History WesternAnimation / Gumby

* SameLanguageDub: With the 1988 ''Gumby Adventures'' revival series, the older shorts from TheFifties and TheSixties were also included (to bump up the number of half-hour shows to [[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon the standard 65 episodes for a syndicated animated series of the time]]), but they had their soundtracks redubbed to be consistent with the newly-produced shorts. In addition to the synthesized MIDI score and newer sound effects, the voice tracks were also redone. For this series, Dallas [=McKennon=] was already [[RoleReprisal reprising his role as Gumby]] from the 1957-66 shorts, but he redubbed Gumby's lines in those shorts anyways; same with [[DescendedCreator Art Clokey]] as Pokey, Prickle and Gumbo (though in the older shorts, all three characters' voices could alternate between Clokey and [=McKennon=] and a few other voice actors, though the redubs kept everything consistent).

* BlindMistake: Played for laughs in "Cottage For Granny." After Tilly accidentally [[BlindWithoutEm breaks Granny's spectacles]] and she drives home from Gumby's farm, naturally she DrivesLikeCrazy due to her poor eyesight, initially driving on the wrong side of the road, and when a hay bale truck swerves out of her way, she mistakes the bale of hay that falls on her car hood for tall grass alongside the road. Then she approaches a railroad crossing [[RailroadTracksOfDoom with a train approaching]] and mistakes the flashing crossing signals for a police car's lights, thinking they pulled over a "reckless speeder," and smashes through the crossing gates and makes it across right before the train can hit her, mistaking the broken crossing gates for fallen branches in the road.

** Granny drives like this after [[BlindWithoutEm her spectacles are broken]] in "Hot Rod Granny" and "Cottage For Granny." In the latter, as she drives she makes one BlindMistake after another while evading danger by sheer luck.

* BewareTheSillyOnes[=/=]BewareTheNiceOnes: The Witty Witch is quite nice and friendly but she is ''not'' to be trifled with. This was shown in "Space Oddity" when she helped the gang rescue Gumby, Minga, and Pokey from the Queen Witch. Zena and her forces were or no match for Witty's technology nor her magic, ''at all''.

* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Gumby first met Pokey when he saved him from being run down by a model train after Pokey got one of his hooves caught in the railroad tracks. Gumby managed to pull Pokey off the tracks right at the last second.

* 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.

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!"

* 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.

* BewareTheSillyOnes/BewareTheNiceOnes: The Witty Witch is quite nice and friendly but she is ''not'' to be trifled with. This was shown in "Space Oddity" when she helped the gang rescue Gumby, Minga, and Pokey from the Queen Witch. Zena and her forces were or no match for Witty's technology nor her magic, ''at all''.

** Gumby's gradmother is human, and because Gumba and her sister are both more humanoid than the other clay-people, I think it's pretty safe to assume...

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.

* 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.

* ForceFeeding: One episode had Gumby constantly mooching snacks from his friends, then he has a nightmare about being force-fed ice-cream, soda, and hamburgers by a humanoid Pokey.

* 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.]]

* TheVoiceless: The Blockheads.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lucky Claybert looks and talks a lot like Groucho Marx.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "A Dolly for Minga", "The Best on the Block", "Mirror-aculous Reocovery", and many more.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lucky Claybert talks like W. C. Fields. (Actually, he's supposed to be a caricature of Groucho Marx.)

* NoDialogueEpisode: Several shorts from the '50s were these.

* 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.

* 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 shape shifting abilities. This sometimes applies to Pokey, Prickle, and Goo as well.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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!"

* 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 1950's-1960's 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 1950's were these.

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