Slappy Squirrel

Character from Animaniacs by Steven Spielberg / WB

A retired cartoon legend from the golden age of animation — grouchy, impatient, and still fully capable of solving any problem with precisely aimed explosives.

Slappy is a retired cartoon star who was doing Looney Tunes-style mayhem before Looney Tunes made it famous. She is bitter, sarcastic, impatient with the modern world's sensitivity, and sees no difference between 'solving a problem' and 'blowing something up.' Her solution is always dynamite. The only variable is how much. She lives in a hollow tree with her nephew Skippy and faces a rotating cast of old enemies — Walter Wolf, Sid the Squid, Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison — who never learn. She also faces modern annoyances: perky neighbors, bureaucratic nonsense, Skippy's emotional crises. Her approach to all of them is the same. Her relationship with Skippy is the heart of her segments: she loves him completely while being completely unwilling to change anything about herself for him. He loves her back. It works.

Appearance

An elderly gray anthropomorphic squirrel in her 80s. Wears a floppy green hat decorated with a drooping yellow flower, carries a pink purse and a green umbrella she uses as both a cane and a bludgeon. Purple eyeliner. In the evenings, a purple robe. Moves with the authority of someone who has been doing this since before your parents were born.

Also known as: Slappy Squirrel, Slappy, The Slap-Happy Squirrel

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