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| Full Name | Slappy the Squirrel |
| Relationships | {{{relationships}}} |
| Segment | Slappy Squirrel |
| First Episode | The Monkey Song/Slappy Goes Walnuts |
| Voice Actor | Sherri Stoner |
| Catchphrases | "Now that's comedy!" "You remind me of..." "Go away!" "Somebody shoot me!" "Oh, now this is sad!" |
Slappy Squirrel is a grumpy cartoon veteran squirrel, who starred in metafictional Looney Tunes cartoons as Slappy, The Slap-Happy Squirrel. Today, she lives in a tree with her cute and chipper nephew, Skippy Squirrel. Often,she faces old enemies from her past, like Walter Wolf. Other situations see her facing common nuisances, like annoyingly perky neighbors (I Got Yer Can) and Skippy's emotional traumas (Bumbie's Mom) . Usually she solves her problems with exaggerated cartoon violence,even blasting of the Warner's annoying new nanny out of Warner Bros. Studio when the Warners could not do it themselves because of their moral beliefs (The Sound Of Warners), ending the cartoon with her famous line, "Now that's comedy!" The music played during the title card of her segments is an excerpt from Antonín Dvořák's "Humoresque". Slappy is voiced by series writer Sherri Stoner. slappy is the crazest squirrel.
Fictional character biography
She is characterised as a bitter, cranky, elderly anthropomorphic gray squirrel with a thick New York accent. she is usually seen usually wearing a green hat decorated with a drooping yellow flower and carrying a pink purse and green umbrella that she occasionally uses to hit other characters. Hurray For Slappy reveals Slappy to be in her 80s, as Mary Heartless (a parody of Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart) refers to Slappy as "octogenarian". She lives in a hollow tree with her nephew Skippy, her polar opposite in terms of personality, who loves to hear her tell stories about her former days of stardom. In the episode "my Mother The Squirrel", While Skippy represents a cuter style of cartoon characters, Slappy was and is a more chaotic and old-school character, enjoying violence for comedy's sake and resentful of milquetoast, censor-influenced modern cartoons. She was first seen in the show's third episode, Slappy Goes Walnuts, originally aired on September 15, 1993, which also introduced an extract of a purely fictitious Looney Tunes cartoon featuring herself and suggesting that she was a retired Looney Tunes character who crossed over into Animaniacs. In several episodes, there are shots of fictitious Looney Tunes cartoons portraying a younger Slappy, under the pseudonym Slappy the Slap-Happy Squirrel, reference to the MGM cartoon character.
Characters
Her former co-star and arch-enemy Walter Wolf harbors a grudge against her, both for defeating him repeatedly (and violently) in the past and for becoming a big star, albeit now a faded one. He has also enlisted the help of her other ex-nemeses, including Sid the Squid and Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison. Much like Slappy, all these characters show signs of age and senility. In addition to Walter's occasional attempts at revenge, Slappy must sometimes endure more mundane annoyances such as a cloyingly-perky new neighbor or Skippy's emotional traumas, for instance after he watches Bumbie (a parody of Bambi). Slappy solves this by taking Skippy to see the actress in question. In a later episode, "No Face Like Home", Slappy had been combining her disdain for new slapstick-free cartoons as well as her dislike for cartoons that were mostly peppered with environmentalist messages and "pretty female animals who had no slaptick". Slappy also succumbs to Hollywood's craze with plastic surgery by attempting to have herself transformed artificially back into her youthful self and get back into cartoons "to make them the way they should be, with anvils and dynamite!" Slappy is also well known for the dialog Who's on Stage?, a 2 minute Vaudevillesque wit-round routine, based on the legendary sketch Who's on First?, in Episode 59 (Woodstock), in which she tries to determine which band is performing on stage ("The Band", "Who" or "Yes") which of course ends with Roger Daltrey inviting the pair on stage.
Humor
Slappy easily outsmarts whatever foes she faces (who are almost universally dimwitted as well as decrepit) and exacts revenge with exaggerated cartoon violence, usually whilst reminiscing about her "classic" (but fictional) film appearances of her youth. She often will remark how her enemies remind her of various famous cartoon characters when they were very young. Her catchphrase "Now that’s comedy!" is usually delivered after visiting sphysical injury and humiliation upon her opponents. She also occasionally says, "You remind me of a very young (insert name)," to everyone from the Warner siblings to her enemies. Slappy often pokes fun at her own age and ailing health.
Episodes
Slappy has appeared in the following Animaniacs episodes:
- Episode 3 - Slappy Goes Walnuts
- Episode 8 - Bumbie's Mom
- Episode 13 - Little Old Slappy From Pasadena
- Episode 16 - Hurray for Slappy
- Episode 22 - Guardin' the Garden
- Episode 27 - I Got Yer Can
- Episode 36 - Critical Condition
- Episode 41 - Buttermilk, It Makes a Body Bitter
- Episode 45 - ...And Justice for Slappy
- Episode 50 - Twas the Day Before Christmas
- Episode 51 - Frontier Slappy
- Episode 58 - Smell Ya Later
- Episode 59 - Woodstock Slappy
- Episode 62 - Scare Happy Slappy
- Episode 64 - No Face Like Home
- Episode 70 - Nutcracker Slappy
- Episode 71 - Three Tenors and You're Out
- Episode 72 - Rest in Pieces
- Episode 73 - Gimme a Break
- Episode 74 - Method to Her Madness
- Episode 79 - My Mother the Squirrel
- Episode 81 - Soccer Coach Slappy
- Episode 83 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock
- Episode 92 - Bully for Skippy
- Episode 97 - The Sunshine Squirrels
- Episode 98 - The Christmas Tree
Behind the Scenes
Slappy was created as a joke by writer and voice actor Sherri Stoner. Stoner had had a history of playing troubled teenagers in TV movies during her early career. Friend and writer John McCann joked that she would be playing troubled teenagers until she was 50. This gave Stoner the idea of having an old character who acted like a teenager.
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