The Mystery Cartoon Character Game, ongoing.

It isn't the cat from "Chow Hound".

It's the cat from "Hot Stuff" which is a cartoon which warns about the danger of fire--however the high point is the guy clearly improvising as the cat wanting cream.

Spot on, Glowworm, it is the cat from Hot Stuff.

1) After an account of the 'history' of fire, the film shows a modern day couple who are unaware of the dangers. The cat keeps up an unheard dialogue pleading for cream.

2) The man of the house impatiently makes a snack while waiting for his TV program to come on, while his wife irons. The electric sockets are overloaded, but the impending conflagration is triggered by his losing patience with the toaster and attacking it with a fork.

3) The short is a public information film on behalf of the Dominion Fire Commissioner of the Canadian Department of Public Works.

Over to you, Glow!

It's Update Time, and nobody lost any points migrating to the New Site. Just because players change their aliases doesn't mean they lose all their accomplishments. Not on my watch. The scores as of Thread 3 Post 62:

Arthur has 4 points,
Damfine has 4 points,
Emeraldisle has 161 points.
Eminovitz has 2 points,
FluidGirl has 26 points,
Glowworm has 123 points,
IronCookuru has 119 points,
Mreiof has 12 points,
Oneuglybunny has 59 points,
PatrickRsGhost has 13 points,
Peterhale has 63 points,
Rollo has 11 points,
Saltyboot has 81 points,
Seiry has 2 points.

There were 31 unguessed characters, totaling 711 characters used to date.

The link to the DeviantArt folder where this Rich Text file is kept:
Character game by oneuglybunny on deviantART.
Scroll down a ways until you can see "Download File / 66.2 KB".
Go ahead and download your own copy.
It's a Rich Text File, so any word program can recognize it.

Awesome, no points lost.

"Hot Stuff" seemed to be a regular question asked back on the old forum in the mystery cartoon section. I finally watched this short last summer online--not bad--the cat is indeed the highlight.

Here's one.

1. My short won an Academy Award.
2. My short is based upon an old joke.
3. I do something rather violent and perverse at the end of the short--fortunately, it's off screen.

Ah, the greatest no-brainer of all. It's the Crunchbird!

1. The short won an Academy Award back in 1971.

2. It's based on an old joke.

3. When the woman's husband says what he says--well, just check the short out for yourselves!

Yep, the Crunchbird. I've heard of the joke before seeing this one, but it usually was a Gooneybird rather than a crunchbird--but it basically did the same thing--although the husband remarks "Gooneybird my foot." instead of the more adult line given in this short.

Thanks, Glowworm. Time now for one everyone here should know:

1. I was animated just once, for a musical version of my story.

2. I hate it when I move from the mountains to the big city.

3. Forty-five years ago this month, another movie about me infamously disrupted a football game.

I do believe it be Heidi from "Heidi's Song."

And you believe right, FluidGirl. Heidi it is.

1. "Heidi's Song" was the only animated version of the classic, and it was a musical.

2. Heidi left her home in the Swiss Alps, and moved to Frankfurt to be the companion of Clara Sesseman. However, she hated her new surroundings, and missed her grandfather and the others she left behind.

3. In November of 1968. a live action "Heidi" movie cut right into the final seconds of a football game on NBC. Needless to say, football fans were angry enough to call the network and complain. And by coincidence, tomorrow it'll be 45 years to the day that this took place.

Take it away, FluidGirl.

Let me see . . . .

1. I'm another redhead

2. I've been in almost every single incarnation of my franchise

3. In some incarnations, I'm almost never without my camera

I do know this one, but I'm stepping aside for someone else.

Methinks this is cub reporter Jimmy Olson from the Superman franchise. I'm not sure of Jimmy's origins. I don't recall seeing him in the Fleischer cartoons from the Forties, just ace snoop Lois Lane. I think Jimmy Olson came aboard once Superman became a DC Comics property.

You are correct, OUB. It is, in fact, Jimmy Olsen (or Olson, I don't remember exactly how ya spell it). And no, Jimmy wasn't in the Fleischer cartoons. I don't know when he first appeared in the comics, but I think he made his animated debut in the 1960's Filmation cartoon (hence, clue number 2, he's been in *almost* every Superman incarnation). Of course, my favorite version of Superman is the live action 1951 series, but I digress.

Cool. Also, doing proper research, it's Jimmy Olsen, who first appeared in Action Comics #6. However, the first time he was called by name came during the Superman radio show from April 1940, mostly to give Superman someone to talk with. Nice character, FluidGirl; therefore, I shall choose my next one from Hanna-Barbera's huge library.

1) This character is the creation of Hanna-Barbera Studios, just like Fred Flintstone and George Jetson.

2) So far, this character has appeared only in the one television animated series of thirteen episodes.

3) Although this character himself is not a redhead, his wife is. And his daughter. And the family pet.

OUB, that's way too easy. It's Gus Holiday from "The Roman Holidays."

1. He's a Hanna-Barbera creation just like his two predecessors.

2. He appeared in "The Roman Holidays," which only ran for thirteen episodes in 1972.

3. He's a brunette. but his wife Laurie, daughter Precocia, and pet lion Brutus, are redheads. Yes, the lion has a red mane.

Gee, I didn't think it was that easy. Hanna-Barbera has almost eight thousand cartoons under their studio's brand, including plenty of one-season wonders. The only real identifier is the redheads: Laurie, Precocia and Brutus. And I must confess that I had hopes for FluidGirl to chime in on this one. Nevertheless, fair is fair, and my Mystery Character is very much Augustus "Gus" Holiday. One side point I'd like to make is that the late Dom DeLuise provided the voice for the Holidays' landlord, Evictus.

Can't help it if I've been a Hanna-Barbera expert all my life. Anyway, these clues should cheer you guys up:

1. I'm not just another vegetable.

2. In fact, I have eyes and a brain.

3. My efforts to wreak havoc are thwarted only when I blow up and become a popular snack.

I have no idea what emeraldisle's character it is. But in regards to OUB's last character, and post, emeraldisle probably saw the post before I did, but I don't know if I would have gotten it, anyway, as I'm not an HB expert in regards to everything HB, as she is.

That's Spud from the Huckleberry Hound cartoon "Spud Dud." This is such a bizarre short.