And Mr. Oh, Magoo! You've done it again! Sony's Classic Media division has come up with another wonderful boxed set of animated cartoons in The Mr.

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Keep your little bookworms engaged outside of the classroom with our selection of the very best literary adaptations. See the full list. Magoo is an eccentric millionaire with terrible eyesight who refuses to use eyeglasses, therefore he always gets into trouble. During a museum robbery he accidentally gets a priceless gem called the Star of Kurdistan and starts to trace the way for the arch-criminals--Austin Cloquet and Ortega "The Piranha" Peru-- who had wanted to steal it.
Magoo known by his full name: J. Quincy Magoo is a fictional cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in Voiced by Jim Backus , Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his extreme near-sightedness , compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. However, through uncanny streaks of luck, the situation always seems to work itself out for him, leaving him no worse than before. Bystanders consequently tend to think that he is a lunatic , rather than just being nearsighted. In later cartoons, he is also an actor, and generally a competent one, except for his visual impairment. In , TV Guide ranked Mr.