Shnookums
Oh Yeah? Well I think you're too stupid to know otherwise!
The first of the two title characters, who in typical cartoon fashion, chase and antagonize each other, occasionally working together in certain circumstances. Shnookums is a slightly smarter orange cat.
- Buffoonish Tom Cat: An Insufferable Imbecile who is ignorant about his own ignorance and is prone to slapstick from time to time and seems to resemble Sylvester's kind of stupidity.
- Butt-Monkey: His suffering that shows when innocent are rare aside from him being a mean cat or who was Hoist by His Own Petard when dishonest.
- Cats Are Mean: Of the Insufferable Imbecile category with being a total Jerkass that is an obvious Expy of Ren who is slightly smarter than Meat, sassy, and more condescending than Meat, but still lacking in sincere manners most of the time and can be quite mean-spirited to Meat at times.
- Cats Are Lazy: Does this when watching cartoons or is doing nothing with Meat.
- The Chew Toy: While him and Meat are this when chasing each other, Shnookums has this whether he deserved it or is around Meat, this also makes Shnookums seem buffoonish and clownish as well.
- Determinator: No matter how unwise or skeptical an idea of his can be, he'll do whatever works.
- The Fool: An Know-Nothing Know-It-All version of the Karma Houdini category who can be too lucky when he deserved his comeuppance for something obnoxious he does to Meat or anything else.
- Genius Ditz: While an imbecilic and self-centered jerk, he can be the rational one with Meat, or as it would seem.
- Insufferable Imbecile: His Cats Are Mean quality and mixing his acts of stupidity or his irrationality with solving problems while being not very bright at times and lacking a ton of common sense when in situations/etc makes him out to be this.
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: He IS this with Meat, no matter if he is slightly rational or not.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In some occasions when realizing his mistakes and can soften up at times.
- Lean and Mean: Him being mostly skinny shows this in him and is on the downplayed section of this trope because of his Jerk with a Heart of Gold quality.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: While Shnookums is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, he is usually quite selfish and an unlikable protagonist who is The Chew Toy for a reason.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: The jerk in the chasing and antagonizing with each other, but can be the one coming up with ideas with helping each other's problems.
Meat
The second of the two title characters, who chases and loves beating up Shnookums mostly. He's a large, blue, musclebound dog who is very dumb.
- Beware of Vicious Dog: Because of his typical doglike nature, he'll bark at anything, and Shnookums tricks him with that fact in an episode called "I.Q You Too!".
- Butt-Monkey: There were moments where nothing goes right for him (heck not getting the better of Shnookums either) aside from being Too Dumb to Live and The Chew Toy next to Shnookums.
- Beware the Silly Ones: While Meat's an incredibly stupid dog, he still can be The Brute that'll beat up Shnookums when he deserves it or not.
- Canines Primary, Felines Secondary: Inverted when his owners after his first appearance; the wife in particular openly reveals and mildly notes on loving to have Shnookums around more than Meat. Plus the show is rather focused on a Cat/Dog Dichotomy in general.
- In "Night Of The Living Shnookums,":
Woman: I wonder where Shnookums is, that cat! He's so happy and mischievous! So full of life! What would we do without him huh Meat?Man: Well it's almost time to leave honey!, did you feed the animalous?Woman: Yes but Shnookums isn't around.Man: Don't worry about Shnookums darling, he's must've gone somewhere, that crazy scamp about! - Dogs Are Dumb: Obviously a Dumb Muscle Expy of Stimpy, but also likes doing nothing and watching cartoons (or play) with Shnookums as well, and can be a massive Cloudcuckoolander in a doglike way on occasion. But his dumbness does irritate many alike (including Shnookums).
- Dumb Muscle: Tends to show this with having a short temper and is sometimes unreasonably brutish with Shnookums. He has shown to be Too Dumb to Live in the Chew Toy status he shares with Shnookums as well.
- Jerkass Ball: Due to him being a quick-tempered Dumb Muscle, this is a given.
- Kindhearted Simpleton: In a more downplayed and vague manner, cause he is usually shown to be nice, loyal, and caring to Shnookums at times.
- Nobody's That Dumb: While Meat is incredibly dumb, the part from the episode "Night of The Living Shnookums" showed how he does realize how Shnookums was scaring Meat with making him think that he was dead and came back as a zombie, this was when he saw Shnookums taking off his mask when climbing up the chandelier as his next prank through a keyhole and Meat deliberately pretends to be oblivious about him being gone to then give Shnookums his comeuppance to his cruel prank. But the ending showed how unlucky Meat was with trying to teach Shnookums a lesson with getting carried away with his pranks and got shoved into a lake off of a bridge by Shnookums, he then returns to haunt Shnookums because of this.
- In the "I.Q. You Too!" episode, when Shnookums pressures Meat with his impulse on protecting the house, he lambastes how Meat is one of those worthless, dumb dogs that are always dumber than cats (when Shnookums isn't any better), Meat gets very sad because of this and then finds a way to make himself smarter, this worked until he was still unlucky with going against Shnookums fighting back.
- Simpleton Voice: Had a voice that is similar to Ralph the Guard from Animaniacs in the "Kung-Fu-Kitty" episode but later on had a deeper and gruffer voice to empathize his dimwitted persona.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: The follower or The Lancer in the chasing and antagonizing with each other, who follows along with Shnookums's ideas for anything.
Pith Possum
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The main character of the second segment. A mutated Possum superhero; who coincidentally, really sucks at his job, but manages to get by through determination, and help from his sidekick. his civilian name is Peter Possum.
- Alliterative Name: Both his hero and civilian name.
- Butt-Monkey: To the point that it nearly subverts his competency as a hero, with the implication as to be the reason why he's treated as a joke in the hero community. To put into perspective, one episode has him beaten up by three groups of nameless robbers.
- Determinator: Usually, as he goes into the fray despite his real lacking of skills.
- Expy: A double expy, He's pretty much a less skilled and less competent Darkwing Duck, who is pretty much an expy of Batman.
- Interspecies Romance: With Doris Deer, who suffers a case of Loves My Alter Ego.
- Idiot Hero: Like Darkwing Duck, he can be too cocky to know any better.
- No-Respect Guy: He's HATED by the superhero convention because he's a comparative joke to everyone else. They deliberately tossed his name tag in the garbage for crying out loud.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Subverted, his civilian outfit is actually fairly different, as it extends to his confidence, posture and voice, but still, while there is a distinct possibility there are other possums, no other character in the show who looks like him.
Obadiah:
A raccoon who is Pith's sidekick, very competent, to the point that one could argue, that he's the actual hero of the city.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: one episode points out that Pith would be even more useless, because Obadiah knows how all the machines work and which buttons to press.
Doris Deer
A human reporter and boss of Peter Possum at the local newspaper who tosses herself into danger for her stories. She's very rude to Peter, which is at odds with her adoration with Pith Possum.
- Alliterative Name
- The Ditz: she knocked Pith into a grinder at one point, an often gets into Did Not Think This Through when going after stories. She also thinks black eyes are a sympotom of an illness.
- Expy: of Lois Lane
- Hypocrite: views Peter as an embarrassing idiot Abhorrent Admirer who is beneath her, but in reality, is less capable than him, is Pith Possum's Abhorrent Admirer who is beneath him, and is pretty stupid/careless in her own right.
- Loves My Alter Ego: Though considering how much Peter exudes confidence as Pith in comparison to the nervous wreck Peter, its a bit more understandable.
- Pet the Dog: At one point Where the main character is repeatedly beaten and is clearly driven to exhaustion by switching between identities, she asks is he's alright with fair amount of concern.
- Species Surname: Subverted; despite having Deer as her last name, Doris is human.
- Token Human
Dr. Paul Bunion
The most recurring villain in the series, a Frenchman lumberjack who builds tree robots to send out on destructive errands.
- Bamboo Technology: his robots are made out of trees and logs.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He's a friggin French lumberjack villain who builds Bamboo Technology robots and loves to shake his finger at people in dramatic angles, but his plans involved ruining the homes of the city's civilians, and holding a whole convention of superheroes hostage with a ... thing(?).
- Joker Immunity: Works in his favor, awful criminals being released on technicalities is a sad and occasional Truth in Television.
- Milking the Giant Cow: especially when he monologs, expect him to point and wave/shake his hands a lot.
Tex Tinstar
The hero of the third segment, a lawman who protected the town of Bonehead, and defeated the evil Wrongo and his gang. That is until Wrongo returned, and cost Tinstar his job as the sheriff, driving the hero to pursue the Wrong Riders and reclaim his good name.
- Archnemesis: Wrongo.
- Butt-Monkey: He's fairly unfortunate, but he keeps a stiff upper lip with only occasional groaning (like when his horse was stolen, and he had to ride a tiny pony with an attraction to him. Its actually the reason the townspeople in episode 2 fire him. he actually tries to explain, but they won't let him explain anything and punish him humiliatingly.
- Eyes Always Shut: Being as he's a parody of Clint Eastwood, they give the impression that he's giving a perpetual Clint Squint.
- The Hero
- Failure Hero: Sometimes its his fault, sometimes its not.
- Informed Ability: despite his build-up as the hero and a gunslinger, he doesn't particularly succeed in actually being one from what we've seen. he's easily tricked, and mostly is just escaping from Wrongo's attempts at killing him and his friends.
- Nice Guy: Even when he gets an Abhorrent Admirer mini-horse, he takes good care of it, adorably feeding it from a dropper and allowing it to sleep in his belly after is playfully nips him under his covers.
- The Stoic: Nothing ever shakes his resolve, and he never raises his voice.
Chief
Tex's smelly sidekick (possibly prospector) who runs around in his footy pajamas. He smells awful, and follows Tex to reclaim Bonehead's safe.
- The Pig-Pen: His defining characteristic is how awful he smells. His stench is so bad, he has flies buzzing around him 24/7.
Mr. Percy Lacedaisy
A bank examiner who gets caught up in the story as a living plot device when the Wrong Riders kidnap him for the safe's combination. Suffers the most out of the episodes.
- Butt-Monkey: Up there with Squidward and Whisper, he's taken the blow of an explosion near point-blank, being used as a bat, being latched to a cactus, being dragged to-and-fro be the heroes and villains alike, punched through a stagecoach, and stuffed into an anthill, among other things.
- Dirty Coward: Offers Wrongo the girl riding with him so he won't harm him.
- Living Macguffin: The only reason he's important is that he knows the safe code, otherwise he's pretty much, just there.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Manages to get some time to relax, after some of his abuse, where he reads a comic book.
Floyd the Rattlesnake
A pink and blue rattlesnake with a jewish accent who tells groan-worthy jokes, it a tool used by Tex occasionally, and travels around with him.
- Ambiguously Jewish: Complete with Oh God, with the Verbing!
- Beware the Silly Ones: The show makes it a point to remind the audience, that no matter how goofy he is, he is still a poisonous animal, so he actually does have the capacity to harm somebody if he felt like it.
- Butt-Monkey: His first appearance has him being stepped on.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: His defining trait is that he's severely unfunny, to the point that the cartoon has phoned in laughter when he speaks, just to emphasize.
Wrongo
A threatening outlaw and archenemy of Tex, he was defeated by the lawman a while ago but eventually came back for revenge, ruining his enemies' good name and stealing The town of Bonehead's safe. much of the saga is spent with the heroes chasing after him and his "Wrong Riders" while they make plans to crack the safe open.
- A Father to His Men: A Literal version with Clem, who he reads bedtime stories to when they're about to got to sleep. aside from that, he actually treats his men well enough.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He delights in using the slapstick and bizarreness of his universe against his enemies, imagine typical slapstick hero abilities applied to a bad guy.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He knows he's the villain of the show, and he revels in it.
- Complexity Addiction: His first attempt to kill Tex is a complicated Rube Goldberg Device that somehow ends with whats left of Tinstar being mailed overseas to Tunisia. It succeed, But Tex and his partner survive anyway. This of course baffles Wrongo, and he spends the rest of the series trying to kill him with comparatively more simple means.
- Dastardly Whiplash: Disney's answer to the trope, despite him lacking the traditional look and mixing it with a bit of The Dreaded to make him a more serious threat.
- Hellish Horse: His ride, though, it seems less like a horse and more like a literal demon with a horse-like shape.
- Mundane Made Awesome: He somehow makes reading a bedtime story threatening.
- Obviously Evil: Red eyes, a hunched look, crooked yellow teeth, and a deep threatening voice.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Compared to Shnookum And Meat's other villains, he's far more of a menacing figure, with far more victories. notice how almost all of his fights and traps have ended with the main character beaten, and/or nearly killed (and escaping through cartoon logic and dumb luck).
Ian
Wrongo's right hand man, a grubby, short guy in a sombrero who speaks like a gentleman.
- The Dragon: To Wrongo
- Hypercompetent Sidekick
- Shout-Out: To 60's Batman of all things. One episode had a cowboy villain named Shame, who eventually got a man dressed as a Mexican desperado with a British accent as a flunky, similar to Ian's portrayal.
Clem
Wrongo's muscle. a giant dumb mute, that really all there is to Clem.
