# What Is The Worst Representation Of A Cartoon Animal **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885 "2010-08-29T15:42:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/21 "2010-08-29T22:34:48Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Well, since Tangent stole my answer, I gotta go with Disney’s Black Pete. Every DISNEY couldn’t decide if he’s supposed to be a cat or a dog. This. Goofy is obviously a dog. I fail to spot the difficulty in figuring out that one. Pete…not so clear! ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/22 "2010-08-29T23:08:22Z")
Roadrunner is pretty bad especially if you factor in the size difference. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/23 "2010-08-29T23:15:44Z")
It was years after the cancellation of _The Raccoons_ that I found out Cedric and Cyrill were supposed to be aardvarks. Who didn’t wear clothes, even though every other character did. Traumatic. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/24 "2010-08-29T23:39:06Z")
How about Jiminy Cricket? Looks nothing like a cricket. Doesn’t even look like a bug, really. His closest living relative is probably the Great Gazoo from the Flintstones. ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/25 "2010-08-30T01:17:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > …who looks nothing at all like a real [Tasmanian devil](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://alangalvancapps2.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/tasmanian-devil.jpg&imgrefurl=http://alangalvancapps2.wordpress.com/page/2/&usg=__LvITkHHoVSRfvP3wY8N49wiIQxQ=&h=1282&w=1348&sz=766&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=xErBp4bYOnO4RM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=142&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtazmanian%2Bdevil%26hl%3Den%26c2coff%3D1%26biw%3D1199%26bih%3D889%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=498&vpy=102&dur=7788&hovh=219&hovw=230&tx=106&ty=135&ei=_816TPGePIL6swO7k-nsCg&oei=_816TPGePIL6swO7k-nsCg&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0). Man, that guy has a ball sack! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/26 "2010-08-30T01:22:15Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > How about Jiminy Cricket? Looks nothing like a cricket. Doesn’t even look like a bug, really. His closest living relative is probably the Great Gazoo from the Flintstones. Good call! ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/27 "2010-08-30T02:08:41Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It was years after the cancellation of _The Raccoons_ that I found out Cedric and Cyrill were supposed to be aardvarks. > > Who didn’t wear clothes, even though every other character did. > Traumatic. Lol! You mean they weren’t pink elephants? :eek: I hated that show. It was only marginally better than the Smoggies. The NFB was the only source of halfway watchable Canadian animation, IMO. Oh, and Kevin Spencer, lol. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/28 "2010-08-30T03:20:40Z")
I submit myself for the crime of drawing [Ollie the Oily Egret](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=280609&id=137229499635602&ref=fbx_album) who looks nothing like an [egret](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/EgretIRFlorida.JPG). ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/29 "2010-08-30T03:24:34Z")
_Bloom County_’s Opus the Penguin looked more like a puffin than a penguin, as even the comic strip admitted at one point. ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/30 "2010-08-30T04:05:25Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It was years after the cancellation of _The Raccoons_ that I found out Cedric and Cyrill were supposed to be aardvarks. > > Who didn’t wear clothes, even though every other character did. > Traumatic. Does anyone else think Nudar on Futurama was an intentional tribute to these guys? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/31 "2010-08-30T04:26:27Z")
Wakko, Yakko and Dot. Are they dogs or rodents or what? Wolverine doesn’t much remind me of wolverines. It doesn’t help that the artist who designed him, John Romita, thought a wolverine was a female wolf. Batman. Bats don’t have pointy devil horns, plus they fly. Maybe he should change it to “Scary Grimace Guy.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/32 "2010-08-30T04:32:18Z")
Quoth **Diceman** : > [@](#): > > How about Jiminy Cricket? Looks nothing like a cricket. Doesn’t even look like a bug, really. His closest living relative is probably the Great Gazoo from the Flintstones. I think we might have a winner, here… I mean, even Taz at least has the right number of limbs. And **milquetoast** , if you think that’s an impressive ballsack, you’ve never seen male sheep. EDIT: > [@](#): > > Wakko, Yakko and Dot. Are they dogs or rodents or what? What they are, dear Doctor, is cute. So far as I know, that’s the only canonical answer. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/33 "2010-08-30T04:33:48Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Wakko, Yakko and Dot. Are they dogs or rodents or what? They’re animaniacs. What makes you think they are another animal? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/34 "2010-08-30T04:35:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Wakko, Yakko and Dot. Are they dogs or rodents or what? > > What they are, dear Doctor, is cute. So far as I know, that’s the only canonical answer. No, only Dot is cute. ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/35 "2010-08-30T05:01:43Z")
I always thought the Animaniacs were intentionally drawn to look like Disney’s Oswald the Rabbit. Their ears are smaller, but still very similar, and the faces are very, very similar. ([Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_the_Lucky_Rabbit)and [stray picture](http://www.nerdslap.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/oswald_1204927744.jpg).) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/36 "2010-08-30T05:10:12Z")
Aardvarks seem to be common for this… While Cerebus isn’t as bad as the Sneers or Arthur, you’d still have to be generous to say he actually looks like an aardvark. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/37 "2010-08-30T05:40:14Z")
> [@Postariti](#): > > I always thought the Animaniacs were intentionally drawn to look like Disney’s Oswald the Rabbit. > > Their ears are smaller, but still very similar, and the faces are very, very similar. ([Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_the_Lucky_Rabbit)and [stray picture](http://www.nerdslap.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/oswald_1204927744.jpg).) Living in the water tower, behind the big WB shield, I always thought they were drawn as a tribute to the earliest Warner Bros. characters. Something like Foxy and Roxy, Bosko and Honey or Beans the cat. Since they had artists in common, that would mean they were related to Oswald, too. My mind still went to Warner rather than Disney, though. [http://www.unclelooney.com/cartoons.htm](http://www.unclelooney.com/cartoons.htm) > **[Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Foxy](http://www.toonopedia.com/foxyroxy.htm)** > > Hypertext encyclopedia of comics and animation Not that you can immediately tell what they are either. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/38 "2010-08-30T08:00:47Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Wakko, Yakko and Dot. Are they dogs or rodents or what? Wally Llama says they’re [puppy children](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZhczLKMZck). ---
**Author:** ![lshaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e36b37/32.png) [@lshaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lshaw)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/39 "2010-08-30T08:05:26Z")
Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@Short\_Guy\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy_1)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885/40 "2010-08-30T10:23:24Z")
> [@lshaw](#): > > Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes All of you people are kidding right? Taz looks _exactly_ like a Tasmanian devil. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-representation-of-a-cartoon-animal/551885.md?page=3)