Clyde Crashcup | |
Creator: | Ross Bagdasarian |
Gender: | Male |
First: | The Alvin Show (1961) |
Last: | The Chipmunks (1983) |
Series: | Alvin and the Chipmunks |
Clyde Crashcup is a fictional character from the early 1960s animated television series The Alvin Show. He is a scientist in a white coat who tends to "invent" things that had already been invented; his experiments invariably fail.[1] He usually invented by penciling the concept in air, with the picture becoming the actual object. The character has also appeared in comics and other Alvin and the Chipmunks works after The Alvin Show.
Clyde Crashcup was created by Ross Bagdasarian. He is voiced by Shepard Menken mimicking the enunciation of Richard Haydn's nasal-voiced character Edwin Carp.Clyde had one of the four segments of each episode of The Alvin Show, and the Chipmunks starred in the other three (two of which were musical segments).
Crashcup is a scientist in a white coat whose experiments invariably fail. His was the only voice heard in many of the episodes because the other main character in the series was his assistant Leonardo, who only whispered into Clyde's ear.
Clyde Crashcup was primarily an inventor rather than a researcher, although he tended to "invent" things that had already been invented. However, in one episode, he built a functioning time machine. He typically would invent something by taking a pencil out of his lab coat's pocket and drawing a picture in midair of his conception: the picture would then become the actual object.With the release of "This Is Your Life Clyde CrashCup" it shows him for the first time of wearing black pants and black bowtie and a grey shirt.
Clyde's catchphrase was to break down the name of his invention into its metonymic elements to explain his thought process. For example, when asked to justify the invention of the telephone, he would say "That's 'tele-' for tele and '-phone' for phone: telephone."
In one episode, Clyde invented a wife, voiced by June Foray.
Clyde Crashcup | Original air date | ||
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1 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Baseball | ||
2 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Bathtub | ||
3 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Wife | ||
4 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Baby | ||
5 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Electricity | ||
6 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Music | ||
7 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the West | ||
8 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Stove | ||
9 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Jokes | ||
10 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Flight | ||
11 | Clyde Crashcup Invents First Aid | ||
12 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Ancient Egypt | ||
13 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Self-Preservation | ||
14 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Physical Fitness | ||
15 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Chair | ||
16 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Bed | ||
17 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Telephone | ||
18 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Time Machine | ||
19 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Do-It Yourself | ||
20 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Shoe | ||
21 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Glass | ||
22 | This is Your Life, Clyde Crashcup! | ||
23 | Clyde Crashcup Invents the Boat | ||
24 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Crashcupland | ||
25 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Birthdays | ||
26 | Clyde Crashcup Invents Self-Defense |