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That's why he needs to be drastically reimagined in Bagpuzz: Puzz It Real Good, where Bagpuss (now called Bagpuzz because the letter Z is cooler than the letter S) and his new sidekick MC Boompow Giraffe (voiced by Dr Dre) take a break from their jetset careers as millionaire R&B stars to go surfing on the moon or whatever. Old people might love Oliver Postgate's creation, but it hardly speaks to kids any more.
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I've located a few more pockets of innocent memories that Hollywood hasn't trampled over, and I shall now present them to you along with suggestions on how to update them in the most unnecessarily offensive – and therefore lucrative – way possible: Bagpuss Could the film industry be running out of ways to molest your happy childhood for money? This should be perceived as nothing but a stark warning sign. And now an also-ran such as Hong Kong Phooey is getting his own film. To make new films about popular characters such as Scooby Doo, Garfield, Yogi Bear and Alvin and the Chipmunks is one thing, but Marmaduke? The tedious 57-year-old newspaper comic strip? Who could have possibly wanted to sit through a film about that? As for The Smurfs, it's a sad day when Hollywood has to turn to Belgium for inspiration. Hollywood has so far made hundreds of millions of dollars by taking beloved cartoon characters from the past and turning them into grotesquely scatological wisecrackers in horrible baseball caps to the total dismay of everyone over the age of 25. The sheen of irony and misplaced nostalgia might have buoyed its reputation in recent years, but the fact is that Hong Kong Phooey was never anything more than a footnote in the story of Hanna-Barbera. The scripts were stale, the animation was jerky and every episode was basically identical. Even in its original form, Hong Kong Phooey was rubbish. There's no point fighting it.īut there's a problem. Hollywood loves plundering old cartoons for ideas and, now that Shrek has finished, Eddie Murphy needs some voiceover work to stop him making a Norbit sequel. And of course Eddie Murphy will provide the voice of Hong Kong Phooey. And of course it'll blend CGI with live-action comedy. And ask that you never do a dark reboot of Big.Of course there's going to be a Hong Kong Phooey film. “Yes it does,” it tells me, firmly, and who am I to argue? I must comply, computer. Does it need to be a dozen episodes long for that to happen? I don’t know, but the computer is glowing menacingly at me now. The dog can sniff clues out, somehow, and bit by bit is making him loosen up and fall in love.
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I’m prevaricating, because there’s not much to say: it’s a family-friendly fine-enough TV show where one of the main jeopardies is “I hope my dog doesn’t make a mess”, but the dog always makes a mess, and it has a lot of scenes where Josh Peck slips on a carpet while chasing a dog to the soundtrack of a compilation of dog sounds lifted from various rap songs. Philosophers call this “Trigger’s Broom”.
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“He said: ‘It’s almost like the original Hooch came back.’” Canonically I think this means that, after Turner & Hooch (1989), Tom Hanks’s Turner compulsively adopted a series of different French mastiffs, calling them all Hooch, until his death (2021), at which point his son, also called Turner, adopted one of the Hooches. “He adopted him last November,” Turner is told. This time, Peck’s Scott Turner, son of Hanks, is a neat-freak cop who inherits his father’s mutt after his death six months prior.
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Obviously, my fellow Hooch-heads will realise this involved severely retconning the original movie – where Hooch heroically died of a gunshot wound – to instead keep him alive. We could sit and talk about how rebooting, prequelling, extended universing or series-optioning a movie is a particularly 2021 malaise, but weirdly this latest effort (Wednesday, Disney+) isn’t the first version of a Turner & Hooch TV show: in 1990, after the semi-unexpected success of the 1989 original, Disney tried to get a pilot off the ground with Back to the Future’s Biff, Thomas F Wilson, in the Hanks role, and Beasley, the original Hooch, as Hooch.