Cartoon Redheads who must never be seen…

I always imagined Nanny from Muppet Babies being a redhead.

Then I wondered if she was related to Sarah Bellum from the Power Puff Girls who is also a redhead whose face the audience never see’s.

Then I just freaked myself out by realizing that the “little redheaded girl” that Charlie Brown has a crush on is also never seen by the audience and neither is the mom from the old Tom & Jerry cartoons and she has an Irish accent, which makes it very likely that she too has red hair…

What is going on here?

There has to be an explanation for this streak of animated orange-hairs with no face…

But what could it be? What historical dots could be connected that could possibly explain cartoon redheads with no face? and why is this unique to American animation? What could have happened in American animated history to introduce this race of Headless Reds?

And then it dawned on me… THIS guy…

The frigging Headless Horseman…

“Red”-heads have orangey-red hair – and wtf is more orangey red than a fricken-flaming pumpkin, y’all??

It is at that point I realized that Disney’s Headless Horseman from 1949’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow…had a family. and his offspring inherited his traits of simultaneously having an orange-reddish head and no head at all…

The “little red headed girl”, the Irish woman, the Muppets Nanny, Sarah Bellum – they’re all in his family tree… Jessica Rabbit might even be distantly related to him, as half of her face is obstructed by her hair in that sexy-Phantom-of-the-Opera thing she’s got going.

And the dude with the hat in Fat Albert…his face underneath is never shown. and what color is his hat? Could have been anything.. but its pink. Coincidence? or a dilution of Headless-Red mixed with nubian lineage?

I think I have to go to bed before I seriously hurt my brain over this… O_o …