12/30/2023 0 Comments Artoon dogGoofy lives on today in computer-generated form with The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Goofy’s name says it all: A tall dog who walks upright and seemingly solves complex problems by accident (think Kramer of the Cartoon era), whereas Pluto is Mickey’s faithful tail-wagging mutt who seemingly never leaves his owner’s side. Goofy and Pluto: OK, we’re cheating and including these two canine staples of the Disney era. But in each cartoon, his nemesis usually pushed him too far, and when Droopy reached the boiling point, he calmly issued the warning, “that makes me mad,” and then proceed to beat the living hell out of his tormentor. Usually pitted against a nasty (and bigger) foe out to do him harm, Droopy let his enemies’ stupidity and greed do them in most of the time. The small soft-spoken Hound with a flat voice was kind and courteous (plus he had the odd habit of walking upright on two legs without moving his arms). In case I'm not being a hundred percent clear, this thinking is stupid and wrong and self-perpetuating unless you actively work against it, and I'm proud to say I mostly don't think this way anymore.Droopy: A classic staple of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s cartoon lineup in the 1940s and 1950s, Droopy was the brainchild of comic genius Tex Avery. The audience will think, 'Why are those characters female? Is that part of the joke?' The underlying assumption there is that the default mode for any character is male, so to make the characters female is an additional detail on top of that. "For the dog joke, you have the thing where the tongue slobbers all over the businessperson, but if you also have a thing where both of them ladies, then that's an additional thing and it muddies up the joke. "The thinking comes from a place that the cleanest version of a joke has as few pieces as possible," Bob-Waksberg writes in his Tumblr post. Bob-Waksberg's first reaction was that she'd slowed down the joke, and he tried to get her to change it back. Women never seemed to take part in the show's gross, silly little sight gags, and she wanted to see them represented. The storyboard artists drew the dog and the businessperson as men. "A car whooshes by, and it causes the dog's tongue to whoosh, and cover the person in slobber," is how Hanawalt succinctly explains it.īoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg (third from left) with actors Alison Brie, Aaron Paul and Paul F. He admits he was in the wrong in a conflict with production designer Lisa Hanawalt, over a tiny little sight gag in Episode 9, involving a dog and a businessperson. In this particular Tumblr post, Bob-Waksberg turns a question from a fan into a digressive exploration of gender and comedy. The show both savors and critiques a ridiculous Hollywood milieu of washed-up celebrities, their hangers-on and factotums. He gets to make up the rules.) The main character is voiced by Will Arnett. (Bob-Waksberg's world is made up of both people and animals. BoJack Horseman is about an alcoholic talking horse who used to be a famous actor. "Boring Old Raphael" is where Raphael Bob-Waksberg answers questions from his fans - people addicted to his animated show on Netflix. BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg admits his underlying assumption that male is the default gender for his characters is "stupid and wrong."įor me, this story began with this Tumblr post.
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