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'''''Chilly Willy''''' is a cartoon character created by the [[Walter Lantz]] Studio. He is a penguin whose original motivation consisted of a desire to find warmth, unable to stand the cold. He had a precursor in Pablo, the Cold-Blooded Penguin, a character with identical motivation. Pablo starred in a segment of ''[[
Chilly debuted in the animated short ''Chilly Willy'' (1953), directed by Paul J. Smith. In said cartoon, Chilly tries to sneak onboard a polar schooner to get access to its stove. The ship's mascot, a Saint Bernard dog, has been specifically instructed to let nobody aboard. Their conflicting interests result in some comedic episodes until Chilly gets the dog drunk. The short ends with the former mascot thrown into the brig and Chilly assigned as his replacement. While adequately funny, the short was not particularly successful.
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Chilly was revived in episodes of "The New Woody Woodpecker Show" (1999-2002) but did not return to prominence. The character was an also-ran in the comic book medium. He headlined nine issues from [[Dell Comics]] between 1956 and 1962, otherwise only receiving stories in the back pages of magazines featuring [[Woody Woodpecker]] as their main star.
== 1953 ==
* ''Chilly Willy'', directed by Paul J. Smith.
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* [[Angry Guard Dog]]: Mostly averted. Smedley is essentially a guard dog in most of his roles. He is rarely actually angry, mostly calm and determined.
* [[Bad Boss]]: Smedley tends to have a different boss in each episode. But they all have common points in being verbally abusive to him, several were physically abusive, and Colonel Pot Shot seemed eager to shoot at his employee. A common joke of the series is that Smedley is trying to rationalize and excuse their behavior.
* [[Beary Funny]]: Maxie the Polar Bear is cute and funny, rather than a large predator.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Smedley tended to do this a lot. His first appearance has him react to Chilly's theft of a fox fur right in front of him with "I think that was a fur thief" and to Chilly's repeated attempts to steal his tail with "He's got my tail" and "He's got my tail again".
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Freeze Sneeze]]: Happens to Willy in his first appearance, and presumbably several of the subsequent ones.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In "I'm Cold", chilly lives in a village called "Colder'nell"
* [[Great White Hunter]]: Colonel Pot Shot. He has a vast collection of stuffed animals, each a trophy from a previous hunting expedition.
* [[The Golden Age of Animation]]{{context}}▼
** [[The Dark Age of Animation]]{{context}}▼
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Colonel Pot Shot. With the name of the trope specifically mentioned in his description.
* [[Ironic Fear]]: Toyed with. Chilly hates the cold, and is always in fear of freezing to death. He is a penguin.
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* [[Polar Bears and Penguins]]: Chilly's opponent from ''The Legend of Rockabye Point'' is a polar bear. Later shorts introduced Chilli's best friend, Maxie the Polar Bear.
* [[Stock Animal Diet]]: When Chilly is after food instead of warmth, the food tends to be fish.
▲* [[The Golden Age of Animation]]
▲* [[The Dark Age of Animation]]
* [[The Voiceless]]: Chilly has a voice in his original appearance, but he is completely silent in the two shorts by [[Tex Avery]]. In subsequent shorts, Chilly would either have regular conversations or stay silent for the duration.
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