Most Obscure, Recurring LT/MM Character

[happyheathen]

OK, all you OD'd-on-toons-years-ago...

Name the most obscure character to appear in more than 1 LT/MM.

Rules:

1. must be a unique, identifiable character - 'the cowboy at the end of the bar' doesn't count, but the little mutt syncophant to the bulldog does (he's known as 'ALF' in one 'toon, don't remember what in the other)

2. The character who has fewest seconds TOTAL in all appearances wins.


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[J Lee]

Tough one to define -- if you just base it on design alone, you could come up with a character like Robert/Roberta from McKimson's "Mixed Master" which he used again for the end gag in "Dog Tales," only she was now back to a he as 'Laddy Boy.' Same thing with Lulu the Ostrich, who Jack King used twice in "Porky's Pet" and "Porky's Moving Day." Freleng then used a similarly-designed ostrich for "Plenty of Money and You." though its no IDed as being the same (and as a side note, Warner's never could figure out how to do a really funny cartoon featuring an ostrich). And Sylvester's rival, Sam, was used by Freleng twice, in "Trick or Tweet" and "Mouse and Garden" before the same design was resurrected by Alex Lovy for "Merlin the Magic Mouse."

An incidental character who's used twice would be the unnamed little man with the mustache and hat that Jones featured in "Porky's Cafe" and "Saddle Silly." As far as characters with names, Freleng and Tashlin used the same W.C. Squeal design in featured roles in two cartoons; "At Your Service Madame" and "Cracked Ice," and they also shared the Ben Birdee character from "Coo-Coo Nut Grove" and the "Woods are Full of Coo-Coos."

[DR. BELCH]

*The hopping mynah bird. It first appeared in an Inki short, and cameoed over the years in several others, notably one about a little elephant who wants to join a New York circus and has to paint himself pink to get aboard a cruise ship, as well as modern Warners cartoons like The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries and Tiny Toon Adventures. A slow, lilting violin tune always accompanies the mynah's movements.

[Matthew Hunter]

That bigs Bluto-like guy from the early Earl Duvall Buddy films like "Buddy's Garage". He was in a couple Buddy cartoons, though I don't think he ever had a name. Chuck Jones' black and white precursor to the yellow and red Claude Cat, ala "aristo-Cat" and "Fin N' Catty", the Wacky Worm, (caricature of Jerry Colonna from a couple cartoons by Freleng). There are others, but you already mentioned them.
-Matthew

[Gossamer]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
*The hopping mynah bird. It first appeared in an Inki short, and cameoed over the years in several others, notably one about a little elephant who wants to join a New York circus and has to paint himself pink to get aboard a cruise ship, as well as modern Warners cartoons like The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries and Tiny Toon Adventures. A slow, lilting violin tune always accompanies the mynah's movements.


I second this choice, though I doubt he can be termed "obscure". He was in four Inki cartoons (the only one I'm missing is, ironically "Inki and the Minah Bird) and never appears for very long but steals the cartoons. The tune is "Fingal's Cave", BTW.

[Jon Cooke]

Mr. and Mrs. Jones, the couple who appeared in Freleng's "Goo Goo Goliath" and "Pizzicato Pussycat".

Minor characters would often reappear in Harman-Ising cartoons (the result of recycled animation). For example, the gorilla waiter from "Lady Play Your Mandolin" also appeared in "Goopy Geer". The doll from "Red-Headed Baby" and the laughing clown from "I Love a Parade" are in "The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives".


-Jon

[Jack]

There's the dummy from "A Great Big Bunch of You." He appeared in another short that took place at a department store.

Jack:D