Merlin the Magic Mouse

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name = Merlin the Magic Mouse and Second Banana


image caption = Merlin and Second Banana in their debut cartoon.
first appearance = "Merlin the Magic Mouse", 1967
created by = Alex Lovy
voiced by = Daws Butler, then Larry Storch
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Merlin the Magic Mouse is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic mouse, who starred in five Looney Tunes shorts late in the series.

He was a nightclub magician (he usually preferred to be called a prestidigator, though he could never pronounce this correctly) who traveled around for work. Much of the humour of the character derived from the fact that, while he was often regarded as a cheap stage magician, he knew some very real and powerful magic tricks. His magic words were typically "Atascadero Escondido!" Merlin also has a sidekick, appropriately named Second Banana, which is a slang term for a magician's assistant.

Daws Butler provided the voice of Merlin and Second Banana in the first short, "Merlin the Magic Mouse"; Larry Storch performed the voices for the other four films. Merlin is loosely based on W.C. Fields.

Titles

* "Merlin the Magic Mouse" (1967)
* "Hocus Pocus Powwow" (1968)
* "Feud with a Dude" (1968)
* "Fistic Mystic" (1969)
* "Shamrock and Roll" (1969)

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