The Babble List: 50 Most Adorable Cartoon Characters
From Wall-E to Woodstock, the cutest cartoons ever. With video!
by Jen Chaney
July 22, 2008
#20: Baby Mumble
He can’t sing to save his little Arctic soul. But the youngest version of this tap-dancing penguin, who appears in the initial scenes of Happy Feet, is a prime example of digital animation at its most cuddly.
#19: Rocky
The only flying squirrel to make this list, Rocky is the sensible ying to Bullwinkle J. Moose’s clueless yang. And his aviator hat is totally sweet.
#18: 101 Dalmatian Puppies
Cruella de Vil is one of the most horrifying Disney villains ever. Why? Because she wants to make coats out of these 101 irresistible, polka-dotted pups.
#17: Blue
As dogs go, she’s relatively expressionless. But that pink tongue, those clue-leaving pawprints and her ability to tolerate the nerdy dancing of her masters, Steve (Steve Burns) and Joe (Donovan Patton), make the star of Blue’s Clues forever appealing.
#16: Mr. Magoo
Just look at his squinched-up eyes, those arched eyebrows, that little-old-man smile. Don’t you just want to give the visually impaired Mr. Magoo a big hug? You know, after you make sure he gets a spot in an assisted living facility?
#15: Rudolph
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is Rankin/Bass’s most enduring cartoon creation. And Rudolph, with his nose so bright, makes a loveable yuletide underdog (underdeer?). As he exclaims after receiving a compliment from a reindeer babe named Clarice: “I’m cute! I’m cute!” Yes, you are, buddy.
#14: Droopy
Tex Avery’s animated basset hound has a voice that could send even the happiest person straight for a bottle of Prozac. But there’s something about the way he waddles and those heavy-hanging cheeks that manages to turn most frowns upside down.
#13: Egghead Jr.
The son of Miss Prissy and buddy to Foghorn Leghorn, Egghead is pure, impressionable innocence in a super-big pair of spectacles. And yes, the recent Walt Disney version of Chicken Little does bear a strong resemblance to this Loony Tunes character. Clearly Disney knows a good-lookin’ chicken when it sees one.
#12: Augie Doggie
There are plenty of reasons to adore Hanna-Barbera’s Augie Doggie. He has a sweet smile. He looks like a beagle, and we all know that beagles rule. But the main thing that makes him so cute? The way he calls his pops, Doggie Daddy, “dear old dad.”
#11: Flower
I can’t vouch for how this fellow smells. But Bambi’s woodland friend, with those big, beautiful, shy eyes, is precious to his skunky core.
©2008 Jen Chaney and Babble
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Jen Chaney is the movies editor and a DVD columnist for washingtonpost.com. Her byline has appeared in The Washington Post, People magazine, USA Today and the Utne Reader as well as various other newspapers around the country. She is the mother of a one-year-old boy, who has not yet learned the word Xanadu. But he will. Trust us, he will. |
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