Cartoon
The Kwicky Koala Show

Animal
Koala
Not even supposed to be here today

Outfit: neckerchief / mucousy pouch

Tagline:  "Come on, it'll only take a minute."

Plot summary:  What's the difference between an adventure and a misadventure? Is a misadventure an adventure had by a woman? All I can find online is that Kwicky Koala had misadventures while avoiding bumbling, starving-to-death Wilfred Wolf. Maybe he had adventures but doesn't anymore, so he misses them? Kwicky, sometimes called "Quicky" by his friends who are shitty at coming up with nicknames, is a very slow quick little koala bear who escapes capture and evisceration by teleporting. He sounds just like Droopy and acts just like Droopy, but he teleports. Well, hey.

Additional segments on The Kwicky Koala Show included CRAZY CLAWS, about a Grouch Marx-like wildcat, DIRTY DAWG, about a dog and pals who live at the junkyard, and THE BUNGLE BROTHERS, about Mike Patton and that kid from the fifties who forgot to wash his hands when he was done using the bathroom.

Internationally the show is sometimes known as "Super Marsupial!"  In Japan, the show is called "Toshiaki Koala." (more)

User Comments:  Despite only running (really fast) for one season and being forgotten by about 99.9% of human beings, Kwicky Koala does have the distinction of being the last creation of Tex Avery, the famous cartoonist responsible for Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. He was also responsible for the bugs from the RAID commercials and the Frito Bandito, so Kwicky falls into a pretty broad spectrum.

Koala Bears (who aren't actually bears at all ... thank you, ZooBooks!) get a really strange break in popular culture. How often do you just see a koala bear? They're either jumping out of trees and landing nuts-first on a fence for comedy or they're using magic makeup accessories to navigate a crystalline world of flying koala bear people. I saw a really cute little guy at the zoo a few weeks ago, and he mostly held on to a tree branch and slept. I waited a whole 25 minutes for him to say something funny like "I DIDN'T DO IT!!" or "WHOA" so I could laugh and repeat the phrase several times but he didn't, so I started throwing makeup at him. In conclusion, koala not-bears can be compared and contrasted.

User Rating: 5.4/10 (24,579 votes)