The comic strip stars Li ' l Abner Yokum — the simple-minded, loutish but good-natured and eternally innocent hayseed who lives with his parents — scrawny but superhuman Mammy Yokum, and shiftless, childlike Pappy Yokum.

He inherited his strength from his irascible Mammy, and his brains from his less-than-brainy Pappy.

Mammy was regularly seen scrubbing Pappy in an outdoor oak tub, (" Once a month, rain or shine.

While Mammy was the unofficial mayor of Dogpatch and could read, Pappy remained illiterate.

Cute, lovable and intelligent ( arguably smarter than Abner, Tiny or Pappy ), she was accepted as part of the family, (" the youngest ," as Mammy invariably introduces her.

" Li ' l Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy, Salomey and Pappy survive another narrow scrape in this strip excerpt from March 29, 1947.

Rounding out the cast were soap opera star Laurette Fillbrandt as Daisy Mae, Hazel Dopheide as Mammy Yokum, and Clarence Hartzell ( who was also a prominent actor on Vic and Sade ) as Pappy.

Abner and Pappy interrupt the ceremony, and Abner takes the potion ( Pappy whispers to Mammy that it's really just water ) and declares that he wants to marry Daisy Mae.

The cast included Howard St. John as General Bullmoose, Stubby Kaye as Marryin ' Sam, Tina Louise as Appassionata von Climax, Julie Newmar as Stupefyin ' Jones, Charlotte Rae as Mammy Yokum, Joe E. Marks as Pappy Yokum, Carmen Alvarez as Moonbeam McSwine, Ted Thurston as Senator Jack S. Phogbound, Bern Hoffman as Earthquake McGoon, and Tony Mordente as Lonesome Polecat.

The windup toy featured Abner dancing, Pappy on drums, Mammy with a drum stick, and Daisy Mae playing piano.

( 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.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

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.

Mammy dominated the Yokum clan through the force of her personality, and dominated everyone else with her fearsome right uppercut ( sometimes known as her " Goodnight, Irene " punch ), which helped her uphold law, order and decency.

It was later issued as an educational comic book — called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery!

* Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery!

Mammy Yokum has a vision in which she sees Bullmoose and Apassionata's plot to kill Li ' l Abner.

Mammy Yokum questions the General, and he reveals the entire plot.

In 1967, she portrayed Mammy Yokum in an unsold TV pilot adapted from Al Capp's Li ' l Abner.

Hayes played Mammy Yokum in both the Broadway and film versions of Li ' l Abner, appeared on the soap opera General Hospital as Robert Scorpio's mentor, " O ' Reilly " in 1981 and 1985, and did the voiceover for the character Mother Mae-Eye on the animated series Teen Titans and the character Granny Applecheeks in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.

Abner's domineering, diminutive Mammy sends Daisy Mae to tell Abner to come to the Cornpone Meetin ' in the town square.

A superhuman dynamo, Mammy did all the household chores — and provided her charges with no fewer than eight meals a day of " po ' k chops " and " tarnips ," ( as well as local Dogpatch delicacies like " candied catfish eyeballs " and " trashbean soup ").

" ( Upon his retirement in 1977, Capp declared Mammy to be his personal favorite of all his characters.

Mammy leads them to America's major polluted cities, where they obligingly devour all the garbage.

Almost all of the shorts contain re-dubbed Mammy Two-Shoes tracks.

The five members of Aerosmith are hidden in secret locations throughout the game, and all must be found in order to see the real ending and have access to collecting high-value Mammy Awards.

Jinx leaps in triumph, then runs down the stack of plates, stomps on Jasper's nose, rolls his eyelids, squirts his milk into the cat's back, and even cleans himself with Jasper's tail ; by now, Mammy is approaching with broom in hand and Jinx gets down to business by kicking the cat in the rear, which causes him to drop all the crockery and be punished unfairly by Mammy.

Later, when McDaniel tried to take her " Mammy " character on a road show, black audiences did not prove receptive.

Al insists on choosing his own material, including his signature tune, " Mammy ", and he becomes so popular that he becomes the leading player and takes the show on tour.

His 1930 film Mammy uses the setting of a traveling minstrel show, giving an on-screen presentation of a performance.

Perhaps the most controversial element of the show is the character Mammy Two Shoes, a poor black maid who speaks in a stereotypical " black accent " and has a rodent problem.

Mammy characters were a staple of minstrel show, giving rise to many sentimental show tunes dedicated to or mentioning mammies, including Al Jolson's " My Mammy " from The Jazz Singer and Judy Garland's performance of " Swanee " from A Star is Born ( a song originally made popular by Jolson ).

Rhett rides his horse around town with Bonnie in front of him, but the household mammy, " Mammy ," insists it is not fitting for a girl to ride a horse with her dress flying up.

In the modern Tom and Jerry Tales a redesigned Mammy has appeared, debuting in the short Ho, Ho Horrors and turning up again later on.

This included major editing, including writing out the African-American maid, Mammy Two-Shoes, and replacing her with one of Irish descent.

Devo's song, " Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy ", was featured in EA Sports ' skateboard video game, Skate.

* 1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.

The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork, Prissy, and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free.

Although the novel is over one thousand pages, Mammy never considers what her life might be like away from Tara.

Micki McElya, in her book, Clinging to Mammy, suggests the myth of the faithful slave, in the figure of mammy, lingers because white Americans wish to live in a world where African Americans are not angry over the injustice of slavery.

* Mammy: Scarlett's nurse from birth, Mammy is a slave who originally belonged to Scarlett's grandmother, and raised her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.

* October – Mammy Lou becomes the oldest person to ever star in a film, at age 114.

* Agnes Browne ( a. k. a. The Mammy ), feature film ( 1999 )

Among the stereotypes of blacks in Uncle Tom's Cabin are the " happy darky " ( in the lazy, carefree character of Sam ); the light-skinned tragic mulatto as a sex object ( in the characters of Eliza, Cassy, and Emmeline ); the affectionate, dark-skinned female mammy ( through several characters, including Mammy, a cook at the St. Clare plantation ); the pickaninny stereotype of black children ( in the character of Topsy ); the Uncle Tom, an African American who is too eager to please white people.

Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

The competition to play Mammy in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) had been almost as stiff as that for Scarlett O ' Hara.

" I loved Mammy ," McDaniel said when speaking to the white press about the character.

However, one author has observed that McDaniel's character is not far off from the persona of Mammy that Margaret Mitchell created in the book, that in both the film and the book the much younger Scarlett speaks to Mammy in a way that would be unacceptable for a Southern teen of that era to speak to a much older white person, and that neither the book nor the film make any hint to Mammy's own children ( dead or alive ), her own family ( dead or alive ) or her desires to have anything other than her life at Tara serving on a slave plantation.

Moreover, while she scolds the younger Scarlett, Mammy never crosses the senior white female in that household: Mrs. O ' Hara.