#babar troubadour

[nerdiestalpaca]

Kinda late delivering this news but a little while back I was OFFICIALLY asked to join the team for @rocketwithapocket's Burbank: Become Animated! Here's a look at the designs I've done/re-done since joining the team!

#burbank become animated #babar pompadour #babar troubadour #housebroken honey #homestar runner #snufkin #ni hao kai lan #jade catkin #crossover au #cartoon crossover

[lordrataxesofrhinoland]

Favourite barbr characters

Babar obviously, I like Basil a lot as well as whatever gay shit Pompadour and Cornelius have going on, uhh Zephir is cool too and Uncle Arthur, Madame, Victor And can't forget about the guy who I made my name and profile picture of course ;)

But yeah my favorite is probably Troubadour

#thanks for asking about babar #sorry i never post about it hehe

[nakamopapina]

Tada! A drawing of Troubadour with a butterfly on his trunk!

I made his eye colour a pale green.

#Babar #Babar The Elephant #Babar Cartoon #Babar Troubadour

[saltywatermelonart]

Babar the Elephant: Arthur's Problem

By SaltyWaterMelonArt

All characters in this fanfic are from Babar the elephant and belongs to the talented writer Jean de Brunhoff and family. I just merely live and breathe the 1989-91 cartoon

Warning: This fanfiction in future installments will contain mature material such as references and consumption of alcohol, and the negative effects of the addiction towards it, and will contain cursing and dark scenes

Chapter 1

Ever since Uncle Arthur came home from his sea voyage that happens year round, he has been acting sort of strange. Everyone notices it and soon they find out why...

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It was a beautiful morning in the grand town of elephants called Celestville. On this morning a family is waiting by the dock for a special person, Arthur. The children Pom, Alexander, Flora, and even the toddler Isabelle always waited for their beloved Uncle Arthur when he returns from his grand "70% fairytale adventures," as Pompadour refers to it in the pompous way of calling it. Arthur always comes back with a bag full of "Treasures he obtains from his journeys" aka bag of trinkets he gets at a gift shop store, and shares the same tail with added details to make the story way more enticing.

King Babar and Queen Celeste where standing behind their children with warmth in their little eyes, it was always so cute just seeing them get all excited for their Uncle Arthur. Arthur was Celeste sister and Babar's brother in law which made him extremely popular around for miles and miles, even known as far as Rhino land. This was also help due to the fact that Arthur was such a character even since he was a kid, and still was good at the old prank(Which might be the reason he sometimes got in a pickle). Back to the dock, the kids as well as both Babar and Celeste were waiting for Arthur with anticipation. You could never have a boring with Arthur.

" What is taking him so long, I cant wait a single second more waiting to have spy adventures with Uncle Arthur?" Alexander exclaimed jumping up and down.

" Oh quite your yapping, he'll come any time soon just calm down there." Pom scolded his brother.

" Now children," Babar started to explain ", When Uncle Arthur comes you kids should be on your best behaviour, we don't want to repeat with what happened last time."

"Okay daddy." Flora said while holding younger sisters toy dolly.

"Hey gang." A voice boomed from behind them. The voice caught the family off guard, but for Celeste and Babar something was off about Arthur's tone and voice, but they couldn't put their finger on what.

"Uncle Arthur, Uncle Arthur!" The kids chanted as they ran up to their Uncle and gave him a hug tighter than any bear hug you'll ever get.

"Whoa easy now kids-"

"That's right children, Babar softly commanded " Your uncle is very tired from him travels."

"Aww," wined the kids "Babar is right gang," Arthur looked down at the kids with a slight blush "I'm a bit under the weather, but as soon I get Some well earned rest, we can play all we want and if your extra good we might get some sodas from Zephir's. Now how does that sound gang?"

"Yeah!" The kids shouted loud enough that workers on the dock stared at the situation.

"Okay kids, back to the car." Babar said, and as usual they obeyed while the adults stayed back. Celeste then turned to Arthur giving him a hug. Both Celeste and Arthur are both extremely close to each other and everytime Arthur came back, he was ready to five his big sis a monster of a hug. Upon wrapping around each other, Celeste smelled something strong on Arthur. She didn't know what it was, but she had a bad feeling.

"Oh Arthur how its so nice to see you again after such a long time." Celeste beamed up.

"... Yea- yeah, its so nice to you you two sis." Arthur barely managed to get out. Babar noticed Arthur's strange behavior, while Arthur noticed this too.

"Is something the matter, Arthur?" Babar asked.

"W-well, I do have this massive migraine that's been bumming me out since this early morning," to be fair he wasn't fully lying ", And I think Im coming up with something." Celeste checked her brother forehead, and he was a bit warm.

" Mmmm, yes you do have something coming up, Babar can you please carry Arthur's bags to the car."

"Yes dear." And with that, they were on there way to journey back to the castle...

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 The trip back from the dock was very quiet, normally car rides like theme are absolutely chaotic and bedlam, while driving Babar off the wall. But this time, the pure silence of the car ride has been the most awkward and boring 30 minutes of their lives, the boring part at least for the kids. Celeste had notice this admittedly, but didn't say anything. The lively Arthur who loved to horse around was just sitting there, playing with his trunk.

 When they finally arrived to the castle, Arthur told everyone that he needed some much needed rest, and asked for a pain relief pill and a glass of water. Everyone was a nit worried about Arthur, but they shrugged it off as just sea sickness. None the less they left him alone. Pompadour was a little cheerful there won't be so much noise distracting from his paperwork though.

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 Arthur took a long swig of water after popping the pill in his mouth. "God," he thought ", I really needed that." Arthur took his uniform off, placing it at the bottom end of the bed. He only had a pair of boxers on him at this time due to the summer heat. Arthur wrapped the warm blanket onto his warm body, but just as he was about to dose off, he went into his suitcase and pulled out a oddly shaped clear bottle full of a brown strong smelling liquid, and took a long swig...

To be continued...

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This is the first chapter of my first fanfic I have created of one of my favorite franchises. If you like what you have read, you can support me and go here:

#babar the elephant #babar #pompadour #arthur #Pom #Alexander #Flora #Celestville #celeste #alcohol #recovering addict #addiction #Cornelius #saltywatermelonart #fanfic #80s cartoons #cartoon #books #children books #troubadour

[theenronblues-blog]

My Favourite Babar Characters

It comes to four characters who are my absolute favourites (I can’t decide between them): Basil, Pompadour, Cornelius and Troubadour.

Basil... who wouldn’t love Basil? That little rhino is both admirable and humble, and he always treats just about everybody with respect, regardless of their species or alliance. To quote King Babar, “that Basil is quite a guy!”. It was so sad yet so beautiful that Basil was willing to throw away a chance at fame just because of how glad he was to see his boss respected by his people and loved by his family in “Unsung Hero” (if only more human beings in this day and age could be a bit more like Basil, am I right?). He’s also not portrayed as a bumbling servant, but instead as a resourceful and dedicated friend to Rataxes who helps keep everything in-check while still watching from the sidelines. I just wish he had appeared in more episodes! His origin and backstory, much like Pompadour’s, is rather ambiguous, but Basil was even less developed as a character and we never really got much in that regard (I was always hoping they would do an episode on how Rataxes came to meet and hire Basil, since Rataxes always seemed like the last guy who would admit to wanting an assistant).

Pompadour was always a favourite of mine; he’s adorably conservative and high-strung, but I’ve always loved how well-developed he is. He completely shatters the overused trope of the pompous, snooty bureaucrat who only cares about himself (yes, I’m looking at you, Chi-Fu from Disney’s Mulan!). Pompadour can be very snooty, but he isn’t mean-spirited, and throughout the show he shows a great deal of compassion for others. Wanting to build shelters for the homeless was just one example, but it’s most evident when he expresses how much he actually values his friends in spite of his general attitude. Rushing in to save Cornelius during a kitchen fire, being very patient with Isabelle when he was babysitting the children even though he definitely wasn’t a fan of the job, trying to stay behind under the guise of “proper protocol” in the episode “Remember When...” so Babar could board a plane with his family and get to safety first, turning on all the lights in the palace to try and lead Arthur and the children back home after they get lost, being so understanding when Babar doesn’t want the Celesteville Express to destroy Pleasant Valley, the list goes on. It’s a wonderful change from similarly aristocratic fictional characters, e.g. Squilliam from Spongebob or Gilbert from King of the Hill, to have a character who behaves similarly but is a genuinely good soul at the end of the day. When he does go out of line, he usually offers a genuine apology as well and acknowledges his wrongdoing, something similar characters simply never do.

Cornelius is a character who I not only saw on TV, but who appeared in the original books decades earlier. I do wish he and Pompadour had more adventures on-screen together; they are such wonderful friends and the depth of that is something which has always been endearing. Cornelius is always very caring towards Pompadour, and their relationship was never portrayed in a preachy or bizarre way. Cornelius is probably the wisest character on the show too; playing Hide & Seek with the children in “Conga the Terrible” and then tricking them into thinking he’d fallen asleep, his heartfelt talks with Babar and his role as almost a surrogate father, it’s all so simple and yet so powerful simultaneously. One of the episodes which really made him memorable and a favourite of mine was “A Child in the Snow” - he’s like that wise old grandfather who understands the motives behind everything and who appreciates the mysteries of life, yet he’s rational enough to also know when to leave the past behind. In the more recent “Babar and the Adventures of Badou”, he’s still present but portrayed as sillier than in the 1990′s show, a change which I’ve never appreciated. I’m still glad though that he has managed to hold on as a character and keep reappearing in adaptations instead of being forgotten like some of the others.

Troubadour, finally, is a character who never speaks (except in the tie-in picture book series) and he’s shrouded in mystery (how old is he? Where did he come from?) but somehow he’s still hands-down one of the most endearing characters in the whole series. He idolizes Cornelius and Pompadour in a sense, always there to assist them, but at the same time he’s got his own opinion on everything, expressed only in his own mannerisms. It’s wonderful how he becomes such a beloved friend to Queen Celeste and the children, too. He even seemed to share a rapport with Celeste, something which otherwise is mostly limited to Babar himself. This was especially evident in “The Celesteville Enquirer” when she knows he was just teasing about Flora’s newspaper photos - and Troubadour hugging the children really shows how he, like Cornelius and Pompadour, is a member of the family in his own right. He was always an adorable little elephant too, scurrying instead of walking, playing along with Pompadour’s antics in “Double the Guards” and “The Missing Crown Affair” (speaking of “Double the Guards”, the way he just ate several carrots at once so nonchalantly was hilarious), but I think what truly made him stand out was his personality. He never spoke yet he was such a defining character in the series, giving him an enigmatic role so he wasn’t just reduced to a background prop.

Runners up: Rataxes, Lady Rataxes, Jacques, Victor, Chef Truffles, Isabelle, Ursula, King Babar, Madame, Babar’s mother, Queen Celeste and Conga the (not so) Terrible.

#Babar the Elephant #Babar #elephant #cartoon #cornelius #pompadour and cornelius #queen celeste #pompadour #celesteville #basil #isabelle #troubadour #mulan #chi-fu #nelvana

[chronosstuff]

Day 1

Favourite character

I expected myself to pick Troubadour as he is a pure bundle of joy and warmth even the nicest being in the world can't handle how great our mute god Is. I instead went with Babar. As he's the MC it makes sense the show wouldn't be as popular as it was for such a long time if Babar himself was dull or mediocre. He strives be to best he can be for the most amount of people and doing the best he can do for those people. Which stemmed down from his mother worrying more about others than herself especially in her final moments. It's this thought of making his mother proud that drives him which lead to his reign as king and the presence of what makes him so special and this show as a whole for me at least is the reasons behind someone's actions. He's become my favourite character as he's the embodiment of what I love most about this show.

#Month of Babar #babar the elephant #babar #favourite character

[nerdiestalpaca]

Fan Concepts I drew up for @rocketwithapocket 's Burbank: Become Animated!

#burbank become animated #homestar runner #babar pompadour #babar troubadour #lps a world of our own #roxie mcterrier #jade catkin #crossover au #cartoon crossover

[ben-the-hyena]

This episode was the daddest these 2 ever were

#i am so sorry tocuse automatic subs but for some reason the actual subs work badly and are late and not in sync with whats on screen #food #eating #babar #guardians and children #troubadour #pompadour #cornelius #when they were young #episode

[ben-the-hyena]

Absolutely ugly ass CGI, eye colors which is a disgrace to the charm of bead eyes the franchise always had, Lady Rataxes looking MONSTROUS AND VULGAR (NO SHE IS GRACEFUL AND LEGETIMATELY CLASSY WHY DOING HER A QUEEN GRIDDLE 2 ? AS MUCH AS I LOVE GRIDDLE IT DOESN'T SUIT LOUISE !!!) and being SUPER MEAN AND ABUSIVE TO RATAXES WHO NOW FEARS HER FOR REAL (WHYYYY HE WAS JUST SCARED BECAUSE SHE WAS THE ONE PERSON TO PUT HIM IN HIS PLACE AND WHO WOULD GET UPSET EASILY NOT LITERALLY FEAR HER BECAUSE ABUSE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO ACTUALLY LOVE EACH OTHER), feeling much more stupid and toddler-like, ugly ass designs with some characters looking more like furries or TLK/Jungle Book characters than Babar, Célesteville which is supposed to be the elephants capital being suddenly VERY cosmopolitan (sure there were some non elephants but NOT HALF BABAR IS THE KING OF THE ELEPHANTS), Badou apparently being the only grandson of Babar meaning Babar's other kids had none on their own (I mean it is possible but DAMN the original show is all about friends AND family he could have had cousins in his circle !), Babar seeming to be the one ruler around or maybe Rataxes (as decorative and castrated as he feels in that show look how they massacred my boy) too ignoring the fact there is supposed to be an Animals Federation with kings and capitals for ALL the species and Babar is JUST the one for elephants, none of the kids feeling endearing over than "cute" and bidimensional, all these new characters while ignoring characters who are never mentionned again as if they didn't exist (POMPADOUR TROUBADOUR BASIL POMEER TRUFFLES WHERE ARE YOU GUYS)...

*inhales, exhales*

Cornelius being even more of a comic relief rather than a wise respected character who just happens to have comical moments, Cornelius still being alive and not changed despite being old already when Babar was born and now Babar himself is a fucking grandfather, Cornelius again adopting at his age a 5 years old son (YOU COULD HAVE ADOPTED HIM AS A GRANDSON AT LEAST- HOLY SHIT REALLY FEELS FANFICY), said kid being a fox because WHY NOT AND FURRY APPEAL BUY OUR SHIT PLEASE, Cornelius (AGAIN) being retconned out of nowhere as a former army medic while we NEVER EVER saw him or mention him do that in the old show and books and in fact DESPITE HIS MILITARY UNIFORM NEVER WAS A MILITARY BUT JUST AN ADVISOR AND PRIME MINISTER (THEY JUST LOOKED AT HIS DESIGN DIDN'T THEY ?), Badou having no elephant friends all his friend circles is made of all these varied species it's depressing (again no problem with having friends of other species Babar had a lot but IT IS A TOWN OF ELEPHANTS HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MORE BABAR HIMSELF KNEW MORE ELEPHANTS THAN OTHER SPECIES) Zéphir being old like Babar and yet having a daughtet of the same age as Badou who is Babar's 8 years old grandson while she could have been his granddaughter (I mean, sure some people can have children very mate because they met the right person late but still it feels weird especially from Zéphir, very fanficy again), some animals out of nowhere suddenly hating civilization and civilized animals while IT NEVER WAS THE SPIRIT OF BABAR IN THAT UNIVERSE IT IS IMPLIED ANIMALS WERE ALWAYS SENTIENT AND INTERESTED BUT NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY IT'S ALL ABOUT ALL ANIMALS BEING CHARMED BY THE WAYS OF HUMANS AND DECIDING TO TAKE THE BEST OF IT TO ENHANCE THEIR OWN WAYS AND NOT FORGET ABOUT THEM BUT TAKE THE BEST OF BOTH LIVING IN CIVILIZATION'S COMFORT BUT STILL CELEBRATING AND ADAPTING THEIR ROOTS...

Indeed LET'S FUCKING NOT MAKE THEM DIVIDED WITH SOME SUDDENLY WANTING TO STAY NAKED WALKING ON THEIR 4 SEEING THE OTHERS LIKE TRAITORS BABAR OUT OF ALL KIDS FRANCHISES OS NOT THAT KIND OF STORY OR MADE FOR IT AND IT WON'T HELP THE DUMBASSES WHO ARE SURE IT IS A PRO-COLONIALIST METAPHOR WHILE IT NEVER WAS BUT WAS A SAD CLUMSY COINCIDENCE (the original writer and his wife before making them books were just improvising bedtime stories for their son, the future new writer, and for a little kid it is cute to take a random exotic animal and make him dress up in modern clothes and pretend he learned it from humans and because they are French and more familiar with French ways they had him follow the French way it was just to make him giggle and imagine it vividly while falling asleep BUT OF COURSE PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE TO MAKE IT ALL ABOUT THE REAL WORLD) SOMETIMES REAL WORLDS VIEWS AND LOGIC ARE NOT MADE TO BE ADDED HERE IT'S A WORLD IN WHICH ANIMALS CAN WALK ON THEIR 2 IF THEY WANT AND CAN SPEAK AND HUMANS DO KNOW AND ARE NOT SURPRISEE BY A FUCKING SPEAKING ELEPHANT CALF IN THEIR STREETS ANF TREAT HIM LIKE A NORMAL KID MEANING THEY KNOW THEY ARE SENTIENT AND YET HUNTING AND KILLING THEM IS LEGAL NO IT CAN'T HAVE MORE DEPTHS AND DIVISIONS THAN THAT NOW THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED AND THEY ARE FINALLY RECOGNIZED AS ACTUAL PROPLE OFFICIALLY WITH LEADERS AND IT WAS ALL ANIMALS WANTED SO NO NO "YOU FORGOT YOUR ROOTS >:(" DUMBASSES ESPECIALLY SINCE WE SAW SOME IN THE SHOW STILL LIVING WILD BUT BEING CORDIAL TO THE CIVILIZED...

*exhales and calms down*

For all these retcons, flanderizations, characters assassinations, wastes, lore confusions, awful choices and insults to what made the old show intemporal watchable by all, @papabirdurskeks and I both refuse to take The Adventure of Badou as an actual sequel show no matter how official sources say it is, it makes no sense they understood nothing at what made the old show and characters and in fact this whole universe endearing. We in fact prefer making our own HCs basing ourselves on that show but not taking it as the real sequel but just a non canon preschooler spinoff like Disney Junior often products about other franchises. I even considered making it a sequel to the 1999 movie buuuuuut it would insult it too without the same smarter spirit either and Cornelius isn't an army medic either in it

#papabirdurskeks #moi #babar #tv show #movie #WHY #FFFUUU- #them bastards ! #babar and the adventures of badou

[theenronblues-blog]

The book “Babar: Zephir Fait le Singe” (English: “Zephir Does the Monkey”), based on the episode “Monkey Business”. The French version of this book is descriptively funny; for example, instead of just saying that Pompadour passes out after being scared by Zephir’s prank gift, it says, “Pompadour drifted through every colour of the rainbow, fainted and fell over backwards!” which makes it sound more like he had a bad acid trip.

#pompadour #Babar #Babar the Elephant #cornelius #pompadour and cornelius #rataxes #king babar #troubadour #zephir #monkey #elephant

[theenronblues-blog]

I always love this scene every time; I wish life could be more like this.

#Babar the Elephant #Babar #elephant #queen celeste #celesteville #pompadour #troubadour #cornelius #pompadour and cornelius #friends #cute #cartoon #frienship #hug #hugging #courtroom

[theenronblues-blog]

#Babar the Elephant #Babar #elephant #troubadour #cute #cartoon #king babar

[theenronblues-blog]

Some sample content from the Babar book “raconte flore reporter” (English: Recounting Flora the Reporter). Yup, Troubadour is actually speaking in this book! For any non-French speakers, Troubadour’s response to Cornelius’s question of why he reacted badly to the good photos in Flora’s newspaper was, “to tease you, naturally!”, whereas in the English episode basis it’s Celeste who assumes Troubadour was teasing them by indicating that Flora’s newspaper was bad.

Cornelius also refers to Pompadour as “mon cher” (”my dear”) in the French versions of the books more often, which was strange getting used to but somehow it suits them both.

#Babar the Elephant #Babar #elephant #pompadour #pompadour and cornelius #cornelius #troubadour #king babar

[chronosstuff]

If you replace all smash characters with characters from your favourite cartoon who would you want to survive world of light? And why?

Babar: Troubadour because he's loyal enough to do whatever it takes to save his friends.

Benjamin bear: Same reason and with the humans gone he won't have to "go teddy"