Mean while back at the ranch...

[Purple]

OK, if you are one of those types who can not leave somthing alone once you have been issued the challenge then i advise you exit stage left immediaty.

Where did the TV quote "Mean while back at the ranch" come from. I have googled to no avail and it is starting to annoy me... I seem to remember it in a Cop cartoon where after a scene, some southern american guy says "mean while back at the ranch" and it cuts back to the police station to the commisioner or something - i want to say Batman but the other half of me slaps me on the forehead and says "NO NO bad Purple baaaad".

Help me please help me.

[Norky]

I think it was Batman...

[Swafe]

Yeah I think so, meanwhile, back at the ranch, robin was cracking one off over linux....i mean evil pengiun man !

[MD]

Why do i have the words Dukes of Hazard running through my head when I read the phrase?

It could be you know....

m@

[shiato storm]

i was going to say dukes of hazard...it being more ranchlike around there than the bat-cave
or perhaps it was Dallas?...

[Purple]

yes, but i never watched Dukes of Hazard and i am sure it was a cartoon I think im going to go with Batman for my sanity.

[RVF500]

I think it was an early cartoon....maybe batman...cuz I remember it as a kid and I'm ancient

[skuzgib]

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_b...sages/191.html

Any help?

[windog]

I think it likely to go back to the '50s when you had the sat morning matinee at the cinema for the kids,(no even I am not old enough to actually remember!) but there often was a cheesy western serial week by week

Edit
Ooops should have read the link above first!

[Ferral]

Not Batfink is it ?

[Purple]

ah yes ive read the above link while googling - i understand now that what i remeber is not the origin, so i may never actually know what cartoon i am thinking of, dash and blow

Might be Batfink..

[schmunk]

[qoute]In the 'forties there was a fifteen minute radio show for kids, "Sky King," that immortalized the words, "Meanwhile, back at the ranch...." as a convenient device for changing scenes.

This post World War II drama on ABC featured a flying rancher/detective who was a futuristic hero of the time, very much like an early Buckaroo Banzai.[/quote]

From here

[scottyman]

I always thought it was "meanwhile... back at the ranch" ... "tonto was tugging his bell-rope" a la cheesy lone ranger joke