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Cartoon Names
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:13 pm
by noreply66
Bugs Bunny--Warner Brothers cartoonist Bugs Hardaway submitted preliminary sketches for "a tall, lanky, mean rabbit" for a cartoon called "Hare-um Scare-um---and someone labeled the drawing "Bug's Bunny." Hardaway's mean rabbit was never used--but the name was given to the bunny in the cartoon "A Wild Hare."
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:34 am
by noreply66
Casper The Friendly Ghost; Cartoonist Joe Oriolo's daughter was afraid of ghosts---so he invented one that wouldn't scare her. "We were looking for a name that didn't sound threatening," he said.
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:36 am
by noreply66
Chip & Dale--Disney animator Jack Hannah was meeting with colleagues to pick names for his two new chipmunk characters. His assitant director happened to memtion Thomas Chippendale, the famous furniture designer. 'Immediately," Hannah remembers, I said That's it ! That's their names!"
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:32 am
by noreply66
Mickey Mouse Walt Disney wanted to name the character Mortimer Mouse---but his wife hated the name. "Mother couldn't explain why the name grated; it just did," Disney's daughter Diane remembers. Disney wanted the character's name to begin with the letter M (to go with mouse) and eventually decided on Mickey.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:29 am
by noreply66
Porky Pig
According to creator Bob Clampett: " Someone thought of two puppies named Ham and Ex, and that started me thinking. So after dinner one night, I came up with Porky and Beans. I made a drawing of this fat pig, which I named Porky. and a little black cat named Beans."
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:53 pm
by noreply66
Rocky and Bullwinkle: Rocky was picked because it was "just a square-sounding kid's name--Bullwinkle was named after Clarence Bulwinkle, a used car dealer from Berkely, California.
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:27 pm
by noreply66
Emer Fudd: Inspired by a line in a 1920s song called "Mississippi Mud" The line: It's a treat to meet you on the Mississippi Mud--Uncle Fund.
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:30 pm
by noreply66
Foghorn Leghorn--Modeled after Senator Claghorn, a fictional politician in comedian Fred Allen's radio show.
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:17 pm
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Re: Cartoon Names
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:20 am
by Charley Hustle
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