Wow, her name is actually a boob jokeFujiko Mine from Lupin III
According to Wikipedia, her name means "Peaks of Fuji"
How about Janice from Electric Mayhem?
Ha, I love Janice!
You're probably the only normal one here.
I won't tease because I had my eye on Cleo. She was my "gateway" interest that got me intrigued with "petting zoo people" (using the term promoted at TV Tropes). Though considering the art that gets the media attention, maybe that term should be "heavy petting zoo people".
Sincerely,
Bill
You know what floored me about Cleo? I get that they had to make her anthro to convey "cute girl cat", but why did they specifically go for an aerobics star look? It's like her fur grew into a leotard...and where'd she get the leg warmers?
Do you mean those delineating lines at her hips, the ones that fully encircle the upper thighs instead of partial ones to imply the curvature of her hips? I've occasionally wondered if those were mandated by the "powers that be". If she had possessed something more akin to a "funny animal" body (long or rotund torso resting upon shorter legs) like, say, Sonya from the preceding Heathcliff segments, those "hip seams" might not have been requesting. But since she had a rather feminine, hourglass shape to her body (depending upon which artists drew her cels), "standards & practices" might have demanded those lines be included to imply she wore clothes.
Of course, those lines don't make much sense unless she also had seams at her neck and wrists. Plus, one episode featured a character whose look kinda' shoots holes in my theory. In "Kitten Around" Riffraff sees another girl on the sly, just after he promised to date Cleo exclusively. Roxy had legwarmers like Cleo and a scarf around her neck, but she didn't have those "hip seams". Then again, having just looked at screen captures of Roxy, I see he upper neck and face were a slightly different shade from the rest of her body. It's not a drastically different shade, but just enough that it suggests she is wearing a body suit.
As for the legwarmers, well, that series was syndicated in 1984 and whether one likes them or not, legwarmers were all the rage at that time. Yes, they were usually associated with exercise "togs", but a fair number of women wore them as street fashion. Plus, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats" was breaking all sorts of records on Broadway, and the costume design for that musical fitted nearly every character with legwarmers. I figured the rumpled "footless" sock type garment had have been an homage to the play.
Because of Cleo and characters like Demeter and Bombalurina from "Cats", I've had a "thing" for legwarmers ever since.
Sincerely,
Bill
Of course, those lines don't make much sense unless she also had seams at her neck and wrists. Plus, one episode featured a character whose look kinda' shoots holes in my theory. In "Kitten Around" Riffraff sees another girl on the sly, just after he promised to date Cleo exclusively. Roxy had legwarmers like Cleo and a scarf around her neck, but she didn't have those "hip seams". Then again, having just looked at screen captures of Roxy, I see he upper neck and face were a slightly different shade from the rest of her body. It's not a drastically different shade, but just enough that it suggests she is wearing a body suit.
As for the legwarmers, well, that series was syndicated in 1984 and whether one likes them or not, legwarmers were all the rage at that time. Yes, they were usually associated with exercise "togs", but a fair number of women wore them as street fashion. Plus, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats" was breaking all sorts of records on Broadway, and the costume design for that musical fitted nearly every character with legwarmers. I figured the rumpled "footless" sock type garment had have been an homage to the play.
Because of Cleo and characters like Demeter and Bombalurina from "Cats", I've had a "thing" for legwarmers ever since.
Sincerely,
Bill
Just so everybody knows what we're talking about:
Cleo
Roxy
Actually your theory makes more sense than anything I could come up with. As for the attraction,
I think if you're going for a womanly shape, might as well make her a woman, not a woman-animal.
But, I'm willing to meet you halfway with one of my crushes:
Cheetara
Cleo
Roxy
Actually your theory makes more sense than anything I could come up with. As for the attraction,
I think if you're going for a womanly shape, might as well make her a woman, not a woman-animal.But, I'm willing to meet you halfway with one of my crushes:
Cheetara
Ironically, it was one of the few syndicated cartoons from the 1980s that was not developed to simply promote an existing a line of toys. It had the good fortune of getting Mel Blanc to voice HeathCliff, but that was about its only saving grace. But like many other cartoons from that era, it suffered from very censorship, washed out color pallettes, awkward pacing and "limited", jerky animation. The only reason I bothered watching was to catch those "Catillac Cats" episodes that featured Cleo (she didn't appear in all of them). And you could tell different episodes were drawn by different teams. In some episodes Cleo was rather "squat" looking. In others, she had more of an anime influence, appearing taller and slimmer (comparitively speaking), with a fuller mass of forehead "bangs" (like Dana Sterling of "RoboTech") and the quintissential manga styled eyes. It was the anime styled Cleo that I liked more even though I was not yet versed in the minutae in anime and manga. I just knew I liked that design better.
I read somewhere (and I'll admit the information may well be apocryphal) that the "Catillac Cats" segments came from a creative team living in Mexico. DIC, the production company that released "Haethcliff" was not convinced it would work on its own, but did think it could serve as "filler" for the HeathCliff license it had obtained. It certainly had potential and had it debuted in the 90s when we started getting shows like "Tiny Toons" or "Animaniacs" when the censorship guidlines had been "relaxed", it could have been a riot. But the Tex Avery inspired visual gags that helped those two Warner Bros. properties were more heavily scrutinized and, frankly, censored in the 1980s. But gags alone would not have been enough. The pacing was just simply "off". Timing is everything and that show just didn't have it. Few cartoons from the 80s did.
Sincerely,
Bill
I read somewhere (and I'll admit the information may well be apocryphal) that the "Catillac Cats" segments came from a creative team living in Mexico. DIC, the production company that released "Haethcliff" was not convinced it would work on its own, but did think it could serve as "filler" for the HeathCliff license it had obtained. It certainly had potential and had it debuted in the 90s when we started getting shows like "Tiny Toons" or "Animaniacs" when the censorship guidlines had been "relaxed", it could have been a riot. But the Tex Avery inspired visual gags that helped those two Warner Bros. properties were more heavily scrutinized and, frankly, censored in the 1980s. But gags alone would not have been enough. The pacing was just simply "off". Timing is everything and that show just didn't have it. Few cartoons from the 80s did.
Sincerely,
Bill
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Agreed. Cleo was the only reason I watched that show.
The Last Unicorn is a great film, an overlooked masterpiece.
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Greatest would be Aladdin.
Especially the version drawn by David Kawena. Google "David Kawena Aladdin" and you'll find Aladdin and other Disney Heroes and Villains (All male) re-imagined as underwear models.
First, tough one. I'd say Mark, from Battle of the Planets. I like guys with long hair.
I'd like to add a third, always a favorite, but not from a cartoon but a comic. Cutter, Blood of Ten Chiefs from ElfQuest.
Especially the version drawn by David Kawena. Google "David Kawena Aladdin" and you'll find Aladdin and other Disney Heroes and Villains (All male) re-imagined as underwear models.
First, tough one. I'd say Mark, from Battle of the Planets. I like guys with long hair.
I'd like to add a third, always a favorite, but not from a cartoon but a comic. Cutter, Blood of Ten Chiefs from ElfQuest.
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Oh, I love her a lot.
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