The Mystery Cartoon Character Game, ongoing.

I think I need another set of clues. I'm drawing a blank.

Very well.
4. We were one of two storytelling segments on a well known cartoon show.
5. While the other segment normally told tales revolving around people, ours revolved mainly around animals.
6. There are always two morals to our tales--one for each of us.

Well, since I knew the answer from the beginning, I might as well answer. Aesop and Son.

Thanks, Emeraldisle. I was certain someone would get this right off the bat--besides you that is. Yes it's Aesop and Son from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
1. It's pretty obvious--Aesop and Son--although the son's name technically was Junior. (Like most cartoon sons were usually named)
2. Junior looked like a tiny version of Aesop--yet unlike most animated father and son duos, there clearly was a mother. In one short, Aesop mentions that his son gets his wit from his mother. Of course, we never see the mother.
3. It's actually uncertain on whether Aesop actually existed or not, but there are speculations that he was extremely ugly, and possibly a black slave. In this version, Aesop is merely a Greek civilian, and a smart aleck son has been added.
4. On the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, there were two storytelling segments. One was Fractured Fairy Tales, the other was Aesop and Son.
5. Most of the Fractured Fairy Tales did revolve around people--although a few did center around animals such as Puss and Boots and the Ugly Duckling. Aesop and Son's fables always starred animals.
6. Aesop's moral was always straightforward, while Junior's usually revolved around a bad pun. There is one tale however that Junior tells his father in which he actually gives a straight moral, and allows his father to make the bad pun this time.

Thanks, Glowworm. Unfortunately, I'm in no mood to post a new character, so I'll pass my turn to Fluidgirl.

Thanks, Em. OK, here's an interesting one, that hopefully someone will get within 3 clues, because I don't think I'll be able to come up with more than that:

1. I appeared in only one short, following a rabbit around

2. At the end of the short, I get into an argument with the short's antagonist over an apartment number

3. I'm mistaken for a very famous playwright

Don't know this one at all. Someone will get it, I'm sure.

Sam Crubish from A Witch's Tangled Hare. 2b or not 2b. That is the question.

Correct, saltyboot. Though I always thought his name was Grubish, but what do I know? Anyway, you're up.

Thanks, and since today is my birthday, I thought this would be appropriate.

I've been in a lot of cartoons.
In this particular short, I used myself as a table in order to hide for the surprise.
During the birthday party, I dance in a conga line and even had a singing solo.

Again, I'm stumped. But happy Bday, Salty.

Hope you had a great birthday!

This is Clara Cluck, in the 1942 Mickey's Birthday Party.

Oh my, almost missed it. Have a marvelous birthday, Saltyboot / Cf4e. After 137 correct answers, you've earned it.

Thanks everyone, and yes peterhale you are correct!

Your turn.

Happy belated b-day, saltyboot! I knew the answer, but peterhale obviously beat me to it (oh well).

Never mind - try this one...

1) Our name is a play on that of a zany trio well known in the day.

2) We sing a song that was featured in an earlier cartoon from this studio.

3) The short we are in is a hats-and-mice story. (And no, that's not a typo!)

Thanks FluidGirl. As for the clues.... Hmmm..... I don't know.

Oh, dear! More clues needed!

4) The trio we are named for rose to fame in the thirties with their comedy song and dance act, appearing on stage and screen, and in the early 50s had their own TV show. Our version of their name reflects our rodent nature.
5) We had to sing a song published by our studio's distributor - and not one performed by the real trio, who were under contract to a different studio. The song we sing was probably chosen for its college connection - the real trio had just opened in a movie about college life.
6) My director's unit was still finding its feet - we represent a bit of the director's spirit in an otherwise conventional cute cartoon.

I'll take a guess, and say they're the Ratz brothers, a spoof of the Ritz Brothers. Though I admit, I never knew these characters existed--if they did.

Your guess is correct!

The Three Ratz Brothers do a turn (at 3:11) in A Sunbonnet Blue, a Tex Avery Merrie Melodie from 1937. They sing "I Haven't Got a Hat", previously sung by Ham and Ex in the short that introduced Porky Pig. A Sunbonnet Blue was released in December 1937, two months after the Ritz Brothers movie Life Begins at College opened. The Ratz Brothers are animated by Irv Spence, and liven up an otherwise standard tale of mice frolicking at night in a hat shop.

A good shot, Em - it's all yours!