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| Mary Melody is a cartoon character from the Warner Bros. animated television series, Tiny Toon Adventures. She appears occasionally on the show. She is a female human teenager with a pink bow in her long, dark hair. She is voiced by Cree Summer, who also voices Elmyra Duff (although in her debut episode, Furrball Follies, she was voiced by Cindy McGee). Mary attends Acme Looniversity and lives in Acme Acres. |
Biography
Mary is one of the few characters on "Tiny Toons" who does not have a clear analogue to a character in the Looney Tunes cast. Her name is a parody of Merrie Melodies. Aside from Montana Max and Elmyra Duff, Mary is the only human student of Acme Looniversity on the show with a name and recurring appearances.
In the Furrball Follies episode segment Cross-Country Kitty, Furrball escapes from his cardboard box and ends up living with Mary. Eventually, Furrball leaves Mary and returns to his cardboard box, which although he claims his Home Sweet Home, falls apart in the rain. Later appearances would show that Mary attended school with the other characters on the show. In the episode Prom-Ise Her Anything, for example, Mary is depicted as being a reporter on Acme Looniversity's campus news show, Acme Looniversity TV, in which she speaks of, "prom fever," and how the other toons are preparing for it. She also attends the prom with a male student. No episode of "Tiny Toons" ever focused specifically on Mary, however. In turn, Mary's character would crack jokes about her small role. In the Weirdest Story Ever Told episode segment Robin Hare, for example, Mary appears as one of the Merry Men. She quips, "Another cameo, another paycheck," and then does not speak again for the remainder of the episode.
Mary Melody has a sweet disposition and sometimes hangs out with Babs, Shirley and Fifi. She has also cared for Furrball and Sweetie in the Furrball Follies episode segment Cross-Country Kitty, where she takes Furrball across the United States to get his mind off of Sweetie (which doesn't work as Furrball finds one way or another to quickly travel back and forth between states at a chance to eat Sweetie). Even so, she does have an occasional laugh at another's misfortune, such as Montana Max having to go on a date with Elmyra in the Love Disconnection double-length episode segment My Dinner With Elmyra.