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Deputy Droopy (1955)
By admin | October 1, 2011
Droopy and the sheriff are guarding a shipment of gold and move it safely from the stagecoach to a safe; meanwhile two villains are watching and waiting their chance. The sheriff decides to take a nap and tells Droopy, “Now remember the signal: Any kind of noise, drop a pin, let out a yell, anything, and I’ll come a-shootin’.”
The robbers sneak in and attempt to rob the safe but Droopy decides to have some fun with them trying to make them produce a noise. Avery begins with the old cartoon standby of a sneaky person stubbing his toe and running outside to scream, then repeats it in every possible way, funnier each time, until his time runs out. Droopy made his first appearance in Dumb-Hounded (1943).
His meek personality and dead-pan voice were modeled on the Wallace Wimple character from the radio comedy Fibber McGee and Molly. Bill Thompson, who played Wimple, was the original voice of Droopy.