Inhabitants from Planet Zero take Magilla to their home planet where he makes them too afraid to invade earth. The first to go to the jungle, the second to go back, and the third to get a lot of bananas. Magilla's fairy godmother grants Magilla three wishes. This episode is a sequel of the episode 'Come Blow Your Dough'. Upset that she can't have Magilla, Ogee runs away and Magilla goes after her, thinking of her safety. Magilla is invited to a dressing up party where two thieves are attempting to steal Mrs. Peebles sells Magilla to a mad scientist who takes the gorilla to his laboratory to perform some sinister experiments on his brain.Ĭredited Animators: George Goepper, Kenneth Muse Upon bringing him home, Ogee's parents reject Magilla and call the police. Magilla drinks Professor Skiball's anti-gravity formula, making him float up in the air, and some advertisers take advantage of this.Ĭredited Animators: Dick Lundy, William KeilĪ little girl called Ogee buys Magilla. The director of Grotesque Pictures buys Magilla for his newest motion picture, but the showbiz proves to be painful for Magilla. Peebles sells Magilla to a couple of thieves who are hoping to make use of him, but Magilla foils their robbery attempt. He performs so well at his duty that Private Gorilla is slated for a special mission: being the first American to land on the Moon. Magilla has been drafted into the US Army. Peebles gives Magilla away to a football coach, who recruits him as a fullback in the Pennsyltucky Lions team against the Wabash Cannonballs. Whimple Dimple, who is intent on hunting the gorilla for his taxidermy collection. One episode has Magilla saying, 'Such a megillah over a gorilla.'Įpisodes Season 1 (1964) No. In Yiddish, a megillah is a long, tedious, or embroidered account, from the Hebrew megillah, a story written in a scroll. During the cartoon's theme song, 'We've Got a Gorilla for Sale', she asks hopefully, 'How much is that gorilla in the window?' (a twist on the old standard, ' (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?'), but she was never able to convince her parents to let her keep him. The only customer truly interested in owning Magilla was a little girl named Ogee (voiced by Jean Vander Pyl and pronounced 'Oh Gee!').

Like many of Hanna-Barbera's animal characters, Magilla Gorilla sported human accessories: a purple bow tie, red shorts held up by green suspenders, a purple undersized derby hat, and brown dress shoes. Magilla often ended episodes with his catchphrase 'We'll try again next week.' In the case of being bought by thieves, he was seized by police for being used in criminal activity and returned to Peebles' store. The customers always ended up returning Magilla, forcing Peebles to give a refund. Peebles (voiced by Howard Morris and later by Don Messick) frequently marks down his price considerably, but he is invariably only purchased for a short time, typically by some thieves who needed a gorilla to break into a bank or by an advertising agency looking for a mascot for their new product. Magilla Gorilla (voiced by Allan Melvin ) is a fun-loving yet trouble-prone anthropomorphic gorilla who spends his time languishing in the front display window of Melvin Peebles' pet shop, eating bananas and being a drain on the shop's finances. Magilla Gorilla is a fictional gorilla and the star of The Magilla Gorilla Show by Hanna-Barbera that aired from 1963 to 1965. Maurice LaMarche ( Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law)įrank Welker ( Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?)

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