Gerald McBoing Boing

This little guy is a bit older than the rest, but he still makes the list of cartoon characters.Gerald McBoing-Boing is the story of a little boy who speaks through sound effects instead of spoken words. The story is about Gerald McCloy, who at the age of 2 years begins talking in the form of sound effects. His first word being the titular boing boing. His panicked father calls the doctor, who informs him that theres nothing he can do about it.

As Gerald grows up, he picks up more sounds and is able to make communicative gestures, but is still incapable of uttering a single word English. Despite this, he is admitted to a general public school, where he is harassed by his peers and given the name Gerald McBoing-Boing.

After startling and angering his father, he decides to run away and hop a train to an unknown location. However, just before he catches the train, a talent scout from the NBC Radio Network discovers him. He is then hired as NBCs Foley artist, performing shows for a division of the company labeled XYZ on the microphones, and becomes very famous, with the last scene showing him riding with his parents in a very expensive automobile among a crowd of fans.