For example, I strongly suspect they gave Goofy a 1930s ‘Okie’ accent. He was created right around the time that Dust Bowl migrants were coming into California in large numbers. Also, IIRC, Bugs Bunny has an old-timey Bronx accent; I assume it was to give him a ‘Regular Joe’ aura while also having him be streetwise and clever.
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I always thought Foghorn Leghorn was making fun of the way African Americans speak.
Elmer Fudd has a New England, say Connecticut, accent.
>IIRC, Bugs Bunny has an old-timey Bronx accent
Bugs Bunny is from Brooklyn, not the Bronx. He entirely replaced the Dodgers in one cartoon.
Peter and Lois in Family Guy have Rhode Island accents but Lois’ parents have a “fancy” mid-Atlantic accent.
Mark Hamill’s animated Joker has a mid-Atlantic accent.
Sideshow Bob and Mr. Burns in the Simpsons use a mid-Atlantic accent.
A lot of random villains use a theatrical mid-Atlantic accents. James Earl Jones even used one for Darth Vader but famously with a deep bass sound.
Can we include comic book characters, too? I really enjoyed Gambit’s supposedly Cajun accent and Rogue’s can’t-really-pinpoint Southern Accent. I’m talking about the 90s series on Fox.
Boomhauer from King of The Hill, he got that Cajun accent.