WOW - LOL... not quite that far back ... I was thinking of Mac and Tosh the Goofy Gophers. LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofy_Gophers
The more things change ...
The gophers’ mannerisms and speech were patterned after Frederick Burr Opper’s comics characters Alphonse and Gaston, which in the early 1900s engendered a “good honest laugh”.