Wifflebottom (voiced by Jack Plotnick): A hypersensitive, homosexual and effeminate spoof of Link from The Legend of Zelda. Toot demands to be the center of attention, cuts herself with razor blades, practices poor personal hygiene and eats excessively when depressed and often instigates conflict in the house. Toot Braunstein (voiced by Tara Strong): A fat, egotistical and alcoholic retro-style sex symbol who is a parody of Betty Boop.Foxxy Love (voiced by Cree Summer): A sharp-tongued, promiscuous, mystery-solving musician, and a ghetto-spoof of the Scooby Gang and of Valerie Brown from Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats.She is homophobic, racist and passionate about singing, and usually wears a light purple dress and white pearl earrings. Princess Clara (voiced by Tara Strong): A pampered, religious and bigoted princess who is a spoof of Ariel (The Little Mermaid) from the Disney princesses.Wooldoor Jebediah Sockbat (voiced by James Arnold Taylor): A hyperactive, idiotic, gullible bizarre children's show character in the mold of SpongeBob SquarePants who displays many of the typical reality-defying behaviors of Roger Rabbit or Looney Tunes characters.His character is based on the "flying brick" superhero archetype, especially Superman, though he refers in one episode to his "Hero cave", an allusion to Batman's Batcave. Being primarily macho, he is prone to occasional random fits of hysterics akin to post-traumatic stress disorder, playing on the "tragic origin" stories of many superheroes. Captain Leslie Hero (voiced by Jess Harnell): A sociopathic, chauvinistic, idiotic, perverted, anti-heroic, heteroflexible, necrophiliac and lecherous parody of superheroes, with a visual style taken from the cartoons of Bruce Timm and Max Fleischer.Main article: List of Drawn Together characters Cast and characters The cast counter-clockwise from upper left: Wooldoor, Toot, Ling-Ling, Foxxy, Xandir, Clara, Spanky, and Captain Hero. Subsequently, a direct-to-video film and series finale, The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! was released on April 20, 2010. In addition, their character traits parody personality types that are typically seen in reality TV shows.Ĭomedy Central advertised it as the first animated reality TV series, and in some episodes, the characters participate in challenges that are similar to reality TV challenges, although the premise is largely dropped in later episodes.Īfter three seasons, the show was cancelled. Differently, however, Drawn Together used caricatures of established cartoon characters and stock characters. The show's main characters are a combination of personalities that were recognizable and familiar prior to the series. The series is a parody of house-based reality shows such as The Real World, The Surreal Life, and Big Brother, and follows the misadventures of the housemates in the fictional show of the same name and uses a sitcom format with a reality TV show setting. So take a moment to watch today's Conversation and celebrate Betty Boop in all her 80-year-old glory.Ĭlick here to watch more from the Conversation series.Drawn Together is an American Musical adult animated sitcom created by Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein for Comedy Central. According to Cathy Meils, director of the Betty Boop festival, Betty Boop is a hard cartoon character to resist. to celebrate the sultry cartoon star's birthday. This past weekend, Betty Boop's most devoted fans even gathered in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc. She also helped launch the careers of other characters, including Popeye, who made his first appearance on the silver screen in a Betty Boop cartoon. She became the classic female form for many cartoon characters who came after her, including Jessica Rabbit from the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Over time she evolved into a more human cartoon, eventually becoming one of the era's first and most well known sex-symbols.Īnd as the decades passed, Boop stayed young and popular. A mix of a french poodle and an actress," explained Brinkman. "When she first started out she was kind of a poodle, she had actually dog ears. In today's Conversation ABC's Stephanie Sy took some time to celebrate Boop's birthday with animator Bryan Brinkman.Ĭreated by Max Fleischer, Boop made her debut on August 9, 1930, in a cartoon entitled "Dizzy Dishes." The character was modeled after some of the more popular singers and actresses of the era. 9, 2010— - A legend of the silver screen is celebrating today, as the black-and-white femme fatale, Betty Boop turns 80.
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