Lola Bunny
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| Lola Bunny | |
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 Lola Bunny as seen in Space Jam. |
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| First appearance | Space Jam (1996) |
| Created by | Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick (screenplay) |
| Voiced by | Kath Soucie (Space Jam, Tweety's High-Flying Adventure), Britt McKillip (Baby Looney Tunes), Kristen Wiig (The Looney Tunes Show) |
Lola Bunny is a funny animal Looney Tunes cartoon character portrayed as an anthropomorphic female rabbit. According to Kevin Sandler in Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation, she was created as "female merchandising counterpart" to Bugs Bunny. She first appeared as Bugs Bunny's girlfriend in the 1996 cartoon Space Jam.[1]
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Space Jam [edit]
Lola first appeared in the 1996 film Space Jam. She is shown with tan fur, blonde bangs, and wears a purple rubber band on both ears like a ponytail. She has aqua colored eyes. Lola is voiced by Kath Soucie in the film.
Lola's basketball skills get her a spot on the Toon Squad, in which the Looney Tunes characters battle the villainous Monstars for their freedom, with help from Michael Jordan.
Although she initially turned down Bugs' advances, her feelings shifted to affection after he saved her from a belly-flopping Monstar, getting himself painfully squashed in the process (showing that he was willing to put himself in harm's way for her and genuinely cared for her). Acting on these feelings, she kissed him and near the film's end, becomes his girlfriend.
Lola's personality is a combination of the Hawksian woman, tomboy and femme fatale archetypes.[2] She is a tough talking, no-nonsense woman (as displayed by her reactions to being called the term "doll," which she finds to be derogatory and highly offensive[3]) who is extremely independent and self-reliant. She is highly athletic (easily the best player after Michael Jordan himself). She is also incredibly seductive in her behaviour, quite capable of easily charming men around her (as displayed with the other Looney Tunes in her first appearance in the movie but with none more so than Bugs Bunny himself, her love interest and boyfriend).
The Looney Tunes Show [edit]
Lola also appears in The Looney Tunes Show, voiced by Kristen Wiig. As opposed to her personality in Space Jam, she is portrayed as a scatterbrained, indecisive, gabby young woman who tends to obsess over Bugs, whom she refers to as "Bun-Bun."[4] She is very dedicated to achieving goals but oftentimes tends to forget what she was doing. She's unable to settle on a decision, even for something as simple as what she wants to drink. While she is overly talkative to the point of irritation, Bugs nevertheless appears to enjoy having her around at times, surprising himself when declaring himself her boyfriend in "Double Date" where she helped Daffy get the courage to ask Tina Russo out on a date. Near the end of the episode, Lola became friends with Tina Russo.
Lola's wealthy parents Walter (voiced by John O'Hurley) and Patricia (voiced by Grey DeLisle in Season One, Wendi McLendon-Covey in Season Two) appear in the show as well.
Other appearances [edit]
An infant version of her, voiced by Britt McKillip, is among the regular characters of Baby Looney Tunes. Like her older counterpart, she has tomboyish traits and an affinity for basketball.[5] She is also much more child like and emotional in her personality.
Other appearances include her role as the reporter in the direct-to-video film Tweety's High-Flying Adventure. She also appeared as a playable character in the games Bugs Bunny & Lola Bunny: Operation Carrot Patch, released in 1998 and Looney Tunes Racing, released in 2000. She was also a news reporter in the game Looney Tunes: Space Race also in 2000.
In the action comedy Loonatics Unleashed, her descendant is Lexi Bunny.[6]
Following Space Jam, Lola has regularly appeared in solo stories in the monthly Looney Tunes comic published by DC Comics. Lola Bunny was also featured in a webtoon on looneytunes.com, entitled "Dating Dos and Don'ts." During this webtoon, in the form of a fifties educational film, Bugs Bunny attempts to take Lola out on a date, but Elmer Fudd and Lola's disapproving dad (voiced by Tom Kenny) hinder him.
References [edit]
- ^ Sandler, Kevin (1998). Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation, p. 9. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813525381
- ^ Sandler, Kevin (2001). "The Wabbit Wenegotiates: Looney Tunes in a Conglomerate Age" in Murray Pommerance (ed.), Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century, pp. 142-143. SUNY Press. ISBN 0791448851
- ^ Sandler (1998) p. 8
- ^ Vanguardia (Mexico) (15 August 2011). "Regresan a la tv Bugs y Lola Bunny" (Spanish)
- ^ Erickson, Hal (ed.) (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003, 2nd edition, p. 105. McFarland & Co. ISBN 0786422556
- ^ Dallas Morning News (17 September 2005). "'Beep-beep' gives way to yawn-yawn" (subscription required)
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