In Praise of “Gossamer…”
With Halloween coming, our attention turns (more than usual) to monsters, and an underrated cartoon monster is Gossamer, a creation of Chuck Jones who first appeared in the 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon, Hair-Raising Hare. Gossamer has a heart-shaped head and face, and is completely covered in reddish-orange hair, his only clothing a large pair of white or gray-white tennis shoes…
Now Gossamer is a creature of indeterminate species and sex, originally intended as an antagonist to Bugs Bunny, who quickly exploits Gossamer’s attraction to girly-type things like manicures and hair make-overs. Gossamer is also handily defeated even by Porky Pig in his space-cadet identity in service to Daffy Duck, calmly using a monster hair-clipper…of Acme manufacture, of course! And surprise…Porky’s clipper reveals that Gossamer is entirely made of hair!
Gossamer is essentially a paper tiger, so to speak, and while usually a hulking giant seen lurking in Gothic-type castles or even on Mars, he actually has a hidden shy and sensitive nature, and is more scared of people than you are of him. Enjoy the following compilation of Gossamer’s greatest moments that follows, and watch for a cartoon version of Peter Lorre right at the beginning!
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October 10, 2025 at 7:42 pm
When I was a middle-schooler (in the prehistoric 1960’s), I first saw him in the loose 1952 remake WATER, WATER EVERY HARE. In that one, the evil scientist (imagine Lex Luthor with Vincent Price’s voice) called him “Rudolf.” So, that’s how I’ve referred to him for the last half-dozen decades!
Btw: Rudolph is apparently very fond of spider-goulash. Or is that “ghoul-ash”?
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October 10, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Oops! It appears I already gave you the first half of my information about fourteen years ago.
“Sorry about that, Chief!”
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October 11, 2025 at 10:03 am
I just happened to see that very cartoon yesterday on the “Toon In With Me” show! I think that “Gossamer” was ultimately a better name choice for the creature, who is quite powerful for something made entirely of hair…
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October 11, 2025 at 1:27 pm
Maybe it was actually hair from the red nose of a certain reindeer. 😉
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November 14, 2025 at 9:47 pm
Btw: don’t believe the rumors that Rudolph was a Russian Communist weather man during the Cold War.*
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November 14, 2025 at 10:46 pm
It’s time to hit my head against the wall, again…
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