Who's your favorite all time dumbest character?

[Nelson]

Hey guys, do you have a favorite dumbest cartoon character? Mine would be Paul Terry's DIMWITT ...

He was always funny as a supporting player in many of the Heckle & Jeckle cartoons, and went on to star in his very own short lived series.This is one character that really makes me bust out laughing because of his true stupidity.

[Joe Tully]

A toss-up between the Centipede and the Snail from Jay Ward's Aesop & Son. Not a theatrical, but I loved those guys. These guys were one-shot characters, of course.

[Jimmy Kustes]

The favorites I can think of right now are Brak and the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert. I know there are so many more but they slip my memory right now.

[Larry T]

I always liked Meathead (from Screwy Squirrel cartoons) and Beaky Buzzard :cool: .

[The Dork Knight]

My vote goes to Meathead.

[Argus Sventon]

The Abominable Snowman from the Bugs Bunny cartoons. I think the person who did his voice, worked at the Rex Chicken on 15th and Evanston in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ;)

[J Lee]

Wlloughby, from Tex's "Of Fox and Hounds," plus the slimmed-down version in "Crackpot Quail" and "The Heckling Hare."

He was the first use of the "Of Mice and Men" theme and the role model for all of the characters that followed, but was a little more loveably dumb then the later ones Avery and others (McKimson especially) created the in same mold.

[Lonestarr]

I definitely have to go with Red Hot Ryder from the Bob Clampett classic "Buckaroo Bugs". Everything that he did and said was hilarious.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

BEAKY BUZZARD! He's the dumbest of them all...he looks dumb, acts dumb, IS dumb. Just view him in all his glory against Bugs and you'll see what I mean...was there not some joke or trap he DIDN'T fall for?!:D

My second vote goes to the bushy-red-haired monster...forget his name...if he's dumb enough to let Bugs do a makeover on him, THAT'S dumb...

And my third choice is Lucky Bob from Histeria! since off-classic toons have been mentioned. He's definantly up there in dumb people...."You are correct sir!" ;)

[PorkyandDaffy]

JUNIOR from George and Junior.

[SloppyMoe]

For me, as far as favorites go, it's a three-way tie between:

1) Clampett's Beaky Buzzard
2) Clampett's Red Hot Ryder
3) Heathcliff, the big, stupid cat from Art Davis' WB classic, DOUGH RAY ME-OW.

Heathcliff definitely gets my vote for single most brainless character in all of cartoondom... the only one I know of who has to be reminded (with repeated slaps to the face) to breathe every so often.

[happyheathen]

for stupid-but-lovable, Runt!

[PorkyandDaffy]

Oh, yeah, I can't forget about "Heathcliff" from DOUGH RAY ME-OW. And also, LONESOME LENNY, and BENNY from HOPPY GO LUCKY and CAT-TAILS FOR TWO. What can I say, I have a fascination over any spoof of Of Mice and Men since I love that novel.

[chuckamuck43]

Pete Puma
PETE: I don't like tea..it gives me a headache..."
BUGS: Then what will ya have?
PETE: COFFEE!!!
And of course, the ending :
"No thanks, I'll heee-elp myself..."

[Matt Yorston]

I agree with those who said Heathcliff. "Dough Ray Me-ow" is a huge success thanks to him. He's also so stupid he doesn't know which side of an open door to run out of.

Another pick of mine: He hasn't appeared much in animated films but I guess he counts as a cartoon... it's Zero from "Beetle Bailey". Many of my favorite strips involve him somehow....

Beetle: "Zero lost his balance and fell off the roof."
Plato: "Zero, are you having a few problems with equilibrium?"
Zero: "I NEVER use drugs!"

[lislebartman]

I'd have to say Avery's wolf when voiced by Daws Butler. What a pinhead!!

Best examples:

"Billy Boy"
"Three Little Pups"
"Sheep Wrecked"
"Blackboard Jumble"

[Larry T]

Heathcliff from "Dough Ray Me-ow"??? That cartoon cracks me up everytime I watch it.....

favourite moment: "Oh boy, we're gonna play train,...Dahhhhhh... Choo choo" (gets kicked by Louie), "chug chug chug"..... after collision with real train..... "I done a bad thing" (a single tear falls from his eye).... :D


Plus how could I forget Lenny from "Cat Tails for two"?!?!

favourite moment: "Why did you hit yourself on the head for, George?"......."I like it, I like it!!"
:D:)

[Thad Komorowski]

How about Milo (who gets my vote), from the Andy Panda cartunes?

"Duh, them crows is tricky, ain't they?"
(After getting a hat made of fruit)"Duh, Saludos Amigos!

My other favorties are Meathead, Lenny (from "Cat-Tails.."), and Heathcliff.

-Thad:D

[Nftnat]

ell, I should've spoken before; all of my favorites have already been mentioned. For the record, in no particular order, they are Beaky Buzzard, all chars based on Steinbeck's Lenny Smalls, Pete Puma, Runt, & Lucky Bob. And the others I either like --- like Heathcliff --- or it's been so long since I've seen anything they've been in ---if I've seen them @ all --- that I don't remember. Milo, for instance. And as to Zero, well, Seymour Kneitel did @ least 5 Beetle Bailey toon for the Comic Kings series @ Famous in '63, so if Zero was in any of them, he counts. Not to mention the tv show. I even remember seeing a Beetle Bailey toon on Sesame Street once.

[DR. BELCH]

--Chuck Jones' Junyer Bear? Affable, diaper-wearing, grotesquely large, blundering and forever unwittingly angering his old man. "G-U-N-P-O-W-D-E-R. Tobacco!"

[Matt Yorston]

Yeah, Junyer Bear is a riot too.

Remember his/Stan Freberg's "recitation" for Father's Day that was used in "A Bear for Punishment" (1951)?

Who is that saves me and keeps me from dyin'?
[Junyer suddenly screws up his face in a look of confusion, then returns to his cheery persona.]
"MY PAW!!!!"

Wonderfully animated by Ken Harris...

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by Nftnat
And as to Zero, well, Seymour Kneitel did @ least 5 Beetle Bailey toon for the Comic Kings series @ Famous in '63, so if Zero was in any of them, he counts.


TBS used to air the KFS Beetle Baileys (and the KFS Popeyes) back in the early 1980's, and yes, Zero was in them; he had an appropriately "dumb" voice. (Beetle sounded like Jughead from the Filmation Archie series.)

[Dub]

Junior Bear and Beaky Buzzard. Put them together and you get one half of a whole idiot :D

[J Lee]

The KFS Beetle Baileys were done in New York by Paramount and Seymour Kneitel and subcontracted out to a second studio, which also handled some of the KFS Popeyes (Gerry Ray was director, IIRC), but the voice tracks were done in California.

Howard Morris (Ernest T. Bass from the andy Griffith Show) was both Beetle and Gen. Haftrack, while Allen Melvin (Sam the butcher from "The Brady Bunch") did Sgt. Snorkel's voice.

[Nftnat]

To tie the knot even tighter, Melvin was also on The Andy Griffith Show a few times, in villain roles. And he was a member of Andy Griffith spinoff Gomer Pyle, as Sgt. Carter's colleague & sometimes friend Sgt. Charlie Hacker. Only this sergeant ran the mess hall. And to bring it back to WB, Jack Burns, who played Deputy Warren Ferguson on TAGS, voiced Sid the Squid in the Slappy Squirrel segments on Animaniacs.