goopy geer

Goopy Geer is a animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. The character is a tall, lanky humanoid dog with scruffy whiskers and long, expressive ears. In all of his animated appearances, Goopy is depicted as light colored, but in an early promotional drawing for his first cartoon, he had black fur. His overall appearance is very similar to that of Walt Disney's Goofy, but because both characters appeared for the first time in 1932, there is little chance that either was intended to be a copy of the other. Goopy Geer was the last attempt by animator Rudolf Ising to feature a recurring character in the Merrie Melodies series of films. Like most other sound-era cartoon characters, Ising's Goopy has little personality of his own. Instead, he sings and dances his way through a musical world in perfect synchopation. Ising only featured the character in three cartoons. In the first, "Goopy Geer"(April 16, 1932), he plays a popular pianist entertaining at a nightclub. In Ising's other two Goopy films, both in 1932, he cast the dog first as a hillbilly in "Moonlight for Two" (June 11, 1932), then as a court jester in "The Queen Was in the Parlor" (July 9, 1932). All of these cartoons also feature Goopy's unnamed girlfriend who debuted without her gangly consort in the earlier Merrie Melodie "Freddy the Freshman"(February 20, 1932). Goopy would make a cameo in the Bosko cartoon "Bosko in Dutch"(January 14, 1933), but after Ising left Warner Bros. that same year, Goopy and other recurring Merrie Melodies characters were retired and future Merrie Melodies were one-shot affairs with no recurring characters until the 1940s when Bugs Bunny was introduced. Goopy Geer had a small role in the 1990s animated series Tiny Toon Adventures. In the episode "Two-Tone Town" (September 28, 1992), Goopy, reprising his role as the happy-go-lucky pianist from his first cartoon, meets the series' stars when they visit the "black-and-white" part of town. His appearance in this cartoon is updated somewhat, and seems to be based on early promotional drawings where his fur is black, rather than his actual cartoon appearances.

External links

Another profile of the character

Geer, Goopy Geer, Goopy Geer, Goopy

<< Previous

Word Browser

Next >>

j. melville broughton
pineapple sage
richard caswell
legal aspects of computing
abner nash
museum of contemporary art
orlov revolt
flavoured milk
rodney begnaud
paul gleason
charles somerset, 1st earl of worcester

minim (religious order)
annapolis convention
national steel (album)
red byron
national steel
city of god
conservatoire national des arts et mtiers
ti de nadal
muse des arts et mtiers
magikarp
tarzana, los angeles, california

studio city, los angeles, california
sherman oaks, los angeles, california
sbs transit
land transport authority (singapore)
jeff
lonesome george
jerusalem pogrom of april, 1920
robert eden
eagle rock, los angeles, california
george kelly (psychologist)
north south mrt line

marquess of lansdowne
jaffa riots
encino, los angeles, california
east west mrt line
marquess townshend
accident (movie)
tephra
fp
dn
tq
filfla