Big Name Fan: Albert Einstein was reported to be a fan of Time for Beany, and once reputedly interrupted a high-level conference by announcing that he was going to watch the show. Frank Zappa and Harpo Marx were also fans of the program.
Dawson Casting: Beany was voiced by adult male voice actor Jim MacGeorge, giving him a fairly mature voice.
Executive Meddling: The original show in particular went through lots of editing and censorship due to the execs' dislike of Clampett's wordplay.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: While all of the original cartoons were released on VHS, only a certain number of them are available on two rare and long out of print DVD sets.
Role Reprise: Jim MacGeorge (Beany and Captain Huffenpuff) and Irv Shoemaker (Cecil and Dishonest John) reprise their roles from the later seasons of Time For Beany (replacingDaws Butler and Stan Freberg from the early seasons, respectively.)
The 1988 revival
Approval of God: The Clampett family gave John Kricfalusi their full support while making the 80's revival, to the point where they were on his side against ABC and their meddling.
Creative Differences: The New Adventures marked the first of many altercations between John Kricfalusi and network executives, and unlike Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, he didn't have Ralph Bakshi to shoulder the blows from the higher ups. Kricfalusi wanted to crank up the Vulgar Humor and continue the creator-driven practice that he'd done on Mighty Mouse while ABC was only interested in something safe and child-friendly produced in a more conventional manner, with their biggest disagreement over the presence of a story editor and script writers rather than going directly to storyboards. Kricfalusi won the argument over keeping the layout stage of animation in-house rather than farming it out, allowing him to achieve the acting quality he wanted but also slowing down production due to his perfectionism (he was also personally training the layout artists to draw to his exact specifications, despite also refusing to use model sheets). Chuck Lorre outright refused to write in gags that John K. suggested, such as Cecil vomiting up his own eyeballs or sneaking into a conch shell for "alone time," and left after completing only two scripts, both of which were heavily rewritten. This reached its apex when John K. wrote a Strongly Worded Letter to the ABC executives saying that "the time for diplomacy is over" and that they were ruining the show. By that point, neither party wanted anything to do with one another and the show ended after only five episodes.
Creator Killer: Amazingly, this was almost the case for John Kricfalusi, who not only got fed up with the business side of animation after this show but had burned so many bridges that no one would offer him a job if he wanted one, and moved into illustration. Luckily for him, a little cable TV channel called Nickelodeon was looking for creator-driven content a couple years later and the rest is history.
Executive Meddling: As detailed above, ABC was not willing to give John K. and his staff the same amount of creative freedom they'd been allowed on Mighty Mouse. They objected to his "storyboard only" writing process and demanded professional writers plus a story editor, in addition to other forms of censorship. They also kept an eagle eye on any inappropriate background gags that the artists might have thrown in out of frustration, having any and all of them cut.
Franchise Killer: The failure of this revival killed any further possible versions of Beany and Cecil.
The Other Darrin: Besides Mark Hildreth voicing Beany, the revival also has Maurice LaMarche taking over the role of Dishonest John, and Billy West as Cecil (in one of his earliest voice roles.)
Role Reprise: Jim MacGeorge, who voiced Captain Huffenpuff in the later Time For Beany seasons and the '60s animated series, reprised the role for this revival.
Screwed by the Network: Once it was clear that John K's relationship with the network was not going to get better, ABC canceled the show and replaced it with The Flintstone Kids after five weeks.
