List of Crap #25: Top 53 Animated/Cartoon Characters

[Rattrap007]

25. Shaggy & Scooby Doo - 57 points
(3 of 18  lists. Highest ranking - #1 Lassieface)

Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Rogers share several personality traits. They both like to eat a lot of food; they would rather eat than solve a scary case. But their friends (Velma, Daphne and Fred) encourage them to go after the costumed villains with "Scooby Snacks", a biscuit-like dog treat or cookie snack (usually shaped like a bone or Scooby's dog tag, and, mentioned in the first Scooby-Doo film, is vegetarian), although sometimes, Scooby Snacks won't work on Shaggy, so he may have to be tempted with two Scooby Snacks (or as with some episodes, the gang may even have either "Shaggy Snacks" or "Scooby Snacks Industrial Size"). Within the universe of the show, Scooby-Doo was born on the Knittingham Puppy Farm (owned by Mrs. Knittingham). It is also mentioned by Daphne that he doesn't like clams.

Scooby has some difficulty with pronunciation (because he is a dog), and tends to pronounce most words as if they begin with an "R". His catch phrase, usually howled at the end of every episode, is "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" or "Rooby-Rooby-Roo". He also usually says, at least once per episode, "Ruh-roh, Raggy" ("Uh-oh, Shaggy"). His quirky chuckle is often also in an episode, but it changed slightly when Frank Welker took over the voice of Scooby.

Shaggy closely reflects the 1960s era in which the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! series was created, particularly in his manner of speaking (he often punctuates his sentences with the word "like") and his appearance—he is lanky, with shaggy brown hair and a rough goatee, and typically wears a green T-shirt and brown bell bottoms. Thus, he embodies elements of both the beatniks of the early 1960s and the hippies of the late 1960s, with the primary inspiration for the character coming from Maynard G. Krebs, a beatnik character played by Bob Denver in the early 1960s sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.[1][2][3] Shaggy has been also shown wearing a red shirt and blue jeans in four 1980s Scooby-Doo productions: the Saturday morning series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo and three TV movies: Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, and Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf. In Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, a TV movie about the Scooby-Doo characters meeting artificial analogues of themselves in a virtual reality environment, Shaggy's double wears the red shirt and blue jeans that the character wore in the 1980s.

Although usually considered a coward, Shaggy often proves useful in ferreting out the "monsters" and "ghosts" that are usually at the heart of the gang's mysteries (sometimes by reluctantly acting as "live bait" for a trap), and providing a necessary distraction for their eventual capture (the plans almost always go wrong and he and Scooby are then chased for longer periods of time). Shaggy also has athletic, disguise, and ventriloquism skills which often help the gang. On a couple of occasions, he took his disguise skills so far he even dressed up as Scooby-Doo himself (in the "Never Ape an Ape Man" episode of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! and the 2003 What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode "A Scooby-Doo Halloween"). Shaggy is also a miniature golf champion from the '60s, and was described by Daphne as "the swingingest gymnast in school," in the pilot episode of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! ("What a Night for a Knight"), as he helps the gang break into a museum by leaping from the top of a ladder and swinging through an open window a few feet above. Also, in the episode "Bedlam in the Big Top" (episode 10, Scooby-Doo, Where are You!) Shaggy describes himself as a "track man" who can run very fast. In the series A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Shaggy is called "Norville" by his dad.

Originally, "Shaggy" was merely a reference to his appearance, which resembled shag carpeting. However, in Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, it is implied that the nickname "Shaggy" comes from an abbreviation of the name "Shaggleford," the last name of Shaggy's rich uncle.

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24. Foghorn Leghorn - 57 points
( 4 of 18  lists. Highest ranking - #1 TripeHoundRedux)

Foghorn Leghorn  is a large, anthropomorphized adult rooster with a strong Virginia or Kentucky accent and a penchant for mischief. He first appeared in 1946 in a Henery Hawk film entitled Walky Talky Hawky. All of the motion picture Foghorn Leghorn cartoons were directed by Robert McKimson, and the rooster vies with the Tasmanian Devil as the most popular character associated with the director.

Many of the gags involved Foghorn and a canine nemesis (formally known as The Barnyard Dawg within Warner today, though on early model sheets his name is given as George P. Dog) engaging in one-upmanship through a series of pranks. Unlike other Looney Tunes rivalries, Foghorn is often the initial aggressor out of self-amusement and subsequently on the 'losing' end of gags. Most common among them was Leghorn's taking up a plank of wood, while ambling along humming "Camptown Races" (the only intelligible words being "Doo-DAH! Doo-DAH!"), coming to the sleeping Dawg with his front half inside his doghouse, picking up his tail and rapidly whacking (almost always with eight strokes) his exposed rear end.
The dog would give chase, usually with his leash still attached to his collar, until the leash stretched taut and his barking was replaced by an anguished shriek. In rare cases, it's the dog that starts the series of pranks; as such it is somewhat difficult to tell who started the feud. This gag was passed down to the Leghorn's grandson in Feather Bluster, where Foghorn was puzzled as to why the kid was behaving that way and the Dog was all too happy to remind him: "Ain't nothin' wrong with 'im, Foggy, 'cept that he takes after you."

Other recurring themes throughout the cartoons included the attempts of the diminutive Henery Hawk to catch and eat Foghorn, and the rooster's efforts to woo the widowed hen Miss Prissy (often by babysitting her bookish son, Egghead, Jr.).

Foghorn's voice was created by Mel Blanc and was later performed by Joe Alaskey, Bill Farmer, Greg Burson, Jeff Glen Bennett and Frank Gorshin. It was patterned after a hard-of-hearing West Coast-only radio character from the 1930s, known simply as The Sheriff. Later, some of Foghorn's characteristic catch-phrases were drawn from the character of Senator Claghorn, a blustering Southern politician who was a regular character on the Fred Allen radio show.

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23. Winnie The Pooh - 58 points
(4  of 18  lists. Highest ranking - #7 Johnny Unusual)

A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, who was the basis for the character Christopher Robin. His toys also lent their names to most of the other characters, except for Owl and Rabbit, as well as the Gopher character, who was added in the Disney version. Christopher Robin's toy bear is now on display at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library in New York.
Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a bear which he often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday. The bear cub was purchased from a hunter for $20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, Canada, while en-route to England during the First World War. He named the bear "Winnie" after his hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba. "Winnie" was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as The Fort Garry Horse regimental mascot. Colebourne left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much loved attraction there.

On Jan. 6, 1930, Stephen Slesinger purchased US and Canadian merchandising, television, recording and other trade rights to the "Winnie-the-Pooh" works from Milne for a $1000 advance and 66% of Slesinger's income, creating the modern licensing industry. By Nov. 1931, Pooh was a $50 million-a-year business. Slesinger marketed Pooh and his friends for more than 30 years, creating the first Pooh doll, record, board game, puzzle, US radio broadcast (NBC), animation and motion picture film. In 1961, Disney acquired rights from Slesinger to produce articles of merchandise based on characters from its feature animation.

After Slesinger's death in 1953, his wife, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, continued developing the character herself. In 1961, she licensed rights to Walt Disney Productions in exchange for royalties in the first of two agreements between Stephen Slesinger, Inc. and Disney. The same year, Daphne Milne also licensed certain rights, including motion picture rights, to Disney.

Since 1966, Disney has released numerous animated productions starring Winnie the Pooh and related characters. These have included theatrical featurettes, television series, and direct-to-video films, as well as the theatrical feature-length films The Tigger Movie, Piglet's Big Movie, and Pooh's Heffalump Movie.

In December 2005, Disney announced a Disney Channel animated television series, My Friends Tigger & Pooh, focusing on adventures had by 6-year-old Darby and the Pooh characters, with the occasional appearance from Christopher Robin.[10] The show was cancelled after two seasons.
The Disney version of Winnie the Pooh was featured in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, the Kingdom Hearts videogames and the TV series House of Mouse

Pooh also appears at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meet-able and child friendly character.

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22. Phil Ken Sebben (Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law) - 58 points
(4  of 18  lists. Highest ranking - #4 Tyrant)

HAHA! 22nd place!

Phil Ken Sebben is the deranged president and co-founder of the law firm Sebben & Sebben. In the original Birdman series, Phil's character was code-named 'Falcon Seven.' His name in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is a play on these words (Falcon Seven = Phil Ken Sebben). He is recognizable by his blonde hair, an eyepatch, and a dark suit. He co-founded the firm with twin brother Bill when they were twenty-six years old (they were distinguishable by the fact their eyepatches are on opposite eyes). He has a habit of laughing whenever he says a double entendre or a non sequitur, followed by a short joke. For instance, his arm seems to have been turned backwards after falling off a building. Once he gets up, Phil asks a passerby "Hey lady, I need a yank. Ha ha, Dislocation." He has numerous vision problems; it is implied that he is blind in the eye not covered by his eyepatch, and he states that he "sees everything 3 feet to the left" of where they really are, and must account for this fact. Said partial blindness causes him to kill Birdman in the series finale by hitting him with a bus, which crashes into a building. He confirms this by showing everyone Birdman's blood, causing everyone to laugh, as most episodes end. He is voiced by Stephen Colbert.

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21. Rocko (Rocko’s Modern Life) - 59 points
(3 of 18  lists. Highest ranking - #1 Relaxing Dragon)

Rocko lives in O-Town. Raised in Australia, Rocko later immigrated to the United States after completing high school. Murray suggests that Rocko's interest in the United States began with a vacation with his family as a youth; during the trip he met his future sidekick Filburt. Murray allowed for directors to create inconsistencies, reflecting how friends possess different and varied, nostalgic memories of the past. For instance, in the episode "Put to Pasture" the writers portray Rocko, Filburt, and Heffer Wolfe as students at O-Town High School. Murray received many pieces of mail regarding the storyline inconsistencies.

Rocko wears a blue shirt with purple triangles and orange shoes. He is known for being a loyal friend, not venturing outside his comfort zone, and is known to say when a situation is not going well: "______ day is a very dangerous day." (For example, "Garbage day is a very dangerous day.") In "Trash-O-Madness", a family photograph depicts Rocko with a mother, father, and a younger sibling. "Wimp On the Barbie" shows Rocko's family again, revealing that his younger sibling is a sister. Murray created a narcoleptic older sister character named Magdalane "Maggie" and an episode, "Wake Up Maggie", about her, but chose to never air the episode and never use the character. Magdalane was created as a mother with two children.
Although personally hygienic, Rocko has an almost pathological tendency to neglect his living space; several episodes, such as "Unbalanced Load", involve Rocko attempting to rectify severe messes or lapses in maintenance. Rocko enjoys collecting comic books.

Nickelodeon South East Asia's website describes Rocko as "generally very polite and sometimes shy" and that provocation can lead Rocko to become "determined and forceful." Jean Prescott of The Sun Herald described Rocko as a "pudgy little wallaby star" who tries to "do what's right" and is devoted to his friend Heffer and dog Spunky. Prescott has called the character "lovable."

Common Sense Media reviewer Andrea Graham, whose review is posted on Go.com, describes Rocko as "paranoid and obsessed with cleanliness" and that he initially perceives his neighbors to be "loud and messy." Graham describes Rocko as accepting of his neighbors' faults and seeing the positive qualities within them.

In an early character profile presented to the networks Murray described Rocko as "a young anthropomorphic Woody Allen, who has just moved away from his home into a surrealistic adult world."

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Top 20 starts tomorrow...

[Tripe H. Redux]

24. Foghorn Leghorn - 57 points
( 4 of 18  lists. Highest ranking - #1 TripeHoundRedux)

Woo-hoo. I say I say I simply love that big brash rooster. I doubt my other pics from his cartoons will show up though.

[Relaxing Dragon]

21. Rocko (Rocko’s Modern Life) - 59 points
(3 of 18  lists. Highest ranking - #1 Relaxing Dragon)

WOOOO!! Rocko rules!

Glad he made it (should've been higher, but I'll take this too), I love ROcko so much. Was my favorite show growing up, still one of my favorite cartoons, and I names my snake after him

Also nice to see others give appreciation for Foghorn Leghorn and Phil Ken Sebben. I put Scooby-Doo alone on my list, so I'm hoping my points were counted with the Shaggy pairing here.

[THE QUEEN!!!]

well, cool, another one of mine (Winnie the Pooh). The Winnie the Pooh I love is the original Disney one with the amazing voice of the incredible Sterling Holloway, and the amazing animation of the nine old men. "Think, think, think....."

But if we're talking about Winnie the Pooh I must bring this up.....
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[Relaxing Dragon]

Winnie the Pooh was something I always loved watching throughout elementary school, him and all his friends (love you Tigger!).

[Rattrap007]

I've got everything ready to go on all the last 20. It is going to be a fun 4 days...

[mrbasehart]

I'm wondering if "classic" animation is going to win out over the new stuff.  We've seen a lot of recent characters, and not so much of the Looney Tunes or Disney characters.

[anais.zelda]

I forgot Looney Tunes characters on my list

[Imrahil]

I forgot Looney Tunes characters on my list

The mind absolutely boggles at this.

[Johnny Unusual]

Well I didn't.  I think I got a great mix of old and new.  I usually wouldn't vote for a character that first appeared somewhere else unless the animated version brought something to the character (though, admittedly, there is one exception that will in all likelihood not make it on the list but while nothing was added to that character, animation reinforced it... but that's beside the point.  But I digress.  A lot). Anyhoo, the Disney version of Winnie is childhood innocence incarnate.  He's just so sweet and friendly.  Is it just me or do half of the hundred acre woods population seem to be doddering (Pooh, Owl, Gopher) or grumpy (Rabbit, Eyore) old men.

I'm glad Foghorn made it (though I didn't vote for him), definitely one of the underrated stars of Looney Tunes.  I think they need to start doing Looney Tunes before features again.  I mean, look at the Pixar stuff.  They need to do some serious revisiting and start doing new ones.  I mean, Presto was pretty much a Bugs Bunny cartoon sans smart-ass dialogue.  And while I wouldn't be opposed to new characters, the old ones still have limitless potential.

Phil Ken Sebben almost made it onto my list... but there was a lot of almosts.