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
USA Cartoon Express Cartoon Network one year later, thus taking a chunk of "Cartoon Express" programming with it. The only Hanna-Barbera shows on the "Cartoon Express" afterwards were "The Smurfs", which did not leave the "Express" until 1993; and "Scooby-Doo", which disembarked the "Express" in 1994. In the fall of 1993, "Cartoon Express" introduced two original series, "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Problem Child" (based on the film franchise); both failed to catch on with viewers. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" became the new marquee series on the block. USA later briefly acquired the broadcast rights to Terrytoons shorts like Deputy Dawg and Mighty Mouse,