2 fdfdfafdfdfasf.
3 Rene claims he looks like Clyde Crashcup.
4 Who?
5 Old cartoon.
6 Here.
7 Clyde Crashcup. Tim Lincecum. Same guy.
8 Here is a Wiki-Bio of Clyde Crashcup. Hope it doesn't mess up today's entry. I didn't edit because that is Wiki's office. I did omit elaboration that would lengthen today's entry. Anyway, here go:
Clyde Crashcup
From The-Source-That-Nobody-Should-Use-But-That-Everybody-Uses-Anyway Wiki:
Clyde Crashcup is a fictional character from the early-1960's animated television series The Alvin Show.
Fictional character biography
Clyde Crashcup (voiced by Shepard Menken) is a scientist in a white coat whose experiments invariably failed. His was the only voice heard in many of the episodes because the other character in the series was Leonardo, who only whispered into Clyde's ear. In one episode though Clyde invented a wife (voiced by June Foray, who also portrayed Rocket J. Squirrel in Rocky and Bullwinkle, among other characters).
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Clyde Crashcup was primarily an inventor rather than a researcher, although he tended to "invent" things which had already been invented. However, in one episode, he built a functioning time machine. He typically would invent something by taking a pencil out of his lab coat's pocket and drawing a picture in midair of his conception: the picture would then become the actual object.
Clyde's catchphrase was to break down the name of his invention into its etonymic elements to explain his thought process. For example, when asked to justify the invention of the telephone, he would say, "That's 'tele-' for 'tele' and 'phone' for phone: telephone."
The character and his voice appear to have been based on characters from the 1930's and 1940's. The voice of the scientist in the 1943 Bugs Bunny cartoon, Super Rabbit, is very similar; and both are similar to that of radio-era comic actor Richard Haydn, who often played slightly befuddled or eccentric characters. As drawn, Crashcup somewhat resembled Shepard Menken's physical appearance.
Dell Comics published 5 issues of a "Clyde Crashcup" comic book from Aug-Oct 1963 to Sept-Nov 1964.
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Appearances
In The Alvin Show, Clyde Crashcup appeared in the following segments:
- Crashcup Invents Jokes
- Crashcup Invents Self-Preservation
- Crashcup Invents Glass
- Crashcup Invents the Chair
- Crashcup Invents the West
- Crashcup Invents Baseball
- Crashcup Invents the Bathtub
- Crashcup Invents the Wife
- Crashcup Invents Flight
- Crashcup Invents the Baby
- Crashcup Invents the Stove
- Crashcup Invents Music
- Crashcup Invents First Aid
- Crashcup Invents Electricity
- Crashcup Invents Egypt
- Crashcup Invents the Bed
- Crashcup Invents the Telephone
- Crashcup Invents Do-it-Yourself
- Crashcup Invents the Time Machine
- Crashcup Invents the Shoe
- Crashcup Invents Physical Fitness
- Crashcup Invents the Ship
- This is Your Life, Clyde Crashcup
- Crashcup Invents the Birthday Party
- Crashcup Invents Self-Defense
- Crashcup Invents Crashcupland
Other media
- In 1981, Crashcup appeared on the TV-special A Chipmunk Christmas, in a dream sequence; he told Alvin that he'd just invented Santa Claus. Shepard Menken reprises Clyde Crashcup.
- Crashcup later had a special guest spot in the modern Alvin and the Chipmunks 1990 episdode "Back to Our Future," in which he showed up in the time of the new show with a time machine and brought the modern Chipmunks back to his time, where they temporarily switched places with the Alvin Show Chipmunks. It was later released on VHS on April 14, 1994, as The Chipmunks Go to the Movies.
- In Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman, the chipmunks go to school at Clyde C. Crashcup Elementary School, a school that could be named after him.
9 Quite a resume.
10 A few of his inventions turned my head: baseball, naturally, but Crashcup's other claims looked impressive. Here is my personal list of faves: Self-Preservation, the Wife, the Baby and the Stove. Most impressive could arguably go to his purported invention of Egypt, although he lays a pretty good claim to the invention of the Time Machine. Santa Claus would have been a doozy, but I disqualified it since it was just a boastful dream.
11 Who knew?
12 Anybody lookin'?
13 Welp, I checked this last night to make sure all the fonts and nonsense worked. Sometimes they don't when I copy/paste things. The last time I did a copy/paste, everything pasted turned dark when I published, even though I credited my sources. I wrote this whole thing saving, checking and all that folderol, closed my eyes and prayed that it would all work.
14 It did.
15 I'm still winding down a stressful two weeks.
16 I almost boasted that my worst days are behind me, but the second I thought of that I got pink-lined by whatever this thing is called. I think it's called Blogger, but it sometimes veils itself as "Blogspot". Go figure.
17 It pink-lines when you edit. It tells you there is a problem with something, but gives you a little "dismiss" link which you click, and then it pops right up again.
18 Ah, whatevs. I switched to this when I tried a bunch of other blogspots or whatever they're called and they kept trying to bilk me for money. When you're a hack, you'll take the cheapest vehicle out there. I lean toward cheap stuff. I'm not here to build an empire; I'm here to give a chuckle. My goal each morning is to try to make coffee or oatmeal go out someone's nose or eyes. Tough job, but someone's gotta do it. This guy always seems to work:
19 Moving On, Part One: So not too many complaints. I'm looking to the end of this week, sailing through next week and then hitting a nice island of sanity.
20 I hope to bathe in the sunshine, the coconut oil and the balmy breezes of late April.
21 I wrote this last night during the Giants' game. Lincecum looked horrible. I'm watching the post game as I write. The boys are scratching their heads about Timmeh. Kuip used the word "unexplainable".
22 Kuip.
23 No location. Head case.
24 "This was a massive brain fracture that was going on."
---John MIller
25 I got to the end of this and thought to myself, "This stuff ain't funny."
26 Second home game.
27 Torture.
28 Pretty easy to fix, but do we want to go there? I'm almost apologetic for making light of Timmeh, comparing his appearance to Clyde Crashcup and all. That's how this DN happened.
29 Ah, it's April! Who cares? We all tend to get into better moods when Spring arrives. Baseball is here, birds are chirping, and dreaming abounds. We are in cartoonland. And baseball is here. This can't be understated.
30 It's still gonna be a great season.
31 I gotttago.
32 Hang in there Giants' fans.
33 I gotta get goin'. It's Spring! Get out and have some fun!
34 See you again.
35 Peace.
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