Last year, Quick Draw McGraw was the TV Western inductee into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame. It seemed only right that his sidekick should tag along as well.
BABA LOOEY
As the Western entry is usually inducted in August, this year that honor is going to a very special real life historical figure of the Old West who is multidimensional. So Baba Looey is joining "Queek Straw" in June, which is geared toward a loose definition of the Gemini concept of duos.
From Wikipedia:
Baba Looey is a fictional Mexican donkey that appeared in 'The Quick Draw McGraw Show.' He is the deputy and familiar to Sheriff Quick Draw McGraw. He speaks English with a Mexican accent. He was originally voiced by Daws Butler.
Baba Looey, McGraw's sidekick, is often portrayed as the more thoughtful half of the duo. At times realizing some detail about a given situation, Baba Looey tries desperately to caution Quick Draw of a trap or other danger, before Quick Draw charges headlong into the fray without listening or giving consideration to his surroundings. His masked vigilante identity is El Kapoli, "champion of champions" as he declared. In the episode "Dizzy Desperado", he gets knocked in the head and switches to the criminal Little Cucaracha.
In an episode of 'The Brady Bunch', Marcia can be seen watching Baba Looey and Quick Draw McGraw on TV.
He appears in the 'Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law' episode "Guitar Control", voiced by Rob Paulsen. He is seen hanging out with Peanut and shows him Quick Draw's guitars. Peanut wonders how it works and kills Baba Looey with it.
Baba Looey made a brief cameo in a MetLife commercial in 2012.
From the Yogi Bear Wiki:
Bienvenidos al Salón, Baba Looey!
In the 'Drawn Together' episode "Breakfast Food Killer", Baba Looey made an appearance going by the name "Baba Booey". He was waiting in line to become the new mascot of Quackers cereal and randomly started jumping around and attacking people.
Baba Looey appears in the series 'Jellystone!' and is female and Cuban in this version called "Bobbie Louie" due to the character being voiced by Jenny Lorenzo. She works for the Jellystone government and has an American accent.
Baba Looey and Quick Draw McGraw make a cameo as silhouettes in the 2020 'Animaniacs' revival segment "Suffragette City".
From the Yogi Bear Wiki:
- "Yogi's Birthday Party" (The Yogi Bear Show, no lines)
- Yogi Bear (comic strips) (August 5, 1962)
- Yogi's Ark Lark
- Yogi's Gang
- "Yogi's Heroes" and "Yogi and the Beanstalk" (Yogi's Treasure Hunt)
- The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound
- Fender Bender 500
- "Yippee-Yo, Yogi" (Yo Yogi!)
- Jellystone!
O'Bservation:
This is an alternate Tooniverse, where characters previously established as one gender are instead rendered as the other.
And of course, there was the commercial work for Kellogg's:
