Gay snagglepuss

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 homosexual reference about Snagglepuss when I was a kid. But I also had no idea 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 being homosexual if my middle aged self were suddenly back in the 60s. He was just very damn funny. Even more so that I now receive his jokes.

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

But, now, I view Lynde on former 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

How did Snagglepuss become gay?

astro1

Oddly his wiki entrymakes virtually no mention of Snagglepusses widely acknowledged 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 time 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 attractive 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.

parthenokinesis3

jayjay4

I always feel bad 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…

Kent_Clark5

I’ve never been one to think th

DC Brings Snagglepuss Assist As A Male lover Playwright

This makes flawless sense. Not only does it construct perfect sense, it's actually something I'm going to pluck up the moment it comes out. DC comics is re-imagining one of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera's classic characters as a Southern Gothic playwright along the lines of Tennesse Williams in mid-twentieth century New York in Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, what will undoubtedly be writer Mark Russell's next weird-yet-amazing social satire.

Oh, and he's going to be homosexual this time (albeit closeted given the time period), but you could easily create the case that he always has been. Here's what Male lover Snagglepuss Who Writes And Probably Fucks is going to look like:

Buddy, that is a straight-up Furry comic. That isn't inherently a bad thing, though if you're wondering why my first response wasn't immediate dismissal at the thought of "sexy Snagglepuss," one, you're reading this article on Riverdale main, and two, Trail Russell put out a Flintstones comic for DC over the course of Junes 2016 through 2017 that, well...

It's what I can

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’ hold phrases, “Heavens to Murgatroyd” was a line spoken by Lahr as adequately in the 1944 film 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