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=== Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner ===

The Warner siblings who are the most prominent stars of the show, and as such, get the most screentime. According to the show's backstory, they were created to serve as comic relief to the very dull ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' character Buddy, but proved to be so troublesome that they were locked in the Warner Bros. Studio Water Tower. Yakko is the talkative, Groucho Marx-esque one who just wears pants, Wakko is the short one with a baseball cap and an extreme appetite, and Dot is the cute one. Voiced by [[Rob Paulsen]], Jess Harnell, and [[Tress MacNeille]], respectively.

 

* [[Bubble Pipe]]: Yakko once "puffs" on a soap-bubble pipe while parodying highbrow intellectuals.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Goodnight everybody!]]"

* [[Trouser Space]]

 

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[Big Eater]]

* [[Potty Emergency]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

** [[Potty Dance]]

** He was actually based specifically on Ringo Starr. Still, that's not an [[In-Universe]] explanation.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Clowns]]: "Clown and Out".

 

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Dot's flower.

* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]/[[The Cutie]]

* [[Flower in Her Hair]]

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Most of Dot's "Pets" when she does the "Wanna See My Pet?"

** [[Insistent Terminology|Call her Dottie, and you die.]]

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Her skirt.

* [[Talking to Herself]]: With Hello Nurse.

 

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Yakko and Wakko, especially when [[Hello, Nurse!]] is around. Of course, [[All Women Are Lustful|Dot is not immune]] to this when [[Mr. Fanservice|a particularly attractive guy is around...]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]: They are either Type II ([[Knight in Sour Armor]]) or III ([[Good Is Not Nice]]), depending on the episode.

* [[Berserk Button]]:

** Don't draw on Wakko's hat.

* [[Expy]]: Of [[Bugs Bunny]].

* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Yakko just wears pants, Wakko just wears shirts, and Dot just wears a skirt. This was [[Lampshaded]] in a [[Kids WB]] promo talking about how the block featured cartoons "with pants and with no pants".

'''Jeff:''' Liar liar, pants on fire! }}

* [[Inkblot Cartoon Style]]: The Warners were created in the 1930s when this style of animation was very prominent.

* [[Karmic Trickster]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Yakko and Wakko.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:

** Wakko shows traits from [[Ringo Starr]].

** Dot was inspired by Gilda Radner, among others.

* [[Old Shame]]: An in-universe example.

* [[Older Than Television]]: In-universe, they had been drawn as early as the thirties (1929 to be exact).

* [[Older Than They Look]]: They're actually about 60.

* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: Repeatedly.

* [[White Gloves]]

 

=== Ralph Timothy Guard ===

An overweight Warner Bros. studio security guard who is always trying, but never succeeding, to capture the Warners and return them to the water tower. Voiced by [[Frank Welker]].

 

 

=== Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff ===

The Warner Bros. studio psychiatrist. He has the unfortunate duty of trying to tame the Warners, which always leads to him getting utterly frustrated (and in the case of his first sessions with them, tearing out his hair). Voiced by [[Rob Paulsen]].

 

 

=== Hello Nurse ===

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Gainaxing]]: She is sometimes animated this way.

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Talking to Himself]]: With Ralph.

* [[The Napoleon]]

 

 

=== Mr. Director ===

 

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]

* [[Take That]]

* [[You Say Tomato]]: Mr. Director discusses this trope.

 

=== Ms. Flamiel ===

 

=== Baloney the Dinosaur ===

 

* [[Captain Ersatz]]

* [[The Ditz]]

* [[Take That]]

* [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]: Subversion of the usual portrayal.

 

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Often the case.

 

 

=== Professor Otto von Schnitzelbuskrankengescheitmeier ===

 

* [[Big Fun]]

 

=== Sodarn Hissane ===

 

* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: He and his parents are tigers that live in Africa.

 

== Slappy and Skippy Squirrel ==

 

=== Slappy Squirrel ===

A cranky squirrel who was once a ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' star (in-universe, that is). Voiced by Sherri Stoner, who was also one of the show's chief writers.

 

* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]

* [[Ambiguously Jewish]]:

'''Slappy:''' A bird? I thought that was a new yarmulke. }}

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III]].

* [[Genre Savvy]]

* [[Grumpy Bear]]

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: And she was too, as evidenced by her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79kr6ha6pnA Buttermilk ad].

* [[Mama Bear]]: Slappy gets very pissed if you harm Skippy.

* [[Medium Awareness]]

* [[No Fourth Wall]]

* [[Older Than Television]]: She was described as "octogenarian" in one episode and has works dating back to the 1930s, perhaps earlier.

* [[Retired Badass]]

* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]

* [[You Remind Me of X]]: From younger versions of celebrities to "a bad accident at Benihana."

 

=== Skippy Squirrel ===

Slappy's nephew who looks up to her. Voiced by Nathan Ruegger.

 

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]

* [[Tagalong Kid]]

 

=== Walter Wolf, Sid the Squid, and Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison ===

Three of Slappy's old nemesises from her cartoons, who continually plot revenge on her, but still never succeed at doing her in. Walter was initially voiced by Frank Welker but for his remaining appearances he was voiced by Jess Harnell for unknown reasons, Sid was voiced by Jackie Burns and Beanie was voiced by Avery Schreiber.

 

* [[Alter Kocker]]

* [[Ambiguously Jewish]]

* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]

 

 

* [[The Ditz]]

* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]

 

* [[Butt Monkey]]: They're Slappy's [[Rogues Gallery]]. They pretty much exist to take abuse. Not that they don't invite it upon themselves....

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: As Slappy always says, "Now this is just sad". Half the time Skippy is the one to recognize them first, and he's used to seeing them undisguised and young in his aunt's old cartoons.

 

* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]

 

 

Bobby is the leader of the main three pigeons. Depending on his mood, he can be the [[Only Sane Man]] who tries to keep Pesto in line or just sit back and laugh at Squit's misfortune. Pesto is the pigeon with a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]], and is prone to taking offense at any comment given to him, even if it's in a good light, and beats up Squit for it. Squit is the rookie who joins the Goodfeathers in the first short and spends the rest of them surviving day to day life in the constant presence of the [[Hair-Trigger Temper|ever-violent]] Pesto.

 

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]

* [[Toothy Bird]]: The toothiest of the three.

 

* [[Berserk Button]]: More like Berserk Keyboard.

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: He has one [[Green Eyes]] and one [[Purple Eyes|magenta]] one.

 

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Well, not exactly, nice, but he's the most stoic of the group and is probably the most level-headed, as well. That being said, [[Hair-Trigger Temper|Pesto]] is actually scared of him when he gets serious.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]

* [[The Spock]]

 

* [[Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag]]

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Though Squit get's the most of it.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Marlon Brando again.

* [[The Unintelligible]]

 

=== The Girlfeathers, Sasha, Kiki, and Lana ===

* [[Love Interest]]: To the Goodfeathers.

* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]

 

== Minor Supporting, [[Recurring Character]], and [[One-Shot Character|One Shot Characters]] ==

A stray cat and dog trying to find a home for themselves.

 

* [[Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag]]

* [[Cats Are Superior]]

* [["I Want" Song]]: Every time she sings a song, it's about how much she wants a home or thinks she's found one.

 

* [[Berserk Button]]: Mentioning cats to Runt, which leads us to [[Dogs Are Dumb]] below.

* [[Big Friendly Dog]]

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Runt is a takeoff of Dustin "Rainman" Hoffman.

 

* [[Female Feline, Male Mutt]]

* [[Furry Female Mane]]: Inverted.

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]

* [[Local Reference]]: When Rita and Runt go to Poland in "Puttin on the Blitz", Rita sings that it doesn't look like Burbank, more like Van Nuys. (Both are cities in Los Angeles. You can guess which one has higher property values).

* [[Musical Episode]]: Rita and Runt have at least one song per short.

=== Mindy and Buttons ===

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* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Mindy's "Okay, Lady, I love you, bye-bye."

* [[Constantly Curious]]: Mindy constantly asks questions to people much to their annoyance.

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Her hair is a rather pale shade of blonde.

* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Mindy is smack-dab in the middle of growing up under some extremely neglectful conditions, though being a toddler, she's blissfully unaware of it so far.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Mindy always addresses her mom as "Lady."

 

* [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]]

* [[Big Friendly Dog]]

* [[Vertigo Effect]]: Occasionally done with Buttons the moment Mindy escapes.

 

 

=== Mindy's Mom ===

 

=== Mindy's Dad ===

=== Newt ===

* [[Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag]]

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: YMMV, but Newt has his work cut out for him. And yes, [[Captain Obvious|he IS the villain]] of "Meet Minerva".

 

 

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Every problem a teen could have (panicking over her date being late, trying to learn how to drive, getting a pimple, etc.) causes her to turn into a monster.

* [[No Periods, Period]]: And that's why the writers created [[Cute and Psycho|Katie Kaboom]] to explain to innocent little children [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|why their big sister chucks a psycho for NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON WHATSOEVER once a month]]. Basically, their explanation was [[Teens Are Monsters]].

* [[Iron Butt Monkey]]

* [[The Speechless]]

 

=== Chicken Boo ===

* [[Animals Not to Scale]]: He's a chicken, I tell ya! A giant chicken!

* [[Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag]]

* [[You Have to Believe Me]]: The entire point of the character

 

* [[Motor Mouth]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

 

=== Baynarts "Charlton" Woodchuck ===

One of the original stars of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio, Buddy was hastily created by animator Earl Duvall as an ersatz of [[Bosko the Talk Ink Kid]], and from late 1933 to 1935, he served as the lead star of the [[Looney Tunes]] shorts. In real life, the character was reviled by the staff due to his [[Flat Character|complete and utter lack of personality]], only magnified by the dull, plotless cartoons he starred in, and was immediately phased out once [[Porky Pig]] became the studio mascot. In-universe, he was upstaged by Yakko, Wakko and Dot, who were brought in to spice up his boring cartoons by bashing him in the head over and over again with a mallet. His sole appearance in the series is in "The Warners 65th Anniversary Special", where he comes back as a villain in an attempt to get revenge on the trio for destroying his career.

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Flat Character]]: The original B&W Buddy. The special gives him a little more personality.

 

 

=== King Salazar The Pushy ===

 

* [[Jerkass]]

 

 

* [[Overly Long Name]]: The Warner Sibs' Mom, Queen Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca the Second