History WesternAnimation / Gumby

* DerangedAnimation: Art Clokey briefly experimented with LSD in the 1960's.

* DinosaursAreDragons: In addition to the general confusion about which Prickle is, in the episode "Lost Treasure" (Episode #7 of the 1980's "Gumby Adventures"), he outright says: "Stand aside, my friends. As the only dinosaur, AKA dragon, in this room, I shall wake up these beans."

* GoshDangItToHeck: Prickle often said: "Aw, dinosaur chips!" whenever he was frustrated or annoyed. Other interjections commonly heard: "Gee," "Oh my!," and "Golly!"

* {{Foil}}: The [[DeadpanSnarker cynical,]] {{cowardly|Sidekick}}, [[TheDragAlong content-at-home]] Pokey is a foil to Gumby, the [[ChronicHeroSyndrome plucky,]] [[ThePollyanna optimistic,]] {{Determinator}}, and vice-versa.

* BodyToJewel: Lowbelly, a skateboard riding dachshund, cries pearls whenever his master, Gumby, leaves [[spoiler: or changes shape when he performs with his band. This fuels the Blockheads' latest get rich quick scheme, which for some reason involves [[CutLexLuthorACheck making robot duplicates of Gumby's band.]]]]

** Also Goo and... Whoever the episode calls to action.

** Takes a turn for the disturbing in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3iVfq47H_k All Broken Up]]" The Blockheads develop a method for shattering Goo to pieces: using a gong. Gumby manages to get her back together with a sonic vibratron and shatters the Blockheads in retaliation with it, only to find out he ''re-shattered'' Goo into a pile of clay pieces. Cue Pokey Gumby and Prickle laughing over the shattered remains of their friend:

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "A Dolly for Minga," "The Best on the Block," "Mirror-aculous Reocovery," and many more.
** Takes a turn for the disturbing in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3iVfq47H_k All Broken Up]]..." The Blockheads develop a method for shattering Goo to pieces: Using a gong. Gumby manages to get her back together with a sonic vibratron and shatters the Blockheads in retaliation with it, only to find out he ''re-shattered'' Goo into a pile of clay pieces. Cue Pokey Gumby and Prickle laughing over the shattered remains of their friend:

* DrunkOnMilk: Gumby ends up stunned and stiff as a board if he drinks too many... Milkshakes (especially if there's ''ice cream'' in them), since his clay body can't handle the cold.
** This was shown in the episodes ''Little Lost Pony'' and ''The Blockheads.''

* IdiotBall: {{Invoked|Trope}}. The movie borders on IdiotPlot. The characters could practically end the plot about halfway into the movie. Goo ties them up, they shut down the Gumby robot and the fake clayboy robots. It could end there, right? But nooo, they literally ''leave the blockheads tied up'' and allow them to escape.

The character debuted in 1956, as a segment of ''The Howdy Doody Show''. He was successful enough to receive his own spin-off show. The original ''Gumby'' shorts aired on ''NBC'' in 1957. After the series' network run ended, Clokey bought back the rights to his characters and produced new ''Gumby'' episodes for UsefulNotes/{{syndication}} in UsefulNotes/TheSixties and UsefulNotes/TheEighties. A Gumby direct-to-video movie was released circa 1995.

* HarmlessFreezing: {{Zig Zagging|Trope}}. When Gumby and the Clayboys get kidnapped by the Blockheads, they become frozen solid after getting locked up in the refrigerator truck that the Blockheads stole and disguised as a KBLM-TV truck. Later, Gumby was thawed out when rescued by his friends and Claybert, and he wakes up alive and well, but unfortunately, the Clayboys melted and they have to be taken to Professor Kapp so their bodies have to be bulged up again. Then Goo gets kidnapped and freezes too, so Gumby must spend the entire climax to save her; eventually, Goo gets better after being rescued and thawed out.

''Art Clokey'' produced this series of clay animated shorts for Creator/{{NBC}} in the 1950's after screening his student film ''Gumbasia'' for Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. Clokey also performed some of the character voices.

Gumby himself was portrayed as a young boy capable of changing his shape at will. He also could walk into books and participate in the stories therein. His friends included Pokey, a red horse; Prickle, a "prickly" yellow dragon... Except for the episodes [[DinosaursAreDragons where he self identified as a dinosaur,]] and Goo, a blue female character who rather resembles a small sea lion with a blond wig (WordOfGod said she's a "[[OurMermaidsAreDifferent gooey blue mermaid]]"). Gumby's foes, the Blockheads, never spoke.

The character debuted in 1956, as a segment of ''The Howdy Doody Show.'' He was successful enough to receive his own spin-off show. The original ''Gumby'' shorts aired on ''NBC'' in 1957. After the series' network run ended, Clokey bought back the rights to his characters and produced new ''Gumby'' episodes for UsefulNotes/{{Syndication}} in the [[TheSixties 1960's]] and the [[TheEighties 1980's.]] A Gumby direct-to-video movie was released circa 1995.

Gumby's 1980's resurgence in popularity was most likely attributable to a series of sketches on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' depicting Gumby (played by Creator/EddieMurphy) and Pokey (played by ''Joe Piscopo'') as actually being old-time Jewish vaudeville stars themselves playing parts. These sketches birthed the {{Catchphrase}}: "I'm Gumby, dammit!"

* HarmlessFreezing: {{Zigzagging|Trope}}. When Gumby and the Clayboys get kidnapped by the Blockheads, they become frozen solid after getting locked up in the refrigerator truck that the Blockheads stole and disguised as a KBLM-TV truck. Later, Gumby was thawed out when rescued by his friends and Claybert, and he wakes up alive and well, but unfortunately, the Clayboys melted and they have to be taken to Professor Kapp so their bodies have to be bulged up again. Then Goo gets kidnapped and freezes too, so Gumby must spend the entire climax to save her; eventually, Goo gets better after being rescued and thawed out.

* HarmlessFreezing: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. When Gumby and the Clayboys get kidnapped by the Blockheads, they become frozen solid after getting locked up in the refrigerator truck that the Blockheads stole and disguised as a KBLM-TV truck. Later, Gumby was thawed out when rescued by his friends and Claybert, and he wakes up alive and well, but unfortunately, the Clayboys melted and they have to be taken to Professor Kapp so their bodies have to be bulged up again. Then Goo gets kidnapped and freezes too, so Gumby must spend the entire climax to save her; eventually, Goo gets better after being rescued and thawed out.

* IdiotBall: {{Invoked|Trope}}: The movie borders on IdiotPlot. The characters could practically end the plot about halfway into the movie. Goo ties them up, they shut down the Gumby robot and the fake clayboy robots. It could end there, right? But nooo, they literally ''leave the blockheads tied up'' and allow them to escape.

* HarmlessFreezing: Zig-zagged. When Gumby and the Clayboys get kidnapped by the Blockheads, they become frozen solid after getting locked up in the refrigerator truck that the Blockheads stole and disguised as a KBLM-TV truck. Later, Gumby was thawed out when rescued by his friends and Claybert, and he wakes up alive and well, but unfortunately, the Clayboys melted and they have to be taken to Professor Kapp so their bodies have to be bulged up again. Then Goo gets kidnapped and freezes too, so Gumby must spend the entire climax to save her; eventually, Goo gets better after being rescued and thawed out.
* IdiotBall: The movie borders on IdiotPlot [[Invoked]]. The characters could practically end the plot about halfway into the movie. Goo ties them up, they shut down the Gumby robot and the fake clayboy robots. It could end there, right? But nooo, they literally ''leave the blockheads tied up'' and allow them to escape.

* PowerPerversionPotential: Gumby and all other clay people have unlimited shapeshifiting abilities. This sometimes applies to Pokey, Prickle, and Goo as well.

** The Gumby Adventures episode "Gumbitty Doo-Dah" has [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Gumby dressed up as ''Eddie Murphy.'']]

* {{Foil}}: The [[DeadpanSnarker cynical,]] {{cowardly|Sidekick,}} [[TheDragAlong content-at-home]] Pokey is a foil to Gumby, the [[ChronicHeroSyndrome plucky,]] [[ThePollyanna optimistic,]] {{Determinator}} and vice-versa.

The character debuted in 1956, as a segment of "The Howdy Doody Show." He was succesful enough to receive his own spin-off show. The original ''Gumby'' shorts aired on ''NBC'' in 1957. After the series' network run ended, Clokey bought back the rights to his characters and produced new ''Gumby'' episodes for UsefulNotes/{{Syndication}} in the [[TheSixties 1960's]] and the [[TheEighties 1980's.]] A Gumby direct-to-video movie was released circa 1995.

Gumby's 1980's resurgence in popularity was most likely attributable to a series of sketches on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' depicting Gumby (played by Creator/EddieMurphy) and Pokey (played by Creator/JoePiscopo) as actually being old-time Jewish vaudeville stars themselves playing parts. These sketches birthed the {{Catchphrase}}: "I'm Gumby, dammit!"

Art Clokey produced this series of clay-animated shorts for Creator/{{NBC}} in the 1950s after screening his student film ''Gumbasia'' for TwentiethCenturyFox. Clokey also performed some of the character voices.

Gumby himself was portrayed as a young boy capable of changing his shape at will. He also could walk into books and participate in the stories therein. His friends included Pokey, a red horse; Prickle, a "prickly" yellow dragon... except for the episodes [[DinosaursAreDragons where he self-identified as a dinosaur]], and Goo, a blue female character who rather resembles a small sea lion with a blond wig (WordOfGod said she's a "[[OurMermaidsAreDifferent gooey blue mermaid]]"). Gumby's foes, the Blockheads, never spoke.

The character debuted in 1956, as a segment of "The Howdy Doody Show". He was succesful enough to receive his own spin-off show. The original ''Gumby'' shorts aired on NBC in 1957. After the series' network run ended, Clokey bought back the rights to his characters and produced new ''Gumby'' episodes for UsefulNotes/{{syndication}} in the [[TheSixties 1960s]] and the [[TheEighties 1980s]]. A Gumby direct-to-video movie was released circa 1995.

Gumby's 1980s resurgence in popularity was most likely attributable to a series of sketches on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' depicting Gumby (played by Eddie Murphy) and Pokey (played by Joe Piscopo) as actually being old-time Jewish vaudeville stars themselves playing parts. These sketches birthed the {{Catchphrase}} "I'm Gumby, dammit!"

!!This series provides examples of:

* AIIsACrapshoot: Every time Gumby tries to use [[TincanRobot robots]] to help with the house, help with the farm, or speeding up production of ''Goo's Pies'', they either malfunction, the chicken pecks at the keys of the computer controlling them, or [[ThePrankster those pesky Blockheads]] are messing with the remote.

* ArtEvolution: Gumby started with out small, round eyes, that had little, red beads for pupils, no eyebrows and the inside of his mouth was the same color of his skin rather than being black. Same thing with Gumbo. Merchandise today has Gumby with red eye pupils again.
** In the 60's series, Goo looked more like a sea lion. In the 80's series, she looks more like a mermaid.

* BullyingADragon: Literally occurs in "The Elephant and the Dragon". Both creatures work for a storybook king (the Elephant as manual labor, the Dragon as a castle guard), but the Elephant keeps picking arguments with the Dragon. This pisses off the Dragon, who torches people's houses with his his breath. To stop their arguing, Gumby uses a back-hoe to do the Elephant's job just as efficiently and without arguing with the Dragon (and without torched houses). The Elephant takes the hint and apologizes for causing so much trouble.

** Another instance is in "Prickle's Baby Brudder", where Prickle's little brother (who is a giant dragon from the book 'Saint George') comes to hide from the angry villagers, who accuse him of burning down the village. They soon realize it's actually lightning doing the scorching, and set up a lightning rod to fix the problem.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Pokey's "Holy Toledo!/Holy Cachinas!" and Prickle's "Oh, dinosaur chips!"
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: May or not be intentional. In the movie, when Gumby discovers that [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Lowbelly cries pearls whenever Gumby performs with the Clayboys]], his first response is "But our music isn't sad!"

* DerangedAnimation: Art Clokey briefly experimented with LSD in the 1960s.

* DinosaursAreDragons: In addition to the general confusion about which Prickle is, in the episode "Lost Treasure" (episode #7 of the 1980s "Gumby Adventures"), he outright says "Stand aside, my friends. As the only dinosaur, AKA dragon, in this room, I shall wake up these beans."
* DrunkOnMilk: Gumby ends up stunned and stiff as a board if he drinks too many... milkshakes (especially if there's ''ice cream'' in them), since his clay body can't handle the cold.
** This was shown in the episodes ''Little Lost Pony'' and ''The Blockheads''.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "A Dolly For Minga", "The Best on the Block", "Mirror-aculous Reocovery" and many more.
** Takes a turn for the disturbing in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3iVfq47H_k "All Broken Up"]] ... The Blockheads develop a method for shattering Goo to pieces: using a gong. Gumby manages to get her back together with a sonic vibratron and shatters the Blockheads in retaliation with it, only to find out he ''re-shattered'' Goo into a pile of clay pieces. Cue Pokey Gumby and Prickle laughing over the shattered remains of their friend.
-->'''Gumby:''' Oh, no! This is a day when everything's ''[[JustForPun gong]]'' wrong!"
-->'''Pokey, Gumby and Prickle:''' Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

* {{Foil}}: The [[DeadpanSnarker cynical]], {{cowardly|Sidekick}}, [[TheDragAlong content-at-home]] Pokey is a foil to Gumby, the [[ChronicHeroSyndrome plucky]], [[ThePollyanna optimistic]], {{Determinator}} and vice-versa.

** '''The Optimist''': Gumby.
** '''The Cynic''': Pokey.
** '''The Realist''': Prickle.
** '''The Apathetic''': Goo.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Prickle often said, "Aw, dinosaur chips!" whenever he was frustrated or annoyed. Other interjections commonly heard: "Gee," "Oh my!" and "Golly!"

* {{Housewife}}: Gumba, Gumbo's wife and Gumby's mother, to the extreme.

** Also Goo and... whoever the episode calls to action.

* LogicalWeakness: Gumby has problems in extreme cold and heat, being clay and all. He either freezes or melts; but if he wasn't clay he wouldn't be able to shapeshift. In the earlier episodes, Gumby was reminded to take his "Gumb-o-meter", a thermometer to let anyone know that his temperature was too hot or too cold.

* MediumBlending: In a few of the 1950s-1960s episodes, particularly including "Hidden Valley", some stop motion shots cut to live action shots.
* TheMovie: It was ambitiously titled ''Gumby 1''.

* NoDialogueEpisode: Several shorts from the 1950s were these.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: A few episodes have these. Examples include "Point of Honor", which had Gumby and Prickle as bitter rivals dueling for Goo's favor, and "Goo for Pokey" had Goo [[StalkerWithACrush chasing Pokey everywhere.]]

* PowerPerversionPotential: Gumby and all other clay people have unlimited shapeshifiting abilities. This sometimes applies to Pokey, Prickle and Goo as well.

* {{Revival}}: The 1960s and 1980s series.

** The Gumby Adventures episode "Gumbitty Doo-Dah" has [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Gumby dressed up as Eddie Murphy]].
* ShrinkRay: Professor Kapp's "Shrink-A-Dink".

* SwissArmyTears: In "Gumbot", Goo's tears revived a "robotized" Gumby.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The Blockheads
* TotemPoleTrench: In "Wishful Thinking", Gumby and Pokey break into Prickle's house dressed as a ghost attempting to trick Prickle into telling them what he wished for on his birthday. Unfortunately, just as Prickle was about to tell them, Pokey lost his equilibrium causing Gumby to fall off his back and on top of Prickle. The fall caused Prickle to start screaming thinking the ghost had swallowed him.
* TrappedInTVLand: Many episodes involve Gumby and his friends walking into books and interacting with the characters. Unlike most examples of this trope, Gumby & co. can leave at will.

* BodyToJewel: Lowbelly, a skateboard riding dachshund, cries pearls whenever his master, Gumby, leaves [[spoiler: or changes shape when he performs with his band. This fuels the Blockheads' latest get rich quick scheme, which for some reason involves [[CutLexLuthorACheck making robot duplicates of Gumby's band]]]].

* IdiotBall: The movie borders on IdiotPlot [[invoked]]. The characters could practically end the plot about halfway into the movie. Goo ties them up, they shut down the Gumby robot and the fake clayboy robots. It could end there, right? But nooo, they literally ''leave the blockheads tied up'' and allow them to escape.

-->"But shouldn't we call the police?"
-->"No time for that now."

The character debuted in 1956, as a segment of "The Howdy Doody Show". He was succesful enough to receive his own spin-off show. The original ''Gumby'' shorts aired on NBC in 1957. After the series' network run ended, Clokey bought back the rights to his characters and produced new ''Gumby'' episodes for {{syndication}} in the [[TheSixties 1960s]] and the [[TheEighties 1980s]]. A Gumby direct-to-video movie was released circa 1995.

* EyePop / WildTake: Any cast member especially Pokey, whenever he's surprised or gets scared.

* TrappedInTVLand
* TricksterTwins / TheVoiceless: The Blockheads.

* [[WidgetSeries W(H)AT]]

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Gumby
** TheLancer: Pokey
** TheSmartGuy: Prickle
** TheChick: Goo
** TagalongKid: Minga

!!The 1995 movie provides examples of:

* BodyToJewel: Lowbelly, a skateboard-riding dachshund, cries pearls whenever his master, Gumby, leaves [[spoiler: or changes shape when he performs with his band. This fuels the Blockheads' latest get-rich-quick scheme, which for some reason involves [[CutLexLuthorACheck making robot duplicates of Gumby's band]]]].

** At the end of the lightsaber fight between Gumby and his robot clone, the latter finishes it by slicing Gumby into pieces. Upon seeing this death, the Blockheads rejoice by dancing happily, but just then, Gumby comes back to life by ''transforming into miniature versions of himself'', much to the Blockheads' surprise.

** Also, after "Take Me Away", Lowbelly rides his skateboard over to the Clayboys, but accidentally jumps in front of Gumby and pushes him on Fatbuckle's drum.
* HarmlessFreezing: Zig-zagged. When Gumby and the Clayboys get kidnapped by the Blockheads, they become frozen solid after getting locked up in the refrigerator truck that the Blockheads stole and disguised as a KBLM-TV truck. Later, Gumby was thawed out when rescued by his friends and Claybert and he wakes up alive and well, but unfortunately, the Clayboys melted and they have to be taken to Professor Kapp so their bodies have to be bulged up again. Then Goo gets kidnapped and freezes too, so Gumby must spend the entire climax to save her; eventually, Goo gets better after being rescued and thawed out.

** The characters were tossing an Idiot Ball back and forth before that, too.
--> "But shouldn't we call the police?"
--> "No time for that now."

* ReCut: In 2007, the movie received a 76-minute "director's cut", which strangely omitted certain scenes from the original 90-minute version. Cuts that create noticeable plotholes.
* ShoutOut: The lightsaber fight is an obvious homage to StarWars.

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* ReCut: In 2007, the movie received a 76-minute "director's cut", which strangely omitted certain scenes from the original 90-minute version.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: May or not be intentional. In the movie, when Gumby discovers that [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Lowbelly cries pearls whenever Gumby performs with the Clayboys]], his first response is "But our music isn't sad!"

* LongRunner

* BodyToJewel: Lowbelly, a skateboard-riding dachshund, cries pearls whenever his master, Gumby, leaves [[spoiler: or changes shape when he performs with his band. This fuels the Blockheads' latest get-rich-quick scheme, which for some reason involves [[CutLexLuthorACheck making robot duplicates of Gumby's band]].]]

* DownOnTheFarm