The Owl


 * This is the article for the character. For the short series, see The Owl (show).

The Owl is the titular main character of the two television series (The Owl and The Owl & Co). Being a grumpy bird with a love for worms (which are his favorite food) not thinking around his bad luck, he frequently gets involved in slapstick.

Personality
The Owl is quick-tempered and grumpy in nature. Due to this, his tendency on catching worms mostly (if not very often) fails, for any sort of reason. He is also unlucky, as he is shown to accidentally make the wrong choices, or getting involved in innocuous situations that take a turn for the worse (in general).

He also seems to not like it when he accidentally gets his body parts detached (at the end of each episode in The Owl & Co), usually glaring at the camera with an unamused expression.

Also in The Owl & Co, his love for eating worms is shown more explicitly/exaggerated in a majority of episodes (as one of the ways that he accidentally has situations become worse, if not already bad as is), to the extent of seemingly only caring about his prey - such as his tendency of getting rid of other forest inhabitants if he notices that they are in the same place with him.

Studio Hari description
"When he isn’t trying to swallow earthworms, the owl has only one wish: to be left in peace on her [ sic ]  branch. And as soon as a forest inhabitant appears on the scene, the little killjoy does whatever he can to get rid of them. But his quick-temper plays tricks on him because every time, he is the one who gets her [ sic ]  feathers ruffled."

Appearance
The Owl, like some of the other bird characters in The Owl, has a simplistic design and only floats above his feet. He also has all of his body parts detachable (as if he was a figurine), which is often target to many of the unfortunate gags he gets involved in.

He has a pink, upside down teardrop-shaped body; eye-bags, curved ears (shaped like simplistic tides) with blue insides; dark, reddish-brown eyes with navy blue gradients surrounding the black pupils and pale, golden yellow sclerae, a red beak, and blue feet which only have two toes.

In the original short series, his palette is slightly lighter in comparison, accompanied by his pink body/feathers being more of a shade of magenta and his sclerae being more greenish and darker. He also wore a nightcap in some episodes.

Trivia

 * Running gag: For a majority of the times he loses his body parts without dying, it's usually accompanied by a short banjo tune, fitting for his unimpressed look.
 * Episodes like "The Loch Owl" instead just depict him making a tired noise.
 * Due to the use of female pronouns in Studio Hari's bio, it is likely that it was either a mistake, or the Owl's gender was changed during production.
 * Being the titular character, the Owl is the only main character who appears in every episode.
 * In The Owl & Co, the Owl is the only main character who is mute.
 * Unlike The Owl, where he was completely silent, here it seems any noise he makes is represented by strums of a banjo.
 * The Owl is diurnal.