
Waffles and Don journey through the sky in a two-man plane, Waffles in the pilot’s chair and Don in the rumble seat.

But before we get into that, let’s have a look at some shorts that featured the original fur-bearin’ critters… THE HAUNTED SHIP () Tall, flighty, and nervous, he was the first to run from a scary situation… though he might not admit to his flaws if you asked him!ĭon, meanwhile, was a new kind of character: calm, boyish, and cool, he had fun in the face of danger, often at his tall pal’s expense! Before long, this animal pair would be reincarnated as our likeable human heroes. By 1930, though, he’d come to cut a more distinctive figure. Waffles was born as a fairly generic - at times, even evil - cat in late 1920s shorts. Their direct ancestors in earlier Aesop’s Fables cartoons were Waffles the Cat and Don Dog.

As cited on our main page, Tom and Jerry weren’t the first of their kind at Van Beuren.
