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Comic Mint, your best source for rare, kooky, and classic animation art, is pleased to offer fans of the "George of the Jungle Show" this RARE Jay Ward Studio Scene Cel.

This scene cel is hand inked and hand painted and features George, Ursula, Shep, and the Tookie Tookie Bird. This vintage piece of animation measures 12.5" x 10.5" inches, and the cel is is placed against a photographic Jay Ward background. The Jay Ward Studio produced and sold these cels through his Dudley Do-Right Emporium on Sunset Blvd during the 1980's. The untrimmed animation cel measures 10.5. by 12.5 inches.

Background info:
George of the Jungle was an American animated series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who created The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The character George was inspired by the legend of Tarzan. It ran for 17 episodes on Saturday mornings from September 9 to December 30, 1967, on the American TV network ABC.
The title segment, George of the Jungle, is a parody of the popular Tarzan stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. George (voiced by Bill Scott), is a dim-witted but big-hearted "ape man" who is always called upon by District Commissioner Alistair (voiced by Paul Frees) to save inhabitants of the jungle from various threats.

In the opening title, George is depicted swinging on vines, repeatedly slamming face-first into trees or other obstacles even as theme-song singers warn him to "watch out for that tree!" Another running gag is that George keeps forgetting that he lives in a treehouse, falling to the ground every time he leaves home.