To celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week / Teacher Appreciation Day, I direct focus on some of my favorite teachers in @cartoonnetwork‘s Cartoon Cartoons!
Ms. Keane (@crackmccraigen’s The Powerpuff Girls), an ex-kindergarten teacher from Pokey Oaks County, a sleepy suburb of the City of Townsville, is just the sweetest loaf of bread I ever knew. Along with that cute, squeaky, trill-y voice (voice of Jennifer Hale, who also voiced Billy’s Mom Gladys in Grim & Evil / The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy), she’s very nurturing to her students like a mommy.
Ms. Wimple (Genndy Tartakovsky’s Dexter’s Laboratory) is a supportive character for Dexter Detention (storyboarded by David P. Smith and the amazing @chrisbattleart). She’s so in love with Dexter that she’s entranced (“Whatever you say, Dexter. You can do no wrong.”)—and she sure is cute with all of those hearts (plus bubbles after she faints) all poppin’ around her, not to mention that “POP” appears when her hearts pop.
Ms. Babcock (Genndy Tartakovsky’s Dexter’s Laboratory) is Dee Dee’s dance studio teacher and a supportive character for “Dee Dee’s Rival” (storyboard by Chris Savino), who watches her students dancing to classical music like many classic cartoons used before Dexter’s Laboratory.
Ms. Eleanor Butterbean (@maxwellatoms’ Grim & Evil/The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy) is a supportive character / Endsville teacher. Those glasses look very complimentary to her eyes (inspired by Chris Reccardi’s work?), and “Butterbean” is just such a cute last name! Her voice fairly resembles that of Ms. Keane, too, though Ms. Butterbean is the voice of Renée Raudman..
BTW, many creatives who worked on these Cartoon Network Studios (AKA Hanna-Barbera Cartoons) projects came from Spümcø, which produced The Ren & Stimpy Show! (My most personal thanks to that show’s highly controversial and formerly abusive creator, and to his ground-breaking team for contributing talent to some of the most popular American/Western/Burbank-produced cartoons ever made!
