March 11, 2003 - Wireless Flash
`Speedy Gonzales' Should Have Been Named `Quickie Gonzales'
LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- Would you believe that noon-time nookie on
the Warner Bros. animation lot inspired the character Speedy Gonzales?
That's according to John Altyn, a curator for Great American Ink animation
galleries. He says Speedy was based on a Mexican-American animator who would
run across the studio on his lunch break to meet with a girl from the paint
and ink department for a "quickie."
But hanky-panky was the order of the day in the animation biz.
One nameless "gag man" at a cartoon studio would get secretaries to grab his sex organ by asking them to reach into his pants pocket to pull out a piece of candy.
Women weren't shrinking violets either he says, like the two women who pantsed a guy after he switched on an office-wide intercom, broadcasting a secretary's steamy tryst.
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