Cool Cat (Looney Tunes)

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Cool Cat is a fictional cartoon character created by director Alex Lovy for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation. He was the final star of the original Warner Bros. theatrical cartoons. His first appearance was in an eponymous short in 1967. He was voiced by Larry Storch. Robert McKimson took over as director for the last two cartoons in this series. In 1967, Jack L. Warner reorganized the Warner Bros. animation department, and hired Lovy away from Hanna-Barbera Productions to handle Warner's last two classic characters (Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales) and create some new cartoon series. The two series that Lovy developed were Cool Cat and Merlin the Magic Mouse. Cool Cat is depicted as a humanoid Bengal tiger who wears a green beret and a scarf. His design resembles two other feline characters from the 1960s, the Pink Panther and Snagglepuss. He primarily speaks in beatnik slang, and acts as a typical laid-back teenager. He was mostly depicted while strumming his guitar or traveling in his...

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