High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Beany and Cecil was an animated cartoon series created by Bob Clampett, who had previously worked for Warner Bros.. As a puppet show entitled Time for Beany, it originally aired in 1949, with the animated series first appearing in Matty`s Funday Funnies in 1959, later renamed Matty`s Funnies with Beany and Cecil and finally Beany and Cecil in the USA. Another season was produced in 1988.