Here's a five minute episode of The Funny Company — and I'll bet most of you don't make it all the way through. This was a 1963 syndicated cartoon, each episode of which was produced for around a buck-eighty. They had a long theme song and a long closing, which cut down on the amount of animation to be produced for each installment. And then most of each installment featured some science film or travelogue or promotional film that they got for little or no money. I didn't even like these when I was eleven years old and Engineer Bill was running them on Channel 9 locally.
That's Dick Beals doing the lead voice and the villain is performed by Hal Smith, who seems to have been in every cartoon show produced in Los Angeles during the sixties with a budget under a hundred dollars. Robie Lester and Nancy Wible are in there, too. See how long you last watching this…
