Mr Google is celebrating Mr Men. The logo on the Google home page features assorted Mr Men and Little Misses to celebrate the birthday of Roger Hargreaves, the man behind the popular children's stories.
Clicking the doodle searches for information on Roger Hargreaves, an advertising chap who created the Mr Men in 1971. The first Misters were Messrs Tickle, Greedy, Happy, Nosey, Sneeze and Bump. Mr Snow showed up at Christmas and more followed in 1972. The Mr Men made their TV debut in 1975, and the Little Misses arrived in 1981.
The Google logo on the search engine's home page shows a number of Mr Men scenes -- you hit refresh to see more -- including Little Miss Sunshine tripping gaily along, Mr Messy repainting the logo, Mr Tickle playing a prank on the postman and Mr Bump coming a cropper.
The inclusion of the Little Miss in the doodle led to a heated discussion of extended universes in the Crave office, followed by a fistfight over whether the Misses are canon or non-canon.
There are now 44 Mr Men, including the somewhat dubious recent addition, Mr Guilty. As part of their mission to appear on every form of merchandise, the Mr Men appear in books, TV shows and even iPhone games. Hargreaves' son Adam, who inspired the first character when he asked his dad what a tickle looked like, recently sold the rights for a very tidy £24m.
Recent Google doodles include the a celebration of burner-inventing Robert Bunsen, steam-powered colourful character Richard Trevithick and first man in space Yuri Gagarin.
Update: A gallery of all the Roger Hargreaves Mr Men Google doodles is now on the site
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Anonymous 9 May, 2011 12:27
Mr Guilty is a made up Mr Man. Just sayin.
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 12:39
I still want to know why no easter bunny and easter eggs, I am so disappointed in Google, I wish we could use another search engine. Google you really disappointed me and millions of others when you didnt put any bunnies on your google Easter Sunday.
Hopefully next year you will rethink your decisions.
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 12:40
That's why the author wrote "the somewhat dubious recent addition, Mr Guilty."
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 13:02
Then why did the author also write "There are now 44 Mr Men," ?
And besides which I count 47 Mr Men, not 44/43, on the official Mr Men website.
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 13:10
Google cannot do Easter because it is religious, and they do not do religion, just like they do not do Sabbath, or Christmas (they call it holidays I think)
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 13:12
I would have guessed that "Little Miss Sunshine" is "SKIPPING" gaily along, but hey who knows with the that BIG GRIN...She could very well be "TRIPPIN." Wonder where the proof reader was for this one...probably hiding behind the rainbow laying in the grass, looking up at all the beautiful colors on his/her own little trip....
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 13:20
Why can't we just enjoy a simple photo?
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 13:20
I assume Anonymous's inclusion of two errors in a comment decrying a lack of editing care was meant to be ironic.
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 13:31
Where do they come up with all these people? Who ever heard of this guy? Is he a British thing or is he unique to a certain generation, namely the current geeks that run these companies ( that grew up in the 70s-80s)?
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 13:32
I have an original 32 year old Mr Nosey, it was my sons though.
anonymous 9 May, 2011 13:51
tripping
trip·ping   [trip-ing] –adjective
1.
light and quick, as a step or pace.
2.
proceeding with a light, easy movement or rhythm.
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 14:04
SHE GOT A LOVE LIKE WOOH WOOHH . ! BOW .
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 14:06
Not a single "doodle" on Google when we shot osama in the head. Wow.
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 14:39
Geeze I was just being "light-hearted" on this Monday morning. Here, this is what I meant (didn't think I'd really have to explain)
Richard…Taken from “Urban Dictionary†to which I’m guessing you have no idea of its existence (nor do you care)…But I’m guessing you’re #1 of the definition. But to what I was speaking of is #2, which leads to #3….
TRIPPIN
1. To make a big deal/get upset over nothing.
2. To be under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs
3. Tripping usually consists of taking hallucinogenic drugs
And to what I'll respond is "NO I'm not "trippin" in either respect." This whole thing has just lost its whole just lost the silliness I meant it to have. Not only did I have to draw a picture...I had to get the crayons out and color it too!
Have a great Monday everyone!! Now i HAVE to get back to W O R K
Cindy
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 14:43
They are soooo cool...they should have done more!!! xxxxx well done google
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 14:46
before someone corrects me in the sentence …What I meant to say…
This whole thing has just lost the silliness I meant it to have. (That’s what happens when you try to do 2 things at once; one being work…)
Cindy
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 14:47
I agree the drawings are definately cool!
Anonymous 9 May, 2011 22:53
To Anonymous (second comment).....
hahaha....you are cracking me up that you are so fanatic about easter. that's hilarious.... personally I could care less (unlike the millions of other disappointed bunny fans). And your comment "I wish we could use another search engine".... you actually can, there is nothing stopping you and there are plenty of them out there. All you have to do it type in another search engine's URL into the address bar of your browser.
Thanks for giving me something to chuckle about!