Baggy Pants and the Nitwits is a 1977 animated series, produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and broadcast on NBC.
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Overview
Though the characters appeared together in the show's introduction, they each appeared separately in their own episodes. Each 30-minute episode of Baggy Pants and the Nitwits contained two segments: one for Baggy Pants and the other for The Nitwits.
Baggy Pants is an anthropomorphic cat dressed as Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp" character, right down to the mustache and cane. Similar to Chaplin and the Pink Panther, Baggy Pants pantomimed in all his misadventures, with very little or no spoken dialogue in his segments.
The Nitwits is about an elderly superhero named Tyrone (voiced by Arte Johnson) who, due to public demand, re-emerged from retirement to again fight crime with help from his wife Gladys (Ruth Buzzi), taking assignments at his own discretion (according to the announcer in the introduction). Tyrone and Gladys were based on "Tyrone F. Horneigh" and "Gladys Ormphby", sketch characters performed by Johnson and Buzzi when they were regulars on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. (In the opening titles of "Nitwits" segment, Johnson himself was credited with having "created The Nitwits for television.")
The series ran for 13 episodes; it has not been released on home video.
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Episode list
Cast
- Ruth Buzzi - Gladys
- Arte Johnson - Tyrone
External links
- Baggy Pants and the Nitwits on IMDb
- Baggy Pants and the Nitwits at TV.com
- Baggy Pants and the Nitwits at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Baggy Pants and the Nitwits at SaturdayMorning.Pop-Cult.com
- Baggy Pants and the Nitwits at Toonarific.com
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