Shirley the Loon

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Shirley

Shirley "the Loon" McLoon is a fictional character, a female waterfowl citizen of Acme Acres featured in Tiny Toon Adventures.

Shirley is one of the few characters of the show not directly inspired by an existing Looney Tunes character, but she bears more than a passing resemblance to Melissa Duck. Although she seems reasonably intelligent, she speaks with a thick Valley girl accent and is obsessed with superficial New Age paraphernalia. Her name is derived from fellow New Age aficionado Shirley MacLaine, while the latter part of the name is an obvious pun. More often than not, characters refer to Shirley as "Shirley the Loon" rather than "Shirley McLoon." Shirley is often pursued romantically by Plucky Duck and Fowlmouth. When not meditating or fortune-telling, Shirley hangs out with her Acme Looniversity classmates Babs Bunny and Fifi Le Fume.

In one episode, while attending a high school dance, a bowl of punch is dumped onto Shirley's head. The sight of the red punch on her hands causes her to temporarily go insane. She then proceeds to destroy the school's gym in a telekinetic fit, similar to Carrie, after being doused with pig's blood.

When something went wrong for her side, Shirley started to blame herself and she cried in a loudy way, that everybody in Acme Acres could hear her.

Shirley is a keen ballerina who has to face prejudice when attending an upmarket ballet school otherwise attended exclusively by Perfecto Prep swans. Jealous at her superior dance skills, they mock her accent and try to sabotage her performance at their recital, but are soon thwarted by Shirley's nimble moves and a behind-the-scenes Babs, staging a sabotage of her own.

Shirley did not have an end tag.

Shirley is voiced by Saturday Night Live alumna Gail Matthius, whose SNL character Vicky the Valley Girl loosely inspired Shirley. In the Japanese dub, Shirley is voiced by Mika Kanai.

Characters of Warner Bros. Animation and Comics

*Looney Tunes* & *Merrie Melodies*
Primary: Bugs Bunny \| Daffy Duck \| Porky Pig \| Elmer Fudd \| Sylvester \| Tweety Bird \| Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner \| Foghorn Leghorn \| Pepe LePew \| Yosemite Sam \| Speedy Gonzales \| Marvin the Martian \| Taz Tasmanian Devil
Secondary: Bosko \| Buddy \| Michigan J. Frog \| Petunia Pig \| Henery Hawk \| Rocky and Mugsy \| Granny \| Hector the Bulldog \| Goofy Gophers \| Cecil Turtle \| Sylvester Jr. \| Gossamer \| Spike and Chester \| Hippety Hopper \| Marc Antony and Pussyfoot \| Witch Hazel \| The Three Bears \| Hubie and Bertie \| Claude Cat \| Sniffles \| Ralph Phillips \| Beaky Buzzard \| Charlie Dog \| Pete Puma \| Crusher \| Private Snafu \| Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf \| Slowpoke Rodriguez \| Merlin the Magic Mouse \| Cool Cat
Comics and TV Shows: Honey Bunny \| Bull and Axle Gator \| Buddy Boar \| Wendell T. Wolf \| Francis X. Bushlad \| Digeri Dingo \| Willie Wombat \| Daniel and Timothy Platypus \|Lola Bunny \| Melissa Duck \| Queen Tyr'ahnee
*Television Animation*
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and Babs Bunny \| Plucky Duck \| Hamton J. Pig \| Montana Max \| Elmyra Duff \| Dizzy Devil \| Furrball \| Calamity Coyote \| Little Beeper \| Gogo Dodo \| Sweetie Pie \| Shirley the Loon \| Fifi Le Fume \| Li'l Sneezer \| Concord Condor \| Byron Basset \| Fowlmouth \| Barky Marky
Animaniacs: Yakko, Wakko, and Dot \| Ralph the Guard \| Thaddeus Plotz \| Dr. Otto Scratchansniff \| Hello Nurse \| Ms. Flamiel \| Pinky and the Brain \| Snowball the Hamster \| Slappy Squirrel \| Skippy Squirrel \| Walter Wolf \| Buttons and Mindy \| The Goodfeathers \| Rita and Runt \| Flavio and Marita \| Minerva Mink \| Chicken Boo \| Katie Ka-Boom \| Mr. Skullhead
Freakazoid!: The Huntsman (Freakazoid)
Histeria!: Father Time \| Big Fat Baby \| Miss Information \| World's Oldest Woman \| Loud Kiddington \| Charity Bazaar \| Aka Pella \| Froggo \| Toast \| Pepper Mills \| Cho-Cho \| Lucky Bob \| Pule Houser \| Susanna Susquahanna \| Bill Straitman \| Mr. Smartypants \| Chit Chatterson \| Lydia Karaoke

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