The Sheep of Araby (Beau Geste Goes West).
Slowshoe Mountie (One, Two, Buckle My Snowshoe).Ĭreated and airing during the Vietnam War, although before the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, the episode featuring Tooter traveling back to WW I as a fighter pilot ("Tailspin Tooter") features what one historian has called some of "the most gruesome pro-war imagery" in cartoons of the period. Wizard's phrase "Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome Time for this one to come home" is echoed in the phrase "Razzle, dazzle, drazzle, drone, Time for This One to Come Home" that was used later by the band The Replacements as a lyric in Hold My Life from the album Tim. Folks what do this has the happiest lot." Critical reception and impact Wizard would always give Tooter the same advice: "Be just what you is, not what you is not. Wizard would then rescue Tooter with the incantation, "Treezle, trazle, trozle, trome, time for this one to come home." Then, Mr. Wizard, I don't want to be X any more!" where X was whatever destiny Tooter had entered. When Tooter's trip finally became a catastrophe, Tooter would request help with a cry of "Help me, Mr. Wizard has the magic to change Tooter's life to some other destiny, usually sending him back in time and to various locales.Īs Tooter is fulfilling his destiny, Mr. Wizard would shrink Tooter small enough to enter through the box's front door and invite him in. The introductory segment had Tooter knocking on the cardboard box, having "another favor to ask." From inside the box, Mr. Wizard lived in a tiny cardboard box at the base of a tall tree. Wizard the Lizard (voiced by Sandy Becker), an anthropomorphic lizard wearing a wizard cone hat, a robe, and pince-nez eyeglasses. Tooter (voiced by Allen Swift) calls on his friend Mr. The plots followed the same general format.