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Gerald McCloy (nicknamed Gerald McBoing-Boing) is a character created by Dr. Seuss. He cannot talk like other people, so he communicates by making sounds.
The character first appeared on a record issued by Capitol Records in 1950 and than an animated short film by UPA, released the same year, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Shot. Three other shorts were made Gerald McBoing-Boing'?s Symphony (1953), How Now Boing Boing (1954), and Gerald McBoing-Boing on the Planet Moo (1956).
The character also appeared in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol as Tiny Tim and appeared in two television shows CBS's The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (1956-1957) and Gerald McBoing-Boing (2005-2007) which aired on Cartoon Network in the United States and Teletoon in Canada.
He was kind of a lonely boy because locals' kids and teachers did not like to hear him use sounds and wanted him to use words, but since he could not, they shunned him. Kids teased him till he cried by chanting "Nah nah, your names not McCloyde, your McBoing-Boing, the Noise Making Boy!" he ran crying to his father and cried but all that came out were tears and sirens and honking and breaking glass till his father made him go to his room. Wanting nothing to do with his family or his home, he ran away until a kind old radio producer found him, gave him a job, and told him that his talent is a wonderful peculiar thing and he should not hide it or run from it; he needs to embrace it.
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