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| “ | Hellllllllllllooooooo, it's me! | „ |
| ~ The Red Guy's famous catchphrase. |
| “ | I would personally like to thank Cow and Chicken for giving me opportunity for this studio for this roman show. Mean it. THANKS! (chuckles) End. | „ |
| ~ Red Guy thanking Cow and Chicken in Factory Follies. |
| “ | Heeelllooo, it's me!! I’ve just decided that things are going a bit too smoothly... AND I’M GONNA MESS IT UP!!!! And! It'll only cost a quarter! | „ |
| ~ The Red Guy's second famous line in "Time Machine", showcasing his mischievous tendencies as a con-artist. |
| “ | This is a sad story about a young boy growing up wanting more than anything, to be a clown like his mama. ♫ I tried on a shoes, when I was saddled with feet, that were too small, in the mind of a genius! WHEN ALL I WANTED WAS TO SQUIRT SELTZER, WATER! ♫ (sobs) I was forced, TO BE A BRAIN SURGERY SURGEON! Mama was a clown. Dad married a clown! But, I wasn't FUNNY ENOUGH TO BE A CLOWN! (sobs) Mama and Papa never forgave me for that. (sobs again) | „ |
| ~ The Red Guy as the Great Pantzini telling his sad story. |
The Red Guy, originally The Devil, is the main antagonist of the Cartoon Network series Cow and Chicken, as well as its spin-off series I Am Weasel. He's considered the archenemy of Cow, Chicken, I.M. Weasel and I.R. Baboon.
He was voiced by Charlie Adler (who also played Gazeem in Aladdin, Snively in the Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM TV show, Ed Bighead in Rocko's Modern Life, Panza in The Prince and the Pauper, Hamilton in Tarzan, Buck Huckster in Danger Rangers, I.R. Baboon in I Am Weasel, Professor Monkey-For-A-Head in Earthworm Jim, Ignus in Planescape Torment and Starscream in the Transformers film series) and by Katsumi Suzuki in the Japanese dub (who also voiced Ripper Roo in the Crash Bandicoot series)
Role in the Series[]
In the original pilot featured on The What A Cartoon! Show, The Red Character was introduced as "The Devil" and resided in Hell, and his only goal was to spread evil and "bad stuff" all over the world. He was also accompanied by Cerberus the three-headed dog, serving as his lackey. He proceeded to kidnap Chicken by tempting him with a pack of cigarettes and dragging him back down to Hell where he tormented him for several minutes before being defeated by Supercow (a super-heroic persona taken by Cow).
In both Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel, Red Guy has all but abandoned his devil persona as well as Cerberus, but still served as the main antagonist of the show. He takes on a new alias and occupation in almost every episode he appears in, from park ranger to policeman to lunch lady. Regardless, he never wears pants and sporting a name referencing either his lack of pants or his butt (Lance Sackless, Mrs. Barederriere, Officer Pantsoffski, etc). Here, his behavior ranges from simply annoying other characters to more serious misdeeds.
He is often defeated by Supercow when Red Guy's evil plans require foiling and Chicken needs rescuing. He tends to take his defeats in stride, however, bouncing back by the next episode.
Personality[]
Red Guy appears to be a loud-mouthed, smug, eccentric, unhinged, brash, flippant, energetic, exuberant, sassy and happens to be an especially flamboyant and overbearing figure. While showing effeminate mannerisms, he exhibits many strange and unpredictable behaviors that makes him a bizarre individual that goes beyond his weird and overemphasized ways of speaking, such as striking random poses, throwing fits of mischievous laughter (and even hum-chortling), grabbing people by the face or neck, rolling around on the ground for no reason, and his signature "buttwalking" (walking around on his butt cheeks). Regardless of whether he takes on the persona of a man or a woman, The Red Character acts as a fraudulent "jack of all trades" who shows many signs of dissociative identity disorder within his showmanship, where Red acts both masculine or feminine in both his manners and tone, depending on Red Guy's erratic moods and disguises during his wacky antics.
He also happens to be enjoys causing mischief, chaos, mayhem, pandemonium, and general nastiness at any moment: he is best described as a loony, diabolical, mean-spirited, opportunistic, overdramatic, thrill-seeking, facetious and inconsiderate trickster in terms of villainy - not seeming to want much in the way of conquest or ruins, but rather taking a highly questionable amount of perverse enjoyment with being a general nuisance, loudmouth, attention-seeker, prankster, con man, and bully whose acts of screaming from the top of his lungs and scamming people are two things he's considered to be his favorite personal hobbies of his (with sometimes seeking to have someone to play with him, especially Cow). Sadly for him, he is also a screwball who is simply too amateurish and laughable to be taken the slightest bit seriously, as well as generally treated as very comical, incompetent and a flake who's extremely goofy, silly, cheeky, brash, jocular, petty, psychotic and beyond childish, he often ends up as a little more than an irritation or a comic foil to Cow, Chicken, or even I.M. Weasel for his ridiculous behavior, and it always reaches to the point that he comes off as much more of an bumbling buffoon than a genuine threat.
There are some rare moments in which the Red Guy does good things, such as the episode "Journey to the Center of Cow" having Red Guy wanting to save Chicken's life from being devoured by Cow's enzymes and almost sacrificed himself when he was ate by Cow by accident. While most of his alter-egos relates to his big booty or lack of pants, such as Larry Lackapants, Rear Admiral Floyd, Mr. Butt Man, Lance Sackless, etc.
Appearance[]
Red Guy appears to be a overweight humanoid figure with red skin, a long nose, short horns of the same color as his skin, black eyes with a yellow schlera, and an outie bellybutton. Regardless of his disguise, his bare buttocks with a arrow-shapped tail are always on display, often mooning the other characters.
Villainous Acts[]
Red Guy has committed various criminal acts in both series he appears in, with most of them being played for black comedy. These acts include (but are not limited to) the following:
Cow and Chicken[]
- In the pilot "No Smoking", he kidnaps Chicken, as well as tricking Chicken into smoking cigarettes and starts torturing him in Hell. This leads to Supercow beating up The Red Guy, and rescuing Chicken.
- In "Dream Date Chicken", he arrests Chicken for running away from home (after he got grounded by his dad) and Linda for cheating on Chicken's cousin, Boneless Chicken.
- In "Field Trip to Folsom Prison", he is disguised as a prison warden, and he locks Chicken in solitary confinement with dangerous criminals when he finds out he wasn't actually a prisoner, and he sentenced everyone into being locked up in the confinement for 10 years. However, Chicken is rescued by Cow's superhero alter-ego "Supercow".
- In "Supermodel Cow", he is disguised as a photographer and makes Cow a famous model after assaulting Chicken in a mall.
- Later in the episode, he had Cow replaced with a moose. When she wants to become famous again, he kidnaps her and forces her to sing in his milk bar. She is later rescued by Chicken.
- In "Part Time Job", he is disguised as a chicken plant manager name Rear Admiral Floyd (a parody of the KFC mascot Colonel H. Sanders) where he incinerates chickens so they can become "extra fried". When Chicken comes looking for a part-time job, he goes there unaware of what happens there. Red Character then attempts to incinerate him while Red is visibly seen slaughtering millions of chickens in the factory with a conveyor belt and a machine, but Supercow comes to save him. When this happens, he attempts to incinerate her too, but is defeated.
- In "Can Cow Come Out and Play?", he succeeds at imprisoning every last person on Earth into a house trailer by loudly proclaiming that it's free and up for grabs, and duct tapes the doors shut once he tricks everyone into his scam. Red does this so Cow can "play" with her, even after emptying the world's entire population in doing so.
- In "Happy Meat", he tried starving Chicken simply for not eating a ketchup pie he made with extra ketchup, and forced everyone to eat their meals or else he'd make everyone in the lunchroom starve as well.
- In "Who Is Supercow", he is seen attempting to kill Chicken while disguised as a chef who tried to cook up Cow. He is then defeated by Supercow, who beats him up, making him tired of being thwarted by her.
- After getting tired of Supercow, he sets a trap for her to find out her secret identity, by creating another persona, that runs a dry-cleaner mat that specializes in superhero costumes, and he can find out who she is when she comes to pick up the costume. However, Cow sees past this and has Chicken (who doesn't recognize Red Character because he's in disguise) pick up the costume as a favor.
- After realizing Chicken cannot be Supercow, he stalks him and realizes Supercow must live with Cow and Chicken. He then attempts to get into the house but realizes Cow is Supercow because she's a cow. He then kidnaps Cow and takes her to the dry cleaners, where he prepares to murder her with a steam cleaner. The chicken then dresses up as Supercow and has a vicious battle with the Red Character before escaping with Supercow. Red Character is then beaten up by the other superheroes for ruining their costumes.
- In "Cow’s Magic Blanket", he disguised himself as the school's principal (named Principal Hiney), and while Cow and Chicken had lunch; Cow felt like her alter-ego Supercow couldn't come back, and Red Guy tortures Flem and Earl to test her and see if that's the case despite her saying no constantly (much to Chicken's, Flem's and Earl's displeasure).
- Where Red first pulls hair off of Flem and bites it with his teeth, yoinks Earl by the neck and grabs his tongue and grabs his long nose to tie a grotesque knot on Earl's face (practically disfiguring his face for a visual gag), force Flem to be inflated by swallowing too much mustard and grabbing his legs to squeeze Flem's body and force Flem to splash all of the mustard onto Flem, digging his hand far into Flem's mouth to pull his insides out, and Red even slams his butt onto Earl (crushing him and physically assaulting him).
- In "The Penalty Wheel", he forces Cow, Chicken, Flem and Earl into a game show Red hosted. The Red Guy's sadistic choices and answers include "Paving a Section of the Road"; which resulted in Flem getting smacked by a bucket of dirt with a shovel, "Painting a Masterpiece"; which resulted in Flem having an entire art easel with paper and a palette fall onto him, and finally "Cook Breakfast, 12 Hungry Lumberjacks"; which resulted in Flem being pelted twelve eggs at him in front of everyone.
- In "Invisible Cow", Red Guy scams Cow and Chicken by selling a cup of "invisible sauce" to Cow and Chicken's house for only a dollar Cow could buy and claims she's invisible. She runs around town performing feats of "invisibiltiness", Red Guy sees this and has Cow steal "withdrawal slips" from the bank with her "invisibleness".
- In "The Great Panzini", Red Guy disguises himself as a ringmaster with showmanship where Cow and Chicken are sent to join the circus at, he verbally abuses Mirco the Trunk Elephant by blaming him for sitting on a Chinese acrobat and referred to the event as "Chinese Pancakes", which made the elephant run away cry, Cow notices this and Red Guy asks "And?" to downplay this.
- In "Confused", Cow and Chicken are sent to a military school, which is revealed to be run by Red Character in disguise. He then psychologically and physically abuses them (i.e. forcing them to jump off a cliff). They are then sent to sensitivity classes after they become too firm. The sensitivity classes, however, are also run by Red Character, disguised as a woman.
- In "Orthodonic Police", Red Character masquerades as a traffic cop and a quack orthodontist and forces Cow and Chicken and fellow of the town's residents to wear unnecessary and painful braces. He is eventually found out after a beating from Supercow, and is forced to take everyone's braces off.
- In "Happy Meat", he has a job as the school lunch lady named "Ms. Barederriere" and abuses the school kids by only serving ketchup for lunch, prompting Cow and Chicken to take a stand.
- In "Time Machine", he decides things are going too smoothly, so he plans to mess things up by altering the course of time.
- He also plans to drop a pantyhose into the primordial soup (a prehistoric cauldron that created the space-time continuum). However, Cow accidentally drops a quarter into it, which Red Guy says is "even better." This causes every human's head to become quarters and vice versa.
- When Cow goes back in time to just before she dropped the quarter and successfully stops herself, Red Character attempts to push her into the Primordial Soup. However, the other Cow turns into Supercow and defeats him.
- In "Headhunting In Oregon", Red Guy was disguised as a tour guide named Mister Jeansbegone for Cow and Chicken's family. However, this disguise was a disguise for another disguise, which was the leader of the head hunters. He was only a tour guide to lure the family into the woods so he could steal Chicken's head. When it revealed that he was a headhunter too, he looks at the viewers and says "Now don't tell me you didn't see that coming..."
- In "The King and Queen of Cheese", he is disguised as a "dairy farmer" and kidnaps Cow, Chicken, and a group of farm animals and prepares to murder them and make cheese out of their corpses. But the tables are turned when they make cheese out of him though Red Character liked it.
- In "Dirty Laundry", Miss Teacher hires him (disguised as "Geraldo Rearviewer") to turn the boring school newspaper into a new TV show. He unnecessarily assaults Miss Teacher and spends the majority of the episode abusing his new show to make people look bad for no apparent reason. This causes Chicken to lose his friends. Chicken defeats him by framing him for breaking and entering and has him arrested.
- In "Grizzly Beaver Safari", he deliberately forgot to tell Cow and her family about how getting beaver gas for their car was highly explosive, resulting in Red Guy allowing Cow, Chicken, and their parents to be brutally blown up in their car with a fiery explosion. Red Guy revels in this moment without a shade of remorse, and the laughing hyenas then bite Red Guy's butt as bad karma.
- In "Factory Follies", he is the tyrannical foreman of a large factory, abusing his employees daily (EX: firing an employee for sleeping in the job using an electric chair). His birthday party is that night, and he is disappointed when no one shows up (because he is a mean-spirited person). He livens up the party by himself and decides to turn over a new leaf, but he changes his mind and continues abusing his employees instead.
- An epilogue of the episode shows him thanking Cow and Chicken (who he kidnapped and tied up in his basement) for "letting" him have this episode centered around him.
- In "The Cow and Chicken Blues", he was first said to be the pantless gator man named "Lance Sackless" and tried to hunt after a alligator to catch him, and was praised and rewarded as a "hero". Right it was revealed that it was Red Character had disguised himself as the "Blind Mud Puddle Johnson", and it's then revealed that the real Blind Mud Puddle Johnson was imprisoned and tied up inside of the house he was in (sticking the guitar inside of his mouth). Cow and Chicken freeing Blind Mud Puddle Johnson, resulted in Red Guy getting chased, chewed up and spat out of a alligator as a form of bad karma.
- In "The Ballad of Cow and Chicken", while told this story by a song, he disguises himself as a agent called "G-Man, Mike Hiney" and persistently stalks Cow and Chicken as they make a getaway to Red pulling out a suspicious weapon. While acting clueless of thinking Cow was a horse the farmer had, he insults her and gets whacked in the face for it. He also tried using a bear trap so Red could catch a bear, which gets him beaten up by said bear when Red admits that was his trap he setted up. At the end of the episode, it's told that Red was stalking the duo to give them back the crabs Chicken dropped and lets himself have pinching crabs to be his friends.
I Am Weasel[]
- In "I.R. Mommy", he disguises himself as a woman and hides in Cow and Chicken's spinoff series so that he can continue wreaking havoc without being thwarted by Supercow. However, he still causes trouble as he makes it look like I.R. Baboon is a bad parent.
- In "I.R.'s Phantom Foot", Red Character is a defense attorney and helps Baboon sue Weasel for a foot injury he received after tripping on a hole that was on his property. However, security camera footage revealed Red Character intentionally dug the hole and orchestrated the entire case. (Which made Weasel go to prison and Red Guy acts as his warden who assumed Weasel ate I.R. Baboon, making him spend 30 days falsely imprisoned in an isolated area while Red exits the event in a cardboard box)
- In "I Am Deity", he dropped a bomb on Kansas itself (blowing up the state off-screen) while he was in a plane when Weasel told Red Character that he said "drop the bomb" as a joke and not literally, and Red Guy said whoops in response to what he just did.
- In "I.R. Role Model", Baboon replaces Weasel as a celebrity after rescuing a woman (The Red Character) from a fire. Weasel, a firefighter, loses everything to I.R. after he is wrongfully blamed for starting the string of fires that had been plaguing the city so he could put them out and be a hero, which causes him to become homeless, denounced bum. However, it was later revealed that Red Character was the one starting the fires all along.
- In "I Am Vampire", Weasel and Baboons are fun-loving vampires who only drink "low-fat canned blood." However, Red Character (disguised as Doctor Van Smellsing), a vampire hunter, tracks them down nonetheless, by disguising himself as a girl (his only disguise that hid his identity from the viewers). However, he is ultimately turned into a vampire by Weasel, out of self-defense.
- In "Enemy Camp", it is revealed that Red Character is the source of Weasel and Baboon's rivalry when Red Character tricks Weasel into thinking they went to Friend Camp, but was the opposite of that. So he tries to make Weasel and Baboon hate each other, especially when Red does roleplay and disguises himself as a seductive "femme-fatale" lady who'd cheat on Baboon with Weasel, making Weasel remain righteous and have him to be kept by I.R. Baboon.
- In "I Am Cliché", Red Character is disguised as a film director named "Louie B. Bare" ("Louie Be Nude"). Here, he is making a movie starring Weasel and Baboon, which is obviously a rip-off of other movies. He also uses cartoon slapstick to physically abuse the duo (e.g. dropping anvils on Weasel and a piano on Baboon).
- In "I Bee Weasel", Red usurps the Queen Bee as the queen of her hive and traps her in a room with duct tape. Red did this so he could be one of the bees, which resulted in him getting stung as a consequence of his actions.
- In "I Are Music Man", Red pretends to be a blind guy with black old plate glasses that makes Red hardly see anything and using a fake dog that Red kicks around, he sells I.R. Baboon a strangely large theremin, which Red opening it and advertising the fact you can play with the electricity of the theremin, resulted in I.R. Baboon getting electrocuted by it. Red shows no concern over harming a innocent baboon with his product.
- In "I Are Gladiator", Red Character is disguised as a Roman emperor and Weasel and Baboon are his gladiators. After the match, he attempts to force Weasel to kill Baboon. When he refuses, he attempts to feed them to lions.
- In "I Stand Corrected", Red Guy as the lawyer, when Baboon found guilty for the crime of being furry in Kentucky on the Tuesday, sentencing him to the correctional facility for 99 years. But Red Guy, standing up, saying that Weasel being judge has big long fuzzy tail and cute, saying that he and Baboon would be sentenced for 99 years in correctional facility (much to Weasel's dissapointment). Later, Red Guy as Warden, Weasel saying and reveal that Warden is the lawyer that sentenced him, believing that Weasel ate Baboon (unaware that Baboon being corrected), saying that eating a celmate is a refraction send him to the box for 30 days, but Weasel decided to back to the cell. When Weasel realizes what's going on here, Red Guy is putting every device of correction, Weasel tries to explain that this was supposed to be a jail for every criminal off the street, but Red Guy says that this is also a refraction and sends him again to the box for 60 days in the box (saying no to blame Kentucky's correctional system). But as Weasel decides to help, he sees every prisoner being corrected with their own body parts. But as Red Guy, saying that Weasel is fuzzy and hairy and without any correctional device, sending him to the box for 6 years. But as Weasel corrects himself, he says that he loves happy endings, especialy the Red Guy (in the box).
- In "Who Rubbed Out Cow and Chicken", Weasel and Baboon are film noir-style detectives pursuing a mysterious criminal who literally erased Cow and Chicken from existence, leaving only a pile of crumbs from a #2 pencil eraser. The killer then erased their Mom and Dad. They go to their school and find Miss Teacher was assaulted by the killer, erasing half her body lengthwise and leaving her with no memory of who did it. They also find more eraser dust around Flem and Earl's desk, and suspect them to be in cahoots with the criminal. At first they suspect the Red Character (the school Janitor), but found that he had a pair of pants drawn on him by the killer, leaving him a sobbing wreck as he can't walk with pants on. They then go to Flem's house to ask him why he wasn't at school the same day Cow and Chicken were erased, but find that Flem has been erased as well. I.R. Baboon is suddenly erased just as Weasel's back is turned, and it's revealed that The Red Character was the culprit the whole time, rubbing out all the other characters one-by-one so he'd be the star of the show. He had drawn pants on himself to throw them off, and then proceeds to erase Weasel. Which means he committed mass genocide with only a large pencil.
- The episode was revealed to be just some nightmare dreamed up by Cow, and with the reveal of Cow and Chicken's parents are seen as bottoms, and are seen laughing at the mere idea of Red Character erasing everyone with the eraser of a giant pencil. So it reveals that Cow and Chicken are alive and weren't killed, which has Chicken telling Cow to look at the bright side of being the duo being "normal" compared to their parents being insanely happy about being half-bodies.
- In "I Are Good Salesmans" he and Baboon team up in a moneymaking scam. Baboon sets fire to random people's houses, and Red Character (disguised as a boy scout) conveniently shows up to sell the same person a fire extinguisher.
- In "I Am Hairstylist", he acts as an officer who arrested everyone at the Wendy's Hairstyle salon, and proceeding to attempt arresting I.M Weasel for even stepping in. This is before Weasel tries questioning his authority and gets him to confess that he hates hairstyling and barbers themselves because of his traumatic backstory with getting a regular haircut thanks to his dad forcing him to have a haircut he didn't want.
- In "Baboon Man and Weasel Boy", Weasel and Baboon are superheroes (a parody of Batman and Robin) and Red Character is a police captain (parody to Commissioner Gordon). He tells them someone is on a crime spree, stealing everyone's clothes. However. It is revealed Red Character was the thief in disguise. However, Baboon Man lets him go because "it was an accident."
- In "I Are Bellhop", Red Character is a famous cannibal who attempts to eat Weasel. Baboon then makes a fake Weasel out of fruit for him to eat instead, and Red Character decides to stop eating human flesh after tasting how good regular food is.
- In "I Are Pixie Fairy", Red Character torments Weasel and Baboon by disguising himself as a storyteller (named "Uncle Breezybum") and narrates a story in which Weasel and Baboon are turned into fairies and tormented. They break free from his book and do the same to him.
- It doesn't help that he also assaulted a teenager who asked for car keys and Red also tried changing Weasel's gender on a whim before saying that he was only joking.
- In "I.R. in Wrong Cartoon", once he made I.M Weasel get incredibly fat, Red Character tries pushing him back into the TV set by placing him on a opened section of a tv set and stomping on him by jumping on his back, which led to I.R. Baboon answering Cow's door and asking her if it was the right house; this led to I.M Weasel to hop off of the TV set and Red Guy traps himself in the TV as the television's top hatch closes, and stuck in his own show called "I.B. Red Guy" in an in-universe episode titled 'In Ben Panced'.
Trivia[]
- Red Guy's name in the Brazilian Portuguese dub is "Bum de Fora", which is a play on the word for "butt naked".
- He has a thick Boston accent, yet his speech patterns often go back and forth as his voice goes from being soft-spoken and soothing by speaking with a deep baritone, and then immediately shifting into a shrill rasping tone of voice (or sometimes a tuneful falsetto) when he suddenly starts shouting in people's faces, between or even mid-sentence.
- It's possible that his accent can be interpreted for a heavy American accent (or even Mid-Atlantic), especially because of his deep baritone, and his shrill rasping tone of voice (or sometimes the falsetto) that could make it come off as such.
- Red Guy is, alongside HIM of The Powerpuff Girls, one of the two Cartoon Network villains implied to be, if not actually be, the Cartoon Network version of the Devil due to his demonic appearance.
- However, according to The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy creator Maxwell Atoms, Cartoon Network has since regretted ever featuring both Red Guy and HIM in their shows, which is why they later refused his idea to include Krampus in his own show's Christmas episode.
- Even so, Red Guy still made a cameo in Jellystone, but with Dana Snyder as his voice.
- Whenever Red Guy talks about his childhood, he always starts at "Age 9" and says it like "nine-uym".
- Whenever he talks to Cow, Chicken, I am Weasel or I R Baboon, he always calls them the wrong animal, Chicken (Duck) Cow (Horse) Weasel (Squirrel, Hamster, Ferret, Chipmunk, Gerbil) Baboon (Chimp, Monkey, Gorilla, Orangutan).
- However, he is likely teasing them, as he is shown to be aware of what they are.
External Links[]
- Red Guy on the Cow & Chicken Wiki
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