The Talking Magpies.

Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!

Since I've been featuring various incarnations of Terrytoons' best-known character MIGHTY MOUSE, I'll go ahead and have a look at Paul Terry's second most famous property, HECKLE & JECKLE.

Like MM, this pair started off in theatrical shorts. When Paul Terry sold his studio (and archives) to CBS in the mid-1950s, their pictures were showcased in one of the earliest network TV Saturday Morning Cartoon shows.

The pesky birds were in the prototype phase in 1946, when they were introduced as antagonists to Terry's earliest character, Farmer Alfalfa. The most notable difference between these two and the later Talking Magpies is that one of them is female! And y'all thought going transgender was a new thing...

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