Comments on: Happy Hopping

By: Ernest

Ernest — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I was a strange kid, I suppose. I barely remember Inky. I was indifferent to the lion. The mynah bird, though, was my hero. I remember it burping when it got the food the other two were fighting over. Over the years it evolved in my mind that the cartoon was about the bird and not Inky.
The hop and the music were wonderful. The bird would hop from behind to claim the prize.
A younger me would walk down the street to the hum of that music (and the memory of a bird).

By: tom_w

tom_w — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

In his autobiography, Shamus Culhane said he was briefly brought to Warners By Jones to work as an animator and the only work he did was animating the lion in this cartoon.

By: Hasdrubal

Hasdrubal — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

It sounds like a 6:8 time signature. I’ve wondered if Jones’ bird was a response to Paul Terry’s Heckle and Jeckle. Minah bird is drawn like the other two birds, but has a completely different personality due to pace and lack of dialogue

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I find myself trying to figure out what time signature that bird walks in.

By: 2oon-hed

2oon-hed — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

The lion loses his dentures from time to time, rendering him scary, but ineffective. Inky on the hunt throws his fomidable spear at tiny insects, yet, he has a giant slab of meat in his dresser drawer. The mynah bird does his “Pimp Walk” through the forest all day concluding with the only logical result possible.

By: Hasdrubal

Hasdrubal — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Minah Bird is too cool to fit inside anyone’s mental box. He did barrow his cool walking style from Popeye in “Lil Sweet Pea”, but with a slower pace. Jones also used the same walking style at a faster pace for a character in the “Dover Boys”. The walking styles and different music selections set the pace of the action in each of the cartoons. The bird isn’t as creepy as the pace at which he moves.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

When I was a kid that mynah used to creep me out. Still kinda does, actually.