Puppet Characters
- Flip, an orange hippopotamus with a jive-talking voice.
- Baron Balthazar, a bearded, derby-hatted little man who would spin tales, in animated form, about his adventures and inventions back in his homeland, "Downtown Boslia." (The cartoons were originally a series, produced in Prague, called "Professor Balthazar.")
- The Oogle, a marsupial-like creature with a beak-like mouth, a hayseed-style hat, and a demeanor of clownish confusion and disillusion.
- Onomatopoeia, a multi-legged furry beast that spoke in sound effects. Partially inspired by an alien in a PROFESSOR BALTHAZAR episode.
- Eek A. Mouse.
- Woodrow the groundhog, who often yelled "Qui-e-e-e-e-e-t!" when things got out of hand and woke him from his slumber.
- Nostalgia, a chronically forgetful but sweet-tempered elephant.
- Hermione Giraffe.
- Aarthur the Aardvark.
- Ole Factory the Bloodhound.
- Halcyon the Hyena.
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“The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
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