Dudley Do-Right
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Dudley Do-Right is a fictional character created by Alex Anderson, Chris Hayward, Allan Burns, Jay Ward, and Bill Scott, who appears as the main protagonist of "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties", a segment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
The segment parodies early 20th-century melodrama and silent film (the "Northern"), using only a piano as a musical background.
Dudley Do-Right's first appearance specifically incorporates silent film tropes such as
Overview
Dudley Do-Right is a dim-witted, but conscientious and cheerful Canadian Mountie who works for Inspector Fenwick. Do-Right is always trying to catch his nemesis, Snidely Whiplash, and rescue Inspector Fenwick's daughter, damsel-in-distress Nell Fenwick, with whom Do-Right is deeply infatuated. He usually succeeds only by pure luck or through the actions of his horse, named "Horse."
A running gag throughout the series is Nell Fenwick's disinterest in Do-Right; instead, she appears to be infatuated with his horse. She is shown to kiss the horse rather than Do-Right, and when Do-Right leaves the Mounties, she is only upset about the horse leaving. In Do-Right's first appearance, the narrator states,
Dudley loved Nell. Unfortunately, she loved his horse.[4]
In the standard intro, Do-Right jumps on Horse and furiously rides him backwards as titles appear. While riding, he comes across Whiplash tying Nell Fenwick to a railroad track. He tips his hat to the two, before realizing what is going on and righting himself in time to save the day.
Dudley Do-Right made a cameo in a "Rocky and Bullwinkle Fan Club" segment as the hero in "She Can't Pay the Rent", a play staged by Boris Badenov. Rocky and Bullwinkle also appeared as cameos in "Mountie Bear".[citation needed]
The Dudley Do-Right Show
The Dudley Do-Right Show is an animated television series assembled by P.A.T. Film Services, consisting of cartoons produced by
The U.S. syndicated version of The Dudley Do-Right Show, called Dudley Do Right and Friends, follows the same format but features different episodes. The syndicated package features "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties", "The World of Commander McBragg", "The King and Odie", and "The Hunter". The latter two originally appeared as part of King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, a series that aired between October 15, 1960, and September 28, 1963, on NBC-TV. Twenty-six new segments of both series were produced for CBS-TV's Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales in 1963, and these later segments are included in the syndicated Dudley Do Right and Friends.
Actors (voice overs) included:
- Bill Scott — Dudley Do-Right
- June Foray — Nell Fenwick
- Hans Conried — Snidely Whiplash
- Paul Frees — Inspector Fenwick/Narrator
- William Conrad did several (but not all) of the narrations.
- Evan Cox - cameo in The Actors Challenge
Segments
Season 1
- The Disloyal Canadians
- Stokey the Bear
- Mortgagin' the Mountie Post
- Trap Bait
- The Masked Ginny Lynn
Season 2
- The Centaur
- Railroad Tracks
- Foreclosing Mortgages
- Snidely Mounted Police
- Mother Love
- Mountie Bear
- Inspector Dudley Do-Right
- Recruiting Campaign
- Out of Uniform
- Lure of the Footlights
- Bullet-Proof Suit
- Miracle Drug
- Elevenworth Prison
- Saw Mill
- Finding Gold
- Mountie Without a Horse
- Mother Whiplash's Log Jam
- Stolen Art Masterpiece
Season 3
- Mechanical Dudley
- Flicker Rock
- Faithful Dog
- Coming-Out Party
- Robbing Banks
- Skagway Dogsled-Pulling Contest
- Canadian Railway's Bridge
- Niagara Falls
- Snidely's Vic Whiplash Gym
- Marigolds
- Trading Places
Season 4
- Top Secret
- The Locket
- The Inspector's Nephew
- Matinee Idol
- Snidely Arrested
One segment originally seen on
Legacy
On May 28, 1999,
On August 27, 1999, Universal Studios released a comedy live-action film based on the character, titled Dudley Do-Right. It starred Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Alfred Molina. It received negative reviews and was a box-office failure, grossing less than $10 million domestically against a $22 million budget.[7]
In 2000, music historian Irwin Chusid claimed that scat singer Shooby Taylor's voice reminded him of Dudley Do-Right's "virile baritone."[8]
Premiering in 2013, the Canadian adult animated series Fugget About It features a dimwitted yet well-meaning Mountie character, Strait McCool. McCool exhibits similar appearance, voice acting, behavior, and personality to Do-Right (except for the addition of sexual and drug references). It may be inferred that the character of McCool is a parody of Do-Right.[9][10]
See also
- The Dover Boys, a 1942 Warner Brothers cartoon parodying silent film era storytelling
References
- ISBN 0-312-19922-8), p. 168
- ^ "Bullwinkle's WYME TV Animation & Jokes (Bullwinkle and Dudley)". YouTube. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
- ^ "Voice Of Dudley Do-Right - Dudley Do-Right | Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved August 16, 2021. Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources
- ^ Rocky & Bullwinkle 1st appearance of Dudley Do-Right (Season 1), retrieved 2022-08-21
- ISBN 0-8108-1557-5.
- ^ "Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls at Universal's Islands of Adventure". Orlando Informer. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
- ^ Gray, Brandon. "Dudley Do-Right". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
- ^ Chusid, Irwin (2000). Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music. A Cappella. p. 141.
- ^ Best of McCool - FOR CANADA! Part 1, retrieved 2022-08-21
- ^ Mccools's Fugget about it intro, retrieved 2022-08-21
Further reading
- Beck, Jerry; Minkoff, Rob; Ward, Tiffany; Burrell, Ty (February 11, 2014). The Art of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Hardcover). ISBN 9781608872589.
- Chunovic, Louis. (1996) The Rocky and Bullwinkle Book. ISBN 0553105035
- Chunovic, Louis (December 2002). The Rocky and Bullwinkle Book (Hardcover). ISBN 9780762853137.
- Kilgore, Al; Mendelsohn, Jack; Berg, Dave (2015). Rocky and Bullwinkle: Classic Adventures (Paperback). ISBN 9781631404900.
Al Kilgore, Dave Berg, Fred Fredericks, Jerry Robinson, Illustrators
- Scott, Keith (November 20, 2001). The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose (Paperback). ISBN 9780312283834.
- Van Citters ·, Darrell; Foray, June (March 2021). The Art of Jay Ward Productions (Paperback). Darrell Van Citters. ISBN 9780578845241.
External links
- Dudley Do-Right at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on May 5, 2016.