Jones' Minor Characters

[Vdubdavid]

What minor character do you think Chuck Jones shouldn't have scrapped? I would have liked to have seen more with Hubie and Bertie myself.

[Larry T]

I like every one of the Hubie and Bertie cartoons. Close runner-up for second would be Inki and Charlie Dog. Those cartoons got better the later in years they were made.

You forgot Jones' Three Bears..... that's one cartoon series I wish there were more of though :(

[Matt Yorston]

Without a doubt, my vote goes to Charlie Dog. "Often an Orphan" alone is one of my favorite cartoons ever made.

IMHO, though, Charlie's best work was with Porky. "Little Orphan Airedale", "Awful Orphan", and the aforementioned "Often an Orphan" are all classics. "Dog Gone South" and "A Hound for Trouble" are enjoyable cartoons but without Porky's presence, they seem to lack something. I guess I've always seen Porky and Charlie as kind of a great comic team and, well, with one of them gone, it just isn't the same. Charlie Dog was still a great character, though.

[Cartman]

I voted for Charlie Dog. I find a lot of his cartoons quite humorous. I have never seen any of the Inki cartoons.

[PorkyandDaffy]

Charlie Dog

[chuckamuck43]

Of the characters you chose, Charlie is clearly the most versitile. He'd still be funny today!

To wit - a really un-P.C. toon, AFGHAN HOUND. Picture it: Charlie, chasing Osama around the cave complex, "Osama, you ain't got no infidel dog, I ain't got no master!" Osama surrenders rather than put up with Chuck's mutt!:)

I'm with LarryT, though. I would love to have seen a whole series of The Three Bears cartoons. Damned Eddie Selzer!

Oh, and lest we forget -
Claude and Frisky Puppy (more funny to me than his matchups with Hubie & Boit)
Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot - Superbly animated and really charming!

[barnyarddawg]

The last three Inki cartoons are three of my favorite cartoons ever.

[don Jaime]

Trick question. He shouldn't have junked any of these. I voted for Sniff, though.

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by don Jaime
Trick question. He shouldn't have junked any of these. I voted for Sniff, though.

I agree with don Jaime that NONE of the early Jones characters (including the Bear Family) should have been sent to the cartoon graveyard. As for little moi... with the choices listed I voted for Mr. Rodent, Sniffles!!

[Jack]

Yeah, we really needed an "all of the above" on this one. I think Jones did most of his best work when it came to his own characters from the 40s/early 50s. I also voted for Sniffles, with Hubie and Bertie coming in second. It's just that Sniffles had so much potential, it might have interesting putting him with Claude, or Sylvester or something. Hubie and Bertie might been interesting in a Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot cartoon, or in a few more Claude pictures. Why he stopped using his minor characters almost completely by 1954 is a mystery to me.


Jack :D

[chuckamuck43]

Originally posted by Jack
Why he stopped using his minor characters almost completely by 1954 is a mystery to me.
Jack :D [/B]

It's no mystery, Jack - I can sum it up in two words : "Beep Beep!"

From the summer of 1954 on, Road Runners began taking up more of Chuck and his crew's energies, and they had less time to devote to the minor characters.
Also, I think Chuck found something in the structure and dynamics of the Road Runner toons that challenged him and fired his creativity. He REALLY liked doing them!:)

[Howard Fein]

It seems that Hubie and Bertie have gained a cult following in recent years, because they got to do some very effective scene-stealing in SPACE JAM- they're the announcers of the climactic basketball game between the Toon Squad and the Monstars. One of them (I forget which) suddenly changes his mousy voice to that of a typical NBA arena announcer.

Sniffles' later 'gabby' personna has become the butt of jokes in modern times. In the same flick, his endless chatter earns him a flattening stomp of the foot by a Monstar (which elicited huge laughter and applause at the showing I was at). :D

[DR. BELCH]

--The Two Curious Pups, aka Spaniel and Boxer. Though they paved the way for a fan favorite, Charlie Dog. "And fifty pecent Labraor retriever...just t'row me a Labrador, and I'll retrieve it! Ehh...have youse got a Labrador?... D'en shaddap."

The Three Bears, esp. Junior, are another favorite--though why they didn't get Jim Cummings to voice Pa on their two TTA appearances is beyond me.