Merlin the Magic Mouse

Merlin the Magic Mouse is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic mouse, who starred in five Looney Tunes shorts late in the series.

History

He was a nightclub magician (he usually preferred to be called a prestidigitator, though he could never pronounce this correctly) who traveled around for work. Much of the humour of the character derived from the fact that, while he was often regarded as a cheap stage magician, he knew some very real and powerful magic tricks. His magic words were typically "Atascadero Escondido!" Merlin also has a sidekick, appropriately named Second Banana, which is a slang term for a magician's assistant.

Daws Butler provided the voice of Merlin and Second Banana in the first short, Merlin the Magic Mouse; Larry Storch performed the voices for the other four films.^[1] Merlin's vocal mannerisms are based on that W.C. Fields.^[1]

Titles

• Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967)
• Hocus Pocus Powwow (1968)
• Feud with a Dude (1968)
• Fistic Mystic (1969)
• Shamrock and Roll (1969)

References

External links

• Merlin the Magic Mouse at the Internet Movie Database
• Hocus Pocus Powwow at the Internet Movie Database
• Feud with a Dude at the Internet Movie Database
• Fistic Mystic at the Internet Movie Database
• Shamrock and Roll at the Internet Movie Database