#Gloop and Gleep

[acmeoop]

The Herculoids Pitch Art & Model Cel (1966/67)

#60s #hanna barbera #the herculoids #pitch art #presentation art #character designs #alex toth #production art #animation art #zandor #tara #dorno #zok #igoo #tundro #gloop and gleep #early designs

[the-gershomite]

The Herculoids by Lord

#the herculoids #Dorno #Tara #Gloop and Gleep #Igoo #Tundro #Zok #Zandor #Lord #cartoon art

[chernobog13]

Birdman and the Herculoids by Steve Rude.

#Biurdman #The Herculoids #Zok #Tara #Zandor #Tundro #Gloop #Igoo #Gleep #Dorno #Hanna-Barbera #Steve Rude

[ericmhe]

Took a few liberties, gave it a grainy filter because the series is from early color TV days and I find it fun to do that sometimes. Tried to make Gleep and Gloop a little bit see-through because I thought it might be fun, but I should probably look up tutorials on how to be more effective at that.

#hanna barbera #retro cartoon #herculoids #igoo #zok #gleep #gloop #tendro

[nemospecific]

Presented without comment

#the herculoids #gleep #gloop

[darksouls2yuri]

#txt #actually look at gleep and gloop

[darker-than-darkstorm]

Not about the Queen

I have been falling asleep lately to episodes of the Herculoids, and let me tell you, it has quickly become one of my favorite old cartoons.

It is Fuck Around And Find Out: The Series.

Every episode is just some neighboring (or even alien) overlord showing up at Zandor’s place and...

Wait, let me go back a bit. Introductions are in order. Meet our heroes, all lovingly designed by the late, great Alex Toth:

Zandor is that guy in the middle.  To the left is his wife Tara, to the right is his son Dorno.  (Dorno calls Zandor and Tara by their first names all the time, but the opening narration establishes their relationship).  Zandor has a shield that blocks pretty much anything, and a slingshot that shoots powerful energy rocks, and is the tactician. Tara and Dorno sometimes use similar slingshots, though Tara is unfortunately often a damsel in distress, but not quite as much as you’d expect for a show from this era.

They look very primitive, but they were extremely familiar with advanced civilizations and high technology. There’s a vague implication that Zandor, at least, is from a more advanced society and just wanted to get away from it all by moving to this extremely backwater planet. They don’t even live in a house, they instead have a mostly-open shelter and sleep outside, but Zandor has no trouble piloting spaceships (usually left behind by a previous villain).

Those weird-ass monsters behind the humans are the Herculoids themselves. Despite their monstrous forms, they are definitely the real heroes and the real stars of this show. They don’t talk, but they each have their own distinctive voice for roars despite three of them being played by the same guy (Mike Road, who also voices Zandor). Even the two blobs have different voices, with the larger one having a deeper voice (but, again, both played by the same person, Don “Scooby-Doo” Messick, who also voiced a lot of the villains). They also understand English perfectly, and Zandor understands them.

That’s Tundro on the left: he shoots energy rocks from his horn, that flower-petal-like arrangement around his head blocks things being shot at him, and, though you can’t see it in this picture, he has eight little legs and can charge at high speeds. He’s weirdly cute in motion, because his legs are so stubby (though he can also extend them to become very, very tall).

On the right, Igoo. He’s an ape made of rock. Like if the Thing from the Fantastic Four was ten feet tall and couldn’t talk. He was at a disadvantage at ranged combat (he could just throw things, and everything he threw tended to get shot out of the air), but in melee he was unstoppable.  Very hard to hurt, as well. Because he’s the most humanoid, he’s the most likely to be comic relief (again, sort of like the Thing), but also the most likely to punch a robot’s head off when energy rocks and laser beams aren’t quite doing it.

Gloop and Gleep are the two blob-like things with the big eyes. Gloop is the big one, Gleep the little one. Possibly the least powerful offensively, but impossible to hurt (they often used their bodies to shield the humans) and incredibly versatile, able to stretch and turn into pretty much anything (shades of Mr. Fantastic, speaking of the Fantastic Four — no equivalent to The Invisible Woman or the Human Torch, if you’re wondering). It’s never explained their exact relation to one another. They’ve killed a few folks by squeezing them to death. (I’m not exaggerating, incidentally. The aliens definitely died)

And last but not least, in the back, Zok. He’s a dragon that shoots lasers from his eyes and tail, and he’s exactly as cool as that sounds. Very rarely he breathes fire (which I think only happened in the 1980s episodes), but usually it’s lasers. Slightly less durable than the others, but he can fly.  I mean, look at him:

I love that guy.

And almost every episode, some villainous idiot shows up and goes “Aha, it is Zandor and the Herculoids!” — yes, they all know who he is already, and call him by name, which makes the impending defeat all the more humiliating — “I believe I will attack them for some reason that has to do with my plan to take over this planet and/or the universe!” And then they usually send out dozens of troops who look mostly like the leader but with slightly simpler costume design. Sometimes they send out robots or even a giant monster instead. Sometimes this is just a distraction while they use a machine to steal the planet’s air (Spaceballs ain’t got nothin’ on these guys) or invade a nearby village to steal their gold, but just as often they just are there specifically to capture and/or kill Zandor and the Herculoids.

And by the end of every single episode, the villain’s troops are all dead, their “unstoppable” gizmo is wrecked, their spaceship or fortress reduced to rubble. Usually, that was it for them, implied to have been killed when their ship crashed or their fortress exploded. (Sometimes they escaped at the end and didn’t return; sometimes they escaped at the end and actually did return once in a later episode. Once the villain returned even though they had seemingly been killed in their previous appearance, and they managed to escape at the end of that episode, too, though that was also their last appearance)

And almost every single episode has a point where the villain has a chance to just surrender and leave, and Zandor often even offers to let them go if they’ll just stop, but they never take it. They always double down. “Sure, the giant nearly-invulnerable monsters easily thwarted my first attack and murdered half my troops”, they say, “But now I shall do exactly the same thing but harder; surely that will work! Go, my remaining loyal minions! Use a slightly larger laser cannon this time!”  Spoiler: it doesn’t work. In another few minutes, they will all be dead, and the leader’s last-ditch attack will also fail, leaving him (or, once, her) also very dead.

They always fuck around and boy do they find out.

(There’s some episodes where a monster is just spontaneously generated out of a swamp or hatches from an egg or something, but the overconfident villains make up the majority.  At least once they crossed over with Space Ghost, which was done by the same animation and writing team)

I honestly love it. I love all the goofy Alex Toth designed 1960s H-B cartoons (Space Ghost, Mighty Mightor, etc) and also the weird in-between series Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles (which has character and background design reminiscent of the Jetsons but the writing of their Space Ghost-era superhero cartoons), but The Herculoids is absolutely my favorite.

I find nothing as soothing as old superhero cartoons where you don’t have to focus on the myriad plot twists (because there are none), just watch and enjoy the explosions. Or drift off to sleep while explosions happen.m

#Herculoids #The Herculoids #HB #Hanna-Barbera #Space Ghost #Not Really Space Ghost #Zandor #Tara #Dorno #Tundro #Igoo #Gloop #Gleep #Zok #LASER DRAGON

[doodlebags]

#Tara from the #Herculoids for #Junetoon #sketch . . . . . #art #illustration #doodlebags #doodle #draw #drawing #nashville #nashvilleartist #nashvilleart #digitaldrawing #saturdaymorningcartoons #cartoons #cartooncharacters #hannabarbera #gloop #gleep https://www.instagram.com/p/CejqX38O4Vy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tara #herculoids #junetoon #sketch #art #illustration #doodlebags #doodle #draw #drawing #nashville #nashvilleartist #nashvilleart #digitaldrawing #saturdaymorningcartoons #cartoons #cartooncharacters #hannabarbera #gloop #gleep

[du-buk]

Gleep gloop gleep glorp. This time I won’t be high, so I will actually be functional! Huzzah!

[littleonixel]

can you draw second x purple angst???????🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

I NEED ANGST 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈

I'm going insane over them-

Gleep gloop

#ava #alanbecker #alan becker #animator vs animations #avm #animation vs minecraft #animator vs animation #art #digital art #ava purple #ava tsc #ava the second coming #ava firefly #secpurp #secondpurp

[crazysodomite]

the most annoying thing about 'not being a computer nerd' or whatever is that it feels like some people are being purposefully obtuse or not saying anything at all and presuming you know everything already when presenting their stuff. and like. honestly? do your thing. if you only want to work with people who know their shit then do that. BUT....

when it goes like this:

shmeep shmoop program

how to use?

run - fer gje r 4 in gleep done

how to use? (for dummies)

install gleepity gloop library for gleep open gleep and run - d smf dl f 24 5 (this will install the API you will need to use) run beepy before and after this step! (use x32 version even if you're using a x64 machine) press initialize in the window that pops up be sure to have xmx-15-350 installed on your pc or it will explode immediately upon starting the program! run - fer gje r 4 in gleep run beepy again or it will not work

done ^_^

and then im like. what the fuck is all this? let me look on reddit or stack overflow...

*after 25 minutes of scrolling through "look at their documentation you stupid fucking idiot."*

actual answer for dummies:

"you can actually do this on your computer by default without installing anything and copypasting a single command"

[mlimby]

gnarp gnarp mleep mloop

gleep gloop flarp fleep tractor beams u

#mlasks

[chernobog13]

The Herculoids by Alex Ross.

#The Herculoids #Igoo #Gloop #Zok #Zandor #Gleep #Tundro #Tara #Dorno #Hanna-Barbera #Alex Ross

[ericmhe]

Really random impulse to draw these guys, it was an old cartoon already even when I was young and I really don't recall forming a strong attachment. Well, I always thought Tendro's thing of being a pillbug-rhino-Triceratops-artillery-thing was kinda neat. Still skipping humans for now so no space barbarian family with these guys, just the aliens.

#hanna barbera #retro cartoon #herculoids #igoo #zok #gleep and gloop #tendro

[googiekitsch]

we’re sorry 2 announce that theres been a big gleeping gloop

come onnn ijust got my new slop in too :(

[darksouls2yuri]

krod inside the boxspring saga

#txt #i hate reading texts btwn me and my dad i think its so weird #also ignore gleep and gloop bg