Park Observatory
in Los Angeles, California.
The plaque inside of Eddie's Toon
gun case reads, "Thanks forgetting me
out of the Hoosegow. Yosemite Sam"
Hoosegow is slang for jail.
The left bullet is voiced by character actor
Pat Buttram, whose voices for Disney included
The Aristocats (1970) and Robin Hood (1973).
The inscription and bullets suggest
the previous, close relationship
Eddie had with the Toons.
Bob Hoskins exaggerated
his movements once inside Toontown.
Bob Hoskins said, "Eddie had to be
part cartoon himself, yet not too broad,
in order to make the film believable.
I hallucinated all the Toons."
The song "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile"
is featured in a 1931 Warner Bros.
Merrie Melodie cartoon with the same title.
Step through or slow motion.
Mickey's Orphans, Chicken Little
(red vest), Wynken, Blynken and Nod
(riding blue bird)
Cupids, Baby Pegasus (Fantasia)
Ground hogs (Song of the South)
Peter Pig (The Wise Little Hen)
Girl bunnies (Tortoise and the Hare)
More Disney characters in next shot.
Right to left: Brer Bear (Song of the South)
Ferdinand, the Bull
Danny (lamb, So DearTo My Heart)
Jenny Wren (Who Killed Cock Robin?)
Fiddler Pig, Fifer Pig (Three Little Pigs)
Elmer Elephant (behind pigs)
The Merry Dwarfs
The Reluctant Dragon, Jiminy Cricket
Resume Play orSlow Motion
Press "Pause" on your remote
and try to identify the Disney
characters in downtown Toontown.
Step frame by frame, or advance
by slow motion to see the entire
scene. Answers appear briefly
as characters exit.
Left: Fifer Pig, Fiddler Pig, Red Riding Hood
Right: Snow White, Old Hag
Back of fire engine: J. Thaddeus Toad
Centre: Goofy on pogo stick
The Reluctant Dragon chased by Sir Giles
Right: The Big Bad Wolf
The Seven Dwarfs marched upper left.
Resume play.
Discarded ideas included chasing
Jessica through several buildings,
and across a desert.
Who is this cute, quiet canine critter?
The basset hound Droopy was
a Tex Avery creation at M-G-M.
Droopy's personality was based on
the voice of Bill Thompson as Mr. Whipple
on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio show.
Directing Animator Richard Williams
gave voice to Droopy.
Apparently he spoke for Droopy during
storyboard meetings and got the job.
The gags with Lena Hyena were inspired
by Grandma in the M-G-M Tex Avery cartoons
"Red Hot Riding Hood" (1943),
"Swing Shift Cinderella" and
"Little Rural Riding Hood" (both 1949).
The Doorknob
(Alice in Wonderland, Disney, 1951)
The Doorknob
(Alice in Wonderland, Disney, 1951)
Who is the cute canary?
Tweety played "This little piggy..."
in his screen debut, "A Tale of Two Kitties"
(Warner Bros., 1942),
and it became a trademark gag.
Bob Hoskins was excited
about playing Eddie Valiant
"because I wanted to tell my grandchildren
I once co-starred with Bugs Bunny."
Mickey Mouse celebrated his 60th birthday
during the release of this film.
Although Wayne Allwine had performed
as Mickey Mouse previously
Allwine became Mickey's new
official voice at the time of this film
through the establishment
of the Disney Character Voices
department in 1988.
Lena Hyena (Toon Hag in the credits)
was voiced by actress June Foray
best known for
Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha in
"The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle."
June Foray also voiced Granny
for the Warner Bros.
Tweety and Sylvester cartoons
and the weasel Wheezy's voice in this film.
Eddie's shadow
impersonates Dick Tracy.
"Cartoon" is derived from
the Italian "cartone," (cardboard).
Originally it referred
to an artist's preparatory drawing
copied onto another surface
as an outline for creating paintings,
tapestries, and other forms of finished art.
Later, newspapers published single-panel
editorial cartoons and comic strip stories.
After motion pictures were invented,
pencil drawings came to life on film.
Those animated shorts in the early 1900s
were called cartoons, and the name lasted.
The poster