— unpredictable thoughts

A sad day for Gumby and Pokey. Art Clokey, the ani­ma­tor who cre­ated the lov­able, bend­able clay cre­ation Gumby over a half-century ago, died. Many a sat­ur­day morn­ing was spent cereal bowl in hand watch­ing the green guy and his orange pony pal.

It was Eddie Murphy’s SNL Gumby sketch 40 years after the birth of Gumby that finally cre­ated some finan­cial reward to Art. The cul­tural icon is still pop­u­lar today and has even moved into the new world of social media — Gumby has over 134,000 fans on Facebook.

hulu.com cur­rently has some Gumby avail­able for viewing.