Nationality characters

[Tintin]

Savez-vous que certains personnages classiques de dessins animés où leur natioanlités viennent d'un autre pays? Je vais vous en donner quelques unes:

Pepe Le Pew: France
Ren & Stimpy: Canada
Woody Woodpecker: Scotland
Wally Walrus: Suède
Speedy Gonzales: Mexico

[Jack]

Woody is Scottish? What short is this revealed in?


Jack :D

[Thad Komorowski]

I think Martin is referring to the constant references of Woody being Scottish on those new Woody shorts......




-Thad

[Tintin]

C'est dans les touts nouveaux épisodes. Il jouait un moment donne de la cornemuse et aiment les sports ecossais.

[Jack]

Oh, the new series. I thought that was some sort of fettish the people working on that show had rather than a direct reference to what nationality Woody is.

I could say with certainty that Andy Panda has Chinese anscestry, though.

And Inki is definately from Africa.


Jack :D

[Howard]

Scrooge Mc Duck is from Scotland, so that would make Donald Duck and his nephews of Scottish ancestry, at least in the comic books.

[DR. BELCH]

Goofy has a definite Southern accent...as does Foghorn Leghorn (South Carolina, that is)....Fuzzy Lumpkins (PowerPuff Girls) has a thick Louisiana patois....Kommandant von Vultur ("Daffy the Commando"), of course, was German, as is the prototypical mad scientist/doctor...Natasha and Boris have a definite eastern European accent, possibly Russian-derived....many Italian characters appeared in old shorts, from the neighbor in "Porky's Garden" to the restaurant owner that Charlie Dog cozies up to ("No capeesh-a!")....Walter Wolf of Animaniacs speaks a heavy Yiddish dialect...Bugs Bunny is a Brooklyn boy...Angus McCrory was a Scotman he faced in "My Bunny Lies Over the Ocean", and on the subject of hot-tempered redheads, Yosemite Sam has a Texas accent. Chinese accents are almost a no-no, although an ep of Rocky and Bullwinkle features Paul Frees voicing a Chinese laundryman...and The Simpsons has Diamond Joe Quimby, a parody of Jack Kennedy's Massachusetts dialect.

[Thad Komorowski]

Well, Bugs Bunny, the Crow (of the Fox & Crow), Blackie the Lamb, and Herman (of Herman & Katnip) are certainly from Brooklyn, by their accents. Buzzy the Crow would definitley go on that southern characters list...;)





-Thad

[Howard]

In TV interviews, Mel Blanc had often said that with Bugs Bunny's voice, he thought of the two toughest accents he could, which were Brooklyn and the Bronx then in Bugs' voice would say "...so I put 'em both tagedda, Doc!" I don't recall where or when I saw this.