This children's card game is about gophers collecting their winter food supply. Each supply card shows one to three apples, carrots or nuts. During their turn, the active player can uncover in sequence up to four cards from the pile. If the same kind of fruit appears one after the other, then all cards uncovered in this turn are lost for the player. Since there are only three fruit sorts, this.
| Mac and Tosh (The Goofy Gophers) | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes character | |
| First appearance | The Goofy Gophers (1947) |
| Created by | Robert Clampett |
| Voiced by | Mac: Mel Blanc (1947–1965) Jeff Bennett (1998; Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries) Rob Paulsen (2003–2015) Jeff Bergman (2019-present) Tosh: Stan Freberg (1947–1958) Mel Blanc (1965) Corey Burton (1998; Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries) Jess Harnell (2003–2015) Dee Bradley Baker (2019-present) |
| Information | |
| Species | Gophers |
| Gender | Both males |
| Nationality | British |
The Goofy Gophers are animatedcartooncharacters in Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The gophers, named Mac and Tosh, are small and brown with tan bellies and buck teeth. They both have British accents. Their names are puns on the surname 'Macintosh.' They are characterized by an abnormally high level of politeness.
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Creation[edit]
The Goofy Gophers were created by Warners animatorRobert Clampett for the 1947 short film The Goofy Gophers. Norm McCabe had previously used a pair of gophers in his 1942 short Gopher Goofy, but they bear little resemblance to Clampett's characters. Clampett left the studio before the short went to production, so Arthur Davis took over as director.[1] The cartoon features the gophers' repeated incursions into a vegetable garden guarded by an unnamed dog whom they relentlessly, though politely, torment. Voice actorMel Blanc plays Mac and Stan Freberg plays Tosh. Both speak with high-pitched British accents like those used in upper-class stereotypes around at the time. After classic cartoons, Joe Alaskey plays Mac.
Some sources claim Clampett intended the Goofy Gophers to be a spoof of Disney'schipmunk characters, Chip 'n' Dale, with whom they are sometimes confused. Others, however, point out that this seems unlikely given the two pairs of characters are so different in characterization. The only real similarities are the fact that the characters are rodents, are paired up, and have puns for names.[2]
The gophers' mannerisms and speech were patterned after Frederick Burr Opper's comics characters Alphonse and Gaston, which in the early 1900s engendered a 'good honest laugh'. The crux of each four-frame strip was the ridiculousness of the characters' overpoliteness preventing their ability to get on with the task at hand.
The gophers' mannerisms may be styled on performances from the British film Great Expectations directed by David Lean and released in 1946, one year before Clampett's restyled 1947 version. The gophers' speech and affectations closely mirror the enthusiastic deferential relationship between Pip, played by actor John Mills, and Mr. Pocket played by actor Alec Guinness.
The pair's dialogue is peppered with such overpoliteness as 'Indubitably!', 'You first, my dear,' and 'But, no, no, no. It must be you who goes first!' The two often also tend to quote Shakespeare and use unnecessarily long words; for example, in Lumber Jerks, instead of 'We gotta get our tree back', they say 'We must take vital steps to reclaim our property.'[3] Clampett later stated that the gophers' mannerisms were derived from character actorsFranklin Pangborn and Edward Everett Horton.[2][4]
Davis would direct one other Goofy Gophers short, 1948's Two Gophers from Texas. The unnamed dog from the first cartoon returns as their nemesis in this cartoon, this time aiming to eat like an animal in the wild as he pursues the gophers with a gopher cookbook in hand.
Robert McKimson was the next Warners director to utilize the characters. He pitted them against Clampett and Arthur's dog once again in the 1949 film A Ham in a Role wherein the dog's efforts to become a Shakespearean actor are foiled by the rambunctious rodents.
Later years[edit]
The Gophers lay dormant for two years until Friz Freleng made a series of four shorts beginning with 1951's A Bone for a Bone, another dog-versus-gophers short. This was followed by I Gopher You in 1954, featuring the Gophers in their first cartoon without the dog, attempting to retrieve their vegetables from a food processing plant; Pests for Guests in 1955, which has the gophers counter-antagonize the helpless Elmer Fudd when he buys a chest of drawers that they found appropriate for nut storage; and Lumber Jerks later that year, where the Gophers visit a saw mill in an attempt to retrieve their stolen tree home.[5]
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After Freleng finished with the characters, they would star in two more cartoons, once again directed by McKimson. These two cartoons, Gopher Broke in 1958 and Tease for Two in 1965, pit the Gophers against the Barnyard Dawg and Daffy Duck, respectively. Both gophers were voiced by Mel Blanc in the latter short instead of one by Blanc and the other by Freberg.
The Goofy Gophers were going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but rights to the characters could not be obtained in time.
The Goofy Gophers were largely forgotten by Warner Bros. in the years since the animation studio's closing in 1969. However, in recent years, they have made a few cameos in various Warner Bros. projects. They are seen briefly in the 1996 movie Space Jam. They feature prominently in episodes of the animated seriesThe Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ('I Gopher You') and Duck Dodgers ('K-9 Kaddy' and 'Old McDodgers'). In the latter, they are reinvented as green-furred, six-limbed Martian gophers.
The Goofy Gophers were revived in The Looney Tunes Show voiced by Rob Paulsen and Jess Harnell. In this show, Mac and Tosh run an antique store and are portrayed (as stated by Harnell and Paulsen) as being a gay couple. The gophers appeared in the 2015 DTV movie Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run. They also appear in the Looney Tunes comic currently published by DC Comics.
The Goofy Gophers appeared in the New Looney Tunes season 3 episode Fool's Gold.
References[edit]
- ^Sigall, Martha (2005). Living Life Inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation. University Press of Mississippi. p. 81. ISBN978-1-57806-749-7.
- ^ abThe Goofy Gophers at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016.
- ^Burt, Richard (2007). Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture, Volume 1. Greenwood Press. p. 343. ISBN978-0-313-33117-6.
- ^Abel, Sam (Winter 1995). 'The Rabbit in Drag: Camp and Gender Construction in the American Animated Cartoon'. The Journal of Popular Culture. 29 (3): 183–202. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1995.00183.x.
- ^Murray, Robin L.; Heumann, Joseph K. (2009). Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge. SUNY Press. pp. 12–15. ISBN978-0-7914-7717-5.