Cookie

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Name	(Looney Tunes redhead Cookie was partially based on Betty Boop's success.)

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Name	(Cookie, Buddy and Baby Elmer in color.)

Cookie
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Voices:	Shirley Reid; Dorothy Varden; Berneice Hansell

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Cookie

Cookie

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Cookie is a character that appeared in the Looney Tunes animated Buddy shorts by Leon Schlesinger Productions. Cookie is the Caucasian counterpart to African-American character Honey, as is Cookie's boyfriend Buddy to Bosko.^[1] Bosko and Honey are characters that are similar to Disney's famous Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, only instead of being anthropomorphic animals, they are stereotypical humans.

Cookie lives at 00 1/2 Cornbread Avenue, and Buddy lives at 000 1/2 Cornbread Avenue.

Her boyfriend Buddy has been described to as "Bosko in whiteface" by animator, director and producer Bob Clampett. Buddy's films are also very similar to Bosko's. Buddy resembled Bosko in many respects, including having a lover. At one point, with the exception of Porky Pig, Bosko and Buddy were the only Warner Bros. characters to have girlfriends.

Buddy's final design somewhat resembles Bosko, whilst Cookie is viewed as an extremely slim, snobbish replacement for Honey. While Honey looks more like Walt Disney's mascot Minnie Mouse, Cookie slightly resembles the Fleischer Studios iconic Betty Boop. While Bosko and Honey were depicted as poor, Buddy and, notably, Cookie were shown as slightly more wealthy in most shorts.

According to a "formal complaint" by Max Fleischer, Cookie was one of the many Betty Boop animated lookalikes, which can clearly be seen in her design. Her speaking voice and singing is spoken and sang in the baby-talk style. Her voice was originally provided by voice actress Shirley Reid, a known "Betty Boop Impersonator". Reid was not only known for her Betty Boop imitations but was also one of the many voices of Minnie Mouse. The other voice actresses for Cookie included Dorothy Varden, and Bernice Hansen who was a professional baby-talker.

Cookie's design was changed in 1934, she then sported a bow, and ringlets, after that her hair was changed several times.

Honey,^[2] the Black counterpart to Cookie, made a reboot star appearance in the 30th episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, released in 1990 titled Fields of Honey. In that episode Honey was the star and was admired by Babs Bunny. Honey also did impersonations of Betty Boop, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West. Both Bosko and Honey's stereotypical character designs were altered and resembled the protagonists of the Animaniacs, a few years before the Animaniacs had debuted. Animaniacs did not debut until 1993.

Cookie can play the ukulele, and she likes to sing and dance. She has sang songs in a baby-voice such as, "Under my Umbrella," as "Miss Cookie the Show Boat Star" in Buddy's Show Boat. She dances to "Famabella" in Viva Buddy, and again when Buddy sings "Hey, Sailor!" in Buddy's Adventures. She sings "How High Can a Little Bird Fly?" in Buddy's Theatre, "Oklahoma Joe" in Buddy's Pony Express, and "About a Quarter to Nine" in Buddy Steps Out.

Without Cookie, her boyfriend Buddy who was the original star of his series, later appeared in the 1993 Animaniacs episode The Warners 65th Anniversary Special. It is possible that Buddy later split up with Cookie. Buddy went on to a seemingly happy life as a nut farmer in Ojai when his career ended, but he was privately resentful of the Warners, Yakko, Wakko and Dot wrecking his career.

In a faux-timeline in fictional history, Buddy appeared in Outback Buddy, Postman Buddy, Gardening Buddy, Baker Buddy, and Busdriver Buddy with the Warners, who liked to smash him on the head with mallets. This episode was mocking the character, as the Buddy series has been described by some Looney Tunes fans as boring.

Photograph cameos of Bosko and Buddy appeared in the 1996 film Space Jam.