Why is 'Blackboard Jumble' considered a Droopy cartoon?

[HellCat]

I've recently been watching some old Droopy cartoons I haven't seen in years. Classics like Droopy's Double Trouble and such. Like alot of the old cartoon stars, Droopy obviously went through many directors and art styles. This leads me to an oddity- Blackboard Jumble, a short which is advertised as a Droopy cartoon but on very flimsy reasoning. There seems to be no reason to label it as such other than character designs. The typical bulldog character is present as is the occassionaly seen laid back wolf, but the closest the short comes the advertised character is the 3 generic bratty kids using a derivative of his character design. Why not just use original character designs if that's all the production crew wanted to do?

[Blackstar]

Interestingly, I noticed a similar thing back when TBS was airing it's Super Station Funtime on weekday afternoons. Whenever the show would air the Warner Brothers one-shot short My Little Buckaroo, which features an anthropomorphic pig cowboy character, the TBS announcer would always credit the short as being a Porky Pig cartoon, although the pig in this cartoon is clearly not meant to be Porky (he doesn't have Porky's trademark stammer, for one thing). Porky had already been established as a leading character by the time of this short.

[Fibber Fox]

Likely because the studio was required to make X number of cartoons in the Droopy series so Mike Lah and his story man finessed the cartoon so it could qualify.

What "original character designs" are you talking about? Were these not the original characters or original designs considered for this particular cartoon?

F. Fox
http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com

[HellCat]

Likely because the studio was required to make X number of cartoons in the Droopy series so Mike Lah and his story man finessed the cartoon so it could qualify.

What "original character designs" are you talking about? Were these not the original characters or original designs considered for this particular cartoon?

F. Fox
http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com

The Droopy character model is used for three generic bratty kids who generally act nothing like Droopy. They don't have the manerisms or even the voice. There is no reason to use the Droopy design for them because they embody nothing of the established character, highlighted by him appearing for the 'Hello, all you happy people' pre-title card.

[Super Leviathan]

Blackboard Jumble is a variation of/pseudo-sequel to the earlier Droopy "Three Little Pups" (the wolf is the same, there are multiple Droopys, etc.). It's just that unlike that one, none of the dogs are specifically pegged with Droopy's usual voice or mannerisms.

This was apparently common in short subjects of the time. Over at Disney, there was a flurry of Goofy cartoons where they ditch his voice, personality, and basically pretty much everything about the character expect the basic dog-face design and opening titles.

[Eric B]

This basically seems to have been the Droopy version of the "bad little nephews" trend that began with Donald Duck, and appeared in almost all other series in some form or another. So for Droopy, instead of giving him three nephews, he became one of the three brats himself in those two films. The first time he maintained his usual voice and personality, and the second time, that had become less important (none of the three even talked). So I always said it was a very out of character role for Droopy.
Unlike all the other stories with either the wolf or Spike, the Droopy's were technically the bad guys, with the wolf as the good guy; yet the Droopy's still "win" as always.