# ID this old cartoon for me re: very imaginative kid **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-cartoon-for-me-re-very-imaginative-kid/513899 "2009-10-15T13:08:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-cartoon-for-me-re-very-imaginative-kid/513899/1 "2009-10-15T13:08:20Z")
ISTR it aired once in a blue moon on Saturday mornings in the Seventies, along with the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner cartoons. Might’ve been made in the Forties or Fifties, about a little boy with a very active imagination. He’d be watching TV or reading a book and would go off on a flight of fancy - one time it was a trip to the Moon, I think - that would only end when his mom called him back to reality for a snack or dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-cartoon-for-me-re-very-imaginative-kid/513899/2 "2009-10-15T13:30:04Z")
Ralph Phillips: [From A to Zzzzz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6CbFJGUUc) [Boyhood Daze](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66jatIqrx6Q) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-cartoon-for-me-re-very-imaginative-kid/513899/3 "2009-10-15T14:27:15Z")
That’s him - thanks! Heh. Just realized he has the same dreamy stare as the dog from _The Grinch Who Stole Christmas_ (another Chuck Jones classic). ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-cartoon-for-me-re-very-imaginative-kid/513899/4 "2009-10-15T18:35:07Z")
Ralph Phillips also appeared in a television pilot entitled _The Adventures of the Road Runner_, which contained the complete _From A to Zzzzz_ cartoon alongside new footage with the Road Runner. Some of the new footage of Ralph Phillips watching the Road Runner was edited into the later short [Zip Zip Hooray](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92i28-pIIOI). Jones also directed two recruitment films for the U.S. Army featuring a teenaged Ralph: _90-Day Wondering_ and _Drafty, Isn’t It?_ ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-cartoon-for-me-re-very-imaginative-kid/513899/5 "2009-10-15T18:48:55Z")
That stare/those eyes are an instant clue that Chuck Jones was on the scene. Hmm… I wonder if Dopers can think of any other ‘tells’ like that in classic animation?