Here Comes the Grump
| Here Comes the Grump | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Animated Comedy Fantasy |
| Voices of |
Rip Taylor Indira Stefanianna Jay North |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 17 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises The Mirisch Company |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 6, 1969 – April 25, 1970 |
Here Comes the Grump is an animated cartoon series produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970.
The main character was a small, grumpy wizard who put a spell of gloom on the kingdom of the Princess Dawn. The Princess and her friend Terry Dexter (a boy from the "real" world) searched for the Cave of the Whispering Orchids to find a crystal key to break the spell, while the Grump tried to stop them. In each episode the Grump flew a dragon named Dingo, chasing Terry and Princess Dawn. This led them to bizarre places with strange characters, such as the Blabbermouth of Echo Island, where the mountains were made of living Swiss cheese.
The Princess had a pet named Bip — a vaguely doglike creature with tentacular legs, that sniffed clues like a hound dog, turned around by pulling in its tail and head and popping them back out at opposite ends, and communicated in the sounds of a soprano bugle. In most episodes, the Princess and her friends traveled in a flying car supported by a big balloon.
A recurring gag was that at the very last minute when the Grump was about to catch up with Princess Dawn, the Dragon would sneeze and burn the little wizard.
The character of the Grump was based upon Yosemite Sam, also created by Friz Freleng. The Grump's Dragon was similar to Sam's in "Knighty Knight Bugs", right down to the fiery nasal explosions upon its master.
The series was broadcast by NBC from September 6, 1969 to December 27, 1969. NBC continued to air reruns until December 28, 1970.
The series lasted one season and was rerun, the most recent the airing on the Sci-Fi Channel in the mid 1990s. The complete series was released on DVD on January 31, 2006.
The series was called Ahi viene cascarrabias in Spanish and was in retransmitted into the 1970s and 1980s by Televisa and another rerun in 2006 after the DVD set was launched. It was "Grump, o feiticeiro trapalhão" in Brazilian Portuguese and was in retransmitted until 1993 by Rede Globo.
The only known merchandise for the show was a "Here Comes the Grump" Halloween mask, produced by the Ben Cooper Costume Company, for the 1969 holiday season.
There were 17 episodes, each containing two ten-minute shorts, giving a total of 34 separate cartoons.
On 17 September 2014, Variety has reported that a feature film adaptation based on the series is in production. It will be produced by Ánima Estudios in Mexico and the newly-launched GFM Animation, with the special effects being done at Prime Focus World in London, and is expected to be completed by the first-half of 2017.
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