Amusing Injuries: A staple of many cartoons he appears in.Alliterative Title: Many of his cartoon shorts have an alliterative title: Deputy Droopy, Drag-Along Droopy, Dixieland Droopy, Droopy's Double Trouble.The character is not to be confused with Snoopy from Peanuts.ĭroopy provides examples of the following tropes: Looney Tunes veterans Jeff Bergman and Joe Alaskey have also voiced the character. Messick later became Droopy again for Hanna-Barbera's 90s products.
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The character has appeared in other works since the end of The Golden Age of Animation, with a renewed series by Filmation in the early 1980's, a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (and each of the subsequent Roger Rabbit Shorts), and appearances in several Tom and Jerry spinoffs such as Tom & Jerry Kids (which in turn spawned a Droopy-centric spinoff, Droopy, Master Detective) and Tom and Jerry Tales.ĭue to his original voice actor Bill Thompson getting drafted to the war, several shorts feature Tex Avery and Don Messick as the voice of Droopy. The character was retired when the entire MGM animation department was shut down for good at the end of 1957 as The Dark Age of Animation was beginning. The Droopy cartoons ran through 1958 with Michael Lah at the helm, but the Avery cartoons are usually regarded as superior. Caballero Droopy (1952) note Only Droopy cartoon directed by Dick Lundy.If he gets really mad, he can even showcase enormous strength and beat up those who underestimate him. Yet Droopy is intelligent and always master of the situation. At first the odds seem against him, because he's such a tiny and slow dog. He is usually given some kind of mission that he needs to accomplish and allows him to be pitted against one of his two main antagonists: Wolfie the Wolf or Spike the bulldog.
The plot of his cartoons are very similar. His Deadpan Snarker comments often form a sharp contrast to the zaniness of other characters around him and makes them appear even wilder. This low-key basset hound was his most popular recurring MGM character, and remains an icon of The Golden Age of Animation.ĭroopy is a pathetically tiny, very melancholic, slow-moving dog. Droopy is a cartoon character created by Tex Avery during his years with MGM (1942-1954).
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