Bullwinkle J. Moose
Rocket J. Squirrel
Abraham J. Simpson
Homer Jay Simpson
Bartholomew Jo-Jo Simpson
Philip J. Fry
I don’t know about Rocky but there is a tendency for male animated characters to have “J.” for their middle initial. Coincidence or are the shows paying homage to Jay Ward? Do any live-action characters follow suit?
Richard J. Cunningham
Rocky and Bullwinkle’s middle initials were based upon Jay Ward (or perhaps his birth name, J-his parents wanted him to name himself). I believe Groening is paying homage to Ward, as he loves moose and squirrel. (Interestingly, Nancy Cartwright gave Bart the middle name Jo-Jo herself. It’s never been mentioned on the show.)
Elmer J. Fudd
Michigan J. Frog
Simple J. Malarkey
Ray J. Johnson, jr.
Michael J. Pollard
The “Rocky and Bullwinkle” characters were, indeed, a nod to creator Jay Ward. The “Simpsons” J’s (officially, Marge and Lisa also have J. as a middle initial) are an homage to “Rocky and Bullwinkle”. I’d assume the same of Fry, since Futurama is by the same people as “The Simpsons”.
Ray Jay Johnson. Oh, you doesn’t have to call him Johnson.
Crap!
Does J. Jonah Jameson count?
Probably.
Thats “Elmer J. Fudd…millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.”
Phineas J. Whoopee of Tennessee Tuxedo fame…
Wasn’t this also a production of Ward’s shop?
–Cliffy
B. J. Honnicut on MAS*H
I went to IMDB after the fact to see if I spelled the name right and plugged “B. J.” into character search. It returned more than 250 characters, although it actually came up with more “J. B.'s” than “B. J.'s”.
Congratulations on doing the only search in the history of the WWW where you could type in “B.J.” and be able to talk about it in a PG-13 forum.
The differerence between the 70s and today is really hit home by the fact that never once in a twelve-year show about the military did they ever make fun of the fact that B.J. could have that double meaning.
Today they would have an eight-year-old do so before the opening credits.
T.J. Hooker!
B.J. McKay from “B.J. and the Bear”
No, this was a production of Total TV, also responsible for Underdog. Somehow, Peter Piech ended up getting the rights for both Ward and Total cartoons, and put them both together. (Yes, Piech’s name was the inspiration for the name of Ward’s Wrongway Peachfuzz.)
And T.J. is just a transposition of his most famous character’s initials, J.T.!
Coincedence?
Probably . . .