#Peabody's Improbable History

[friedclyde]

Lighting test with Peabody and Sherman

[vincent-marie]

Mr. Peabody: "Sherman, we simply MUST get Quentin Trembley to ride that horse. Otherwise he will never found the town of Gravity Falls."

[skeletonsescapedthelab]

The funniest thing about Peabody's Improbable History is that Sherman just acts like a dog. Like, Mr. Peabody ( in the cartoon) says things like "shake hands, good boy" and Sherman dosen't mind at all. Unlike the movie, he was found as a kid at an orphanage, so it's not like he was raised this way. Also, he once gets a news paper with his mouth. We know it's not Mr. Peabody teaching him to do this because Mr. Peabody is upset with him for it. BTW TW for racism in this cartoon.

[theruffiansretrorampage]

art by rubtox

[rus-mpas-fan1]

NUCLEAR GREENES

[askmrpeababa]

Staff here! Just wanted to share a doodle page and an update. Things in my life are pretty crazy as of late. I got married, and I’m currently suffering from Covid BUT despite all of that I’m trying to get back into the groove with these guys. Thank you all for your love as always!

Expect to hear from Mr. Peabody (and Sherman) very soon :)

[aurum-rays]

The Matilda Effect in Mr. Peabody & Sherman

I recently watched the movie Mr. Peabody and Sherman for the first time. I love movies that kick off at lightning speed and maintain a swift pace. You blink and you miss something. "What the hell happened?” - My reaction when I was watching the movie 'The Ambulance' and bent down to pick up a pen. With Mr. Peabody and Sherman something that made me go "wait a second… what was that?" was not because I was picking up something I dropped but because I payed too much attention.

In a scene where Penny, Sherman and Mr. Peabody need to launch their time machine to get back home, they take the help of Leonardo Da Vinci. After succeeding in making Monalisa smile, Mr. Peabody and Da Vinci are seen building a machine to help generate enough centrifugal force to send the time travellers back home. After Sherman tries to help them and cause more mishaps, Da Vinci sends him off to explore with Penny. Penny and Sherman end up in Da Vinci's workshop where they find his Flying Machine Prototype. As Sherman explains it's working, Penny tricks him into telling her how to fly it. "You just pull that lever" exclaims Sherman and she does. She charges forward in the flying machine with Sherman, excited and completely enjoying the ride. Penny asks Sherman to take control of the lever. Sherman, flabbergasted and scared to death refuses to do so. Penny let goes the lever to force Sherman into taking control and flying the plane. Sherman while still scared to death grabs onto the lever after hearing Penny say "You can do it! I know you can!".

Little Sherman flies Da Vinci’s Flying machine over 1508's Florence, Italy, whooshing and swooping over the ponds and swiftly passing through lanes between the buildings and thoroughly enjoying it until Mr. Peabody yells out "Sherman, you don't know how to fly”. Sherman and Penny along with the Flying machine crash into a tree leaving Da Vinci's machine in smithereens.

Da Vinci runs towards Sherman, excited and dancing and says "Sherman you are the first flying man" while penny stands in the back, smiling. It took time for me to gather myself and rewind back a few seconds as I thought I must’ve misheard Mr. Da Vinci. Alas! I did not.

Penny pulls the lever of Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine charging her and Sherman into air

Meanwhile Da Vinci:

Penny was the one who flew Da Vinci’s Flying Machine first. Sherman gets the credit. Does Sherman correct Da Vinci? No. “Mr. Da Vinci it was actually Penny who flew the machine first, she was the one who encouraged me to fly it even though I was sure I would not be able to”. As much as I wanted to hear these words (and I waited till the end of the movie, hoping) I didn’t. This one tiny little scene reminded me of The Matilda Effect.

According to Wiki, “The Matilda effect is a bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists whose work is attributed to their male colleagues”.

In other words - Throughout history there have been instances of men stealing women’s work and credit shamelessly. This phenomenon of not acknowledging women’s achievements, erasing it and putting a man’s name to it is called The Matilda Effect.

Now, Penny was not a scientist nor was Sherman. To be very honest, I don’t even like Penny in the movie. She’s mean, she bullies Sherman, and the whole Penny-Sherman dynamic follows this cliche “If they tease you, they like you/ falls for the bully” trope. So even though I wasn’t a big fan of her this one scene made me feel bad for her. But mostly I felt bad for all those women- scientists, artists, programmers and not just women in STEM but women everywhere whose names were erased, written over and replaced.

Did the writers do this on purpose? Was this scene a subtle nod to the Matilda effect? I did not find anything on the internet regarding this. Intentional or not, this scene subtly highlights how in history and even today women’s accomplishments are often erased or minimized.

[summer-solo-day]

9/?? Childhood TV Shows You Should Watch

Title: Pebody's Improbably History

Note: [this is the original series that first appeared I know there is a newer one from netflix and of course the movie but that's not what this post is about]

Seasons: ?

Episodes: 91

Original Air Date: 1959-1961

Synopsis:

Peabody, is the smartest being in existence. In the first episode, Peabody meets an orphan named Sherman whom he saves from some bullies. He adopts Sherman after a court appearance that also involved him having to get the President and the government to help him out. Upon inventing the Wayback Machine, Peabody and Sherman meet various historic figures and help out with their plights.

My Rating: 8/9

My Reasoning:

So I personally have always had a liking towards history and learning about the past. So, this one gets an extra point for that. It also has that nostalgia and retro-type humor. I also feel like even though Peabody is a super smart character and everything he is also relatable too. It also has a lasting significance otherwise there wouldn't have been a movie plus a more recent series.

[slackville]

60 years ago today, June 27, 1964, the final episode of The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show (known as Rocky & His Friends during the first two seasons and as The Bullwinkle Show for the last three seasons) aired.

It originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, on the ABC and NBC television networks. Produced by Jay Ward Productions, the series is structured as a variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right (a parody of old-time melodrama), Peabody's Improbable History (a dog and his pet boy Sherman traveling through time), and Fractured Fairy Tales (classic fairy tales retold in comic fashion), among others.

Rocky & Bullwinkle is known for quality writing and wry humor. Mixing puns, cultural and topical satire, and self-referential humor, it appealed to adults as well as children. It was also one of the first cartoons whose animation was outsourced; storyboards were shipped to Gamma Productions, a Mexican studio also employed by Total Television. The art has a choppy, unpolished look and the animation is extremely limited even by television animation standards at the time. Yet the series has long been held in high esteem by those who have seen it; some critics described the series as a well-written radio program with pictures.

The show was shuffled around several times (airing in afternoon, prime time, and Saturday morning time slots), but was influential to other animated series from The Simpsons to Rocko's Modern Life. Segments from the series were later recycled in the Hoppity Hooper show.

There have been numerous feature film adaptations of the series' various segments, such as the 2000 film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle which blended live-action and computer animation and the 1999 live-action film Dudley Do-Right, which both received poor reviews and were financially unsuccessful. By contrast, an animated feature film adaptation of the "Peabody's Improbable History" segment, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, was released to good reviews in 2014.

Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show were ranked the sixth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time by TV Guide.

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[vincent-marie]

"Peabody's Improbable History-Quentin Trembley"

For my good buddy @baxterfilms, who made the astute observation that Quentin Trembley’s design looks a lot like a Jay Ward character straight out of “Peabody’s Improbable History.”

Now I can’t help but wonder what he would’ve sounded like if he was voiced by Paul Frees. (I keep picturing Ludwig Von Drake with a transatlantic accent.)

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Classic Retrovision Milestones

64 years ago today, November 19, 1959, The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show premiered. (known as Rocky & His Friends during the first two seasons and as The Bullwinkle Show for the last three seasons) It originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, on the ABC and NBC television networks. Produced by Jay Ward Productions, the series is structured as a variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right (a parody of old-time melodrama), Peabody's Improbable History (a dog and his pet boy Sherman traveling through time), and Fractured Fairy Tales (classic fairy tales retold in comic fashion), among others.

Rocky & Bullwinkle is known for quality writing and wry humor. Mixing puns, cultural and topical satire, and self-referential humor, it appealed to adults as well as children. It was also one of the first cartoons whose animation was outsourced; storyboards were shipped to Gamma Productions, a Mexican studio also employed by Total Television. The art has a choppy, unpolished look and the animation is extremely limited even by television animation standards at the time. Yet the series has long been held in high esteem by those who have seen it; some critics described the series as a well-written radio program with pictures.

The show was shuffled around several times (airing in afternoon, prime time, and Saturday morning time slots), but was influential to other animated series from The Simpsons to Rocko's Modern Life. Segments from the series were later recycled in the Hoppity Hooper show.

There have been numerous feature film adaptations of the series' various segments, such as the 2000 film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle which blended live-action and computer animation and the 1999 live-action film Dudley Do-Right, which both received poor reviews and were financially unsuccessful. By contrast, an animated feature film adaptation of the "Peabody's Improbable History" segment, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, was released to good reviews in 2014.

Mr. Peabody will star in a new reboot series picked up for 13-episodes.

In 2013, Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show were ranked the sixth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time by TV Guide.

[haru-kuneko]

I think the movie would've made such an impact if Mr. Peabody turned out to be the villain.

What if Sherman starts to learn the person who's been holding him back and causing him more pain is none other than his own father?

Mr. Peabody has always struck me as very controlling and overbearing. He might as well be a villain since he may be a genius but is too prideful to admit his shortcomings.

He was kind of a b*tch later into the movie and focused only on how the kids broke a plane. I noticed how Penny (despite being a bully), Agamemnon and Da Vinci are the ones who were proud of him. I get you shouldn't mess around in the past because of how it might alter the present. Da Vinci said it best "Children are not machines. Let them have fun."

Sherman is not some drone you could order around and expect him to not step out of line. He's freakin' seven and we all know how kids their age tend to be stubborn and impulsive. What more if he turns fourteen and seeks to be independent?

He was doing just fine without Mr. Peabody such as being able to fly the plane and control the WABAC machine. I wouldn't be surprised if he could also fire a gun like a pro and take down mercenaries alone. But nooo! According to Mr. Pompous Smartpup, Sherman can't do all that 'coz he's just a little pet who needs him at all times.

His son could start hanging out with other people which continues to make Mr. Peabody even more jealous and irrational. He makes it hard for Sherman to make friends and believe in himself.

Also, I wish they tried debunking facts like how Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake" or the Trojan horse was just a myth. At least have some lore involving his involvement in both World Wars and the Cold War before adopting Sherman. Maybe explain why Mr. Peabody doesn't actually like being called a dad (probably his own daddy issues and unresolved abandonment issues since childhood?). Penny should never have been a love interest.

He later starts to realize his mistakes once other historical figures from the past, including child services, start hunting him down and threaten to take Sherman away.

... Or number 2: "Mr. Peabody and Sherman" would've been more iconic if it was an indie series.

With indie animation on the rise, they could adapt the ol' Improbable History cartoons but make it resonate with both the old and new fans of the show. It could be lore-driven and have Easter eggs pointing to other shows including Rocky and Bullwinkle. It'd be something akin to Murder Drones where a strange creature called The Absolute Solver (or let's just call it The Void) alongside other historical figures manage to follow them all the way to the present-day.

Mr. Peabody is still the same overprotective father who went as far as put a tracking device on Sherman without his knowledge.

I know, there's already the animated show on Netflix but I don't consider that canon. Seriously, did Lankybox work on this show? It looks more like Panty & Stocking from Temu to me. (NOTE: Kids, don't watch PASWG. I don't care if it looks cute 'coz this show is rife with swearing, violence, suggestive content and offensive humor).

Mr. Peabody is definitely gonna do messed-up stuff to his son. Maybe play a sound that'd entice Sherman to obey him without question similar to a dog whistle. In his eyes, this is discipline but it's actually taking a toll on his son's psyche. He'd be playing mental games with the boy and even the viewer. Sherman doesn't notice the red flags as he gets to live a happy, comfortable life where he gets almost everything he wants.

They can also have some lore involving his involvement in both World Wars and the Cold War prior to adopting Sherman. The Void has brought in several notorious historical figures to them. Then, they will reveal to Sherman who Mr. Peabody really is. A double-faced vigilante with blood in his hands.

But Haru! This is supposed to be aimed at kids. Isn't that too complicated for kids to understand?

Uh no. I grew up with movies and shows that explore dark themes yet they tend to resonate with me more. "Mr. Peabody and Sherman" is a good example of respecting your audience's intelligence. This is why anime is so reverred. Just because it's animated, it doesn't mean it has to be for kids only and remain kid-friendly.

[cerealforkart]

i know requests aren't open, but just floating a lil idea down your way (especially after most recent DnDads episode)

the teens and Mr Peabody time travel adventures! (the ancient Peabody's Improbable History, from Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons)

or maybe just Link and Dood in that vein!

Had to look this show up before deciding to go a little overboard with this one. Anyways. Here's a cel from your favourite cartoon that didn't exist when your parents were kids

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

64 years ago today, November 19, 1959, The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show premiered. (known as Rocky & His Friends during the first two seasons and as The Bullwinkle Show for the last three seasons) It originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, on the ABC and NBC television networks. Produced by Jay Ward Productions, the series is structured as a variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right (a parody of old-time melodrama), Peabody's Improbable History (a dog and his pet boy Sherman traveling through time), and Fractured Fairy Tales (classic fairy tales retold in comic fashion), among others.

Rocky & Bullwinkle is known for quality writing and wry humor. Mixing puns, cultural and topical satire, and self-referential humor, it appealed to adults as well as children. It was also one of the first cartoons whose animation was outsourced; storyboards were shipped to Gamma Productions, a Mexican studio also employed by Total Television. The art has a choppy, unpolished look and the animation is extremely limited even by television animation standards at the time. Yet the series has long been held in high esteem by those who have seen it; some critics described the series as a well-written radio program with pictures.

The show was shuffled around several times (airing in afternoon, prime time, and Saturday morning time slots), but was influential to other animated series from The Simpsons to Rocko's Modern Life. Segments from the series were later recycled in the Hoppity Hooper show.

There have been numerous feature film adaptations of the series' various segments, such as the 2000 film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle which blended live-action and computer animation and the 1999 live-action film Dudley Do-Right, which both received poor reviews and were financially unsuccessful. By contrast, an animated feature film adaptation of the "Peabody's Improbable History" segment, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, was released to good reviews in 2014.

Mr. Peabody will star in a new reboot series picked up for 13-episodes.

In 2013, Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show were ranked the sixth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time by TV Guide.

[Classic Retrovision Milestones]

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Narrator: And so alls well that ends well for our high flying friend and his lowbrow companion. I think that it's safe to say that these boys put the moan in matrimony.

Snidely Whiplash: Oh that's terrible!

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S: Ready to start the day! :)

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Staff note: Just a quick reminder that Sherman is also open for questions in case y’all wanted to check in on him as well. Today is going to be a bit interesting to say the least

Transcript:

Setting is inside Sherman’s bedroom. Peabody calls from another room “Sherman! Time to eat breakfast!”

Sherman puts on his glasses “Ah, that’s better!”

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Fanfic: Improbable History, Harry Potter | FanFiction

Mr. Peabody adopts Harry. Joins him at Hogwarts as new History teacher.

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