The following is a list of recurring
Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies characters without their own article:
Blacque Jacque Shellacque Blacque Jacque Shellacque is a fictional cartoon character in the
Looney Tunes cartoons. He was created by
Robert McKimson and
Tedd Pierce, and first appeared in the 1959
Merrie Melodies short
Bonanza Bunny set in the
Klondike of 1896.
Maurice LaMarche voiced the character from 2011 to 2014 in
The Looney Tunes Show. The character was the inspiration for a specific version of five card draw
poker mixed with
blackjack named "Blacque Jacque Shellacque" in which the pot is divided between the winning poker hand and the winning blackjack hand. If everyone loses in blackjack, the winning poker hand takes all. While similar in many ways to
Yosemite Sam—both are short in stature and temper—Blacque Jacque possesses his own unique characteristics, not the least of which is his comically thick
French Canadian accent, performed by
Mel Blanc. Also, like Yosemite Sam and many other villains, Blacque Jacque Shellacque does not have a high level of intelligence, preferring to use force instead of strategy to fight Bugs. His usual swear word is
Sacrebleu; and he is often portrayed as a thief.
Bunny and Claude Bunny and
Claude are two fictional cartoon characters in the
Looney Tunes series by
Warner Bros. Cartoons which debuted in 1968. They are based on the real-life
Bonnie and Clyde and the
then-recent film about the pair's life that had been released by
Warner Bros. They are depicted as a romantically involved pair of well-dressed rabbits who pull off carrot heists, and their catchphrase is "We rob carrot patches", based on the film Bonnie and Clyde's "We rob banks". Bunny was voiced by
Pat Woodell and Claude was voiced by veteran
Looney Tunes voice actor
Mel Blanc. They both speak with pronounced Southern accents. Bunny and Claude are pursued by a stereotypical Southern
sheriff (also voiced by Blanc in a fashion similar to his other characters,
Foghorn Leghorn and
Yosemite Sam). They appeared in two cartoons produced by
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation,
Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches), released in 1968, and
The Great Carrot Train Robbery, released in 1969. Both films were directed by
Robert McKimson, and were his first two cartoons he directed in his comeback to Termite Terrace. A picture of Bunny and Claude is shown in the first
Tiny Toons Looniversity special "Spring Beak", in which they are revealed to be Buster and Babs Bunny's aunt and uncle.
Colonel Shuffle Colonel Shuffle is a stereotypical "
gentleman" of the
Southern United States. He has been shown as fiercely loyal to this region and deeply offended by anything that he feels reminds him of the
Northern United States.
Appearances in theatrical shorts He referred to himself specifically by name in
Mississippi Hare (1949), following a game of
poker in which he lost (three queens to four kings) and proceeded to let off a barrage of gunfire. Sometimes, he is shown playing a
banjo in classic
Dixieland style. In
Dog Gone South (1950), Colonel Shuffle had an encounter with
Charlie Dog (whom
he defeated).
Later appearances A Colonel Shuffle-lookalike appears in the
Tiny Toon Adventures episodes "Gang Busters" and "Fairy Tales for the 90's", voiced by
Joe Alaskey and
Frank Welker. In the first he's a
prison warden of the prison in which Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are incarcerated, and in the second he's a toy company CEO who wants to possess ownership on Buster Bunny to market toys in his image. Shuffle made his last animated appearance in
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "The Cat Who Knew Too Much", under the name of Colonel Louie Z. Anna, an old rival of Granny's turned villain who tried to kidnap Tweety.
Gabby Goat Gabby Goat is an
animated cartoon character in the
Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.
Ub Iwerks created Gabby, a loud and temperamental
cynic, to be a sidekick for
Porky Pig in the 1937 short
Porky and Gabby, as Iwerks was briefly subcontracted to
Leon Schlesinger Productions, to produce
Looney Tunes films. The cartoon focuses on the title characters' camping trip, which is foiled by car trouble. Gabby made only two other golden-age animated appearances in
Get Rich Quick Porky and ''
Porky's Badtime Story'', the latter of which did not involve Iwerks, before his retirement, The series
New Looney Tunes revived the character of Gabby.
Hector the Bulldog Hector the Bulldog is an
animated cartoon character in the
Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Hector is a muscle-bound
bulldog with gray fur (except in
A Street Cat Named Sylvester and
Greedy for Tweety, where his fur is yellowish) and walks pigeon-toed. His face bears a perpetual scowl between two immense jowls. He usually wears a black
collar with silver studs. Hector's first appearance was in 1945's
Peck Up Your Troubles, where he foils Sylvester's attempts to get a woodpecker. He made a second appearance in
A Hare Grows in Manhattan, leading a street gang composed of dogs in a
Friz Freleng-directed short; this is also the only short where the dog has numerous speaking lines. Besides these starring roles, Hector is a minor player in several
Tweety and
Sylvester cartoons directed by Freleng in 1948 and throughout the 1950s. His usual role is to protect Tweety from Sylvester, usually at
Granny's request. He typically does this through brute strength alone, but some cartoons have him outsmart the cat, such as 1954's ''
Satan's Waitin''', wherein Hector (as
Satan) convinces Sylvester to use up his nine lives by pursuing Tweety through a series of extremely dangerous situations. In most of his appearances, the bulldog is nameless, though he is sometimes referred to as Spike, not to be confused with Freleng's other creation
Spike who is often paired with Chester the Terrier. From 1979 to 1983, when Sylvester was the mascot for
9Lives' line of dry cat food, Hector appeared in most TV commercials with the feline, whose plots typically involved Sylvester attempting to distract him to get the bowl of 9Lives, only for the cat to once again end up in danger by the end, with Sylvester proclaiming the brand as "worth riskin' your life for!". Hector's most prominent role was as a regular cast member in the
animated series The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries. In the cartoon, he plays Granny's loyal guardian. The show makes Hector's low intelligence his
Achilles heel as Sylvester is constantly outwitting him. Hector also appears in the video game
Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters where he guards one of the time gears in Granwich. He also appears as an enemy in the game
Looney Tunes: Twouble!, in which he can be distracted by giving him a bone. He is a member of the studio audience in the video game ''
Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf''.
Jose and Manuel Jose and
Manuel are
Looney Tunes characters created by
Friz Freleng, debuting in the short "
Two Crows from Tacos".
K-9 K-9 is
Marvin the Martian's pet alien dog. He is a dog with green fur, and like his owner, he wears a helmet, skirt, and four slippers. K-9 debuts in
Haredevil Hare (1948), where he and his owner Marvin tried to defeat
Bugs Bunny. He returns in
The Hasty Hare (1952), serving the same purpose. After that, he did not appear in another short film until
Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension (1996), where he and Marvin confront
Daffy Duck. In the television series
Duck Dodgers, K-9 appears as the pet of Martian Commander X-2 (Marvin's alternate character in the series), having major roles in the episodes "
K-9 Kaddy" and "
K9 Quarry". He has also had cameo appearances in other
Looney Tunes related television series: Marvin and him make a cameo appearance at the end of the episode "
What's the Frequency, Kitty?" from
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries; K-9 appears sleeping next to Marvin and
Minerva Mink while they have a date in the episode "
Star Warners" from
Pinky and the Brain; in
The Looney Tunes Show, K-9 has a cameo in the musical video "I'm a Martian" from the episode "
Members Only". In
Loonatics Unleashed, the character
Sergeant Sirius is a robot dog based on him, being the pet of Melvin the Martian, a descendant of Marvin. K-9 makes a cameo appearance in the film
Space Jam, as part of the audience during the basketball game. He has a minor but most notable appearance in the film
Space Jam: A New Legacy, where after Bugs claims Tune World in the name of the Earth, he appears alongside Marvin, who arrives to claim Tune World in the name of Mars. K-9 also appears as a playable character in the mobile game
Looney Tunes World of Mayhem.
Melissa Duck Melissa Duck is a blonde female duck who is the girlfriend to and occasional female counterpart of
Daffy Duck. She was created by
Frank Tashlin as a prototype and later by
Chuck Jones officially, appearing in the short,
The Scarlet Pumpernickel, voiced by Marian Richman. Melissa Duck first officially appeared by name in adult form in the 1950 short
The Scarlet Pumpernickel which was, in 1994, voted number 31 of the
50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In the cartoon, she appears as a blonde damsel-in-distress and Daffy's love interest. The plot followed Daffy attempting to save "the Fair Lady Melissa" from having to marry the evil Grand Duke
Sylvester with whom she is not in love. In 2021, Melissa Duck reappeared as a playable character in the mobile game
Looney Tunes World of Mayhem titled the "Fair Lady Melissa", "Maid Melissa", "Possessed Melissa", "Shapeshifter Melissa", and "Saloon Dancer Melissa". Similar characters based on and inspired by Melissa had appeared in other productions, also serving as Daffy's love interest; Femme Fatale (aka "The Body", also referred to as Fowl Fatale or Shapely Lady Duck)), appears the 1952 short
The Super Snooper. She is a tall voluptuous bright blue-eyed, redheaded duck with red hair and wearing red lipstick and a striking red dress, and she goes madly in love with Daffy as a detective. In ''Rabbit's Kin'', Pete is chasing a young rabbit called "Shorty" who asks
Bugs Bunny for help. Bugs is eager to oblige and subjects Pete to some of his trademark pranks. Pete Puma has made occasional appearances on
Tiny Toon Adventures (as the Acme Looniversity janitor), some episodes of
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, co-starred with
Foghorn Leghorn in
Pullet Surprise (voiced again by Freberg in all of these appearances), made a cameo appearance in the crowd scenes of
Space Jam,
Carrotblanca (as a waiter), ''
Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (as one of the felines around the world whose pawprints Tweety collects, voiced again by Freberg), Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (working as a janitor again), and is a supporting character in the Looney Tunes comic books. Pete (voiced by John Kassir) is a recurring character in The Looney Tunes Show'' as
Daffy Duck's dimwitted friend, and working various jobs around town. In the
Looney Tunes Cartoons shorts he appears in "Puma Problems" and "Bottoms Up", where he is voiced by
Stephen Stanton.
Rocky and Mugsy •
Rocky: • Dick Nelson (1946) •
Mel Blanc (1950–1981) •
Rob Paulsen (1990) •
Jim Cummings (1995–2000) •
Joe Alaskey (1999–2005) •
James Adomian (2020–2022) •
Eric Bauza (2022) }} }}
Rocky and
Mugsy are characters in the
Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. They were created by
Friz Freleng.
Biography As an
animator, Friz Freleng enjoyed creating new adversaries for Warners' star
Bugs Bunny, since he felt that Bugs' other nemeses, such as
Beaky Buzzard and
Elmer Fudd (who actually appeared in many more Freleng shorts than is commonly realized), were too stupid to give the rabbit any real challenge. Though considered revolutionary for almost all of the late 1940s, Freleng's own
Yosemite Sam had not yet been proven capable of fully fulfilling his creator's intentions. Freleng introduced two of these more formidable opponents as a pair of
gangsters in the 1946 film
Racketeer Rabbit, written by
Michael Maltese. In the film, Bugs decides to find himself a new home, but the one he chooses is unfortunately occupied by a duo of
bank robbers. The characters here are called "Rocky" (drawn like movie gangster
Edward G. Robinson) and "Hugo" (a
caricatured
Peter Lorre). Both gangsters are performed by the Warner studio's longtime chief
voice actor,
Mel Blanc.
Appearances Freleng liked the
mobster idea, and he used the concept again in the 1950 short
Golden Yeggs. This time, it is
Porky Pig and
Daffy Duck who run afoul of the mob, only this time Rocky has not only one sidekick, but an entire
gang. Freleng also redesigned Rocky for this short, making him a more generalized caricature of the "tough guy" gangster rather than Robinson in particular. Freleng used several of the same techniques that would make Sam, his other Bugs villain, such a humorous character: despite Rocky's tough-guy demeanor, everlasting
cigar (or
cigarette) and foppish gangster dress, he really is little more than a dwarf in a much-too-large hat. In 1953's
Catty Cornered, Freleng set the mob against another of his comic duos,
Sylvester and
Tweety Bird. Gang leader Rocky, this time aided and abetted by a hulking simpleton named "Nick",
kidnaps Tweety, and when Sylvester's bumbling predations accidentally free the bird, the poor puss is hailed as a hero. The duo reappear in 1954's
Bugs and Thugs, this time in the form that Freleng would keep them in for the rest of their run. Rocky is aided by a new thug, "Mugsy". Although his body type is similar to that of Nick's, he has less hair and is even less intelligent. Before the Warner studio closed for good in 1963, Rocky and Mugsy would appear in two more Freleng cartoons:
Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) and
The Unmentionables (1963). Mugsy also appears without his boss in a cameo as one of
Napoleon Bonaparte's guards in the 1956 Freleng short
Napoleon Bunny-Part. Rocky and Mugsy have also appeared in various
Looney Tunes-related merchandise. They are semi-regular characters in
Looney Tunes comic books, for example. They also play the villains in the 2002
Xbox video game Loons: The Fight for Fame, a
vs. fighting game in which the no-good gangsters attempt to run a film studio into the ground so that they can buy up the
stock for next to nothing. Also, in
Bugs Bunny Lost in Time, the pair are bosses of the 1930s era. They also appeared in episodes of
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries and
Duck Dodgers, as well as various cameo appearances in the movie
Space Jam. In the movie, they are spotted wearing rabbit's ears and are shown shocked and terrified when Bugs gets crushed by a Monstar named Pound who was meant to crush Lola. They have a brief appearance in the direct-to-video film ''
Tweety's High-Flying Adventure'', where they reside in a cabin in
Rio de Janeiro while hiding from the police; Mugsy is also in charge of placing the country postmark on
Tweety's passport. Rocky and Mugsy both made a cameo appearance in
Space Jam: A New Legacy were they are seen in line with the other Tunes leaving Tune World in Bugs Bunny's flashback. Rocky and Mugsy made cameos in
The Looney Tunes Show. In "It's a Handbag", Rocky and Mugsy's pictures were seen in the police's notebook. They were also seen in the Merrie Melodies segment "Stick to My Guns", sung by Yosemite Sam in the episode "Mrs. Porkbunny's" where Yosemite Sam mentions how he declared his vendetta on the Mafia when Sam threw a garbage can into their house. Around the end of the song, Rocky and Mugsy joined in on the final verse with
Nasty Canasta, an angry bride, a female cannibal, a
grizzly bear, and Toro the Bull. Rocky and Mugsy appear in the
Looney Tunes Cartoons shorts "Chain Gang(sters)" and "Hideout Hare", with Rocky voiced by
James Adomian and Mugsy voiced by
Fred Tatasciore.
Shorts •
Racketeer Rabbit (1946) – Features a prototype of Rocky. •
Golden Yeggs (1950) – Rocky's first cartoon, only cartoon paired with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. •
Catty Cornered (1953) – Only pairing with Sylvester and Tweety. •
Bugs and Thugs (1954) – Mugsy's first cartoon. •
Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956) – Mugsy cameos as a guard. •
Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) •
The Unmentionables (1963) – Final appearance of Rocky and Mugsy.
Parodies In the television series
Loonatics Unleashed, the characters
Stoney and Bugsy are two gangster descendants of Rocky and Mugsy, being very similar to them in appearance. Rocky and Mugsy are parodied as the
South Park characters Nathan and Mimsy in the episode "
Crippled Summer", Nathan having been introduced in the earlier episode "
Up the Down Steroid". Throughout the episode's storylines, with various campers being parodies of other
Looney Tunes characters, Nathan (Rocky) attempts to arrange fatal accidents for Jimmy Valmer (a counterpart to Bugs Bunny) which get ruined by Mimsy (Mugsy)'s stupidity. Nathan and Mimsy become reoccurring characters following their return appearance in the episode "
Handicar". A poster depicting Rocky and Mugsy can be seen on the wall of Nathan's room.
Slowpoke Rodriguez José "
Slowpoke"
Rodríguez ("
Lento Rodríguez" in
Spanish, though some more recent translations call him "
Tranquilino") is a
fictional animated cartoon mouse, part of the
Looney Tunes' cast.
History and personality He is described as "the slowest mouse in all Mexico" and is a cousin to
Speedy Gonzales, who is known as the fastest. However, he mentions to his cousin that while he may be best known for his slow feet, he is not slow in "la cabeza" (the head). He speaks in a monotone voice and seems to never be surprised by anything. Due to being slow he is generally, unlike Speedy, unable to outrun the pursuing cats who try to capture the both of them, but he is shown to have alternative (more effective) methods of resistance, such as his possession and use of a gun.
Theatrical cartoon appearances Slowpoke only appeared in two cartoons alongside his cousin. The first, "
Mexicali Shmoes" (1959), ends with two lazy cats, José and Manuel, the former learning the hard way that Slowpoke carries a gun. The second, "
Mexican Boarders" (1962), revolves around Speedy trying to protect Slowpoke from
Sylvester the Cat, but in the end, Slowpoke demonstrates his ability to
hypnotize Sylvester into becoming his slave. The other mice comment at this point that "Slowpoke Rodríguez may be the slowest mouse in all Mexico, but he has the
evil eye!"
Other appearances • Slowpoke makes an appearance as a plot catalyst in the
Super NES video game
Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos. • Slowpoke also appears alongside Speedy in a commercial for
Virgin Media's broadband service in the UK, voiced by
Kerry Shale. • Slowpoke appears in
The Looney Tunes Show episode "The Black Widow", voiced by
Hugh Davidson. While his relation to Speedy Gonzales remains intact, he is depicted as the Sheriff of Tacapulco. After
Daffy Duck and
Porky Pig are arrested for streaking, Sheriff Slowpoke Rodríguez allows them to make a call. As Daffy Duck was unable to get through to
Bugs Bunny (who was helping
Lola Bunny return a diamond that she unintentionally stole from the museum at the time), he asks Sheriff Slowpoke if he would mind that he tries to call someone else. Daffy gets through to Speedy Gonzales who speeds all the way to Tacapulco to negotiate their release. Once that was done, Sheriff Slowpoke invites Daffy, Porky, and Speedy to join in Tacapulco's fiesta.
Yoyo Dodo Yoyo Dodo, also known as The Dodo Bird, is a wacky bird who first appeared in the 1938 short
Porky in Wackyland. Yoyo is a green male dodo with red shoes, and a red umbrella sticking out from the top of his head, although some of his appearances have him in black-and-white. Yoyo made a brief cameo appearance in the beginning of the 1988 film
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In the 1990 television series
Tiny Toon Adventures, a young dodo named Gogo Dodo is featured, who is the son of Yoyo. Yoyo appeared in the 2023
Looney Tunes Cartoons stop-motion episode
Daffy in Wackyland. ==Notes==