Molly Dawg's FC Series # 17 - Huckleberry Hound Traditional Cache
Molly Dawg's FC Series # 17 - Huckleberry Hound
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This is a series of caches dedicated to famous canines throughout
history. Some of the dogs were real, some fictional, some from
mythology, and others from TV, movies, advertising, comic strips,
etc, but all are recognizable as being famous in their own right
for various reasons.
Huckleberry Hound
Huckleberry "Huck" Hound was a blue dog that spoke with a Southern
drawl, with a relaxed, sweet, and well-intentioned personality. He
first appeared in the series The Huckleberry Hound Show.
Huckleberry's name is a reference to classic American novel
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain. The term
"Huckleberry" can be a slang synonym for a rube or an amateur, and
that seems to fit Huck's personality. Most of his shorts consisted
of Huck trying to perform jobs in different fields, ranging from
policeman to (ironically enough) dogcatcher, with backfiring
results, yet usually coming out on top, either through slow
persistence or sheer luck.
"The Huckleberry Hound Show" was William Hanna and Joseph
Barbera's second made-for-TV series . The series premiered in 1958
and took television audiences by storm. Sponsored nationally by
Kellogg's Cereals, the show was the first fully animated series
made strictly for television, in contrast to those hosted by live
performers or ones with a cinematic history With a limited budget
of about $2,800 per television episode, Hanna and Barbera invented
a technique called "limited animation." This process, used in their
first series, greatly reduced the number of drawings needed to
complete a single cartoon, and the technique would carry them to
the top of the ratings chart for the next three decades.
A trademark of Huck was his tone deaf (as well as inaccurate)
rendition of "Oh My Darling, Clementine," often used as a running
gag. He also commonly used the phrase "and stuff like that there"
in place of "etc.". This phrase showed up quite often in many
Hanna-Barbera productions of this time for some reason, but
Huckleberry said it more often than anyone else. One of his careers
had his job position on the door listed as "TS & SLTT". When
asked what it stood for, Huck said "Top secrets and stuff like that
there".
The cache container is a camo'd Gatoraid container with some trade
items and log, but no pen, so BYOP in order to sign the log. Please
replace the container as found so as to protect the integrity of
the find for the next cachers to come along. Use some caution as
there are briars and thorns nearby and might make access more
difficult depending upon which route you take.
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