Revisionism?

[vakkotaur]

While working on COLT I noticed an oddity. It looks like Warner Bros. is trying to name, or perhaps rename, a character.

The little chick that Foghorn Leghorn tried to teach sports and such to, rather than have the boy read (and read things like Splitting the Fourth Dimension) was in a whole three cartoons. In those cartoons he was only called

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[jdm314]

I could swear that chick was named Egghead too. As for Gossamer, there was that one Cartoon where Buggs hears the name Gossamer and assumes it belongs to a beautiful woman, but is in for a surprise when he meets him.

[vakkotaur]

According to this page the name Gossamer first showed up in 1980 in Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2 Century.

There is a comic story involving mistaken identity and a date with Gossamer, though it's Daffy on the date. It's Modem Operandi by Sean Carolan and Jennifer Moore. I think this was the first story by them that appeared in the U.S. distribution of the comic.

[jdm314]

Hmmm, now that you mention it, the scene I was thinking of might actually have been with Duck Dodgers.

And you have no comment in the COLT on the meaning of that episode name! Bah! ;)

[vakkotaur]

Wanna submit one?

[willowisp]

I wonder if it's a (not-so) subtle ploy to cash in on the popularity of Dilbert and all of his *bert takeoffs (Dogbert, Catbert, Ratbert, he once trolled some businessmen as Raybert (pronounced French-ily, eg Ray-baer), etc). I've called the chick "Egghead" for as long as I can remember, though darned if I can tell you when I started or where I got it from.

[verypinkygirl]

IIRC, Gossamer was reffered to (by the mad scientist) as "Rudolph" in one cartoon.

-- VPG

[vakkotaur]

Rudolph does sound familiar for the creature.