Professor Owl (with pointing stick)

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by Yoshifan2

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"To play a simple tune, you will have to use four horns of different lengths."
— Professor Owl

Here is an art of an rather criminally underrated character from Disney's 100 year history, the one and the only Professor Owl from the Adventures in Music Duology ("Melody" and "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom") and Disney's Sing-Along Songs. He first appeared in the aforementioned shorts in 1953, before footage from those shorts along with footage from the Walt Disney Presents episode "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom" were utilized in Disney's Sing-Along Songs years later.

Here, he's holding his pointing stick while looking at the viewers.

He happens to be virtually non-existent on Disney+ as the streaming service sadly has yet to add the Adventures in Music Duology there and to add insult to injury, despite appearing in select Disney100 merchandise, he was one of those characters who was left out of Once Upon a Studio, presumably because the shorts he comes from still are not on Disney+. And while Merlin (who strikingly resembles Professor Owl) from Legend of the Three Caballeros is the closest thing to Professor Owl ever appearing on Disney+, since the Legend of the Three Caballeros episode Merlin comes from is there, it still does not help the mere absence of Professor Owl either way.

I still wish he had more arts and was more better known, because I feel like he certainly was an one-of-a-kind when it came to Disney characters. He also happens to pre-date the Kellogg's Froot Loops mascot Toucan Sam by ten years, although the latter is more well-known (especially in countries where Froot Loops are sold), which gets worst because of Disney not giving the Adventures in Music Duology enough home video attention to the point all home media releases (which comprises of the Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions tape Disney's Best: The Fabulous '50s, the original 2000 DVD releases of Fantasia 2000, the American/Japanese-exclusive Walt Disney Treasures Collection set Rarities and the Virtual Vault section on the 2010 Blu-Ray release of Fantasia 2000, outside of international reissues of the 2011 international Blu-Ray of Fantasia 2000 which is still in-print) of the Adventures in Music Duology are out-of-print.

Made with Paint.net on Christmas Eve 2023.

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