The list of vastly overrated and unfunny cartoon characters, both in print and animation, is as long as my arm. Hell, it’s probably as long as that Chinese guy’s arm that saved a dolphin’s life a couple of weeks ago by reaching down into the dolphin’s stomach and pulling out the offending plastic inside it.
On the animation side, Tweety Bird is awful close to the top of list, followed by later incarnations of the Tasmanian Devil, most Disney characters (see my short treatise on Disney vs. Warner Bros. here), the Animaniacs, the Flintstones/Jetsons, Scooby-Doo and the bulk of the Hanna-Barbera oeuvre. (That just about covers everything, doesn’t it?)
Print cartoons that just aren’t funny include "Nancy."
I bring up comics and animation because of seeing a news item that warmed my heart immensely:
Tigger is a child beater.
Sure, “child” is a stretch, really – it was really a teenager with whom he got into a fistfight. And were there extenuating circumstances that caused the lovable tiger who bounces everythefrigginwhere to haul off and start punching that kid? It’s not clear.
Linked in the story that I linked to in the “child beater” paragraph above is a cavalcade of other stories about Tigger’s unfortunate behavior. It seems that “random acts of violence” can now be added to a list that includes “inappropriate groping,” among other things.
We can, however, determine from the mascot’s history that, whether you’re the Cincinnati Bengals or a largely useless Disney character, donning the orange and black leads you to wildly erratic behavior that often crosses the boundaries of the law, not to mention the boundaries of civil behavior.
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