What I like about Chuck Jones, especially when his art style got refined, was that it had this innocently youthful, adorable feel to the characters, but they also felt very mature when they wanted to be. And he wasn't limited to this, he could make some really freaky looking characters, the best example being in the Phantom Tollbooth.
This spelled October for me when I was really little...it was usually the first thing we watched...and of course, THAT filled me with SO much excitement 😁😁😁😁
I think kids these days are not excited to watch shows like this anymore; everything is so readily available anytime instead of having to wait for the networks to show these specials once a year. No one appreciates these old cartoons anymore, except those of us that grew up with them. ❤
I'm in my mid 50s and honestly, I don't remember this cartoon...for the life of me, I can't remember ever seeing it! I loved it! Such a heart warming story and so nostalgic! They don't make cartoons like this anymore!
My sister and I use to watch "Raggedy Anne & Andy" cartoon all the time, ppl actually forgot this was a cartoon back in the day. Thus is even more rare than the show it self.
"The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile" is a 1979 animated television special featuring Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises, it was first televised October 31, 1979 on CBS.
(( 🎃 )) oh my gosh here, the pumpkin who couldn't smile. This is one of those halloween cartoons I really did enjoy watching back then. I miss this one and miss other Halloween cartoons as well. I would love to see all these old and classic Halloween cartoons put back on television the way it use to be when we were young kids. Miss and love the 80s, nothing but good times and great memories plus all the great programs we had back then.
is it weird I'm an adult and I almost cried because of the pumpkin? he kind of reminds me: I have also felt unwanted and then met someone, who is as unhappy. I'm glad Ralph and the pumpkin got a happy halloween after all. this is a great cartoon :)
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm 54 yrs.old and this is the 1st.time I had ever seen this cartoon!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I looooooooove pumkins and my smile ain't whut it use to be any more! What a sweet cartoon!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ it makes me want to smile!!❤❤❤❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤
"Or threaten aunt Agatha with income tax invasion..." I'm laughing so hard right now that I actually cried! X'D I've seen this a LOT of times, but I never really got that joke till now! X'D That's kinda effed up too though of Andy to suggest! I mean, that could put aunt Agatha and the kid out of house and home! XD
14:07 I remember that part and not getting it as a kid. Now, decades later, it stands out to me as one of the best 'for the adults' jokes in animation.
I'm not sure I ever saw it but I was 9 in 85. It sure reminds me of the kinds of movies we saw at school. That's why I'm watching 🙂 for the nostalgia factor.
Chuck Jones rules it.... one of the best in animating....I LOVE this I haven't seen this in about 20yrs.... thank you şo much for beautiful trip back down memory lane
Love that I can watch this again! I grew up watching this show every fall as a child and absolutely love it. This brings back a lot of great childhood memories.
I saw this only once before during my early grade school years back in the 80s. I remember we had a section of the school library cordoned off for watching movies and how we all laughed watching the cat riding the pumpkin down the hill. Sure is nice to remember that moment again.
4 years ago I carved this pumpkin, (the glum version), for Halloween. Even glued pumpkin seeds as 'tears'. No one recognized it as being the pumpkin from this cartoon, but they did like my carving.
There's a reason why we don't see things such as this anymore. It's because we, as a people on the whole, have forgotten what it's like. Life back then (at least for me when I first saw this as a kid) was relatively simple; Saturday morning cartoons, trick or treating on Halloween, waking up on Christmas morning and seeing gifts under the tree, toys actually being fun, that sort of thing. We've become too politically correct (which may or may not be a good thing, depending how you look at it). Life has gotten complicated over the years. We've traded in our innocence and all things good in the world for something that is probably ugly. I'll admit it, if I had to pick a period in time that I could go back to when it was my best time and I was happy,....it would be when I was a kid. Granted there were things here and there that I didn't like (family problems),....but there were still a few good things that I still cling to. A person putting up treasures such as these is a gentle reminder of what was good in life,....and perhaps showing future generations that the world wasn't always a bad place.
This cartoon has alluded me for years! Saw it as a kid during the late 90s, and all I could remember was the pumpkin's face and a few of the overhead stills of the town. A little late for a Halloween short maybe, but I'm glad to solve one childhood mystery.
I HONESTLY don't remember this cartoon, and I thought I'd seen EVERY holiday cartoon! It just goes to show that there are STILL some cartoons that you don't remember from your childhood!
I've got this on VHS still and I still have a working VHS TV. I also had a Raggedy Ann doll up until a few years ago. This was one of my favorite Halloween films growing up. I'm 20 and I still watch it at least once every year, even if it's not during Halloween. (Since it's kinda hard to celebrate Halloween all month long like when you were a kid when you're in college... :/)
:) thank you for uploading this... I wish I was young again and the only things I had to worry about was watching cartoons like this one :( I have a baby on the way and I can't wait to show him/her this
No one told me that this short film is directed by Chuck Jones. This is the guy who made classic cartoons back in the day like Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry
i wish i knew just how old this is because one of the things that i am interested in is animation from the 1920s-1960s would love to hear from people who know more about the subject debra jane lerner
Raggedy Ann and Andy we haven’t seen anything new with them for a really really long time they should bring them back in and make another movie with them and another cartoon show. This Halloween special came out along time ago. I think it might’ve came out before I was born, I think I was really little when I saw this, I’m gonna time ago I haven’t been nothing new with them in a long time because they did something new with them
I can sure relate to the Pumpkin in a similar situation I'm in hopefully I get to be just as happy as the Pumpkin one day soon😔😔😔 the tears of joy that the pumpkin cried when he finally got somebody to love him 😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤
What I like about Chuck Jones, especially when his art style got refined, was that it had this innocently youthful, adorable feel to the characters, but they also felt very mature when they wanted to be. And he wasn't limited to this, he could make some really freaky looking characters, the best example being in the Phantom Tollbooth.
That poor pumpkin!!!
I'd take him home in a heartbeat! 🎃
19:57 Andy's face!!!! LOL
Me too!
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Aww
This spelled October for me when I was really little...it was usually the first thing we watched...and of course, THAT filled me with SO much excitement 😁😁😁😁
I just love these old Halloween cartoons. Things were so much more fun for kids when we were younger.
Same,and at 33 im doing it for my youngest and October starts in a couple days 🦇🐦⬛🖤🎃👻
I think kids these days are not excited to watch shows like this anymore; everything is so readily available anytime instead of having to wait for the networks to show these specials once a year. No one appreciates these old cartoons anymore, except those of us that grew up with them. ❤
Remember those TV carts that maintenance would roll into the classroom?
I'm in my mid 50s and honestly, I don't remember this cartoon...for the life of me, I can't remember ever seeing it! I loved it! Such a heart warming story and so nostalgic! They don't make cartoons like this anymore!
that’s because you grew up on Venus
every other Earthling saw this cartoon
@@sonicmagnus5312 😂 I saw many of the others I just don’t remember ever seeing this one
I'm 60 and I;ve never seen it.
@@johnzubil2875 thank you! I see that I’m not the only one who hadn’t seen it and I’m not from the planet Venus! 😂
I'm sorry for your childhoods. I'm 39 watching this now with my 73 year old parents and the memories, it's so beautiful 🎃
I was seven years old when I watched this back in 1979, afterwards I went trick or treating dressed as wonder woman.
I just love how he cries pumpkin seeds XD
".... or threaten Aunt Agatha with income tax evasion ...." 😂😂😂
My sister and I use to watch "Raggedy Anne & Andy" cartoon all the time, ppl actually forgot this was a cartoon back in the day. Thus is even more rare than the show it self.
You mean the late 80s cartoon or that there's more chuck Jones ones?
Thanks so much for this, it was like being little all over again. 💜
The Raggedy Twins are so Adorable! I wanna Cuddle them😊❤
Poor Pumpkin, I feel his pain of loneliness.
Me too
@ichihimefan91 i knw the feeling
This is my favorite Halloween special!
"The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile" is a 1979 animated television special featuring Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises, it was first televised October 31, 1979 on CBS.
40 years old in 2019. i thought this was older.
I was 4. I remember!
Yep,my son was born in 79,we watched this his first Halloween ❤️🎃
My first Halloween
I was 10 1/2 the year this came out.
I love that he cries pumpkin seeds!
The aunt sounds like Granny in the Tweety bird cartoons.
Thats her
@@supme7558a different actress
@@dunnoboi8680 No, it is indeed June Foray a.k.a. Magica de Spell.
@@kevinlee7678 look at the intro, it was not her but Hobart Donavan
I was 11 years old when I first, saw this on T.V CBS channel 2 in New York City. It came out in 1979. I sure miss my childhood.
Sure did
This just reminds me that we were all young once.
I've watched it every time during the Halloween 🎃 season... this goes up there with Charlie Brown, Garfield and Grinch's Halloween 🎃 specials
And don't forget Halloween Tree!
I remember watching the pumpkin 🎃 that couldn't smile on the Disney Channel when I was a kid and it's still fantastic to watch in October. 😀👍🎃
Rip June foray I still miss you ya favorite voice over actor of all
(( 🎃 )) oh my gosh here,
the pumpkin who couldn't smile.
This is one of those halloween cartoons I really did enjoy watching back then. I miss this one and miss other Halloween cartoons as well. I would love to see all these old and classic Halloween cartoons put back on television the way it use to be when we were young kids. Miss and love the 80s, nothing but good times and great memories plus all the great programs we had back then.
Would not be Halloween without the hum glum pumpkin.
Such high-quality. Cartoons these days don't hold a candle to Chuck Jones.
I agree, but don't be *that* old man.
Excuse me?HIGH quality?
High quality lol
the nostalgia. thank you so much for posting this! this played on tv in my house every Halloween as a child. wasn't Halloween without out.
is it weird I'm an adult and I almost cried because of the pumpkin? he kind of reminds me: I have also felt unwanted and then met someone, who is as unhappy. I'm glad Ralph and the pumpkin got a happy halloween after all. this is a great cartoon :)
Well, it's like what Maxim Gorky says in Lower Depths; "A miserable being must find another miserable being; this equates to happiness."
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Spoiler alert lol
Not at all, it is always good to be young at heart and to share your life with others!!! Because, there is always someone for everyone else!!!
The voice acting is brilliant. I really felt for the character.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm 54 yrs.old and this is the 1st.time I had ever seen this cartoon!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I looooooooove pumkins and my smile ain't whut it use to be any more! What a sweet cartoon!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ it makes me want to smile!!❤❤❤❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤
i hope the pumpkin never spoils. He is cool.
Plot twist: the kid got a a hold on some embalming fluids from raggedy Ann and Annie and test it on the jack o lantern.
"Or threaten aunt Agatha with income tax invasion..." I'm laughing so hard right now that I actually cried! X'D I've seen this a LOT of times, but I never really got that joke till now! X'D That's kinda effed up too though of Andy to suggest! I mean, that could put aunt Agatha and the kid out of house and home! XD
No one could voice Raggedy Ann and Andy better than June Foray and Dawes Butler!
Elroy jetson
the opening credits "Miscellaneous voices and barks, miscellaneous people and dogs" LOL that was good.
14:07 I remember that part and not getting it as a kid. Now, decades later, it stands out to me as one of the best 'for the adults' jokes in animation.
Going to the museum to look at rocks!? Hahaha! This is so cute. This whole thing is so darn cute.
This is one of my very favorite Halloween shows 🎃
I saw this in elementary school, they used a film projector to show it to us, was back in 1985, lol.
Same here--except for me it was in the early '90s. Never thought I'd find this again! :)
For now, film projectors are obsolete and no longer wanted.
Coming very soon, the title “The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile” could come to DVD.
I'm not sure I ever saw it but I was 9 in 85. It sure reminds me of the kinds of movies we saw at school. That's why I'm watching 🙂 for the nostalgia factor.
"Oh come on Ann...don't tell me you're gonna be FAIR again."
Chuck Jones rules it.... one of the best in animating....I LOVE this I haven't seen this in about 20yrs.... thank you şo much for beautiful trip back down memory lane
19:07
Those creepy dolls trying to manipulate Hagatha in her sleep 😂
Love that I can watch this again! I grew up watching this show every fall as a child and absolutely love it. This brings back a lot of great childhood memories.
"The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile" changed into "The Pumpkin Who Could Smile."
I saw this only once before during my early grade school years back in the 80s. I remember we had a section of the school library cordoned off for watching movies and how we all laughed watching the cat riding the pumpkin down the hill. Sure is nice to remember that moment again.
Threaten aunt Agatha with income tax evasion? That might work
Found it here last year..so glad to see its still up!!
This aired for the 1st time less than 2 months after I was born. I grew up watching it. Still have the self-recorded VHS that I made when I was 7.
4 years ago I carved this pumpkin, (the glum version), for Halloween. Even glued pumpkin seeds as 'tears'. No one recognized it as being the pumpkin from this cartoon, but they did like my carving.
You're lucky to still have it. VHS can spoil pretty easily., or break, etc.🎃🎃
oh my gosh this is so cute! I want that pumpkin!
Ikr
p.s Andy was killing that solo...ha.ha
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this 😊
God, I haven't seen this in over 20 years but can almost remember it like it was yesterday!
I felt so bad for the pumpkin.... he was so sad! I could relate to the pumpkin as a kid and I wanted to rescue him. It sounds crazy now.... lol!
As a child, I would have given the pumpkin a home. As an adult, I can't fathom buying a pre-carved pumpkin....
This special would've been better if they added the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees.
I remember when I had this on vhs
This is so adorable and cute I nearly cried. Why aren't there more treasures like this? I'm ashamed I didn't watch this as a kid....
TopsyTriceratops
Yes?
There's a reason why we don't see things such as this anymore. It's because we, as a people on the whole, have forgotten what it's like. Life back then (at least for me when I first saw this as a kid) was relatively simple; Saturday morning cartoons, trick or treating on Halloween, waking up on Christmas morning and seeing gifts under the tree, toys actually being fun, that sort of thing. We've become too politically correct (which may or may not be a good thing, depending how you look at it). Life has gotten complicated over the years. We've traded in our innocence and all things good in the world for something that is probably ugly.
I'll admit it, if I had to pick a period in time that I could go back to when it was my best time and I was happy,....it would be when I was a kid. Granted there were things here and there that I didn't like (family problems),....but there were still a few good things that I still cling to.
A person putting up treasures such as these is a gentle reminder of what was good in life,....and perhaps showing future generations that the world wasn't always a bad place.
@Genta edgy
CZcams Disney's Halloween Treat
My fav character, besides Ann and Andy is Raggedy Arthur!!!
❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Chuck jones will always be an Iconic artist for childhood nostalgia.
This cartoon has alluded me for years! Saw it as a kid during the late 90s, and all I could remember was the pumpkin's face and a few of the overhead stills of the town. A little late for a Halloween short maybe, but I'm glad to solve one childhood mystery.
I loved this movie as a kid!! And I ALWAYS felt so sad for the poor pumpkin. Even at 43 his sadness still fucks me up 🎃🎃🎃😞😞😭😭
dAWS BUTLER THE VOICE OF RAGGEDY ANDY ALSO VOICED ELROY JETSON
+Rebecca Meister He also voiced Yogi Bear.
Mouse got sic of that bull
It's not a Pumpkin, it's a Jack-o-lantern!!!
It's both, because whenever you carve a face into a pumpkin, it's called a jack-o-lantern.
I HONESTLY don't remember this cartoon, and I thought I'd seen EVERY holiday cartoon! It just goes to show that there are STILL some cartoons that you don't remember from your childhood!
i still have this on a vhs with challenge of the gobots and the smurfs and the magic flute (original voices)
You've made my day and then some. Been looking for this for years and years!! Just watched and am so happy!
Poor fella I have the same problem.
I've got this on VHS still and I still have a working VHS TV. I also had a Raggedy Ann doll up until a few years ago. This was one of my favorite Halloween films growing up. I'm 20 and I still watch it at least once every year, even if it's not during Halloween. (Since it's kinda hard to celebrate Halloween all month long like when you were a kid when you're in college... :/)
Omg! My ole fave for Halloween!
Halloween EVERYBODY!
This played on Disney?! :O I had no idea! I always had it on VHS and watched every year that way instead, with my Raggedy Ann doll!
Ann’s voice is so Cute🥰
I remember this cartoon 😺😁😞😸 it's fun to watch it
:) thank you for uploading this... I wish I was young again and the only things I had to worry about was watching cartoons like this one :( I have a baby on the way and I can't wait to show him/her this
19:57 SHEESH! THAT FACE COULD BECOME A MEME SOMEDAY!!!
Reminds of Spookley the square pumpkin on Disney jr
I had the dolls when I was little....lol
No one told me that this short film is directed by Chuck Jones. This is the guy who made classic cartoons back in the day like Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry
What a wonderful memory... Happy Halloween 🎃 👻🍂
Raggedy Andy talks and the first thing that comes to mind is "The Elroy Elevator! I got up! I go down! I go up!"
that is the best Halloween cartoon besides Simpsons
Wow I've been looking for this for years. Such memories.
Ron Dias... the best at it...RIP.
I FELT SO SORRY FOR THAT POOR PUMPKIN I almost thought about Kevorkian assisting him with his suicide..ha ha
i wish i knew just how old this is because one of the things that i am interested in is animation from the 1920s-1960s would love to hear from people who know more about the subject debra jane lerner
This aired in 1979.
A+ video!
First time I have seen this Halloween special, LOVE IT!
Raggedy Ann and Andy we haven’t seen anything new with them for a really really long time they should bring them back in and make another movie with them and another cartoon show. This Halloween special came out along time ago. I think it might’ve came out before I was born, I think I was really little when I saw this, I’m gonna time ago I haven’t been nothing new with them in a long time because they did something new with them
I love how Anne and Andy are just silly sleepy dumb dumb is those shorts
Oh, thank you soooo much, such appreciation : )
thanks for down loading this cartoon of raggy Ann Andy I love this cartoon thanks a lot
kitty kitty me to🦇
Poor pumpkin
I can sure relate to the Pumpkin in a similar situation I'm in hopefully I get to be just as happy as the Pumpkin one day soon😔😔😔 the tears of joy that the pumpkin cried when he finally got somebody to love him 😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤
I Looked for this a few years back, and when I finally found it it was like $100.
The mouse reminds me of riki tiki tavi 🤷🏽♀️
It’s chuck jones of course
1979 I believe. Im looking for anything before the 80s tonight! The sound isn't coming thru too good tho~~
Never saw this before
I remember this animation show , but it was only shown for a few seasons and never seen again after. 1:32
Nowadays Ralph would be just be staring at his iPad the whole time.
I vaguely recall hearing of this, but think I missed it in '79. It seemed to disappear for a long time, didn't it? Glad to see it posted!
The Pumpkin That Wouldn't Die!
Cutest.Movie. EVER!!
Depressed pumpkin no thank you, even tho this look very ancient.
Chuck Jones is a god animation