Talk:Tommy

Bedrotten Bunch comes from a Cardz card. I've never seen it anywhere else outside of that, especially the cartoon. -- MisterJames (talk) 14:38, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

That's interesting, if the card seems right to you, we can try it out because cards aren't exactly always reliable (e.t. Hokey's card with "Ding-a-Ling is a fox" on the back, speaking of which, I'm finding more sources mentioning his as a fox, the only thing that actually referred to him as a wolf was his own show). -- Snoopy The Dog (talk) 14:57, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

I gave it a lot of thought on whether or not we should take the card as canon, and decided to just go thru with it. On one set of cards I bought they had a bunch of researchers listed (although when I told Lance Falk about being listed as one of them, he denied any knowledge of that, but maybe he forgot). It's unfortunate about Ding-a-Ling because you expect the cartoon to be the upmost authority on the subject, but if there's more evidence of him being a fox, then I'd go with fox. -- MisterJames (talk) 15:03, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

I wasn't exactly sure on weather the cards were canon or not, if you consider them canon, I'd go for it. The Huckleberry Hound Dell comics pretty gave it away mostly, also a card did as well[1], and in a book, the person referred to him as a fox. Harvey Birdman also made the joke of Ding being a fox because of the porn site having the word "Foxy" on it, so yes, it's mostly a fox. -- Snoopy The Dog (talk) 15:20, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

In these instances, I think it's acceptable. Bedrotten Bunch could also be treated as a name added later on. It's not like they had a large use of internet back then to get confused with (Lance Falk would still regularly go to the library for research while working on Real Adventures). Although having said that, there are some guidebooks back in the 90s that for some reason have some awful mistakes in the them. But back to names being added later on, I'd also accept the Alex Super Experience which was added to the Frankencreepy movie, because they didn't have a band name when they originally appeared in The Scooby-Doo Show episode "Mamaba Wamba". But from the same movie, they also name Mr. Crawls Cuthbert Crawls, but I think Mr. Crawls is acceptable enough by itself. This is also how I also feel about just Hadji by itself being acceptable, instead of Hadji Singh in Real Adventures. The Singh part hasn't been used outside of Real Adventures.

It's also debatable how much the "expanded universe" should be considered as trusted sources, since in one of the Real Adventures books, they say that Jessie's mum was dead, but then was revealed in no time to be alive in the cartoon. -- MisterJames (talk) 16:23, 13 April 2021 (UTC)