Mother Goose and Grimm, also known as Grimmy for the second season, is an American animated

Animated cartoon

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 television series that premiered September 14, 1991, on CBS

CBS

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. The show features the characters of Mike Peters's comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm

Mother Goose and Grimm

Mother Goose and Grimm is an internationally syndicated comic strip by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Peters. It was first syndicated in 1984 and is distributed by King Features Syndicate to more than 800 newspapers...

. The Saturday morning cartoon

Saturday morning cartoon

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 was produced by Bob Curtis, and written by Mark Evanier

Mark Evanier

Mark Stephen Evanier is an American comic book and television writer, particularly known for his humor work. He is also known for his columns and blogs, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, in particular his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of...

.

Cast

• Charlie Brill
  Charlie Brill
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   - Grimmy
• Greg Burson
  Greg Burson
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   - Attila
• Eddie Deezen
  Eddie Deezen
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   - Ham
• Mitzi McCall
  Mitzi McCall
  Mitzi McCall is an American actress married to actor Charlie Brill. She performed on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Other credits include guest appearances on Life Goes On, The Twilight Zone, Silk Stalkings , and voice work on many cartoons...
  
   - Mother Goose
• Frank Welker
  Frank Welker
  Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker is an American actor who specializes in voice acting and has contributed character voices and other vocal effects to American television and motion pictures.-Acting career:...
  
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• Hal Rayle
  Hal Rayle
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• Rob Paulsen
  Rob Paulsen
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• Tress Macneille
  Tress MacNeille
  Tress MacNeille is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated series The Simpsons, Futurama, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Disney's House of Mouse, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rugrats, All Grown Up!, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Dave the...
  
  
• Howard Morris
  Howard Morris
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• Pat Harrington Jr
• Hal Smith
  Hal Smith
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• Charlie Adler
• Pat Musick
  Pat Musick
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• Stan Freberg
  Stan Freberg
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• Danny Mann
  Danny Mann
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Reception

Charles Solomon of the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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praised the series for "preserving the look" of the comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

, and for "[having] a good sense of the characters' personalities". However, Solomon was disappointed with the "flat timing and pedestrian direction" of the program.