Fifi La Fume is an anthropomorphic skunk featured in Tiny Toon Adventures. She was voiced by Kath Soucie.
Fifi reappears in Tiny Toons Looniversity, where she is French-Canadian rather than French. She is voiced by Marieve Herington. Herington is also French-Canadian like Fifi.
About Fifi[]
Fifi, ready for romance!
She is a teenaged female variation of the Looney Tunes character Pepé Le Pew. Her fur is purple and white, as opposed to a normal skunk's black and white, and she keeps a ribbon tied to her hair which causes it to fall over one eye, giving her a sultry, coquettish look. She has a massive tail, nearly twice the size of her own body, which is the source of her powerful odor. She uses her tail for a number of things, including a pillow, a pom-pom and a snare to capture potential boyfriends before they can get away. In the original Tiny Toons, like her mentor, Fifi is French and often speaks with French exclamations. She also, unfortunately, shares the same faults as her idol: intense skunk-odor and an inability to take "no" for an answer when pursuing the romantic object of her choice. When she falls in love, she loses all self-control, and will not allow anything to stop her from literally capturing her prey. Her putrid stench is also powerful enough to melt solid steel, much to the terror of the boys she chases. However, unlike Pepe, who reeks all the time, Fifi's musk only occasionally comes into play, thus allowing her to interact with other characters when she is not the central focus of the story. Her smell can be erased by tomato juice, but the effects are only temporary. In Tiny Toons Looniversity, Fifi is Canadian (specifically from Montreal, Quebec) instead of French, wears a black sweater, is able to fully control her skunk odor, and is much less interested in romance.
Relationships[]
Friends and Family[]
Shirley, Babs and Fifi as "The Amazing Three"
Like the other characters in the series, Fifi attends ACME Looniversity to be properly educated in the techniques of being a successful cartoon character. Fifi's best friends in the series are classmates, Babs Bunny and Shirley the Loon. The majority of Fifi's appearances are as a part of this group, and they proceed to engage in numerous adventures. Together, they are the cheerleaders for the ACME Looniversity football team, and at one point, the back-up players. Another time, in the segment "The Amazing Three", in search of more mature men, Fifi, Babs and Shirley all go to a dance at Perfecto Prep, only to find that all the boys there are stuck-up and snobby. However, most of their time together is spent just hanging out and doing "girl stuff". Like Buster Bunny, Fifi's family is occasionally spoken of but never seen. After capturing Furrball, whom she mistakes for a boy-skunk, she plans to introduce him to her family. But despite this reference, she lives alone in a Cadillac in the ACME Acres Junkyard, which is much more spacious than one would expect.
Love Interests[]
Furrball[]
Fifi La Fume kisses Furrball.
Fifi pursues him in the episode "Aroma Amore", wooing the unwilling feline, who had acquired a white stripe down his back, all across ACME Acres before Furrball covers his stripe with blue paint, escaping her. Furrball then kindly paints a pair of unconscious bully cats in skunk colors whom pursued him prior in an attempt to cheer Fifi up as he felt bad for her, leaving Fifi to happily chase after them.
Calamity Coyote[]
In the episode "Love Stinks", when an attempt by Calamity Coyote to trap Little Beeper backfires, Calamity wound up coated in black tar with a stripe of white feathers flowing down his back. This immediately attracted Fifi, who continuously attempted to capture the terrified coyote until he managed to escape a smelly fate by removing the tar from himself, only moments before Fifi came rounding a corner after him. Calamity felt sorry for her after seeing how upset she was before Little Beeper appeared, mocking Calamity for all his recent skunk troubles, but Beeper ended up covered in the tar and white feather stripe. Calamity took advantage of this by alerting Fifi, leaving Beeper to become Fifi's next romantic target. Little Beeper ran screaming in terror down the street at super speed with a happy Fifi patiently hopping behind him while Calamity relished his victory.
Johnny Pew[]
In How I Spent My Vacation, Fifi finds brief joy with a genuine skunk; this one being a movie-star named Johnny Pew. After waiting on him hand-and-foot like some sort of groupie, Fifi discovers him to be an arrogant jerk when he gives her autograph away to another female skunk named Bimbette. The last straw, Fifi promptly and literally kicks him to the curb.
Buster Bunny[]
In the first segment of "Return to the ACME Acres Zone", entitled "Real Kids Don't Eat Broccoli", Fifi meets Buster Bunny (playing an old-fashioned detective) at a club and insists they dance. After forcing Buster to engage her in a lengthy tango, Fifi plants a big kiss on him. However, it was soon revealed that Fifi's appearance here was in fact an evil robot clone.
Dizzy Devil[]
In the second segment of the episode "New Class Day", titled "Sound Off", all the Tiny Toons characters are thrown into a silent film. Dizzy Devil chases Buster and Babs into a hollow tree (or thinks he does), but when he reaches in he pulls out a swooning Fifi by her tail. Dizzy attempts to escape the lovestruck Fifi on a bicycle, but after a considerable amount of pedaling discovers it to be a stationary piece of exercise equipment that she had set up to trap him.
Hamton J. Pig[]
Fifi enthusiastically accepting a date from Hamton
In "Prom-ise Her Anything", Hamton asked Fifi to be his date to the Prom, and Fifi enthusiastically (and magnetically) accepted in a heartbeat. She kissed him on his forehead, while he enjoyed this treatment. Fifi was jealous at him fawning over Dizzy's date and punishes him. They were dancing at the end. The two were together in other episodes, such as when Fifi hugged Hamton like a Teddy Bear at the end of "The Acme Bowl," and in "The Just-Us League of SuperToons" where Hamton (as Decoy, a parody of Robin from the Batman series) makes a pass at Fifi (as Scentanna, a parody of Zatanna from the DC universe), but she rejects Decoy by blasting him with a shot from her tail, causing him to crumble to the floor. Some scenes from Season 3 episodes such as "The Horror of Slumber Party Mountain" seem to indicate that they were still dating as the show drew to a close.
Little Beeper[]
Fifi hugs Little Beeper
She met Little Beeper in the episode "Love Stinks", where at the end he got covered with tar and white feathers. Fifi immediately mistook him for a skunk, and started hugging him and chasing him romantically.
Rivals[]
Elmyra Duff[]
Fifi and all her friends were once pursued by Elmyra Duff in the episode "The Horror at Slumber Party Mountain". Elmyra had disguised herself as a gruesome monster and was picking off the Tiny Toons cast one-by-one to make them her pets. They all eventually freed themselves by the end of the episode.
Elmyra earlier attempted to make Fifi her pet in the segment "Out of Odor" (shown in the episode "Viewer Mail Day"), when Elmyra mistook her for a cat (even though she knew that Fifi was a skunk, Elmyra assumed that "skunk" meant "stinky kitty"). She disguised herself as Pepe Le Pew, went to her Cadillac, and Fifi fell for her trap. Elmyra squished tomatoes all over Fifi, which nullified her scent. After a long chase, Elmyra was finally able to successfully take Fifi captive.
Fifi was shown being held captive by Elmyra in the first episode produced, "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow", in which she, Furrball, and Tyrone Turtle were rescued by Buster and then teamed up with him and Babs to teach Elmyra a lesson about pet care. It has been speculated by fans that the events of that episode were in fact meant to take place after "Out of Odor", despite "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow" preceding it in both airing and production order. However, there is nothing in either episode to suggest the other way around, so it is possible that the theory is correct.
Bimbette[]
Fifi lost Johnny Pew's attention to Bimbette in "How I Spent My Vacation". However, she discovered it to be no great loss considering that Johnny was a self-absorbed ego-maniac.
Miscellaneous[]
Fifi as "Scentanna"
- In the first segment of the episode "New Class Day", titled "Just-Us League of Supertoons", Fifi was a member of the mighty superhero team, the Just-Us League of Supertoons. She was the team's sultry sorceress, Scentanna the Mystical Maiden of Musk. An obvious parody of the DC Comics all-star superhero team, the Justice League of America, Fifi's character of Scentanna was an homage to the JLA's classic magic-wielding sorceress, Zatanna (albeit without the top hat).
- Fifi's seldomly-used ending tagline was, "Au revoir, mon petite potato du couch!" as she flirtatiously waved her tail at the audience.
- Fifi made a brief cameo in first season of Animaniacs in the segment "Survey Ladies", where Yakko, Wakko and Dot come to the mall to find a birthday gift for Dr. Scratchansniff. During the episode, the Warners visit a perfume shop that Fifi apparently owns and meet up with her. In her brief cameo, Fifi lists the kind of colognes she carries, prompting Dot to ask "Do you have anything for beginners?"
Gallery[]
- Main article: Fifi La Fume/Gallery
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