He's Gumby dabmint!

[ScottM]

Ok that was Eddie Murphy's line and was never in the actual show but it si still funny as all get out.

Art Clokey the creator of Gumby died.

Art Clokey, the creator of the whimsical clay figure Gumby, died in his sleep Friday at his home in Los Osos, Calif., after battling repeated bladder infections, his son Joseph said. He was 88.

Clokey and his wife, Ruth, invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art had finished film school at USC. After a successful debut on "The Howdy Doody Show," Gumby soon became the star of its own hit television show, "The Adventures of Gumby," the first to use clay animation on television.

After an initial run in the 1950s, Gumby enjoyed comebacks in the 1960s as a bendable children's toy, in the 1980s after comedian Eddie Murphy parodied the kindly Gumby as a crass, cigar-in-the-mouth character in a skit for "Saturday Night Live" and again in the '90s with the release of "Gumby the Movie."

Today, Gumby is a cultural icon recognized around the world. It has more than 134,000 fans on Facebook.

I loved the Gumby show when I was little and had many Gumby and Pokey plasticine toys.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/la-me-art-clokey9-2010jan09,0,4987805.story

 

[AuntPeggy]

Good children's show. Sorry to hear Clokey died. Hope it wasn't as painful as I sounds.

 

[SCCutler]

Another icon of the time, gone.

"Gumby and his Pony Pal, Pokey!"

 

[rottydaddy]

Sad... he was a creative genius, with a very positive message for kids.
I didn't realize his own childhood was so difficult! It's strange to think that had he not ended up where he did, he may never have pursued the career that produced Gumby.