Depressingly, Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby, died this morning. As a kid I was completely crazy about Gumby: I had the Gumby board game, a bendy Gumby doll that I took in the bath tub (which I think rusted the wires in it because it eventually stopped being bendy), smaller Gumby and Pokey figurines, and this one VHS tape of Gumby cartoons ("Gumby and the Moon Boggles") that I watched over and over again.
From that tape, in honor of Mr. Clokey, here is my favorite childhood Gumby episode, "Mystic Magic":
I'm actually not entirely sure why that one appealed to me so much. Not much of a story there! But it did include the terrifying prospect of accidentally transforming all your friends into inanimate objects, at least.
And Prickle! Prickle was my favorite Gumby character.
Now I think it's time we all also watched "Robot Rumpus" again:
Prickle seems pretty awesome, what with his ability to scoot around to the tune of 50's Sci-Fi foley work.