While I haven’t put very much research into this, I’m fairly confident that Loopy de Loop was the very first cartoon character to have a French accent and NOT be a sex-offender. And he was a wolf, too, which is especially surprising as wolves in cartoons are either shown to be godless killing machines or serial rapists.
But not Loopy de Loop. Probably because he was French-CANADIAN. Now, I’ve never actually met a Canadian before, but I hear they’re rather pleasant. Loopy de Loop’s major character-quirk was that he had a psychological urge to help anybody who needed it no matter what.
Most of the time he was trying to help a hot-headed midget bear win the heart of a Southern Belle polar bear (wha?). Typically, the episodes ended with Loopy de Loop getting molested by the female bear, but he always meant well.
Loopy de Loop was a testament to the old saying “nice guys finish last”, not only in his cartoons, but in the overall cast of Hanna Barbara characters, he ranks somewhere at the bottom below Scare Bear from Yogi Bear & the Galaxy Goof-Ups. The guy wasn’t even invited to the All-Star Laff-a-Lympics or Yogi’s Treasure Hunt.
So I raise my glass to Loopy de Loop, the guy who always tried his best to help everybody else, but ended up getting screwed-over for it.