In their debut, Best Friends, Mac and Tosh are contestants on the show, Besties, facing Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

Unsourced info can be questioned and may be removed without notice. The Goofy Gophers is a 1947 Looney Tunes short planned by Bob Clampett and finished by Arthur Davis. When one of the Gophers dances with the puppet, the Gopher accidentally removed the puppet, exposing the dog's two fingers. The two gophers fell in love at first sight of the puppet and take turns to dance with it. The dog then spots two gophers named Mac and Tosh, who are eating carrots. Robert McKimson was the next Warners director to utilize the characters. Following this, the dog chases the gophers, only to get stuck in the hole by the shovel on his face. The dog, discovering his foot on fire, quickly rushes to a bucket of water to put out the fire. This article or section needs additional citations for verification.

The names are a pun on the surname "Macintosh". They are characterized by an abnormally high level of politeness. Their names, Mac 'n' Tosh, were never used in the cartoons, so the quotes will be coming from either gopher. The scarecrow quickly shows up with a telegram reading "WE'RE VEGETARIANS, YOU SCREWBALL!!! All the other cartoons featuring those characters remained in the post-1948 package, in other words, under WB's ownership. In this show, Mac and Tosh run an antique store. [2] The cartoon features the gophers' repeated incursions into a vegetable garden guarded by an unnamed dog whom they relentlessly, though politely, torment. The gophers' mannerisms and speech were patterned after Frederick Burr Opper's comics characters Alphonse and Gaston, which in the early 1900s engendered a "good honest laugh". They both have British accents. Both gophers were voiced by Mel Blanc in the latter short instead of one by Blanc and the other by Freberg. Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon character, Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier, Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales, Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure, The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goofy_Gophers&oldid=987229174, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 5 November 2020, at 18:51. The gophers are small and brown with tan bellies and buck teeth. The homeowner attacks, but the gophers outsmart him at every turn: They duck his hoe and shotgun. Pages in category "Quotes" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 222 total. In this cartoon, the Goofy Gophers have gray and white fur, much like Bugs' fur colors; but beginning with their next cartoon ". Voice actor Mel Blanc plays Mac and Stan Freberg plays Tosh. However, in recent years, they have made a few cameos in various Warner Bros. projects. A watchdog is guarding a vegetable garden and falling asleep. This was long believed to be in the public domain, however. They may also be influenced by performances from the British film Great Expectations directed by David Lean and released in 1946, one year before Clampett's restyled 1947 version.

In the end, the… It was written by Bob Clampett, who also designed the characters, and whose place in animation history was already assured by his having created Tweety Bird, Beaky Buzzard, Warner's version of the Gremlins and many other classic characters and concepts. The gophers are small and brown with tan bellies and buck teeth.

Looney Tunes Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Oct 29, 2010 #1 Hey guys, The Goofy Gophers, which was the name of the cartoon that introduced the eponymous rodents, was released on January 25, 1947. He gasses them with helium, and they float away -- causing a crow to throw away his bottle. The Goofy Gophers were largely forgotten by Warner Bros. in the years since the animation studio closed in 1969. A homeowner is enjoying his lovely lawn and garden when it's invaded by a couple of gophers with Brooklyn accents. Since. "[4] Clampett later stated that the gophers' mannerisms were derived from character actors Franklin Pangborn and Edward Everett Horton.[3][5].

Gopher Goofy is a 1942 Looney Tunes short directed by Norman McCabe. The dog, hearing the fake explosion, believes that he had got rid of the Gophers, guards the vegetable garden and falls asleep. ", and begins laughing. He spots two gophers eating carrots. Thread starter The Goofy Gopher; Start date Oct 29, 2010; T. The Goofy Gopher Member. They also appear in the Looney Tunes comic currently published by DC Comics. Unnamed in the theatrical cartoons, they were given the names Mac and Tosh in the 1960s TV show The Bugs Bunny Show. When the dog lights the fuse, the Gophers cut the fuse wire, and create a fake explosion via blowing a large paper bag and bursting it. The Gophers see the tomato vine, grab a bunch of vegetables, and throw a pumpkin on the dog before striking him with a shovel. Do not use Wikipedia or any other wikis as a source. "), the dog digs the hole to look for them, only to get splattered by a tomato by one of the gophers. Some sources claim Clampett intended the Goofy Gophers to be a spoof of Disney's chipmunk characters, Chip 'n' Dale, with whom they are sometimes confused.

The Goofy Gophers were created by Warners animator Bob Clampett for the 1947 short film The Goofy Gophers. "), not realizing that the dog is standing where the grenade is.

The Gophers, now triumphant, gloat that they will have all the carrots to themselves. The Goofy Gophers (1947) - Looney Tunes Cartoon, Looney Tunes Blue Ribbon - The Goofy Gophers, Looney Tunes The Goofy Gophers (restored). This and "Two Gophers from Texas" are the only two short featuring the Goofy Gophers and the dog to be in the AAP/Turner package. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Tim Brewster's All-Time Great Quotes. [1] The names are a pun on the surname "Macintosh". Sure enough, the dog (disguised as a scarecrow) gets taken away, but gets punched out of the hole without the disguise, knocking him out cold. Both speak with high-pitched British accents like those used in upper-class stereotypes around at the time. But suddenly a familiar carrot-chomping noise is heard; Bugs Bunny (whose voice is noticeably sped-up for this cameo) is leaning against a tall pile of carrot stumps, who then says "Well, now I wouldn't say that! The dog disguises himself as a tomato vine and poses as an actual plant in the garden. While the dog is distracted, the gophers light a match on the dog's foot. The unnamed dog from the first cartoon returns as their nemesis in this cartoon, this time aiming to eat like an animal in the wild as he pursues the gophers with a gopher cookbook in hand. As the dog pulls out the celery stick, the gophers tie his tail to it in the other hole, causing him to pull himself aloop into the hole, rendering him stuck in the ground. Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard, Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc, Cartoons with characters voiced by Stan Freberg, Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn, Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown, https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/more-lost-looney-tunes-title-cues/, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084450967;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=99;num=81, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtgKdhBuS_g, https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4u2eze, https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/The_Goofy_Gophers?oldid=229398. He gasses them with helium, and they float away -- causing a … 1 Plot 2 Availability 3 Notes 4 Gallery A homeowner is enjoying his lovely lawn and garden when it's invaded by a couple of gophers with Brooklyn accents. Joined Sep 13, 2009 Messages 81 Reaction score 0 Points 6. The Goofy Gophers appeared in the New Looney Tunes season 3 episode Fool's Gold. This short is not available on any official home video release, and is only seen from bootleg DVDs or VHSes due to the short falling into the public domain. Between 1995 to 2010, this cartoon's USA Turner print was rarely ever shown on American Turner networks for unknown reasons. The dog disguises himself as a tomato vine and poses as an actual plant in the garden. The dog creates a booby trap by fusing a celery stick with a bomb. Tosh's first question was what was his best friend, Mac's favorite food and he guessed the correct answer, which was pureed butternut squash in a balsamic reduction with just a hint of clover. The dog uses a hand puppet in the shape of a cute female gopher.

The Goofy Gophers were revived in The Looney Tunes Show voiced by Rob Paulsen and Jess Harnell.

Unnamed in the theatrical cartoons, they were given the names Mac and Tosh in the 1960s TV show The Bugs Bunny Show.

The crux of each four-frame strip was the ridiculousness of the characters' overpoliteness preventing their ability to get on with the task at hand. Looney Tunes Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. The inflated gophers hit a tree and fall to earth. In the latter, they are reinvented as green-furred, six-limbed Martian gophers. Next the dog decides to get the gophers out of the hole with his bare hands. The homeowner attacks, but the gophers outsmart him at every turn: They duck his hoe and shotgun. (2019) Streaming - Boomerang app (USA 1995 Turner print), This cartoon also marks the first appearance of an. Others, however, point out that this seems unlikely given the two pairs of characters are so different in characterization. The restored copy on HBO Max uses the soundtrack from the Turner print, with the incorrect 1941-1955 Merrie Melodies ending music cue, although the original Looney Tunes end card is intact. He pitted them against Clampett and Arthur's dog once again in the 1949 film A Ham in a Role wherein the dog's efforts to become a Shakespearean actor are foiled by the rambunctious rodents. The only real similarities are the fact that the characters are rodents, are paired up, and have puns for names.[3].

The gophers then mock the dog. Like the Gophers, their adversary the unnamed dog from this cartoon is redesigned in his next appearances, albeit with with dog's character designs varying from each short. Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc, Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown, Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn, Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package, https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Gopher_Goofy?oldid=203853, This cartoon's plot was eventually planned to be reworked by. The grenade explodes directly where the dog is, charring him and knocking him out silly. They both have British accents. However their jokes are usually bad so they tell people where to complain. They are seen briefly in the 1996 movie Space Jam. A watchdog is guarding a vegetable garden and falling asleep. This was followed by I Gopher You in 1954, featuring the Gophers in their first cartoon without the dog, attempting to retrieve their vegetables from a food processing plant; Pests for Guests in 1955, which has the gophers counter-antagonize the helpless Elmer Fudd when he buys a chest of drawers that they found appropriate for nut storage; and Lumber Jerks later that year, where the Gophers visit a saw mill in an attempt to retrieve their stolen tree home.[6]. The Goophy Gophers are gopher-like robots who tell jokes and sing with The Whalers at the Luna Park Goophy Gopher Revue.