Doug It Is Funny Because the Squirrel Gets Dead

"Now THAT'S one-act!"

— Slappy Squirrel

Slappy Squirrel is an elderly, grouchy veteran drawing tree squirrel who starred in metafictionalLooney Tunes cartoons as Slappy, The Slap-Happy Squirrel.

Today, she lives in a treehouse with her nephew, Skippy Squirrel. She oftentimes faces onetime enemies from her by, like Walter Wolf, Sid the Squid and Beanie the Brain Dead Bison. Other situations come across her facing common nuisances, like annoyingly perky neighbors like Candie Chipmunk ("I Got Yer Can") and Skippy's emotional traumas ("Bumbie'south Mom"). She typically solves her problems with exaggerated drawing violence. She has even blasted the Warners' annoying new nanny out of Warner Bros. Studio when the Warners could not do information technology themselves because of their moral beliefs ("The Audio Of Warners"). Ane of her theme songs is an excerpt from Antonín Dvořák'south "Humoresque".

Slappy is voiced past series writer Sherri Stoner.

Character Biography

She is characterized as a grouchy, biting, cranky, elderly anthropomorphic gray squirrel with a thick New York accent. While she's more than mean-spirited than The Brain, She'southward usually seen usually wearing a green hat busy with a drooping yellow flower, majestic eyeliner on her eyelids and carrying a pink purse and greenish umbrella that she occasionally uses to striking other characters. "Hurray For Slappy" reveals Slappy to be in her 80s, every bit Mary Heartless (a parody of Entertainment This night's Mary Hart) refers to Slappy as "octogenarian". She lives in a hollow tree with her nephew Skippy, her polar opposite in terms of personality, who loves to hear her tell stories about her former days of stardom. In the episode "My Mother The Squirrel", while Skippy represents a cuter style of cartoon characters, Slappy was and is a more chaotic and sometime-schoolhouse character, enjoying violence for one-act'southward sake and resentful of milquetoast, censor-influenced modern cartoons. She was outset seen in the show'due south tertiary episode, "Slappy Goes Walnuts", originally aired on September 15, 1993, which as well introduced an excerpt of a purely fictitious Looney Tunes cartoon featuring herself and suggesting that she was a retired Looney Tunes character who crossed over into Animaniacs. In several episodes, in that location are shots of fictitious Looney Tunes cartoons portraying a younger Slappy, under the pseudonym Slappy the Slap-Happy Squirrel, a reference to the MGM drawing graphic symbol Screwy Squirrel.

Characters

Her sometime co-star and arch-enemy, Walter Wolf harbors a grudge against her, both for defeating him repeatedly (and violently) in the by and for becoming a big star, admitting now a faded one. He has too enlisted the help of her other ex-nemeses, including Sid the Squid and Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison. Much like Slappy, all these characters bear witness signs of historic period and senility. In addition to Walter's occasional attempts at revenge, Slappy must sometimes endure more mundane annoyances such as a cloyingly-perky new neighbor or Skippy'southward emotional traumas, for example after he watches the animated movie Bumbie (a parody of Bambi). Slappy solves this by taking Skippy to encounter the actress in question. In a later episode, "No Face Like Home", Slappy had been combining her disdain for new slapstick-gratuitous cartoons every bit well equally her dislike for cartoons that resolved issues peacefully, and "pretty female animals who had no slapstick". Slappy also succumbs to Hollywood'southward craze with plastic surgery by attempting to take herself transformed artificially back into her youthful self and get back into cartoons "to make them the way they should be, with anvils and dynamite!" Slappy is also well known for the dialog "Who'south on Stage?", a ii minute Vaudevillesque wit-circular routine, based on the legendary sketch "Who'due south on Offset?", in Episode 59 ("Woodstock"), in which she tries to determine which band is performing on stage ("The Band", "Who" or "Yes") which of course ends with Roger Daltrey inviting the pair on stage.

Humor

Slappy easily outsmarts whatever foes she faces (who are almost universally dimwitted as well as decrepit) and exacts revenge with exaggerated cartoon violence, normally while reminiscing nearly her "classic" (but fictional) pic appearances of her youth. She often volition remark how her enemies remind her of various famous cartoon characters when they were very immature. Her catchphrase "At present that's comedy!" is usually delivered after visiting physical injury and humiliation upon her opponents. She also occasionally says, "You remind me of a very young (insert name)," to everyone from the Warner siblings to her enemies. Slappy often pokes fun at her own age and ailing health.

Slappy's Fictional Filmography'

An incomplete filmography of Slappy's Looney Tunes cartoons can be pieced together from mentions in the prove.

"Slappy Goes Nutz" (poster seen in Slappy's business firm)
Cartoon where Slappy works equally a construction worker and Walter Wolf tries to swallow her (championship unknown)
"Cave Daughter Slappy" (1932; directed by Piz Peeners)
"Hi Ho Slappy" (1938; directed past Weg Memo)
"Wap Wap Wap Wappy Slappy" (1944; directed past Stubby Winker)

Slappy and Suzy

The following are shorts Slappy starred in with Suzy Squirrel, as shown in The Sunshine Squirrels:

"Squirrely Girls" (Directed by Spike Calimari)
"Nutty Nurses" (Directed by Skeetz Edwards)
"USO NO!" (Directed past Lance Boyle)

Episodes

Animaniacs (Original Series)

Theme song (nonspeaking)
Episode 1 - The Monkey Song (nonspeaking) & Nighty-Night Toon
Slappy Squirrel Theme Song
Episode iii - Slappy Goes Walnuts
Episode five - Taming Of The Screwy (Cameo)
Episode viii - Bumbie's Mom
Episode 13 - Little Old Slappy From Pasadena
Episode 16 - Hurray for Slappy
Episode 22 - Guardin' the Garden
Episode 25 - Hercule Yakko
Episode 27 - I Got Yer Can
Episode 35 - Baghdad Cafe
Episode 36 - Critical Condition & The Iii Muska-Warners (Cameo)
Episode 38 - Spellbound (Cameo)
Episode forty - The Slapper
Episode 41 - Buttermilk, It Makes a Trunk Bitter & Circulate Nuissance (Cameo that wasn't shown in the censored version)
Episode 45 - ...And Justice for Slappy
Episode 46 - Turkey Jerky (Silent Cameo)
Episode 49 - A Christmas Plotz (Cameo, equally the Jacob Marley character)
Episode 50 - Twas the 24-hour interval Earlier Christmas
Episode 51 - Borderland Slappy
Episode 58 - Oh Oh Ethel (pre-theme sketch) & Aroma Ya Later
Episode 59 - Woodstock Slappy
Episode 62 - Scare Happy Slappy & MacBeth (Cameo)
Episode 64 - No Face up Like Dwelling
Episode 65 - The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special
Episode 70 - Nutcracker Slappy and A Quake, a Quake!
Episode 71 - Three Tenors and You're Out
Episode 72 - Rest in Pieces
Episode 73 - Gimme a Break
Episode 74 - Method to Her Madness
Episode 78 - The Audio Of Warners (Cameo)
Episode 79 - My Mother the Squirrel
Episode 81 - Soccer Autobus Slappy
Episode 82 - The Big Wrap Party This night
Episode 83 - 1 Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock
Episode 84 - Cutie and the Animate being
Episode 85 - Jokahontas (Cameo)
Episode xc- Ralph's Wedding (Cameo)
Episode 92 - Dot the Macadamia Nut (Cameo) and Swell for Skippy
Episode 95 - Hooray for N Hollywood (Part 1) (Cameo)
Episode 97 - The Sunshine Squirrels
Episode 98 - The Christmas Tree
Episode 99 - The Scoring Session

Pinky and the Brain

Episode 65- Star Warners

Movies

Wakko'south Wish

Animaniacs Reboot

Episode v - "Good Warner Hunting" (nonspeaking)
Episode fifteen- "Please Submit" (silent cameo on comic cover)

Behind the Scenes

Slappy was created as a joke past writer and vocalisation actress Sherri Stoner. Stoner had a history of playing troubled teenagers in Telly movies during her early career. Friend and writer John McCann joked that she would be playing troubled teenagers until she was 50. This caused Stoner to invent Slappy's vocals, thus getting approval from the production coiffure and existence part of the cast.

"You Remind Me of..."

One of Slappy'southward recurring bits is comparing someone to a famous cartoon character she worked with before in her career.

to Doug the Dog: "...a very young Scooby-Doo." (Slappy Goes Walnuts)
to Luke Perry: "...a very mature Jonny Quest." (Taming of the Screwy)
to The WB Kids: "...a very young Yippee, Yappee, and Yahooey." (The Three Muska-Warners)
to Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison: "...a very young Betty Boop." (Hooray for Slappy)