TVXOHOF, FEBRUARY 2026 PART TWO - BUY GEORGE!

While I’m at it, the Hall has another induction tied into that of George Foreman’s...

The George Foreman Grill  

Along with the countless infomercials and commercials which eventually led to netting Foreman over 4 million a month rom the resulting sales, the Grill was either featured or mentioned in the following shows:

THE OFFICE
THE INJURY (2006)

Michael accidentally cooked his foot after stepping on his George Foreman Grill, which he used to cook bacon bedside. 

Michael Scott:

I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon. Sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious. It's good for me. It's a perfect way to start the day.

Jim Halpert:
I wanna clamp Michael's face in a George Foreman grill.

CHICAGO FIRE
TRY LIKE HELL (2019)

Joe Cruz: 
Are you moving?
Captain Casey:
No, Benny's house sold. Had to clear the place out.
Cruz:
Oh, um... well... I happened to notice a classic George Foreman Grill in there.
Casey:
All yours.
Cruz:
Thanks, Boss!

THE CARMICHAEL SHOW
LOW EXPECTATIONS (2017)

GRACE & FRANKIE
THE LABELS (2017)

THE BIG BANG THEORY
THE ROBOTIC MANIPULATION (2010)

Penny:
So, um, Amy, what about you? Do you date much?
Amy Farrah Fowler:
Once a year. It's a deal I made with my mother in exchange for her silence on the matter, as well as the occasional use of her George Foreman Grill that seals in the flavor without the fat.

KING OF THE HILL
BOXIN’ LUANNE

George Foreman:
Hey, Maybe there's something you can do for me. How would you feel about carrying my grill in your shop?
Hank Hill:
Oh, huh... sorry. We have a strict policy about that, no novelty grills.
George Foreman:
NOVELTY GRILL?
Hank Hill:
Yeah, you know, no offence, but your grill is kinda like an iron.
George Foreman:
YOU'RE CALLING MY GRILL AN IRON? I've been hit below the belt before, but nothing like this.
Hank Hill:
I think it's a great product for dieters and little girls who want to play barbeque, But you can't compare it to a propane powered grill.
George Foreman:
FIGHT'S ON!
Hank Hill:
WHAT? No.
George Foreman:
I said 'Fight's on!' What's the matter? SMELLING ALL THAT PROPANE CAUSED YOU BRAIN DAMAGE?  THAT'S WHAT IT DOES YOU KNOW!
Hank Hill:
NO, THAT IS NOT ACCURATE. Those studies were done on sick monkeys. And at least my grill isn't sold in... housewares.

The George Foreman Grill is not the first inanimate object to be inducted into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.  But most of those were fictional - Playpen magazine, the LA Tribune, the NY Chronicle, Morley Cigarettes. 

As an actual item, the grill isn't alone in the Hall, however; there are also real movies and TV shows, like the 'Tonight' show, 'The View', 'Star Trek', "It's A Wonderful Life", and "Miracle On 34th Street".  Plus the Titanic, COVID 19, and locations like the White House, Las Vegas, and the Playboy Mansion.

So there we have it for this February - the George Foreman Grill joins George Foreman in the Class of 2026! 

THE POWER OF DONNA

 

Donna showed that she had power even before she became "Doctor/Donna".  She understood her self-worth and was not afraid to show that.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

 

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

 
Before we get started, here’s a chance to review all of the incarnations of the Doctor who took part in adventures seen in the television series.  (Not seen are the supposed incarnations who were seen in the Fourth Incarnation’s memories during his mental battle with Morbius in “The Brain of Morbius”.)  They are not seen in any ordered sequence, at least not in any which I can discern.  But I think it’s better this way – rather in a linear fashion, like chronological order, they appear in a timey-wimey jumble.

Hopefully, I will have some kind of blog post showcasing each one individually over the next 24 hours.

2026 "WHO'S ON FIRST" BLOG-A-THON KICKS OFF!

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope everybody had a great New Year's Eve?

Welcome to the 18^th anniversary edition of the "Who's On First?" blogAthon.  For the next 24 hours, there will (hopefully) be twenty-four posts about 'Doctor Who', one every hour.

I wrote this WELL in advance:
This round-the-clock celebration of 'Doctor Who' began somewhat modestly - there were only seven "episodes" for that first outing.  But it has grown to the point where for the last couple of years we have tried to present a new blog post about the universe of the Doctor every half hour.   That may not be the case this year.  We'll at least try to get one in every hour.

And I always amaze myself that I find enough topics each year.  But then, I have yet to see every episode of the 61 year old series.

Because of their time-sensitive nature, there were a few posts I published earlier in the year.  Some are just mentions of the Doctor, most of them dealt with the breaking news about the show.  If so, I'll re-post them early in the day's schedule (when it's the middle of the night for most visitors.)

This edition will hopefully be special.  (I'm setting up this post in January, 2025!)  And I see this as the perfect moment to thank everybody who came up with the wonderful memes and artwork which I hope is okay to share.  (If not, I'll replace it.)

So here it is - the kick-off to the 2026 edition of 'Who's On First'!  And as always, we begin with the frame grab from 'Robot Chicken' which has become our mascot.... 

TVXOHOF UPDATE - A MEMBER'S MEMORIAL

By now, everybody has heard about the tragic murders of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele.  It's taken me this long to feel up to it to writing about it for the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.

I'm just glad that I was able to induct him into the TVXOHOF as a member of the League of Themselves before he died... not that he probably ever saw it.

I'm glad I was able to get him in as himself, because as far as I tell, Mike Stivic of 'All In The Family' does not qualify.  His ex-wife, his son, and his father-in-law did make it into the Hall.  (I have to do the research, but if Edith does qualify, it may be just on a technicality.)

I don't know why, but I wrote up his induction twice in March of 2017 when he turned 70 years old.

So here are the links to both blog posts

ROB REINER 1

ROB REINER 2

As Red Skelton would say, "Good night and may God bless" for both you and your wife.  You certainly never needed the TVXOHOF to vouchsafe your immortality in pop culture history, but I'm glad we added a small measure to it.

TVXOHOF CHRISTMAS HONORS LIST, 2025

For my annual Christmas Honors List for the Television Crossover H, I found inspiration in a Christmas song:

"Have a holly jolly Christmas,
and when you walk down the street.
Say hello to friends you know
and everyone you meet."

And that's why this year I'm inducting two old school friends of mine from the talking heads....

No, not the band!  I mean those friends of mine who were pundits, brought on screen to expound on their personal realms of expertise.  Usually pundits wouldn't be considered, but this is the Christmas Honors List!  The Rules are loosened like my pants after a holiday meal, and again, these two guys are old friends of mine.

And as this year is a milestone for the three of us, I figured it was as good a time as any to have them join me in the Hall.

First up....

ADMIRAL DAVID PEKOSKE

From Wikipedia:
David Peter Pekoske (born May 5, 1955) is an American government official and retired U.S. Coast Guard vice admiral who served as the seventh administrator of the Transportation Security Administration in the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from 2017 to 2025. He served as the acting deputy secretary of homeland security from April to November 2019 and again from January to June 2021. From January 20, 2021 to February 2, 2021 he served as acting secretary of homeland security, during the Senate confirmation of Alejandro Mayorkas. Pekoske retired with 33 years of active military service in 2010 as the 26th vice commandant of the Coast Guard.

Pekoske was born in Meriden, Connecticut. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in ocean engineering from the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. He is a 1989 graduate of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University with a Master of Public Administration degree. Pekoske graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management with an MBA in 1997.

From Alison Sider
[The Wall Street Journal]
01/21/2025

The head of the Transportation Security Administration said he was pushed out of President Trump’s new administration.

TSA Administrator David Pekoske told staff late Monday morning that he had been advised by Trump’s transition team that “my time as your Administrator will end at noon ET today,” the time of Trump’s swearing in, according to a farewell message viewed by The Wall Street Journal. CNN earlier reported on the staff message and Pekoske’s departure.

Trump named Pekoske, a former vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, as TSA administrator in 2017. President Biden re-upped him to a second five-year term in 2022. Pekoske said last year that he hoped to stay in the job. It was not immediately clear who would replace him. The Trump transition team didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

From Justin Doubleday
[The Federal News Network]

Pekoske’s ouster comes midway through his second five-year term as TSA administrator. DHS and the White House did not respond to questions about the reason behind Pekoske’s dismissal and plans for TSA leadership moving forward.

Trump first nominated Pekoske to serve as TSA administrator in 2017. After being re-nominated by President Joe Biden, the Senate confirmed Pekoske for a second five-year term in 2022.

During his tenure, TSA worked with Congress to grant the agency’s screening workforce a historic pay increase. TSA also negotiated an expanded collective bargaining agreement with the American Federation of Government Employees.

Just my O'Bservation, but I think being jettisoned from a position in the second term of His Flatulence Drumpf was the best thing to happen to David.  He won't be tarred and pilloried with the incompetents who would have been surrounding him.

Just my two quatloos....

Here are just a few of the programs on which he appeared.  Usually he made the rounds during travel periods of high volume; I think there were a few guest spots in times of crisis for the TSA.

This is hardly a complete list....

GOOD MORNING AMERICA
TSA Administrator
4 episodes
2022–2024

TODAY

TSA Administrator
5 episodes
2021–2024

CBS MORNINGS

TSA Administrator
2 episodes
2021–2024

NBC NIGHTLY NEWS with LESTER HOLT
TSA Administrator
1 episode
2024

FOX NEWS LIVE
(as TSA Administrator David Pekoske)
1 episode
2018

I know he also appeared at least once on MORNING JOE where he was interviewed by Joe Scarborough regarding the holiday travel rush.

“True terror is to wake up one morning
and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
Kurt Vonnegut

Actually, in this case, I thought it was kind of cool.

And for my next school friend to join me (Birthday Honors 2005) in the TVXOHOF, a space case if I ever knew one...

KEITH COWING

From Wikipedia:
Keith Cowing is an American astrobiologist, former NASA employee, and the editor of the American space program blog NASA Watch. He is a credentialed NASA journalist and is known to be a critic of NASA activities and policies.

NASA Watch is a website blog which provides insider information and commentary about the United States space program and the U.S. government agency, NASA. The first posting was in March, 1996. Cowing is a strong supporter of human spaceflight. Cowing started the website when Daniel Goldin was administrator of NASA and at that time expressed harsh criticism of Goldin's policies. The inciting event for Keith was the mass layoffs in the transition from Space Station Freedom to the International Space Station. For several years, NASA refused to accredit Cowing as a journalist and denied him access to NASA media events. Cowing was eventually granted full press accreditation.

Cowing was a firm supporter of Goldin's successor as administrator, Sean O'Keefe, appointed by George W. Bush. Cowing also obtained exclusive first-hand information about the genesis of the Vision for Space Exploration, detailed in the book "New Moon Rising" which Cowing wrote with Frank Sietzen.

From MuckRack
Keith Cowing is trained as a biologist (M.A. and B.A. degrees) and has a multidisciplinary background with experience and expertise that ranges from spacecraft payload integration and biomedical peer review to journalism and website authoring. He once worked as a professional Sign Language interpreter. Keith has participated in 3 month-long expeditions to a remote island near the North Pole and spent a month living at Everest Base Camp covering the first ascent of that mountain by an astronaut. Keith also likes to restore old spacecraft and retrieve their data - especially when the experts tell him that such things are impossible.

From cowing.com
Keith has appeared hundreds of times on television and radio including ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox, NPR, CSPAN, VOA, CNN, PBS, CBC, CTV, CGTN, Discovery Channel, NHK, BBC, Deutsche Welle, and the Travel Channel and has been quoted in a number of newspapers and magazines ranging from The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times to The Economist, Wired, and Pravda, among others. Keith appears regularly as a guest on BBC TV and radio and on CGTN.

I'm afraid I don't have all those hundreds of times he appeared on TV, but I have enough to satisfy the requirements.  (Even though the Rules are often cast aside when it comes to Honors List inductees.)

NOVA
[special thanks]
1  episode
2008

WORLD TODAY

SABC-TV [South Africa]

TAGESSCHAU
Self
1 episode
2024

CNN THIS MORNING

Self
1 episode
2021

ALL IN with CHRIS HAYES
[MSNBC]

BBC

MORNING EXPRESS with ROBIN MEADE
Self (archive footage)
1 episode
2021

DEUTSCHE WELLE (Germany)

CBTN (China)

He even showed he was a real trouper by appearing on CNN on his birthday!

It's nice to have a couple of Meridenites with me in the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.  They will probably be the only ones, but at least one of my friends from the UConn Theater Department joined me - Shirley Jordan as a Conflated Nurse.  And trumpeter Rebecca Steinberg, daughter of another UConn Drama Gumby (Beth Brooks Steinberg), is in as well as a member of the League of Themselves.

Merry Christmas, Team Toobworld!

A TVXOHOF CENTENNIAL REMEMBERING JESSICA FLETCHER

 

I'm just taking this opportunity to remember one of the earliest members of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame....

JESSICA FLETCHER

I'm writing this and posting it on October 16, 2025.  Today would have been the 100th birthday of Angela Lansbury, the actress who played that amateur sleuth.

While her birth year was never mentioned in the show, it was established that she was a Pisces and it's possible her birthday was March 15.  As I usually do with TV characters, unless it's revealed to be otherwise, I think they were born the same year as the actor who played the role.

Jessica Fletcher was inducted in May of 2001, the third year of the TVXOHOF, and as the first official May Queen.  It was quite a year for inducting the Legends of Toobworld!  Others in her class were:

• Dr. Bob Hartley
• Sammy Davis, Jr.
• Archie Bunker
• (Willie) Gilligan
• Rowlf
• Suzie MacNamara
• Ernie Kovacs
• Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless
• Bart Maverick
• Norman Lear
• H.G. Wells
• Exigius 121/2
• Orson Welles
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Walter Cronkite
• Mayor Rudy Giuliani
• The Twin Towers
• Walt Disney
• Bilbo Baggins

This was the first year in which I fully exercised my discretions in choice for the Birthday Honors List with Suzie McNamara (First crossover I'm aware of), Ernie Kovacs (the Wizard of early TV), Dr. Miguelito Loveless (My favorite TV character and the first example of Crossover Conflation on my part).

This was also the year I introduced the addition of Multiversals and Multidimensionals to the Hall for the Christmas Honors List. In this case: Bilbo Baggins represented by his Tooniverse and Skitlandia/Cineverse incarnations.

(As you can see, my focus in 2001 was on "The Lord of The Rings", "War of The Worlds" - and a certain Martian - and the overriding, tragic news story of the year....)

I am curious to not only see this movie "continuation" of 'Murder, She Wrote' (currently in production) and how it works for the Television Universe, but also for the reactions of others.

Thanks for providing a welcome diversion to end the weekends, Ms. Lansbury....

TVXOHOF PROGRAMMING NOTE - HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

 
The October 2025 induction into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame will take place on October 31.

The November induction into the TVXOHOF will occur on November 27.

And while there will (hopefully) be a December "ceremony" on the first of the Month, the Honors List will be posted December 25.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

MONDAY MEMORIAL TVXOHOF TRIBUTE - BOYCE & HART

From the New York Daily News
Musician-songwriter Bobby Hart, half of a composer duo who penned the Monkees’ theme song and many of the group’s mega-hits, has died.

He was 86.

His friend and co-author, Glenn Ballantyne, said Hart died at home in Los Angeles, amid a health decline that began after he broke his hip last year.

Hart and collaborator Tommy Boyce each had numerous music credits to their name when they were tapped to help create a television show promoted by Don Kirchner....

And we all know what TV show that was....

TOMMY BOYCE & BOBBY HART

From Wikipedia:
Sidney Thomas "Tommy" Boyce (September 29, 1939 – November 23, 1994) and Bobby Hart (born Robert Luke Harshman; February 18, 1939 – September 10, 2025) were an American duo of singer-songwriters. In addition to three top-40 hits as artists, the duo is well known for its songwriting for the Monkees.

In late 1965, they wrote, produced and performed the soundtrack of the pilot for 'The Monkees', including singing lead vocals (which were later replaced, once the show was cast).

In 1966, despite some conflicts with Don Kirshner, who was the show's musical supervisor, they were retained in essentially the same role. It was Boyce and Hart who wrote, produced and recorded, accompanied by their backing band, the Candy Store Prophets, backing tracks for a large portion of the first season of 'The Monkees', and the band's accompanying debut album.

The duo also wrote the theme song of the daytime soap 'Days of Our Lives'.

The duo also performed "I'll Blow You a Kiss in the Wind" on the television show 'Bewitched', in one of several TV series appearances that included guest spots on 'The Flying Nun' and 'I Dream of Jeannie' ("Jeannie the Hip Hippie" performing "Girl, I'm Out To Get You").

All of these shows were produced by Screen Gems, the television subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. Each of the three sitcom guest appearances featured their music, including two unreleased covers they performed on 'The Flying Nun'.

The televersions of Boyce & Hart differ from their real lives.  Basically, Jeannie created their new lives as musicians.  (Pre-Jeannie Bobby was working in a record store, while Pre-Jeannie Tommy was a waiter in a coffee shop.)

Here are the credits which qualified Boyce & Hart for membership in the TVXOHOF as members of the League of Themselves:

I DREAM OF JEANNIE
JEANNIE, THE HIP HIPPIE (1967)

Jeannie blinks up a music group when Dr. Bellows' wife assigns the job to Tony.

Tony prepares to go on a camping trip with Jeannie.  Unfortunately, Doctor Bellows, who also was due to go on vacation, is forced to cancel because he must find a musical group to perform at a charity bazaar that Amanda is in charge of and because of this he forces Tony to cancel his vacation as well and orders him to help him find a group.

Not wanting Tony to miss his vacation, Jeannie helps him by getting four non-musicians, including a couple of guys named Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, and turning them into musicians. In fact, Jeannie is so successful in turning them into a group that they wind up getting an audition with Phil Spector.

BEWITCHED
SERENA STOPS THE SHOW (1970)

Serena zaps away Boyce and Hart's popularity so that they will play the Cosmo Cotillion in the witchy realm. Unfortunately Darrin had just talked his client into using this 'hot' group in a television special.

Darrin, with Larry's enthusiastic approval, has managed in a lucrative verbal deal for a new client, Breeze Shampoo, to sponsor an upcoming television special featuring rock music duo Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart - Boyce & Hart.

With that connection, Serena, who is the Chair of the Entertainment Committee for the Cosmos Cotillion, wants Boyce & Hart not only to perform at the Cotillion, but sing a song she wrote, "I'll Blow You a Kiss in the Wind", at it.

Using her witchcraft, Serena is able to muscle her way in to see the duo and their manager, Chick Cashman. Because Serena doesn't get everything she wants in her negotiation with Cashman, Serena, again using witchcraft, thinks she has a way to get everything she wants in the deal, without a care that her plan will basically render Darrin's agreement with Breeze Shampoo worthless, (that attitude partly due to Darrin denigrating her song.)

Finding out what Serena did, Samantha has to try and convince Serena to reverse her spell to save Darrin's job and the deal with Breeze.

THE FLYING NUN
WHEN GENERATIONS GAP (1970)

Sister Bertrille gets into a fender bender, caused by her running a red light. She can't really remember what happened, and is willing to accept responsibility for the accident if it was her fault. However, Alfonso T. Gomez, a witness, states that it was not Sister Bertrille's fault. The occupants of the other car are hippies, namely Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart of the singing group, The Paper Balloon, who happen to be appearing at Carlos' casino.

Sister Bertrille just wants to forget the incident, but it becomes a big media story about subversive hippies against an innocent nun, a story which ruins business at the Paper Balloon's show at Carlos' casino. When Boyce and Hart jog the sister's memory, she does realize it was the station wagon's loose brakes that caused her to run the red light.

She goes to Gomez to double check what happened.   He admits it was her fault.  The reason for his false story being the fact that the convent could use the insurance money from that of rich, spoiled hippies; Gomez' negative feelings about hippies stem from the fact that his son is one.

Even after Sister Bertrille and Gomez go to the newspaper to recant his eyewitness account, the television news reports that the spoiled rich hippies bought off Gomez. Finally, Sister Bertrille sees only one way for the public opinion to sway in favor of Boyce and Hart: they need to do a benefit concert with proceeds going to the convent.

O'Bservation:
All episode summaries are from the IMDb.

THE SOUPY SALES SHOW (TV Special 1970)

"Good night and may God bless" to you both.... 

TVXOHOF (AUGUST, 2025) - QUICK DRAW McGRAW

 
For over a year I had this year’s TV Western Crossover candidate, the traditional category for August, lined up.  I had all the information and pictures – PLENTY of pictures.  And if it had not been for a deadline to write a book for a charity auction, I would have had it ready to go by now.

But then I actually read that collected data and quickly realized this was not the year for it.  So I shelved it for another time.

Needing a new candidate, I decided to go off the trail just to make it interesting for me, and to reduce any possible stress from a last-minute change in plans.

And so….

QUICK DRAW McGRAW
[Seen here with Baba Looey]

From Wikipedia:
Quick Draw McGraw is the protagonist and title character of ‘The Quick Draw McGraw Show’. He is an anthropomorphic white horse wearing a red Stetson cowboy hat, a red holster belt, a light blue bandana, and occasionally spurs.  He was originally voiced mainly by Daws Butler from 1959 until Butler's death in 1988.

All 45 of his cartoons that originally aired between 1959 and 1961 were written by Michael Maltese, known best for his work at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. The cartoon was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1960.

‘The Quick Draw McGraw Show’ is an American animated cartoon television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and their third television series overall after ‘The Ruff and Reddy Show’ and ‘The Huckleberry Hound Show’.

The show debuted in syndication on September 28, 1959, ending its run on October 20, 1961, and was sponsored by Kellogg's. The series featured three cartoons per episode, with Quick Draw and his sidekick Baba Looey appearing in the first segment, father and son dog duo Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in the second, and cat and mouse detectives Snooper and Blabber in the third. There were also "bumpers," mini-cartoons between the main cartoons that featured Quick Draw and other main characters on the show.

Michael Maltese wrote the stories of all the episodes. Screen Gems, the television division at the time of Columbia Pictures, originally syndicated the series. It ran on Saturday mornings on CBS for three seasons, 1963-66.

Quick Draw was usually depicted as a sheriff in a series of short films set in the Old West. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey (also voiced by Daws Butler), who spoke with a Mexican accent and called his partner "Queeks Draw.”

Quick Draw satirized the westerns that were popular among the American public at the time. His character was well-intentioned, but somewhat dim. His main catchphrases were "Now hold on there!" and "I'll do the thin'in' around here and don't you forget it!" Also if he got hurt he would often say "Ooooh that smarts!" One of the main running gags in the shorts was him accidentally shooting himself with his own six-shooter.

In the Spanish American version, Quick Draw is named Tiro Loco McGraw, while Baba Looey is named Pepe Trueno. In the Brazilian version, Quick Draw speaks in a Portuguese accent, which along with his Hispanized name (Pepe Legal) would suggest he was either a Texan-American or Mexican cowboy.

O’Bservation:
All of those dubbed versions would go into those alternate Tooniverses where a different language was dominant.  With these examples, it would be the Spanish Toobworld and the Portuguese Toobworld respectively.

Here are the shows from the Tooniverse which qualified him for membership:

THE QUICK DRAW McGRAW SHOW (1959-1961)
Quick Draw (voiced by Daws Butler) was usually depicted as a sheriff in these short films set in the American Old West. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey (also voiced by Butler). Although technically the sidekick, or deputy, to the main character of Sheriff Quick Draw, Baba Looey is often portrayed as the more thoughtful half of the duo; at times realizing some detail about a given situation and trying desperately without success to caution Quick Draw of a trap or other danger.

The exchange would always go as follows: Baba Looey would see a fatal flaw in Quick Draw's plan, and begin voicing a warning such as "I don' thin' we should be doing...", to which Quick Draw would angrily interrupt with his frequent catchphrase, "I'll do the 'thin'in' around here and don't you forget it!" His plans would then go disastrously wrong, and Quick Draw would be forced to realize he should have listened to Baba Looey.

Quick Draw spent a number of cartoons as his alter ego, the masked El Kabong, who used a guitar (a "Kabonger") to bash bad guys into submission. Writer Michael Maltese said the character was inspired by actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. as Zorro.

SUGAR SMACKS (1960s)
Quick Draw was the mascot.

THE RUFF AND REDDY SHOW
A SLIGHT FRIGHT ON A MOONLIGHT NIGHT
Quick Draw McGraw's name appears in ‘The Ruff and Reddy Show’ episode "A Slight Fright on a Moonlight Night".

O'Bservation:
According to this posted notice, Sheriff Quick Draw McGraw was killed in a shootout.  I don't know if his father showed up in any of those 45 cartoons in his series, but it would fit the classic Western trope where the sheriff is murdered and his son takes over for him.

But the fact that Ruff and Reddy have a car and a trailer probably puts the kibosh to that theory.  However, it is noted elsewhere that the timeline is amazingly fluidic in the Tooniverse.

YOGI'S ARK LARK (1972)
“Yogi's Ark Lark” served as the two-part pilot for ‘Yogi's Gang’.  Aside from its environmental message, the film marked a milestone in Hanna-Barbera's history: a wide range of the studio’s characters were united in one story for the first time. This set the tone for future series and specials, such as ‘Laff-A-Lympics’ and “Yogi's First Christmas”.

YOGI'S GANG (1973)
Yogi, Quick Draw, Huck and the rest of the gang encounter a variety of villains such as Captain Swashbuckle Swipe, Smokestack Smog, Lotta Litter, the Envy Brothers, Mr. Hothead, Dr. Bigot, the Gossipy Witch of the West, J. Wantum Vandal, the Sheik of Selfishness, Commodore Phineas P. Fibber, I.M. Sloppy, Peter D. Cheater, Mr. Waste, Hilarious P. Prankster, and the Greedy Genie, who act as their friends, hosts and/or guests, but embody some of the most common human faults and vices. Yogi and crew would often put up with them which ends with the villains either being repelled or outdone by their actions.

HANNA-BARBERA'S ALL-STAR COMEDY ICE REVUE (1978)
The show was a celebrity roast honoring Fred Flintstone on his 48th birthday, and included the following costumed Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi Bear, Jabberjaw, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby-Doo, The Banana Splits, Hong Kong Phooey, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Wally Gator and The Hair Bear Bunch.

O'Bservation:
This was Quick Draw's foray into "live-action", appearing on Earth Prime-Time basically as a Hanna-Barbera version of a full-size Muppet.

CASPER'S FIRST CHRISTMAS (1979)
The special features guest stars Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, and Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.

YOGI'S SPACE RACE

Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw and several new characters participating in intergalactic racing competitions.  Cameo guests included Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Quick Draw McGraw, Grape Ape, Frankenstein Jr. and Jana of the Jungle.

RACE THROUGH WET GALOSHES (1978)
Winners: Nugget Nose, Wendy and Rita.
Prize: Vacation time at a dude ranch. Trouble: It's Fuddy's Dude Ranch.
(Guest star: Quick Draw McGraw)

O'Bservation:
Another timeline discrepancy.  There's a little voice in my head which keeps telling me, "Forget it, Jake.  It's the Tooniverse."

It doesn't seem to matter to him that my name's not Jake. 

YOGI BEAR'S ALL-STAR COMEDY CHRISTMAS CAPER (1982)
Along with Yogi's traditional cast, the characters also met up with many other Hanna-Barbera characters, including Magilla Gorilla and Fred Flintstone.

Huckleberry Hound brings his friends Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber with him to visit Jellystone Park for Christmas and they discover Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo have escaped from Jellystone and hidden out in a department store, where Yogi is posing as a Santa Claus. Along the way, he helps a little girl named Judy Jones rediscover her faith in Christmas when her father, a billionaire named J. Wellington Jones, is too busy for her. Yogi says that many parents have to work hard to support their kids, and since her father is not home, Yogi and Boo-Boo propose escorting Judy through the city to bring her to her dad.

YOGI'S TREASURE HUNT (1985-1988)
This is the last series to feature Daws Butler as the voice of Yogi Bear and his other characters before his death in 1988. While all 27 episodes were made in digital ink and paint across three seasons, its opening credits were produced in traditional cel animation.

Yogi and his friends Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber are assigned by Top Cat to go on treasure hunts around the world with Ranger Smith serving as their field commander who also makes sure that Yogi does his part in the treasure hunts. They travel aboard their ship the S.S. Jelly Roger and solve different riddles that would lead them to the treasure in question.

FENDER BENDER 500 (1990)
This is a spin-off of ‘Wacky Races’ for the 1990s, in which classic Hanna-Barbera characters drive monster trucks made for racing. Each vehicle has a different theme, specific to its drivers; e.g., Yogi and Boo Boo's monster truck is a motorized giant picnic basket, while Winsome Witch's monster truck is a wheeled cauldron with a sentient skeleton named Axel on it. Game show announcer from ‘The New Hollywood Squares’ and disc jockey Shadoe Stevens provided the voice of the race announcer.

Since they were in the aforementioned series, Dick Dastardly and Muttley reappear in this segment, reprising their roles as cheaters with their own monster truck called the Dirty Truckster, which is basically their Mean Machine on a monster truck chassis. On a few occasions, they actually win a race, though there is always a catch that renders the win meaningless.

Although technically not a series of its own, this is the fourth all-star sports show from Hanna-Barbera. This show also features Paul Winchell's final performance as Hanna-Barbera's long running antagonist, Dick Dastardly.

The competitors, listed by numeral order, as in their race numbers:

• Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear in the Jellystone Jammer (#1)
• Huckleberry Hound and Snagglepuss in the Half-Dog Half-Cat Half-Track (#2)
• Wally Gator and Magilla Gorilla in the Swamp Stoner (#3)
• Top Cat and Choo-Choo in the Alley Cat (#4)
• Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey in the Texas Twister (#5)
• Pixie and Dixie in the Cheddar Shredder (#6)
• Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in the Lucky Trucky (#7)
• Winsome Witch and her cat Lucky in the Sonic Broom (#13)
• Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Dirty Truckster (#00)

YO YOGI! (1991)

Synopsis: Taking place in Jellystone Town, the show features Yogi Bear and other popular Hanna-Barbera characters, depicted as teenage crime fighters. The team includes Yogi's friends Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, and Yogi's girlfriend Cindy Bear.

YIPPEE YO,YOGI! (1991)
Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Louie are doing a show at Jellystone Mall when Dick Dastardly releases Quick Draw's pet bull Bully in the mall. It is up to the L.A.F. Squad to find him and calm down the bull for the Wild West Show.

O'Bservation:
Yet another temporal glitch!  Usually Yogi and Quick Draw were seen as being the same age.  But now Quick Draw seems to be an adult and Yogi's a teenager.

I AM WEASEL (1997-2000)
The series centers on I.M. Weasel (voiced by Michael Dorn), a smart, noble and successful weasel, I.R. Baboon (voiced by Charlie Adler), an idiotic and arrogant baboon who is envious of Weasel and acts as both his rival and friend, and the mischievous, flamboyant Red Guy (also voiced by Adler), who returns from ‘Cow and Chicken’ to antagonize the duo.

I AM MY LIFETIME (1998)
Weasel and I.R. (now both senior citizens) look back upon their memories.

SAMURAI JACK
COUPLE ON A TRAIN (2002)
Quick Draw McGraw makes a cameo appearance, voiced again by Greg Burson.

HARVEY BIRDMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW
GUITAR CONTROL (2004)
When Quick Draw McGraw pulls out his trusty six-string in an attempt to put the El Kabong kibosh on the Dalton Gang, he gets hauled off to the hoosegow. So he turns to noted constitutional law expert Harvey Birdman to defend his right to keep and bear guitars. Meanwhile, Harvey's boss, Phil Ken Sebben, takes $12 billion from the powerful guitar lobby to fund his presidential campaign. Not that that would make him beholden to them. And Peanut and Baba Looey get into trouble when they get their hands on Quick Draw's private guitar arsenal. (From the IMDb)

"It's a repeating gitbox made in 1870,
used in the American West.
Out there, guitars like this didn't enforce the law,
they were the law!
I didn't write that, it was on some asshole's website.
I wish I'd written it. It's a good line."
Quick Draw McGraw

O'Bservation:
He is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, to sound like Jack Palance.

CLASS OF 3000 (2006-2008)
Class of 3000 follows superstar and music teacher Sunny Bridges (voiced by André), who teaches a group of students at Atlanta, Georgia's Westley School of the Performing Arts.

HOME (2006)
Quick Draw McGraw in the cartoon "Two Too Much" makes an appearance in an invention by Philly Phil.

O'Bservation:
There are timeline anomalies with regards to the life of Quick Draw McGraw.  But this time it might have been a Zonk in which a TV series was made about El Kabong, and that is what is being transmitted on the big screen.  (It has to be a dramatization, as Quick Draw's voice is nowhere near to his "actual" voice.  (You are missed, Mr. Butler.)

THE SIMPSONS
MILLION DOLLAR ABIE (2006)
Quick Draw McGraw - in his guise as El Kabong - appears in the "Springfield Blows" music video.

ROBOT CHICKEN
BAN ON THE FUN (2007)
The Laff-A-Lympics gang faces their darkest games ever: Munich, 1972.

O'Bservation:
Another appearance which shows that Quick Draw McGraw is a multidimensional.  This time his televersion is from the Toobworld known as Claymatia.  (Yeah, I'm not happy with it either.)

SOUTH PARK
IMAGINATIONLAND III (2007)
It is the third and final episode in a three-part story arc that won the 2008 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More). The three episodes were later reissued together, along with previously unreleased footage, as the uncensored “Imaginationland: The Movie”.

O'Bservation:
I suppose this is one Honking Big Zonk, but it's a lot of fun.  Just go with it.

WACKY RACES
MUCH ADO ABOUT WACKY (2018)
Quick Draw makes a cameo in the Wacky Races episode "Much Ado About Wacky," during the fight scene in the Macbeth play, Penelope Pitstop calls for a horse. Quick Draw appears and charges into battle shouting his famous line, "Hold on there, Baba Louis." This angers Snagglepuss, who is also cameoing in this episode, as Quick Draw is not even an actor. (From the Hanna-Barbera Wiki)

O'Bservation:
He is voiced by Billy West.

JELLYSTONE! (2021-2025)
The series is a reimagined take on the legendary Hanna-Barbera brand, focusing on a modernized ensemble of its characters as they live, work, and play together but have to solve the problems they have.

All of them have specific roles in the community. Huckleberry Hound is the Mayor of Jellystone, Yogi Bear is a surgeon, Cindy Bear is a genius inventor, Doggie Daddy is a lighthouse keeper who is overprotective towards his daughter Augie Doggie, Jabberjaw and Loopy De Loop work in Magilla Gorilla's haberdashery called "Magilla's", Top Cat and the Hoagy's Alley cats continue with their scam activities, El Kabong doubles as a teacher and superhero, Shazzan is a ticket seller at Jellystone Theatre and does various vendor jobs, and The Banana Splits are cartoonish criminals.

TEEN TITANS GO!
WARNER BROS. 100TH ANNIVERSARY (2023)
In "Teen Titans Go!", Quick Draw McGraw makes a guest appearance in the episode "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary", alongside other classic Hanna-Barbera characters. The episode celebrates the studio's milestone and features various characters from their library of cartoons. (From Google's AI)

METLIFE SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL (2012)
Quick Draw made a cameo appearance, teamed up with Yosemite Sam.

Here's one last O’Bservation:
1] Wikipedia has this informistake:
Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey make cameo appearances in the ‘Animaniacs’ episode "Suffragette City".

No they do not!

So here’s to you, Queeks Draw, a welcome addition to the Tooniverse wing of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.

And having posted that mangling of his name a la Baba Looey, I realize there are those who might think I’m dismissing the sidekick’s role.  I’m not.  One day Baba Looey will make it into the Hall on his own merits.  

But there were several qualifications for Quick Draw which did not involve Baba Looey.  And once I look into his qualifications for membership, I might even find appearances in which Quick Draw never showed up  Maybe….

Welcome to the Hall, Sheriff!