We have come to know and love the seven dwarves from Disney's Snow White (Grumpy, Dopey, Sneezy, Sleepy, Happy, Bashful, and Doc). But how did they choose those names? Io9 introduces us to the 40 bastard brothers of the seven dwarves whose names didn't make the cut:
1.) Awful
2.) Baldy
3.) Bashful
4.) Biggo-Ego
5.) Burpy
6.) Daffy
7.) Deafy
8.) Dippy
9.) Dirty
10.) Dizzy
11.) Doleful
12.) Dopey
13.) Dumpy
14.) Flabby
15.) Gabby
16.) Grumpy
17.) Hickey
18.) Hoppy
19.) Hotsy
20.) Hungry
21.) Jaunty
22.) Jumpy
23.) Lazy
24.) Neurtsy
25.) Nifty
26.) Puffy
27.) Sappy
28.) Scrappy
29.) Shifty
30.) Shorty
31.) Silly
32.) Sleepy
33.) Snappy
34.) Sneezy
35.) Sneezy-Wheezy
36.) Sniffy
37.) Snoopy
38.) Soulful
39.) Strutty
40.) Stuffy
41.) Swift
42.) Tearful
43.) Thrifty
44.) Weepy
45.) Wheezy
46.) Wistful
47.) Woeful
The Disneywiki profiles a few of these strange characters:
"WHEEZY: Stubby. Always behind or last in processions. Fatter and shorter than the rest.
JUMPY: (voice: Joe Twirp) Excitable. Goosey type. Talks fast. Mixes his words, as "See's aleep in my sled."
BALDY: (voice: Cliff Arquette) Bashful. Floppy ears. Giggles. Twists buttons. Gets red in the face.
—Story outline for October 22, 1934, for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs[1]"
" JUMPY: He is in constant twitchy fear of being goosed, but is not goosed until the last scene. Whenever he hears a noise behind him, he starts, and his hand automatically protects his fanny. He is als exceedingly ticklish. He is always helping Sleepy finish his sentences or explaining to Snow White just what Sleepy is trying to say. Type of dialog:
Sleepy: As a rolling stone gathers no... (Falls asleep)
Jumpy: (Laugh) Slood old geepy. He means a stolling rone mathers no goss - a goling mone stathers no ross - a molling gone rathers no - oh, dab!
Sleepy: (To Snow White) Now you know."
"AWFUL: The most loveable and interesting of the dwarf characterisations. He steals and drinks and is very dirty. The other dwarfs have impressed on him that he is a soul beyond redemption. This fact he never questions. He feels powerless against the evil in him and accepts his damnation cheerfully. He is the perpetual fall guy for the others. He is blamed and punished for everything that goes wrong and, even when punished for somebody else's misdeed, he takes his medicine with a cheerful "I deserve it." He is very clever, a faithful dog absolutely devoted to the other dwarfs, who seem to him far above him. He speaks in short, jerky sentences, like the Practical Pig, but his voice is a bit more chipper and cheerful. There is always understanding between him and the dwarfs' animals. Awful is always afflicted with irresistable urges againt which he is helpless.
—Story draft for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, made in November 1935.[3]"
"Deafy is a happy sort of fellow - he always tries to make clever remarks, but he misinterprets other people's attitudes toward him. He feels, lots of times, that they are saying something about him, or that they have made some remarks, which they haven't at all - he takes exception to the most ridiculous things. Throughout the picture Deafy and Grumpy are always clashing. Deafy will pick up one word of the conversation in the early part, and whereas the conversation topic might have changed completely, he still sticks to the first thing that he heard, and in this way we hope to get some comical situations out of Deafy.
—Story draft for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, made in early 1936.[3]" (Full Article)
I personally would have liked to see Big-Ego, Hickey, Hotsy, Jaunty, Neurtsy (what?), Shifty, and Soulful. It's nice to know that Dreamy and Stealthy from Once Upon a Time weren't that far off!
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