# If you had to be a cartoon character, who would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832 "2000-10-05T19:28:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/1 "2000-10-05T19:28:19Z")
I’d be Hobbes. He gets to take part in all the adventures, but never gets in trouble! ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/2 "2000-10-05T19:31:59Z")
I’m ashamed to say I don’t know her name, but the ultra-cool warrior chick from ‘Heavy Metal.’ Absolutely. Or the secretary–the one with the garters? ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/3 "2000-10-05T19:32:42Z")
It would be too cliche to say “one of Fritz the Cat’s friends” so I dont say it. I ll be Eyore. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/4 "2000-10-05T19:37:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Or the secretary–the one with the garters? Struuter, you crack me up. I want to be any of the characters from Gargoyles. That was such a tight cartoon and had such an incredible cast and storyline. Might be that I like it so much cause I’m a Trekkie and an Arturian Legend nut. Oh well. That’s my answer. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/5 "2000-10-05T19:47:12Z")
I would _kill_ to be Daffy Duck. Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/6 "2000-10-05T19:54:23Z")
I’ll be the fluttery old-maid chicken who chases Foghorn Leghorn around. “Oh, mah—a MAY-un!” ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Don](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e95f7d/32.png) [@Engineer\_Don](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Don)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/7 "2000-10-05T19:57:14Z")
I’d be Pepe le Pew in a heartbeat. I would love to have that level of confidence. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/8 "2000-10-05T20:00:15Z")
It’s Bugs Bunny for me. He has all of the best lines. ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/9 "2000-10-05T20:03:21Z")
Fred, so I could get busy with Daphne in the back of the Mystery Machine. ---
**Author:** ![Sn-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sn-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sn-man)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/10 "2000-10-05T20:11:17Z")
Johnny Quest, need I say more. ---
**Author:** ![Tally-Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@Tally-Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tally-Ho)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/11 "2000-10-05T20:18:37Z")
I’d like to be Rita, the singing cat from Animaniacs. Great voice and lots of sass. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/12 "2000-10-05T20:25:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vestal Blue \* > \*\*I’d be Hobbes. He gets to take part in all the adventures, but never gets in trouble! \*\* I have to second this one. Calvin and Hobbes is still my favorite comic. God, I miss them. ---
**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/13 "2000-10-05T20:26:55Z")
I would have to go with Anastasia, from the historically inaccurate but smashing nonetheless animated film of the same name. She’s feisty, beautiful, independent, intelligent, _and_ she gets to wear a tiara every once in a while. Plus, I have a thing for Dimitri. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/14 "2000-10-05T20:29:36Z")
we dont have an inspector gadget yet??? Did nobody of you grow up in the 80s??? ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/15 "2000-10-05T20:33:36Z")
Yosemite Sam, so I could be the Rootenist, Tootenest Cowboy in ALLLLLLL the land! ::shooting both guns down into the ground until it lifts my feet off the ground:: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/16 "2000-10-05T20:35:45Z")
Actually I’d rather be Calvin, not Hobbes. I loved his snowmen. Remember the snowgoons? OI built one in my parent’s backyard and folks walking by didn’t even ask what it was, they just said “oh, you’re building a snowgoon!” (in an aside, to Eve, the name of the old maid chicken is Miss Prissy) ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/17 "2000-10-05T20:36:13Z")
Dammit, Corrado, you stole mine! Daffy Duck, all the way. “Oh, you can’t bounce a meatball, Though try with all your might, Turn up the radio, I want to fly a kite!” ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/18 "2000-10-05T20:37:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tally-Ho \* > \*\*I’d like to be Rita, the singing cat from Animaniacs. > Great voice and lots of sass. \*\* Yeah, I could easily be her too, since I’m like her in real life. :^) In real life I’m most similar to Jane Lane from Daria: artsy, gets the guys, slightly antisocial, intelligent, cool sense of fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/19 "2000-10-05T20:39:51Z")
Clearly, the most appropriate choice for me would be **Ape,** the gorilla with the Ronald Coleman voice, from _George of the Jungle._ ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/20 "2000-10-05T20:42:17Z")
Bugs Bunny. No, wait, Panthro from the ThunderCats! No, wait, Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory! No, wait, Spider-Man! Ooooh, I HATE this … [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832.md?page=2)