#23Mrs Brisby (Secret of NIMH) #2 Cjones, #11 ColeStratton<![CDATA[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/P_dCogu4FL0" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/P_dCogu4FL0</a>]]>The main character of The Secret of NIMH. Her husband, Jonathan, was killed and eaten alive by Farmer Fitzgibbons' pet cat Dragon and she struggles to take care of her children by herself. Her main plot in the film is to find a society of intelligent lab rats to help her move her home in order to avoid destruction by Fitzgibbons' plow. This was Elizabeth Hartman's last film role.
During the film's production, Aurora Productions contacted Wham-O, the manufacturers of Frisbee flying discs, with concerns about possible trademark infringements if the "Mrs. Frisby" name in O'Brien's original book was used in the movie. Wham-O rejected Aurora's request for waiver to use the same-sounding name to their "Frisbee", in the movie. Aurora informed Bluth & company that Mrs. Frisby's name would have to be altered.
By then, the voice work had already been recorded for the film, so the name change to "Mrs. Brisby" necessitated a combination of re-recording some lines and, because John Carradine was unavailable for further recordings, careful sound editing had to be performed, taking the "B" sound of another word from Carradine's recorded lines, and replace the "F" sound with the "B" sound, altering the name from "Frisby" to "Brisby".
“If you're going to feather a nest, you've got a lot to learn about how to treat a lady.” Snagglepuss (Hanna-Barbera cartoons) #5 ColeStratton, #14 fluncheon, #22 Russoguru, #24 RVR II<![CDATA[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/xoLCDrOJGV0" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/xoLCDrOJGV0</a>]]>A pink cougar with a Bert Lahr-inspired voice (Cowardly Lion) who enjoys the finer things in life and shows particular affinity for the theatre. His stories routinely break the fourth wall as the character addresses the audience in self-narration, soliloquy, and asides.
As originally voiced by Daws Butler, Snagglepuss seeks quasi-Shakespearean turns of phrase. Some of his campy verbal mannerisms became catchphrases: "Heavens to Murgatroyd!", "Exit, stage left!", and a fondness for closing sentences with the emphatic "even".
Snagglepuss's appearance in a 1960s run of Kellogg's cereal television commercials prompted legal action by actor Bert Lahr, who said the similarity of the character's voice to his own could lead viewers to the false conclusion that Lahr himself had endorsed the product. As part of the settlement the disclaimer "Snagglepuss voice by Daws Butler" was required to appear on each commercial. This made Butler one of the few voice artists to receive screen credits in a TV commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=symGu9SjxSE“But Hark! Or is it Herk? The cage door is open, ajar even. What a chintzy outfit. Can’t even afford a lock. So exit, stage left!”Snoopy (Peanuts) #4 RVR II, #9 Russoguru<![CDATA[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/pZwN_ZvbaGg" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/pZwN_ZvbaGg</a>]]>Charlie Brown’s pet beagel. Since his debut on October 4, 1950, Snoopy has become one of the most recognizable and iconic characters in the comic strip and is considered more famous than Charlie Brown in other countries. The original drawings of Snoopy were inspired by Spike, one of Schulz's childhood dogs.
Snoopy is a loyal, imaginative and good-natured beagle who is prone to imagining fantasy lives, including being an author, a college student known as "Joe Cool", an attorney, and a British World War I "flying ace" in the Royal Flying Corps.
Snoopy can be selfish, gluttonous, and lazy at times, and occasionally mocks his owner, Charlie Brown, but on the whole, he shows great love, care, and loyalty for his owner (even though he cannot even remember his name and always refers to him as "The Round-Headed Kid"). In the 1990s comic strips, he is obsessed with cookies.
Snoopy imagines himself to speak, but never actually does, other than moans and yipping yelps and sniveling crying. Very rarely, he talks, but usually to himself. His (very articulate) thoughts are shown in thought balloons.
In the animated Peanuts films and television specials, Snoopy's thoughts are not verbalized; his moods are instead conveyed through moans, yelps, growls, sobs, laughter, and monosyllabic utterances such as "bleah" or "hey" as well as through pantomime. His vocal effects were usually provided by animator Bill Melendez.
“Actually, we Joe Cools are scared to death of chicks...”Yogi Bear (Hanna-Barbera cartoons) #4 Russoguru, #16 fluncheon, #12 RVR II, #24 MartyS (Gromit) <![CDATA[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/k5AwcMWb1Ns" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/k5AwcMWb1Ns</a>]]>Funny bear with a tie and a hat. The first breakout character in animated television.
Yogi was one of several Hanna-Barbera characters to have a collar. This allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke—a method that reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000
Like many Hanna-Barbera characters, Yogi's personality and mannerisms were based on a popular celebrity of the time. Art Carney's Ed Norton character on The Honeymooners was said to be Yogi's inspiration; his voice mannerisms broadly mimic Carney as Norton. Norton, in turn, received influence from the Borscht Belt and comedians of vaudeville.
Yogi's name was similar to that of contemporary baseball star Yogi Berra, who was known for his amusing quotes, such as "half the lies they tell about me aren't true." Berra sued Hanna-Barbera for defamation, but their management claimed that the similarity of the names was just a coincidence. Berra withdrew his suit, but the defense was considered implausible(?).
“Boo Boo, you’ve tried to stop my brilliant ideas with common sense a thousand times. Has it ever worked?”
Topic: List of Crap #120: Top 50 Fictional Talking Animals! (Read 9628 times)
