…he was off his feed for two days afterward
The Doclopedia #195
Smells Like Toon Spirit: Grandma Gussie’s Ghost
Many cartoon grandmothers are sweet old ladies who bake cookies and have kitty cats and wouldn’t harm a fly. Grandma Gussie is not one of them.
She was a cantankerous old gal when she was alive and her mood has only gotten worse since she’s been dead. She haunts her house with a frying pan in one hand and a broom in the other and she will smack you with both of them if you come nosing around. She has also been known to drop anvils on unsuspecting saps and is not above tossing around sticks of dynamite. Grandma Gussie ain’t messing around, you young punk!
Gussie will often let folks come into her house, then start scaring the hell out of them once it gets dark. Since her house is on the outskirts of town right near that stretch of road where cars get flat tires on stormy nights, she gets plenty of visitors.
As if a grumpy ghostly granny wasn’t bad enough, she has three ghostly cats that are mean, sneaky, vicious and scary looking. Their names are Cuddles, Baby and Gumdrop. One of their favorite tricks is to sneak up behind an already scared silly intruder and then give out a big yowl while clawing a their legs. This has been known to make the intruder run through several walls and then out into the nearby cornfield.
Grandma Gussie looks like a crabby faced little old woman with grey hair. She wears a dress and an apron and a pair of pink bunny slippers.