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14 years ago
Okay, folks. A memory just popped into my head and I can't identify it. It was a cartoon, from the Looney Tunes era, with a rather fat mouse who wore a red jacket and a black top hat who traveled around the world with a smaller mouse. I think his vehicle of choice was a hot air balloon, but it could have been a magic carpet.
His most distinctive characteristic was that he spoke in a voice that I think is supposed to be a send up of W.C. Fields. He would say things like "Go away kid, you bother me" and speak in a nasally tone that ended sentences with "my boy." Course, that's a pretty common parody, so I hope that the fact that he's a jetsetting mouse helps identify him.
Now, I have no idea if this was Looney Tunes (if so, it's a character who must have been extremely short lived), Hanna-Barbera, or possibly someone else.
Much to my surprise, I've been unable to find anything about this.
His most distinctive characteristic was that he spoke in a voice that I think is supposed to be a send up of W.C. Fields. He would say things like "Go away kid, you bother me" and speak in a nasally tone that ended sentences with "my boy." Course, that's a pretty common parody, so I hope that the fact that he's a jetsetting mouse helps identify him.
Now, I have no idea if this was Looney Tunes (if so, it's a character who must have been extremely short lived), Hanna-Barbera, or possibly someone else.
Much to my surprise, I've been unable to find anything about this.
Merlin the Magic Mouse.
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"Merlin the Magic Mouse was a nightclub magician (he usually preferred to be called a prestidigator, though he could never pronounce this correctly) who traveled around for work. Much of the humour of the character derived from the fact that, while he was often regarded as a cheap stage magician, he knew some very real and powerful magic tricks. His magic words were typically 'Atascadero Escondido!' Merlin also has a sidekick, appropriately named Second Banana, which is a slang term for a magician's assistant.
"Daws Butler provided the voice of Merlin and Second Banana in the first short, Merlin the Magic Mouse; Larry Storch performed the voices for the other four films. Merlin is loosely based on W.C. Fields."
Ahh how old cartoons are burned into my mind. And even more so thanks to Cartoon Network playing Looney Tunes carttons lately.