As Gumby gets old, he needs dentures, and only has gums left. But since he was generally not animated with visible teeth, his entire mouth clay ring is now a denture, left to soak overnight.
Ian, I’d never heard of Morph but yeah, he looks like a Gumby clone. Or at least Gumby-adjacent.
I looked at the Wikipedia entry for Gumby and was surprised to see there’s still some life in the franchise. I had thought the last gasp was Eddie Murphy’s character on SNL (“I’m Gumby, dammit!”), which was oddly hilarious. I think it was so funny due to the combination of this Gumby being Black, aggressive, and profane(ish).
Huh, in my memory, Gumby had a Christian theme; that seems to be wrong–the same guy did Davey and Goliath, which was explicitly Christian, but Gumby was not.
No teeth (lips?) only gums.
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As Gumby gets old, he needs dentures, and only has gums left. But since he was generally not animated with visible teeth, his entire mouth clay ring is now a denture, left to soak overnight.
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I’m pretty sure any Gumby reference qualifies as “Hey Geezers! Comics!”
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Thank you. I’d never heard of Gumby. I guess the UK equivalent would be Morph.
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You have to remember Gumby’ss moth, that’s what is in the denture glass….
And I resent the geezer reference, however apt.
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Ian, I’d never heard of Morph but yeah, he looks like a Gumby clone. Or at least Gumby-adjacent.
I looked at the Wikipedia entry for Gumby and was surprised to see there’s still some life in the franchise. I had thought the last gasp was Eddie Murphy’s character on SNL (“I’m Gumby, dammit!”), which was oddly hilarious. I think it was so funny due to the combination of this Gumby being Black, aggressive, and profane(ish).
Huh, in my memory, Gumby had a Christian theme; that seems to be wrong–the same guy did Davey and Goliath, which was explicitly Christian, but Gumby was not.
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That’s his moth?
Ack, I thought it was a woim.
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