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Bonkers D. Bobcat
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
Dubbed in French by: Eric Metayer
Bonkers D. Bobcat is an overly energetic and hyperactive cartoon anthropomorphic bobcat that works in the Toon Division of the Hollywood PD. Once a big name cartoon star for Wackytoons Studios, he was fired due to his show being bumped out of first place in the ratings. He was introduced to law enforcement when he unknowingly saved cartoon celebrity Donald Duck from a park mugger (mostly due to the help of officer Lucky Piquel) and was given full credit for the mugger's capture.
- Alliterative Name: Bonkers Bobcat.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Mostly in the "Lucky" era, he could actually be pretty good at solving crimes when the situation called for it.
- Break the Cutie: The poor guy has his moments where he reacts badly to how things work in the real world. One good example is in the series premiere, where he loses his job as a cartoon character and his friends go missing.
- Buffoonish Tomcat: Not a domesticated cat but Bonkers is an bobcat who is definitely an clumsy, comedy-prone, and durable and slapstick-prone feline who is very ditzy, dimwitted and seemingly fun-loving.
- Butt-Monkey: In the Miranda episodes, he's constantly subjected to slapstick injury.
- Cartoony Tail: In the Lucky episodes, it's more like that of a house cat, not an actual bobcat.
- Cartoon Creature: (See Informed Species below); but he looks like some kind of wild feline creature or an cheetah hybrid with antenna ears or knob ears rather than an cartoony bobcat, especially compared to Bubsy.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He's crazy, buffoonish and senseless inside & outside of Toon Town.
- Cute, but Cacophonic: His voice. Especially when having an Motor Mouth.
- Distressed Dude: He quite often gets captured by the bad guys usually when flanderized.
- The Ditz: He's not exactly the smartest character in the show.
- Drives Like Crazy: Lucky doesn't trust him to drive the police car for a good reason.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Disney introduced the character by playing his shorts on Raw Toonage.
- Expy: Roger Rabbit, especially since this cartoon was based on the similar structure entirely.
- Flanderization: In the Miranda episodes, he became far more of an incompetent Butt-Monkey than in the previous Lucky episodes. Although the Miranda episodes takes place after the Lucky ones, behind the scenes commentary explains that the Miranda episodes were made before the Lucky ones which explains it.
- Furry Ear Dissonance: Shaped like golf clubs.
- Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: He's the Gleeful to Lucky's Grumpy. He is an overly energetic and hyperactive cartoon bobcat who frequently tries to win Lucky's praise, but usually just ends up ruining their missions with his goofy antics, until said antics prove to save the day.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: His usual appearance, as his police uniform doesn't include pants or shoes.
- I Choose to Stay: At the end of "Gone Bonkers" two-parter, Bonkers is given a chance to go back to show business; instead, he decides to remain with the Hollywood Police.
- Informed Species:
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◊ what a normal bobcat looks like. Not much resemblance, is there? - Also in the Lucky episodes, when Bonkers made a cat noise, he sounded too much like a real house cat. Bobcats in real life don't make domestic cat noises. Some of them even seem to make really strange sounds/noises, which explains Bonkers' voice.
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- Innocent Blue Eyes: His eyes are occasionally shown to be blue in the Lucky episodes and his eyes are always blue in the Miranda (and Raw Toonage) episodes.
- Interspecies Romance: With Fawn Deer, although they're both toons. However, he did fall for a human girl in "Love Stuck".
- Keet: He's one hyper, energetic bobcat.
- Meaningful Name: His name is Bonkers and he's a bit... out of it.
- Motor Mouth: He tends to be talkative and very cheerful and Bonkers talks quite fast-paced at times.
- Mysterious Middle Initial: Probably just a pun on "the."
- Nice Guy: He's honest, humble, innocent, and positive.
- Panthera Awesome: Played With. He's a bobcat (but see Informed Species and Buffoonish Tomcat above), but he's a zany toon who's only a badass in his occasional Beware the Silly Ones moments.
- Protagonist Title: His first name is the title of the series and he's the main character.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Lucky and Miranda's Blue. Miranda is more serious and focused on the job than he is.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: What else did you expect from Jim Cummings?
- Species Surname: He's a bobcat with the surname Bobcat.
- Tender Tears: He's often prone to crying these when he gets emotional or sometimes exaggerates this. In the pilot, Chief Kanifky mentions it's a strong quality in him, since it shows how much empathy he has.
- White Gloves: Like all Toons, Bonkers wears white gloves.
Lucky Piquel
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
Dubbed in French by: Richard Darbois
Detective Lucky Shirley Piquel is Bonkers' partner from the "Lucky Episodes", a slovenly, morbidly obese, street-wise, mustachioed man. He's also balding, but wears a toupée. Lucky is a serious, Hard Boiled Detective whose by-the-book nature is at odds with Bonkers' decidedly more maniacal approach to crime solving.
- Amusing Injuries: Oddly enough, Lucky tends to suffer these. Being human and not a "toon", he's sometimes shown as a Bandage Mummy, with crutches, etc. after suffering slapstick violence.
- Bad "Bad Acting": In "The Comeback Kid", he has very poor inflection when reading his lines during Chick and Stu's movie-making con.
- Big Eater: He really enjoys eating.
- Butt-Monkey: He frequently gets humiliated or injured, most often done to him unintentionally by Bonkers.
- Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Bonkers is a constant source of irritation and embarrassment for him, but he admits in "Gone Bonkers" that he'd actually miss him and considers him fun to be around.
- Deadpan Snarker: He often snarks about Bonkers' idiocy and quirks.
- Embarrassing Middle Name: Lucky Shirley Piquel, which Bonkers thinks is "very pretty". Lucky says it was his father's name.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Lucky wants to be promoted out of the Toon Division and away from Bonkers, but his attempts are never successful.
- Friend to All Children: Surprisingly so. He rather effortlessly got a lost child in "Stand-in Dad" to stop crying and write down his address by being such a friendly authority figure.
- Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: He's the Grumpy to Bonkers' Gleeful. He is a grim and ill-tempered human who hates toons and is often annoyed by Bonkers' antics.
- Happily Married: Look below 'Throw the dog a bone'.
- Hidden Depths: In Fall Apart Land, it's revealed that Lucky dreams of creating his own theme park and that he and Fall Apart like hanging out together and looking at pictures of amusement parks from across the country.
- Ironic Name: Despite his first name being "Lucky", he's the resident Butt-Monkey.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As grumpy and hot-tempered as he can be, Lucky is a good guy who cares about Bonkers, his family, and has a strong sense of justice.
- No One Could Survive That!: Lucky Piquel, being caught in an explosion.
- No-Respect Guy: In addition to being on the receiving end of many pratfalls because of Bonkers. On the rare occasions where Chief Kanifky remembers his name and what he did that episode, he is either unhappy with Lucky for some reason (i.e. "I Oughta Be In Toons") or "rewards" him with an assignment Lucky finds undesirable.
- Not So Above It All: He still shows his prejudice against toons when solving the case of Mickey Mouse's disappearance in "I Oughta Be in Toons" and claims to be uninterested in the mouse ears hat he is given by Mickey as a show of gratitude, but after Bonkers leaves, Lucky looks around and then puts the hat on while grinning broadly.
- Odd Friendship: With Fall Apart, but only in one episode: Fall-Apart Land, where they are shown to have a mutual love for theme parks and a dream of starting their own.
- Papa Wolf: Do. NOT. Mess. With. His. Daughter. A good example is in "Stand-In Dad", where he is quick to go after the crook of the week when he tries to steal his daughter's purse.
- Put on a Bus: In "New Partner on the Block", he is removed from the show when he gets a new job with the FBI and moves away with his family.
- Stout Strength: While he's overweight, he's still able to endure a lot.
- Throw the Dog a Bone:
- Doesn't Lucky having a beautiful caring wife and a cute sweet daughter, who both love him very much, count?
- "Stay Tooned" is one of those episodes where (despite suffering a lot of grief) he comes out ahead in the end, getting praise and prestige for bringing down a major crime boss.
- In "New Partner on the Block" he finally gets the recognition he's always wanted and gets promoted to the FBI.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Lucky is overweight (said in the Christmas episode to be fatter than Santa) and balding (but wears a toupée). His wife, however, is pretty attractive.
- With My Hands Tied: When Lucky is captured and tied, he is able to write a message for help on a can and kick it out of an open window. He was also able to move around a lot when his legs were tied together.
Miranda Wright
Voiced by: Karla DeVito
Dubbed in French by: Céline Monsarrat
Miranda Wright is a police officer that works at the same police station that Lucky works at. She is Bonkers' partner from the "Miranda Episodes".
- Action Girl: A cop who uses her gun and fists to take down bad guys.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: She can fight and is an incredibly sweet person.
- Cute Bruiser: A tough, beautiful cop.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Miranda makes an extended non-speaking cameo as the Chief's uniformed secretary in "Hear No Bonkers, See No Bonkers", which, though animated later, is the fourth episode chronologically.
- Fair Cop: A very good looking police officer.
- Foil: To Lucky. Rather than being Bonkers' polar opposite (like Lucky), she limits the flamboyant nature of Bonkers and other Toons without being annoyed by it.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's an Action Girl, but is shown to be more tolerant and far less abrasive than Lucky with Bonkers.
- Ms. Fanservice: Miranda is not only cute, but also very beautiful and hot.
- Nice Girl: Miranda is a kind and moral person.
- Punny Name: Miranda Wright.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Shown in "Quibbling Rivalry", where Miranda actually believes in Bonkers' abilities to be a good cop, unlike her sister Shirley who thinks he's a menace and should retire. Fortunately, Shirley eventually comes around and acknowledges Bonkers' heroics.
- Straight Man: In contrast to Piquel and Grating as participants/victims-in-comedy to Bonkers and other toons, Miranda is mostly the series' straight woman. Bonkers even lampshades the few times she does things intended to be funny.
Supporting Cast
Fall-Apart Rabbit
Voiced by: Frank Welker
Dubbed in French by: Edgar Givry
Fall Apart Rabbit is Bonkers' clumsy best friend and stunt-double back during Bonkers' Hollywood days, appearing only in the "Lucky Episodes".
- Amusing Injuries: Even without losing body parts, he often sustains ludicrous injuries for comic effect.
- Butt-Monkey: He never seems to go through an episode in one piece.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Considerably more than Bonkers and other Toons.
- Meaningful Name: True to his name, he often falls apart.
- Odd Friendship: With Lucky, but only in one episode: "Fall-Apart Land".
- Pulling Themselves Together: True to his name, he often ends up in pieces and has to put himself back together.
- Put on a Bus: Takes off with Lucky and his family in "New Partner on the Block".
- Species Surname: He's a rabbit with the last name Rabbit.
Fawn Deer
Voiced by: Nancy Cartwright
Dubbed in French by: Barbara Tissier
Fawn Deer is Bonkers's main love interest and co-stared with him when he was still an actor.
- The Cutie: She's a very good-looking and likable person.
- Demoted to Extra: After Raw Toonage, poor Fawn didn't get to appear often in either the 'Lucky' or 'Miranda' episodes. She only appeared in three 'Miranda' episodes in voiceless cameos. She only had speaking lines in two Lucky episodes. The rest were voiceless cameos as well. It's possible they didn't use her much since her voice actress was expecting at the time.
- Fur Bikini: She is shown wearing a bikini of animal pelts in the Raw Toonage short "Quest for Firewood".
- Head-Turning Beauty: Bonkers makes it quite clear several times that he is attracted to her.
- Humanoid Female Animal: Aside from her tail, ears, and other deer-like features, she looks like a human woman.
- Interspecies Romance: She's a deer who is loved by Bonkers, a bobcat. Fawn shows that the feeling is mutual, even outside the Raw Toonage shorts.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has a very shapely body and often wears a pink dress that leaves her legs bare and is rather form-fitting.
- Nice Girl: Fawn is very sweet and passionate as well as friendly and likable. She cares a lot about those close to her, especially Bonkers.
- Pink Means Feminine: Her bow and dress. Some of her outfits she wore were pink too, though in one 'Lucky' episode, she wore a blue dress.
- Punny Name: Her first name is a pun on "fawn", which is a term referring to a young deer.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Fawn has romantic feelings for the kind and sweet Bonkers.
- The Smurfette Principle: She was the only main female character in the "Raw Toonage" shorts.
- Species Surname: She is a deer with Deer as her surname.
Grumbles Grizzly
Voiced by: Rodger Bumpass
A bear who would antagonize Bonkers in some of the Raw Toonage shorts. In the actual show, he's more of a grumpy neighbor.
- Alliterative Name: Both his first name and his last name begin with G.
- Bears Are Bad News: He's a bear and he usually isn't on good terms with Bonkers.
- Large Ham: He frequently talks loudly and dramatically.
- Species Surname: He's a bear with the last name Grizzly.
Jitters A. Dog
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
Bonkers' sidekick in the Raw Toonage shorts.
- Beleaguered Assistant: He's often shown to be more level-headed, rational, and intelligent than Bonkers.
- Butt-Monkey: Bonkers often inadvertently causes him to get injured or suffer misfortunes, and it's no wonder why his catchphrase is "I hate my life".
- Catchphrase: "I hate my life."
- Depending on the Writer: It varies whether he sees Bonkers as a friend or would rather have nothing to do with him.
- Happily Married: The Raw Toonage short "Get Me to the Church on Time" has him and Tanya Trunk get married, much to their jubilation. While it may have just been a cartoon Bonkers and friends made and not an event that actually happened, Jitters and Tanya are still shown as a loving couple occasionally in the Miranda episodes.
- Interspecies Romance: He is sometimes shown as having a relationship with Tanya Trunk, an elephant.
- Species Surname: He's a dog with Dog as his last name.
Al Vermin
Voiced by: Robert Ridgely
Dubbed in French by: Edgar Givry
A recurring villain in the Miranda episodes who happens to be a toon roach.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: He's a toon roach.
- Fat Bastard: He's very plump.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Being a roach, he has four arms.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: One of his henchman talks like Woody Allen.
Flaps the Elephant
Voiced by: Joe Alaskey
An elephant who wants to fly. He's a recurring villain in the Miranda episodes.
- Cruel Elephant: He's an evil elephant.
- Fat Bastard: He's pretty huge and not a nice guy.
Marilyn Piquel
Voiced by: Sherry Lynn
Dubbed in French by: Aurelia Bruno
Marilyn Piquel is Lucky's child genius daughter. She is an aspiring artist as well as a script/story writer and has deep affection for Toons such as Bonkers, with her favorite being TV star Skunky Skunk.
- Adorably Precocious Child: She's more than capable of taking care of herself and aids her father in a number of his cases, often being the words of wisdom or source of knowledge to Lucky.
- Bespectacled Cutie: Wears big, round glasses and is a major cutie.
- Brainy Brunette: She's is a child genius. Her hair's more of a sandy brown, but close enough.
- Cheerful Child: She's usually pretty happy.
- Children Are Innocent: She's just as naive as any other child her age.
- Innocent Prodigy: She may be intelligent, but she's still very much a child.
- Nice Girl: Marilyn is a genuinely sweet and kind person.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Marilyn most of the time wears sports pants and sneakers, but in "Stand-In Dad", she looked cute in her blue dress and darker blue flats.
- The Smart Guy
- Strong Family Resemblance: Although looking like her mother Dyl, aside from her big round glasses and freckled face; she also shares her father's hair color.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Marilyn mostly wears big sneakers and sports pants and always has messy short hair, but in "Stand-In Dad", she's thrilled to get a new dress from her mother and to get dolled up for her Daddy Daughter day. Later on, when she goes to Grandpa Arnie's ant show, she brings her purse with her.
- The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: More like "cute". Marilyn is a brainy, tomboyish, ten year old kid, but it's obvious she still gets her looks from her mother.
- Youthful Freckles: To go with her youthful energy and innocence.
Dyl Piquel
Voiced by: April Winchell
Dubbed in French by: Danielle Hazan
Dilandra "Dyl" Piquel is Lucky's understanding wife who supports her husband and at times encourages their daughter Marilyn.
- A Day in the Limelight: She has one with Lucky in "Tune Pig" about their anniversary.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a kind, caring mother, wife and friend.
- In-Series Nickname: Her full name is actually "Dilandra".
- Mama Bear: In "Imagine That", when Lucky finally confess to Dyl that he (and Bonkers) are destroying their house to get to the Toon world and find their daughter, a horrified Dyl quickly brings a huge mallet towards Lucky — and smashes the wall, finding the Toon world. It looks more like she's gonna hit Lucky, but considering she doesn't normally get violent with him, it's clear she's just determined to find the Toon world and get their daughter back.
- Pretty in Mink: She has a fur wrap she wears to see her favorite singer in "Tune Pig".
- Punny Name: Since people always mistake their surname for "pickle".
- True Blue Femininity: Her main outfit is blue.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Her husband, Lucky, is overweight (said in the Christmas episode to be fatter than Santa) and balding (but wears a toupée). Dyl, however, is pretty attractive.
Chief Leonard Kanifky
Voiced by: Earl Boen
Dubbed in French by: Henri Guybet
Bonkers' and Lucky's boss. He's not exactly a bright person, but he does acknowledge the two cops' heroics.
- Benevolent Boss: Played with. He tends to be very amiable toward Bonkers and Lucky, but he will get mad if their investigations go too slowly and they don't do an efficient job in capturing the episode's criminal.
- Drives Like Crazy: He takes the wheel in "The Good, the Bad & the Kanifky" during a car chase and actively frightens both Lucky and Bonkers. He even sports a Slasher Smile for a moment.
- Dumbass Has a Point:
- Kooky and oblivious he may be, even he was outraged by how the normally competent Lucky was easily deceived by the Mickey Mouse impostor in "I Oughta Be in Toons".
- "Weather or Not": While he congratulates the boys for solving the case to the point of saying it'd warrant a promotion, he also reminds Lucky that he explicitly forbid him from pursuing the case and is well-within his rights to suspend him for it. (He lets Lucky off the hook, which he figures is a fair trade-off between both extremes.)
- Happily Married: He is shown in some episodes to have a wife, Francine, that he loves dearly.
- Out of Focus: In the Miranda episodes. He still appears in some episodes, but his role is no longer as important to the show.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: He's not really what one would consider a genius. In "Hear No Bonkers, See No Bonkers", he even rehires Lucky after firing him solely because he forgot who Lucky was after firing him and assuming that Lucky was a different person.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He is revealed to have grandchildren in "Get Wacky", who are shown to look just like him.
Sergeant Francis Grating
Voiced by: Ron Perlman
Dubbed in French by: Patrick Guillemin
Bonkers and Miranda's boss. He doesn't like Bonkers and is often very short-tempered.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": It's established in "Toon for a Day" that he hates being called by his first name.
- Jerkass: Not only is he not very nice to Bonkers, but it's implied in "Do Toons Dream of Animated Sheep?" that he regularly dreams of Bonkers being killed. He also takes great joy in Shirley Wright's unflattering news reports on Bonkers in "Quibbling Rivalry" because they give him an excuse to fire him.
- Meaningful Name: His last name is Grating and he is frequently annoyed by Bonkers.
- Pet the Dog: After he finally hears Bonkers' poem about him in "The 29th Page", he actually appreciates it.
- Replacement Goldfish: The end of "New Partners on the Block" suggests that Bonkers sees Grating and his abrasive personality as a replacement for Lucky, who has gone into the FBI.
Ludwig Von Drake
Voiced by: Corey Burton
Dubbed in French by: Roger Carel
The occasional host of Walt Disney Presents and later Disney Sing-Along Songs. Unlike other Disney cameos, he makes it all the way to minor character status here.
- Herr Doktor: The doctor the main characters go to whenever Bonkers or someone else is sick or suffering some kind of malady.
The Collector
Voiced by: Michael Bell
The antagonist of the show's two-part pilot "Going Bonkers". He has Toons kidnapped and put into suspended animation.
- Expy: Of Judge Doom, with a splash of Freddy Kruger, having pencils on one hand that look like Freddy's bladed glove.
- Hair-Raising Hare: A sinister rabbit who clearly has ill intentions for the helpless Toons he's imprisoned. Except he turns out to be a nerdy human who thinks he's a toon.
- Knight of Cerebus: One of the darker villains Bonkers has encountered.
- Loony Fan: Of Toons in general, based on his plans for them.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has sinister red goggles.
