Editing Snooper and Blabber (section)

==History==
Snooper and Blabber form a pair of cat and mouse [[detective]]s, respectively,<ref name=Woolery>{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part I: Animated Cartoon Series |date=1983 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1557-5  |url=https://archive.org/details/childrenstelevis0000wool/page/222/mode/2up |accessdate=1 April 2020 |pages=222–223}}</ref> working for the Super Snooper Detective Agency.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sennett |first1=Ted |title=The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity |date=1989 |publisher=Studio |isbn=978-0670829781 |url=https://archive.org/details/artofhannabarber00teds/page/76/mode/2up |accessdate=2 June 2020 |pages=76–77}}</ref> [[Daws Butler]] voiced both characters although the first four episodes originally featured a different actor, Elliot Field, as the voice of Blabber Mouse.<ref>[http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2014/06/blabber-mouse-blabs.html Blabber Mouse Blabs, YOWP blog]</ref> [[Michael Maltese]] crafted the stories. The characters have appeared in other Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including ''[[Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics]]'' and ''[[Yogi's Treasure Hunt]]''.

'''Super Snooper''' is more or less the one in command whenever the pair takes on a case while '''Blabber Mouse''' (a play on "blabbermouth", not to be confused with the [[Merrie Melodies]] character [[List of Looney Tunes characters#The 1940s|Little Blabbermouse]]) follows whatever orders Snooper gives him. Snooper's voice was patterned after [[Ed Gardner]]'s Archie on the 1940s [[radio program|radio show]] ''[[Duffy's Tavern]]''. Blabber speaks with a [[lisp]], hence he calls his senior partner "Shnooper". It was one of the rare shows that paired a cat and mouse that were not enemies. Also, Snooper makes frequent contact with his agent Hazel who is never shown, but is revealed to have a [[Parakeet]] as a pet.

Some of the pair's cartoons featured early versions of other Hanna-Barbera characters, such as [[Snagglepuss]] and [[Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har|Hardy Har Har]].<ref name=DM>[http://www.toonopedia.com/snooperb.htm Snooper and Blabber] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://archive.today/20240527180653/https://www.webcitation.org/6fKKwtDTr?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/snooperb.htm Archived] from the original on February 15, 2016.</ref>