Characters
The characters are as innumerable as the plots are inscrutable. The mainstays are:
- Pokey the Penguin
- Mr. Nutty, an alcoholic British snowman and capitalist
- A young female penguin, variously identified as "Small Child" or "Little Girl," who is apparently Pokey's sister
- Skeptopotamus, a skeptic who says he is unrelated to the hippopotamus
- Headcheese, a French Canadian female penguin, with whom Pokey has something of a love/hate relationship
- Gustavo, a potato chip-shaped character whose long moustaches, named "Democracy" and "Stalin", can be moved individually like arms
- The devil, which looks like a red, horned penguin
- A boxing glove purportedly possessed by the devil
- The Italians, Pokey's enemies who want to steal his Arctic Circle-Candy
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been likened to it, but few deserve that honor. Though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)