Penfold

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This article is about Penfold the cartoon character. For the wine, see Penfolds.

Penfold in "The Odd Ball Runaround" DangerMouse last aired on Boomerang

Penfold's tarzan cry "Lord of the Bungle"

Timid hamster Penfold with a mole

Dangermouse and Penfold appearing human size in "Trip to America"

Penfold is a fictional character from DangerMouse, the British animated television series by Cosgrove Hall Films, voiced by Terry Scott. The anthropomorphic hamster is DangerMouse's loyal comic sidekick and is usually by his side. Penfold stands just over half the height of DangerMouse, and always wears thick round glasses and a blue suit with a yellow and black stripey tie. He is very timid, rather clumsy and often scared, saying his trademark "Crumbs!" when things go wrong; DangerMouse frequently tells him; "Penfold Shush!". He appears in every episode and often needs rescuing from one situation or another by Dangermouse.

At times Penfold and Dangermouse are shown to be rodent size such as them both living beneath a pillar box, and meeting other animals like birds that are giant in size compared to them. But at other times they interact with people and are human size; like the episode "Trip to America". See pictures bottom of page.

Although he is a hamster some people believe Penfold is a mole, possibly due to his dark brown colour and the fact he wears thick glasses, as moles have bad eye sight. Penfold can be seen meeting a mole in a picture below, showing he was illustrated differently to a mole.

[edit] Trivia

Once he won third place in a Penfold look-a-like contest (probably a reference to Charlie Chaplin)
His full name is revealed only once, it is "Ernest Penfold" (probably a reference to Ernst Stavro Blofeld).
In one episode, it is mentioned that his codename is "Jigsaw" because he often "goes to pieces".
Penfold and DangerMouse live beneath a pillar box. - There is also a Penfold pillarbox design.