Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!
Jerry Lewis, perhaps best known to generations of Americans for his role in hosting the big MDA telethons from the '50s into the 21st Century, actually had a diverse career…
Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!
Jerry Lewis, perhaps best known to generations of Americans for his role in hosting the big MDA telethons from the '50s into the 21st Century, actually had a diverse career in show biz. (Apparently achieving godhood in France, for some reason.)
Eddie Murphy owes a bit of his success to Lewis, as his 1996 NUTTY PROFESSOR hit film was a remake of Jerry's most popular movie of the same title from '63. Then Murphy's sequel borrowed the concept of having the star in a bunch of different character roles from Lewis' 1965 FAMILY JEWELS.
Also borrowing from the latter picture was the 1970 Filmation cartoon series WILL THE REAL JERRY LEWIS PLEASE SIT DOWN, featuring various Lewis characters in animated form. In this episode, the Professor character, apparently having learned nothing from STAR TREK TOS: THE ENEMY WITHIN, or any of the Superman comic origins of Bizarro, hits Jerry with a clonermajig and creates an Evil Twin... Not unlike Buddy Love from The Nutty Professor...
Though Jerry Lewis was involved with the series, his characters were voiced by none other than David Lander, best known as Squiggy from the live-action LAVERNE & SHIRLEY spin-off from HAPPY DAYS. Also on the show are Howard Morris, beloved by ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW fans as Ernest T. Bass, but also the voice of Jughead from the ARCHIES and the titular WALDO KITTY. (Both 'toons previously featured on this channel.) Of course, we also have Jane Webb, who did most of the female voices in Filmation shows, from Batgirl to both Mary-Ann and Ginger, Betty and Veronica, not to mention SABRINA (previously featured here as well).
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