Red Guy
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The Red Guy is a fictional character who appears in Cartoon Network's animated series, Cow and Chicken, and its spin-off I Am Weasel. The former series ran from 1997 to 1999 and the latter from 1999 to 2001. He was voiced by Charlie Adler. The Red Guy appears in various guises in the series.
He can be seen disguised as a cop, FBI agent, teacher, military officer, tabloid reporter, prison warden, and a movie director, just to name a few. He has dressed as a female character on numerous occasions as well. His disguises usually include names that attribute to his rear end like Mr. Lackopants, Dr. Nopants, Lance Sackless, Seymour Butts (Seymour Butts was a name prank called by Bart Simpson to Moe Szyslak in the hit show The Simpsons), Officer Pantsoffsky, Baron von Neinlederhosen, Red Buttler, Tulula Bottoms, Red Clearbottom, Uncle Breezybum, Rear Admiral Floyd, Major Wedgie, Queen Cleopantsless, Ben Panced, Geraldo Rearviewa, Principal Derriere ("derrière" is French for Behind), Dr. High Knee (pronounced as "hiney"), Professor Hineybottom, and even I.B. Horny. He could be seen as a parody of the devil. He serves as a device to harass Cow & Chicken and their friends Flem & Earl. The Red Guy also convinces Cow & Chicken to do wrongful acts and then revels in the outcome. It is unknown whether the multiple versions of Red Guy are the same character, or simply clones of each other.
In many episodes, the Red Guy often gets trounced by Cow's superheroic alterego, Supercow (usually when he's busy picking on Chicken). This has led the Red Guy to pursue the knoweledge of Supercow's true identity on several occasions (the reason being so that he can "die happy"). He came close in one episode when he posed as a laundromat owner that specialized in superhero costumes, where he hoped Supercow would inadvertly reveal herself as Cow when she came to pick up her costume, but Chicken picked up the costume instead.
On a few separate occasions, including the opening theme song, there is shown more than one Red Guy at a time. One such occasion was when the Red Guy was a reporter, he had been convincing Chicken to report false stories about people he loves (Reporting that there are rats in the school ham sandwiches). Cow helped Chicken get even with Red by luring him into their parents room where he was arrested. Upon arriving in prison, he is greeted by an identical version of himself in different clothes. The new Red identifies himself as the warden, while the warden is cackling away, the reporter does not know what to do. Once he appeared as the tooth fairy and on the end was accompanied by the scab fairy, an identical version of himself, only in a rather gold-like yellow color.
The Red Guy very seldom uses his small legs. Most often he will use his buttocks to move rather than his legs. Other times he will simply roll around like a log, or squirm like a caterpillar or slug. Sometimes, he is seen using two peg legs.
In the original pilot, he had a pet/henchman who is a three-headed dog (a parody of Cerberus), each head is a different breed of dogs and the rest of his body resembles an overweight Shake (from the World Premier Toon Shake & Flick). The Red Guy was also called The Devil in the pilot.
