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Peabody's Improbable History

  • TV Series
  • 1959–1963
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Peabody's Improbable History (1959)
AnimationComedySci-Fi

The time-traveling adventures of the world's smartest dog and his boy repairing errors in history.The time-traveling adventures of the world's smartest dog and his boy repairing errors in history.The time-traveling adventures of the world's smartest dog and his boy repairing errors in history.

  • Creator
    • Ted Key
  • Stars
    • Paul Frees
    • Walter Tetley
    • Bill Scott
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    • Creator
      • Ted Key
    • Stars
      • Paul Frees
      • Walter Tetley
      • Bill Scott
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    Paul Frees
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    • Various Characters…
    • 1959–1963
    Walter Tetley
    • Sherman
    • 1959–1963
    Bill Scott
    Bill Scott
    • Mr. Peabody
    • 1959–1963
    June Foray
    June Foray
    • Calamity Jane…
    • 1960–1963
    Dorothy Scott
    • Annie Oakley…
    • 1959–1960
    Ed Wynn
    Ed Wynn
    • Frantic Man
    • 1959
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      • Ted Key
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    When young Sherman asks Dr. Peabody how Lord . . .

    . . . Horatio Nelson lost his eye, the know-it-all mutt replies "search me." Peabody is wise to shield the impressionable kid from the disreputable facts delineating the thoroughly disreputable Nelson's Life and Injuries. An ardent supporter of Human Bondage, Nelson married a trafficker's daughter expecting to reap a fortune in illicit plantation profits. When he learned that he'd been hoodwinked by the people profiteers, he started having children with a decent woman. This enraged his spouse F-word, whose obscene name rhymes with "canny." First she poked out one of his eyes with a steak knife, later disarming him with a meat cleaver and finally fatally would him with a Cat of Nine Tails. Lord Nelson already was in Dutch with the British monarch for being a close ally of a dude who tried to assassinate King George III, barely escaping a double-header decapitation. Therefore, Britain covered up all of Horatio's family spat blood-letting as "war injuries," and erected a giant shaft in his memory in downtown London.
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    It's really not talking out of turn to state the fact that . . .

    . . . the focal point of PEABODY'S IMPROBABLE HISTORY: DON JUAN centers around a common garden vegetable; namely, the lowly onion. These ground appetizers were first discovered by a Greek named Aristotle Plato in 4,926 BC. Legend has it that Arie, as he was known to his fellow farmers, stumbled across a wild onion while cultivating a field for his asparagus crop around 8 AM on a Friday morning Be that as it may, there are seven major species of commercial onions, breaking into 391 distinct varieties when all is said and done. Mr. Peabody does not make it clear to which type of white tuber Mr. Juan becomes addicted. Chances are that it is the Rebel Vidalia product.

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    • Trivia
      The name of Mr. Peabody's time machine is WABAC (pronounced "Way-back"). It resembles a typical computer of the time, which could take up an entire room of the office building. Such computers often had names like ENIAC or UNIVAC, with AC standing for Automatic Computer. Show director Gerard Baldwin stated that WABAC was intended to parody UNIVAC specifically. (In Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), WABAC's full name was retconned as Wavelength Acceleration Bi-directional Asynchronous Controller.)
    • Goofs
      Many of the depicted historical figures bear little resemblance to the real people. However, Peabody does explain in Show Opening (1959) that WABAC is not really a time machine, but a should-have-been machine. It is a gateway to a sanitized idealistic version of history. E.g., this explains why everybody they meet speaks American English.
    • Crazy credits
      There are three different opening titles sequences for Peabody shorts. One is the parade, where Peabody and Sherman ride in a Roman Empire chariot behind elephants, soldiers, and a litter with a beautiful woman relaxing on it. Another is Sherman walking through a museum which displays pictures of Peabody throughout history. Rounding out the list is the one with Peabody and Sherman riding a succession of vehicles into the past.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Millennium (1989)

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    • Release date
      • November 19, 1959 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • M. Peabody et Sherman
    • Production company
      • Jay Ward Productions
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      5 minutes

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