Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner

And here's the last two Looney Tunes characters I like to tell you about.

Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner are a duo of cartoon characters from a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. They were created by animation director Chuck Jones in 1948 for Warner Bros., while the template for their adventures was the work of writer Michael Maltese. He and Road Runner star in a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts and occasional made-for-television cartoons. Wile E. Coyote was also known as super genius when he is generally silent in the Coyote-Road Runner shorts. Road Runner runs super fast even though Wile couldn't catch him when he makes a sound called, "Beep, Beep."

Penelope Pussycat

Penelope Pussycat is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic cat featured in the Warner Bros. classic Looney Tunes animated shorts. Although she is typically a non-speaker, her "meows" and "purrs" (or "le mews" and "le purrs") were most often provided by Mel Blanc using a feminine voice. In the 1959 short Really Scent, she was voiced by June Foray. Penelope the Cat is best known as the often bewildered love interest of Looney Tunes' anthropomorphic skunk, Pepe Le Pew. She is also a typical black and white cat, though by some means or another, she often finds herself with a white stripe down her back, whether painted intentionally or mostly by accident.

Pepe Le Pew

Pepe Le Pew is a fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, first introduced in 1945. The French skunk that always strolls around in Paris in the springtime, when everyone's thoughts are of "love", Pepe is constantly seeking "l'amour" of his own. However, he has two huge turnoffs to any prospective mates: his malodorous scent, and his refusal to take no for an answer, blissfully convinced that the girl is flirting with him, even when she rejects his advances to the point of physically assaulting him. Pepe is stereotypically French in the way Speedy Gonzales is stereotypically Mexican. Pepe Le Pew storylines typically involve Pepe in pursuit of what appears to be a female skunk for which he calls, "la belle femme skunk fatale". But usually, the female skunk is actually a black cat (retroactively named Penelope Pussycat) who has a white stripe painted down her back, often by accident. Usually Penelope runs away from him anyway because of his putrid odor or because of his overly assetive manner. As Penelope frantically races to get away from Pepe, he hops after her at a leisurely pace.

Pepe le Pew's voice was provided by Mel Blanc who played Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Beaky Buzzard, Sam Sheepdog, Barnyard Dawg, Yosemite Sam, Taz Devil, and Marvin the Martian.

Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian is a character from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. He hails from the planet Mars, but is often found elsewhere. He is often accompanied by his dog "K-9" and sometimes by other creatures. Marvin wears a Roman soldier's uniform, with an old-fashioned basketball shoes similar to the Chuck Taylor All-Stars brand name. His head is a black sphere with only eyes for features but no mouth. The curved crest of his helmet appears with the push-broom-like upper section, to comically resemble an ancient Greek hoptile's or a Roman Centurion's helmet. He speaks with a soft, nasally accent, and often speaks technobabble. The helmet and and skirt that surround him are green and his suit is red. It also made Bugs Bunny think Marvin was a bowling ball wearing a spittoon. Marvin is also known for his trademark quotes,"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom?" and "This makes me very angry indeed."

The voice of Marvin the Martian was Mel Blanc who did Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Sam Sheepdog, Barnyard Dawg, Beaky Buzzard, Yosemite Sam, and Tasmanian Devil.

Tasmanian Devil

The Tasmanian Devil, often referred to as Taz, is an animated cartoon character featured in the Warner Bros."Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons. Though the character appeared in only five shorts before Warner Bros. Cartoons closed down in 1964, marketing and television appearances later propelled the character to new popularity in the 1990s. Taz is generally portrayed as a ferocious albeit dim-witted omnivore short temper and little patience. He will eat anything and everything, with an appetite that seems to know no bounds. He is best known for his speech consisting mostly of grunts, growls and rasps, and his ability to spin like a vortex and bite through just about anything.

Taz was provided Mel Blanc who did Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Sam Sheepdog, Barnyard Dawg, Beaky Buzzard, and Yosemite Sam.

Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam is an American animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The name is somewhat alliterative and is inspired by Yosemite National Park. Along with Elmer Fudd, he is the de facto archememy of Bugs Bunny. He is commonly depicted as an extremely grouchy gunslinging prospector, outlaw, pirate, or cowboy with a hair-trigger temper and an intense hatred of rabbits, Bugs particularly. During the Golden Age of Amarican animation, Yosemite Sam appeared in 33 shorts. He also has a tougher accent with a higher fierce voice and a more violent spirit.

Giving voice to Yosemite Sam was Mel Blanc who played Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Beaky Buzzard, Sam Sheepdog, and Barnyard Dawg.

Michigan J. Frog

Michigan J. Frog is an animated cartoon character who debuted in the Looney Tunes cartoon One Froggy evening on (December 31, 1955), written by Michael Matlese and directed by Chuck Jones. Michigan is a male frog who wears a top hat, carries a cane, sings pop music, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley hits, and other songs from the late 19th and early 20th century while dancing and performing acrobats in the style of early 20th century vaudeville. He appeared in a later cartoon titled, "Another Froggy Evening" which was released on October 6, 1995. He was also a former mascot of the WB Television Network from that year until 2005, and after "The Night of Favorites and Farewells", he was shown as the final image of a ghost bowing down to viewers, bringing up The CW Television Network.

The singing voice of Michigan J. Frog was provided by Bill Roberts.

Elmer Fudd

Elmer J. Fydd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters, and the archenemy of Bugs Bunny. He has one of the more disputed origins in thw Warner Bros. cartoon pantheon (second only to Bugs himself). His aim is to hunt Bugs, but he usually ends up seriously injuring himself and other antagonizing characters. He speaks in an unusual way, replacing his Rs, Ls, and Ws, so "Watch the road,Rabbit" is replaced with, "Watch the woad, wabbit!" Elmer's signature catchphrase is, "Shhh. Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits", as well as his trademark laughter, "Huh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh".

Elmer Fudd was originally voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan.

Witch Hazel

Witch Hazel is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. She is a pun on the name of a North American shrub and the herbal medicine derived from it. Animator Chuck Jones, of his own admission, got the idea of Witch Hazel from the Disney cartoon "Trick or Treat" (1952), which featured a good-natured witch squaring off with Donald Duck. She appears in her rotund, green-skinned body is wrapped in plain, blue dress and supported by twig-like legs.

Enamored of the character's voice characterization, provided by June Foray, Jones developed his own Witch Hazel character for Bugs Bunny short, "Bewitched Bunny" in 1954.

Barnyard Dawg

Barnyard Dawg (also known as George P. Dog) is a Looney Tunes character. An adult anthropomorphic basset hound, he is the archenemy of Foghorn Leghorn. He was created by Robert McKimson, who also Foghorn Leghorn, and was voiced by Mel Blanc. He feuds with other enemies as well like Henery Hawk, the Weasel, Daffy Duck, and Sylvester.

Sam Sheepdog

Sam Sheepdog, by contrast, is a large, burly Briard Sheepdog with white of tan fur and a mop of red hair that usually covers his eyes. He very rarely runs and tends to be sedentary in his movements. He does, however, possess sufficient strength to incapaciate his friend, Ralph Wolf with a single punch once he catches him.

Sam Sheepdog was voiced by Mel Blanc who plays Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, and Beaky Buzzard.

Beaky Buzzard

And now here is Beaky Buzzard.

Beaky Buzzard is a buzzard (although he is more closely resembles like a vulture or condor) with black body feathers and a white tuft around his throat. His neck is long and thin, bending 90 degrees at an emormous adam's apple. His neck and head are featherless, and his beak is large and yellow or orange, depending on the cartoon. Beaky bears a perpetual goofy grin, and his eyes look eternally half-asleep.

Giving voice to Beaky Buzzard was Mel Blanc who played Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester, Tweety Bird, and Foghorn Leghorn.

Miss Prissy

Miss Prissy is typically described as an old spinster hen, thinner than the other hens in the chicken coop, wearing a blue bonnet and wire-rimmed glasses. The other hens descride her as "old square britches". Prissy lives in the yard of Foghorn Leghorn's, where she intends among several things, a husband and children.


The voice of Miss Prissy is provided by Bea Benaderet.

Foghorn Leghorn

Foghorn Leghorn is a character that appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons for Warner Bros. He was created by Robert McKimson, and starred in 28 cartoons between 1946 and 1963 in the Golden Age of American animation. Foghorn is a large, white adult Leghorn rooster with a sterotypically Southern accent, a "good ol' boy" speaking style, and a penchant for mischief. Most common among himself was his humming a song called, "Camptown Races" in which the intelligible words "Doo-Dah! Doo-Dah!" makes him singing along. He sneaks up in front of the sleeping Barnyard Dawg at his doghouse, picking up his tail and rapidly whacking, and gives him a chase.

Foghorn Leghorn's voice was played by Mel Blanc who provided the others like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester, and Tweety.

Granny

Granny, a co-star of many Sylvester the Cat and Tweety animated shorts throughout the 1950s and 1962, is a Looney tunes character that was created by Tex Avery. She is the owner of Tweety (and more often than not, Sylvester and Hector the Bulldog). She is also a generally good-natured, elderly widowed woman who is extremely protective of  her beloved canary, Tweety.

Granny's voice was first provided by Bea Benaderet from 1937 through 1953. Then June Foray later took over the role and is still prviding Granny's voice as of 2013.

Tweety Bird

Tweety Bird is a fictional Yellow Canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merries Melodies series of animated cartoons. The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being a typical English onomatopoeia for the sounds of the birds. Tweety appeared in 49 cartoon in the Golden Age. He is so cute and his voice was a high pitched when he said, "I did! tawt I taw a puddy tat!"  In fact, Tweety outsmarts Sylvester as he tries to catch him in the 2011 3D version of the song, "I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat."

The voice of Tweety was voiced by Mel Blanc who provided Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, and Sylvester the Cat.

Sylvester

Sylvester the Cat is a fictional character, a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies repertory, often chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper. He appeared in 103 cartoons in the golden age, three of which won Academy Awards, the most for any Looney Tunes character. He also has a son named Sylvester Jr. who is basically a miniature version of his father, having a large head in proportion to a small body.

Mel Blanc plays the voice of Sylvester who provides the other voices like: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Speedy Gonzales.

Speedy Gonzales

Speedy Gonzales is an animated caricature of a mouse in the Warner Brothers, Looney Tunes, and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast and speaking with an exaggerated Mexican accent. He usually wears an oversized yellow sombrero, white shirt and trousers ( Which is a common traditional outfit worn by men and boys of rural Mexican villages), and a red kerchief, similar to that reveler in the San Fermin festival. Speedy also speaks a little bit of English and Spanish, for example "Andele Arriba!" the meaning of "hurry up". Speedy Gonzales is originally voiced by Mel Blanc who provides the other Looney Tunes voices like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.

Porky Pig

Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. and Merries Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators (particularly Bob Clampett) created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig. Even after he was supplanted by later characters, Porky continued to be popular with moviegoers, and more importantly, the Warners directors, who recast him in numerous everyman and sidekick roles. He is known for his signature line at the end of each short, "Th-th-th-that's all folks!" Porky's most distinctive trait is a severe stuuer, for which he sometimes compensate by replacing his words; for example, "What's going on?" might become "What's guh-guh-guh-guh - what's happening?"In the end of many Looney Tunes cartoons, Porky Pig bursts through  a bass drum head, and his farewell line "Th-Th-Th-Th-Th...That's all folks."
Porky Pig would appear in 153 cartoons in the Golden Age of American animation.

Mel Blanc plays the voice of Porky Pig, who also provided to voices of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

Daffy Duck

And here is the next cartoon character, Daffy Duck.

Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character produced by Warner Bros. He has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, where he usually has been depicted as the best friend and occasional arch-rival of Bugs Bunny. Daffy was one of the first of the new "screwball" characters that emerged  in the late 1930 to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier in the decade, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye. Daffy Duck is an anthropomorphic duck with black feathers, white neck ring, and his orange beak and webbed feet. Sometimes he says words containing an S sound like "desthpicable" when he spits out his tongue and saving the galaxy when he becomes Duck Dodgers.

The voice of Daffy Duck is provided by Mel Blanc who also voices Bugs Bunny.