Snagglepuss
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Snagglepuss (sometimes called Snag for short) is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character created in 1959; a pink anthropomorphic mountain lion voiced by Daws Butler.
Butler's voice characterization is reminiscent of the more soft-spoken aspect of Bert Lahr's broad-ranging characterization for the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.
Snagglepuss lives in a cavern, where he's always trying to make things more habitable, especially for himself. No matter what he does, however, he always winds up back where he started or worse off than he was before.
His famous lines are "Exit, stage left!" related to acting, and "Heavens to Murgatroid!" which Bert Lahr said in the 1944 movie Meet the People.
In some episodes, Snagglepuss is chased by Major Minor (voiced by Don Messick), a tiny-sized hunter, whose chases seem similar to the ones which involve Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny (due to the scripts by Michael Maltese).
Snagglepuss first appeared in several episodes of The Quick Draw Mcgraw Show and became a regular segment on The Yogi Bear Show.
Snagglepuss has appeared in other Hanna-Barbera series such as Yogi's Treasure Hunt in 1985, Yogi's Gang in 1973, as one of the hosts of the Laff-a-Lympics in 1977, and as a teenager on Yo Yogi! in 1991.
Snagglepuss was a mixture of youth subculture stereotypes from the 1920s and 1950s. He could best be described as a "Hipster" and his mannerisms were consistent with how the Hipster subculture was portrayed in films of the period.
Trivia
- When the character of Snagglepuss was used for a series of cereal commercials in the 1960's, actor Bert Lahr filed suit claiming that the similarity of the Snagglepuss voice to his own might cause viewers to falsely conclude that Mr. Lahr was endorsing the product. As part of the settlement, the phrase "Snagglepuss voice by Daws Butler" was required to appear on each commercial, thus making Mr. Butler one of the few (if not the only) voice artists to receive screen credit in a TV commercial.
- In his earliest appearances as a guest on QuickDraw McGraw, Snagglepuss was called "Snaggletooth". In later episodes, Snaggletooth was referred to as Snagglepuss' cousin.
- The phrase often used by Snagglepuss, "Heavens to Murgatroid!" was used at the beginning of the song "Storm in a Teacup" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- Canadian rock band Rush named their live album Exit...Stage Left after the phrase often used by Snagglepuss.
External links
- [Big Cartoon DataBase: Snagglepuss]
- [List of episodes]
- [Cartoon-O-Rama: Snagglepuss]
- [TV Acres: Snagglepuss]
Snagglepuss in other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: Leão da Montanha
- French: Alcibiade
- Hungarian: Nyegleó
- Italian: Svicolone
- Spanish: El León Melquíades
Quotes
- "Heavens to Murgatroid!"
- "Exit, stage left!"
- "Heavens to Planetoid!"
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