Quick Draw McGraw is the name of a
fictional cartoon horse, created by Hanna-Barbera and
the star of The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Hanna-Barbera's
third show produced for television after success with
The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound
Show. The show debuted in 1959; Quick Draw was voiced
by voice actor Daws Butler.
Quick Draw was usually depicted in his shorts (which
were set in the American Old West) as a sheriff. Quick
Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican
burro with a stereotypical Spanish accent named Baba
Looey, who was also voiced by Butler.
Quick Draw was depicted as a satire of the westerns
that were popular among the American public at the time.
His personality was well-intentioned, but somewhat dim;
oftentimes, Baba Looey would make a more accurate assessment
of the problem at hand than Quick Draw would.
Whenever
that happened, Quick Draw would often utter his catchphrase: "Now
hoooooold on thar, Baba Looey! I'll do the thinnin'
[thinking] around here, and doooon't you forget it!" Quick
Draw also spoke with a heavy drawl, as shown by his
catchphrase.
Although Quick Draw was himself a horse, this did
not stop the show's producers from depicting him riding
into town on a "real" horse, or, as seen in
the show's opening credits, driving a stagecoach pulled
by "real" horses into a town. This aspect
was made light of in the 1980s made-for-television film
The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, which featured
Quick Draw.
In a series of episodes, Quick Draw would also assume
the identity of the masked vigilante, "El Kabong" (a
parody of Zorro). As El Kabong, Quick Draw would attack
his foes by swooping down on a rope and hitting them
on the head with an acoustic guitar, producing a distinctive
kabong sound and destroying the guitar in the process.
Quick Draw McGraw's supporting characters in The Quick
Draw McGraw Show's two other segments were Augie Doggie
and Doggie Daddy, a father-and-son pair of dogs, and
Snooper and Blabber, a pair of detectives who were a
cat and a mouse.
After his original show ran its course, Quick Draw
occasionally showed up in other Hanna-Barbera productions,
including Yogi's Gang and Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics.
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