Out-of-Character Characters

[Do-Do]

Have you ever noticed (and I know you have) that there's a whole lot of cartoons where the main characters don't act like themselves? Here's the ones I can think of right now:

Catch as Cats Can I know this one has recently been mentioned, but Sylvester is just so darn stupid in this one!

Elmer's Pet Rabbit What's with Bugs' voice?

Golddiggers of '49 How did Porky go from a little kid in a green sweater to a huge adult dressed like a cowboy with a piggy bank slit in his pants?

You Oughta Be In Pictures Daffy acts more like he would in 1950 than 1940

Any others? :confused:

[Thad Komorowski]

Well, there's a few Herman & Katnip cartoons, where Katnip is placed as a more evil character ("Of Mice and Magic", "Robin Rodenthood") rather than his more enjoyable dopey character. Katnip also had an Italian accent when he owned a pizzaria in "You Said a Mouseful", rather than Sid Raymond's dopey voice, which was also the same one used for Baby Huey.



-Thad

[J Lee]

A few minor ones:

Clampett's Bugs in "What's Cooking, Doc?" is an egotistical publicity hound hungry for the Acadamy Award -- in short, he's Jones' 1950s Daffy Duck in a rabbit suit (to borrow Friz' description of Ben Hardaway's bunny). The cartoon easily could have been remade in the 50s or 60s with Daffy in the starring role.

An evil Porky Pig in "The Scarlet Pimpernel" Yeah, I know it's just Daffy reading a script, and Sylvester's the more evil of the two here, but Porky is supposed to be one of the bad guys in this cartoon, something he never was in any of his other shorts.

An overly-agressive Road Runner in "Hip! Hip! hurry!" This must have been the Jones cartoon Rudy Larriva and his bunch studied before doing the Format Films series. As usual, the Coyote does himself in most of the time, but two of the gags -- the Road Runner making the Coyote stop right over the dynamite and then pointing at it just before Wile E. gets blown up, and the Road Runner deliberately tripping the speed vitamin-enhanced Coyote so he goes rolling into the construction shed -- are more like gags Bugs would have pulled on Wile E and violate Jones' own rule that the Road Runner never does anything to the Coyote because all the damage is self-inflicted.

[Tintin]

Hare-Breadth Hurry: Bugs Bunny cours et fait même "Beep-Beep!"

Chariots of Fur, Freeze Frame, Soup or Sonic: Bip-Bip et Coyote ressemblent beaucoup à des personnages de bandes dessinées des années 1940. Ils sont vraiment bizares! :confused:

[Mike]

Well, Daffy and Bugs are friends in Porky Pig's Feat, and that never happened again.....

Mike

[chuckamuck43]

Clampett's Tweety is WAAAAAY more aggressive than Friz's.

[Tintin]

Le Bugs de Avery est à mon goût un peu plus méchant que ceux des autres...

[Brandon Pierce]

Egghead is out-of-character in Daffy Duck & Egghead. He's a bad-guy in that cartoon. And in his last cartoon, Believe It Or Else, Egghead acts like a gripey old fart. Gabby Goat is somewhat out of character in Get Rich Quick Porky. Because Gabby doesn't shoot off his mouth as much as he does in his other two cartoons.

[Howard Fein]

How about Bugs being the fall guy in the Toitle trilogy and FALLING HARE? Well, at least at the end of that one, the A-card keeps the plane from crashing.

Someone said it was unusual for Bugs and Daffy to be friends in PORKY PIG'S FEAT. Well, twenty years later in MILLION-HARE, they're sort of friends- Daffy is spending his vacation in Bugs' hole- at least until they find they're rivals for a million bucks/box on "Beat Your Buddy". Then the standard rivarly takes over.

Sylvester and Tweety start out as buddies in SNOW BUSINESS- although Sylvester must slap himself to suppress his bird-eating instincts even BEFORE they find they're snowed in without any food.

[DR. BELCH]

--Penelope Cat, who at times would go schizo and chase Pepe Le Pew with lust in her eyes, leaving him on the defensive?