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First Appearance: “Naughty but Mice”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Chuck Jones started directing his own shorts, this was his first character. As you can tell, Sniffles was a mouse. (Mice were quite popular in animation for a while there.) His name came about from his first appearance, wherein he had a cold. And he wasn’t voiced by Mel, but Bernice Hansen. I think the voice suits him. Seeing as he came around at the beginning of Jone’s directing career, Sniffles acted towards his problems much differently than the other Looney Tunes. His first instinct was to run away.<\/p>\n

While this didn’t make for especially funny shorts, they were still entertaining. Showing how one might live if you were the size of a mouse. By the end of his theatrical career, Sniffles got more of a personality. He became quite the chatterbox. And this is how he is remembered to this day. But the poor guy just couldn’t compete with other characters like Daffy and Bugs, and by 1946, he had his final short. But the little guy wasn’t completely forgotten. He played quite the prominent role in the early Looney Tunes comic books. There he was the friend of a girl named Mary Jane. She could shrink down to his size and join him on his adventures.<\/p>\n

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They were just friends. Don’t get any ideas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He got his own apprentice on Tiny Toons. (Known as Lil Sneezer.)<\/p>\n

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Voiced by Kath Soucie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And he played for the Tune Squad in “Space Jam.” He is promptly squished after annoying one of the Monstars with his chatter. (Which kind of annoys me<\/em>. I wish his opponent would have covered his ears or something, allowing Sniffles to at least take the ball.)<\/p>\n

And he must have struck a cord with some people, since an opposite studio gave him a shout out in the direct to DVD movie “Leroy and Stitch.” One of the experiments is given the name “Squeak” and he is designed to annoy people with his endless chatter. And he wears a suspiciously similar hat.<\/p>\n

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Voiced by Rob Paulsen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And Sniffles was meant to appear in “The Looney Tunes Show.” But sadly it was cancelled before he could make more of an appearance besides the intro. I read that he was set to be voiced by Tara Strong, and that makes me sad. She’s a master at voicing cute characters. It would have been so cool to see how she would have made him sound.<\/p>\n

It’s obvious why that the little fella never got as popular as his co-stars, but he at least made enough of an impact to be absorbed by everyone subconsciousness. And I take great pride in having seen every one of his shorts. This Sniffles is one I am always happy to see every flu season. (Sorry, was that too cheesy<\/em>?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Chuck Jones started directing his own shorts, this was his first character. As you can tell, Sniffles was a mouse. (Mice were quite popular in animation for a while there.) His name came about from his first appearance, wherein he had a cold. And he wasn’t voiced by Mel, but Bernice Hansen. I think … <\/p>\n

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