Cartoon Similarities

[Cartman]

While watching the Fox and Crow cartoon UNSURE RUNTS, I noticed that it beared a strong resemblance to WB's FOOL COVERAGE. Both cartoons involved a character trying to sell another insurance. In both cartoons, the insurance seller is the one who seems to get into all the accidents.

Are there any other cartoons you can think of that are similar to those of another studio?

[Duck Dodgers]

one of the usual b-cartoons made by robert mckimson in the late fifties-early sixties,what's my lion,trying to recreate the charm of jack hannah's wonderful AAN rugged bear!



there's some of mickey's service station in popeye's service with a guli,in every two cartoon the characters got a limited time to repair the car and almost destroy it!

[Duck Dodgers]

the year of the mouse (tom and jerry)and mouse wreckers(hubie and bertie)both directed by chuck jones but i do not consider the tom and jerry one as a remake but as a similar cartoon;


mice paradise(herman and katnip) and the hypocondricat

[Jeff]

Van Beuren's "The Gay Gaucho" has many striking similarities to WB's "Lady Play Your Mandolin!" thanks to Harman & Ising...

[indy mike]

Howzabout The Cat Concerto and Rhapsody Rabbit???? :bugs2:

[Bugsy Boy]

I found Baggy Pants & The Nitwits to have a slight simularity to a Pink Panther syndicated TV show that contained Pink Panther and Inspector cartoons.Though Baggy Pants was possibley meant as a take off of Charlie Chaplin,like The Pink Panther he was a muted(non talking)character,who's characteristics and situations were quite like The Pink Panther's.The second half of this series had cartoons that starred Tyrone,a short old man who's white grey hair covered his eyes,who was labeled as a world superhero.But it appeared that his wife Gladys was the real hero,striking villians with her white handbag.Unlike Baggy Pants,the Tyrone stories had dialogue.The simularity I could see between this show and the syndicated Pink Panther show which aired during the same year(1977),was how the Pink Panther cartoons were followed by the dialogue infested Inspector cartoons.The Inspector being a different kind of hero of course.

[Duck Dodgers]

i know it's not a classic cartoon but i remember the segment of a tiny toons episode with plucky and hamton who reminds to me haunted house with ren and stimpy!

[Daffysleftfoot]

I remember seeing a Heckle and Jeckle cartoon in which they wreak havoc at an opera. It uses the same "lobby fills up with smokers" gag from Bugs & Elmer's Hare Do.

[cbrubaker]

I found Baggy Pants & The Nitwits to have a slight simularity to a Pink Panther syndicated TV show that contained Pink Panther and Inspector cartoons.Though Baggy Pants was possibley meant as a take off of Charlie Chaplin,like The Pink Panther he was a muted(non talking)character,who's characteristics and situations were quite like The Pink Panther's.The second half of this series had cartoons that starred Tyrone,a short old man who's white grey hair covered his eyes,who was labeled as a world superhero.But it appeared that his wife Gladys was the real hero,striking villians with her white handbag.Unlike Baggy Pants,the Tyrone stories had dialogue.The simularity I could see between this show and the syndicated Pink Panther show which aired during the same year(1977),was how the Pink Panther cartoons were followed by the dialogue infested Inspector cartoons.The Inspector being a different kind of hero of course.They're also similar because both "Pink Panther" and "Baggy Pants and the Nitwits" were made at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.

[JDWeil]

Van Beuren's "The Gay Gaucho" has many striking similarities to WB's "Lady Play Your Mandolin!" thanks to Harman & Ising...

That is not so surprising. Both cartoons were produced by Harman-Ising.

[Bobby Bickert]

The second half of this series had cartoons that starred Tyrone,a short old man who's white grey hair covered his eyes,who was labeled as a world superhero.But it appeared that his wife Gladys was the real hero,striking villians with her white handbag.

"The Nitwits" was actually based on a series of skits on ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN. However, in the skits the characters were a prim spinster and a dirty old man who harassed her, so the cartoon really only used their physical appearances, plus the original actors, Arte Johnson and Ruth Buzzi, did their voices.

[Bobby Bickert]

mice paradise(herman and katnip) and the hypocondricat

You mixed up titles. "Mice Paradise" is the one where the mice go to live on a desert island. The one where the mice make Katnip think he's died and gone to heaven is "Mice-Capades".

[Bobby Bickert]

"Thrill of Fair" and "Rollercoaster Rabbit" both had a baby chasing an escaped balloon through a fair, with the "babysitter" taking the abuse that the baby manages to avoid, though the endings are quite different.

[Duck Dodgers]

You mixed up titles. "Mice Paradise" is the one where the mice go to live on a desert island. The one where the mice make Katnip think he's died and gone to heaven is "Mice-Capades".
you're right ,please everybody par'me!

[Pietro]

While watching the Fox and Crow cartoon UNSURE RUNTS, I noticed that it beared a strong resemblance to WB's FOOL COVERAGE. Both cartoons involved a character trying to sell another insurance. In both cartoons, the insurance seller is the one who seems to get into all the accidents.
Someone (I think Thad) told me that there was a Fox and Crow comic story that was very reminiscent of the 1947 Jones classic, "A Pest in the House" - the aspect which I find most interesting is that it was made before "Pest" was released.

-Pietro:daffy:

[Thad]

Someone (I think Thad) told me that there was a Fox and Crow comic story that was very reminiscent of the 1947 Jones classic, "A Pest in the House" - the aspect which I find most interesting is that it was made before "Pest" was released.
Yes it was me, and you can view that story here!

http://funnies.goldenagecartoons.com/stories/columbia/rs090101.html


-Thad

[oldgreypole]

"Buddy's Bug Hunt" (Warner Bros.) and "The Seapreme Court" (Paramount) are very similar in terms of plot. In "Buddy's Bug Hunt," Buddy has many insects in captivity, then starts having a dream that the insects get him, and eventually take him to court. At the end, Buddy learns his lesson and frees all of the insects. The Little Audrey cartoon, "The Seapreme Court," is very similar, only it has fish instead of insects.

[Bugsy Boy]

I just thought of another cartoon character simularity.Sad Sack's characteristics and situations closely resemble that of Beetle Bailey.They both seem to have pretty well everything in common.Particularly a big heavy loudmouth sargent who bullies them around.

[Javeman]

Don't forget "The Million Dollar Cat" and "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper"

[howie]

Here's an odd sitcha'ation what happened to me some 4 years ago..

Around this time, a new episode of "Mickey Mouseworks" featured a short called Mickey's Mix-Up (http://disneyshorts.toonzone.net/mouseworks/mickeymouse3.html#01).

A couple months later I bought an issue of Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies comics from 1946. And wouldn't you know it - it contains the same durn story! 'Cept this time it's Porky and Petunia and Bugs, and valentines in the mail instead of fax machines..

But that's not all: I tune to Mickey Mouseworks that very weekend, and it was a rerun of the episode mentioned above. :eek:

[howie]

Porky's Pet (WB) and Mr. Mouse takes a Trip (Disney)

They're both about trying to sneak your pet onto a train. Both Mr. Mouse and Mr. Pig get thrown off their respective trains, pets included, at the end of these films, with the same basic results.

[Duck Dodgers]

how's about the similarities between a mutt in a rutt(famous,starring dog face) and heavenly puss and lend a paw?

[guy incognito]

"Quiet, Please!" (MGM) and "A Pest in the House" (WB)

Both involve a character who needs to maintain peace and quiet or suffer dire consequences, and a nemesis who tries to make noise.

[Matt the Y]

"Quiet, Please!" (MGM) and "A Pest in the House" (WB)

Both involve a character who needs to maintain peace and quiet or suffer dire consequences, and a nemesis who tries to make noise.
Well... "A Pest in the House" is a little different since Daffy, in that cartoon, doesn't TRY to make a lot of noise, he just does, blissfully unaware of the harm he's causing Elmer as a result.

[Bugsy Boy]

Another simularity I can think of,is when Hoppy first debuted on The Flintstones.When Fred and Dino met him for the first time,they thought he was a giant mouse.Just like the occasions where Sylvester went chasing after mice,and came upon Hippity Hopper,thinking he was a giant mouse.:sylvester:speedy: