Didn't Bruce mention in that February 1971 WPLJ-FM New York radio interview that there were plans for a Beach Boys cartoon? I think he said it was going to be like the old Beatles cartoons, only hipper, and with an ecology slant. I'm too lazy to get it out to listen right now, but maybe someone else could. Either way, Bruce isn't depicted here, is he?
Here's the relevant discussion...
Bruce: "We're getting into a cartoon series, too...that this company, Pantomime Pictures...what is it? Jack Pantomime Productions? They have a couple of series on the air, and this is a...this isn't like a Beatles series - remember that Beatles thing that was on?" Interviewer: "Cartoon thing?" Bruce: "The cartoon thing on Saturday mornings?" Interview: "Really inane." Bruce: "WHEW...well, it ain't like
that - it's a really, the drawings are so beautiful, a little reminiscent of 'Yellow Submarine' - y'know, with a lot of ecology and a lot of good music, hopefully, in it - and some nice health food things, and just a lot of things." Interviewer: "But it's gonna be aimed at kids, right?" Bruce: "Yeah, aimed at kids...and adults - will probably like it, too." Mike: "Kids of all ages." Carl: "And it'll be real, too." Bruce: "It'll be an honest thing - and it'll be our voices." Interviewer: "Oh, really, you're gonna do 'em?" Bruce: "Yeah, we'll do 'em." Interviewer: "That's gonna take a helluva lot of time, isn't it?" Bruce: "Well, it'll take a good amount of time, but not the way it usually is done...it's something that..." Interviewer: "I always wonder what comes first, the chicken or the egg; do you first read the scripts, and then they time the animation?" Bruce: "...the voices first, I guess..." Interviewer: "Right...and then they match the animation to the voices, and time the animation around that."
Immediately before this exchange, Bruce talked about the BBs' joint venture with the Joffrey Ballet (which took another couple of years to reach the stage), and immediately afterward he talked about their new Eastern Airlines commercial "selling" L.A. (Mike says it's not so much a commercial, but more of a "documentary").
Regarding the cartoon, I would say it's clear that what Bruce was describing was NOT the Hanna Barbara styled boards depicted here!
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