# The big question on Snangglepuss **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632 "2002-04-03T19:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_James\_Tyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Michael\_James\_Tyler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_James_Tyler)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/1 "2002-04-03T19:49:04Z")
Cartoon Network has old cartoons playing all night this week. One of those cartoons is Snagglepuss. I was talking to someone about whether Snagglepuss is a gay male lion, a female lion, or just a feminine male lion. I think Snagglepuss is just a female lion. I think so because she does not have a mane. As far as I know, all male lions have a full mane. But then again, lions are also not pink. But, he wears a bowtie which is a male trait. But then again, since it is a circus lion it could be dressed by a trainor just to look nice. Anyway, what do you think? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/2 "2002-04-03T19:57:28Z")
Do other characters on the show ever use a pronoun in refernce to Snagglepuss? That’s the best way I can think of to settle the question. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/3 "2002-04-03T20:01:10Z")
I always perceived Snagglepuss as a male. His voice register is consistent with that, female cartoon characters, other than obvious vamps, have higher pitched voices. His voice has a non-macho timbre, but I saw that as not so much effeminate as patterned after the Cowardly Lion (Wizard of Oz). ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_James\_Tyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Michael\_James\_Tyler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_James_Tyler)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/4 "2002-04-03T20:36:16Z")
I think some people have yelled “get him” before. But, some people use the word _him_ when referring to men or women, so that is not really 100% concrete evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/5 "2002-04-03T20:46:38Z")
That’s the reason for no mane. ---
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/6 "2002-04-03T22:32:49Z")
Young male lions – and, for that matter, some adults, especially in East Africa – do not have manes. ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/7 "2002-04-04T00:34:45Z")
I’m pretty sure Snagglepuss is male, based on a partial memory I have of him falling in love with a (clearly female) lioness at some point. I can’t believe they would have had a lesbian lion in a cartoon ion the '60s, so I have to assume he’s a he. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/8 "2002-04-04T00:44:53Z")
Here is the big Cartoon database with all his episodes. he is universally called “HE” (even though he does dress ENTIRELY in pink) [http://www.bcdb.com/pages/Hanna-Barbera/U-Z/The\_Yogi\_Bear\_Show/Snagglepuss/index.html](http://www.bcdb.com/pages/Hanna-Barbera/U-Z/The_Yogi_Bear_Show/Snagglepuss/index.html) Exit stage left … ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/9 "2002-04-04T03:04:50Z")
Did you know that 10% of all cartoon lions are gay? I think maybe Cafe Society is a better place for this thread, so I’ll send it over there. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/10 "2002-04-04T14:41:36Z")
I also thought he was a mountain lion/puma/painter/catamount/panther/… Most recent issue of National Geographic has an article on maneless lions of E. Afr. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_James\_Tyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Michael\_James\_Tyler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_James_Tyler)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/11 "2002-04-04T16:10:41Z")
So, I think we have proven that he is in fact a male lion. I admit that I was proven wrong. So now that we know he is male, would you say he is gay or just feminine? ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/12 "2002-04-04T16:18:32Z")
I always thought Snagglepuss was patterned after Paul Lynde, making him in my mind a gay male mountain lion. After all, 10% of all cartoon animals are gay. [Rosie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107298&highlight=rosie) says so! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spiriting\_Lightly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Spiriting\_Lightly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiriting_Lightly)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-question-on-snangglepuss/101632/13 "2002-04-04T17:30:59Z")
Before he got his own series, Snagglepuss guest-starred in other Hanna-Barbera cartoons. He was an actor stranded in Jellystone Park, which means, I suppose, that his behavior was not effeminate but . . . ummm . . . theatrical. Theatrical! Flamboyant, yes, but not feminine. Our snaggly protagonist suffered a mammoth crush on a mountain lioness who wore a dress and carried a parasol; she, however, though swayed by flattery seemed largely immune to his charms. Sigh. Like Yogi Bear’s romance with Cindy Bear, this relationship stalled early. Yogi, yes: And the OP’s question reasserts itself. Even if you don’t enjoy outing cartoon characters, you may wonder why the self-professed agogee of ursine intelligence kept only one bed in his cave. Did he think he could hide from us? When they hibernated, where did Boo Boo sleep? I think we know. * * * And let’s not advert to the relationship(s) among Yippee, Yappy, and Yahooey . . . .