Another vote for Tweety. Tweety is mildly funny, but not as hilarious as I’m supposed to think he is. Sylvester is a funnier character than Tweety, but held back in the Tweety cartoons.
I’m not a fan of Bob Clampett’s interpretation of Bugs Bunny. Clampett was a master of gags and style, but not characterization. His Bugs cartoons wind up making Bugs look like an unlikeable hyperactive jerkass.
Wow you got it exactly why I hate him. Wabbit. He must be from New England.
I really, really dislike the characters introduced in 1968 and 1969 as Warner Brothers off-loaded cartoon production onto outside studios, and began cutting down on use of their own characters. Bugs Bunny, et al., were pushed aside for Cool Cat, Merlin the Magic Mouse, Bunny and Claude, and Rapid Rabbit (the latter of which mercifully showed up a grand total of once). They’re not much-played now, but they were rotated through with the usual LT/MM shorts on the TV shows when I was a kid. It was bad enough that the humor and characterzations both became bland as the studio put less thought into the cartoons (hated the late 1960s Daffy/Speedy cartoons, hated the McKinson Road Runner cartoons), so I suppose I should be glad that WB wisely began to pull their canonical characters, but the new characters were just bad. At least the main characters had decades of good shorts… Cool Cat or Bunny and Claude were never in a good short.
Of the primary characters, I think my least favorite is the Tasmanian Devil. I refuse to call him “Taz.” He was briefly interesting in the old shorts, but should have remained a minor background character that people dimly remember. Kind of like Sam the Eagle on the Muppet Show.
I don’t remember their names, but the pair of gophers with the English accents were easily my most hated. Seeing one of their shorts come out on was to resign oneself to ten minutes of boredom. I can see why people wouldn’t like Foghorn, Tweety, or Peppy, but at least there was a funny joke or two.
Those would be Mac and Tosh, AKA the Goofy Gophers. I think you got it right. Luckily there’s only a handful of cartoons featuring them.
I do not like Taz. I do not understand why anyone would want Taz stickers, license-plate frames or tattoos of Taz.
Add me to the Tweety Haters Club. My reasons for hating Tweety, however, are because as a cat lover, I deeply resent seeing cats get shit on in cartoons and that cats are woefully underrepresented as protagonists. Sure, there’s Heathcliff, Garfield and Felix the Cat, to name a scant few examples, but someone at Warner Bros. must have been a genuine cat hater with the way Sylvester, Claude and other felines were treated.
Getting back to the topic, I’d list Pepe Le Pew as my second least favorite character. While Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, and Sam the Sheepdog/Ralph would have me laughing loud enough to wake everyone in the house on Saturday morning, I could never muster even a forced fake laugh watching any cartoon featuring Le Skunque Francois. These were just very boring cartoons, in my opinion.
I’ll say Pepe Le Pew. Every one of his cartoons was the same. I don’t much care for Tweety, but at least a few of the cartoons he was in were funny.
There are exceptions, even from Warner.
Seconded. At best he’s a poor stand-in for Elmer Fudd.
Amen. I came to mention the Tasmanian Devil. That “Taz” crap started (or at least I noticed it) in the 1990’s when all of a sudden young women decided that “Taz!” was just the coolest thing ever and they needed stickers for their cars and license plate frames and all the rest of it. WTF was up with that?