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Dudley Do-Right

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Dudley Do-Right
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friendscharacter
First appearanceThe Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends(1959)[1]
Created byAlex Anderson
Chris Hayward
Allan Burns
Jay Ward
Bill Scott
Portrayed byBrendan Fraser
Voiced byBill Scott(1959–1985)
Scott Wilson (WYME TVAnimated Skits forBullwinkle's Restaurant)[2]
Keith Scott(The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Show,Pandemonium Cartoon Circus,Cartoon Networkcommercial,Rocky & Bullwinkle's Know-It-All Quiz Game,Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls)[3]
In-universe information
OccupationMountie
NationalityCanadian

Dudley Do-Rightis a fictional character created byAlex Anderson,Chris Hayward,Allan Burns,Jay Ward,andBill Scott,who appears as the mainprotagonistof "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties",a segment onThe Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

The segment parodies early 20th-centurymelodramaandsilent film(the "Northern"), using only apianoas a musical background.

Dudley Do-Right's first appearance specifically incorporates silent film tropes such asintertitlesandiris shots,as well as incorporating a similar plot to 1921 silent filmO'Malley of the Mounted,starringWilliam S. Hart.

Overview[edit]

The segments' characters and plot lampooned such films asWilliam S. Hart's 1921 silent drama filmO'Malley of the Mounted.

Dudley Do-Right is a dim-witted, but conscientious and cheerfulCanadian Mountiewho works for Inspector Fenwick. Do-Right is always trying to catch his nemesis,Snidely Whiplash,and rescue Inspector Fenwick's daughter,damsel-in-distressNell Fenwick, with whom Do-Right is deeply infatuated. He usually succeeds only by pure luck or through the actions of his horse, named "Horse."

Arunning gagthroughout the series is Nell Fenwick's disinterest in Do-Right; instead, she appears to be infatuated with his horse. She is shown to kiss the horse rather than Do-Right, and when Do-Right leaves the Mounties, she is only upset about the horse leaving. In Do-Right's first appearance, the narrator states,

Dudley loved Nell. Unfortunately, she loved his horse.[4]

In the standard intro, Do-Right jumps on Horse and furiously rides him backwards as titles appear. While riding, he comes across Whiplash tying Nell Fenwick to a railroad track. He tips his hat to the two, before realizing what is going on and righting himself in time to save the day.

Dudley Do-Right made a cameo in a "Rocky and Bullwinkle Fan Club" segment as the hero in "She Can't Pay the Rent", a play staged byBoris Badenov.Rocky and Bullwinkle also appeared as cameos in "Mountie Bear".[citation needed]

The Dudley Do-Right Show[edit]

The Dudley Do-Right Showis an animated television series assembled by P.A.T. Film Services, consisting of cartoons produced byJay Ward Productionsand Total Television that aired Sunday mornings onAmerican Broadcasting Company(ABC) from April 27, 1969, to September 6, 1970.[5]Each half-hour show included two segments each of "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties" and "The World of Commander McBragg",along with one segment each of"Tooter Turtle"and" The Hunter ".Dudley Do-Rightwas a Jay Ward production, while the other segments were products of Total Television. Both companies used Gamma Productions, a Mexico-based animation studio.

The U.S. syndicated version ofThe Dudley Do-Right Show,calledDudley Do Right and Friends,follows the same format but features different episodes. The syndicated package features "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties", "The World of Commander McBragg", "The King and Odie", and "The Hunter". The latter two originally appeared as part ofKing Leonardo and His Short Subjects,a series that aired between October 15, 1960, and September 28, 1963, on NBC-TV. Twenty-six new segments of both series were produced for CBS-TV'sTennessee Tuxedo and His Talesin 1963, and these later segments are included in the syndicatedDudley Do Right and Friends.

Actors (voice overs) included:

Segments[edit]

Season 1[edit]

  1. The Disloyal Canadians
  2. Stokey the Bear
  3. Mortgagin' the Mountie Post
  4. Trap Bait
  5. The Masked Ginny Lynn

Season 2[edit]

  1. The Centaur
  2. Railroad Tracks
  3. Foreclosing Mortgages
  4. Snidely Mounted Police
  5. Mother Love
  6. Mountie Bear
  7. Inspector Dudley Do-Right
  8. Recruiting Campaign
  9. Out of Uniform
  10. Lure of the Footlights
  11. Bullet-Proof Suit
  12. Miracle Drug
  13. Elevenworth Prison
  14. Saw Mill
  15. Finding Gold
  16. Mountie Without a Horse
  17. Mother Whiplash's Log Jam
  18. Stolen Art Masterpiece

Season 3[edit]

  1. Mechanical Dudley
  2. Flicker Rock
  3. Faithful Dog
  4. Coming-Out Party
  5. Robbing Banks
  6. Skagway Dogsled-Pulling Contest
  7. Canadian Railway's Bridge
  8. Niagara Falls
  9. Snidely's Vic Whiplash Gym
  10. Marigolds
  11. Trading Places

Season 4[edit]

  1. Top Secret
  2. The Locket
  3. The Inspector's Nephew
  4. Matinee Idol
  5. Snidely Arrested

One segment originally seen onThe Bullwinkle Show,"Stokey the Bear", was withheld from all reissues of the series for several decades because theU.S. Forest Serviceobjected to the image of a bear thatstartedforest fires,even though he had been hypnotized by Snidely to do so. The segment was released on home video bySony WonderandClassic Mediain 2005.[citation needed]

Legacy[edit]

TheDudley-Do Right's Ripsaw Fallslog flume ride features a parody ofMount Rushmorewith (left to right) Horse, Fenwick, Nell, and Do-Right.

On May 28, 1999,Universal Islands of AdventureopenedDudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls,alog flumeride based on the cartoon segments. Guests enter a queue themed to resemble a theater, with Dudley, Nell, Snidely, and Horse presented as actors. Riders board cartoon logs and journey "into" the story, where Snidely has cruelly captured Nell Fenwick. Horse and Dudley make their first appearance in front of acycloramabackdrop, theatrically "charging" to the rescue. The ride system contains three drops, the last and steepest of which is seventy-five feet. It is a hybrid flume/coaster that utilizes steel track to not only shoot guest-filled logs down the final drop, but under the water's surface and over a bunny hill. The ride system was designed and built byMack GmbH.[6]

On August 27, 1999,Universal Studiosreleased a comedy live-action film based on the character, titledDudley Do-Right.It starredBrendan Fraser,Sarah Jessica Parker,andAlfred Molina.It received negative reviews and was a box-office failure, grossing less than $10 million domestically against a $22 million budget.[7]

In 2000, music historianIrwin Chusidclaimed that scat singerShooby Taylor's voice reminded him of Dudley Do-Right's "virilebaritone."[8]

Premiering in 2013, the Canadian adult animated seriesFugget About Itfeatures a dimwitted yet well-meaning Mountie character, Strait McCool. McCool exhibits similar appearance, voice acting, behavior, and personality to Do-Right (except for the addition of sexual and drug references). It may be inferred that the character of McCool is a parody of Do-Right.[9][10]

See also[edit]

  • The Dover Boys,a 1942 Warner Brothers cartoon parodying silent film era storytelling

References[edit]

  1. ^The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Mooseby Keith Scott (ISBN0-312-19922-8), p. 168
  2. ^"Bullwinkle's WYME TV Animation & Jokes (Bullwinkle and Dudley)".YouTube.RetrievedNovember 10,2023.
  3. ^"Voice Of Dudley Do-Right - Dudley Do-Right | Behind The Voice Actors".Behind The Voice Actors.RetrievedAugust 16,2021.Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources
  4. ^Rocky & Bullwinkle 1st appearance of Dudley Do-Right (Season 1),retrieved2022-08-21
  5. ^Woolery, George W. (1983).Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981.Scarecrow Press. pp. 86–88.ISBN0-8108-1557-5.
  6. ^"Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls at Universal's Islands of Adventure".Orlando Informer.RetrievedAugust 16,2021.
  7. ^Gray, Brandon."Dudley Do-Right".Box Office Mojo.IMDb.RetrievedAugust 16,2021.
  8. ^Chusid, Irwin(2000).Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music.A Cappella. p. 141.
  9. ^Best of McCool - FOR CANADA! Part 1,retrieved2022-08-21
  10. ^Mccools's Fugget about it intro,retrieved2022-08-21

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