Goopy Geer Goopy Geer Goopy Geer is an animated cartoon character in the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons from Warner Bros. The character is a tall, lanky anthropomorphic dog with scruffy whiskers and long, expressive ears. In all of his animated appearances, Goopy is depicted as light colored, but in an early promotional drawing for his first cartoon, he had black fur. A month after Goopy Geer's first cartoon had been released, Walt Disney released a cartoon called "Mickey's Revue with a character named Dippy Dawg, whose overall appearance was very similar to that of Goopy Geer; due to
Dippy (Pittsburgh) he visited at Carnegie's Skibo Castle in Scotland, asked for a plaster cast to be displayed in London. Soon Kaiser Wilhelm II and other European heads of state asked for copies. Even 100 years later copies of Dippy are displayed in the Natural History Museum in London, the Natural Science Museum in Madrid, the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. "Dippy" the sculpture was created during a nine-month process from the original fossil, which still stands indoors in the museum's Dinosaur Hall. In addition to its service as a mascot for the museum,