Furrball
Furrball is a
fictional alley cat in
Tiny Toon Adventures. His mentor and favorite teacher at school was
Sylvester the Cat, although the two similarities only seemed to include their appetites. He has a bandage on his tail, and also has a hole on his ear. He was usually depicted as living in a cardboard box in a back alley or as an unwilling pet of
Elmyra (in spite of the latter, he was suspiciously absent from the spin-off
Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain). In contrast to most of the other characters, he did not speak and was portrayed as a typical pet character (such as in the
Porky Pig and
Sylvester cartoons).
Furrball spent much of his time trying unsuccessfully to eat
Sweetie Pie, a pink canary; and
Li'l Sneezer, a baby mouse with many allergies and hurricane-force sneezes. Some of his misadventures included getting a pair of malfunctioning 3-D glasses glued to his head, being hypnotized into trying to eat a pit bull for supper, becoming the host of a family of singing Italian fleas, and being the terrified love-interest of an amorous
Fifi Le Fume after involuntarily winding up with a white stripe down his back.
Furrball's typical cat sounds were provided by
Frank Welker. In the episode
Duck Trek (in which Furrball played a spoof of
Star Trek's
Leonard McCoy), he was voiced by
Rob Paulsen. In the show's Japanese dub, Furrball was voiced by
Ryuzo Ishino.
