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* Dogpatch and Li ' l Abner on Broadway in Life, January 14, 1957, pp. 71 – 83
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Dogpatch and Li
Li ' l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished town of Dogpatch, Kentucky.
In his seminal book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan considered Li ' l Abner's Dogpatch " a paradigm of the human situation.
Even the trademark comic " signs " that clutter the backgrounds of Will Elder's panels had a precedent in Li ' l Abner, in the residence of Dogpatch entrepreneur Available Jones, though they're also reminiscent of Bill Holman's Smokey Stover.
* Li ' l Abner in Dogpatch Today ( 9 November 1978 ) NBC ( TV special )
During the 1969 season, Faubus was hired by new owner Jess Odom to be general manager of his Li ' l Abner theme park in the Ozark Mountains, Dogpatch USA.
He also thought that too much of the libretto was spent explaining the Dogpatch milieu, which Donnelly assumed would be familiar to most audience members since Li ' l Abner was at that time a very popular comic strip.
The company scored a hit in the 1940s when it acquired the rights to a popular comic strip and released the Li ' l Abner Dogpatch Band for Christmas 1945.
It was opened in 1968, and was based on the comic strip Li ' l Abner, created by cartoonist Al Capp and set in a fictional village called Dogpatch.
Dogpatch was the fictional setting of cartoonist Al Capp's classic comic strip, Li ' l Abner ( 1934 – 1977 ).
However, one of the earliest ( 1934 ) Li ' l Abner strips, re-posted on the web by Comics. com in March 2008, explicitly identifies Dogpatch as being in Kentucky and several 1936 strips also clearly place it in Kentucky.
She can be seen dancing and singing in the chorus of Li ' l Abner ( 1959 ) as a Dogpatch wife, alongside future television star Valerie Harper.
* The hillbilly residents of Dogpatch, in the Li ' l Abner comic strip
In 1966, the cave was purchased, along with the Raney's trout pond, by the developers of Dogpatch USA, a theme park based on Al Capp's Li ' l Abner comic strip, and was intended to be incorporated into the park's attractions.
Dogpatch and Abner
"), Abner leads the shmoos out of the valley — where they become a sensation in Dogpatch and, quickly, the rest of the world.
Abner agrees to go to Washington, accompanied by Marryin ' Sam, to present the government with the tonic for testing on the scrawny men of Dogpatch.
Abner and Marryin ' Sam return to Dogpatch with the happy news that " The Country's In the Very Best of Hands ".
In Dogpatch, Daisy Mae concludes that the reason she couldn't win Abner is that she, at age seventeen, is too old and no longer beautiful, and Marryin ' Sam joins her lament (" I'm Past My Prime ").
Abner agrees to take it once they get back to Dogpatch.
The atomic bombs are cancelled, the scrawny men of Dogpatch return home to their happy wives, and the citizens of Dogpatch honor Jubilation T. Cornpone as Abner kisses Daisy Mae ( Finale ).
Dogpatch and on
In another, the search is on in Dogpatch for a pair of missing socks knitted by the first President of the United States.
In 1968, a theme park called Dogpatch USA opened at Marble Falls, Arkansas, based on Capp's work and with his support.
The “ Skonk Works " was a dilapidated factory located on the remote outskirts of Dogpatch, in the backwoods of Kentucky.
He was later found dead on the corner of Minnesota and Mariposa Streets, on the edge of Potrero Hill and the Dogpatch District in San Francisco, his left shoe and sock missing.
While she was generally favored by the males of Dogpatch, she could be deadly for a confirmed bachelor to encounter on Sadie Hawkins Day.
Incensed to find that Dogpatch cast a shadow on his breakfast egg, he had Dogpatch moved — instead of the egg.
* Big Barnsmell: The lonely " inside man " at the " Skonk Works " — a dilapidated factory located on the remote outskirts of Dogpatch.
The arrival of Silent's grim visage in Dogpatch signaled earthshaking news on the horizon.
" Frequently sporting 5 o ' clock shadows, eye patches, scars, fangs and other ruffian attributes — they devoured " good " shmoos, and wreaked havoc on Dogpatch.
* Dogpatch USA: In 1968, an $ 35 million theme park called Dogpatch USA opened at Marble Falls, Arkansas, based on Capp's work and with his support.
A 1971 musical special on ABC: the modern world comes to Dogpatch.
" Frequently sporting 5 o ' clock shadows, eye patches, scars, bandages and other ruffian attributes — they devoured " good " Shmoos, were the sworn enemies of " hoomanity ," and wreaked havoc on Dogpatch.
But Earthquake McGoon reminds them that if they leave Dogpatch, the annual Sadie Hawkins Day race won't take place: in Dogpatch, the only way anyone can be married is if a young woman catches a boy on Sadie Hawkins Day.
Dogpatch USA is an abandoned theme park located on State Highway 7 between the cities of Harrison and Jasper in Arkansas, USA, an area known today as Marble Falls.
Al Capp ( 1909 — 1979 ) used to joke that Dogpatch was based on Seabrook, New Hampshire, where he would vacation with his wife, Catherine.
In 1967, Al Capp licensed and had an interest in an, $ 35 million theme park called Dogpatch USA, based on the comic strip's setting.
Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome are show caves located between the cities of Jasper and Harrison, in the state of Arkansas, U. S. A., on the Arkansas Highway 7 Scenic Byway near the defunct amusement park Dogpatch USA.
Dogpatch and Broadway
Although it lacks the political satire and Broadway polish of the 1959 version, this film gives a fairly accurate portrayal of the various Dogpatch characters up until that time.
Dogpatch and Life
* Capp, Al, Life Magazine ( January 14, 1957 ) " The Dogpatch Saga: Al Capp's Own Story "
* Capp, Al, Life Magazine ( January 14, 1957 ) " The Dogpatch Saga: Al Capp's Own Story "
Dogpatch and 1957
* Toys and licensed merchandise: Dogpatch characters were heavily licensed throughout the 1940s and 1950s: the main cast was produced as a set of six handpuppets and dolls by Baby Barry Toys in 1957.
Dogpatch and .
The Yokums live in the backwater hamlet of Dogpatch, Kentucky.
Described by its creator as " an average stone-age community ," Dogpatch mostly consists of hopelessly ramshackle log cabins, pine trees, " tarnip " fields and " hawg " wallows.
Dogpatch residents regularly combat the likes of city slickers, business tycoons, government officials and intellectuals with their homespun simplicity.
( This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery !, and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith later that year.
Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, the National Amputation Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans, among others.
As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.
* Dogpatch USA amusement park.
In the Appalachian and Ozark regions, the hillbilly stereotype formed the basis for financially lucrative commercial interpretations of traditional culture through theme parks and theaters, such as Dogpatch USA in Arkansas, and Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Abner's main goal in life was evading the marital designs of Daisy Mae Scragg, the virtuous, voluptuous, barefoot Dogpatch damsel and scion of the Yokums ' blood feud enemies — the Scraggs, her bloodthirsty, semi-evolved kinfolk.
Like Mammy Yokum and the other " wimmenfolk " in Dogpatch, Daisy Mae did all the work, domestic and otherwise — while the useless menfolk generally did nothing whatsoever.
Mammy Yokum: Born Pansy Hunks, Mammy was the scrawny, highly principled " sassiety " leader and bare knuckle " champeen " of the town of Dogpatch.
While Mammy was the unofficial mayor of Dogpatch and could read, Pappy remained illiterate.
He wasn't above chicanery to achieve his ends, and was warily viewed by Dogpatch menfolk as a traitor to his gender.
In one sequence, Phogbound is unable to campaign in Dogpatch — so he sends his aides with an old, hot air-filled gas bag that resembles him.
* Available Jones: Dogpatch entrepreneur Available Jones was always available — for a price.
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