Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott's "National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs". Its origins are obscure, and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings. Humpty Dumpty was popularised in the United States on Broadway by actor George L. Fox in the pantomime musical Humpty Dumpty.
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Humpty Dumpty | Introduction
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Harry Relph, professionally known as Little Tich, was a English music hall comedian and dancer best known for acrobatic dance.
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Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott's "National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs". Its origins are obscure, and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings. Humpty Dumpty was popularised in the United States on Broadway by actor George L. Fox in the pantomime musical Humpty Dumpty.
Humpty Dumpty | Introduction
Humpty Dumpty is a nursery rhyme and the name of its principal character. Humpty Dumpty may also refer to:
Humpty Dumpty (disambiguation) | Introduction
Humpty Dumpty has become a highly popular nursery rhyme character. American actor George L. Fox (1825–77) helped to popularise the character in nineteenth-century stage productions of pantomime versions, music, and rhyme. The character is also a common literary allusion, particularly to refer to a person in an insecure position, something that would be difficult to reconstruct once broken, or a short and fat person.
Humpty Dumpty | In popular culture
The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg, possibly because it may have been originally posed as a riddle. There are also various theories of an original "Humpty Dumpty". One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted as humpbacked in Tudor histories and particularly in Shakespeare's play, and who was defeated, despite his armies, at Bosworth Field in 1485. "Punch" in 1842 suggested jocularly that the rhyme was a metaphor for the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey; just as Wolsey was not buried in his intended tomb, so Humpty Dumpty was not buried in his shell.
Humpty Dumpty | Meaning
The show ran from 1868 to 1869, for a total of 483 performances, becoming the longest-running Broadway show until it was passed in 1881. As a character and literary allusion, Humpty Dumpty has appeared or been referred to in many works of literature and popular culture, particularly English author Lewis Carroll's 1871 book "Through the Looking-Glass", in which he was described as an egg. The rhyme is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as No. 13026.
Humpty Dumpty | Introduction
Humpty Dumpty is a fictional character from DC Comics. Unlike many of Batman's enemies, he is not deliberately malevolent, and is typically portrayed as comic relief.
Humpty Dumpty (comics) | Introduction
Humpty Dumpty first appeared in the 2003 graphic novel "" and was created by Dan Slott and Ryan Sook.
Humpty Dumpty (comics) | Publication history
It was published in 1810 in a version of "Gammer Gurton's Garland". (Note: Original spelling variations left intact.) Humpty Dumpty sate on a wall, Humpti Dumpti had a great fall; Threescore men and threescore more, Cannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before.
Humpty Dumpty | Origins
The earliest known version was published in Samuel Arnold's "Juvenile Amusements" in 1797 with the lyrics: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Four-score Men and Four-score more, Could not make Humpty Dumpty where he was before. William Carey Richards (1818–1892) quoted the poem in 1843, commenting, "when we were five years old ... the following parallel lines... were propounded as a riddle ... Humpty-dumpty, reader, is the Dutch or something else for an egg". A manuscript addition to a copy of "Mother Goose's Melody" published in 1803 has the modern version with a different last line: "Could not set Humpty Dumpty up again".
Humpty Dumpty | Origins
Humphry Dumpler is a hulking man with an egg-shaped head who speaks in rhyme and has a compulsive desire to "repair" that which he considers to be broken. He is shown in flashback to have been the victim of inexplicable, almost supernaturally bad luck almost since birth, illustrated by countless tragedies through his life. Eventually, he became determined to understand the mechanics of the world around him in an attempt to see what made things go wrong for him and attempt to fix them. In his crimes, Humpty disassembles and reassembles mechanical devices that upset him in some way. The devices he "fixes" cause numerous accidents, such as a subway train derailing.
Humpty Dumpty (comics) | Fictional character biography
The link was nevertheless popularised by a children's opera "All the King's Men" by Richard Rodney Bennett, first performed in 1969.
Humpty Dumpty | Meaning
Humpty Dumpty, also known as Mister D, is a giant egg who can blast away like a cannon, who fought in the Homelands version of the Battle of Colchester. This is a reference to the history of the nursery rhyme; "Humpty Dumpty" was originally the name of a big cannon used during this battle. Humpty attempted to escape the Golden Boughs again and again until he finally succeeded during the mass breakout orchestrated by Jack; only to get himself shattered when blasting several of Robin Page’s tigers. Since Humpty had promised to lead Jack to a hidden treasure, Jack took the Humpty Dumpty parts with him, and did the impossible by putting Humpty Dumpty back together again, using copious amounts of super glue.
List of Fables characters | Humpty Dumpty
The rhyme is one of the best known in the English language. The common text from 1954 is: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again. It is a single quatrain with external rhymes that follow the pattern of AABB and with a trochaic metre, which is common in nursery rhymes. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his "National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs" (London, 1870), as outlined below: \new Staff « \clef treble \key bes \major { %\new Lyrics \lyricmode { »
Humpty Dumpty | Lyrics and melody
Humpty Dumpty appears in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871), a sequel to "Alice in Wonderland" from six years prior. Alice remarks that Humpty is "exactly like an egg," which Humpty finds to be "very provoking." Alice clarifies that she said he looks like an egg, not that he is one. They discuss semantics and pragmatics when Humpty Dumpty says, "my name means the shape I am," and later:"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'""But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected."When "I" use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.""The question is," said Alice, "whether you "can" make words mean so many different things.""The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again: "They've a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they're the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, "I" can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That's what "I" say!"This passage was used in Britain by Lord Atkin in his dissenting judgement in the seminal case "Liversidge v.
Humpty Dumpty | Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass"
Professor David Daube suggested in "The Oxford Magazine" of 16 February 1956 that Humpty Dumpty was a "tortoise" siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary-held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War. This was on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was connected. The theory was part of an anonymous series of articles on the origin of nursery rhymes and was widely acclaimed in academia, but it was derided by others as "ingenuity for ingenuity's sake" and declared to be a spoof.
Humpty Dumpty | Meaning
Often seen moving about making a "bibbly" sound, hence his name. He likes to pull pranks, and sometimes annoys the others with them. Humpty (voiced by Tony Daniels): A big green egg with purplish hair and a white nose. He wears a burgundy coloured suit patterned with pink roses, a tie with a large H on it, and green boots. Humpty is playful and sometimes a bit mischievous, but he always goes out of his way to help his friends. When the gang start to feel scared or nervous, he often says "Pull yourself together." He is Dumpty's older brother.
Polka Dot Shorts | Characters
Likenesses of blemmyes are used as supports for misericords at Norwich Cathedral and Ripon Cathedral, from earlier local folklore. Writer Lewis Carroll is said to have invented characters based on objects in the Ripon church where his father served as canon, and in particular, the blemmyes here inspired his Humpty Dumpty character.
Headless men | In art
Humpty Dumpty has a knack of disassembling and reassembling different items.
Humpty Dumpty (comics) | Powers and abilities
There is also the Mother Goose rhyme in which Humpty Dumpty falls and dies, because he is an egg that breaks and can not be re-built.
Death in children's literature | Early humor
Humpty Dumpty is a historically important pinball machine released by Gottlieb on October 25, 1947. Named after Humpty Dumpty, the nursery rhyme character, it is the first pinball machine to include flippers — invented by Harry Mabs — distinguishing it from earlier bagatelle game machines.
Humpty Dumpty (pinball) | Introduction
He is a model prisoner at Arkham Asylum and is given various small projects to pass the time, such as repairing a broken mirror or fixing Ventriloquist's Scarface dummy. He befriends the financial fraudster Warren White and saves his life from Death Rattle and Two-Face. In "Villains United" Humpty Dumpty joins Alexander Luthor Jr.'s Society. He is seen partaking in the attack upon the House of Secrets.
Humpty Dumpty (comics) | Fictional character biography
Humpty Dumpty, also known as Mister D, is a giant egg who can blast away like a cannon, who fought in the Homelands version of the Battle of Colchester. This is a reference to the history of the nursery rhyme; "Humpty Dumpty" was originally the name of a big cannon used during this battle. Humpty attempted to escape the Golden Boughs again and again until he finally succeeded during the mass breakout orchestrated by Jack; only to get himself shattered when blasting several of Robin Page’s tigers. Since Humpty had promised to lead Jack to a hidden treasure, Jack took the Humpty Dumpty parts with him, and did the impossible by putting Humpty Dumpty back together again, using copious amounts of super glue.
List of Fables characters (Inmates at the Golden Boughs Retirement Village) | Humpty Dumpty
Shadlow is a trade consultant who accepts a Soviet trade contract and is accused of international espionage.
The Humpty Dumpty Man | Plot
Cinematographer F. Dobson was said to be "an adept at this kind of work".
The Humpty Dumpty Circus | Introduction
The short is essentially a spot gag cartoon with nursery rhymes. The cartoon is narrated by Robert C. Bruce. The first nursery rhyme is Mary, Mary Quite Contrary as played by Katharine Hepburn. The narrator speaks the first line of the rhyme: ""Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary----how does your garden grow?"" to which Mary replies ""I'm terribly sorry, but confidentially, it stinks."" (a reference to a line from the 1938 comedy film "You Can't Take It with You" ). It is then revealed that the garden is full of litter and trash. The page turns to Humpty Dumpty. Humpty, like the rhyme says, falls off the wall and appears unharmed.
A Gander at Mother Goose | Plot
All the nursery rhymes in the land have gotten mixed up, with none of the inhabitants possessing the items necessary for their rhyme to exist. And so, the child will find themselves helping Humpty Dumpty find a ladder to scramble onto a wall, bringing the little lamb back to Mary and seeking out a pail for Jack and Jill, among others.
Mixed-Up Mother Goose | Introduction
It's always the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance—or the mouth at the top—that would be "some" help."
Humpty Dumpty | Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass"
The original concept was "animal with naked woman"; the animal became a machine and the human disappeared. The work of art was first created as a geometric sketch from which a small model was developed. The next step was a large polystyrene model, which was then "ore-machined". The sculpture was cast in the Hermann Noack art foundry. The employees of the bronze foundry were involved in this step to guarantee a stable basic structure on which the details could be built. The final processing of the surfaces including mechanical and chemical treatment was also carried out by the Noack specialists.
Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft | Creation
During the Siege of Gloucester a Royalist cannon, shipped in from Holland to Bristol and from there to Gloucester, was placed on the walls of Llanthony Secunda and directed at Gloucester's City Wall. It was hoped by the besieging monarch, Charles I, that this cannon would break the siege and win him control of the city. The cannon misfired and exploded on the first shot. Some believe this to be the origin of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme; but this is disputed. The true origins of Humpty Dumpty are unknown but the idea that it refers to the Royalist cannon during the Siege of Gloucester is often cited as fact.
Llanthony Secunda Priory | Humpty Dumpty
Here is van Rooten's version of "Humpty Dumpty":
Mots d'Heures | Introduction
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a realist, non-science fiction novel authored by Philip K. Dick. Originally completed in 1960, but rejected by prior publishers, this work was posthumously published by Gollancz in the United Kingdom in 1986. An American edition was published by Tor Books in 2007.
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland | Introduction
Colchester is a widely credited source of the rhyme Humpty Dumpty. During the siege of Colchester in the Civil War, a Royalist sniper known as One-Eyed Thompson sat in the belfry of the church of St Mary-at-the-Walls ("Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall") and was given the nickname Humpty Dumpty, most likely because of his size, "Humpty Dumpty" being a common insult for the overweight. Thompson was shot down ("Humpty Dumpty had a great fall") and, shortly after, the town was lost to the Parliamentarians ("all the king's horses and all the king's men / couldn't put Humpty together again.") Another version says that Humpty Dumpty was a cannon on the top of the church.
Colchester | In popular culture
Humpty Dumpty is a bimonthly American magazine for children 2 to 6 years old that takes its title from the nursery rhyme of the same name. The magazine features short stories, poems, nonfiction articles, games, comics, recipes, crafts, and more. Having been continuously produced for more than 65 years, it is one of the oldest American magazines for kids.
Humpty Dumpty (magazine) | Introduction
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Humpty Dumpty in Oakland | Plot summary
The table was virtually recreated in pinball simulation video game, "Microsoft Pinball Arcade", although it was not included in the Game Boy Color version of that game.
Humpty Dumpty (pinball) | Digital version
This leads into the bulk of each episode, an obscure cartoon from Jerry Beck’s archives.
Cartoon Dump | Story and format
Alice buys an egg from the Sheep (that ends up turning into Humpty Dumpty) and the two part ways.
The Sheep | Storyline
The Humpty Dumpty Man is a 1986 Australian film which was the first feature directed by P.J. Hogan. It was based on the David Combe affair.
The Humpty Dumpty Man | Introduction
Luis van Rooten's English-French "" (1967), translates the beginning of "Humpty Dumpty": The original English text reads: while the translation, which imitates the sound of someone reading the English text with a French accent, is nonsense, but could be translated into English nonsense as: In mathematics, the field with one element does not exist, but if it did then it would be denoted F. So some writers use F to describe studying such an object, playing on the French "un" for 1 and the English "fun".
Bilingual pun | English/French
In 1878 Caldicott graduated from Cambridge University as a Bachelor of Music and began to achieve success with a series of glees based on nursery rhymes. "Humpty Dumpty", the first of these, was awarded a special prize in a competition instituted by the Manchester Glee Society in the year of his graduation. It was followed by another work that year, "Jack and Jill", and in 1879 by "Little Jack Horner". Later pieces in the same humorous vein included "This Is the House That Jack Built" (1880), "The Spider and the Fly", "The Boy and the Bee", "Poor Little Tomee!" and "Where are you going to my pretty maid?" The Dictionary of National Biography later noted that “the special novelty he brought forward was the humorous admixture of childish words and very complicated music…He set these nursery rhymes in the most elaborately scientific style, with full use of contrast and the opportunities afforded by individual words”.
Alfred Caldicott | Career
Humpty Dumpty is featured in the third book in the series, "ArchEnemy", as a character named Mutty P. Dumphy, described as "[a] diminutive hairy-cheeked man...[with] a single eyebrow...[and a head] which resembled the rounded point of a gwynook's egg..."
The Looking Glass Wars | Character references
Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft ("The Humpty-Dumpty machine of the total future") is a bronze sculpture created 2010 by Jonathan Meese, and installed at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany, during 2011–2015.
Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft | Introduction
But later Humpty had a change of heart and helped Puss and Kitty tame The Great Terror. In the end, he sacrifices himself to save San Ricardo and falls from the bridge, upon which his shell is broken, revealing him to be a golden egg. In "Shrek Super Slam", he is known as Master Fu and is an unlockable character. In "Shrek 4-D", his grave can be seen in the cemetery. Puss In Boots mentions him in "".
List of Shrek characters | Humpty Dumpty
"Humpty Dumpty" is the third episode of the second season of "House", which premiered on Fox on September 27, 2005. Dr. Lisa Cuddy's longtime handyman Alfredo falls off her roof, causing breathing problems.
Humpty Dumpty (House) | Introduction
The sheep herself continues to make scornful, personal remarks and then finally, on appearing back in the shop, sells Alice an egg, which promptly turns into Humpty Dumpty. On leaving the shop at the end of the chapter, Alice says:
Alice's Shop | The Old Sheep Shop
He developed jokes, catch-phrases and songs that were used by subsequent Clowns for decades after his retirement in 1828, and Clowns were generically called "Joey" for four generations after him. Clown became central to the transformation scene, crying "Here we are again!" and so opening the harlequinade. He then became the villain of the piece, playing elaborate, cartoonish practical jokes on policemen, soldiers, tradesmen and passers-by, tripping people with butter slides and crushing babies, with the assistance of his elderly accomplice, Pantaloon. The American George Fox, popularly known as G. L. Fox, became interested in pantomime and made Clown a popular character in the Humpty Dumpty story, with which he toured North America during the middle 19th century.
Harlequinade | Clown
Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods is an American food company, operating as a subsidiary of Old Dutch Foods, that packages and sells snack foods. The company is named after the nursery rhyme character and features the character as the company logo. Humpty Dumpty products are generally sold in New England, Quebec and The Maritimes.
Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods | Introduction
This is a list of The Fairly OddParents characters. "The Fairly OddParents" is an American animated television show, created by Butch Hartman.
List of The Fairly OddParents characters | Introduction
A Humpty Dumpty Thing is the title of the 2007 solo album by Jim Bob, formerly of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. It was released on Cherry Red Records and included a free book. "The story is set in the not-too-distant future when all art is commissioned by the State. It's about a man chosen to write an 80,000-word novel or face a jail term. He's never written anything before and finds himself with instant writer's block."
A Humpty Dumpty Thing | Introduction
Squiddly Diddly is an anthropomorphic animated octopus created by Hanna-Barbera, who was featured in his own cartoon segment on "The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show" beginning in 1965.
Squiddly Diddly | Introduction
"Humpty Dumpty" Magazine (then called "Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine") was launched by George J. Hecht and "Parents" magazine in October 1952. Originally, it was a sister publication to "Children's Digest", aimed at a younger audience than the latter publication. The first editor of "Humpty Dumpty" was Harold Schwartz. In January 1980, both "Humpty Dumpty" and "Children’s Digest" came under the ownership of the nonprofit Saturday Evening Post Society. When "Children's Digest" was merged with "Jack and Jill" in 2009, "Humpty Dumpty" was continued. Today, Jennifer Burnham edits "Humpty Dumpty" under the direction of Steven Slon. "Humpty Dumpty" is one of two children's publications in the U.S.
Humpty Dumpty (magazine) | History
Humpty Dumpty's final crime is to adjust the gears in a clock tower, causing one of its hands to fly off, provoking a chain reaction in which dozens of enormous signs crashed to the streets, killing dozens of people. When Batgirl tries to apprehend him, she dislocates her arms. Humpty promptly slips her arms back into their sockets and surrenders to her. Revealing that she had tracked him by his overdue library books, her sole question was why he had borrowed a book on human anatomy. Humpty takes her to his home to reveal he had dissected his abusive grandmother and sewn her back together with bootlace in an ill-thought attempt to "fix" her.
Humpty Dumpty (comics) | Fictional character biography
Gallery owner Philipp Haverkampf said that the work is a crazy mixture of time machine, spaceship and the sled of the sandman. When you look at it, you can see bizarre details such as geometric shapes, the Iron Cross and a beer bottle. According to Der Tagesspiegel, the term 'Humpty Dumpty' in the title refers to the talking egg in Lewis Carroll's children's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. In the Colonnades Courtyard in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie, the motley flying machine made of pieces as found at flea markets seems like a foreign body between the well-proportioned statues of classical sculpture schools.
Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft | Reception
Humpty Dumpty Potato Chip Company, Inc. was founded in 1947 in Scarborough, Maine, USA by George Robinson and Norman Cole, producing ketchup-flavoured and sour-cream-and-clam-flavoured chips, among others. The company was acquired by Borden, Inc. in February 1989. In January 2000, it was then sold to the Canadian firm Small Fry, formally adopting the name Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc.
Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods | History
While Dick Huemer and Art Babbit were the first to animate Donald, Dick Lundy is credited for developing him as a character.
Donald Duck | Origin
In July 2014, on the announcement of the title of the episode, several media outlets incorrectly presumed that Krusty would die. The choice of character to die was deemed by some critics as anti-climactic due to Rabbi Krustofsky's minor role in the show, although other reviewers praised its conclusion to the relationship between Krusty and his father.
Clown in the Dumps | Introduction
The title characters are a pair of anthropomorphic puppet pigs, named Pinky and Perky, who were originally going to be named Pinky and Porky but there was a problem registering Porky as a character name. This was solved by Margaret Potter, the wife of their producer, Trevor Hill, who also discovered them, when she woke him up one night announcing "I've got it! Pinky and Perky!" They were created by Czechoslovakian immigrants Jan and Vlasta Dalibor who moved to the village of Houndhill, leaving the pigs under the cupboard in The Bungalow. The characters of pigs were chosen because the pig is seen as a symbol of good luck in the former Czechoslovakia.
Pinky and Perky | Original series
The double amphibrach is a variation of the double dactyl, similar to the McWhirtle but with stricter formal requirements. Meter and lineation are consistently amphibrachic (da DA da) rather than dactylic (DA da da), and the shortened fourth and eighth lines rhyme. In narrative sequences, the requirements that the first line be nonsense syllables and second line be a proper name are sometimes waived, but the sixth line requires a single diamphibrachic word (e.g. discriminatory, hallucinogenic, personification). Jan D. Hodge in "The Bard Double-Dactyled and Other Odd Pieces" includes several pieces in this stanza form. His version of “Humpty Dumpty” begins: Here is the seventh stanza of his rendering of "Hamlet":
Double amphibrach | Introduction
If we needed someone to bounce ideas off of, he was always there, and if we had a problem we were tackling, we'd get Guillermo on the red phone – our emergency phone – and ask him advice on what we should do with a certain character or scene. It was like having our own film school." Miller stated that del Toro was particularly involved in Humpty's character design. "Guillermo loved the dreamy quality of Humpty Dumpty. He suggested we push that further, make him more like da Vinci." It was del Toro's idea to make Humpty "an ingenious freak of nature" who builds contraptions such as a flying machine.
Puss in Boots (2011 film) | Production
According to the artist, models for his work of art were: the Nautilus, Emma the steam locomotive, Lok 1414, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, vehicles from Mad Max films, Ben Hur's chariot, the Snow Queen's sleigh, the Sandman's vehicle and the time machine. Meese characterizes his bronze object as forward-looking: "The baby spaceship flies forward only, without a rear-view mirror, without a railing and without nostalgia, great, great, great."
Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft | Creation
There's actually quite an interesting story behind some of them. Like Humpty Dumpty - we all think it's about an egg falling off a wall. But really, Humpty Dumpty was a cannon in the English Civil War that one of the sides managed to blow up, and it fell down. So all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again - that's the origins of it. Some of these stories are true, and real news events. Part of the oral tradition of news!"
The News at Bedtime | Production
John Kricfalusi, the creator of "The Ren & Stimpy Show", claimed the Mr. Hankey concept was stolen from his cartoon short, "Nutty the Friendly Dump", which was part of a cartoon book series viewable online. Kricfalusi even confirmed that he pitched the idea for an animated series of "Nutty the Friendly Dump" to Comedy Central, who turned it down. Kricfalusi said after the show aired, "I got nine or 10 messages from friends screaming, 'I can't believe this! They totally stole your story!' ... This idea of [feces] singing or dancing and being friends, well, that is my idea." Kricfalusi said he felt other elements of "South Park" were lifted from his work, and he told media outlets his company Spümcø was contemplating taking legal action against Parker and Stone.
Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo | "Ren & Stimpy" controversy
Muggy-Doo is a funny-animal character created by Hal Seeger. Originally appearing in comic books, this character soon went on to animated cartoons as part of the 1965 "Milton the Monster Show", but didn't last long in either venue.
Muggy-Doo | Introduction
He co-created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
Larry Hama | Introduction
White then befriends Humpty Dumpty, a childlike murderer and savant, who arranges for White to become his cellmate just in time to head off Death Rattle's murder attempt.
Great White Shark (character) | Origin story
The game begins with a short film in which Humpty Dumpty, addressing the player, says he knows he will soon be "bumped off", and asks the player to find his close friend, private detective Diggs Nightcrawler, in order to find out who is responsible. The film ends just as Humpty's apparent murderer enters the room (though they are not shown). The player then meets with Diggs at his office. Diggs agrees to bring the "kid" along, but only because it was Humpty's request. A mysterious suited individual appears at the door and hands Diggs an egg bomb, prompting a chase through the city streets, during which the shadowy figure gets away.
Diggs Nightcrawler | Chapter One
The Prinny was created by Takehito Harada while he was trying to come up with a character whose thoughts players could not try to envision. He began by choosing to make it animal-based, eventually deciding on making something similar to a penguin. He was told that he could use this character as much as he wanted. While it initially started out as looking somewhat realistic, it eventually gained a doll-like form.
Prinny | Concept and creation
Both of the cartoon's feature characters were designed by animation artist and character designer Ed Benedict.
Hokey Wolf | Character information
Kids family of magazines, which are published by the Children’s Better Health Institute, a division of the nonprofit Saturday Evening Post Society. Its sister publication under the U.S. Kids banner is "Jack and Jill" (for children ages 6 to 12).
Humpty Dumpty (magazine) | History
Many of the puppet characters were recycled from characters in various other Henson productions.
That Puppet Game Show | Characters
Despite being disappointed with being wrong about a cow's appearance, he simply responds to this with a cheery "Not today, thank you." and closes the door in front of the camera, thus ending the animation.
Humdrum | Plot summary
The site later expanded, revealing the names of all four characters (Hampton, Dixie, Hado, and Fuzzy) and offering themed versions for birthdays, graduation, holidays, etc. Fans of the site created variations on the original theme, using politicians such as Dan Quayle and Cynthia McKinney, as well as household objects such as Pez dispensers.
Hampster Dance | Background
The first character is frustrated by his acquaintance's appalling representation of a cow and later his failure to recognize a rather fantastic rabbit (His misled guesses include a 'fireman chasing an igloo' and an 'Otter with two sausage strapped to his head'). After an amusing outburst from the poor fellow, his annoying partner accuses him of being 'shirty'. This leads him to explode, furiously crying "I'm stuck indoors playing 'Guess the misshapen beast' with someone who clearly wouldn't recognise a rabbit if it came to his house for tea, said 'What's up Doc?' and started burrowing into his head! There are blind people with no fingers who are better at shadow puppets than you! No wonder I'm a tad miffed!" An awkward silence follows this, until the doorbell rings and the first character goes to answer it and finds the second character's 'cow' shadow puppet, which moos.
Humdrum | Plot summary
Fido Dido is a cartoon character created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose.
Fido Dido | Introduction
This is a list of characters from the American-Japanese animated television series, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, which was created by Sam Register, and which originally aired on Cartoon Network from November 19, 2004 to June 27, 2006.
List of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi characters | Introduction
Besides Howdy Doody, the other characters in this show are:
Howdy Doody | Puppet characters
Humpty Alexander Dumpty (voiced by Zach Galifianakis), in his childhood, was best friends with Puss and tried to find magic beans with him. However, their quest failed and Puss later became a revered hero in their hometown. Humpty grew jealous of Puss's fame and later tricked him into helping him rob a bank, thus branding Puss an outlaw. They were pursued by the authorities; Humpty was captured while Puss escaped. Seven years later, Humpty along with Kitty Softpaws convinced Puss to help him get magic beans from Jack and Jill to get the Golden Goose, but it was revealed that this was all a plot to just get Puss back home and arrested as revenge for abandoning him.
List of Shrek characters | Humpty Dumpty
The film was made at Nettlefold Studios as a quota quickie for release by the Hollywood company. RKO Pictures. It was based on the play "Humpty-Dumpty" by Horace Annesley Vachell.
If I Were Rich | Production
In 1990, Sega president Hayao Nakayama sought a flagship series to compete with Nintendo's "Mario" franchise along with a character to serve as a company mascot. Several character designs were submitted as part of a contest. Among the designs was an egg-shaped man wearing pajamas who resembled U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, drawn by Naoto Ohshima. According to Ohshima, the resemblance to Roosevelt was unintentional, saying he was influenced by a variety of characters. Retrospective sources have indicated Ohshima based the character on Humpty Dumpty and Mario. The Roosevelt lookalike did not win the contest; rather, another Ohshima character, a hedgehog named Mr.
Doctor Eggman | Development
The characters within these parodies are mostly based on characters from DC or Marvel Comics.
ItsJustSomeRandomGuy | Characters
They all describe Humpty as a nice egg, who generally kept to himself. Upon inspection of Humpty's room, Jack and Mary find some odd clues: several shares in Spongg Footcare, Reading's Footcare empire, a picture of Humpty with a girlfriend in Vienna, and a 28-foot-long strand of hair. They later interview Laura, Humpty Dumpty's ex-wife. When Jack returns home, he tells his mother that the painting of the cow his mother wanted to sell was fake and he only received some beans in return. Mrs. Spratt retorts that she had the painting valued years ago and that the auctioneer probably knows how incredibly valuable it is.
The Big Over Easy | Plot
Chapter Six – Humpty Dumpty: After crossing yet another brook into the sixth rank, Alice immediately encounters Humpty Dumpty, who, besides celebrating his unbirthday, provides his own translation of the strange terms in "Jabberwocky". In the process, he introduces Alice to the concept of portmanteau words, before his inevitable fall.
Through the Looking-Glass | Plot summary
Archie the Inventor builds zany creations from household objects, such as boxes, bottles, yoghurt pots, string, and similar items that young children might typically use in craft projects. His inventions are intended to be useful, but sometimes backfire.
Balamory | Characters
In the German translation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Humpty Dumpty is called "Goggelmoggel". In the 1985 film of Doctor Aybolit from the Soviet Union, Doctor Aybolit nurses sick pirates and animals back to health by giving them kogel mogel. A similar sounding phrase, "Great Googly Moogly", an apparent euphemism for "Great God Almighty,", appears in a Howlin' Wolf song, "Goin' Down Slow", and in the work of Langston Hughes, and was later more generally popularized by Frank Zappa and Mr. Magoo.
Kogel mogel | Cultural references
Droodles was a syndicated cartoon feature created by Roger Price and collected in his 1953 book "Droodles", though the term is now used more generally of similar visual riddles.
Droodles | Introduction
One animation history suggests that the Egghead character was based on "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" cartoonist and entertainer Robert Ripley, while the name Elmer Fudd might have been a reference to the then-popular hunter Elmer Keith.
Elmer Fudd | Egghead
The Humpty Dumpty Circus was a short stop-motion film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, the Anglo-American founders of Vitagraph Studios. The film is considered lost. Albert E. Smith claimed in his 1952 book "Two reels and a crank": "I used my little daughter's set of wooden circus performers and animals, whose movable joints enabled us to place them in balanced positions. It was a tedious process inasmuch as the movement could be achieved only by photographing separately each change of position. I suggested we obtain a patent on the process; Blackton felt it wasn't important enough.
The Humpty Dumpty Circus | Introduction
A pilot episode, the story of "Humpty Dumpty", was produced in 1987 along with other episodes. The series was considered for a network slot in 1987, but was passed on. The first release of the series came in 1988 through a home video release as part of Jim Henson's Play-Along Video series. The video featured three episodes of the show, "Little Miss Muffet", "A Song of Sixpence" and "Boy Blue", plus original linking footage between each story.
Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories | Production
Humphry Francis Ellis (17 July 1907 – 8 December 2000) was an English comic writer. He created A. J. Wentworth, the ineffectual schoolmaster whose fictional diaries were first published in the magazine "Punch".
H. F. Ellis | Introduction
Fox, the daughter of George Fox, a famous pantomime artist remembered for the show "Humpty Dumpty".
Daniel Sully | Life and career
She was designed by Michael K. Frith and built by Jane Gootnick and Maria McNamara.
List of Fraggle Rock characters | Marjory the Trash Heap
Hubie and Bertie are animated cartoon rodent characters in the Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons. Hubie and Bertie represent some of animator Chuck Jones' earliest work that was intended to be funny rather than cute. Seven Hubie and Bertie cartoons were produced between 1943 and 1952.
Hubie and Bertie | Introduction
This is a list of episodes of the animated television series "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi", who which is created by former Cartoon Network's executive Sam Register. (Episodes are in order of airing, with seasonal number, and all premiere dates are in the United States.)
List of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episodes | Introduction
Marsh called the characters "cool, edgy and clever without ... being mean-spirited." Animation director Rob Hughes is said to have noted that "in all the other shows every character is either stupid or a jerk, but there are no stupid characters or jerks in this one."
Phineas and Ferb | Characters
"Humpty Dumpty" had six of these flippers, referred to as "flipper bumpers" by the company. However, unlike modern pinball tables, they faced outward instead of inward and were not placed at the bottom of the table near the main outhole. Like all early pinball tables, "Humpty Dumpty" was constructed with wood and had backlit scoring in preset units of scoring rather than mechanical reel or electronic LED scoring.
Humpty Dumpty (pinball) | Description
Tiny and Mr Duk were two puppet characters created for UK children's TV show, "The Saturday Show" by Dave Chapman and Damian Farrell.
Tiny and Mr Duk | Introduction
It was filmed as "All the President's Men" in 1976, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
Humpty Dumpty | In film and literature
Anderson" (1942), where he protested about the distortion of a statute by the majority of the House of Lords. It also became a popular citation in United States legal opinions, appearing in 250 judicial decisions in the Westlaw database , including two Supreme Court cases ("TVA v. Hill" and "Zschernig v. Miller"). A. J. Larner suggested that Carroll's Humpty Dumpty had prosopagnosia on the basis of his description of his finding faces hard to recognise: "The face is what one goes by, generally," Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone. "That's just what I complain of," said Humpty Dumpty. "Your face is the same as everybody has—the two eyes,—" (marking their places in the air with his thumb) "nose in the middle, mouth under.
Humpty Dumpty | Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass"
Humpty Dumpty, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Toad of Toad Hall, Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, Macbeth, Alice In Wonderland with the Duchess and Cheshire Cat, Long John Silver with Jim Hawkins, Ben Gunn and Captain Smollet, Peter Pan and Captain Hook, Peter Rabbit
Edinburgh Wax Museum | Fictional characters
"Bah humbug" is a catchphrase of Ebenezer Scrooge, a character in Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol", declaring Christmas to be a fraud. Bah humbug may also refer to:
Bah humbug (disambiguation) | Introduction