Quick Draw McGraw
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- El Kabong redirects here. It is also the term for an illegal move in professional wrestling inspired by the same.
Quick Draw McGraw is the name of a fictional cartoon horse, created by Hanna-Barbera and the star of The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Hanna-Barbera's third show produced for television after success with The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. The show debuted in 1959; Quick Draw was voiced by voice actor Daws Butler.
Quick Draw was usually depicted in his shorts (which were set in the American Old West) as a sheriff. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro named Baba Looey, who spoke with a stereotypical Mexican accent, and was also voiced by Butler.
Quick Draw was depicted as a satire of the westerns that were popular among the American public at the time. His personality was well-intentioned, but somewhat dim. Oftentimes, Baba Looey would make a more accurate assessment of the problem at hand than Quick Draw would. He would start to tell Quick Draw what he was thinking: "Qeeks Draw, I theen..." whereupon Quick Draw would interrupt with his catchphrase: "Now hoooooold on thar, Baba Looey! I'll do the "thinnin'" around here, and doooon't you forget it!" Quick Draw also spoke with a heavy drawl, as shown by his catchphrase.
Despite the stereotyping of Baba Looey, it was clear that he was much smarter than Quick Draw, but loyal to a fault... his realist to Quick Draw's idealist very loosely paralleling the protagonists in Don Quixote, although a rather safer comparison would probably be the earlier Hanna-Barbera pairing of the whimsical Yogi Bear and his practical sidekick Boo-Boo.
Although Quick Draw was himself a horse caricature who walked on two legs like a human (as did Baba Looey), this did not stop the show's producers from depicting him riding into town on a realistic horse, or, as seen in the show's opening credits, driving a stagecoach pulled by a whole team of realistic horses. This aspect was made light of in the 1980s made-for-television film The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, which featured Quick Draw.
In a series of episodes, Quick Draw would also assume the identity of the masked vigilante, "El Kabong" (a parody of Zorro). As El Kabong, Quick Draw would attack his foes by swooping down on a rope and hitting them on the head with an acoustic guitar, producing a distinctive kabong sound and destroying the guitar in the process. On the cartoon's soundtrack, the "kabong" sound was produced by a foley artist striking the detuned open strings of a cheap acoustic guitar.
Quick Draw McGraw's supporting characters in The Quick Draw McGraw Show's two other segments were Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, a father-and-son pair of dogs (the father a Jimmy Durante parody), and Snooper and Blabber, a pair of detectives who were a cat and a mouse.
Trivia
After his original show ran its course, Quick Draw occasionally showed up in other Hanna-Barbera productions, including Yogi's Gang, Yo Yogi and Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics as well as cameos in an episode of Samurai Jack; and also in an episode from Yogi's Space Race.Currently, the show is aired on the Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang.
Quick Draw also made an appearance on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law where he was arrested for carrying a guitar in a satire of American gun politics.
Quick Draw's "El Kabong" alter-ego has made an impact in the professional wrestling world; the name "El Kabong" was first used by then-Extreme Championship Wrestling commentator Joey Styles to describe when a popular ECW wrestler, New Jack, used an acoustic guitar as a weapon during a match. The act is also used by former World Wrestling Federation employee The Honky Tonk Man and current Total Nonstop Action Wrestling employee Jeff Jarrett.
Quick Draw was also the mascot for Honey Smacks in the early 1960s.
Snuffles, Quick Draw's dog, more recently made a special guest appearance on an episode of Johnny Bravo in which Johnny mistakenly follows a woman who slightly resembles his mother. In the episode, Snuffles is assigned by the police to help find Johnny - provided, of course, he is given doggy snacks along the way.
DVD Releases
Season 1 was going to be released sometime in 2006 but was pushed back until 2007.Quick Draw McGraw in other languages
- French: Grangallo Tirevite
- Italian: Ernesto Sparalesto
- Brazilian Portuguese: Pepe Legal
- Spanish: Tiro Loco McGraw
- Japanese: 早射ちマック (Hayauchi Mack)
External links
- [Big Cartoon DataBase: The Quick Draw McGraw Show]
- [Toon Tracker: The Quick Draw McGraw Show]
- [Toonarific: The Quick Draw McGraw Show]
- [Quick Draw's Toonopedia entry]
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