Great Unanswered Questions of Cartoon History
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And the movie itself has a scene (see screen grab at left) in which Audrey Hepburn briefly dons a Huckleberry Hound mask in a five-and-dime store.
So my question is this: Is "…my huckleberry friend" actually a reference to Huck Hound? If you've got a theory–assuming you care about this at all–I'd love to hear it.
Oh, and a bonus trivia question (courtesy of Andrew Leal): Besides the mask scene, name one other significant Hanna-Barbera connection in this movie.
Posted at 11:08 pm on March 31, 2005 by Harry | Filed under Blog
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April 1, 2005
Peter J. Cockerham :
I think it's a reference to Huckleberry Finn. In the movie Tombstone, Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday sarcastically tells a bad guy, "I'll be your Huckleberry."
Dave Mackey :
Alan Reed had a part in it as Sally Tomato, and Mel Blanc did some looping. Fred and Barney, together again.
April 4, 2005
Kent Culotta :
I remember hearing this discussed on radio somewhere. It actually refers to a childhood memory of Johnny Mercer's of going out to the wilds to pick huckleberries. At least that's my memory of it.
April 8, 2005
David :
to be someone's huckleberry is to be someone's sweetheart, friend, and was first used in 1832 by J. K. PAULDING in Westward Ho! (I. ix. 80)"If the [broad-]horn gets broadside to the current, I wouldn't risk a huckleberry to a persimmon that we don't every soul get treed, and sink to the bottom."
June 15, 2008
KT :
I am trying to find the name of the creature that, I thought, was on a ruff and reddy cartoon. The creature, which I thought was on the planet munimula, had horns coming out of his head, a bunch of feet, and chased them around blowing those horns. He was like in a cave alot too.
PLEASE, any help, this is driving me nuts.
KT