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It's important to embrace the weirdos in your life. Some of television's finest cartoon characters were inspired by the unlikeliest goofballs: an angry bartender, a creepy television clown, Devo.

So the next time your 12-year-old neighbor breaks into your home and demands you kick him in the ass, as hard as you can… start sketching. You might have an MTV megastar on your hands. 

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Chuckie Finster The goofy, bespectacled toddler's character design was based on Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh.

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Krusty The Clown CRACKEDCON Matt Groening grew up watching Rusty Nails, a TV clown who was ubiquitus in Portland. His autobiography was titled 'Send

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Mr. Magoo CRACKED COM Animation director John Hubley created the bumbling grump as a combo of comedian W. C. Fields and his own uncle.

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Carl Fredricksen CRACKED CON 85-year-old Seattle resident Edith Macefield refused a $1 million offer on her home, which was in the way of a developm

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Betty Boop CRACKED COM Singer, actress, and original boop-a-dooper Helen Kane once sued the animation studio for ganking her style. A judge ruled ther

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Moe Szyslak Louis Deutsch, New Jersey bartender and former boxer, was a favorite target of a couple of prolific prank callers. Recordings of the calls

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Popeye CRACKED COM Popeye creator E.C. Segar designed his iconic character based on pugnacious local townie Frank Rocky Fiegel.

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Rocko CRACKED COM The original pitch for Rocko's Modern Life was ia young anthropomorphic Woody Allen' -which fittingly implies that Allen lacks hum

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Shrek French wrestler Maurice Tillet suffered from late-onset thicc bonez, which gave him his unique appearance in adulthood.

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Butters CRACKEDCON South Park animator and producer Eric Stough was childhood pals with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. His innocence and sheltered upbrin

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Ursula The Sea Witch is based on singer, actor, and drag queen Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead. Specifically, it was his turn as Edna Turnblad in Ha

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Fred Flintstone The Flintstones is a pretty direct parody of The Honeymooners, SO Fred is naturally based heavily on Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden. G

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Nelson Muntz CRACKED COM The perennial haw-hawer is based on John Bender from The Breakfast Club, played by Judd Nelson. Both are tough-guy jerks who

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Harley Quinn CRACKED COM Writer Paul Dini saw his old college buddy, Arleen Sorkin, playing a jester in a weird little flashback on Days of Our Lives.

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Butt-Head SKULL CRACKED.COM Mike Judge once lived next to an annoying little kid who called himself Iron-Butt: 'Supposedly, you could kick him in the

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