{"id":41,"date":"2005-03-31T23:08:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T03:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=41"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T00:36:05","slug":"great-unanswered-questions-of-cartoon-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/31\/great-unanswered-questions-of-cartoon-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Unanswered Questions of Cartoon History"},"content":{"rendered":"<table Align=left>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"audrey.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/audrey.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\"\" border=O\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>For me, the best thing about Blake Edwards&#8217; <em>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s<\/em> is its quirky theme song, Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini&#8217;s <em>Moon River<\/em>. It includes the somewhat mysterious line &#8220;&#8230;my huckleberry friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the movie itself has a scene (see screen grab at left) in which Audrey Hepburn briefly dons a Huckleberry Hound mask in a five-and-dime store.<\/p>\n<p>So my question is this: Is &#8220;&#8230;my huckleberry friend&#8221; actually a reference to Huck Hound? If you&#8217;ve got a theory&#8211;assuming you care about this at all&#8211;I&#8217;d love to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and a bonus trivia question (courtesy of Andrew Leal): Besides the mask scene, name one other significant Hanna-Barbera connection in this movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17053,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/17053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}