# Unanswered questions about cartoon characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 1999, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697 "1999-11-11T19:47:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/141 "2001-08-22T20:31:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > **And whenever monsters destroy Townsville—or the PPG knock down buildings during a fight—hundreds of people must die horribly in the flames and rubble! How does that town keep its citizenship?!** And how do they re-build the city so fast? (Maybe they have the same construction crew that re-builds Tokyo after Godzilla has left…?) I just had an idea for an episode: It begins after the Girls have fought a monster or Mojo Jojo and we see the Girls re-building the city. The president of the local chapter of a construction workers’ union complains to The Mayor that the Girls are taking work away from his union. The Mayor throws him out and the guy retaliates by kidnapping The Mayor. The girls try to rescue The Mayor and the guy fights the Girls with weapons and traps fashioned from construction equipment. The episode could be called “Local Trouble.” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/142 "2001-08-22T20:40:01Z")
Here’s a slight variation: What ever happened to Little Annie Fanny? (from _Playboy)_ Did _Sylvia_ start in regular newspapers, or in _Funny Times?_ ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/143 "2001-08-22T21:31:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\*In the pre-TV era, Warner Brothers created only ONE female character: Granny (of the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons). I think Petunia Pig only appeared in the licensed comic books and newspaper comic strips. Please notice that I’m thinking only of the regular cast and not the occasional guest stars. Witch Hazel appeared only two or three times, not enough to be called a “regular”, IMHO. > > * * * > > Fighting my own ignorance since 1957. \*\* Don’t forget Penelope, the cat Pepe Le Peu was anamoured of. Oh, moi cheri! ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/144 "2001-08-22T21:35:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sycorax \* > \*\*Wow Guy - how do you know all that about Olive, Popeye, et al? And when/where/how did Wile E. “explain” about the roadrunner? I thought Wile E. never spoke. \*\* Wile E. spoke in non-road runner cartoons, with the damn dog and with Bugs. “Allow me to introduce myself, I am Wile E. Coyote, genius.” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/145 "2001-08-22T21:39:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Don’t forget Penelope, the cat Pepe Le Peu was enamored of. Oh, moi cheri! _Quel fromage!_ It’s Pepe le _Pew._ And the name is _ma chérie_ (“my darling”). _Moi_ means “me!” 😛 In fact, I’m not even sure the cat was always _female_–but, oddly enough (as noted above in this thread) the cat was always _mute,_ and thus couldn’t say anything to Pepe. ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/146 "2001-08-22T21:40:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \* > \*\* \\quote:\\ In the pre-TV era, Warner Brothers created only ONE female character: Granny (of the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons).\\ > > Are you trying to tell me that Tweety was a BOY?!!! \*\* Tweety was most definitely a boy bird. Not an adult, however. Oh, and Foghorn Leghorn had all of those chickens, particularly the old scrawny one as foils. This stuff was pretty sexist. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/147 "2001-08-23T00:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lumpy \* > \*\*Popeye adhered to a strict moral code. He was kind to animals, chivalrous to women, patriotic, respectful to authority, reverent, etc. A true boy scout. He also adhered to the classic American ideal that those who violated this code deserved to get the piss beaten out of them. \*\* Uh, have you seen he original Fleischer Bros cartoons? One of my favourites involves Popeye and a beat cop that’s trying to serve him a ticket for parking illegally. Popeye gets out of it by putting the cop in the hospital. Popeye may have morphed into a “boy scout” but he started out as an exaggerated brawling sailor. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/148 "2001-08-23T02:37:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DPWhite \* > > * * * > > Oh, and Foghorn Leghorn had all of those chickens, particularly the old scrawny one as foils. This stuff was pretty sexist. \*\* This is a normal situation for a rooster. (To have lots of hens around). It may be sexist, but it is accurate. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/149 "2001-08-23T15:22:03Z")
Has Pepe le Pew ever been charged with stalking? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/150 "2001-08-23T15:57:08Z")
How did Wonder Woman find her invisible jet? Oh, and Fred wore the scarf to cover the hickies Daphne gave him. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/151 "2001-08-23T16:02:56Z")
“What ever happened to Little Annie Fanny? (from Playboy)” —I first learned to draw by copying Little Annie Fanny from my father’s Playboys! I had a LOT to unlearn when I finally went to art school . . . ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/152 "2001-08-24T23:47:37Z")
**Eve** , you rogue. 😛 Here’s yet another Powerpuff Girl question. This one truly is paradoxical. There’s episode “Beat Your Greens.” (The one with the invading broccoli, and yes, you know what i’m talking about. Truly, you don’t forget a thing like invading broccoli.) Okay, the parents are all encouraging their children to eat the stuff, but the kids are having none of that. So the adults eat, and they all pass out. As it turns out, this is the work of alien broccoli from outerspace. The girls, and all the kids, have to work together to eat the broccoli, because eating it is the ONLY way to get rid of it. But you see…this can’t be. Why do the parents react so badly to the broccoli while the kids are able to eat vast quantities of it?! This has always thrown me for one. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/153 "2001-08-25T00:01:05Z")
No, no, no–the kids (the girls included) ate the _broccoloids_ not the broccoli. The broccoli (which none of the kids would touch) had been doctored with some kind of knock-out drug by the aliens–the aliens themselves didn’t have any of the drug on them. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/154 "2001-08-25T04:20:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lurkernomore \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Chance the Gardener \* > > \*\*I have a question: does anyone know what Jughead’s real first name is? I know I’ve seen it in the comics before, though it doesn’t come up that often. I’m pretty sure it begins with an F, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it is. \*\* > > I’m afraid to answer, because I may be right, but I think it was something like Forsythe P. \*\* You are absolutely right. He never uses his real first name because girls go all mushy and bonkers over him against their will when they hear it. And yes, I have never had a life. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/155 "2001-08-25T08:45:30Z")
I’m changing my name to Forsythe. ---
**Author:** ![Beniamino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@Beniamino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beniamino)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/156 "2011-06-29T16:58:08Z")
> [@saepiroth](#): > > wow. this is “The Thread That Would Not Die”. > first started in '99, ressurected in early 2000, came about AGAIN in late 2000, and now it returns for another go. > nothing to add, i just thought that was neat. Neat indeed. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697/157 "2011-06-29T17:08:56Z")
Hi and welcome to the SDMB, **Orseolo**. Bumping an ancient thread for the sake of bumping it is not good etiquette hereabouts. You might want to check out some of the rules and guidelines for posting in ATMB (About This Message Board). **twickster** , Cafe Society moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-about-cartoon-characters/11697.md?page=7)