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Casper the Friendly Ghost is a fictional character who serves as the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. He is a translucent ghost who is pleasant and personable, [4] but often criticized by his three wicked uncles, the Ghostly Trio.
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Articles relating to Casper the Friendly Ghost and his depictions in fiction. The character is a translucent ghost who is pleasant and personable, but often criticized by his three wicked uncles, the Ghostly Trio .
The screenplay gave a backstory of Casper being the ghost of Casper McFadden, a boy who died of pneumonia at 12, though some of the comics, particularly in the 1960s, portrayed him as born a ghost to ghost parents. [8] The film was shot in Camden, Maine. Principal photography began on January 27 and ended on June 8, 1994.
So the creator of Casper (the ghost) is really mocking his own creation. Being a ghost, Casper could be powerful and intimidating, but chooses to be vapid and inoffensive. Casper Milquetoast was a colorless character, but Casper the Ghost is literally colorless -- transparent, and even invisible sometimes.
The banker orders Casper to tell the mother he has come for a mortgage payment, but then he realizes that Casper is a ghost. Terrified, he tears up the mortgage which he tells Casper to keep (because he doesn't want to have a "haunted" house on the market) and runs off in fright, so fast that he sets a bridge on fire. Despondent, Casper decides ...
This show features Harvey Comics characters and series including: Casper the Friendly Ghost, Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare, Baby Huey, Herman and Katnip, Buzzy the Crow, Possum Pearl, Professor Schmatlz, Jeepers and Creepers and others.
Numerous Casper cartoons were released on home video by Universal Studios (via MCA Inc.). In 2011, Shout!Factory released a DVD set titled Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Complete Collection - 1945-1963 which contains The Friendly Ghost, There's Good Boos To-Night, A Haunting We Will Go, all 55 theatrical cartoons, and all 26 episodes of The New Casper Cartoon Show.