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As a kid, I use to enjoy hearing the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo(voiced by Don Adams) and Chumley. The cartoon was entertaining for it’s time. Simple but funny. The stories were silly and easy to follow as Tennessee and his pal would make attempts to escape from the zoo and try to obtain odd jobs to fit in to human society.
Tennessee and Chumley regularly escaped from the zoo, only to find trouble in the outside world. When faced with more trouble than they could bear, the pair would turn to their friend, a college professor named Phineas J. Whoopee (voiced by Larry Storch, later seen on F Troop). “Mr. Whoopee”, as he was known, was extremely knowledgeable on all subjects, and would frequently lecture the pair on such diverse topics as the physics behind the hot air balloon, to how musicians become popular. His lectures were illustrated and animated on the Three Dimensional Blackboard (3DBB for short) he would retrieve out of an avalanche of junk from his overstuffed hallway closet. At the end of each lecture, Tennessee praised his mentor with the line “Phineas J. Whoopee, you’re the greatest.” The pair would then attempt to use their newly-gained knowledge to get out of the trouble they had created, but would invariably end up in more trouble with Stanley Livingston, who typically punished them by making them scrub pots and pans for six months.
They even have a collection of episodes on DVD. Get ‘em HERE!

-SACKS10