Cartoon Character Cameos

[TeamFX]

I was intrigued to find this interesting phenom just recently. It was brought up some time ago at another board, so I'll just relay the discussion topic here. How many of you out there can point out an occassion where a cartoon character from one series made a one-off cameo appearance in another? And no, this does not include crossovers. Here's the example that came to mind...



Although the supporting player on the right-hand side is not who you think it is, they sure came pretty darn close. Can you name some other examples of incidental characters who either went on to become stars in their own right, or existing stars who've made unannounced cameos on other shows (unintentionally, I presume)?

 

[hobbyfan]

The first thing that comes to mind is Butt-Head appearing solo on the premiere of "The Head" (1994). That aside, I can't think of anything off the top in the H-B archives.

 

[Eric B]

Never even noticed who he looked like.

How about the modern "old western" version of Fred Flintstone getting blasted by Ricochet Rabbit's trick bullet coming down through the chimney, which was a frequently used clip in a promotional a while back? Just look at his mouth move and the teeth. It's obviously reused animation.

Black Widow from Space Ghost appears as a mysteriously 'living' wax figure on Scooby Doo. (they don't even notice who/what is handing them the food).

Zorak was reused on Jabberjaw (renamed "Mantor", which you would have thought would have been his original name).

 

[Silverstar]

Black Manta was a guest villain on a Super Friends episode (pre-Challenge) in a green wetsuit and renamed simply 'Manta'.

In one episode of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo titled "The Story Stick", during the musical number, the monster-of-the-week, the Totem Monster, chases the kids into a cave but is himself chased out by a growling, feral version of Yogi Bear!

And an uncharacteristically canine-acting Huckleberry Hound makes a surprise cameo in an episode of [adult swim]'s The Brak Show.

 

[Goldstar!]

There was an episode of Filmation's Ghostbusters (1986) syndicated animated series (not to be confused with DiC's The Real Ghostbusters, which was airing on ABC around the same time) which guest starred a pair of husband and wife vampires, Victor and Vampra, IIRC, Victor shared the exact same physical design as Drac from Filmation's The Groovie Ghoulies, just with a different name and voice. Filmation even re-used the same animation of Drac running across the room while flapping his arms to turn into a bat, which happens only after he falls onto the floor.

 

[Eric B]

Black Manta was a guest villain on a Super Friends episode (pre-Challenge) in a green wetsuit and renamed simply 'Manta'.

In one episode of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo titled "The Story Stick", during the musical number, the monster-of-the-week, the Totem Monster, chases the kids into a cave but is himself chased out by a growling, feral version of Yogi Bear!

I was going to mention that, and that the ranger was Smith, but I wasn't sure it counted for some reason.

 

[Zen Man]

Black Manta was a guest villain on a Super Friends episode (pre-Challenge) in a green wetsuit and renamed simply 'Manta'.

In one episode of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo titled "The Story Stick", during the musical number, the monster-of-the-week, the Totem Monster, chases the kids into a cave but is himself chased out by a growling, feral version of Yogi Bear!

And an uncharacteristically canine-acting Huckleberry Hound makes a surprise cameo in an episode of [adult swim]'s The Brak Show.

Strangely enough Yogi made another brief cameo in that episode- just look at the first few seconds if anyone's recorded it.

 

[George3000]

Yogi (along with Boo-Boo) also appeared on an episode of The Flintstones, stealing a picnic basket. (I forgot which episode was that in.)

And speaking of The Flintstones, I don't know if this counts, but statues of Fred and Barney were featured in a Top Cat episode (that episode escapes me for the moment as well... (can anyone help me here? Thanks! ))

 

[carlaspirit]

Fred and Barney showed up in the background of "Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats" apparently living in an upscale neighborhood.

 

[Anthonynotes]

Yogi (along with Boo-Boo) also appeared on an episode of The Flintstones, stealing a picnic basket. (I forgot which episode was that in.)

It was the episode where the Rubbles first get Hoppy, with the families going on a picnic to a park (and a picnic basket getting stolen in secret by Yogi, dressed in normal and not "prehistoric" garb).

One other episode (and the TV-movie "Hollyrock-a-bye Baby") mention "The Yogi Cave Bear Show"...

-B.

 

[TeamFX]

Zorak was reused on Jabberjaw (renamed "Mantor", which you would have thought would have been his original name).

Now that you mentioned it, I noticed a brood of alien ants from another Super Friends episode that favored Zorak a little bit also.

 

[Rick Jones]

Looking at this thread as often as I do has my mind playing tricks on me

I could have sworn I saw some of the cave-people from Valley of The Dinosaurs on an episode of Super Friends yesterday

 

[Still HowardFein]

It was the episode where the Rubbles first get Hoppy, with the families going on a picnic to a park (and a picnic basket getting stolen in secret by Yogi, dressed in normal and not "prehistoric" garb). -B.

Sorry, that's incorrect. Yogi and Boo-Boo cameo'd in Swedish Visitors, the Season 3 finale famous for "He is Olle, you are Sven". It was just the three Flintstones camping out without the Rubbles. You're referring to Hop Happy, the Season 5 premiere and the first episode in which Gerry Johnson voices Betty.

Yogi and Boo-Boo also cameo in the Snagglepuss episode Remember the Daze. Fitting, as it takes place in a TV studio.

Yogi turning up at the end of the Augie Doggie episode Pop's Nature Pup.

There weren't too many other H-B cameos outside of the various Yogi & Company reunion shows- especially TREASURE HUNT, which featured walk-ons by Hokey Wolf, Mr. Jinks, Squiddley Diddley, Ricochet Rabbit, Maw Rugg, Baba Looey, Col. Fuzzby, Granny Sweet, Magilla Gorilla, Penelope Pitstop and probably others. All I can think of is:

-The oft-mentioned "3,000,000th rerun of the FLINTSTONES" as viewed by Elroy Jetson's delinquent classmate. BTW, contrary to popular belief the footage of Fred diving on top of Barney as seen on Kenny's wrist-o-vision is not from an old episode, but entirely 'new' footage. For years I slavishly scanned every FLINTSTONE rerun for it, to no avail.

-Mumbly turning up at the end of the first Dynomutt episode. Interesting in that both characters bowed on Saturday AM the same day.

-LAFF-A-LYMPICS, largely a 'reunion show', did feature a silent cameo by Peter Potamus, and several appearances from Jabberjaw, Fred and Barney- the latter two as guest commentators.

There were many more verbal references to other characters in H-B series. Virtually every 1959-62 character, after taking a blow to the head, would say "Like Quick Draw McGraw says, ooohh, that smarts!" If a character was turning on a TV, it was to watch another H-B show.

Outside of H-B, a Super Chicken segment involving the Easter Bunny opened with a head shot of virtually every previous Jay Ward character under Paul Frees narrating "There have been many beloved characters-"

A real oddity was the BEATLES episode Tell Me What You See featuring Ringo momentarily turning (due to a special-effects machine) into fellow KFS property Swee'-Pea.

 

[Anthonynotes]

Sorry, that's incorrect. Yogi and Boo-Boo cameo'd in Swedish Visitors, the Season 3 finale famous for "He is Olle, you are Sven". It was just the three Flintstones camping out without the Rubbles. You're referring to Hop Happy, the Season 5 premiere and the first episode in which Gerry Johnson voices Betty.

Thanks for the correction; was going by (apparently faulty) memory on this one...

-B.

 

[TwoToneDearly]

A couple from memory

Beavis and Butthead did a cameo on The Brothers Grunt on MTV

also Beavis did a cameo (on a tv as Cornholio) on The Maxx

I don;t know if this counts but the christmas episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Christmas Blast) featured a cameo from Sonic SatAM's Princess Sally Acorn.

Elmyra making a few cameos on Animaniacs as well as Plucky Duck(both normal and baby), Buster Bunny, and Babs Bunny

The Brain making a cameo on a halloween edition of Tiny Toons

The Brain and Wakko Warner both making a cameo on an episode of Freakazoid

Pepper Ann made a small cameo on Disney's House of Mouse.

 

[Eric B]

Now that you mentioned it, I noticed a brood of alien ants from another Super Friends episode that favored Zorak a little bit also.

I thought about those too: almost little red Zoraks. However, they were changed enough that it could not be considered the same character. Perhaps based on the same drawing, but still, the heads were changed.
Mantor on Jabberjaw was identical to Zorak! In fact, they even used the footage of him in the wig on Space Ghost Coast to Coast; and then there was the old CN promo "Velma at the Center of the Cartoon Universe" that comes right out and says that this was a "guess stint" of Zorak on Jabberjaw. (to connect Space Ghost with Velma, since Clamhead looked so much like Shaggy).

-The oft-mentioned "3,000,000th rerun of the FLINTSTONES" as viewed by Elroy Jetson's delinquent classmate. BTW, contrary to popular belief the footage of Fred diving on top of Barney as seen on Kenny's wrist-o-vision is not from an old episode, but entirely 'new' footage. For years I slavishly scanned every FLINTSTONE rerun for it, to no avail.

I thought that was from the first episode; "the Swimming Pool". It did look kind of old like that. (Maybe dropped footage or something).

-LAFF-A-LYMPICS, largely a 'reunion show', did feature a silent cameo by Peter Potamus, and several appearances from Jabberjaw, Fred and Barney- the latter two as guest commentators.

Missed that one. Never saw Peter Potamus.
Wasn't Top Cat a guest commentator or referee once too?
They should have had a whole other team for some of those other characters; especially from the Magilla era.
The first appearance of Fred on the first episode was probably the last voicing of him by Alan Reed. (I was surpsised that he made it to that show. I hadn't remembered, but it took me years to realize the voice had changed at some point.

There were many more verbal references to other characters in H-B series. Virtually every 1959-62 character, after taking a blow to the head, would say "Like Quick Draw McGraw says, ooohh, that smarts!" If a character was turning on a TV, it was to watch another H-B show.

Oh, so we're doing verbal references too?
End of first Magilla episode; when he returns to the shop; "Who'd you expect; Yogi Bear?"

 

[Still HowardFein]

I thought that was from the first episode; "the Swimming Pool". It did look kind of old like that. (Maybe dropped footage or something). Missed that one. Never saw Peter Potamus.

Good guess, but The Swimming Pool was animated solely by Ken Muse and, in my memory, there's no scene in which Barney yells "Watch out!" to a diving Fred. The brief footage of Fred and Barney on the wrist-o-vision was animated by Carlo Vinci, who was animating the JETSONS scene in question.

The Potamus cameo in LAFF-A-LYMPICS was extremely quick. I forget which episode, but the camera scans across the crowd and the narrator says along the lines of "Anyone who's someone is here to watch this event. Even Peter Potamus is here-"

TwoTone Dearly mentions a cameo by Pepper Ann in HOUSE OF MOUSE. Can't say that really counts, because every Disney character is seen in the background at some time or another.

 

[cyde]

Now that you mentioned it, I noticed a brood of alien ants from another Super Friends episode that favored Zorak a little bit also.

So did one Scooby show as well, something to do with 5000 years into the future. Oh, and in Josie, Alexandra Cabot asks, "What'd you expect, Scooby Doo?"

Cameos rock.

 

[Zorak Masaki]

Also, theres a kind-of-cameo in the wonder twins short "drag race" where you can see yogi bear on a movie poster (guess the theatre was showing hey there its yogi bear).

 

[Eric B]

So did one Scooby show as well, something to do with 5000 years into the future.

That was even more different; though it had the same bug eyes.

Then, you also had some "owl men" who looked faintly similar to Brak.