"Obnoxious" is putting it mildly. XDD

Very true. I think that while he's the quintessential gentleman, he has his boiling points, which do get pushed due to the crazy events going around in Foster's. I felt bad for him in "When There's a Wilt...".

I have quite a lot of Wilt in me sometimes in how I'm perceived by others. And that probably isn't ok. :P

Yeah...Wilt sounds bad in BOTH Franch and Spanish. XDD

No offense intended for those people who live in non-English-speaking countries, who are probably used to hearing the dubs of the voices, but I can't even fathom ANY voice other than those silky-smooth, slightly "Geechee"-accented tones of the Wilt I'M used to hearing.

On a somewhat Wilt-related theme, this past Wednesday and Friday, I actually got the speak with the great-grandson of the guy whom HE says started the whole "Charleston Pineapple" motif, a man named J.W. Carrigg, a son of freed slaves. His protege', Phillip Simmons, got credit for building the first "Pineapple Gate" in Charleston, even though Mr. Carrigg's name is actually on the gate itself. If any of you are wondering what the heck that has to do with Wilt, if you look closely at the backgrounds in Good Wilt Hunting, of the court where both games against Foul Larry took place, there are these stylized pineapples up over the doors of the buildings, which have become more or less symbolic for Charleston, South Carolina, though I never really knew why. I just know that those things are EVERYWHERE down there, along with the wrought-iron railings and window covers that are also seen in the movie, and the ubiquitous "earthquake bolts"*, one of which actually appears in one of Sparky's screencaps. Talking to this guy on the phone(about our fight against breed-specific legistlation in our state), I couldn't help but think of the movie; although HE is a native of Charleston and lives there now, his accent isn't as noticeable as Wilt's is! He kept telling me that if I couldn't understand his "Geechee-speak", as he called it, to remind him to stop and repeat himself or explain what he meant, so I had to laugh and tell him not to worry, that I watched a character on tv who was way more "Geechee" than he was, and I could understand HIM(meaning Wilt, of course)just fine! I forgot just how the pineapple thing came up in a conversation about dogs, mostly, but it was pretty neat knowing I was talking to a decendant of the person who started it all.

*Earthquake bolts are huge steel rods inserted through the outer wall of buildings built in Charleston after 1886, when a massive earthquake probably around a 8.0 on the Richter Scale devastated the city. These are supposed to give strength to the building, though they haven't been "tested" by a really strong quake since. On the outside of the buildings, they appear as metal discs of various shapes, many round or square, often engraved with the names of the building's architechts, or Bible verses, or memorials to those who died in the quake. According to some geologists, South Carolina ranks below only Alaska and California as the most seismically-active state and the most likely to experience a horrendous "Big One" quake within this century. We typically experience over 200 small-moderate quakes per year, many originating near Charleston's Middleton Fault.

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I'm not too happy with his French voice, either. I think it makes him sound.....wimpy, in lack of better term. XD

The English voice heals! :D

I've never watched the show in different languages, but I do know that Wilt's english voice is the bestest of the best! Is that ok? :(

No arguement from me on THAT! I first started watching the show to find out more about this tall red being with the missing arm and messed-up eye, after seeing fan art of him on Deviant Art, but that voice was a big part of the reason I got totally hooked in the first place. It just perfectly suits him. It's obviously ethnic without being "street" or "ghetto" or other stereotypes; it's smooth and pitched just right, easily fitting someone of Wilt's height, age and gender.

Changing the subject a bit though, it kinda bothers me that so many people still perceive Wilt as clueless, blissfully going through life always-happy, oblivious to the fact that others might not share in his happiness. As we saw in the last season, culminating with GWH, that's not the case at all. Wilt has some really deep-seated issues, and he's clearly aware of how others see him and of others' feelings, including the negative ones. I do think that given all the awful things that have happened to him, that he's been able to overcome, little things like Jackie's tiff over being paired up with Wilt for the county fair are put in perspective as not being worth raising a fuss over. Most of us, now, if confronted with someone who obviously had a problem with us, would say something about it, like "what's YOUR problem, dude?", and that would only serve to make the situation worse. Wilt knows that it's not worth it. It's not that he doesn't realize when someone else dislikes him(he obviously knew that Larry didn't), or is unhappy with him, but he's just learned to brush it off as being relatively insignificant on the larger scale of things. It's comparable to the pilot episode when he first meets Mac and Bloo, and tells them, "I know I'm all broken, with the stubby arm and the wonky eye-probably freaks you out, huh?", and when you think about his situation, that's pretty sad. There's no telling how many people have reacted very negatively to him over the years, children especially, because of his injuries, and he's just come to that point where he can either stew over it and spend the rest of his life feeling useless, or he can build up that emotional wall to things like that, and almost treat them as a joke. GWH was evidence of that "wall", that he's constructed to keep out life's more painful experiences and memories, and no one who is that complex, who can keep such secrets buried for 30 years, can be a simpleton.

pitbulllady

I almost cried while watching GWH actually. But it's so sweet how he would
put his creator before himself. If only there were guys out there in the world
who were just as nice, sweet and caring as him! It's sorta the reason I have a small crush on Wilt. :D

I can name a few but unfortunately there would be very little point in doing so. :(

Dare I say that every girl in the world would KILL to get a boyfriend like Wilt? I mean honestly. XD

Honestly? I think that's an exaggeration at best. I'll doubtless be accused of Wilt-bashing or jealousy or something for saying that but that doesn't make it any less true. Every girl? Give me a break. :P

MOST women would very much like to have a guy like Wilt, in terms of personality, and I can speak from the perspective of someone who's WAY past the "girl" stage and who has had time to experience relationships, and to observe the situations that my friends have been through. Yeah, you will find some females who are abberations, who'll actually tell you that they WANT some guy who is total master and controller, who treats them like dirt, or at best, just ignores them and stays out of the way, but those women are few and far between. If you took a poll(and it's been done, many times), of the personality traits that women want in a man, most of those traits would match up with Wilt's, very nicely. Most women can deal much better with a guy who apologizes for nearly every little thing than one who'll slam a door in your face, then look at you like it's YOUR fault for being on the other side of the door in the first place, and not find anything wrong with anything he does, and believe me, there are a LOT of those guys out there. Most of Wilt's personality traits and his abilities, like being able to fix things around the house, tally up quite nicely with what women in general want in a guy.

pitbulllady

...it was a joke. You didn't have to take my comment quite that seriously >_>; But yeah back to Wilt, haha. He's a nice guy.

Well, regarding some previous commentary, I think it's selling Wilt short to believe he's oblivious to the bad stuff in life. I've called Wilt "pure" before, but even I don't beleive that. He understands all the bad stuff that's happening and chooses to keep smiling. THAT'S what I respect about him. He hasn't had an easy ride, yet he's still the kindest and cheerfullest friend in Fosters.

That's basically what I said, so I agree wholeheartedly. Wilt knows what's going on around him, and when someone else is unhappy, but he also knows how insignificant a lot of the things people worry about and get mad over really are, relatively speaking. Wilt probably came very close to dying following that game against Larry, since there's no telling how long he went around with that busted arm before getting any medical treatment. The fact that the arm had to be amputated indicates that it had most likely become septic by the time he did get any medical help, and that's a condition that even now, with medical advances far better than in the 1970's, is often fatal. Having been through so much pain, and having stared down death itself, can put everything else in some real perspective. Most of the people I've met in my life who were most like Wilt, personality-wise and skills-wise, were part of "The Greatest Generation", those who'd grown up in the Depression, who fought in World War II, many having been injured and having lost loved ones to the horrors of war, so they learned the real value of life and happiness and of being able to overcome hardships. Many of those people had that same positive outlook that Wilt has, and I can remember a time when I was too young to understand that, and actually felt contempt for them, believing that they lived in some little fantasy world that was exempt from bad things or difficulties. It took going through some real rough spots myself for me to understand where they were really coming from, but I still find myself failing to measure up to those people. Most of those people are long gone now, which is why Wilt really stands out, I guess, for his personality, and why a lot of people tend to think that he's clueless and looks at the world through those proverbial rose-colored glasses, but that isn't the case at all.

pitbulllady

Before a means of safely anesthetizing patients was discovered, it WAS commonplace for doctors to amputate limbs with the patient fully concious. Of course, many such patients died of shock afterward, but many survived, also. The Grand Canyon here in the US was first explored and mapped by a Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell, whose right arm had been amputated following devastating injuries to it in battle. A couple of years ago, a hiker in one of our Western wilderness areas was pinned by the arm underneath a boulder in a rock slide, and he was alone at the time. He had to amputate his own arm with a camping knife to get free, otherwise he would have died there. He was a well-trained individual, though, who did have some medical background and had the equipment to create a tournequet to stem bleeding long enough for him to hike out to help. Regardless of whether Wilt's arm was amputated under "battleground" conditions, or in the relative safety of a contemporary operating room, it still would have been a rough thing to go through, all the worse if it was done by someone who DIDN'T use anesthetic. The fact that it was neatly sutured, and padded with muscle from elsewhere(most likely from those two scarred lobes on his face), indicates that it was done by a surgeon with experience in amputations, and most likely(this was the '70's, after all, and not in some remote wildnerness area, though some people DO think of the Southeastern US as a "wilderness")was done in the comparitive safety of a hospital OR, under general anesthesia.

pitbulllady

That's "pure" in a genuine sense. He's not ignorant and innocent, but rather he's faced harsh realities of life and refuses to let them corrupt him.

Just wanted to ask for a general opinion of the public:

I've noticed Wilt going what I think is "off-model" for the episodes "Sight for Sore Eyes" and "Eddie Monster", where he develops a "visible" eyebrow. I've only got a cap from Sore Eyes here:

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/24-0008.jpg

And I would take a cap from Eddie Monster as well, but I'm lazy. :P

Basically, I'm bringing this up because in most of the episodes I've watched, when Wilt gets angry (which is rare), his eye normally retains its round shape, with the lid depicting his level of anger:

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/28-0012.jpg

And I know this is a minor issue, but yeah, does the first "eyebrow" picture sit well with you guys when you see it? It could possibly mean that Wilt is really, really mad when his "eyebrow" thing comes out, but it kind of throws me off a bit every time I see it, haha.

It could also possibly be just a mistake on part of the storyboard artist not following the model packs (sometimes the character packs have specific rules on what a character should or should not look like in certain expressions and stuff) and it getting through to finalization without being noticed. Considering there's been tons of continuity errors in Foster's (Neighbour Pains: Mac's backpack appears after it's clearly been left inside the house then redisappears later, Goo's hair braids continually switching sides, Coco's "body" showing through her beak, Badvertisement: Man's hand in background covering Bloo who is in the foreground, etc. ) I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case.

Still, it adds a different level of expression for Wilt, no? Even though it makes him really mean-looking and stuff. :S

I think that the animators did that just to give an enhanced impression of Wilt being really angry, and he CAN get really ticked-off. His patience with Bloo can be quite minimal at times. There are going to be periodic animation "screw-ups", though, like in Good Wilt Hunting when we see a pic of Wilt shooting baskets at Foster's, and his facial scars are missing, and we later see a "flashback" pic of him right after his arm was broken, and his has the facial scars, even though there was nothing that happened on the basketball court to cause them!

pitbulllady

Whenever I see Wilt get the eyebrow, I get all creeped out. It also means that you shouldn't get on his bad side, or tell him any "tall" jokes :D

Really? I'll have to find that next time I watch that episode! It must be very
uncomfortable sleeping in shoes :(

Wilt actually sleeps with his shoes on most of the time. The only time I can actually recall him specifically removing them at bedtime was in the pilot episode, actually. We've discussed Wilt's apparent hang-ups about his feet before, and why he doesn't like to take his shoes off. We've only seen him bare-footed ONCE, in "The Trouble With Scribbles", and while Wilt's feet are mostly human in appearance(size notwithstanding), his toes are very long, they end in those same "suction cuppy thingies" like his fingers, and he's got "divergent" big toes, which mean that his big toe isn't in line with the other toes, but down lower on his foot and sorta sticking out to the side, a bit like an ape's! Maybe he's been teased about that, and is self-concious about it.

I DID find out where Wilt's lack of appreciation for tall jokes came from, though-apparently, Michael Jordan, on whom Wilt's creator is based, hates tall jokes, and that's one of the few things that can really tick him off. Like Wilt's creator, he was a runty little kid who got picked on for being short, then he went through that tall, gangly stage, and got teased in high school for being tall and thin, and it really got to him.

pitbulllady

I can see where he gets that from, I'm a short girl myself: 4'11...and a quarter of an inch.

Besides the pilot episode and "Who Let the Dogs In", Wilt is seen sleeping, or just waking up, in "Cookie Dough" , "Room With a Feud" and "Land of the Flea", though in "Room With a Feud", he actually was sleeping in a bed and was under a blanket, while he normally sleeps with his feet sticking out from under his former bed, now occupied by Bloo. In both "Cookie Dough" and "Land of the Flea", though, he's got his shoes on when he wakes up(or gets awakened by Bloo).

pitbulllady

In "Cookie Dough", Wilt is seen sleeping under the bed, snoring quite loudly in fact, with his feet-shoes on-sticking out from under the bed. That is right before Bloo rudely interupts his slumber to suggest that Wilt help him steal the recipe for Madame Foster's cookies, startling Wilt and causing him to bang his head on the underside of the bed.

pitbulllady

That's right.

Aww, I love his little sleeping habits, they're just too adorable XD In 'Cookie Dough' though, when Bloo is trying to wake him, I love that little snore he's got going on there, not his usual "*snort* Sorry sorry sorry..." but that loud snore as he breaths in and the quiet squeaky whistling as he breathes out. I don't know, I just find it cute, man.

LOL at the "snort" part. I donno, I just think that word and action is funny. XD

Wilt only seems to sound awesome in English. :D

I had to laugh at that snore! He doesn't say, "sorry, sorry" while snoring in "Cookie Dough", but he sounds more like a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle at high idle, lol! It's a real snore, the kind that Breathe-Rite commercials would love to feature! His mouth is hanging open, and although I know this isn't the most pleasant visual, if Wilt had been lying on his side instead of his back, he'd probably have been drooling on the floor! He was really in deep sleep mode there.

pitbulllady

Weren't Wilt's legs dangling down from each side of the bed when he was sleeping on the top bunk (formerly Ed's, but now Ed had his own room)? I remember noticing that and finding it cute, and how it made sense being the footboard wouldn't have allowed his feet to stick out over the edge, at least not very comfortably. Drat, I don't remember if his shoes were on or off when he's sleeping in Ed's bunk, though...

Is it wrong for me to find Wilt's snoring adorable?:terrconf:

It is in *this* thread. The Wilt Appreciation Thread is right down the street. ;)

LOL 8D

Yeah, sorry. Kinda forgot where I was.:terrconf:

Wow, apparently I've missed a lot of things in this thread. So we're talking about Wilt's sleeping habits now? Heh, sometimes I have to admit he's pretty amusing when he's sleeping, especially when he says "sorry" several times in his sleep, like some others were talking about earlier! LOL! 8D

Perhaps he's embarrased about his feet... I have a really big problem with my feet, and I hate taking my shoes and socks off at school when I have a Gym lesson. It's OK when I'm at home with my family, but I always avoid showing my feet when I'm with my friends...

Either that or there isn't really a proper reason as to why he doesn't like to take his shoes off, I suppose it's just easier for the animators, like how very few cartoons have characters who change their clothes all the time *shrugs*

I KNOW WHY!

He doesn't like to show off his feet, so that we, the fans, will bring up the subject multiple times! =D

Oh, I got your number, Wilt...Trying to make yourself seem more interesting, eh? Well, NOT ANY MORE!!



o.o Woah. Bloo moment.

He think he's so hot with his calcuating brain and his feet that never see the light of day...

ROFL.

Wilt will ALWAYS have a certain mystery, as long as we can come up with the questions. :D

REALLY? What's his number? XD

it's 867-5309
[XD]

But I thought that was Jenny's number...

We all know that Wilt and always shall be NUMBER ONE!

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