#the goodfeathers

[dorkynerd23]

[the-gershomite]

Animaniacs featuring Pinky and the Brain #49 -June 1999-

DC Comics

Yakko Wakko and Dot "The Lit-Wit Issue"

writer: Jeff Seuss

penciler: Leo Batic & Jim Amash pages, 1-5, 14-22, Walter Carzon & Horacio Ottoline, pages 6-13

letterer: John Costanza & Phil Felix

assitant editor: Harvey Richards

editor: Dana Kurtin

Chicken Boo "Macboo"

Pinky and the Brain: "Brainwulf"

The Goodfeathers: "Pride and Pigeon-ness" (aka "Coo-less")

Flavio and Marita Hippo: "Romeo and Juliet" translated by Yakko Warner

[thatdoodlebug]

if angry why so friendshaped ? <3 (squit and his death wish)

[kingly-court]

Are these anything? Because they’re everything to me.

Bonus;

[timestandsstill23]

What if the Goodfeathers were a polycule? What if the mice weren’t the only gay animals on this show?

[ghoulishfigure]

ignore how badly thrown together this looks. that's because it is.

[cf56]

How come Pesto keeps beating up Squit? What caused Pesto to get riled up so easily toward what others say?

Sorry for taking over a year to answer this. It was a hard year for me to think about Animaniacs lore and such, but I'm trying to get back to it.

I'll start by saying the obvious, which is that the character Pesto is parodying is also short tempered. Pesto takes that to a comedic extreme by taking even completely innocent comments to be insults. His entire character is a parody of that one scene from Goodfellas (Rated R movie warning). That's not the kind of analysis you're here for, though. :)

Pesto seems to be both insecure and arrogant. He has an inflated view of himself but not always the highest intelligence, which is part of what leads him to twist Squit's big words into meaning things that they don't. I would say that the other half of it is that he expects to be insulted. He's insecure enough that he thinks everyone around him is out to get him. He jumps to conclusions without really hearing what Squit is saying and becomes extremely defensive at even the slightest provocation. He feels that he has to constantly prove his tough guy nature.

Why Squit in particular, though? Pesto doesn't do this with anyone else. There's something that makes Pesto default to hostility when it comes to Squit. I think a lot of it has to do with Squit being the newest, most naive member of the Goodfeathers. Pesto was always suspicious of him and is always looking for a reason to resent him, even though Squit is a super nice guy in reality. It's like Pesto wants Squit to be mean to him, to insult him. He wants a reason to dislike Squit. Maybe he's unnerved by how nice Squit really is. That's foreign to a tough gangster type like him- it might seem insincere. I would say that he's looking for a reason to kick him out of the group, but he continues to do this even when he's warmed up to Squit being a full-on Goodfeather.

So in conclusion, I would say that Pesto has a superficial tough guy personality that he feels the need to maintain because of his insecurity. It's just the way that he was brought up. He's also scared, anxious even, that people around him are going to make fun of him. He has a fragile ego, or a low self-esteem, or both. If he feels like he's being made to be the butt of a joke in any possible way, he reacts with extreme aggression. He just can't take it.

[painfully-unoriginal]

drew these ahead of time so i could post them today LOL