Morocco Mole
Morocco Mole | |
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![]() Morocco in "The Pink Sky Mobile." | |
Species: | Mole |
Gender: | Male |
Affiliation: | International Sneaky Service/Super Secret Service Secret Squirrel Double-Q Super Secret Service Yogi's Gang Honey Bea Sauna Sweats & Sandwiches |
Occupation: | Secret agent |
Father: | Not mentioned |
Mother: | Not mentioned |
Sibling(s): | One brother, Scirocco Mole, in Super Secret Secret Squirrel |
Marital status: | Single |
First appearance: | SS&MM: "Sub Swiper" (1965) |
Played by: | Paul Frees (1965-1967) Jim Cummings (1993) Maurice LaMarche (2005) Dana Snyder (2022) |
![]() Super Secret Secret Squirrel | |
![]() Secret Squirrel | |
![]() Jellystone! |
Morocco Mole is an anthropomorphic mole and one of the main title characters in the Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole shorts. His voice was originated by Paul Frees.
Morocco is the chauffeur, partner, sidekick, and obviously best and only friend of the secret agent Secret, who works for the International Sneaky Service (known as the Super Secret Service in Super Secret Secret Squirrel). In DC Comics' reboot, he was made the head of International Sneaky Service, abbreviated to the ISS.
In the Jellystone! reboot, he works at Sauna Sweats & Sandwiches.
Character description
Morocco is a brown mole who wears a red fez, a yellow bandana scarf, a turquoise jacket, and large black glasses. In Super Secret Secret Squirrel, he instead has a grey body and wears an orange jacket with circular sunglasses, although he still wears a fez in that series.
The original series portrays him as Secret's long-suffering chauffeur, driving his partner to and from missions and the International Sneaky Service. He usually waits outside while Secret gets his missions from the chief, exclaiming "I'll wait good, like a faithful friend/companion should." During missions, he often helped Secret to regroup (or reassemble) after an attempt to capture the villain failed with one of his gadgets backfiring.
In the sequel series, he takes on a more bumbling personality, always saying "oopsie" after making an obvious blunder, and providing more of the comic relief that Secret himself usually provided in the original series. He always appears just after Secret when reporting for duty to the Chief, announcing himself with "Likewise me: Morocco Mole", usually while bumbling his entrance in one way or another. He is explicitly an agent of the Super Secret Service, rather than just Secret Squirrel's chauffeur, as the Chief is required to give him one assignment in his career as an agent.
Appearances
TV series
Shorts
Comics
- Secret Squirrel (Gold Key Comics)
- The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
- #3 "The Man Who Stole Thursday" (no lines)
- Hanna-Barbera Presents
- #1B "Thunderbell"
- #1C "Blow Little Blowfish"
- Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
- #11 "I Spy Something... Boo!"
- Cartoon Network Presents
- #20C "Wok on the Wild Side"
- Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
- #11 "I Spy Something... Boo!"
- Future Quest
- #5 "Code Name: Cobalt" (t-shirt graphic)
- #12 "Last Stand Part Two" (t-shirt graphic)
- Secret Squirrel (DC Comics)
- #4 "Broken!"
- #4 "Deadly Reunion!"
- #5 "Bikini Bloodbath!"
- #6 "Toolbooth Terror!"
- #7 "No Noose is Good Noose!"
- #8 "Pinkie Problems!"
- #9 "Father Figures!"
- #10 "Honey, I Shrunk the Squirrel!"
- #11 "Unplugged!"
Books
Biography
Debut Series
Crossover Era
It's Yogi's Gang!
Super Secret Secret Squirrel
Harvey Birdman Represents
Secret asks Harvey Birdman to defend Morocco, who has been arrested and sent to Guantamole Bay.[1]
Everyone's Back in Jellystone!
Morocco in the Funny Books
Thursdays are missing!
Scooby Meets Secret Squirrel
Impossibles Show Their Love
At one point as a civilian, Fluid-Man wears a t-shirt with Morocco's face printed on it.[2][3]
Development
Paul Frees patterned Morroco Mole's voice after Hungarian-American actor Peter Lorre,[4] who was best known for having a distintive accent in his film roles.
Gallery
- Main article: Morocco Mole/Gallery
In popular culture
References
- ^ Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: "Bird Girl of Guantanamole," season 3, episode 4 (2005).
- ^ Future Quest: "Code Name: Cobalt," issue 5B (2016).
- ^ Future Quest: "Last Stand Part Two," issue 12 (2017).
- ^ Stephen D. Youngkin. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Lesington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005, p.451
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