Sam the Huntsman Spider – Yosemite Sam
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Sam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Sam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Intelligence_Squadron
In the Bunyip Warrens, your wizard is looking for the remnants of the Green Lake. Instead you come across Huntsman Spiders Elmer and Sam.
Elmer: “Be vewy, vewy quiet, we’re hunting Wizards.”
Sam: “Why are you talking like that?”
Elmer: “It’s quieter.”
Sam: “No, it ain’t. Look, the Wizard’s right there, doggone it. They heard you a mile off.”
Elmer: “Oh, then let’s get ’em!”
Monstrology Tome Description for Sam:
Armed with a boomerang, you have one approach to everything: throw first, ask questions never.
After defeating them both, Sam and Elmer offer your wizard a clue as to why trouble has followed you to Wallaru. In Novus your wizard made some powerful people feel weak, and there is no wrath more terrible than that of the insecure.
Sam: Tarnation! This is the worst contract ever. Why did we think we could take down the wizard that defeated the Archana Queen?
Looney Tunes is an American media franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The franchise began as a series of animated short films that originally ran from 1930 to 1969, alongside its spin-off series Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation. Following a revival in the late 1970s, new shorts were released as recently as 2014. The two series introduced a large cast of characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. The term Looney Tunes has since been expanded to also refer to the characters themselves.
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were initially produced by Leon Schlesinger and animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising from 1930 to 1933. Schlesinger assumed full production from 1933 until he sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944, after which it was renamed Warner Bros. Cartoons. The Looney Tunes title was inspired by that of Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies. The shorts initially showcased musical compositions owned by Warner’s music publishing interests through the adventures of such characters as Bosko and Buddy. However, the shorts gained a higher profile upon the debuts of directors Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and Robert McKimson, and voice actor Mel Blanc later in the decade. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck became the featured Looney Tunes characters, while Merrie Melodies featured one-shot cartoons and minor recurring characters.
Yosemite Sam is a cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of short films produced by Warner Bros. His name is taken from Yosemite National Park in California. His real name is Aloysius Bartholamew Sam. He is an adversary of Bugs Bunny and his archenemy alongside Elmer Fudd. He is commonly depicted as a mean-spirited and extremely aggressive, gunslinging outlaw or cowboy with a hair-trigger temper and an intense hatred of rabbits, Bugs in particular. During the golden age of American animation, Yosemite Sam appeared as antagonist in 33 animated shorts made between 1945 and 1964.
Animator Friz Freleng introduced the villain character in the 1945 cartoon Hare Trigger. With his grumpy demeanor, fiery temper, strident voice, and short stature (in two early gags in Hare Trigger, a train he is attempting to rob passes right over top of him and he has to use a set of portable stairs to get on his horse; in Bugs Bunny Rides Again, he rides a miniature horse), along with his fiery red hair, Sam was in some ways a caricature of Freleng. While he often denied any intentional resemblance, in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, surviving members of his production crew assert, and the director’s daughter acknowledges, that Sam definitely was inspired by Freleng. Freleng himself even said in an interview with the Associated Press that “I have the same temperament, I’m small, and I used to have a red mustache.”
Sam is one of Bugs’ toughest antagonists, proudly calling himself the meanest, toughest hombre in the West. Sam is a character more aggressive than Bugs’ other regular antagonist, Elmer Fudd, given that Sam has a tougher accent; a higher, fiercer voice; and a more violent spirit, although he is portrayed as a bumbling fool in most of his appearances. Sam has had several occupations in his life that Bugs has gotten in the way of. He frequently shouts the word “Tarnation” when foiled by Bugs Bunny.
Yosemite Sam is the official mascot of the 20th Intelligence Squadron is a United States Air Force unit, assigned to the 363d Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. It has served at Offutt since June 1992, when it was activated as the 20th Air Intelligence Squadron.
The current list of all the (known) Wallaru references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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Sam image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Looney Tunes logo and Yosemite Sam images are borrowed from Wikipedia and are copyright Warner Bros.
Unit patch for the 20th intelligence Squadron is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is in the public domain.
Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
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