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* OurWitchesAreDifferent: The Witty Witch, who enjoys entertaining children instead of frightening them. She may capture people, but only to be her audience for her performances, and then let them go afterward. She also prefers flying in a [[CoolPlane helicopter outfitted with a witch's broom on the tail]] and a huge spacecraft shaped like a witch's hat.
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* FakeBand: In the 1980s episodes, Gumby, Pokey, Prickle and Goo have an [[WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow Archies]]-esque band together simply titled "The Gumbys," with Gumby on lead guitar, Pokey on drums, Goo on keyboard, and Prickle alternating on saxophone or bass guitar. Curiously, they never had any original vocal songs; save for an 80s rock rendition of [[PublicDomainSoundtrack "Mary Had a Little Lamb"]] with Goo singing lead vocals in the episode "Of Note", all of the band's performances and music videos were of instrumental compositions, though Gumby often made up for this by demonstrating his VoluntaryShapeshifting abilities while jamming on his guitar.


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* FakeBand: The movie {{Retcon}}s Gumby's band so that instead of Pokey, Prickle and Goo making up the rest of the Gumbys, Gumby instead serves as the lead guitarist for a band called [[MeaningfulName The Clayboys]], also consisting of Thinbuckle on rhythm guitar, Fatbuckle on drums and Nobuckle on bass guitar. Gumby's shapeshifting during performances becomes a PlotPoint when it causes Gumby's pet dog Nobelly to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext cry pearls]]. Then near the end, when shooting a music video, Gumby dances with Tara, who has a crush on him, and sings lead vocals to the song "Take Me Away."
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* OneWordVocabulary: Gumby's dog in the late 1960s episodes, Nopey, only knows one English word: "[[MeaningfulName No!]]"


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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Discussed in "Dopey Nopey." A smart intellectual boy [[DroppedGlasses has lost his glasses]] and is [[BlindWithoutEm blindly trying to find them]], and then when Pokey finds them he wants to wear them because he thinks the glasses will make him smart. But despite Gumby warning him that's not the case and not to wear them, Pokey doesn't listen, puts on the glasses anyway, and [[BlindMistake proceeds to walk right into a closet]] (he was meaning to go to the library). And then Gumby's dog Nopey comes in, gets into a scuffle with Pokey, and the glasses end up on ''his'' head, and HilarityEnsues... at least until they come across the boy and return his glasses, and he gets back to reading his Shakespeare book.
** Averted with Professor Kapp, the resident genius inventor who doesn't wear any eyewear.

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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "A Dolly for Minga", "The Best on the Block", "Mirror-aculous Reocovery", and many more (especially the 1967-1968 episodes).

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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Many of the 1967-1968 episodes end this way, along with several 1988 episodes (such as "A Dolly for Minga", "The Best on the Block", Block" and "Mirror-aculous Reocovery", and many more (especially the 1967-1968 episodes).Reocovery").



* TrainEscape: Seen and [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in "The Reluctant Gargoyles"; Pokey and Goo are pursuing the Blockheads in a car chase through Toyland, and the Blockheads manage to beat a very long Lionel model train to the crossing. But Pokey is able to catch up to them thanks to Goo jumping out of the car and morphing herself into a makeshift bridge so Pokey can drive over the train.



** "Prickle's Baby Brudder", when Gumby screams among seeing the titular brother of Prickle (a huge dragon that ''breathes fire'' on him mere seconds after Gumby starts screaming.

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** "Prickle's Baby Brudder", when Gumby screams among seeing the titular brother of Prickle (a huge dragon that ''breathes fire'' on him mere seconds after Gumby starts screaming.screaming).

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* BrokenTreasure: Happens in the 80s episode "Just Train Crazy", where Gumby has a model train layout set up in the barn, used to bring milk and cookies from the kitchen to the band's stage for rehearsal breaks. But after Gumby leaves for a dental appointment, Denali ends up stepping on and wrecking the locomotive for the train, and so Pokey and Prickle volunteer to go out into Toyland and get a replacement locomotive before Gumby returns. Even after their mission is derailed for a while (pun intended) from a magic toy train that can take them wherever they want to go (but never stops unless the emergency brake is pulled), they succeed and find a train engine identical to the one Denali smashed and bring it with them back to the barn.

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** The 1957 episode "The Magic Wand" has magician Professor Hocus Pocus accidentally leave his magic wand at the [[UsefulNotes/LemonadeStands lemonade stand]] Gumby and Pokey are running, and the wand goes crazy and ends up breaking Mrs. Gumba's good pitcher that Gumby was using to make lemonade in. But then after the wand ends up transporting Gumby to Magic Land, Pokey is able to sell enough lemonade to make almost enough money to get a replacement pitcher, though in Magic Land Gumby is able to successfully return the wand to Professor Hocus Pocus, and as a reward is given a miniature wand that can perform a single magic trick. Among returning home, Gumby decides to use his one trick to fix the broken pitcher so Mrs. Gumba won't notice and so they don't have to spend the money they've earned on buying a new one.
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Happens in the 80s episode "Just Train Crazy", where Gumby has a model train layout set up in the barn, used to bring milk and cookies from the kitchen to the band's stage for rehearsal breaks. But after Gumby leaves for a dental appointment, Denali ends up stepping on and wrecking the locomotive for the train, and so Pokey and Prickle volunteer to go out into Toyland and get a replacement locomotive before Gumby returns. Even after their mission is derailed for a while (pun intended) from a magic toy train that can take them wherever they want to go (but never stops unless the emergency brake is pulled), they succeed and find a train engine identical to the one Denali smashed and bring it with them back to the barn.


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** The early '60s episodes would often use modified puppets of characters from Art Clokey's other series of the time, ''WesternAnimation/DaveyAndGoliath''. A notable example is in "The Small Planets," when a modified Davey puppet (with lighter-colored hair and different eyes) is used for a SpoiledBrat with a [[RailEnthusiast huge model railroad setup all over his small planet]], and the same episode had a modified puppet of Davey's sister Sally used for a small girl that enjoys scaring others off her small planet with dinosaur masks, but wishes someone could stay and play with her.


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* RunawayTrain: The 1988 episode "Wild Train Ride" has the Blockheads intentionally set this up with the train Minga and Granny are riding on. They lock the train's engineers in the station restroom, start up the engine and hop off before it pulls out, and since the trains in the ''Gumby'' universe can travel anywhere they want, carrying their tracks wherever they go, this brings things UpToEleven in that the train leaves a path of destruction and can even enter books the way characters can (naturally, {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Granny enjoys it, and Minga is initially scared, until she compares the train crashing through a house to a ride at ''Ride/{{Disneyland}}''!) Things get worse when the train ends up in a book about the Rocky Mountains and ends up on a railroad track route with [[TrackTrouble a washed-out bridge]]. But luckily Prickle (who was planning to ride the train with Granny and Minga but missed it due to the Blockheads starting it up early) phoned Gumby about the runaway train, and they arrive in a helicopter with the train's engineers, lowering them onto the locomotive and stopping the train just in time. Granny's comment on the whole experience is this...
--> "That was the most interesting train trip I've ever been on!"

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** In the original "Adventures of Gumby" pilot, little Gumby ends up on a set of O-scale model train tracks, and of course the train that goes on them approaches, but Gumby is able to stretch up his legs at the last second and let the train pass underneath him. This bit was also reenacted in "Gumby Business."

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** In the original "Adventures of Gumby" pilot, little Gumby ends up on a set of O-scale model train tracks, and of course the train that goes on them approaches, but Gumby is able to stretch up his legs at the last second and let the train pass underneath him. This bit was also reenacted in "Gumby Business."Business" (with Pokey starting up the model train that runs on them, apparently [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo not knowing what the transformer was used for]].)
* ReCut: The 1950s episodes got this when the show was revived in the early 1960s; the original 21 11-minute shorts were re-edited into 42 six-minute episodes that could be shown alongside the new six-minutes shorts being made at the time, with one half retaining its' original the title and the other getting a new title (for example, when "Robot Rumpus" was split into two parts, the first part was renamed "Yard Work Made Easy" while the second part retained the "Robot Rumpus" title). In 2006-2013, Clokey Productions/Premavision restored the original 1950s shorts into their original length using any available original elements, thus making them a lot more convenient to watch compared to when they were re-edited. The sole exceptions were two experimental four-minute shorts made in 1957, "Train Trouble" and "In a Fix".


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* WildTake: Happens at times in the 1988 series, and because of the claymation medium, it often veers into DerangedAnimation; notable examples include...
** "Prickle's Baby Brudder", when Gumby screams among seeing the titular brother of Prickle (a huge dragon that ''breathes fire'' on him mere seconds after Gumby starts screaming.
** "Fun Day", when Minga sees Gumby covered in soap suds after his shower stops and screams in fright, thinking he's a ghost.
** "Gone Clazy" has Prickle give a couple of these, first when he screams among seeing Gumby falling from a pile of blocks, and again when Gumby's head bump turns into a cannon aimed at him (where he grows multiple heads [[OurHydrasAreDifferent like a hydra!]])
** "Clayfully Yours" has Gumbo give a massive one among seeing Gumby and the TV {{Shapeshifting}} in a fight, where his neck extends all the way up into ''outer space'' where he screams and his eyes roll (and is [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace unaffected by the lack of atmosphere]]), and then shrinks back to Earth where his eyes enlarge with [[WingdingEyes his pupils becoming exclamation marks]].


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** When Gumby is checking out a native tribal dance in a cave as research for his music video, the natives' singing is taken from the 1957 Gumby short "Rain Spirits" (a.k.a. "The Kachinas").
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* KillItWithFire: "The Lost Arrow" has Gumby and his friends release the Monkey Man from captivity (the Blockheads captured him for a carnival, naturally) by having Prickle melt the padlock with his fire breath.

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* PublicDomain:
** This only applies to the original cuts to some of the NBC episodes and not the re-edits from the 80s. However these episodes are still covered through the Clokey Estate's copyright on the Gumby name and likeness.
** The Gumbasia short that inspired the show's creation also had it's copyright expire around the same time as the NBC episodes above, and is easily accessible on [[https://youtu.be/QO2he904Z6g YouTube]].



* PublicDomain:
** This only applies to the original cuts to some of the NBC episodes and not the re-edits from the 80s. However these episodes are still covered through the Clokey Estate's copyright on the Gumby name and likeness.
** The Gumbasia short that inspired the show's creation also had it's copyright expire around the same time as the NBC episodes above, and is easily accessible on [[https://youtu.be/QO2he904Z6g YouTube]].
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* PublicDomainAnimation:
** This only applies to the original cuts to some of the NBC episodes and not the re-edits from the 80s. However these same episodes are still covered through the Clokey Estate's copyright of the Gumby name and likeness.

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** This only applies to the original cuts to some of the NBC episodes and not the re-edits from the 80s. However these same episodes are still covered through the Clokey Estate's copyright of on the Gumby name and likeness.
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* BrokenTreasure: Happens in the 80s episode "Just Train Crazy", where Gumby has a model train layout set up in the barn, used to bring milk and cookies from the kitchen to the band's stage for rehearsal breaks. But after Gumby leaves for a dental appointment, Denali ends up stepping on and wrecking the locomotive for the train, and so Pokey and Prickle volunteer to go out into Toyland and get a replacement locomotive before Gumby returns. Even after their mission is derailed for a while (pun intended) from a magic toy train that can take them wherever they want to go (but never stops unless the emergency brake is pulled), they succeed and find a train engine identical to the one Denali smashed and bring it with them back to the barn.


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* KangarooPouchRide: Seen in the 80s episode "Kangaroo Express" when the gang is heading to Australia for a concert tour. They accidentally land in the outback instead of Melbourne, their intended first stop, but they manage to find a [[PonyExpressRider Pony Express]]-esque delivery service where kangaroos carry parcels in their pouches across the outback. Thanks to their [[ShrinkRay portable Shrink-a-Dink]], the band and their car and luggage can easily fit into the pouch of a kangaroo (appropriately named Matilda) that takes them to Melbourne for their tour.


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* PonyExpressRider: Seen in the 50s episode "Pokey Express", when Gumby and Pokey volunteer for the Pony Express to deliver letters to Santa Claus and evade the pesky teepee-shaped Indians. Not surprisingly, Gumby rides on Pokey for this job.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Pokey.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Pokey. In the 1967-68 episodes Prickle has also shown shades of this.



* InstantWristwatch: Happens in "Just Train Crazy" when a wristwatch magically appears on one of Gumby's arms in plain sight, complete with a flag with a tooth on it to remind Gumby of his dental appointment. Though given the surreal nature of the series, it's not that unusual.



** An unusual subversion in "Candidate For President," where after it's announced that Gumby has been nominated for the presidential election, Goo comments that maybe if Gumby's elected and they are in Washington D.C. she can meet Abraham Lincoln. To which Prickle comments, "[[DeadpanSnarker Maybe... if you go for ghosts.]]"



* 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 a railroad switch. Gumby managed to pull Pokey off the tracks right at the last second.

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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 a railroad switch. Gumby managed to pull Pokey off the tracks right at the last second.second.
** In the original "Adventures of Gumby" pilot, little Gumby ends up on a set of O-scale model train tracks, and of course the train that goes on them approaches, but Gumby is able to stretch up his legs at the last second and let the train pass underneath him. This bit was also reenacted in "Gumby Business."



* ReReleaseSoundtrack: The Capitol Records stock music was replaced by synthesized MIDI music for the '80s re-runs.

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* StockFootage: "Gumby Business" uses some footage from the original "Adventures of Gumby" pilot (a.k.a. "Baby Gumby") of a Marx model train set approaching Gumby sitting on the tracks for said train. It's fairly obvious due to the pilot footage featuring the train pulled by a Marx Toys 333 steam locomotive with New York Central tender, while the new footage of the train passing under Gumby's stretched legs shows the train with a Marx Toys 666 steam locomotive with Santa Fe tender.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The Blockheads.
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* MythologyGag: A water tower with the word "Gumbasia" (the name of Art Clokey's first stop-motion film) printed on it can be seen when Gumby and Pokey first fly into the town.

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* MythologyGag: A water tower with the The word "Gumbasia" (the name of Art Clokey's first stop-motion film) printed on it can be seen when in the background of several scenes, first on a water tower in the town that Pokey and Gumby and Pokey first fly into and again on the town.set of molding clay in the toy store where Pokey lands.
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* MythologyGag: A water tower with the word "Gumbasia" (the name of Art Clokey's first stop-motion film) printed on it can be seen when Gumby and Pokey first fly into the town.
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Gumby has also had several comic books, including Comico's ''Gumby' Summer Fun Special'' and an Eisner Award-nominated series by editor Papercutz.

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Gumby has also had several comic books, including Comico's ''Gumby' ''Gumby's Summer Fun Special'' and an Eisner Award-nominated series by editor Papercutz.
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Gumby has also had several comic books, including Comico's ''Gumby' Summer Fun Special'' and an Eisner Award-nominated series by editor Papercutz.
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* CowboyEpisode: "Ricochet Pete" where Gumby and Pokey face off against the title villain
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In 2015, the Creator/JimHenson Company made a deal with Clokey's estate to produce a new Gumby series. No news has been forthcoming, though a leak in mid-2019 of several screenshots revealed the series was well into production. Further details leaked on Website/4Chan on April 22, 2020 revealed several details, such as the series being named ''The New Adventures of Gumby and Friends'', and that production had moved to Creator/{{Seth Green}}'s Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the same studio that produces ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. The mid-2019 leak stated the series would premiere in June 2020, but the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic has most likely shifted this timeline.

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* ReReleaseSoundtrack: The Capitol Records stock music was replaced by synthesized music for the '80s re-runs.

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* ReReleaseSoundtrack: The Capitol Records stock music was replaced by synthesized MIDI music for the '80s re-runs.re-runs.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: The bird in "Northland Follies" has the exact same design as Rodgy from the "Henry and Rodgy" shorts also made during this time, but colored yellow instead of green.
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* UnwillingRoboticisation: It's done to Gumby in the 1988 short "Gumbot".

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* UnwillingRoboticisation: It's done to Gumby in the 1988 short "Gumbot"."Gumbot", and Prickle and Pokey in the 60's short "Making Squares".
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* ReReleaseSoundtrack: The Capitol Records stock music was replaced by synthesized music for the '80s re-runs.
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* PublicDomainAnimation:
** This only applies to the original cuts to some of the NBC episodes and not the re-edits from the 80s. However these same episodes are still covered through the Clokey Estate's copyright of the Gumby name and likeness.
** The Gumbasia short that inspired the show's creation also had it's copyright expire around the same time as the NBC episodes above, and is easily accessible on [[https://youtu.be/QO2he904Z6g YouTube]].
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In 2015, the Creator/JimHenson Company made a deal with Clokey's estate to produce a new Gumby series.

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In 2015, the Creator/JimHenson Company made a deal with Clokey's estate to produce a new Gumby series. No news has been forthcoming, though a leak in mid-2019 of several screenshots revealed the series was well into production. Further details leaked on Website/4Chan on April 22, 2020 revealed several details, such as the series being named ''The New Adventures of Gumby and Friends'', and that production had moved to Creator/{{Seth Green}}'s Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the same studio that produces ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. The mid-2019 leak stated the series would premiere in June 2020, but the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic has most likely shifted this timeline.

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* TheVoiceless: The Blockheads. They [[SuddenlyVoiced occasionally laugh and scream]], but they never have any actual dialogue.

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* TheVoiceless: The Blockheads. They [[SuddenlyVoiced occasionally laugh and scream]], scream, but they never have any actual dialogue.
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* MachineMonotone: The Blockheads' computer talks in this fashion, as does one in Professor Kapp's laboratory.


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* RoboCam: Upon reprogramming robot Gumby, the Blockheads' computer allows them to see what the robot sees. It cuts to green static when Gumbo sprays the robot with water.
* RobotMe: The Blockheads kidnap Gumby and his band to create robot clones of them, in the hopes of coercing Lowbelly into crying pearls in response to their music.
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The character debuted in 1956, as a segment of ''Series/TheHowdyDoodyShow''. 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.

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The character debuted in 1956, as a segment of ''Series/TheHowdyDoodyShow''.''Series/HowdyDoody''. 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.
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* RedplicaBaron: The Red Baron is parodied as the "Black Baron" in an episode where Gumby is an aviator of the WWI.

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* 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 (albeit not as beads.)

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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 (albeit not as beads.)



* BigEater: Pokey.

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* CuteMonsterGirl: Gumby has roughly the same slab-shaped body as his father, but his mother has a round head with blonde hair on a body that has breasts. [[PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales And she wears clothes.]] She's not cute by the standards of most entries on this page, but she's far more human-shaped than the rest of her family.

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* DrivesLikeCrazy: The Blockheads don't always drive carefully.

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* DeadpanSnarker: While in the MergingMachine to get unstuck, Goo remarks she's scared. Prickle tells her to just wait until they get the hospital bill for this.
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** After he made the classic Gumby shorts and had sworn off drugs by the time he returned to film-making. The claymation was still weird though.

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** After However, this was after he made the classic Gumby shorts and he had sworn off drugs by the time he returned to film-making. The claymation was still weird though.

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