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Beetle Bailey is a 1960s animated adaptation produced by King Features Entertainment, in association with Paramount Cartoon Studios (New York, United States) and Artansa Film Studios (Sydney, Australia). It is based on the comic strip series by Mort Walker. It's was part of the King Features Trilogy.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) This series was notable for being the first animated adaptation of the Beetle Bailey comic strip, prior to the 1989 television special.
 * 2) Good voice acting from Howard Morris. Allan Melvin and June Foray.
 * 3) The limited animation is good for its time, despite how stiff the characters are on a shoestring budget.
 * 4) * The Paramount Cartoon Studios episodes are the most consistent in animation quality and varied between different artists, like they did in the Popeye cartoons made for television.
 * 5) The characters, while not close to Walker's comic strip, are enjoyable enough (even though they were considered reduced to stereotypes by its detractors).
 * 6) Great music scores by Winston Sharples, despite being stock music cues from the Casper and Popeye cartoons.
 * 7) Great gems, such as "We Love You, Sergeant Snorkel", "Sgt. Snorkel's Longest Day", "V for Visitors" and "The Sergeant's Master".
 * 8) Some episodes have good endings, like Sarge Snorkel who still loves Otto despite his demotion in "The Sargeant's Master".
 * 9) Funny moments, such as Beetle introducing the other soldiers to Mathilde (only to find out she is a kangaroo).

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Despite how unintentionally funny it was, the series failed to live up to the comic strip when it first came out.
 * 2) A few weaker entries, such as "Welsh Rabbit", "Beetle's High Horps" and "Courage Encourager".

Trivia

 * Despite the mixed reception of the series, it was known for being the first animation adaptation of the Beetle Bailey comic strip in history (as mentioned above).
 * Howard Morris later moved on to voice Wade Duck on Garfield and Friends in the U.S. Acres segments, Allan Melvin as Bluto for The New Popeye Comedy Show and June Foray as Jokey Smurf for The Smurfs and Magica De Spell for DuckTales.