Netflix Honors Great Animal Sidekicks in Classic Animation

Jessica Lachenal

Published: Apr 13, 2017 08:25 am

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Some of the finest animal sidekicks in all of animation just want to be your friends.

So says this Netflix digital exclusive, where they highlighted some of the best animated animal sidekicks known to pop culture. Some of the honorees include: Bartok the Magnificent (Anastasia), Terk (Tarzan), Muk and Luk (Balto), and Batty Koda (Ferngully).

Yeah, I know, right? They reeeeeeeeeally dug deep for this listing. Though of course it makes sense that they’d choose characters from these movies specifically, as you can catch them all on Netflix this month (and then some, if they don’t get pulled for May). Anyway, I’m going to go watch Balto again because wow I forgot that was a movie that existed. Oh, and Ferngully and really, how good was Anastasia…

Who do you think should be on this list?

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Jessica Lachenal

Jessica Lachenal is a writer who doesn’t talk about herself a lot, so she isn’t quite sure how biographical info panels should work. But here we go anyway. She's the Weekend Editor for The Mary Sue, a Contributing Writer for The Bold Italic (thebolditalic.com), and a Staff Writer for Spinning Platters (spinningplatters.com). She's also been featured in Model View Culture and Frontiers LA magazine, and on Autostraddle. She hopes this has been as awkward for you as it has been for her.