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There had to be a first Baby Huey cartoon, and ReFrederator’s got it, wrapping up our Birdbrain Week. Witness “Quack-A-Doodle-Doo” from Paramount Famous Cartoon Studio, 1950.

Baby Huey — always a favorite with little kids, specifically little boys with too much energy and too little attention span to wash down that last Three Stooges short with anything overly nuanced. Nothing like a 300 pound, dumb-as-a-sackful-of hammers duckling to get a whole bunch of little guys giggling (also jabbing, poking and generally, bouncing off the walls.) Sid Raymond did lots of dumb guy characters in his voice over career, but his Huey has a certain moronic edge on all the others, something extra that makes the big galoot so endearing (okay, okay… endearing to ME and some select aficionados. A lotta other people — not so much.)

I also once had a teacher the whole school nicknamed “Baby Huey” (Junior High is the cruelest of all parallell universes) but that’s another story.

Strap on your rocketboots, Science Friction Week is entering your orbit on Monday!

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