Mary Melody

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name =Mary Melody


image caption =Mary Melody in the new box look in
first appearance =A cameo on "Tiny Toon Adventures" in the episode "The Buster Bunny Bunch". Introduced as a regular character since the thirteenth episode ""Furrball Follies", in the segment "Cross Country Kitty".
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voiced by =Cree Summer
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known friends =Buster Bunny, Babs Bunny, Plucky Duck, Hamton, Fifi La Fume, Shirley The Loon, Dizzy Devil, Li'l Sneezer, Gogo Dodo, Concord Condor, Furrball, Sweetie Bird
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Mary Melody is a cartoon character from the Warner Bros. animated television series "Tiny Toon Adventures". She is one of the supporting characters on the show. Mary is voiced by Cree Summer. Mary is a young, dark skinned, female human with a light purple shirt, blue pants,white tennis shoes, and a pink bowed ribbon in her hair. She attends Acme Looniversity and lives in Acme Acres.

As Montana Max and Elmyra Duff do not consistently attend Acme Looniversity, the show's principal setting, Mary is the only human student on the show with a name and recurring appearances. Mary's name is a reference to the "Merrie Melodies" shorts produced between 1931 and 1969 by Warner Bros., the same studio that produced "Tiny Toons." Mary is one of the few characters on "Tiny Toons" who does not have a clear analogue to a character in the "Looney Tunes" cast. Her closest analogy might be the nameless women depicted in various cartoons as the successive owners of Sylvester the Cat and/or Tweety Bird before this position was exclusively taken by Granny.

In her first appearance, "Furrball Follies," the character Furrball escapes Elmyra's house and ends up living with Mary, who is a much better pet owner than the unintentionally destructive Elmyra. Eventually, Furrball leaves Mary and returns to Elmyra, who missed the cat very badly.

Later appearances would show that Mary attended school with the other characters on the show. In the episode "Prom-Ise Her Anything," for example, Mary is depicted as being a reporter on Acme Looniversity's campus news show. No episode of "Tiny Toons" ever focused specifically on Mary, however. In turn, Mary's character would crack jokes about her small role. In an episode parodying the story of Robin Hood, for example, Mary appears as one of the Merry Men. She quips, "Another cameo, another paycheck," and then does not speak again for the remainder of the episode.

In an interview with the website Platypus Comix, "Tiny Toons" producer Tom Ruegger discussed why the character never developed. cite web | title="Tom Ruegger Is Back!" | work=Platypus Comix | url=http://platypuscomix.net/people/ruegger2.html | accessdate=August 3| accessyear=2006]

In the same interview, Ruegger denies that Mary Melody was designed in reference to the character So White from the Warner Bros.-produced "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs".

The character was voiced by actress Cindy McGee in her debut episode, but actress Cree Summer, who also voiced Elmyra as well as Aka Pella on "Histeria!", spoke for Mary in all subsequent appearances.

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See also

* Tiny Toon Adventures
* Animaniacs
* Merry Melodies
* Granny

External links

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* " [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Warner_Bros_/Television/Tiny_Toon_Adventures/index.html Tiny Toon Adventures] " at the Big Cartoon DataBase