# Favorite second-line Warner Bros. Cartoon Character
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061
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**Created:** [July 9, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061 "2007-07-09T17:46:21Z")
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### Author:  [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/1 "2007-07-09T17:46:21Z")
While reading this [thread (What’s Opera, Doc turning fifty)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=427966), I wondered if I could start a similar discussion, by asking The Teeming Millions to share their love for their favorite less-well-known WB cartoon characters.
Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, The Roadrunner, Sylvester, and Tweety are the ones I’d consider the WB A-list.
I don’t want to ask about them.
I’m not even thinking of the B-list characters: Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzalez, Wile E. Coyote, nor Yosemite Sam.
Nope, still too popular.
I want to ask about the characters who showed up for one or two cartoons. Or maybe a longer running character, but one who existed only as a foil for one of the other characters, such as the dog that Foghorn Leghorn was always in opposition with, or the poor black cat that always ended up having to fight off Pepe’s affections. [Michigan J. Frog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_J._Frog) is a classic example of this kind of WB cartoon character.
Personally, my favorite is [Gossamer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_%28Looney_Tunes%29). Though a lot of that is simply that I find Gossamer is a pretty complimentary charicature of myself: the size, the fearsome appearance, the hair all over (even if not that bright red), and especially the fear of people. 😉
ETA: Whoops, forgot to adjust the title there. :smack:
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/2 "2007-07-09T17:59:17Z")
[The Minah Bird.](http://www.toonopedia.com/inki.htm)
No WB cartoon was more mysterious, powerful, and just plain weird.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/3 "2007-07-09T18:01:22Z")
The kids watching the Road Runner on TV. You, where one kid wants to be a p-sychiatrist when grows up. Or maybe a p-sychoanalyst. The other one wants to be the Road Runner.
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### Author:  [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/4 "2007-07-09T18:03:32Z")
I like the little eggheaded genius chicken from the Foghorn Leghorn episodes. I feel myself sympathizing more and more with Foggy as I try to impress the young kids with some outdated cool trick or knowledge, only to have them roll their eyes at my obsolesence.
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/5 "2007-07-09T18:06:07Z")
I used to love Monty the English Sparrow, and his moronic stepson, Beaky Buzzard. Laugh riot, that.
In a similar vein, my dad always thought the the three bears cartoon(s?) were hysterical. The scene when Junior Bear tries to strop the straight razor to give his dad a birthday shave, only to have most of the blade fall out, leaving a horrible, jagged mess, used to tickle my dad. I’ll always smile thinking about that.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/6 "2007-07-09T18:16:39Z")
[“What’d I _do?_ What’d I _do?_”
“You didn’t do nothin’! You didn’t do nothin! Look!”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubie_and_Bertie)
[The Three Bears](http://www.toonopedia.com/3bears.htm) are also hysterical, as well as that bulldog, [Marc-Antony, that adopts a small black kitten.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Antony_and_Pussyfoot)
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### Author:  [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/7 "2007-07-09T18:21:01Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre]
In a similar vein, my dad always thought the the three bears cartoon(s?) were hysterical. The scene when Junior Bear tries to strop the straight razor to give his dad a birthday shave, only to have most of the blade fall out, leaving a horrible, jagged mess, used to tickle my dad. I’ll always smile thinking about that.
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The three bears were who I was going to nominate. And there must be something about being a dad that makes you really appreciate “A Bear for Punishment”, the cartoon you mentioned, which is about the Father’s Day from Hell. (Apparently Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones were inspired by the disastrous attempts of their own children to give them Father’s Day treats.)
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/8 "2007-07-09T18:26:35Z")
Anyone else remember the one cartoon with the squirrel trying all kinds of ways to crack open a coconut?
The Honeymousers must be the ultimate tribute from one medium to another.
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### Author:  [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/9 "2007-07-09T18:33:19Z")
I’ll go with the Witch Hazel (?) who leaves behind a cloud of bobby pins when she zips off screen and who gleefully cackled at the irony of being called “mother” by Bugs.
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### Author:  [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/10 "2007-07-09T18:35:34Z")
Hassan, from _Ali Baba Bunny_. Bugs and Daffty a tunneling underground and, but for a left turn at Albuquerque, end up in a cave in Baghdad loaded with treasure. Hassan is the guard of the cave and can’t figure out the magic words to open the cave door.
“Open… duh… saddlesoap?”
“Open… duh… septagenarian?”
“Open… duh… Saskatchewan?”
“Open… duh… sarsaparilla?”
“Hassan CHOP!”
Now, _that_ was comedy.
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/11 "2007-07-09T18:43:48Z")
[The Dover Boys](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOPyjmB8SI) - Tom, Dick and Larry, featuring Dan Backslide
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/12 "2007-07-09T18:46:45Z")
Hansel?
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/13 "2007-07-09T18:49:46Z")
I think I’m gonna go with [Pete Puma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Puma). I used to entertain (or maybe annoy) my grade-school friends with impromptu Pete Puma impressions.
[“I’m Mrs. Rabbit, the little feller’s mother, and I’ve been so wooooried about him.”](http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Pete_Puma/ltpu_007.wav)
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/14 "2007-07-09T18:50:37Z")
[Charlie Dog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Dog), he of the “big soulful eyes routine.”
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### Author:  [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/15 "2007-07-09T18:55:07Z")
The big bad wolf who could never remember his next line.
“Come in little uhhh… little uhhh… what’s that kid’s name again?”
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/16 "2007-07-09T19:51:33Z")
[Marvin the Martian](http://toonopedia.com/martian.htm). Granted, he’s remembered as a ‘star’ nowadays, but when Warner Bros. cartoons featuring him were originally released, he didn’t even have a name. He was just ‘the Martian.’
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/17 "2007-07-09T19:57:44Z")
Forgot to mention (and time elapsed, so I coudn’t edit my post.)
I always got a kick out of Grannie. And while I normally hated ‘Tweety Bird’, I loved his Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde alter-ego - the monster Tweety. (Does that count as a seperate character?)
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/18 "2007-07-09T19:58:55Z")
[Ralph Phillips](http://www.toonopedia.com/ralph_ph.htm).
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/19 "2007-07-09T20:03:29Z")
Sylvester’s son, Sylvester Junior. “Oh, _Father_.”
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/20 "2007-07-09T20:15:58Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn]
[The Dover Boys](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOPyjmB8SI) - Tom, Dick and Larry, featuring Dan Backslide
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Seconded. As great as Bugs is, this is one of the best examples of Chuck Jones’s mastery of comic exaggeration.
“A runabout! I’ll steal it! NO-ONE WILL EVER KNOW!”
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