12 Facts About Bosko

1.

Bosko is an animated cartoon character created by animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising.

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2.

Bosko was the first recurring character in Leon Schlesinger's cartoon series and was the star of 39 Looney Tunes shorts released by Warner Bros.

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3.

Bosko became the star vehicle for the studio's new Looney Tunes cartoon series.

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4.

Bosko wore long pants and a derby hat, and he had a girlfriend named Honey and a dog named Bruno.

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5.

Role of Bosko was to serve as a cartoony version of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer .

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6.

Bosko instead received positive portrayals as a spunky and resourceful boy.

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7.

Bosko'scartoons are notable for their generally weak plots and their abundance of music, singing, and dancing .

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8.

At first, Bosko appeared in his original design and some of the old animation from the Looney Tunes series was even reused in those Happy Harmonies that features Bosko.

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9.

Bulk of his cartoons at MGM, Bosko was voiced by the animator who initially voiced him, Carman Maxwell.

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10.

Bosko cartoons were packaged with other Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, to be broadcast in various television markets in the 1950s.

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11.

Bosko cartoons were later aired on Nickelodeon as part of the network's Looney Tunes program beginning in 1988 and ending in 1992, when the network pulled all black and white shorts out of rotation to make room for more recent color cartoons featuring more popular Warner characters.

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12.

Bosko appeared in a 1990 episode of the television series Tiny Toon Adventures titled "Fields of Honey".

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