Is snagglepuss gay

I promised I wouldn’t do this, but it’s Monday.

A recent survey of cartoon archivists revealed the following:

15% believe Snagglepuss became gay as the result of some genetic/psychosexual breakdown.

85% believe he was sucked into it.

I missed the gay reference about Snagglepuss when I was a kid. But I also had no notion about Paul Lynde. I knew something was conspicuously different about Charles Nelson Reilly, but I didn’t know what. I’d still miss Paul Lynde creature gay if my middle aged self were suddenly back in the 60s. He was just very damn funny. Even more so that I now get his jokes.

As a kid, I, too, consideration that Paul Lynde was just very funny, while Charles Nelson Reilly struck me, too, as organism a little, um, “theatrical”?

But, now, I watch Lynde on old episodes of “Bewitched”, and he definitely sets off the gaydar.

It’s because he was pink. What orientation do you think a pink mountain lion would have?

Cartoon Anatomy is cartoon destiny.

“Kissing” Cousins

Chip ‘n’ Dale –> Chippendales (The male strip club)…hell

Warner Bros. Reboots Snagglepuss As A Gay Playwright Entity Hunted By The U.S. Government

Heavens to Murgatroyd! Warner Bros., which owns the entire Hanna-Barbera libary, is rebooting the late-1950s traits Snagglepuss as “a lgbtq+ Southern Gothic playwright.”

The eight-page story will debut this March in the Suicide Squad/Banana Splits Annual #1, before turning into a regular DC series this fall. “I envision him like a tragic Tennessee Williams figure,” writer Marc Russell told HiLoBrow.com. “Huckleberry Hound is sort of a William Faulkner guy, they’re in New York in the 1950s, Marlon Brando shows up, Dorothy Parker, these socialites of New York from that era come and go.”

The sexual orientation was never affirmed in the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but Russell, who has also done an updated take on The Flintstones for DC Comics, is making Snagglepuss’ sexuality a key part of the story, in which the pink mountain lion is dragged before the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He’s accused of being a pinko, get it?

“It’s obviously ignored in the cartoons ’cuz they were made at a time when you couldn’t even acknowledge the existence of such a thing,

How did Snagglepuss change into gay?

astro1

Oddly his wiki entrymakes virtually no note of Snagglepusses widely established adoption by the male lover community as one of their own.

He is a pink lion created in 1959 whose voice mannerisms are about as fey and arch as can be. Did the creators determine ahead of second that they wanted Snagglepuss to be kinda sorta swish or did the voice actor bring the “gay” to the Snagglepuss character, or was it simply an extension of (I’m guessing per the lawsuit mentioned in the Wiki) copying Bert Lahr’s characterization of the cowardly lion, which was cute swish itself … or what?

Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew2

I don’t know, but this thread prompted me to Google “Murgatroyd,” which led to my knowledge that the “Heavens to Murgatroyd” catchphrase was cribbed from Bert Lahr in a non-Cowardly Lion role.

ETA: Oh, duh–that’s already mentioned in the Wikipedia entry you linked to. Never mind.

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jayjay4

I always feel horrible for ol’ Snagglepuss. He’s the ORIGINAL pink panther, created in 1959, but this smug upstart shows up in 1963 and completely takes over the niche…

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I’ve never been one to think th

Snagglepuss debuted in the Hanna Barbera Quick Draw McDraw cartoon series in the 1959 episode Lamb Chopped. Daws Butler voiced Snagglepuss, creating the voice to sound similar to Burt Lahr’s Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz. One of Snagglepuss’ seize phrases, “Heavens to Murgatroyd” was a line spoken by Lahr as good in the 1944 production Meet The People. It was common during the late 1950s and 1960s for cartoon characters to be licensed for either Dell or Gold Key comics and Snagglepuss was no different. He had only a handful of appearances in Yogi Bear and other Hanna Barbera licenses comics before a solo run lasting just four issues. In addition to cartoon and comics appearances, Kellogg’s licensed the character to appear in several TV commercials promoting Cocoa Krispies; he also appeared on cereal boxes for a period. Snagglepuss returned to comics at Marvel during a period in the late 1970s and then at DC when the Hanna Barbera properties were acquired by DC’s parent company.

Snagglepuss returned to comics with a six issue mini series from DC Comics in January 2018 written by Mark Russell and with art by Mike Feehan, Sean Parsons, and Paul M

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