History WesternAnimation / PunkinPussAndMushmouse

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Both main characters qualify, although Mushmouse's Heart of Gold is shown more apparently than Punkin's. Mushmouse helps other people in need (and often involves them in his feud). Punkin' Puss, for all his talk of stomping and toying Mushmouse, can get emotional in one episode when he's tricked by Mushmouse into thinking he killed him, and can be nice to him on rare occasions.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Punkin' Puss may be [[CatsAreMean the mean one towards Mushmouse]] but he is quite an [[PluckyComicRelief very buffoonish]] [[BuffoonishTomcat cat]] when Mushmouse finds ways to defeat Punkin' Puss.

* BuffoonishTomcat: [[TheDitz Punkin' Puss isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier,]] and his often single-minded obsession with feuding and overall cantankerous behavior usually gets him into all sorts of trouble, slapstick mayhem and is [[PluckyComicRelief quite an buffoon.]] Also Tennessee Tabby can also qualify as this when rivaling Punkin' in the ''New Neighbor, New Feud'' episode for example.
* TheBully: While Punkin' Puss thinks he's always tougher than Mushmouse, [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter the 'Nowhere Bear' or Mushmouse's cousin from the "Muscle Tussle" episode are examples of this to Punkin'.]]

* TheBully: While Punkin' Puss thinks he's always tougher than Mushmouse, [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter The 'Nowhere Bear' is this to Punkin'.]]

* TheBrute: While Punkin' Puss thinks he's always tougher than Mushmouse, [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter The 'Nowhere Bear' is this to Punkin'.]]

* AlliterativeName: '''P'''unkin' '''P'''uss.

* BuffoonishTomcat: [[TheDitz Punkin' Puss isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier,]] and his often single-minded obsession with feuding and overall cantankerous behavior usually gets him into all sorts of trouble and is [[PluckyComicRelief quite an buffoon.]]

* BuffoonishTomCat: Punkin' isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier, and his often single-minded obsession with feuding and overall cantankerous behavior get him into all sorts of trouble.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Both main characters qualify, although Mushmouse's Heart of Gold shows more than Punkin's. Mushmouse helps other people in need (and often involves them in his feud). Punkin' Puss, for all his talk of stomping Mushmouse, gets emotional in one episode when he's tricked by Mushmouse into thinking he killed him, and can be nice to him on rare occasions.

** After failing to defeat Punkin' with judo in "Jump Bumps," Mushmouse buys a boxing kangaroo named Hunka Hunka to even things up with his adversary. The cat thinks Hunka Hunka is Mushmouse bulked up and tries to battle him, failing repeatedly.

Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse was yet another FunnyAnimal cartoon made by Creator/HannaBarbera. It was also another to feature the ongoing battle between a cat and a mouse. But this time it had some country flavor.

* CatsAreMean: Punkin' Puss. For the most part he's the instigator of the feud, and in one cartoon he has times set for feuding -- although occasionally [[HiddenHeartOfGold he has his good points]].

* HotBlooded: Punkin' Puss is the "ornery" one of the pair. He's seen getting into conflicts with nearly everyone on the show and is quickly riled up by Mushmouse.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Both our leads, although Mushmouse's Heart of Gold shows more than Punkin's; Mushmouse helps other people in need (and often involves them in his feud). Punkin' Puss, for all his talk of stomping Mushmouse, gets emotional in one episode when he's tricked by Mushmouse into thinking he killed him, and can be nice to him on rare occasions.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Punkin's bad behavior often comes back to bite him in the behind, but Mushmouse isn't immune to getting a comeuppance, especially if he was the outright antagonist.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: In one episode Mushmouse tries to move on to a more established city cat, but ends up wanting to do his feuding with Ole Punkin' Puss again instead.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The setting is the hillbilly hills, so it's not surprising the two leads are barefoot.

* IKnowKarate: Mushmouse once practiced judo with a dummy and then tried to fight Punkin Puss and warned him about knowing judo. However, as Punkin Puss explained after defeating Mushmouse, he wasn't a dummy.

* RingerPloy: In "Callin' All Kin," Mushmouse summons his identical cousins to confound a villainous Punkin' Puss. Punkin' Puss retaliates by calling in ''his'' identical cousins.
* TalkingAnimal: Our cast.

* UnexpectedInheritance: Mushmouse inherited one million pounds from a British uncle. Punkin Puss spent most of the episode trying to be on his good graces because of the inheritance until he and Mushmouse learned it consisted not of pounds, as the British currency, but one million pounds of cheese.

* BloodKnight: Punkin' Puss. He ''loves'' feuding with Mushmouse and literally can't imagine anything more important than their feud.

* CatsAreMean: Punkin' Puss. For the most part he's the instigator of the feud, and in one cartoon he has times set for feuding, although occasionally [[HiddenHeartOfGold he has his good points]].

* FunnyAnimal: While Punkin' and Mushmouse share a typical species-based dislike for each other and the latter lives in a mousehole, they otherwise behave like humans. They live in a house, wear clothes (Punkin' is in fact fully dressed though lacking shoes), walk bipedally, use human effects, and can talk to humans.

* IKnowKarate: Mushmouse once practiced Judo with a dummy and then tried to fight Punkin Puss and warned him about knowing judo. However, as Punkin Puss explained after defeating Mushmouse, he wasn't a dummy.

* BuffoonishTomCat: Punkin' .

* DoesNotLikeShoes: It's the Hillbilly hills so yeah.
* FriendlyEnemy: Unlike ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/PixieDixieAndMrJinks'', this rarely happened in series. Often when a truce is called, it's because both Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse are in danger or forced to a draw.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Both our leads, although Mushmouse's Heart of Gold shows more than Punkin's; Mushmouse helps other people in need (and often involves them in his feud), while Punkin' Puss, for all his talk of stomping Mushmouse, gets emotional in one episode when he's tricked by Mushmouse into thinking he killed him, and can be nice to him on rare occasions.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Punkin' Puss tends to get a lot of this, but Mushmouse isn't immune, especially if he was the outright antagonist.
* NameAndName: The title.
* NiceMice: Mushmouse sometimes, but other times he can be just as antagonistic as Punkin' Puss.
* RingerPloy: Mushmouse does the same thing with all his identical cousins to confound villain Punkin' Puss. Punkin' Puss retaliates by calling in ''his'' identical cousins.

* ArtEvolution: There was some shorts that actually had better animation, take "Army-Nervy Game" for an example.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Seriously, you didn't expect this trope with a hillbilly cat and mouse?
* BloodKnight: Punkin' Puss. He '''loves''' feuding with Mushmouse and literally can't imagine anything more important than their feud.
* BuffoonishTomCat: Punkin' Puss.

* ComicBookAdaptation: As shown in the page pic, it got one from Creator/GoldKeyComics. Despite the series title, the book was called ''Mushmouse and Punkin Puss''.
* CommitmentIssues: Both our leads. In "Courtin' Disaster", Mushmouse forces Punkin' to surrender, then learns his girlfriend wants to marry him and immediately restarts their feud to avoid it. And in "Catch as Cat Can Day", Punkin' Puss spends the whole episode trying to avoid a hillbilly girl named Susie [=McStomp=], who wants to marry him. Mushmouse prods her on until Hunnybun tries to marry him again, sending them both running.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Mushmouse only wears a hat and an open shirt.
** Punkin' Puss oddly averts this by wearing a hat, shirt, vest and pants. Just as a hillbilly doesn't wear shoes.
* HotBlooded: Punkin' Puss, the "ornery" one of the pair. He's seen getting into conflict with nearly everyone in the show and is quickly riled up by Mushmouse.

* RingerPloy: Mushmouse does the same thing with all his identical cousins to confound villain Punkin' Puss.

Compare with ''WesternAnimation/TheHillbillyBears'', H-B's ''other'' 1965 cartoon about rural funny animals living in the Hillbilly Hills.

* CommitmentIssues: Both our leads. In "Courtin' Disaster", Mushmouse forces Punkin' to surrender, then learns his girlfriend wants to marry him and immediately restarts their feud to avoid it. And in "Catch As Cat Can Day", Punkin' Puss spends the whole episode trying to avoid a hillbilly girl named Susie McStomp, who wants to marry him. Mushmouse prods her on until Hunnybun tries to marry him again, sending them both running.

* NiceMice: Mushmouse sometimes, other times he can be just as antagonistic.

* UnexpectedInheritance: Mushmouse inherited one million pounds from a British uncle. Punkin Puss spent most of the episode trying to be on his good graces because of the inheritance until he and Mushmouse learned it consisted not of pounds as the British currency but one million pounds of cheese.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In one episode Mushmouse tries to move on to a more established city cat but ends up wanting to do his feuding with Ole Punkin' Puss again instead.

Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse was yet another funny animal cartoon made by Creator/HannaBarbera. It was also another to feature the ongoing battle between a cat and a mouse. But this time it had some country flavor.

* Art Evolution: There was some shorts that actually had better animation, take "Army-Nervy Game" for an example.

* CatsAreMean: Well, they ''are'' feuding.

* NiceMice: Sometimes, other times he can be just as antagonistic.

Both live in the stereotypical Hillbilly Hills and the feud plays out as just about anyone would expect. Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse were a segment on The WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla Show.

* BuffoonishTomCat: Punkin' Puss
* CatsAreMean: Well they are feuding.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Mushmouse only wears a hat and an open shirt

* TalkingAnimal: Our Cast
* ThreeShorts: Punkin' Puss was the ending segment on WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla.

* BufoonishTomCat: Punkin' Puss