Elmyra Duff
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Elmyra Duff
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| Elmyra, full of love, having snared Buster. | |
| First appearance | Regular on Tiny Toon Adventures since the series premiere "The Looney Beginning". |
| Voiced by | Cree Summer |
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| Aliases | "The oaf", "Godzilla with bangs" |
| Pets | Furrball; Byron Basset; Tyrone Turtle; hamsters named after the Brady Bunch; Pinky and The Brain; Mr. Shellbutt; Warren T. Rat; Digit the Cockroach; various caged animals. |
| Friends | Montana Max (unofficial boyfriend); Rudy Mookich (second unofficial boyfriend); Vanity White; Dr. Otto Scratchansniff. |
| Rivals | Patty Ann ("cousin", actually Brain in a mechanical suit); Yakko, Wakko, and Dot |
| Catch phrases | "I wanna hug you and squeeze you" |
Elmyra Duff is a female human character from the series Tiny Toon Adventures, voiced by Cree Summer. She is based superficially on her name derivative, Elmer Fudd. She is quite young and obsessed with animals and cute things, usually causing them great discomfort or serious injury to potential pets from her overenthusiastic affection. This is in contrast to Elmer, who despite being well armed with actual intent to violence, is unable to pose a threat. Her mentor and favorite teacher at school is Elmer Fudd.
This danger is balanced by her complete and utter gullibility . As explained in the pilot episode, Buster Bunny and Babs Bunny insist she's a push over (unlike Montana Max) but needed nominal 'villians' to pitch their series. Her abject stupidity is pocked with occasional instances of cleverness, and her character is toned down as needed.
Besides animals, Elmyra also dotes her affections on Montana Max. The relationship appears to be one-sided, although in at least two episodes ("Prom-ise Her Anything" and the "My Dinner With Elmyra" segment of "Love Dis-Connection"), Max admits he actually does like her.
Elmyra's previously unmentioned family appeared in two episodes, the first of which was originally written as the pilot for a spin-off series that was then canned. Her family consisted of:
- MacArthur Duff, her frazzled inventor father, voiced by Matt Frewer
- Emily, the mother
- Amanda, her teen drama queen sister, voiced by Soleil Moon Frye
- Duncan, her little brother who fantasizes of being a superhero named Ninja Boy
- An unnamed baby with superhuman strength
- Squeegie, the maid.
Elmyra's family (with the exception of the maid) made only one reappearance, in the third season episode "Grandma's Dead" (the title referring to one of Elmyra's hamsters, whom she has named after the Brady Bunch).
One of the animals in her vast menagerie is Byron Basset, a near-gelatinous basset hound who appeared sporatically on Tiny Toons and drew most of his humor from his odd appearance. In contrast to her other pets, Byron seems to feel a grudging love for his owner despite her clumsiness. Less enthusastic pets have included several of the regular cast, including Furrball.
When Tiny Toons gave way to Animaniacs in 1993, Elmyra made a starring role in a segment titled "Lookit The Fuzzyheads". There, Elmyra is another patient of Dr. Scratchansniff's, and she proceeds to chase Yakko, Wakko and Dot around the Warner Bros. studio. The Warners eventually manage to foil her by getting her to chase Mindy, causing her to take quite a beating in the process (and at the same time saving Buttons the trouble of the chase).
Elmyra later acquired the newly-homeless Pinky and the Brain, now on the run from a Christopher Walken-esque madman intending for his own world-domination plans, in Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain, a short-lived series in 1998, notable only for the . As a running gag, she would frequently wash Brain's mouth with soap whenever he spouts a soliloquy of technical jargon she does not understand (she calls this "naughty-waughty potty talk"). Infamously, this series retooled the world around Elmyra and did not feature any of her old co-stars from Tiny Toons, not even her family. In addition to the obvious change of her going to Chuck Norris Grammar School rather than Acme Looniversity, she romantically pursued Rudy Mookich (what exactly happened to Montana Max was never explained) and was often put through peer pressure by classmate Vanity White. Elmyra also gained a rival in the form of her "cousin" Patty Ann, who was actually little more than a mechanical suit operated by Brain; obviously, Elmyra could not figure out Patty Ann's true identity. Perhaps because of these inconsistencies in relation to Tiny Toons, the series was disliked by many and cancelled after one season.
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