Gumby, Dammit

I was watching Gumby on the Cartoon Network a while back and I saw something that, to be honest, shocked me. 

Gumby’s sister needed to take a bath.  So, she went and got in the tub as she was.  See, she didn’t take off her clothes because she wasn’t wearing any.  She just hopped right on in. 

Which means: she never wears clothes.  None of them do.  All of the Gumby family walk around totally starkers!  Naked!  Nude!  Just as their God molded them, their clay bodies exposed for all the world to see. 

Not that Gumby, Pokey or any of their pals are, shall we say, anatomically-correct, shamelessly displaying clay privates with the audacity of a drunken coed on one of those spring break videos.  No, these earthen amigos are as smooth and nondescript as a Ken doll, even less so. 

But there’s a principle here.  Why call attention to the Gumby clan’s nakedness by depicting the sister in a bathtub, even if it was an integral part of the story?  Pure prurient interest, if you ask me!  Pure lewdness!  Pure insatiable lust! 

Damn, that Art Clokey was one sick, horny SOB.