The Mystery Cartoon Character Game, ongoing-ier.

Yes, Dave had to move to a new server. I think your right OUB about the recent posts not being duplicated (a.k.a. A "hiccup").

so . . . . . who's turn is it? I'm a little confused thanks to the hiccup.

Mine. But you can have it if you want.

Ok, thanks Em. I've got one up my sleeve.

1. I started my career in the funny papers
2. I've starred in two different cartoon series
3. I share many traits with another funny-paper feline, though I came a good five years before he did.

I know this one well, but I'm willing to let someone else guess.

Ok, I give. It's Heathcliff. He's the only cat who matches the clues.

Correct, Em. It's Heathcliff

1. Heathcliff originated as a comic strip character
2. Heathcliff starred in two different cartoon series: "Heathcliff and Dingbat" (and the second season was known as "Heathcliff and Marmaduke") in 1980, and "Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats" in 1984
3. Heathcliff shares several traits with fellow-funny-paper-feline Garfield: they're both orange with black stripes, they're both tubby tabbies. However, Heathcliff debut in 1973, while Garfield came later in 1978.

Thanks. Fluidgirl. I'll post a new one when I get home.

And here are my latest clues:

1. We're a short-lived couple, at least in terms of our animated shorts.

2. One of us is shorter than the other, and our real first names were never revealed.

3. We're modeled after a live action couple whose name sounds like something used for making tea.

Ma and Pa Kettle--that last clue did it for me.

Actually, the characters' names were simply Maw and Paw, but I'll credit you with the right answer. But just to clear things up:

1. Their cartoon series was short-lived.

2. Maw's shorter than Paw.

3. They were modeled after Ma and Pa Kettle, played in live action films by Percy Kilbride, and Marjorie Main.

So good job, Glowworm. Take another turn.

Thanks, since I don't know much about the characters, other than the fact that the live action versions had animated doppelgangers--and of course that they are hillbillies, I naturally mixed up the live action names but meant the animated ones.

Anyhow, I was actually hoping to get the next turn because I have a character all picked out.

1. I am a one shot character on an animated tv series.
2. This is my own episode, the usual main characters are not a part of it--although they do introduce my short.
3. I was originally intended to be a puppet show character, but that fell through.

Can't figure this one out for the life of me. Hopefully, someone else knows.

Some more clues.

4. I am the son of a Brontosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
5. I am a sea creature, much like one of the main characters of the tv series.
6. My tale is sung as a folk song.

Well, I looked, but didn't find. So maybe someone else can look where I did, and find the character.

Could this be Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, originally a sock puppet character for the children's morning show Time For Beany? I know that Robert Clampett, one of Warner Brothers' senior animators, adapted the boy-with-friendly-monster premise into an animated series.

He's already on the list, but something tells me you're close.

Indeed, oneuglybunny, you are very close. As I mentioned in the clues, the character is a one shot, which Cecil certainly isn't, and was intended to be a puppet show character, but never became one--unlike Cecil who started out as one.

However, you nailed what show the character is from-- Beany and Cecil. Now all you have to do is find the character.

Wrapping this one up.

7. I am the last episode of the series.
8. My name is spelt rather unusually.
9. I am a mudpie slinging, mischief making sea creature.

Unfortunately, I still don't have it. Hate to admit it, but looking back on it now, I never saw "Beany And Cecil" all the way through.