I was a big fan before I was six years old. Eddie Murphy has now forever ruined them for me.

I lived in a hole in the ground until Eddie Murphy introduced me to them. Even then, I've only had limited contact with the source material.

I LOVED that show when I was a young 'un!!

I'm GUMBY, DAMMIT

Loved the original, loved the Eddie Murphy bit and I'm of the opinion that these are the characters that Art Adams was born to draw...

The TV shows disturbed me as a child.

I had to watch Davey and Goliath every week in Sunday School for 5 years....that was disturbing....

touche, ed

Never much watched Gumby, though we (me and a few friends) did decide that my sixth grade science teacher was Gumby's brother.

I dated a girl I once thought might be Gumby's sister.

And did she think you were Pokey's brother?

I'm bettin' there was no Pokey involved.....

When I was 16, for some unknown reason some friends rented a Gumby tape and played it enough that the Gumby theme song permanently burned itself into my brain.

GUMBY!
He was once a little green slab of clay
GUMBY!
You should see what Gumby can do today
GUMBY!

The other thing was this one snatch of dialog also burned itself into our conciousness. Don't know if the horrid delivery can be duplicated in text...

Gumby: Mother? May I have a glass of milk?

But you have to read the thing with all the Capital Letters rising up in pitch and the periods are little micropauses between the words:

Mo-THER?...may EYE. have a gllass.of.. miLK?

Burned into my memory, I tell you, seared as if with Flame!

Something tells me we've touched onto a subject that has taken Mike N. years of therapy to be able to just now start talking about.

I remember watching their Easter Special every year. I don't recall any other episodes... nor that one, come to think of it.

That wasn't the one where Davey has to kill Goliath because Goliath was against bombing the abortion clinic, was it?

Simpsons Did It!!!! Simpsons Did It!!!

Well, she didn't mind Pokey, but there were no horses. No clay for that matter.

Never seen a single episode -- hadn't even heard of Gumby when I was a kid. Mike's post above fascinates me cos it suggests that apparently Gumby had some sort of origin? Was it magic clay? Radioactive clay? And where does gum enter into all this?

That Gumby doll -- er, action figure -- is interesting to look at. Assuming those aren't rolly eyes, for some reason they modeled G to always be glancing to the right. So if you're a kid playing, and you want Gumby to look straight at something, you've gotta twist him all around. Why wouldn't they've made him looking straight on? Was this some wry comment on Gumby's existence outside the mainstream? "That guy looks askance at everything..."

And note of course, Gumby's looking right, meaning he's on the left...

"If you've got a heart then Gumby's a part of you ..."

Gumby and Pokey are a very fond childhood memory. I remember having a few of the bendable Gumby "action figures" but I bent them so often that the wire inside always ended up breaking and poking out through the legs.

I played with Gumby and Pokey toys when I was a child. I can't remember which of the brothers or sisters actually owned them. But I can tell you that the common failure mode of a Gumby toy is that he splits upward from the crotch when two children each have a hold on one leg and want to be the only one playing with it.

I caught the documentary "Gumby Dharma" on The Sundance Channel last night. It's a brief overview of Clokey's life and works, but it's interesting (and enjoyable) none the less. I'm not sure if/when it will be aired again.

http://gumbydharma.com/