Buddy

:For former United States President Bill Clinton's dog, see Buddy (dog). For the SCUBA diving partner system, see Buddy system.

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United States - Bill Clinton - Buddy (dog) - SCUBA - Buddy system

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Buddy is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.

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Animated - Cartoon - Character - Warner Bros. - Looney Tunes

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Buddy has his origins in the chaos that followed the severing of relations between animators Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising from producer Leon Schlesinger. Without his animators and the star character they had taken with them, Schlesinger was desperate to build his own cartoon studio and maintain his contract with Warner Bros. He lured in several animators from other studios, among them Earl Duvall from Disney. Schlesinger told his new employees to create a star character for the studio, and Duvall created Buddy in 1933.

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Animators - Hugh Harman - Producer - Leon Schlesinger - Warner Bros. - Earl Duvall - Disney - 1933

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Buddy was little more than his predecessor Bosko reincarnated as a cute little White boy. Buddy's films weren't much different from Bosko's; as in Bosko's shorts, music also dominates in Buddy's world, and the characters merely exist to add a visual to the soundtrack and to participate in the odd gag. Buddy is usually accompanied in his films by his flapper girlfriend, Cookie, and his dog, Towser. The character would go on to star in 23 cartoons from 1933 to 1935 before he was retired to make way for newer, more interesting characters such as Porky Pig. Buddy's voice was performed by animator Jack Carr.

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Bosko - White - Soundtrack - Flapper - 1933 - 1935 - Porky Pig - Jack Carr

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Buddy's shorts were all but forgotten until the era of television began in the 1950s. Program directors, searching for something cheap to fill time, rediscovered the "lost" cartoons from the 1930s. Despite the blandness of his films, Buddy has remained on television, somewhere in the world, almost constantly since then.

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Television - 1950s - 1930s

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Buddy's first (and so far only) new appearance after his original series ended came in the 1993 animated series Animaniacs, where he appeared in the episode "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special," broadcast on May 23, 1994. In this episode, it was revealed (in the series' fictional history) that the Warner siblings were created to spice up Buddy's dull cartoons; these series of Buddy-Warner shorts mainly consisted of the Warners smashing Buddy on the head with mallets. After Buddy was dropped by the studio in favor of the Warners, Buddy retired to become a nut farmer in Ojai, California, but hated the Warners for ruining his career, and made a failed attempt at the Anniversary Special to seek revenge.

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1993 - Animated series - Animaniacs - May 23 - 1994 - Warner siblings - Mallet - Nut - Ojai, California

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