 The Goofy Gophers in the short I Gopher You. The Goofy Gophers are animated cartoon characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The gophers, named Mac and Tosh, are small and brown with tan bellies and beards. Image File history File links Goofy_Gophers. ...
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Looney Tunes opening title Looney Tunes is a Warner Brothers animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. ...
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A gopher is a small burrowing rodent. ...
The Goofy Gophers were created by Warners animator Robert Clampett for the 1947 film The Goofy Gophers (Norm McCabe had used a pair of gophers in his 1942 short Gopher Goofy, but they bear little resemblance to Clampett's characters). Clampett left the studio before the short went to production, so Arthur Davis took over as director. The cartoon features the gophers' repeated incursions into a vegetable garden guarded by a dog whom they relentlessly, though politely, torment. Voice actor Mel Blanc plays Mac and Stan Freberg Tosh. Both speak with high-pitched British English accents like those used in upper-class stereotypes around at the time. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Robert Bob Clampett (May 8, 1913–May 4, 1984) was an animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ...
Arthur Art Davis (June 14, 1905 - May 9, 2000) was an animator and a director for Warner Brothers Termite Terrace cartoon studio. ...
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Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of cartoon shorts for Warner Bros. ...
Stanley Victor Freberg (born August 7, 1926 in Los Angeles) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, puppeteer and advertising creative director. ...
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Some sources claim that Clampett intended the Goofy Gophers to be a spoof of Disney's chipmunk characters, Chip 'n Dale. Others, however, point out that this seems unlikely given the two pairs of characters are so different in characterization. The only real similarities are the fact that the characters are rodents, are paired up and have furniture puns for names. The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...
Species 23 species, see text Chipmunk is the common name for any small squirrel-like rodent species of the genus Tamias in the family Sciuridae. ...
Chip n Dale are two fictional, animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company. ...
Suborders Sciuromorpha Castorimorpha Myomorpha Anomaluromorpha Hystricomorpha Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents. ...
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The gopher's mannerisms and speech, patterned after Frederick Burr Opper's comics characters Alphonse & Gaston, which in the early 1900s engendered a "good honest laugh". The crux of each 4-frame strip was the ridiculousness of the characters' over-politeness preventing their ability to get on with the task at hand. Frederick Burr Opper (January, 2, 1857–August, 28, 1937) was a U.S. cartoonist and illustrator. ...
Alphonse and Gaston were once one of Frederick Burr Oppers most popular creations. ...
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Mac and Tosh's dialogue is peppered with such over politenesses as "Indubitably!", "You first, my dear," and "But, no, no, no. It must be you who goes first!" Clampett later stated that the gophers' effeminate mannerisms were derived from character actors Franklin Pangborn and Edward Everett Horton. A character actor is an actor, especially in motion pictures, who predominantly performs in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ...
Franklin Pangborn (January 23, 1889 - July 20, 1958) was an American character actor. ...
Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886 - September 29, 1970) was an American actor with a long career including motion pictures, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. ...
Davis would direct one other Goofy Gophers short, the 1948 film Two Gophers from Texas. This time, the dog from the first film pursues the gophers with a gopher cookbook in hand.
Robert McKimson was the next Warners director to utilize the characters. He pitted them against Clampett and Arthur's dog once again in the 1949 film A Ham in a Role wherein the dog's efforts to become a Shakespearean actor are foiled by the rambunctious rodents. Robert Bob McKimson, Sr. ...
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The Gophers lay dormant for two years until Friz Freleng made a series of four shorts beginning with 1951's A Bone for a Bone, another dog-versus-gophers short. This was followed by I Gopher You in 1954, featuring the Gophers in their first cartoon without the dog; Pests for Guests in 1955, which has the gophers antagonize the helpless Elmer Fudd; and Lumber Jerks later that year, where the Gophers visit a Saw mill in an attempt to retrieve their stolen home. Isadore Friz Freleng (August 21, 1906[1]–May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ...
Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Elmer J. Fudd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies characters. ...
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After Freleng finished with the characters, they would star in two more cartoons, once again directed by McKimson. These two cartoons, Gopher Broke in 1958 and Tease for Two in 1965, pit the Gophers against the dog and Daffy Duck, respectively. Both gophers were voiced by Mel Blanc in the latter short instead of one by Blanc and the other by Freberg. Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...
Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. ...
The Goofy Gophers were largely forgotten by Warner Bros. in the years since the animation studio's closing in 1967. However, in recent years, they have made a few cameos in various Warners projects. They are seen briefly in the 1996 movie Space Jam, for example, and they feature prominently in episodes of the animated series The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ("I Gopher You") and Duck Dodgers ("K-9 Kaddy"). In the latter they are reinvented as green-furred, six-limbed Martian gophers. Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ...
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The two gophers are referenced in the Gilmore Girls season two episode "Dead Uncles and Vegetables".In the town hall meeting scene when Lorelai says to Rory "We certainly are entertaining Mac" and Rory replies, "Indubitably Tosh!"
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