Louie

### Personality

Careless, nasty, mean, dumb, grumpy, discourteous, unfriendly, rude, obstinate, loathsome, diligent, laid-back, observant, unkind, irresponsible, emotionless, and loud-mouthed

### Description

Big, fat, ugly, Italian man with fat hairy muscles and long hair; smoking a cigar

### Fate

Accidentally gets squirted in the face with mustard by Oliver and then throws it back at him but misses.

### Quote

"Get your hot dogs. The best hot dogs in New Yo-ork."
"Get outta here. Shoo!"
"I'll get you!"

**Louie** (referred to by Dodger as **Old Louie**) is a minor character in Disney's *Oliver & Company*. He was voiced by Frank Welker.

## Description

Louie is a big, fat, ugly, Italian man with fat hairy muscles and long hair; usually seen smoking a cigar as he waits for customers to pass by. He eventually shoos off animals who would come near his hot dog cart.

He is shown to be rather careless, nasty, mean, dumb, grumpy, discourteous, unfriendly, rude, obstinate, loathsome, diligent, laid-back, observant, unkind, irresponsible, emotionless, and loud-mouthed most of the time.

## Appearance

### *Oliver & Company*

In New York, Louie is first seen pushing his hot dog cart on the sidewalk while rudely asking people passing by to move out of the way. The scent of his delicious hot dogs attracts the attention of a hungry stray kitten later named Oliver as he stops at the corner of the sidewalk to begin selling his food products to any possible future customers passing by.

When Louie notices Oliver next to his cart, he calmly but rudely shoos him away since he doesn't approve of animals coming near his hot dogs and continues trying to sell. But then, when Oliver returns and desperately begs Louie to give him a meal while hanging onto his leg, Louie coldly kicks him to a nearby alley where he bumps into a trash can, which attracts the attention of a dog named Dodger on the other side of the street, having seen the whole thing.

After Oliver meets Dodger who has had dealings with Louie before since the latter knows the vendor's name by the alias, "Old Louie" and refers to him as a "well-known enemy of the four-legged world", Louie hears barking and then, finds himself dealing with Oliver yet again, only this time, he gets inadvertently clawed by the kitten multiple times due to Dodger pretending to chase him as part of a diversion while the latter handles the sausage theft the rest of the way; much to his amusement.

When Oliver makes it off of Louie and accidentally squirts mustard in his face, Louie angrily retaliates by throwing the mustard back at Oliver but misses luckily. Louie isn't seen throughout the rest of the movie after this.

## Gallery

Louie's cartLouie pushing his cartOliver approaching Old Louie as he follows the scent"Hey, it's a beautiful day, eh? Come on, folks. Step right up.""Hey. Go on. Get outta here. Shoo!""Get outta here. Go on, kitty."Old Louie shooing Oliver awayOliver begging for Louie to give him a hot dog: "Hey! Hey, get off of me! What's the matter with you? I said get outta here."Oliver still begging from Louie: "Hey! Get off me!""Hey!""Get outta here.""Go on! Shoo!"Louie's hot dogs"Hey!""Hey! Dog."Louie losing his change as Oliver jumps on and distracts himOliver as "Louie"Oliver still distracting Louie"I'll get you!"Old Louie's defeatLouie throwing the mustard back at Oliver but misses
## Trivia

* Unlike most people in the film, Louie is the only human character seen in the movie with only four fingers instead of five.
* Louie and Sykes share a few common things: they're both antagonists, they have the same enemies (Oliver and Dodger), they smoke cigars, and they have big, strong muscles.
* While Louie is antagonistic towards Oliver the kitten, Dodger the dog refers Louie to Oliver as "a well-known enemy of the four-legged world", implying that Louie hates dogs and that Dodger has had dealings with him before too.
* Louie is perhaps the closest counterpart the film has to Mr. Bumble, the beadle who is incensed when the titular hero asks for more gruel in *Oliver Twist*, the Dickens novel that inspired the animated film.
* Frank Welker who voiced Louie is also very well-known for voicing Scooby-Doo since 1979 after Don Messick's passing. Ironically, Scooby-Doo is seen within a picture collection of Georgette's previous boyfriends during the song, "Perfect Isn't Easy" despite being a non-Disney character apparently.