Toon Talk Special: Favorite Disney Friendships - Part Two - Aug 5, 2005

Toon Talk Special: Favorite Disney Friendships - Part Two
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… FOUR’S A CROWD?


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QUASIMODO and THE GARGOYLES

Film: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Voice Actors: Tom Hulce, Charles Kimbrough, Jason Alexander and Mary Wickes
Song of Friendship: “A Guy Like You�?
DVD: Available

The bell ringer doesn’t have a lot of opportunities to make friends up in that bell tower, so its not a surprise that his three best pals, confidants and teachers are a trio of animated statues named Victor, Hugo and Laverne.

MAN’S BEST FRIEND?

Who says a dog’s best friend has to be a man …?
 

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OLIVER and DODGER

Film: Oliver and Company (1988)
Voice Actors: Joey Lawrence and Billy Joel
DVD: Available

What is a street-smart mutt doing with a puny orphaned kitten? In this contemporary update of Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Oliver and Dodger start off on the wrong paw, but end up - “Absitively posolutely!�? - pals.

TOD and COPPER

Film: The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Voice Actors: Keith Mitchell and Corey Feldman
Song of Friendship: “Best of Friends�?
DVD: Available

This fox cub and hound dog pup don’t know that they’re supposed to be mortal enemies, quickly becoming, as Big Mama sings, the “best of friends�?. But can their friendship survive the ultimate test - growing up?

JOCK and TRUSTY

Film: Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Voice Actors: Bill Thompson and Bill Baucom
DVD: Available

A proper Scottish Terrier and a Southern blood hound at first seem an unlikely duo. But Lady’s two friendly neighbors are inseparable and totally devoted to the “lassie�?; they even “propose�? to her at the same time.