Goopy Geer
Goopy Geer | |
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Looney Tunes character | |
First appearance | Goopy Geer (1932) |
Created by | Rudolf Ising |
Voiced by | Johnny Murray (1932) Robert Morse (1992) |
In-universe information | |
Species | Dog |
Gender | Male |
Goopy Geer is an animated cartoon character created in 1932 for the Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He is a singing, dancing, piano-playing dog who is considered to be "the first Merrie Melodies star",[1] although he only starred in three cartoons.
History
The character is a tall, lanky anthropomorphic dog with scruffy whiskers and long, expressive ears. He was "a wisecracking entertainer -- 'part comedian, part musician and part dancer' -- inspired by vaudeville showmen of [the 1930s]."[2]
Goopy's character was based on a familiar archetype of entertainment, as Hank Sartin says in Reading the Rabbit:
In the course of "The Queen Was in the Parlor", Goopy Geer does imitations of
In all of his animated appearances, Goopy is depicted as light colored, but in an early promotional drawing for his first cartoon, he had black fur.
Goopy Geer was the last attempt by
In the first, "
A month after Goopy Geer's first cartoon had been released, Walt Disney released a cartoon called "Mickey's Revue" with a character named Dippy Dawg, whose overall appearance was very similar to that of Goopy Geer; due to the close proximity of the two cartoons' releases, there is little chance that either character was intended to be a copy of the other. Dippy Dawg would eventually be renamed to "Goofy".[5]
Goopy made a cameo in the
Later appearances
Goopy Geer had a small role in the 1990s
References
- ^ ISBN 0-8160-2252-6. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
- ISBN 0-8160-2252-6. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
- ISBN 9780813525389. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
- ISBN 978-0805008944.
- ^ a b Markstein, Don. "Goopy Geer". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
- ISBN 978-0805014853.
External links
- Goopy Geer at IMDb
- Goopy Geer at the TCM Movie Database
- Goopy Geer[dead link] at The Big Cartoon DataBase
- Goopy Geer at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on August 3, 2016.
- "Goopy Geer". ToonZone.net. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.