Suede Simpson
Also known as: Clean is Keen (Reissue)
- Studio
- Filmation Associates, Bill Cosby Productions
Synopsis
Russell and Fat Albert have to tell their friend Suede Simpson that he needs to take a bath. The well-dressed Lothario learns the value of personal hygiene when his body odor keeps the ladies away.
Characters
Fat Albert, Rudy, Mushmouth, Dumb Donald, Bill, Mudfoot, Russell, Bucky, Weird Harold, Suede Simpson
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Hal Sutherland
- Live Action Sequences Director
- Arthur H. Nadel
- Creative Director
- Don Christensen
Producing
- Producer
- Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott
- Executive Producer
- William H. Cosby Jr
Writing
- Writer
- Bill Danch, Jim Ryan
Animation
- Animator
- Zeon Davush, Jack Ozark, Otto Feur, William Pratt, Ed Friedman, Virgil Raddatz, Fred Grable, Len Rogers, Lou Kachivas, Larry Silverman, Marsha Lamore, Hank Smith, Casey Onaitis, Ed Solomon, Lou Zukor
- Animation Directors
- Rudy Larriva, Don Towsley
Voices
- Voice
- Bill Cosby (Fat Albert, Mushmouth, Mudfoot), Jan Crawford (Russell, Bucky), Gerald Edwards (Weird Harold), Eric Suter (Rudy), Lou Scheimer (Dumb Donald), Demetra McHenry, Erika Carroll, Lane Vaux
Editing
- Editor
- Doreen Dixon, Jim Blodgett
- Edting Supervisor
- Joseph Simon
Crew
- Creative Director
- Don Christensen
- Storyboard Supervision
- Kay Wright
- Storyboards
- Sherman Labby, Paul Fennell
- Layout Supervision
- Herb Hazelton, Albert De Mello
- Key Assistants
- Mike Hazy, Ed Haney
- Layouts
- George Goode, Lorna Smith, Wes Herschensohn, Mario Piluso, Bob Kline, Wendell Washer, John Perry, Jim Willoughby
- Director of Color
- Ervin Kaplan
- Background Artists
- Tom O'Laughlin, Curtiss Perkins, Don Peters
- Checking Supervision
- Marion Turk
- Xerography Supervision
- John Remmel
- Paint Supervision
- Betty Brooks
- Camera Supervision
- Robert Pope
- Camera
- Thane Berti, Joe Ponticelle, F.T. Ziegler
- Color
- TECHNICOLOR
- Film Coordinator
- June Gilham
- Feature Songs Produced by
- Richard Delvy, Ed Fournier
- Background Music by
- Yvette Blais, Jeff Michael
- Music Publisher
- Shermley Music Co. A.S.C.A.P
- Educational Advisory Panel
- Dr. Gordon L. Berry, Dr. Norma Feshbach, Dr. Seymour Feshbach, Dr. Thomas LaBelle, Dr. Gloria Powell, Dr. James Sackett, Mrs. Gloria Searls
Companies and other credits
- Music and Sound Effects: Horta-Mahana Corp
Production notes
"Na-na-na, gonna have a good time, Hey, hey hey!"
The show initially ran on CBS from 1972-1984, but moved to NBC in syndication for one year in 1989. The episodes revolved around the daily life lessons learned by Albert and his friends. Topics ranged from social issues to personal introspection and were blended with humor and music. Among the many great characters that inhabited Fat Albert's world were Rudy, Mushmouth, Donald, Bill, Weird Harold and Russell.
Bill Cosby lent his voice to many of the Fat Albert characters, playing Fat Albert, Bill, Mushmouth, Mudfoot and the Brown Hornet.
Live action bumpers featuring Bill Cosby were set around animated episodes of Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, a series about a group of urban adolescents growing up in a Philadelphia neighborhood. The show was based on Cosby's 60's stand up comedy monologues about his childhood.
In 1979 the show was re-titled The New Fat Albert Show and featured a new segment called The Brown Hornet, a send-up of superhero cartoons starring a larger-than-life African-American crime fighter in outer space.
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids enjoyed one of the longest careers in Saturday morning cartoon history, running for twelve consecutive years; a record bested only by the many incarnations of Scooby-Doo.
The show initially ran on CBS from 1972-1984, but moved to NBC in syndication for one year in 1989. The episodes revolved around the daily life lessons learned by Albert and his friends. Topics ranged from social issues to personal introspection and were blended with humor and music. Among the many great characters that inhabited Fat Albert's world were Rudy, Mushmouth, Donald, Bill, Weird Harold and Russell.
Bill Cosby lent his voice to many of the Fat Albert characters, playing Fat Albert, Bill, Mushmouth, Mudfoot and the Brown Hornet.
Live action bumpers featuring Bill Cosby were set around animated episodes of Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, a series about a group of urban adolescents growing up in a Philadelphia neighborhood. The show was based on Cosby's 60's stand up comedy monologues about his childhood.
In 1979 the show was re-titled The New Fat Albert Show and featured a new segment called The Brown Hornet, a send-up of superhero cartoons starring a larger-than-life African-American crime fighter in outer space.
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids enjoyed one of the longest careers in Saturday morning cartoon history, running for twelve consecutive years; a record bested only by the many incarnations of Scooby-Doo.
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Reviews
Suede Simpson
This was an interesting and unusual episode for it's bluntness. Here Fat Albert and co. deal with a kid named Suede Simpson who think's he's cool, but is actually a local joke because he does nor bathe. Russell finally stops "beating around the bush" and says "nobody wants to be around a dirty dude like you." Raw stuff for a kids' show in 1976, and even today!
Suede Simpson
I think that the song "Soap And Water", made this one of the best episodes ever. I also think that because of russel's usual blunt honesty the show had to be a hit with all fans of the show.
Thanks,
Polyman90