Thursday, December 21, 2006

Remembering Joseph Barbera

Joseph Barbera, co-founder of Hanna- Barbera Studios and creator of Oscar-winning characters Tom and Jerry as well as Huckleberry Hound and the Flintstone family, died on 18th Dec of natural causes at home. He was 95.

Unless you are living in a cave, you must have seen one of Hanna-Barbera's cartoons. Notable ones are Flinstones, Scooby-doo, Yogi Bear, Smurfs, Jetsons, Atom Ant, Tom & Jerry, Popeye and many more. Personally these are my favourites:


















Wacky Races - If you can remember, there are a few teams to compete who finished the race first. There is this villian team ,the guy with the red/blue hat and the doggie with a cynical laugh (goes something like hee hee hee hee) will always dish out dirty tricks and tactics to foil other teams's plan. The DVD is out, it's on my waiting list :)

Scooby-doo needs no introduction. Who can forgot the Scooby-doo bee where are you theme :) In the later part of the series, they introduced Scooby little nephew Scrabby-doo. Both have signature tunes, Yabba yabba doo and puppy power! :)















Super Friends - The original series were produced by Hanna-Barbera and the characters were under license from DC Comics.

See you can recognise any of the cartoon characters from the following pics:

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