The bronze age of TV sitcom and adventure cartoons of the 1960s was defined by horrid frame rates, plagiarised character design, tacky merchandising, and cost-cutting animation techniques (think the looping backgrounds of The Jetsons).
She described the character as 'a horrid sight, the blackest gnome' … He had thick lips, unruly black hair, and his hands and feet were paws".
Ogawa is peerless at exploring the prismatic significance of the minutest activities and occurrences of prosaic life, making them the portal to horrid secrets in the lives of her characters.
The Coens would no doubt enjoy turning Matilda into a screwball comedy: it already features a surplus of hideous adult characters who lurch from one amusingly horrid moment of stupidity to the next.
"I used to have a horrid knack of saying yes and doing films based on the main character," she explains, "and not realising - literally, like a retard - until I got there that I was not the main character".
In the first book, The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg, her creation is described as "a horrid sight, the blackest gnome" but quickly turns out to be a friendly character and is later attributed a "kind face".
Now, he has expanded on it with Tyrannosaur, a feature-length powerhouse of a film that explores the characters further, with the addition of Hannah's deplorable husband James Eddie Marsann, reliably horrid).
The name "Inspector Hibbert", from "The Last Word", is given to the character played by Nick Stringer in "Elvis, Jesus and Jack", Moffat's final Murder Most Horrid contribution.
For those who lost track of Randy Newman after his hit single "Short People" in 1977: the characters in about three-quarters of the songs he played on Friday night are horrid.
