Muttley from The Wacky Races presents the weather report

(via Arbroath)

[#1 posted by brynnablue, August 31, 2008 2:11 PM]

Is he gonna be okay? Sounds like he's about to have a coronary event of some sort.

[#2 posted by alisong76, August 31, 2008 2:42 PM]

Still not as funny as the weatherman who flailed at the cockroach :-)

[#3 posted by brynnablue, August 31, 2008 2:47 PM]

@ 2:
I feel like I should get the reference, but my brain isn't being cooperative. Weatherman? Cockroach? Bzuh?

[#4 posted by jfrancis, August 31, 2008 2:49 PM]

I still love the German weathercaster best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_wpunvbyKA

[#5 posted by animagnum, August 31, 2008 2:53 PM]

Whoa, that's channel 13 here in Indianapolis. I think that is retired weatherman Bob Gregory. David Letterman once worked there as a weatherman as well.

[#6 posted by jmigmac, August 31, 2008 3:22 PM]

Brynnablue-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT4XO3Hjp7M

heeeelarious!

[#7 posted by Islington, August 31, 2008 3:27 PM]

yep that's Bob Gregory. He used to host that Brain Game show too...now that takes me back...

[#8 posted by brynnablue, August 31, 2008 3:53 PM]

@ Jmigmac:
That absolutely made my day! I have no idea why I missed that the first time around. Thank you!

[#9 posted by Cupcake Faerie, August 31, 2008 4:41 PM]

I'll take two of whatever he had...

[#10 posted by meanlittlemonkey, August 31, 2008 4:46 PM]

amazing how many hoosiers there are on here

[#11 posted by anthony, August 31, 2008 5:14 PM]

The weatherman being from Florida, I'll bet it was a palmetto bug (gigantic roaches).
And why did Muttley laugh at every damn thing?

[#12 posted by Genghazoid, August 31, 2008 5:31 PM]

Strong wheezes from the east today, with a 100% chance of strange hand gestures over most of Central America today..

[#13 posted by Schnogg, August 31, 2008 5:43 PM]

Yup...that's Bob Gregory, all right. I appeared with him several times on the Brain Game (as a contestant), and he was always a lot of fun. He never had any idea what he was talking about, though...

[#14 posted by Foolster41, August 31, 2008 5:43 PM]

Wow. Sadly, I remember the wacky races show. The show (or I think it was a space-themed spin off of the show) was part of a larger show called "wake, rattle and roll." Which was about as "cool" as the Super Mario super show. :P

[#15 posted by EH, August 31, 2008 6:50 PM]

Punchline: "She wouldn't eat her mushrooms."

[#16 posted by JIMWICh, August 31, 2008 9:16 PM]

Muttley! That's so excellent! Good catch, Mark!

[#17 posted by romulusnr, August 31, 2008 10:59 PM]

However, his laugh does not beat Arthur the Weatherman's laugh.

http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/from_start_to_finish_the_most_inexplicab

[#18 posted by harpdevil, September 1, 2008 12:58 AM]

Whats the joke, grandpa?

Am I the only one that thinks his laugh sounds kinda otherworldly? He sounds like he is possessed or something. Maybe if we slow it down we'll hear a secret message?

[#19 posted by alisong76, September 1, 2008 1:19 AM]

Not a weatherman, but this is the BEST LAUGH EVER.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w

You can't help laughing with him after a while.

[#20 posted by Absent, September 1, 2008 3:45 AM]

A many repeated English one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbGwdIYph6Q

[#21 posted by slappymcbutterpants, September 1, 2008 8:11 PM]

that was the Laff-a-Lympics, wasn't it? With, heavens to Murgatroyd, the first gay cartoon character, Snagglepuss.

[#22 posted by MichelleMcCormack, September 1, 2008 9:00 PM]

He is the cutest thing in the world. He deserves a raise.

[#23 posted by wynneth, September 1, 2008 9:33 PM]

NOT the laff a lympics. The characters from the laff a lympics team the Really Rottens were made to resemble Dick Dastardly and Muttley but were not actually them. Dastardly and Muttley (glances fondly at T-shirt acquired at thrift) are from Wacky Races. From wikipedia,

Muttley is sometimes confused with Mumbly, a crime-fighting dog who tracked down criminals using his dog senses and drove around in an old beat-up car. Mumbly looked similar to Muttley and had a similar laugh, but Mumbly had grey fur and wore a trenchcoat. Ironically, Mumbly later showed up as the captain of the villainous Really Rottens in Laff-a-Lympics along with his accomplice, "The Dread Baron" (a reference to The Red Baron) who happens to resemble Dick Dastardly. Both characters (The Dread Baron and Mumbly) later appeared in the TV movie Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose. It is not certain why Mumbly was retconned as a villain. Neither is it certain why he and Dread Baron were apparently used as substitutes for Dastardly and Muttley, especially in the Yogi Bear movie where Paul Winchell voiced the Baron instead of Dastardly. The reason most suggested is that the Wacky Races characters (including Dastardly and Muttley) were not fully owned by Hanna-Barbera as the show was a co-production with Heatter-Quigley Productions.