Jeremy Porter & The Tucos Christmas song he had written for the annual Suburban Sprawl Music Christmas Compilation. Jeremy recruited drummer and multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Doman (The Hotwalls) and bassist Jason Bowes (The OffRamps, Fidrych, Culture Bandits) to round out the trio for the recording session. The lineup would remain intact for four years. The band's name is based on the character Tuco Ramirez, played by actor Eli Wallach in "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" and was an alternative to a suggestion by original bassist Jason Bowes, who proposed The Mortimers, after the Lee Van Cleef character when the band found that a punk
The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound is a 1988 animated television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the "Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10" series. The film parodies various Western films; the film's title is a take-off of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Huckleberry is constantly referred to as a "mysterious, steely-eyed, and silent-type stranger" (though Huck is just being himself), spoofing the Western stock character of the Man with No Name. Several other plot points are lifted from well-known film Westerns, such as "High Noon" and "High Plains Drifter".