Yeah! What for you bury him in the cold cold ground?
Ren of Ren & Stimpy fame doesn’t look much like a real Chihuahua to me.
Well, no, but he’s an excellent apteryx! (Which I woudl have sworn was an Archaeopteryx, very glad I looked it up.)
What the hell was Stimpy supposed to be, anyway?
He was a cat. He had a litterbox and everything.
And his full name, as I recall, was Stimpson J. Cat.
That’s because he was an asthma-hound chihuahua, not a standard one.
Oh, of course! That explains it.
Taz is pretty much just a mouth with arms & legs, but there is some resemblance to a real Tasmanian Devil. Also, I’ve heard that Tasmanian Devils really are nasty, vicious little bastards just like Taz.
As for the Animaniacs, they’re intentionally ambiguous. It was a running joke that nobody was quite sure what they were.
In the comic book universe that Duckville exists in, there seem to be three categories: people with a few token animal-like features, more heavily semi-animal sapients, and true animals. For example, Donald Duck and company would be in the middle category but in the comics you also see people who have duck bills but who are taller and much more anthropomorphic. You also see bird-beaked like Gyro Gearloose, the occasional pig-person, etc. The closest thing to a pure human are the people like the Beagle Boys who have floppy ears and a bulb nose, who are technically dog-derived but otherwise look completely human. Goofy would be either intermediate between categories one and two, or else simply an extraordinarily ugly and gawky type one.
And he’s a fine example of his sickly breed.
Granted, a Chihuahua isn’t the finest example of a dog, either.
Duckburg.
o:o
Something tells me that if you had been in the audience at one of the performances that made up the film The Aristocrats, you’d have stood up and said, “And then what happened?”
When he comes out of water, you find out that he’s actually a dish sponge, not a live one.
And, anyways, while the title of the thread may be misleading, the OP seems to be more about animals that are completely unrecognizable. Live sponges may not look like SpongeBob, but anyone who sees him would know he’s supposed to be a sponge.
BTW, I came here to mention Ren and Stimpy, but I see they’ve already been mentioned.