Who was the prototype of the Nut and what does Indiana Jones have to do with it: interesting facts about the animated series "Chip and Dale»

The 65-episode animated series "Chip and Dale Rush to the Rescue" is included in the top 100 best animated films of all time. And of course, he remained forever in the hearts of the children of the 90s, who ran to the TV with all their legs at the first chords of the title song, performed by the group The Jets.

The sweet inventor Nut, who can construct even an airplane from a plastic bottle, even a crossbow from a pencil and a plunger; the sensible Chip and the careless Dale; the cheese lover Roquefort and his faithful friend Whizz; the villain Fat-belly and the mad scientist Professor Nimnul are not forgotten even now. Now they have become the heroes of numerous memes, fan art, and cosplay festivals.

Chip and Dale first appeared on the screen in the animated film "Private Pluto" in 1943 and over the next decade became the heroes of 23 more animated films.

Back then, they didn't have their famous outfits – a jacket, a hat, and a Hawaiian shirt-and they were mostly doing dirty things to Donald Duck. In the 1952 cartoon called "Two Chipmunks and One Miss", they fight for the heart of the lovely chipmunk Clarissa, and there is no Nut yet in sight.

According to the idea of the author of the idea, Ted Stones, the rescue team was to be led by a mouse named Keith Colby, and it consisted of a chameleon, a short-sighted eagle, a lizard and a couple of mice-the original versions of Roquefort and Nut.

But these characters did not like the producers, and it was decided to replace them with existing characters-Chip and Dale. The chipmunks were humanized by giving them voices and clothing, and several team members were replaced with new ones.

The names Chip and Dale were derived from the famous 18th-century furniture maker Thomas Chippendale, and the Russian translators did not change them.

But the Nut in the original name is Gadget Hackwrench (Gadget Hackwrench), which translates roughly as "gadget that unscrews the nuts"; the mustachioed Australian mouse, known to us as Roquefort, is Monty, or Monterey Jack (Monterey Jack) — after the name of a popular variety of cheese in the United States. Whizz's real name is Zipper, and Fat Cat is just Fat Cat.

In other countries, the chipmunks were given other names: Bang and Poof - in Sweden, Tico and Teco - in Brazil, Tick and Tock - in France, and in the Netherlands, Knabbel and Babbel at all. In Germany, they were called Chip and Chap, but the Fat Man in the German version received the elegant nickname Al Katzone (Al Katzone) — from Al Capone.

Before a couple of chipmunks got their own animated series, Chip and Dale barely wore clothes.

But then the creators dressed Chip in a flight jacket and a wide-brimmed hat, like the legendary hero of the adventure films of Indiana Jones, and Dale - in the Hawaiian shirt of Detective Magnum from the TV show of the same name in the 80s.

The prototype for the Nut was the image of a talented young inventor Jordan from the film "Real Genius" in 1985.

In the story, the heroine constantly invents and improves various technical devices to help her equally brilliant friends prevent the powerful laser they invented from falling into the hands of the villains-the military.

And finally, a mad scientist in a white coat and thick glasses with thick lenses, who dreams of destroying the rescuers, and at the same time the whole world — a cartoon of the actor and screenwriter Bruce Tolkington,

He is one of the creators of the well-known "Duck Stories", "Robocop"and" Winnie the Pooh".