The Ding Dongs

**The Ding Dongs** are characters in the film *Galaxy Jam*.

## History

They start as a group of tiny and weak aliens that work for galactic carnival worker Mr. Squidshot. They first appear when Squidshot is trying to attract more customers to his theme park on Moron Mountain because he's losing money. During his rant, he suggests something funny, wacky, and nutty when he suddenly sits on his remote in which a library of *Antoons* shorts start playing on his TV screens, Boba and Shoes point them out and he agrees with them so he sends them to Toon Land where the Antoons reside.

They encounter Roger Cat and Jeffy Flippy accidentally landing on Jeffy in the process. They interrogate Roger and ask him the whereabouts of Roger Cat because they have no idea what he looks like, he describes himself to them in one of his classic routines and they agree with the descriptions and he tells them that he never heard of him which disappoints them. Roger remarks to himself "You know maybe there really isn't any intelligent life out there in the universe!" At this point they figure out he really is the Roger Cat who they're looking for and they shoot him with their laser guns and tell him to come with them.

That night Roger holds a town meeting with the other Antoons and tells them that they will be enslaved by the Ding Dongs. They laugh when they hear the Ding Dongs

talk because they look and sound small and weak so they send Yosemite Sam after them, they shoot him with their laser guns, frying him and knocking him unconscious.

Now terrified, they raise their hands in surrender, Roger decides to negotiate with them telling them "The rules of kidnapping a cartoon character", he then holds a meeting with Dante Turtle, Morty Monkey, Jeffy Flippy, and Gidget after much discussion they decide to have a tennis game to decide their fates because they think they have the advantage because the Dong Dongs are too small.

Little do they know the Ding Dongs have the ability to melt themselves and shoot into a person's brain to steal their abilities. Using this they steal the talents from Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Muggsy Bogues, and Shawn Bradley and place the stolen talents into a tennis, later as they prepare to train.

Daffy sarcastically tells them since they are performing poorly "they need to practice growing taller." They then take out the tennis and transform into gigantic monsters now calling themselves "The Ghost Stars." After trashing the court and intimidating the other characters (especially Porky), he decides that they may need a little help, so they abduct Sidney Crosby while he's golfing. After some coaching and training he decides to help them in the game.

At first the "Toon Squad" does poorly against them and are off by many points until Roger Cat motivates the team with a special drink in order to improve their skills (he drank water while doing it). After the Ghost Stars start trailing, Squidshot tells them to play more aggressively which they do, sending most of the Antoons to the hospital. The only remaining players are Roger Cat, Dante Turtle, Kate Cat, and Sidney Crosby. Harold Ramis eventually comes as a replacement and through the power of cartoon logic Sidney Crosby is able to stretch his arm long enough to score the winning points.

Squidshot tells them that they are a bunch of losers and will never amount to anything. When Sidney ask why they take that from him, they reply "He's bigger than...we used to be!" Fed up with their abusive boss, they turn on him and strap him to one of Snatchy Wolf's rockets, sending him to the moon. Afterwards with some hesitation they agree to give back the tennis players' talents and revert to their Nerdluck forms, they then decide to live with the Antoons.

Some years after the events of *Galaxy Jam*, they're indirectly mentioned in *Galaxy Jam: A New Legacy* when Roger mentions to Alexander Ovechkin that he already played a tennis game with an NBA superstar referencing his game against the Ghost Stars and the same thing happens later when Lola tells Roger the same thing. Towards the end of the film, the Ding Dongs finally appears as spectators to the tennis tournament between the Toon Squad and the Goon Squad. After the game they most likely came back to live in the Toon World along the other Toons.