Looney's Lesser Known: Goofy Gophers Traditional Cache
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Looney's Lesser Known: Goofy Gophers
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A series of caches dedicated to the lesser known Looney
Tunes characters.
Most of us grew up watching Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird and
the rest of the characters on Saturday mornings, but how many of us
can still remember the rest of the crew. The ones that got some on
camera exposure, but were never the stars of the show.
I can remember most of them, How will you do?
All caches in the series are a combination of small, micros
or nano containers placed to be winter friendly. The series is
meant to be fun for the young and/or young at heart.
The Goofy Gophers are animated cartoon characters in the Warner
Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The
gophers, named Mac and Tosh, are small and brown with tan bellies
and buck teeth. They both have British accents. Their names are
puns on the surname, "Macintosh." [edit] Character biography The
Goofy Gophers were created by Warners animator Robert Clampett for
the 1947 short film The Goofy Gophers. Norm McCabe had previously
used a pair of gophers in his 1942 short Gopher Goofy, but they
bear little resemblance to Clampett's characters. Clampett left the
studio before the short went to production, so Arthur Davis took
over as director. The cartoon features the gophers' repeated
incursions into a vegetable garden guarded by a dog whom they
relentlessly, though politely, torment. Voice actor Mel Blanc plays
Mac and Stan Freberg Tosh. Both speak with high-pitched British
accents like those used in upper-class stereotypes around at the
time. After classic cartoons, Joe Alaskey plays Mac. Some sources
claim Clampett intended the Goofy Gophers to be a spoof of Disney's
chipmunk characters, Chip 'n' Dale, with whom they are sometimes
confused. Others, however, point out that this seems unlikely given
the two pairs of characters are so different in characterization.
The only real similarities are the fact that the characters are
rodents, are paired up, and have puns for names. The gophers'
mannerisms and speech were patterned after Frederick Burr Opper's
comics characters Alphonse and Gaston, which in the early 1900s
engendered a "good honest laugh". The crux of each four-frame strip
was the ridiculousness of the characters' over-politeness
preventing their ability to get on with the task at hand. The
pair's dialogue is peppered with such over politeness as
"Indubitably!", "You first, my dear," and "But, no, no, no. It must
be you who goes first!" The two often also tend to use
unnecessarily long words, for example, in Lumber Jerks, instead of
"We gotta get our tree back", they say "We must take vital steps to
reclaim our property." Clampett later stated that the gophers'
effeminate mannerisms were derived from character actors Franklin
Pangborn and Edward Everett Horton. Davis would direct one other
Goofy Gophers short, 1948's "Two Gophers from Texas". This time,
the dog from the first film pursues the gophers with a gopher
cookbook in hand.
All caches are hidden on a service road that parallels
highway 11. Do not attempt these caches from the highway. Safety
First.
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