Spanky Ham

Spanky Ham is a character from the cartoon series Drawn Together.

He is also based loosely on the Evil Piggies of the KillFrog.com "Little Susie Experiments" and "Evil Piggies Show," his gimmick is that he's "an internet download" and is styled like the Napster logo mascot (though a pig instead of a cat, he has the same geometric shape and distinctive thick lines, even though many logos have geometric shapes with thick lines; it is not even unusual for animals to be incorporated into logo designs), as Napster was synonymous with Internet downloads shortly before the show went into production. He also shows some parallels with crude, flash drawn late-night cartoon characters, such as Adult Swim's Master Shake (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) and Zorak(Space Ghost Coast to Coast and The Brak Show). Most of his humor revolves around his crudeness. Among reality show archetypes, he represents the crude party animal. He is voiced by Adam Carolla. The creators based Spanky's personality on David "Puck" Rainey from ''The Real World: San Francisco. ''During the first few episodes of the series, Spanky was the villain of the show, committing such horrible deeds as making a slave out of Ling-Ling in "Gay Bash", and forcing Wooldoor to trick Clara into singing in "Requiem for a Reality Show" so he could kill and eat all the woodland creatures that inexplicably appeared whenever she did so. However, this role would be altered toward the end of the first season. After bonding with Clara in "Dirty Pranking No. 2", Spanky becomes much more sympathetic; though he continues to bully Wooldoor and make fun of Xandir, his behavior in this regard is more mischievous than malicious. Spanky has gone through character arcs with most of the main cast in order to show his more sympathetic side, such as helping Ling-Ling to drive (initially in his own interests as he was amused at the destruction of Ling-Ling's driving until Ling-Ling became injured, then he became genuinely pleased for Ling-Ling's success), marrying Xandir for his insurance (obviously in his own interest but proposes to Xandir in a meaningful way, distracts Clara peacefully to enable the wedding to continue and genuinely has fun with Xandir before and after needing to pretend they were really married), and being Foxxy's representative in the Spelling Bee circuit (in which he has no obvious self-interest but nonetheless pep-talks her spirits back up and tries his best to break bad news to her in a less-hurtful way, which he does by blowing on her stomach to cheer her before every sentence).