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Title: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: Tom Scharpling on September 17, 2015, 08:05:58 PM
Here's the list, revised and clarified! Please tell everyone about it! Thanks to all those who participated!

THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY

1.   Bugs Bunny
2.   Gary the Squirrel
3.   Poochie from THE SIMPSONS
4.   The Dancing Chicken from STROSZEK
5.   Snoopy
6.   The Mouse with a Cape
7.   Baxter from ANCHORMAN
8.   Bigfoot
9.   King Kong
10.   Tarkus from Emerson Lake & Palmer’s TARKUS
11.   Moby Dick
12.   The Goose in the Wawa logo
13.   Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
14.   Muttley from WACKY RACES
15.   Jonsey the Cat from ALIEN
16.   Bruce the Shark from JAWS
17.   The Chestnut Mare from “Chestnut Mare”
18.   Toonces, the Cat Who Could Drive a Car
19.   Dog the Bounty Hunter
20.   Sh*thead from THE JERK
21.   Jermaine from ADVENTURE TIME
22.   Lil Bub
23.   Pizza Dog from Matt Fraction’s HAWKEYE
24.   HoseHead from STRANGE BREW
25.   The Dog from MASSIVE HEAD WOUND HARRY
26.   Bart the Bear from THE EDGE
27.   Jimmy Jazz
28.   Blinky the Fish from THE SIMPSONS
29.   Fred from SMOKEY & THE BANDIT
30.   The Phoenix Suns Gorilla
31.   Clyde the orangutan from EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE
32.   Tie: Budgie & Basil from Caninus/Waldo from Hatebeak
33.   Philip Marlowe’s cat from THE LONG GOODBYE
34.   The horse head from THE GODFATHER
35.   Doge
36.   Ferdinand the Bull
37.   Bullwinkle J. Moose
38.   Donald the Falcon from THE FALCONER
39.   The Cat from Monty Python’s Confuse A Cat
40.   Johnny from JOHNNY’S BANANAS
41.   Ubu from UBU PRODUCTIONS
42.   The snakes from PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE
43.   Antony from ANT-MAN
44.   Tie: The Pig from Pink Floyd’s ANIMALS/The Cow from Pink Floyd’s ATOM HEART MOTHER
45.   Vomiting Kermit from LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN
46.   The Cat from INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
47.   Stan the Dog from DOG WITH A BLOG
48.   Pie-O-My from THE SOPRANOS
49.   The Window Rat from THE DEPARTED
50.   Cuddles the Chimp from STATEN ISLAND GARBAGE RATS
Title: Re: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: warmachine on September 19, 2015, 12:57:31 PM
#51 Fudgy the Whale Carvel ice cream cake.
Title: Re: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: Denim Gremlin on September 19, 2015, 02:00:33 PM
I can't believe Snagglepuss didn't make the list
Title: Re: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: peter falk on September 20, 2015, 09:22:58 AM
The tiger from Apocalypse Now should replace Dog With a Blog.
Title: Re: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: Patrick on September 21, 2015, 12:00:42 PM
hey tom, was unable to listen to the show live last week other wise i woulda called in...  Remy the Rat from Ratatouille should be a top 5 shoe in, cant believe no one mentioned him. 
Title: Re: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: TASTEFLEX on September 21, 2015, 12:25:06 PM
I wish I hadn't listened to this episode so late. i would have nominated Albert Brooks' bird "Petey" from Modern Romance
Title: Re: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: JesseFromVegas on September 21, 2015, 03:50:07 PM
I was shocked no one said Eddie from Frasier, because Kelsey Grammar reportedly hated that dog which is exactly why he should be on the list
Title: Re: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: SimonFromCanada on September 21, 2015, 09:05:33 PM
I would have nominated Wile E Coyote.
Title: Re: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: Tom Scharpling on September 22, 2015, 11:11:34 AM
Im not sure how Remy the Rat got passed over. He will be a part of any revised list.

Thanks!

Title: Re: THE 50 GREATEST ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Post by: Eric Fishlegs on September 22, 2015, 02:59:44 PM
On Twitter I suggested Zippy the Chimp, the chimp who carried the Monkey-Cam on Late Night with David Letterman, but I think I got the hashtag wrong or something.