- Shirley the Loon
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name =Shirley the Loon
image caption =Promotional image of Shirley the Loon
first appearance =A cameo on "Tiny Toon Adventures " in the series premiere "The Looney Beginning". Introduced as a regular character since the fourth episode "Test Stressed" in the segment "Never To late To Loon".
created by =
voiced by =Gail Matthius
known aliases =
known relatives =
known pets =
known friends =Fifi Le Fume ,Babs Bunny ,Plucky Duck ,Fowlmouth , Hamton,Buster Bunny ,Li'l Sneezer ,Dizzy Devil ,Furrball
known rivals =Montana Max
catchphrases =Shirley "the Loon" McLoon is a
cartoon character from theWarner Bros. animated television series "Tiny Toon Adventures ". She is one of the main characters on the show. Shirley is voiced byGail Matthius . Shirley is a young, white femalewaterfowl with a pink, long-sleevedshirt and large bowedribbon in her hair. She attendsAcme Looniversity and lives inAcme Acres .Shirley is one of the few characters of the show not associated with an on-screen 'mentor'
Looney Tunes character, but is likely heavily inspired byMelissa Duck .Her intelligence is somewhat obscured by a thick
Valley girl accent and obsession with superficialNew Age paraphernalia. Her name is derived from fellow New Age aficionadoShirley MacLaine , while the latter part of the name is an obviouspun . More often than not, characters refer to Shirley as "Shirley the Loon" rather than "Shirley McLoon." Shirley is often pursued romantically byPlucky Duck andFowlmouth ; there's indication she is more in favor of Plucky, however sees Fowlmouth as more of a little brother persona and best friend. Ironically, Plucky and Fowlmouth did not appear together in her particular episodes. When not meditating (and sometimes levitating while chanting, "Ohm what a loon I am... Ohm what a loon I am...") or fortune-telling, Shirley hangs out with herAcme Looniversity classmatesBabs Bunny andFifi Le Fume .In the Series
Shirley is a keen
ballerina who has to faceprejudice when attending an upmarketballet school otherwise attended exclusively byPerfecto Prep swans . Jealous at her superior dance skills, they mock her accent and try to sabotage her performance at theirrecital , but are soon thwarted by Shirley's nimble moves and a behind-the-scenes Babs, staging a sabotage of her own.Shirley also seems to have telekinetic powers. She can levitate herself during meditation, commune with her aura (which is sometimes a separate entity from her), and also fire force-blasts from her hands when agitated. During an episode where Babs Bunny, Fifi LeFume, and Shirley attend a prom at Perfecto Prep, a rival university, red punch gets spilled on Shirley, and she begins a rampage very similar to that of Carrie (although much more G-rated), from the Stephen King novel of the same name. The scene even goes as far as when Fifi asks what is Shirley doing, Babs dryly remarks, "Remember the movie "Carrie"?" During another episode she demonstrates that she apparently also has the power to change a person's intellect, personality, and appearance. When Plucky begs her to give him
Einstein 's intellect to help him pass a math test, which she adamantly refuses many times, she eventually gives him Einstein's intellect and so on, but in the end this doesn't help Plucky as she (perhaps deliberately) forgot to mention that when he was a kid, Einstein failed math too. Presumably the effect is only temporary as Plucky was back to normal in his next appearance.In the episode segment from 'New Class Day', titled 'Just-Us League of Supertoons', Shirley was a member of the mighty superhero team, the Just-Us League of Supertoons. She played Hawk Loon, a parody of
Hawkman .Shirley did not have an end tag.
Voice Actor
Shirley is voiced by
Gail Matthius , a former cast member of NBC'sSaturday Night Live during its low-rated and widely panned 1980-1981 season. Matthius's recurring character from SNL, an irritating Valley Girl named Vicky, is similar to Shirley the Loon in voice.See also
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Tiny Toon Adventures
*Animaniacs
*Melissa Duck External links
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