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Cy is the air delivery man who lives in Thneedville and works for O'Hare Air. He is voiced by Fletcher Sheridan and appears in The Lorax.
Appearance[]
Cy is a middle-aged man. He appears to be bald but has a fairly large brown English moustache with thin, brown eyebrows. He also has blue eyes. He wears a blue buttoned shirt with a dark blue bowtie highlighted with light blue dots. Over the top of this, he wears a white jumpsuit, completed with the O'Hare Air logo sewn into the fabric. He wears a white cap with the O'Hare Air logo again and a blue stripe circulating the hat. He also finished his look with blue shoes, white straps, and grey soles. He is gay.
Role In Film[]
At the film's start, Cy can be seen driving down a highway in an O'Hare delivery vehicle that stops by a house to replace an empty barrel of air with a fresh one. He drives off, and "Thneedville" is sung. He is seen again entering a woman's house during the song, delivering an air barrel for a machine in her house. She pays him the money for the barrel, and they both enjoy breathing the fresh air. He then sings and dances in the street, though he is so caught up in the moment he falls into an open manhole. Cy later celebrates by singing with the marching band, using a baton like a microphone.
At the end of the song, he is seen singing in a high-pitched voice while doing the splits on Aloysius O'Hare's limousine. After the climactic end, Cy is frozen in a euphoric state on the limousine. As it begins to drive off, O'Hare's bodyguards pick up the star-struck Cy by his legs and walk him to safety.
When Ted Wiggins escapes from O'Hare's cronies on his scooter, Cy changes an air barrel, sees Ted speeding towards him, and runs away in fright.
When the town debates whether to plant the Truffula Tree seed, O'Hare selects Cy to convince the people to side with him, threatening to fire Cy from his job if he refuses. Conflicted, Cy nervously introduces himself, though ultimately decides to side with Ted, encourages the town to join him, and starts to sing Let it Grow. As more people join in, Cy sings and dances with them. When O'Hare pretends to change his point of view, then later proclaims that the seed should die, Cy calls him out for his greediness, proclaiming, "YOU GREEDY DIRTBAG!" and O'Hare's bodyguards send him flying off. Cy later watches as Ted plants the Truffula seed.