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Toot Braunstein is a character that appears in the animated series Drawn Together. Much like Fifi and Cookie, Toot is a parody of Betty Boop, but is from the 1920s whereas Betty is from the 1930s.
Toot is depicted as "outdated" and is the only character in the Drawn Together franchise not to delve into her backstory. Her general story is that she was a sex symbol who was idolized in her 1920s cartoons for being overweight. In Drawn Together Toot finds out the hard way, that she's no longer considered to be sexy.
Toot's creators describe Toot as, "A girl from a small town, like real people on reality TV shows, think they are hot, but when they get into the real world realize that they are unable to compete." They also state that Toot is aggressive, brazen, an overtly hyper-sexual human being that just a whirlwind of nature.
In comparison to Betty Boop, Toot is said to be more funnier and has more personality than Betty, Toot also has her own fanbase. Toot made her first appearance in the 2003 Adobe Flash animated pilot episode of Drawn Together.
The pilot[2] is lost media, and no known copies are known to exist. The reason for this is that the creators are said to be embarrassed by the "shoddy" Flash animation, and do not want to share it, which they have openly stated in commentaries.
Toot is able to speak, because cartoons were able to have voices as of 1928, with the first being Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie. In Toot's earlier appearances, to make her seem as if she really was from the 1920s, the creators of the show initially merged her voice with a "phonograph effect" when she spoke.
Toot is from a 1920s black and white universe where she is treasured and adored by men.
Toot can do the "Charleston" and has her own unique quotes. For example instead of a "Boop-Oop-a-Doop" or "Boop-Boop-Be-Doop", Toot uses a "Tooty-Tooty-Toot" and or "Toot-Toot-Toot-Tooty-Toot" or just "Toot". In her debut episode, her "Toot" is also a reference to her farting as she is known to be vulgar, she also likes to swear a lot.
She is introduced to her housemates and the audience as a black and white "outdated" heartthrob from the 1920s. But because she couldn't be the sex-symbol, she decided to be mean and a bully instead. Toot is killed in a majority of her appearances, in her first appearance it was possible karma because she was bullying people, and or she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In her early death sequences, her blood is black, because it is ink. A possible reference to Toot being made of pen and ink, however in later episodes, her blood is red as Drawn Together is a cartoon that doesn't make sense.
There is a Baby Toot, just like Baby Boop. Toot's baby form is essentially a spoof of Muppet Babies renamed Drawn Together Babies.
In earlier episodes Toot took on the traits of a flapper girl, but in later episodes she lost those unique traits. The creators chose to use Big Brother contestant Amy Elizabeth Ouellette, originally known as Amy Crews, as part of the inspiration for Toot. Crews is the source of Toot's love of cheese, her propensity for crying, and her weight gain (from Requiem for a Reality Show).
In later episodes, her meanness is toned down, and she becomes a more likeable and or relatable character, in comparison to Princess Clara (also voiced by Strong), who was once clueless, then took over the role as bully. Clara also becomes highly religious, and phobic suffering from numerous phobias.
In one episode Toot parodies Betty Boop's early 2000s Hooters campaign as the "Tooters" girl. And at one point Toot can also be seen throwing copyright notices from King Features Syndicate and the Fleischer Studios into the shredder. This was a reference and or response to all the "copyright claim" letters the creators Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser were getting in the mail. The creators of the series ignored the copyright notices, and were said to have allegedly been smoking weed, laughing and in real life threw the letters into the garbage.
In The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, Toot's the only character to realize that she's a parody of Betty Boop, and even says it out loud (while everyone is ignoring her), but she suggests that Betty Boop is tame in comparison to herself.
She once adopted a Nicaraguan baby but neglects her. Her baby ends up having a baby, and both are taken away by a social worker.
Toot once married Ling-Ling's father, and became Ling-Ling's stepmother up until they divorced.
Toot's enemy is Betty Rubble from The Flintstones, and she tries to assassinate Toot for stealing her husband. Toot claimed that Barney Rubble fell in love with her, because he thought that she was a man. In the final episode Toot is pregnant with their love-child Bamm-Bamm Rubble, near to the end Barney later breaks up with her.
Today Toot is considered to be deceased, as in the final episode The Drawn Together Movie, the whole cartoon universe is destroyed, and all the characters including Toot perish. However it should be noted, that this is not the first time that Toot has died in the series. Toot has not been seen since 2010. There are also no plans to revive the series.
There is a possibility that Toot is "retired" but lives on in her voice-over artist Tara Strong who continues to promote the character. Toot was somewhat revived in a 2020 skit in The Ship-it Show: Part 1 and The Ship-it Show: Part 2.
In a Drawn Together reboot script by Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser, Toot finds out that she's cake, and eats herself.
Toot's voice was provided by Tara Strong. In the MTV Latin American Spanish version Toot speaks in a more deeper middle age voice, and is called Lulú d'Cartón. She was voiced in the dub by Evelyn Solares. Toot being renamed Lulú is a reference to the well known Mexican Betty Boop parody Lulú.
She was also voiced by Kathrin Gaube in the German dub, Lisa Mozzotti and Victoria Cabello in the Italian dub, Piroska Kokas in the Hungarian dub, Marina Bakina in the Russian dub and Valérie Karsenti in the French dub.
Quotes
- Toot Braunstein: "I'm Toot, I'm a sex symbol."
- Toot Braunstein: "GIRLFRIEND!? You have a girlfriend? When were you gonna tell me about this girlfriend!"
- Toot Braunstein: "Oh yeah!? Well can your stupid girlfriend do this! Charleston! Charleston! Charleston!"
- Toot Braunstein: "What the Toot!?"
- Toot Braunstein: "God Damnit!"
- Toot Braunstein: "Tooty-Tooty-Toot!"
- Toot Braunstein: "This is bull-toot!"
- Toot Braunstein: "Toot-Toot-Toot-Tooty-Toot!"
- Toot Braunstein: "Come to think of it... I don't behave anything like the real Betty Boop..."
- Toot Braunstein: "Toot for brains!"
- Toot Braunstein: "All right, which one of you BUTT-WIPES want some of this!?"
- Toot Braunstein: "Hee-hee-hee-Toot!"
- Toot Braunstein: "Toot-Tooty-Toot! This is Toot! Do you love me?"
- Toot Braunstien: "I'll take those! (copyright notices) Toot-Toot-Tooty-Tooty-Toot!"
- Toot Braunstein: "Do I look fat today? Forget it!"
- Toot Braunstein: "My curvy body will never go out of style, just like the Charleston and Hitler."
Betty & Toot Comparison
Betty's appearance in the Fleischer animated short Sally Swing served as the inspiration for Toot's character design.
Copyright?
Tooty Toot shredding "legal notices" from the Fleischer Studios and King Features Syndicate in a paper shredder.
Tooty Toot's Family & Friends
None of the episodes focused on Toot's fictitious 1920s universe, however one episode revolves around her time at fat camp. Three characters from Toot's 1920s universe are parodies of Bimbo, Lecherous Old Man, Mr. Boop and Ringmaster. The Lecherous Old Man combined with Mr. Boop in Drawn Together is Toot's father. In one episode he is thrown into the parent pile, and in another he attends Toot's wedding. The characters from her series do not have much screen time, all that is known is that she is adored by all the men in her universe.
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Trivia
- Toot is often mistaken for a black and white Holstein Friesian cow.
- In Betty Boop's debut in 1930,[3] like Toot, Betty was described as being "ugly"[4] by Dave Fleischer. Coincidentally, Toot wears stockings like Betty does in her debut 1930s appearances. When the Fleischers developed Betty, she would later drop the stockings for a single garter belt.
- Toot is known to fans as "Tooty-Toot", which sounds more like Betty-Boop.
- Similar to Meg Griffin from Family Guy, Toot is most hated and bullied among the other main characters on Drawn Together.
- Toot wears stockings, something Betty Boop wears in her debut cartoon Dizzy Dishes, only without the garter belts attached.
- Ironically "Florence Mills" who inspired child star "Baby Esther Jones" is said to have used a "Toot" phrase, the latter are said to have indirectly inspired the "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" routine. Mills used a "Tooty-Tooty-Too" scat rhythm in her performance of "Baby & Me" during the early 1920s.
- Toot breaks boundaries in comparison to Betty Boop, at times being repulsive and vulgar.
- The difference between Toot and Betty is that Betty is not from the 1920s but the 1930s.
- As a teenager, at fat camp Toot had an Afro, and she wore an Afro comb as a hair accessory.
- Toot suffers from severe weight issues, and is referred to as the "Fat Betty Boop" in archived news reports from the 2000s. In comparison Betty Boop herself has gained weight in such cartoons as Kitty From Kansas City, and Betty Boop and Little Jimmy. It is quite accurate, like Toot, Helen Kane a 1920s "Boop" star also struggled with her weight.
- During the early 2000s, Betty Boop was mascot for Hooters restaurant chains: Hooters, Inc., based in Clearwater, Florida, and Hooters of America, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia. Toot parodies Betty's but instead of being a "Hooters" girl, she is the "Tooters" girl.
- In some of the pilot storyboards for Toot's dialogue in The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, Toot's voice was provided by Cree Summer, the voice of Foxxy Love. Her vocal imitation for Toot was an aging old woman's voice.
- The official Drawn Together say that Toot is based on your mother's face.
- Toot claims to be in her 20's, but in one episode she is thrown into a retirement home by her housemates.
- Unlike Betty Boop, when Toot sings it is intentionally terrible, and often angers everyone. In one episode Toot sings "A Moment Like This," a popular song from 2002, and everyone in the crowd becomes enraged and they throw garbage at her. In another episode she sings "I Wanted You To Know" to herself.
- Sometimes her friend and housemate "Foxxy Love" is unable to remember any of her friends names. She refers to Toot by a barrage of unrelated names, including Took and Tookie.
- Toot will eat anything, including people, she is Jewish and eats pork.
- Though Toot herself is Jewish, she dislikes Jewish people, and in one episode she can be seen washing her mouth out with ham. (Note: the producers and creators of this franchise are in fact Jews.)