Scooby Doo was the title star of a long-running Saturday-morning cartoon of the 1970s and 1980s. A comically nervous Great Dane, Scooby spent each episode hunting ghosts with four human teenagers, including the always-hungry hippie boy Shaggy, the brainy Velma, the buff Fred and the beautiful Daphne. The group drove around in a van called the Mystery Machine. In the 1990s Scooby Doo returned as a nostalgic pop icon for Generation X. A Scooby-Doo feature film was released in 2002, with a computer-generated Scooby cavorting with a live-action cast including Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Freddie Prinze Jr as Fred and Matthew Lillard as Shaggy. The film was a hit, and a sequel followed in 2004.
Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly ordinary dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip’s most dynamic character and arguably one of the most recognisable comic characters in the world. Snoopy is the name of Charlie Brown’s pet in the long-running comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Schulz was originally going to call him “Sniffy” until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. Snoopy was a silent character for the first two years of his existence, but he started verbalising his thoughts to readers for the first time via a thought balloon.
The contrast between Snoopy’s existence in a dream world and Charlie Brown’s in the real world is central to the humour and philosophy of Peanuts.
Goofy is a fictional character from the Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse universe. He was one of Mickey Mouse’s best friends. In cartoon shorts created during the 1950s, his name was given as both “George Geef” and “G.G. Geef”, implying that “Goofy” was a nickname. The early version of Goofy had other differences with the later and more developed ones besides the name. He was an old man with a white beard, a puffy tail and no trousers, shorts or undergarments. Walt Disney often described the type of physical humour used in the Walt Disney Studio’s cartoons as being “goofy” and with Orphan’s Benefit (1934), that name officially stuck to this affable character. From 1933 onward, Goofy also appeared in many Mickey Mouse books as a member of “the gang” and over the years has been a consistent character in hardcover books in the United States, England, France, and Italy, to name a few.
Footloose and collar-free, Tramp lives every day as if it were his last. Tramp is always too busy playing with danger to be scared of it. During a period of disagreement among the animators as to what Tramp should look like, one night storyman Ed Penner saw a stray dog disappearing into the studio bushes. Although he thought he’d found the perfect model, no one could find the dog for days until he was seen at the city pound, where, just as in the story, The Lady and the Tramp, he was bailed out only hours away from being put to sleep. The animators triumphantly returned to the studio only to discover that he was a she. But nobody cared – she was Tramp and they loved her. After the film, she lived out the rest of her days playing on the backstage Pony Farm at Disneyland®.
Lady is the coddled cocker spaniel who, despite her best efforts, falls in love with a dog from the wrong side of the tracks.
Raised in the lap of luxury, Lady knows little of the hostile world a dog can face outside. But when her owners are on vacation, she’s muzzled by their Aunt Sarah and runs away, only to be cornered by a pack of wild street dogs. Out of nowhere, Tramp leaps to her defense, scattering them. From that moment Tramp falls in love with this beautiful Lady.
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