Editing Snagglepuss (section)

==Character description==
Snagglepuss lives in a [[Rock shelter|cavern]], which he constantly tries to make more habitable for himself. No matter what he does, however, he always winds up back where he started or worse off than he was before. In some episodes, Snagglepuss is chased by Major Minor (voiced by [[Don Messick]]), a tiny-sized hunter. A few episodes involved him trying to court a lioness named Lila (voiced by [[Jean Vander Pyl]]) but who always rejected his advances for being too boorish or pathetic.

Butler's voicing of the character recalls the work of actor [[Bert Lahr]], especially the more mellow moods of Lahr's [[Cowardly Lion]] in the 1939 film ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.<ref name="Murgatroyd" />

Snagglepuss has three signature [[catchphrase]]s. His most famous is his perpetual exclamation "Heavens to Murgatroyd!"<ref name="Murgatroyd">{{cite web|url=http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/heavens-to-murgatroyd.html|title=Heavens to Murgatroyd|last=Martin|first=Gary|date=1996–2009|access-date=2009-08-22}}</ref> Before dashing offscreen to make an escape or run an errand, Snagglepuss announces the move in the form of a theatrical [[Blocking (stage)#Stage directions|stage direction]], saying "Exit, stage left/right/up/down!". Finally, Snagglepuss tends to add the word "even" for emphasis at the ends of sentences:
* After emphasizing a previous statement ("Somebody hurt! In dire pain, even!").
* After stating a synonymous phrase ("On account of I must be a little rusty. Stale, even").
* In a grammatically correct way, though out of order in the sentence ("I wonder if he knows my telephone number, even").
* Simply added as an exclamation ("Heavens to Murgatroyd! A veritabububble frankenmouse monster, even!").<ref>{{cite web |title=Snagglepuss: early avatar of emphatic ''even'' |url=http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=7571 |work=Language Log |first=Mark |last=Liberman |date=October 6, 2013}}</ref>

The character's pink color, lilting voice, and theatrical manner led some viewers to interpret Snagglepuss as stereotypically [[gay]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hughes|first1=William|title=New comic series reimagines Snagglepuss as a gay 1950s playwright|url=https://www.avclub.com/article/new-comic-series-reimagines-snagglepuss-gay-1950s--249454|website=AV Club|access-date=2 February 2017|date=31 January 2017}}</ref> This implication was echoed over the years in many parodies, then seriously explored in the 2018 comic miniseries ''[[Exit, Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles]]'' from [[DC Comics]], part of their ''[[Hanna-Barbera Beyond]]'' initiative.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Snagglepuss Chronicles is the first great comic book of 2018|last=Abad-Santos|first=Alex|url=https://www.vox.com/2017/12/22/16795830/the-snagglepuss-chronicles-comic-review|date=17 December 2017}}</ref>