Line #28 WesternAnimation/Snagglepuss


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2	[[caption-width-right:160: "[[CharacterCatchphrase Exit, stage left!]]"]]
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4	Snagglepuss is a Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon character created in 1959 and voiced by Creator/DawsButler. He originally appeared in episodes of ''[[WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw The Quick Draw McGraw Show]]'' and became a regular in ''[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear The Yogi Bear Show]]''. Snagglepuss lives in a cavern which he tries to make more habitable for himself. No matter what he does, he [[StatusQuoIsGod always winds up back where he started or worse off than before.]] Snagglepuss is chased in some episodes by the [[TheNapoleon tiny hunter]] [[IronicName Major Minor]] (Creator/DonMessick).
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6	In addition to the cartoons, he also appeared in commercials for Cocoa Krispies, Advertising/MetLife, and Creator/CartoonNetwork.
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8	Although he is a pink panther[[note]]a mountain lion, which is also called "panther" in some parts of America[[/note]], do not confuse him with ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'', whom he predates by four years.
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10	!!Tropes, even!:
11	* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Snagglepuss wears a collar, cuffs, and string tie.
12	* AdaptationalSexuality: He is gay in the ''ComicBook/HannaBarberaBeyond'' continuity, though this is reconciled by making Lila his beard.
13	* AllGaysLoveTheater: His later persona presents him as a gay Southern Gothic playwright. Though with his hammy and theatrical personality, "Exit, stage left" (or "right") catchphrase, and AmbiguouslyGay depiction, he arguably embodies this trope in the early 1960s shorts as well. Several episodes ("Paws for Applause," "Remember Your Lions," and "Footlight Fright") show Snagglepuss on stage and enjoying himself to varying degrees.
14	* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Snagglepuss is colored orange in the WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw shorts, pink in his own shorts.
15	* BootCampEpisode: In order to escape a hunter, Snagglepuss joins the army in "Charge That Lion."
16	* BoxingKangaroo: "Fight Fright" sees Snagglepuss involved in a pugilistic battle with K.O. Kangy, a boxing kangaroo.
17	* CampStraight: His flamboyant nature is his most distinctive attribute, and almost universally interpreted as him being gay. Lila was tacked on probably as an attempt to dissuade this, though to no success.
18	* CharacterCatchphrase: Three signature ones:
19	** Before dashing off, "Exit, stage left!" or “stage right.”
20	** He typically appends the adverbial "...even" focus particle to synonyms, or sentences in general.
21	** And most famously, "Heavens to Murgatroyd!"
22	* CircuitJudge: In "Legal Eagle Lion", a criminal is waiting for a trial and his henchmen are making sure no judge will arrive to preside over it so he'll eventually have to be released. The last judge to be denied entry in town makes Snagglepuss take over his role.
23	* DarkerAndEdgier: When Creator/DCComics began making "reboot" comics for various Hanna-Barbera properties in the mid-2010s, they reinvented ol' Snaggy as a gay Southern Gothic playwright making a stand against the [[RedScare House Un-American Activities Committee]]. [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/6963972.html Seriously]].
24	* DoorstopBaby: Snagglepuss finds an unexpected bundle of infant joy in his mailbox in "Having a Bowl." Turns out it's the nephew of his hunter nemesis Major Minor.
25	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Before he got his own cartoons, he was orange with no collar or cuffs. He also appeared as the brown "Snaggletooth" in an Augie Doggie cartoon, "The Party Lion". Confusion arises because in his first appearance, ''[[WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw The Quick Draw McGraw Show]]'' episode "Lamb Chopped", he was called Snagglepuss, but referred to an unseen Snaggletooth as his brother. Snaggletooth would later show up in a Snagglepuss cartoon where he is pink like Snagglepuss. So perhaps Augie met the actual Snaggletooth.
26	* FeudingFamilies: "Feud for Thought" finds Snagglepuss in the middle of an old fashioned backwoods-style feud.
27	* HeelFaceTurn: Before he got his own series of cartoons, Snagglepuss was an antagonist.
28	* IWarnedYou: In "Lion Tracks", the Major tries to make Snagglepuss clear out of his cave so a railway can go through, while Snagglepuss constantly tells him there's a reason one can't go through apart from the cave being his home. [[NowYouTellMe It's only too late]] that the Major finds out Snagglepuss was trying to tell him [[GravityIsAHarshMistress there's no place for tracks beyond his cave]].
29	* KangarooCourt: Snagglepuss presides over one and plays nearly every role in it, in the short "Legal Eagle Lion"
30	* LeavingAudience: The episode "Footlight Fright" has a kidnapped Snagglepuss attempting to do Shakespeare in front of an audience of the Major's fellow adventurers at their club. When the audience leaves, the big cat sees his chance to escape.
31	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Snagglepuss' voice was based on Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. Driving the similarity further, the "Murgatroyd" catchphrase was spoken by Lahr in the film ''Meet the People'' (1944).
32	* NoodleIncident: Whenever the Major and Snagglepuss meet, Major is always surprised to see him, citing some random previous encounter in some random place, presumably because he thought he killed him.
33	-->'''Major''': Didn't I shoot you in the veldt?\
34	'''Snagglepuss''': I beg to differentiate, it was below the veldt! I couldn't sit down for a week.
35	* OffLikeAShot: His default stance whenever he goes "exit stage left." He used to be the page image, even.
36	* PlayingCyrano: Snagglepuss serves as vocal substitute in "Don't Know It Poet" to woo a lady for a noble. It backfires, as the lady he wanted has moved and Snagglepuss wasted all his time romancing the wrong lady.
37	* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "Fraidy Cat Lion" is the only ''Snagglepuss'' short to feature WesternAnimation/MrAndMrsJEvilScientist, who otherwise appear in ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber'' shorts. And they take up a good chunk of "Fraidy Cat Lion", just like they do in the other shorts. Ultimately, the Scientists did not receive an animated show of their own, but they did get a comic book series.
38	* ProtagonistTitle: The show is named after the title character.
39	* RingAroundTheCollar: Like most Hanna-Barbera characters from this time, Snagglepuss wears an accessory around his neck (a shirt collar and string tie in this case) to facilitate animation shortcuts.
40	* {{Swashbuckler}}: The shorts "Royal Ruckus," "Knights and Daze," and "Cloak and Stagger" see the plucky mountain lion as a knight or musketeer-type back in TheCavalierYears.
41	* ThreeShorts: Snagglepuss's segment traditionally was the second one for ''[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear The Yogi Bear Show]]''.
42	* TwinSwitch:
43	** Happens to Lila in "One Two Many," in which she thinks Snagglepuss and his brother Snaggletooth are the same person.
44	** Also happens in "Twice Shy" when Snagglepuss himself gets confused between wildlife hunter Major Minor and his twin brother, wildlife photogapher Sir Clyde.
45	%%* WhooshInFrontOfTheCamera: He's a classic example, who do this a lot and even it's part of his catchphrase:
46	-->''Exit, stage left/right!'' [[WrittenSoundEffect WHOOSH]]
47	* TheWildWest: Besides his early appearances as a villain in the ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'' cartoons, Snagglepuss finds himself an Old West sheriff in "Lions Share Sheriff."

Context WesternAnimation / Snagglepuss