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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.
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Dogpatch and characters
Outside Dogpatch, characters used a variety of stock Vaudevillian dialects.
Dogpatch characters pitched consumer products as varied as Grape-Nuts cereal, Kraft caramels, Ivory soap, Oxydol, Duz and Dreft detergents, Fruit of the Loom, Orange Crush, Nestlé's cocoa, Cheney neckties, Pedigree pencils, Strunk chainsaws, U. S. Royal tires, Head & Shoulders shampoo and General Electric light bulbs.
* 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.
A 10-figure set of carnival chalkware statues of Dogpatch characters was manufactured by Artrix Products in 1951, and Topstone introduced a line of 16 rubber Halloween masks prior to 1960.
In addition, Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the U. S. Treasury, the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Sister Kenny Foundation, the Boy Scouts of America, Community Chest, the National Reading Council, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, Christmas Seals, the National Amputation Foundation and Disabled American Veterans, among others.
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 were
They were usually too feeble to handle the sacks of timeworn, cobweb-covered letters marked " Rush " at the Dogpatch Express post office.
The menfolk were too lazy to work, yet Dogpatch gals were desperate enough to chase them ( see Sadie Hawkins Day ).
Ruled by Good King Nogoodnik ( sometimes known as King Stubbornovsky the Last ), the Slobbovian politicians were even more corrupt than their Dogpatch counterparts.
" 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.
The menfolk were too lazy to work, yet Dogpatch gals were desperate enough to chase them ( see Sadie Hawkins Day ).
Dogpatch and used
Senator Fogbound, Dogpatch's U. S. congressman, tells the citizens that Congress has declared Dogpatch the most unnecessary town in the U. S., and so it must be evacuated to be used as a nuclear bomb test site.
Al Capp ( 1909 — 1979 ) used to joke that Dogpatch was based on Seabrook, New Hampshire, where he would vacation with his wife, Catherine.
Dogpatch and national
As the townspeople try to move the town's statue of Jubilation T. Cornpone, a plaque bearing a declaration by Abraham Lincoln is revealed: because Cornpone's military blunders almost single-handedly allowed the North to win the Civil War, Dogpatch is designated a national shrine.
Dogpatch and for
In another, the search is on in Dogpatch for a pair of missing socks knitted by the first President of the United States.
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.
* Available Jones: Dogpatch entrepreneur Available Jones was always available — for a price.
While she was generally favored by the males of Dogpatch, she could be deadly for a confirmed bachelor to encounter on Sadie Hawkins Day.
Her notoriety precedes her everywhere except Dogpatch — where she meets and falls for Tiny Yokum.
* Sadie Hawkins: In the early days of Dogpatch, Sadie Hawkins was " the homeliest gal in them hills " who grew frantic waiting for suitors to come a-courtin '.
Her father Hekzebiah Hawkins, a prominent Dogpatch resident, grew even more frantic — about Sadie living at home for the rest of his life.
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.
... Mr. Kidd has caught the spirit of Dogpatch civilization brilliantly enough to suggest that ballet is a more suitable medium than words for animating Al Capp's cartoon drawings ".
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.
However, the Raney's would continue to manage the trout farm and Mystic Caverns for Dogpatch.
Dogpatch and March
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.
Dogpatch and Minnesota
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.
Dogpatch and American
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.
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.
In 1968, a theme park called Dogpatch USA opened at Marble Falls, Arkansas, based on Capp's work and with his support.
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.
* Dogpatch and Li ' l Abner on Broadway in Life, January 14, 1957, pp. 71 – 83
The “ Skonk Works " was a dilapidated factory located on the remote outskirts of Dogpatch, in the backwoods of Kentucky.
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.
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