Droopy
| Droopy | |
|---|---|
| MGM Cartoons character | |
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| First appearance |
Dumb-Hounded March 20, 1943 |
| Created by | Tex Avery |
| Voiced by |
Bill Thompson (1943–1945, 1951–1958) Tex Avery (1945–1946, 1955) Don Messick (1949—1950, 1956, 1990—1994) Frank Welker (1980—1982) Richard Williams (1988–1989) Corey Burton (1990—1993) Jeff Bergman (2001—2010) Joe Alaskey (2011–2016) (see below) |
| Information | |
| Aliases | Happy Hound |
| Species | Dog |
| Gender | Male |
| Family | Drippy (twin brother) Dripple (son) |
| Directors |
Tex Avery Dick Lundy Michael Lah |
| Producers |
Fred Quimby William Hanna and Joseph Barbera |
| Music | Scott Bradley |
Droopy is an animated cartoon character from the Golden Age of American Animation: an anthropomorphic dog with a droopy face, hence the name Droopy. He was created in 1943 by Tex Avery for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Essentially the polar opposite of Avery's other famous MGM character, the loud and wacky Screwy Squirrel, Droopy moves slowly and lethargically, speaks in a jowly monotone voice, and—though hardly an imposing character—is shrewd enough to outwit his enemies. When finally roused to anger, often by a bad guy laughing heartily at him, Droopy is capable of beating adversaries many times his size with a comical thrashing ("You know what? That makes me mad!").
The character first appeared, nameless, in Avery's 1943 cartoon Dumb-Hounded. Though he would not be called "Droopy" onscreen until his fifth cartoon, Señor Droopy (1949), the character was officially first labeled Happy Hound, a name used in the character's appearances in Our Gang Comics. After the demise of the Droopy series in 1958, the character has been revived several times for new productions, often television shows also featuring MGM's other famous cartoon stars, Tom and Jerry.
In the cartoon Northwest Hounded Police, Droopy's last name was given as "McPoodle". In The Chump Champ, it was given as "Poodle". Nevertheless, Droopy is generally understood to be a basset hound.
Droopy first appeared in the MGM cartoon Dumb-Hounded, released by MGM on March 20, 1943. Droopy's first scene is when he saunters into view, looks at the audience, and declares, "Hello all you happy people ... you know what? I'm the hero." In the cartoon, Droopy is tracking an escaped convict and is always waiting for the crook wherever he turns up. Avery had used a similar gag in his 1941 Merrie Melodies short Tortoise Beats Hare, which in turn was an expansion/exaggeration of the premise of his The Blow Out (1936). In fact, this cartoon shows that early ideas about Droopy's personality were already germinating, as that film's Cecil Turtle is very similar in character to Droopy.
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