He warmed to Baloo only after being given the chance to fly the Sea Duck, and even then was ready to leave for greener pastures. Having lived on his own for most of his life, Kit's distrust of adults was apparent in the show. Occasionally showing a selfish streak, Kit sometimes put his dreams ahead of those of his friends. His ambition was to become a pilot and to purchase his own aircraft. He first encountered Baloo when he hid in the Sea Duck to escape from the Air Pirates because they were trying to find him. The story states that he left the Air Pirates because he "got sick" of them. The baseball cap was a gift to Kit from Baloo, as a sign of friendship and trust.Īs a 12-year-old orphan who lived with the Air Pirates under Don Karnage one year prior to the start of the series, Kit's character was a unique one in the history of Disney - he had a very dark past, partially because the storyline originally had him as being Don Karnage's protege. His trademarks are a green sweatshirt, a blue and red baseball cap worn backwards and his ability to "cloud surf" (also referred to in the show as "cloud skiing"). Williams for most episodes, but Alan Roberts stepped in for a few. His first appearance was in the pilot episode, “Plunder and Lightning”. Kit Cloudkicker served as navigator aboard Baloo's plane, The Sea Duck. His name comes from the Hindi word for bear: bhālū (Hindi: भालू, pronounced ).
He also calls Kit "Li'l Britches," as he did with Mowgli. Baloo only once mentioned any family, in reference to a gramophone record that had belonged to his father. In the episode The Balooest Of The Bluebloods he inherited 500 million dollars in the form of an extravagant estate, which was taken from him to settle the matter of his family's impressively long history of owing back taxes, thus restoring the status quo. In Tale Spin, it is revealed that Baloo comes from a prominent noble family, (being Baloo, Baron von Bruinwald XIII) though he himself had been initially unaware raising the possibility that he was adopted. Some of his mannerisms survive from The Jungle Book, including his nickname of "Papa Bear" by Kit, which Mowgli had given to him. He also has a penchant for getting into schemes that require him to dress up in drag to suit the situation, such as when he became Rebecca's "female" co-pilot Tan-Margaret (a play on Ann-Margret) in "Feminine Air". Although lazy, slobbish, unreliable and always broke, as bears often are, he is also an excellent pilot capable of the most daring maneuvers in the air (and the courage to do them) and can selflessly come to the aid of those in need of help. Baloo von Bruinwald XIII (Ed Gilbert) is the main character of the story, based primarily on the sloth bear from Disney's The Jungle Book, but with a flight cap and a yellow shirt (and four-fingered hands instead of his Jungle Book counterpart's claws).
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