Goopy Geer

Goopy Geer
Looney Tunes character
Goopy Geer playing the piano in his self-titled debut.
First appearanceGoopy Geer (1932)
Last appearanceTwo-Tone Town (1992)
Created byRudolf Ising
Voiced byJohnny Murray (1932)[citation needed]
Robert Morse (1992)
In-universe information
SpeciesDog
GenderMale

Goopy Geer is an animated cartoon character created in 1932 for the Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He is a singing, dancing, piano-playing dog who is considered to be "the first Merrie Melodies star",[1] although he only starred in three cartoons.

History

The character is a tall, lanky anthropomorphic dog with scruffy whiskers and long, expressive ears. He was "a wisecracking entertainer -- 'part comedian, part musician and part dancer' -- inspired by vaudeville showmen of [the 1930s]."[2]

Goopy's character was based on a familiar archetype of entertainment, as Hank Sartin says in Reading the Rabbit:

In the course of "The Queen Was in the Parlor", Goopy Geer does imitations of Amos 'n' Andy and Walter Winchell, as well as doing slapstick comedy and battling a villain. The gags emphasize sound, and not just slapstick, as part of Goopy's interest as a performer. This amazing range of performance skills links him and other cartoon entertainers to vaudeville performers, who often made a living out of displaying multiple talents. For audiences, Geer was recognizably a descendant of vaudevillians like W.C. Fields and [Ed] Wynn.[3]

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.

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 early 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 syncopation. Ising only featured the character in three cartoons.[1]

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).[4] 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).

A month after Goopy Geer's first cartoon had been released, Walt Disney released a cartoon called "Mickey's Revue" with a character named Dippy Dawg, whose overall appearance was very similar to that of Goopy Geer; due to the close proximity of the two cartoons' releases, there is little chance that either character was intended to be a copy of the other. Dippy Dawg would eventually be renamed to "Goofy".[5]

Goopy made 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,[6] to be later replaced by such recurring characters as Sniffles the Mouse, Inki and the Mynah Bird, the Curious Puppies, and, on two occasions, Porky Pig (a character who was more prevalent in the black and white Looney Tunes).

Later appearances

Goopy Geer had a small role in the 1990s animated series Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Two-Tone Town" voiced by Robert Morse. 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.[5] 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.

References

  1. ^ a b Lenburg, Jeff (1991). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. New York: Facts on File. p. 79. ISBN 0-8160-2252-6. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1991). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. New York: Facts on File. p. 93. ISBN 0-8160-2252-6. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  3. ^ Sartin, Hank (1998). "From Vaudeville to Hollywood, from Silence to Sound: Warner Bros. Cartoons of the Early Sound Era". In Sandler, Kevin S. (ed.). Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation. Rutgers University Press. p. 73. ISBN 9780813525389. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  4. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Holt Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0805008944.
  5. ^ a b Markstein, Don. "Goopy Geer". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  6. ^ Schneider, Steve (1990). That's All Folks: The Art of Warner Bros. Animation. Owl Books. ISBN 978-0805014853.

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