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[29] [30] [31] Docter selected an old man for the main character after drawing a picture of a grumpy old man with smiling balloons. [29] The two men thought an old man was a good idea for a protagonist because they felt their experiences and the way they affect their view of the world was a rich source of humor.
Droopy is an animated character from the golden age of American animation.He is an anthropomorphic white Basset Hound with a droopy face. He was created in 1943 by Tex Avery for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio.
Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character created by Jim Henson and Jon Stone for the PBS/HBO children's television program Sesame Street.He has a green body, no visible nose, and lives in a trash can.
Animator Friz Freleng introduced the villain character in the 1945 cartoon Hare Trigger.With his grumpy demeanor, fiery temper, strident voice, and short stature (in two early gags in Hare Trigger, a train he is attempting to rob passes right over top of him and he has to use a set of portable stairs to get on his horse; in Bugs Bunny Rides Again, he rides a miniature horse), along with his ...
Nevertheless, director Henry Selick stated the character was inspired from the Betty Boop cartoon The Old Man of the Mountain. " Cab Calloway would dance his inimitable jazz dance and sing " Minnie the Moocher " or "Old Man of the Mountain", and they would rotoscope him, trace him, turn him into a cartoon character, often transforming him into ...
The Cartoon Cartoon Show. Pfish and Chip; Blammo the Clown; Eustace and Muriel; Gramps and his grandchildren; Larry and Steve; Godfrey and Zeek; Zoonatiks and Mr. Hackensack; Fat Cats (Louie and Elmo) Hard Luck Duck and Crocodile Harley; Pizza Boy and Tumbleweed Tex; Boid and Worm; Bloo, Simon, and Scully; The Ignoramooses (Sherwood and Pomeroy ...
Quincy Magoo, better known as Mr. Magoo, is a fictional cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his extreme near-sightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem.
The character also appears at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disneyland's Disney California Adventure in Muppet*Vision 3D. He is the only Muppet to appear "live" in the show. All other Muppets that appear in the theater are audio-animatronics. The character was seen in an episode of Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony.