# Any other cartoons besides 'Clerks' draw people with 5 fingers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908 "2005-01-15T20:50:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/1 "2005-01-15T20:50:23Z")
I’m watching an episode of the animated ‘Clerks’ series, and I noticed that unlike most cartoons people are drawn with the full complement of 5 fingers. Any other cartoons besides ‘Clerks’ do this? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/2 "2005-01-15T20:51:57Z")
Charles Schultz insisted that the Peanuts characters be drawn with five fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/3 "2005-01-15T21:02:16Z")
Never noticed that about ‘Peanuts’, interesting. I’d also discovered that the ‘Venture Brothers’ cartoon also has five-fingered people. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/4 "2005-01-15T21:05:45Z")
I thought “King of the Hill” had five-fingered characters. But it’s been so long since I last saw one (all hail Fox and their annoying tendency to show football on Sunday, the bastards) that I might be misremebering. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/5 "2005-01-15T21:07:55Z")
On Cartoon Network they have a show called “Code Name: Kids Next Door”, all the characters on the show have 5 fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/6 "2005-01-15T21:13:39Z")
> [@GLWasteful](#): > > I thought “King of the Hill” had five-fingered characters. But it’s been so long since I last saw one (all hail Fox and their annoying tendency to show football on Sunday, the bastards) that I might be misremebering. I just verified, they indeed have 5 fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/7 "2005-01-15T21:18:59Z")
Most “realistic” cartoons, where people are drawn to look like real people rather than stylized cartoonists’ visions, have five-fingered people. Most of the superhero cartoons, like Justice League and the various Batman, X-Men and Spider-Man cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/8 "2005-01-15T21:31:19Z")
Jeez … a whole lot of cartoon characters have five fingers, but I’m mostly drawing a blank right now. The humans on Courage the Cowardly Dog have five fingers per hand (though Courage has only 3). The Scooby Doo humans have five fingers, too, but on A Pup Named Scooby Doo they only had four. Guess you grow an extra finger on each hand during puberty in the Scooby Doo universe. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/9 "2005-01-15T21:43:24Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Most “realistic” cartoons, where people are drawn to look like real people rather than stylized cartoonists’ visions, have five-fingered people. Most of the superhero cartoons, like Justice League and the various Batman, X-Men and Spider-Man cartoons. Ditto for anime. This includes both the modern cartoons and the older, cheesier varieties (e.g. _Speed Racer_ and the various giant flying robots shows). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/10 "2005-01-15T21:48:02Z")
The Simpsons. OK, only God has 5 fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/11 "2005-01-15T22:01:50Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > The Simpsons. OK, only God has 5 fingers. Did they really draw God with 5 fingers? I assume on the episode where Homer starts his own religion, right? ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/12 "2005-01-15T23:12:33Z")
Daria has five fingers too. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/13 "2005-01-15T23:20:04Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Did they really draw God with 5 fingers? I assume on the episode where Homer starts his own religion, right? In that episode, he’s got five. I think they’ve been inconsistent with that, though. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/14 "2005-01-16T00:57:48Z")
I believe they have 5 fingers in **South Park**. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/15 "2005-01-16T01:35:06Z")
The animated “Pocket Dragon Adventures” by Real Musgrave had the hands of the little dragons…_non-humans!_ …drawn with five fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/16 "2005-01-16T02:28:05Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > I believe they have 5 fingers in **South Park**. They’ve got **no** fingers in southpark ;). ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/17 "2005-01-16T02:37:02Z")
Weird! I read the OP as “Are there any cartoons besides Clerks which draw (in the sense of “attract an audience from among”) people with five fingers?” I interpreted this to mean “which cartoons are appealing to people of at least normal intelligence?” My girlfriend was right. I **do** think too hard. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/18 "2005-01-16T02:38:59Z")
**Yellow Submarine** showed the characters with five fingers. It also was showed the bodies in the proper proportion; most cartoons at that time had larger than normal heads (to show expression better), and that’s how many cartoons are continued to be made. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/19 "2005-01-16T02:48:21Z")
Bugs Bunny was drawn with five fingers only once. I challenge all the local trivia buffs to say which cartoon it was in and why. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908/20 "2005-01-16T02:52:52Z")
_Rabbit of Seville_ (1950). 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-cartoons-besides-clerks-draw-people-with-5-fingers/284908.md?page=2)