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''Bonkers'' is an American
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and a spinoff as segment series called ''He's Bonkers'' of '' Disney's Raw Toonage''. It aired from February 28, 1993, to February 23, 1994, in first-run syndication (after a "preview airing" on
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in early 1993).''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 11, no. 2, February/March 1993: pp. 28, 34. The syndicated run was available both separately and as part of the programming block
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. Reruns of the show continued in syndication until 1996 and were later shown on
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until late 2004. The show is currently available for streaming on Disney+, having been included upon its November 2019 launch. However, this only applies to US territories. It is also currently available in Europe.


Premise

The premise of the series was that Bonkers D. Bobcat, an
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who was a popular cartoon star, had washed out of show business and became a cop. He was made the junior partner of Detective Lucky Piquel, a grim and ill-tempered human who hates toons. Throughout the series, the pair work together to solve crimes in the
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, region. Bonkers repeatedly tried to win Piquel's praise, but usually just ended up ruining missions with his antics. But often those goofy antics would prove to save the day. After multiple episodes of working with Bonkers, Piquel was given an
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job in
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, and with great glee was finally able to leave Bonkers, but finally realized that after all the time spent hating working with Bonkers he had grown to love him. He took along the police radio, the light, Toots and Fall-Apart Rabbit. At the end of the "Lucky" episodes, Bonkers was given a new partner, the attractive cool-headed Officer Miranda Wright. Although also human, she was far more patient and tolerant of his antics than was Piquel. With Miranda, Bonkers was more the brunt of the slapstick.


Episodes


Characters


Bonkers D. Bobcat

Bonkers D. Bobcat (voiced by
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) is an overly energetic and hyperactive cartoon
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that works in the Toon Division of the Hollywood PD. Once a big name cartoon star for Wackytoons Studios, he was fired due to his show being bumped out of first place in the ratings. He was introduced to law enforcement when he unknowingly saved cartoon celebrity
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from a park mugger (mostly due to the help of officer Lucky Piquel) and was given full credit for the mugger's capture. For his actions, he received the Citizen of Valor award by the Chief of Police, Leonard Kanifky. Bonkers, while soaking in the praise, told the chief about how his experiences starring in police cartoons helped in the capture of the mugger. Chief Kanifky mistook his fictional roles as real life, worldwide police accounts and, thinking that Bonkers would be a benefit to the police force, asked if the former cartoon star would like a job working for the Hollywood PD, which Bonkers accepted because of his recent unemployment from Wackytoons Studios. Bonkers then requested Lucky as his partner, and the two established the beginning of the Toon Division. When Bonkers first came home to Lucky's house, he was treated as a sort of adopted son to Lucky. Although Bonkers means well, he usually messes up cases for his fellow officers due to his lack of experience in law enforcement and his wild, exaggerated, cartoony nature. He even tells Lucky at one point that he is not good at logical police thinking because he is a toon. Not only does Bonkers make a design change between the 'Lucky' and 'Miranda' episodes, his personality is slightly tweaked as well. Despite being a police officer, Bonkers is unarmed. However, he still carries a badge. In the 'Miranda' episodes, he's portrayed as a rather clumsy, somewhat foolish character who ends up being the show's punching bag. In the Lucky episodes, he's less of a buffoon and more of an
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-type, in control of himself (though still hyperactive), and carries an extensive knowledge about the toon and their behavior, which is an asset on cases dealing with rogue toons (Lucky would very rarely acknowledge this, although he knows it deep inside). The joke is his lack of law enforcement experience and procedure is still his "
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".


Supporting characters

*Fall Apart Rabbit (voiced by
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) is Bonkers' clumsy best friend and stunt-double back during Bonkers' Hollywood days, appearing only in the "Lucky Episodes." He literally falls apart at the drop of a hat and must wear bandages over various body parts to keep himself from dismantling. He is often remarkably stupid and goofy, even for a cartoon character. *Fawn Deer (voiced by
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) is Bonkers's main love interest and co-star when he was a cartoon star. Bonkers is willing to do just about anything to please and impress her. Fortunately for Bonkers, Fawn clearly reciprocates his obvious love for her, as she has proven it on numerous occasions by kissing him on the cheek, and sometimes on the lips. She appears mainly in the "Miranda Episodes".


Piquel family

*Detective Lucky Shirley Piquel (voiced by
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) is a police detective and Bonkers' partner from the "Lucky Episodes". He is a slovenly,
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, street-wise mustachioed man. He is balding, but wears a
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. Lucky is a serious, hard-boiled detective whose by-the-book nature is at odds with Bonkers' decidedly more maniacal approach to crime solving. Chief Kanifky usually mistakes his last name for Pickle. In the first several episodes in which he appeared, he defeated the villain by falling on them or otherwise crushing them beneath his massive girth. Although he often was able to get to the core of the cartoon universe by finally embracing it, with Bonkers' help. Will prove increasingly good and less comfortable against an annoying toon, in each case of the cartoons. He is the father of Marilyn and husband to Dilandra or who he normally calls "Dil" or "Dyl". It was revealed in Once in a Blue Toon that his middle name is Shirley, and that he has a 53-inch waistline. He drives a rather torn-down patrol car through the series. *Marilyn Piquel (voiced by
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) is Lucky's child genius daughter. She is an aspiring artist as well as a script/story writer and has deep connection to toons such as Bonkers, with her favorite toon being TV star Skunky Skunk. She is more than capable of taking care of herself and aids her father in a number of his cases often being the words of wisdom or a source of knowledge to Lucky. Although looking like her mom Dilandra "Dil"/"Dyl" (aside from her big round glasses and freckled face), she also shares her father's hair color. *Dilandra "Dyl" Piquel (voiced by
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) is Lucky's understanding wife who supports her husband and at times encourages their daughter Marilyn.


Wright family

*Officer Miranda Wright (voiced by
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) is a police officer that works at the same police station as Lucky. She is Bonkers' partner from the "Miranda Episodes". Her name is a play on
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, an American system in which people under arrest get certain rights, she's the opposite of Lucky and Sgt. Grating when it comes to toons and their antics as she likes/loves them especially her friend and partner Bonkers as she cool headedly tolerates his antics and stands up for him against their own boss, While she may have somewhat of a personal limit to Bonkers' sporadic behavior at times, it doesn't really seem to annoy her, She even seems amused at times, but nonetheless they still truly care and stand up for each other as friends and partners. *Shirley Wright (voiced by
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) is a news reporter, Miranda's older sister, and apparently Timmy's mother. *Timmy Wright (voiced by
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) is the spoiled nephew of Miranda Wright, who babysits. He may have
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tendencies. Although seemingly cute and precious, he is sly and smart combined with a mischievous streak, who often delights in tormenting Bonkers with troublesome tricks or pranks such as a giant, spiky and tickly feather. He only shows his true colors around Bonkers as he knows no one (not even his aunt Miranda Wright) would believe anything negative about him, if it came from Bonkers.


Los Angeles Police Department officers

*Leonard Kanifky (voiced by
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) is the absent-minded chief of police, and is the boss of Bonkers and Lucky (before Bonkers is reassigned) he also appears in the Miranda episodes "Dog Day AfterToon", "Cartoon Cornered" and "When the Spirit Moves You". He has the tendency to ramble on and trail off, as if senile. He constantly mispronounces Lucky's last name "Pickle". *Sergeant Francis Q. Grating (voiced by
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) is a police sergeant and, the boss of Bonkers and Miranda. A running gag is that Grating is almost driven insane by Bonkers. Like Lucky, he hates toons too. However, in "Cartoon Cornered", he befriended Bonkers' clock after their adventures in Wacky Toons Studio. In "Dog Day AfterToon" he shows some respect to Bonkers after he is saved from the bank hold-up; albeit reluctantly.


Recurring civilian characters

*The Mad Hatter and March Hare – From Disney's ''
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'', the Mad Hatter (voiced by
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) and March Hare (voiced by
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) make three appearances in the show. They live in the Hollywood Sign; the "H" is the Door. *Toots (voiced by
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) – Bonkers's pet horn, appearing only in the "Lucky Episodes". Last appearance was in "New Partners on the Block". *Police Light (voiced by Charlie Adler) – The toon police light. Appearing only in the "Lucky Episodes". Last appearance was in "New Partners on the Block". *Broderick (voiced by
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) – The toon radio. Appearing only in the "Lucky Episodes". Last appearance was in "New Partners on the Block". *Jitters A. Dog (voiced by
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) – a small, nervous dog who was Bonkers's friend and sidekick in ''Raw Toonage''; and the episodes with Miranda. His role in the series was of the
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, constantly having serious bodily harm done to him through Bonkers' recklessness (and occasionally others) his catchphrase is; "I hate my life". Despite his mostly negative luck, He is still Bonkers's best friend, though Jitters himself might disagree. He did have a quick cameo in "Going Bonkers". *Grumbles Grizzly (voiced by
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) – a
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who was Bonkers's strict boss in ''
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'', appears occasionally in ''Bonkers''. *Harry the Handbag (voiced by
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) – a deeply troubled toon who captured and stored objects and people inside of himself in a misguided belief that it would end his loneliness. *Tiny (voiced by Charlie Adler) – a huge but polite
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stayed at Lucky's house to hide from a scary shadow, which turns out to be his old friend, Mr. Big. *Pops Clock (voiced by Stuart Pankin) – a The toon keeper of toon-time, which is what keeps toons under-control, but was mad when nobody appreciated him for all the work he did. *Skunky
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(voiced by
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) – A favorite toon TV star of Marilyn Piquel who was framed for
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by an embittered
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, who then tried to arrange a "fatal accident" for him. *Professor
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(voiced by
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) – a scientist
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who occasionally appears as a scientific expert or creator of inventions that Bonkers uses in his cases. *Roderick Lizzard (voiced by
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) – a yellow
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and a temperamental actor with the manners of a British aristocrat. He also prefers to have his surname pronounced lee-ZARD rather than LIH-zurd. **Tuttle
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(voiced by
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) – a toon turtle that is the valet of Roderick Lizzard. *Bucky Buzzsaw (voiced by
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) – a toon
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who stars in his own show at Wackytoon Studios. He appears in the Miranda Episodes. His catchphrase is "whoopidy woo woo" *Slap, Sniffle and Flop – Toon mascots of the Weetie Crunchy cereal. Loosely based on Snap, Crackle and Pop from Rice Krispies. *
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– From
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. He made his cameo appearance in "Casabonkers". *
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) – a famous Disney duck that Bonkers saved from being robbed in "Going Bonkers". *
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(voiced by
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) *
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) – he made his cameo appearance from
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, together with Pete, Max and PJ. *
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* Clarabelle Cow *
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(voiced by
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) – occasionally appears in the Miranda episodes. *
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*
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– They made their cameo appearance in various episodes of the show, specifically the Miranda episodes, including "Casabonkers". *Mrs. Francine Kanifky (voiced by
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) – the wife of Kanifky typically appears for a very short portion of the episodes in which she appears. In "The Dimming" and "Poltertoon". She is more integral to the overall story.


Recurring antagonists

*The Collector (voiced by Michael Bell) - the villain from the pilot episode ("Going Bonkers") and therefore the first criminal Bonkers encounters. He is a toon that collects other toons in suspended animation. At the end of the episode, he is revealed to simply be a deranged, cartoon obsessed human
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in disguise. **Mr. Doodles (voiced by
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) - the Collector's evil henchman. *Ma Parker (voiced by
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) - a toon
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who has tricked Lucky into thinking she's really sweet, but is found out by Bonkers is that she is really a criminal who is stealing parts of their police car to build a suit of armor for a
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rally. With her armor she is nearly invulnerable from the outside but Bonkers tricks her into opening her hood. Despite her efforts Ma is helpless as Bonkers tinkers with her engine until she is unable to move. He then proceeds to arrest the immobilized toon truck. **Wooly and Bully (voiced by
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and
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) - Ma Tow Truck's evil yet dim-witted henchmen. *The Rat (voiced by
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) - a toon rat who was really a wannabe human star in disguise to replace Mickey Mouse. *The Ape (voiced by
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) - Mr. Malone's large toon pink gorilla accomplice. *Chick and Stu (voiced by
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) *Mammoth Mammoth – (voiced by Stuart Pankin) - *Toon Bomb – (voiced by
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) - *Mr. Big (voiced by
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) - a toon mouse who, despite the name, is very small. He is a friend to Tiny, who is a huge but polite hamster. He used a giant shadow to scare him. *The Weather Toons – Five toons, including Sunny (the
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), Sparky (a lightning bolt), and Toony Tornado (a
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). *Louse A. Nominous (voiced by
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) - an unreformable toon criminal that Bonkers and Lucky were forced to reform. He eats anything in his path (usually furniture). He wrote a book about reforming toons. A running gag that occurs is when he eats something inedible, he laughs and says "Ain't I a louse?". *Mikey Muffin (voiced by
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) - the toon mascot of Butterman's Bakery, but is found out that he was blowing up the bakeries with "doughbombs" to try to get Butterman's secret recipe, he only appeared in the Lucky Piquel era episode "Hand Over The Dough". *Wacky Weasel (voiced by
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) - the cunningest (and most feared as even the laid back ''Chief Leonard Kanifky'' was afraid of him) toon villain that ever existed who had a fixation for
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s of any kind, which originally led to his capture (he broke ''into'' a prison because he heard it was full of "bad eggs") upon breaking out of jail, he went on a rampage through the city, running rings round the entire police force, before finally being outsmarted by Bonkers, he only appeared in the Lucky Piquel era episode "Get Wacky". *Scatter Squirrel (voiced by
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) - a crazed thief with a fixation for
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s of any kind, Lucky and Bonkers had to aid former ''Chief Leonard Kanifky'' in capturing him, in order for the mayor to give Kanifky's job back. *Toon Pencil (voiced by
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) - a toon graffiti artist who spread toon graffiti all over Hollywood, Marilyn had a major role in helping her father and Bonkers track him down by chasing the pencil into a surreal toon world where he (the pencil) normally would hide out. *Zoom and Boom (voiced by
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) - *Warris and Donald– two toon ex-comedians that are fading in color and kidnap other toons to steal their colors. They only appear in the Lucky Piquel era episode, "Color Me Piquel". *Turbo, Banshee and Kapow - trolls who replaced Slap, Sniffle and Flop in their cereal commercial and tried to frame them for stealing prizes in the cereal boxes. *TJ Finger (voiced by
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) - a toon actor who kidnapped TV critic Charles Quibble, because Quibble's bad reviews caused TJ's show Cop Squad to get cancelled, He only appeared in the Lucky Piquel era episode "The Final Review." *Two-Bits (voiced by
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) - an executive for Grandpa Arnie's Ant Show, who uses a vacuum to steal the audience's change so that he can reunite with “Nicky”, a nickel he had lost when his father put it in a parking meter. Two-Bits stops stealing change after Lucky gives him his last nickel, which turns out be Nicky. *Fireball Frank (voiced by
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) - *Al Vermin (voiced by
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who is Miranda and Bonkers's nemesis from the Miranda Wright era episodes. *Lilith DuPrave (voiced by
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) - Lilith DuPrave is a sleazy business woman and one of Bonkers and Miranda's nemesis who is the owner of a printing office where she not only publishes "Hollywood Chronicle" (and later "The National Trash") but prints counterfeit money as well. She is also responsible for smuggling weapons and kidnapping toons. **Mr. Blackenblue (voiced by
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) - a heavily armed, powerfully-built man that never removes his glasses. He is the bodyguard of Lilith DuPrave and doubles as a hitman. *WildMan Wyatt (voiced by
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) - Sergeant Grating's sworn enemy. *Katya Legs Go-won-a-lot (voiced by
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who is an actress, a singer, and a thief, she appeared in the Miranda Wright era episode "CasaBonkers." *Flaps the Elephant (voiced by
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) - a massive toon
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with small ears. He wishes he could fly like
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*Seymour Sleazebottom and Limo Seymour (voiced by
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) - a crooked real estate agent, and his pink toon limo (Voiced by Charlie Adler). They Only appear in the Lucky Piquel era episode, "Fallapart Land". * Winston Prickley (voiced by Rene Auberjononis) - a crooked lovesick porcupine who kidnaps other men just to try win the love of women, but never wins a woman's heart especially due to kidnapping crimes, he appeared in the Miranda Wright era episode "Love Stuck." *Gloomy the Clown - a crooked nemesis of Bonkers and Miranda who is a circus clown wanting to be funniest man alive but is really lame and can't stand toons stealing and overshadowing his spotlight and attention (voiced by Ken Mars)- he only appeared in The Miranda Wright era episode "The Toon that Ate Hollywood".


Production

The series played 65 episodes, as part of ''
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This discrepancy becomes evident when observing the look of the main character in both sets of episodes. In the ''Raw Toonage'' shorts, Bonkers was orange with one brown spot, golf-club-like ears, and an undone tail. When the Lucky Piquel-era episodes (produced by Robert Taylor) were made, the character had a major overhaul: skinnier ears, two black spots on each his tufts, black
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-like stripes on his tail, and a different uniform. The Miranda Wright-era episodes (produced by
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, Robert Hathcock &
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) use Bonkers's original look from ''Raw Toonage''. The series also occasionally featured episodes of "cartoons" from Bonkers's pre-police actor days, all lifted from the ''Raw Toonage'' series. The two-part premiere can be seen to show the reason for the difference in appearance as he mostly appears with his Black Dot Lucky design, but when he goes into makeup, his sweater is put on, and when his head re-appears, his spots have turned brown, then his ears are 'puffed' up. While this works for explaining the two designs in context, New partners does not show or explain why he then decided to use his 'make up' version for every day. The ''
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'' shorts were an after-thought of production. While ''Bonkers'' was in pre-production, the ''Raw Toonage'' team headed by Larry Latham produced 12 "He's Bonkers" shorts. These shorts were, in the context of ''Bonkers'', explained to be some of the shorts Bonkers made at Wackytoons Studios before he was fired. The animated short entitled ''Petal to the Metal'' was originally shown in theaters in 1992 before the feature movie ''
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while the rest were shown on the program ''Raw Toonage''. In syndication, the shorts were collected into four full episodes with fillers of new material in between. Meanwhile, Duane Capizzi, making his producing debut, was brought into the fold and teamed with animation veteran Robert Hathcock and charged with making 65 episodes (a full season's worth in syndication). The episodes theoretically would feature Bonkers with Wright as his partner. These episodes came back from overseas animation studios looking less than spectacular, causing considerable concern at Disney. Ultimately, the original team was replaced, and a team headed by Robert Taylor came in. Only 19 of the original-order shows survived to air; they are what is known as the "Miranda Wright episodes" of ''Bonkers''. Nine of these episodes were aired on The Disney Channel during the first half of 1993 as a preview for the series, before its syndicated premiere in the fall. The 19 Miranda Wright episodes are shown toward the end of the series in the official continuity.
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(co-creator of Disney's Gargoyles) worked on the Miranda episodes, and Bonkers's relationship with Miranda inspired
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's relationship with
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. Taylor threw out the old premise of the show. He replaced it with the Lucky Piquel scenario, but his episodes were revised and established to occur before the original episodes. 42 episodes of the "Piquel Era" were made, including one (''New Partners on the Block''), which attempted to bridge the gap between the two somewhat contradictory storylines. The series was long incorrectly rumored to have originally been intended as a ''
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'' spin-off series which ended up being scrapped due to licensing issues from
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, with ''Bonkers'' being created instead. However, in 2008,
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, who was a writer on the series, denied this. While confirming that the title character was inspired by Roger, and the Toontown concept had also been influenced by the film, Weisman insists that Bonkers was always meant to be his own character. The syndicated version of the series (which omits several of the original episodes that survived first-run) was last seen on
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until late 2004. The series became available to stream on
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, upon its launch on November 12, 2019.


New Partners on the Block

New Partners on the Block was a transition episode that showed how Bonkers went from having Lucky Piquel as a partner to having Miranda Wright as his newest partner. The episode was much like the pilot episode/movie "Going Bonkers", using the CGI rain and bringing back the characters that were associated with Bonkers, those characters being Fawn Deer, Jitters A. Dog, and Grumbles Grizzly and, unlike the pilot, had more speaking and screen time. At the end of the episode, Bonkers, along with Miranda and Lucky, captured the main villain, bomber Fireball Frank and Rescues FBI Agent Tolson in the process, making Bonkers and Miranda a team and giving Lucky a job as an
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, allowing them to be written out of the show. This episode was removed from rotation in the United States after the 1995
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due to its bombing/terrorism plot, and was consequently never rerun on Toon Disney, even before Disney's stricter censorship policies following the
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. Another episode, "Fall Apart Bomb Squad," was also not shown on Toon Disney for similar reasons. However, both episodes have been rerun in Europe (especially in Italy). In addition, both episodes are available to stream on Disney+.


Home media

''Bonkers'' was released on three VHS tapes and
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tapes in 1995 by
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, each containing no more than two episodes. They include the following:


Other appearances and references

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'' (1994–1995): In the episode "Snowman is an Island", the Genie was transformed into Bonkers. *''
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'' jabbed at ''Bonkers'' (which was often its timeslot rival in a number of markets as a part of
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), especially in the Slappy Squirrel segments, referring to it as being unfunny. This continued in the 2020 revival as it was parodied in the first episode as ''Clunkers'', a talking police car who is also a time machine. *''
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. *''
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'' (2017): Bonkers makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the episode "Let's Get Dangerous!" *'' Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'' (2022): Bonkers makes a non-speaking cameo appearance during the film's finale alongside other police officer characters.


Video games

The series inspired three video games. The first, titled '' Bonkers'', is a
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, released for the
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in October 1994. In the game, Bonkers must retrieve three items stolen from a museum. An
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, also titled '' Bonkers'', was released in 1994 for the
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. It consists of four
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s in which Bonkers attempts to apprehend criminals from the series. The third game, '' Disney's Bonkers: Wax Up!'', was published for the
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in 1995, followed three years later by a Brazilian-only release on the
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. In the game, Bonkers sets out to rescue Lucky and several toons who have been captured.


References


External links

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