happens, we just shrug and say “Hey, it’s a horn” in the Prickle voice. Stupid, I know, but it cracks me up just thinking about it.