I hate jinxing myself

[yendi]

So, as I've mentioned in the past, my morning brain exercise is a quick visit to the Puzzbility Daily Post. My goal is to get no more than three wrong over the course of a year.

This week, the theme has been word squares with cartoon characters. Basically, they've taken famous characters, and hidden them in 3x3 grids, Boggle-style, allowing letters to be re-used, but not repeated. For example:

E I W
L E C
T O Y

Gives us Wile E Coyote.

And this week, the first four answers were George Jetson, Foghorn Leghorn, Homer Simpson, and Yosemite Sam. So when I commented to shadesong that this week was pretty easy, because there was a limited subset of famous tv cartoon characters, I must've tripped a switch somewhere.

Today's clue was this:

R U S
A C O
T G E

I spent over an hour staring at this (and occasionally getting other work done). I tried every Merry Melody and Hanna Barbera character I could think of. I went through Disney characters (even though most of them are from movies, not TV). And then I finally had an epiphany.

But this character was obscure. Really obscure. So obscure I had to do a Google search to make sure I wasn't on crack and misremembering a cartoon I saw twice as a lad.

There may be another more obvious choice, but this one fits the bill. And it was motherfucking hard (and no, I'm not spoiling the answer, as I want to give folks the chance to get it before they post the answer tomorrow). But wow! I'll never gripe about Puzz being too easy again.