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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on Website/YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling, [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (The black player is actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the 1980s episode "All Cooped Up," Tilly the chicken is kidnapped by the Blockheads and taken to an egg factory. She asks the hen in the coop next to hers what it's going on, to which the hen responds, "It's ''hell'', Tilly!"
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** Well... maybe and maybe not. ''The Gumby Show'' was popular in syndication well after those sketches ended. Also, there was a new series soon after. To what do you think kids would have had more exposure back in the 1980s?



* NightmareFuel: Oh, where to ''begin'' with the movie...
** Not to mention some of the episodes themselves, including a piano-playing boy in "Small Planets" who ''goes feral'' when his arpeggio is interrupted.
*** The boy sounds like a kid in the 1960s even though he transforms himself. In the same episode repurposed for the 1980s, the boy now sounds like a young man, at first, but when he transforms into a beast, his voice now sounds very deep, beastly, and menacing! Scary!
** Gumby melting in the episodes was pretty horrific.
** That was turned UpToEleven in an episode of ''Series/FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[NightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked]].
** The Glob.

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* NightmareFuel: Oh, where to ''begin'' with the movie...
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** Not to mention some of the episodes themselves, including a A piano-playing boy in "Small Planets" who ''goes feral'' when his arpeggio is interrupted.
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interrupted. The boy sounds like a kid in the 1960s even though he transforms himself. In the same episode repurposed for the 1980s, the boy now sounds like a young man, at first, but when he transforms into a beast, his voice now sounds very deep, beastly, and menacing! Scary!
** Gumby melting in the episodes was pretty horrific.
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episodes. That was turned UpToEleven in an episode of ''Series/FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[NightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked]].
** The Glob.
nuked]].



* SpecialEffectFailure[=/=]OffModel: In certain scenes in which Gumby and the other characters walk or drive into a book, the animators used ''different'' models for the characters and vehicles. And these models were either crudely made or 2D!

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In certain scenes in which Gumby and the other characters walk or drive into a book, the animators used ''different'' models for the characters and vehicles. And these models were either crudely made or 2D!
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*** The boy sounds like a kid in the 1960s even though he transforms himself. In the same episode repurposed for the 1980s, the boy now sounds like a young man, at first, but when he transforms into a beast, his voice now sounds very deep, beastly, and menacing! Scary!



* RetroactiveRecognition: Many key people of the animation industry got their start in the 1980s series, and went on to such things as Creator/{{Pixar}} and ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
* SpecialEffectsFailure[=/=]OffModel: In certain scenes in which Gumby and the other characters walk or drive into a book, the animators used ''different'' models for the characters and vehicles. And these models were either crudely made or 2D!

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Many key people of the animation industry got their start in the 1980s series, and went on to such things as Creator/{{Pixar}} and ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
* SpecialEffectsFailure[=/=]OffModel: SpecialEffectFailure[=/=]OffModel: In certain scenes in which Gumby and the other characters walk or drive into a book, the animators used ''different'' models for the characters and vehicles. And these models were either crudely made or 2D!
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* TearJerker: The 1988 closing credits' music, which is enough to make kids tear up.
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** That was turned UpToEleven in an episode of ''FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[NightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked]].

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** That was turned UpToEleven in an episode of ''FreddysNightmares'' ''Series/FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[NightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked]].
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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling, [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (The black player is actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).

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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, Website/YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling, [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (The black player is actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).
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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling, [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (The black player actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).

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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling, [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (The black player is actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).
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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling, [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (Johnson is actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).

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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling, [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (Johnson is (The black player actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).
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* FauxSymbolism: The official companion book, ''Gumby: the authorized biography of the world's favorite clayboy'' (written by Art Clokey and others). Basically, Gumby's mind is ''free''.
* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (He's actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).

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* FauxSymbolism: The official companion book, ''Gumby: the authorized biography of the world's favorite clayboy'' (written clayboy'', written by Art Clokey and others).others. Basically, Gumby's mind is ''free''.
* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling yelling, [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (He's (Johnson is actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).



** That was turned UpToEleven in an episode of ''FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[NightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked.]]

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** That was turned UpToEleven in an episode of ''FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[NightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked.]]nuked]].



* RetroactiveRecognition: Many key people of the animation industry got their start in the 1980s series, and went on to such things as Pixar and ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
* SpecialEffectsFailure / OffModel: In certain scenes in which Gumby and/or the other characters walk or drive into a book, the animators used DIFFERENT models for the characters and/or vehicles. And these models were either crudely made or 2D!
** The same goes for the shrink/growth episodes. In the 60s episode "Chicken Feed", the growing effects with Tilly the chicken are created with badly colored two-dimensional pictures of Tilly. Also in the 80s episode "Shrink-a-Dink", the growing/shrinking scenes (specifically with Gumby, Goo, Prickle and Professor Kapp) used crudely made models in each frame.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Many key people of the animation industry got their start in the 1980s series, and went on to such things as Pixar Creator/{{Pixar}} and ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
* SpecialEffectsFailure / OffModel: SpecialEffectsFailure[=/=]OffModel: In certain scenes in which Gumby and/or and the other characters walk or drive into a book, the animators used DIFFERENT ''different'' models for the characters and/or and vehicles. And these models were either crudely made or 2D!
** The same goes for the shrink/growth episodes. In the 60s 1960s episode "Chicken Feed", the growing effects with Tilly the chicken are created with badly colored two-dimensional pictures of Tilly. Also Also, in the 80s 1980s episode "Shrink-a-Dink", the growing/shrinking scenes (specifically with Gumby, Goo, Prickle and Professor Kapp) used crudely made models in each frame.
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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[JohnMaddenFootball Madden '11]]'' and yelling [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (He's actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).

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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''[[JohnMaddenFootball ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden '11]]'' and yelling [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (He's actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).
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* FauxSymbolism: The official companion book, ''Gumby: the authorized biography of the world's favorite clayboy'' (written by Art Clokey and others). Basically, Gumby's mind is ''free''.


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* HoYay: This may be a bit of a stretch, but has anybody noticed that Blockheads G and J are never apart? And that J seems to take G's abuse a bit too submissively?

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* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Oh, where to ''begin'' with the movie...
** Not to mention some of the episodes themselves, including a piano-playing boy in "Small Planets" who ''goes feral'' when his arpeggio is interrupted.
** Gumby melting in the episodes was pretty horrific.
** That was turned UpToEleven in an episode of ''FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked.]]
** The Glob.


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* NightmareFuel: Oh, where to ''begin'' with the movie...
** Not to mention some of the episodes themselves, including a piano-playing boy in "Small Planets" who ''goes feral'' when his arpeggio is interrupted.
** Gumby melting in the episodes was pretty horrific.
** That was turned UpToEleven in an episode of ''FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[NightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked.]]
** The Glob.
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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''{{Madden}} '11'' and yelling [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (He's actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).

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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''{{Madden}} '11'' ''[[JohnMaddenFootball Madden '11]]'' and yelling [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (He's actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).
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* IdiotBall: 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 characters were tossing an Idiot Ball back and forth before that, too.
---> "But shouldn't we call the police?"
---> "No time for that now."
* RetroactiveRecognition:: Many key people of the animation industry got their start in the 1980s series, and went on to such things as Pixar and TheNightmareBeforeChristmas.

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* IdiotBall: 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 characters were tossing an Idiot Ball back and forth before that, too.
---> "But shouldn't we call the police?"
---> "No time for that now."
* RetroactiveRecognition::
RetroactiveRecognition: Many key people of the animation industry got their start in the 1980s series, and went on to such things as Pixar and TheNightmareBeforeChristmas.''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.

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* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Oh, where to ''begin'' with the movie...
** Not to mention some of the episodes themselves, including a piano-playing boy in "Small Planets" who ''goes feral'' when his arpeggio is interrupted.
** Gumby melting in the episodes was pretty horrific.
** That was turned UpToEleven in an episode of ''FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked.]]
** The Glob.



---> "No time for that now."
* NightmareFuel: Oh, where to ''begin'' with the movie...
** Not to mention some of the episodes themselves, including a piano-playing boy in "Small Planets" who ''goes feral'' when his arpeggio is interrupted.
** Gumby melting in the episodes was pretty horrific.
** That was TurnedUpToEleven in an episode of ''FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked.]]
** The Glob.

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---> "No time for that now."
* NightmareFuel: Oh, where to ''begin'' with the movie...
** Not to mention some of the episodes themselves, including a piano-playing boy in "Small Planets" who ''goes feral'' when his arpeggio is interrupted.
** Gumby melting in the episodes was pretty horrific.
** That was TurnedUpToEleven in an episode of ''FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked.]]
** The Glob.
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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''{{Madden}} 11'' and yelling [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (He's actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).

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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''{{Madden}} 11'' '11'' and yelling [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (He's actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).
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* HateDumb: Sadly, Gumby gained one on YouTube, when RayWilliamJohnson released a video about a black guy playing ''{{Madden}} 11'' and yelling [[MemeticMutation "FUCK YOU, GUMBY!!!"]] (He's actually referring to another ''Madden'' player and not the clay character himself).

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* NightmareFuel: The Glob.


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** The Glob.
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** That was TurnedUpToEleven in an episode of ''[[ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy's Nightmares]]'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked.]]

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** That was TurnedUpToEleven in an episode of ''[[ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy's Nightmares]]'' ''FreddysNightmares'' when the melting is made to seem as if [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Gumby is being nuked.]]

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* NightmareFuel: The Glob.



** The characters were tossing an IdiotBall back and forth before that, too.

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** The characters were tossing an IdiotBall Idiot Ball back and forth before that, too.
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* IdiotBall: The movie borders on IdiotPlot. The characters 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.

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* IdiotBall: 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.
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* IdiotBall: The movie borders on IdiotPlot. The characters 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 characters were tossing an IdiotBall back and forth before that, too.
---> "But shouldn't we call the police?"
---> "No time for that now."
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* SpecialEffectsFailure / OffModel: In certain scenes in which Gumby and/or the other characters walk or drive into a book, the animators used DIFFERENT models for the characters and/or vehicles. And these models were either crudely made or 2D!
** The same goes for the shrink/growth episodes. In the 60s episode "Chicken Feed", the growing effects with Tilly the chicken are created with badly colored two-dimensional pictures of Tilly. Also in the 80s episode "Shrink-a-Dink", the growing/shrinking scenes (specifically with Gumby, Goo, Prickle and Professor Kapp) used crudely made models in each frame.
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* RetroactiveRecognition:: Many key people of the animation industry got their start in the 1980s series, and went on to such things as Pixar and TheNightmareBeforeChristmas.
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** Not to mention some of the episodes themselves, including a piano-playing boy in "Small Planets" who ''goes feral'' in one episode when his arpeggio is interrupted.

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** Not to mention some of the episodes themselves, including a piano-playing boy in "Small Planets" who ''goes feral'' in one episode when his arpeggio is interrupted.

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