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Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a popular, semi-educational animated cartoon TV series that originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966. It was produced by Total Television, the same company that produced the earlier King Leonardo and the later Underdog, and primarily sponsored by General Mills. The title is a play on “tuxedo and tails” formal wear.

The cartoon series revolved around Tennessee Tuxedo the penguin (voiced by Don Adams), and his best friend Chumley the Walrus (voiced by Bradley Bolke). The pair lived (not always willingly) at the Megapolis Zoo, under the control of the ill-tempered zoo director Stanley Livingston (voiced by Mort Marshall whose character's name was a play on the names of the missionary David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley) and his zookeeper assistant Flunky (voiced by Kenny Delmar). It was on one of Stanley’s journeys that Tennessee met Stanley. Actually, it was Chumley that Stanley wanted, as Chumley was at the South Pole. Thus Chumley was a one of a kind: a South Pole walrus. Tennessee agreed to accompany Chumley and Stanley back to the zoo.

At the zoo, Tennessee and Chumley had many friends to help them out, such as Yakkety Yak (also voiced by Kenny Delmar), Baldy the eagle (also voiced by Kenny Delmar), Alfonse the giraffe, Kounging the panda, Peanuts the elephant, Icycold the Blue Reluctant Dragon (also voiced by Kenny Delmar), Rockymount the rhinoceros, the Gopher brothers, Dumboing the ostrich, and the Beaver brothers. Three episodes also featured Howler, a dog that Tennessee got from his uncle.

Tennessee and Chumley also had a big rival, in the form of Jereboah Jump the kangaroo rat (also voiced by Bradley Bolke). Some of the episodes would center around Tennessee trying to outsmart Jereboah at his own game, and succeeding in the end, of course. Jereboah later gains a henchman in a boxing tiger named Tiger Tornado (voiced by Kenny Delmar). Tennessee and Chumley were also constantly bedeviled by Rocky Maninoff (voiced by Jackson Beck impersonating Humphrey Bogart and whose name is an obvious pun on the composer and musician Sergei Rachmaninoff), a gangster who always called them “dum-dums” and ordered them to do his will at the point of his machine gun.

Tennessee and Chumley regularly escaped from the zoo, only to find trouble in the outside world. When faced with more trouble than they could bear, the pair would turn to their friend, a college professor named Phineas J. Whoopee (voiced by Larry Storch), the “Man with All the Answers”. Mr. Whoopee, as he was known, was extremely knowledgeable on all subjects, and would frequently lecture the pair on such diverse topics as the physics behind the hot air balloon, to how musicians become popular. His lectures were illustrated and animated on the Three Dimensional Blackboard (3DBB for short), that he would retrieve out of an avalanche of junk from his overstuffed hallway closet. Other times the pair would have to overcome a personal problem, such as Chumley requiring treatment for a toothache but expressing his fear of the dentist (a common fear in many children). Mr. Whoopee used his blackboard to explain the history of dental science and how dental students must undergo much training to be very skilled with teeth. After Chumley overcame his fears and realized the dentist is his friend, Tennessee makes a suggestion that perhaps the duo should study dentistry, which a woman overhears them to be doctors and conscripts them into extra work, causing Tennessee to remark he ought to keep comments to himself. At the end of each lecture, Tennessee praised his mentor with the line, “Phineas J. Whoopee, you’re the greatest!”

The pair would then attempt to use their newly gained knowledge to get out of the trouble they had created ("Tennessee Tuxedo will not fail!"), but would invariably end up in more trouble with Stanley Livingston, who typically punished them in different ways ranging from having the police arrest them to making them scrub pots and pans for six months. Stanley even threatened to skin them alive many times.

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