Huckleberry Hound (character)


 * This article is about the character. For other uses, see Huckleberry Hound.

Huckleberry Hound is an anthropomorphic bloodhound and the main title character of The Huckleberry Hound Show animated television series. His voice was originated by Daws Butler.

In the Jellystone! reboot, Huckleberry is the mayor of the titular town.

Character description
Huckleberry Hound is a bipedal dog with a light blue fur coat. His head has a mostly square structure and part of his muzzle is peach-colored. His eyes are sleepy and have droopy eyelids on them. He also has a black tip on his short tail. Although Huck's clothing varies in each appearance, the one element that stayed mostly consistent is his red bow tie. Various promotional images depicted him with a crooked boater hat, but this is usually not present in most media.

Huck's personality is chill, relaxing and well-intended. He talks in a distinctive Southern drawl, speaking in a calm manner while also spurting out some phrases such as "Wal, I do declare!", and "Say now, that's mighty nice!" Although he can be pretty lethargic at times, Huck is nonetheless a charming person due to his positive attitude. He also tends to break the fourth wall, speaking in front of the audience to state his current mood, or whenever he wants to point out a thing.

Many of Huck's roles vary depending on his appearances, but his main goal in life is to complete his tasks seamlessly. But because of his often sluggish nature, he exhibits himself as the one who has no clue upon being faced with the obvious. His attempts tend to backfire in dire consequences, yet his calm personality kept him from being bothered, shrugging these fates as nothing more than a little mishap. Sometimes, his dumb luck would lead him to unintended success.

Huck's signature tune is the western folk ballad "Oh My Darling, Clementine", which he always sang in a comically tone-deaf and inaccurate rendition.

TV series

 * Huckleberry Hound
 * 1.1 "Huckleberry Hound Meets Wee Willie"
 * 1.2 "Lion-Hearted Huck"
 * 1.3 "Tricky Trapper"
 * 1.4 "Sir Huckleberry Hound"
 * 1.5 "Sheriff Huckleberry"
 * 1.6 "Rustler Hustler Huck"
 * 1.7 "Freeway Patrol"
 * 1.8 "Cock-a-Doodle Huck"
 * 1.9 "Two Corny Crows"
 * 1.10 "Fireman Huck"
 * 1.11 "Dragon-Slayer Huck"
 * 1.12 "Hookey Daze"
 * 1.13 "Skeeter Trouble"
 * 1.14 "Sheep-Shape Sheepherder"
 * 1.15 "Barbecue Hound"
 * 1.16 "Hokum Smokum"
 * 1.17 "Bird House Blues"
 * 1.18 "Postman Panic"
 * 1.19 "Ski Champ Chump"
 * 1.20 "Lion Tamer Huck"
 * 1.21 "Little Red Riding Huck"
 * 1.22 "The Tough Little Termite"
 * 2.1 "Ten Pin Alley"
 * 2.2 "Grim Pilgrim"
 * 2.3 "Jolly Roger and Out"
 * 2.4 "Somebody's Lion"
 * 2.5 "A Bully Dog"
 * 2.6 "Nottingham and Yeggs"
 * 2.7 "Huck, the Giant Killer"
 * 2.8 "Cop and Saucer"
 * 2.9 "Pony Boy Huck"
 * 2.10 "Pet Vet"
 * 2.11 "Picadilly Dilly"
 * 2.12 "Wiki Waki Huck"
 * 2.13 "Huck's Hack"
 * 3.1 "Spud Dud"
 * 3.2 "Legion Bound Hound"
 * 3.3 "Science Friction"
 * 3.4 "Nuts Over Mutts"
 * 3.5 "Huck Hound's Tale"
 * 3.6 "The Unmasked Avenger"
 * 3.7 "Fast Gun Huck"
 * 3.8 "Hillbilly Huck"
 * 3.9 "Lawman Huck"
 * 3.10 "Huck and Ladder"
 * 3.11 "Astro-Nut Huck"
 * 3.12 "Cluck and Dagger"
 * 3.12 "Knight School"
 * 3.14 "Fast Gun Huck"
 * 4.1 "Caveman Huck"
 * 4.2 "Huck of the Irish"
 * 4.3 "Jungle Bungle"
 * 4.4 "Bullfighter Huck"
 * 4.5 "Ben Huck"
 * 4.6 "Huck dé Paree"
 * 4.7 "Two for Tee Vee"
 * 4.8 "Bars and Stripes"
 * 4.9 "The Scrubby Brush Man"
 * Quick Draw McGraw
 * 1.13 "El Kabong Strikes Again" (mentioned)
 * Yogi's Gang
 * Laff-A-Lympics
 * 1.1 "The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan"
 * 1.2 "Acapulco and England"
 * 1.3 "Florida and China" (no lines)
 * 1.4 "The Sahara Desert and Scotland" (no lines)
 * 1.5 "France and Australia"
 * 1.6 "Athens, Greece and the Ozarks" (no lines)
 * 1.7 "Italy and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina" (no lines)
 * 1.8 "Egypt and Sherwood Forest" (no lines)
 * 1.9 "Spain and the Himalayas" (no lines)
 * 1.10 "India and Israel" (no lines)
 * 1.11 "Africa and San Francisco" (no lines)
 * 1.12 "The Grand Canyon and Ireland"
 * 1.13 "Hawaii and Norway"
 * 1.14 "North Pole and Tahiti"
 * 1.15 "Arizona and Holland"
 * 1.16 "Quebec and Baghdad" (no lines)
 * 2.1 "Russia and the Caribbean" (no lines)
 * 2.2 "New York and Turkey" (no lines)
 * 2.3 "South America and Transylvania"
 * 2.4 "French Riviera and New Zealand" (no lines)
 * 2.5 "New Orleans and Atlantis"
 * 2.6 "Morocco and Washington D.C." (no lines)
 * 2.7 "Canada and Warsaw, Poland"
 * 2.8 "Siam and the Moon" (no lines)
 * Yogi's Treasure Hunt
 * Fender Bender 500
 * Yo, Yogi!
 * The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
 * 4.2B "Irwin Gets a Clue" (no lines)
 * Wacky Races
 * 2.32 "Slow and Steady"
 * Animaniacs
 * 1.2C "Suffragate City" (no lines)
 * Jellystone!

Movies

 * Yogi's Ark Lark
 * Casper's First Christmas
 * Yogi's First Christmas
 * Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
 * Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose
 * The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound

Specials

 * Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration
 * The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo (no lines)

Shorts

 * Loopy De Loop
 * 1.35 "Not in Nottingham" (mentioned)
 * "Everyone" (no lines)

Comics

 * Huckleberry Hound (Dell Comics)
 * Huckleberry Hound (Gold Key Comics)
 * Huckleberry Hound (Charlton Comics)
 * Laff-A-Lympics
 * #1 The Meet at Mount Ono"
 * #2 Trouble at the Track Meet"
 * #3 The Miraculous Moon Meet!"
 * #4 Take Me Out to the Brawl Game!"
 * #5 The Day the Rottens Won!"
 * #6 The Discount of Monty Cristo"
 * #7 The Purple Pig Puzzle"
 * #8 The Beef of Bagdad"
 * #9 Go Rest, Old Man"
 * #10 Now You See Them..."
 * #11 The Toys from Tomorrow"
 * #12 The Ends of the Earth"
 * #13 No Laff-A-Lympics Today!"
 * The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
 * #3 "The Man Who Stole Thursday"
 * Cartoon Network Christmas Spectacular
 * #1C "Mail Must Go Through"
 * Cartoon Network Presents
 * #8B "War is Huck"
 * Exit Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
 * Green Lantern/Huckleberry Hound Special
 * #1 "The Test"

Books

 * Hokey Wolf and Ding-a-Ling featuring Huckleberry Hound
 * Huckleberry Hound: The Case of the Friendly Monster

Video games

 * Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons

♫Oh, mah dar-lin' Clementi-i-i-ne!♫
In The Huckleberry Hound Show, Huck acted as the show's host to present the cartoons in each episode, like a showman doing a circus performance. He appeared in wraparounds and bridging segments, sharing a spotlight with Yogi Bear, Pixie and Dixie, Mr. Jinks; and in seasons 3-4, Hokey Wolf.

In his own cartoon segments, Huck assumes a different role and occupation in every episode. He has a long list of careers, which include—but not limited to—a policeman, a fire fighter, a rocket scientist, a farmer, and a dog catcher (even though Huck himself is a dog, albeit an anthropomorphic one). His roles also extend to more fantastical territory, including parodies of fictional figures such as Tarzan, Robin Hood, and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Fender Bender 500
Huck was paired up with Snagglepuss, and was the driver of the Half Dog Half Cat Halftrack, which was designed to be a portable stage.

Huck Sells Out
In The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode "Irwin Gets a Clue," he's one of several Hanna-Barbera characters run over by Hoss Delgado's truck.

The Not So Funny Books
In Exit Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Huckleberry Hound is a closeted gay novelist who is close friends with Snagglepuss since childhood. His life served as the inspiration for A Dog's Life, a follow-up to Snagglepuss' previous play The Kennel is a Heart of Thieves.

Huckleberry was married to his wife with one child — Huck Jr — but their marrage ended when he was caught having an affair with a man. After he moved to New York City for a fresh start, Snagglepuss introduced him to the Stonewall bar, where he was greeted by police officer and Huck's eventual lover, Quick Draw McGraw.

During the Stonewall raid, Quick Draw confronts Huckleberry and beats him to avoid being outed as a homosexual. Though Snagglepuss was not at Stonewall at that time, Huckleberry was arrested and outed by the press. After he is released from jail, Huck hangs himself, leaving only his divorced wife and child.

Roles and occupations

 * Note: this section is currently under construction. Feel free to expand it.

Throughout his appearances, Huckleberry Hound is known for having at least more than a single role, and is seen having a different job depending on which media or episode he appears in. In some of his appearances, Huck is also seen doing activities without an established occupation. The following is a list of his roles from over the years:

Development
According to Daws Butler, Huckleberry Hound's voice originated from a man named William Harwood, a North Carolina man who was a veterinarian and next-door neighbor of Butler's future wife, Myrtis:

“Myrtis was from Albemarle, North Carolina. When I was in the navy, I’d hitchhike home on the weekend and this fella would be sitting on the front porch next door. He'd see me come panting just to see Myrtis, and he'd say (in a drawl), ‘Hi, Daws! Come on up and sit down. We’ll talk a bit.’ I’d say, ‘Well, maybe a half an hour or an hour.’ Anyway, he kind of stuck in my head. I was in the navy then, but I put him in a little separate box. I didn’t even realize I was doing it. Then when Huckleberry Hound came along, there he was!”

- Daws Butler, The Magic Behind the Voices

Huck's voice also bears similarities to that of actor Andy Griffith, who likewise based his character accent on a rural North Carolian town (in Griffith's case, Mount Airy), and Hanna-Barbera was known for parodying known actors with their characters' voices; Butler denied using Griffith as inspiration, stating that he used the accent about a decade before Griffith became famous.

Behind the scenes

 * According to a 1982 calendar, he was born on January 17th.
 * Huckleberry's name is derived from the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, although the word "huckleberry" has also been historically used as slang for either a country person of ignorance, or a individual that one looks up to.
 * Even though the song "Oh My Darling, Clementine" was written in 1884, Huckleberry Hound's rendition was so iconic that it became synonymous with the character.
 * In the Brazilian Portugese dub of Huckleberry Hound, he is named "Dom Pixote," after the titular character of the novel Don Quixote for his oblivious mannerisms.

In popular culture

 * In the Robot Chicken "Laff-A-Munich" skit of the episode "Ban on the Fun," he is seen among the other Yogi Yahooeys teammates to be killed by the Really Rottens in a Munich-themed style.
 * In the Daria episode "Lane Miserables," Trent mentions watching Huckleberry as a kid, noting that he and Huckleberry Finn don't have a lot in common. Daria then points out that Huckleberry was more of a closer.
 * In the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Huckleberry's use of '"Oh My Darling, Clementine" is brought up when Joel introduces himself to Clementine (who herself shares the same name as the song), and the latter sings its chorus to Joel on a train to Montauk.
 * Huckleberry is Freddy Funko's co-host on The Freddy Funko Show.

The Simpsons

 * "The Day the Violence Died:" When Chester takes Robert Meyers, Jr. to court over plagiarism of his creation of Itchy, Meyers claims that this is part of the business because without Andy Griffith from The Andy Griffith Show, there wouldn't be Huckleberry Hound.
 * "Behind the Laughter:" As the episode draws to a close, Behind the Laughter, a parody of VH1's Behind the Music, previews Huckleberry (voiced by Karl Wiedergott) for their next episode, who confesses that he was so gay, but he couldn't tell anyone.
 * "Treehouse of Horror XXVI:" In a special opening sequence animated by John K., Bart is wearing a Huckleberry mask and t-shirt.