# Man, that takes me back. (The "Get A Job" cartoon.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-that-takes-me-back-the-get-a-job-cartoon/650335 "2013-02-14T22:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-that-takes-me-back-the-get-a-job-cartoon/650335/1 "2013-02-14T22:29:25Z")
I can’t believe I stumbled across [THIS (10min)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwI2DTiVSJ0) video from my adolescent youth. I remember my friend and I used to watch this video stoned out of our mind laughing our asses off. It was funny to us because our parents used to bitch at us on a daily basis to go out and get a freaking job. Of course, we had better things to do as it was summer and there was pot to be smoked. 😃 This used to get a lot of air play back in the 80’s on one of the cable channels. Can’t remember which one. It alos seems a little weird to me that it’s a Canadian PSA video. I didn’t know that back then. Why the hell were they showing it in the States? [shrug] ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-that-takes-me-back-the-get-a-job-cartoon/650335/2 "2013-02-15T03:03:31Z")
It’s not a PSA, is it? I thought it was just a short film funded by the National Film Board (like many others). Those kind of short animated films make good filler between TV shows. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-that-takes-me-back-the-get-a-job-cartoon/650335/3 "2013-02-15T03:47:23Z")
Not bad, but I like [this similar offering](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA3-InoYsWQ) much better. The animation’s not that great, but the song rocks! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-that-takes-me-back-the-get-a-job-cartoon/650335/4 "2013-02-15T03:55:17Z")
Thank you for posting that. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before. I would not have guessed that it was made in 1985. It really is, just like the YouTube description says, a brilliant homage to Bob Clampett. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-that-takes-me-back-the-get-a-job-cartoon/650335/5 "2013-02-15T12:15:33Z")
I’m not looking at the OP’s YouTube link because this machine I’m using doesn’t do videos – But I’m guessing you must be talking about that Bob Dog cartoon, right? I remember that from when it was going around in theaters a long time ago. I recently found it on YouTube (on my other machine that does YouTube) about a year ago. It’s a fun to watch cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-that-takes-me-back-the-get-a-job-cartoon/650335/6 "2013-02-15T17:06:45Z")
I remember seeing this on tv in the '80s. Looking now, I see that Bob Dog was voiced by [Al Simmons](http://www.alsimmons.com/) who I have admired since before 1985. One of the links on the side on youtube was to Clampett’s [Tin Pan Alley Cats](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUgXBQVOizU) which I remember very well even though it apparently hasn’t been on tv since 1968.