A full-figured, black and white heartthrob from the thirties. Toot is sweet on the surface, but a manipulative bitch underneath. She's jealous of the thinner girls in the house because they get all the attention and they're in color. In her world, she was a much beloved sex-symbol, but now she's just an outdated fat dump.
Background
A spoof of Betty Boop, Toot is a feisty black-and-white former sex symbol who had her glory days in the 1920s. The confessional captions give her age as 22 years old. The show sometimes implies she is actually considerably older by depicting her with cellulite-ridden buttocks and hips, liver spots, distended labia, and breasts which sag to her knees. However, whether Toot is actually supposed to be as old as her 1920s origins would imply is somewhat doubtful (see "Age Issues", below). The episode "The Other Cousin" suggests that she is a hermaphrodite when she seems to display a penile erection after licking Ling-Ling. One of the central premises for Toot's character is that she comes from a world where her looks and body type were considered the female ideal, but in the world of today, she is regarded as overweight and outdated, a contrast which provides much of her character's conflict. Aside from the fact that she went to fat camp when she was younger, little has been revealed of Toot's actual history.
Personality
Toot eating a TV.Toot is a suicidal manic depressive who copes with life through alcoholism, binge eating, and self-mutilation. Her extreme gluttony is one of her most exploited traits; Toot is known for eating indigestible objects such as a TV and a cell phone, consuming large amounts of food in one sitting, and on occasion resorting to cannibalism by eating island virgins and Strawberry Sweetcake in "The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist- Part II", and eating and passing Wooldoor in "Captain Girl". She also ate and regurgitated Ling-Ling once, although in this case it was purely accidental. Her drinking is also mentioned frequently; her dependence on alcohol is in evidence in several different episodes, most notably in "Dirty Pranking No. 2" and "Captain Girl". She is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, though this has not curtailed her drinking to any visible degree.
Toot legitimately cannot understand why men are not attracted to her, and has developed a distinct bitterness because of it. In the first episode, she had a crush on Xandir, but her affections were refuted. When it was revealed that he was gay, she comforted herself by saying that was the only reason why he didn't want to go out with her, until Wooldoor told her that "nobody likes fat chicks". Once she realized she had no hope of being considered the show's sex symbol, she decided to become the "bitch," intentionally trying to cause friction amongst the houseguests by doing such things as convincing Clara that she is pregnant with Foxxy's child, eating all the food in the house, and lying to Super Nanny in order to get Captain Hero in trouble. She is usually the first to take action whenever a conflict of some sort presents itself. She is the first one to pull a gun in the Mexican standoff scene in "The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist", and even after Foxxy defuses the situation, Toot spends the rest of the episode trying to get her housemates to help her blow up the house.
Toot threatening Wooldoor.She is upset when other characters are getting a lot of attention; in fact, Toot is the character who had the least screen time in the first season, though it's unknown whether Toot's complaint resulted from the writers' lack of storylines/scenes for her, or if this was done intentionally as a plot device. She seems jealous of Princess Clara in particular, although this is most likely an in-joke in that both characters are voiced by the same person. Clara claims that Toot is a one-joke character, that joke being how fat she is. In truth, Toot's unstable emotional state (she has a strong tendency to go psychotic at the slightest of provocation) is the source of just as much humor on the show, if not more. She frequently uses her own name as an expletive. (i.e. "These competitions are bull-toot!")
Toot is an unlucky character much like Ling-Ling in that she has been killed off in a number of episodes. (see also List of housemate deaths on Drawn Together) One key difference is that many of her misfortunes are self-inflicted. Ironically, Toot doesn't die in "Alzheimer's That Ends Well", an episode in which a group of senior citizens is trying to kill her.
Role on the show
Toot and her baby.After being relegated to mostly brief comedic moments, Toot's character begins to be explored in more depth in the latter half of Season Two. In "Captain Girl", she makes an effort to get over her depression by adopting a Nicaraguan baby, though the experience turns out to be a miserable failure. In "A Tale of Two Cows", her attempts to win Xandir's heart by using a video game cheat manual once again end in failure. However, though Xandir admits that he wouldn't be attracted to her even if he weren't gay, he does tell her that he has a certain fondness for her and considers her a friend whom he truly cares about. This knowledge seems to satisfy her, in addition to the fact that -- much to her joy and his revulsion -- she also manages to get two rounds of pity sex out of Xandir. In "Alzheimer's That Ends Well", she deals with feelings that her housemates don't really care about her or pay much attention to her, though at the end of the episode, she is glad to discover that they really do.
A running gag involves the other characters making fun of her for being overweight. The gag is reversed in "A Tale of Two Cows" when she is made a target for ridicule at her fat camp, ironically, for not being fat enough. However, elsewhere in that episode, when Wooldoor sobs over the loss of Live Action Cow, he says, "Everywhere I looked, there was something to remind me of her," after which the scene immediately cuts to Toot running into his doorway doing the truffle shuffle. Except on the occasions when she balloons up, Toot is not actually obese; she just isn't svelte like her fellow female housemates (though as a joke, she is animated to look heavier when she is wearing little or no clothing- possibly her outfit contains a corset). The fat jokes are as much a satire on the fickle beauty standards of society as they are on Toot herself.
In an interview on Comedy Central's website, Tara Strong states that Toot is her favorite role in her career.
Age issues
Many episodes, most prominently "Alzheimer's That Ends Well", raise the question of Toot's actual age. The housemates are clearly uncertain exactly how old she is supposed to be, and while they certainly jump to conclusions, her age is somewhat debatable.
Toot in the nursing home.In "Alzheimer's That Ends Well", Toot describes herself as old twice, referring to herself as "old and fat" at the beginning of the episode, and using the phrase "an old broad like me" at the end of it. However, the former self-description can be attributed to exaggeration due to her state of suicidal depression, while the latter is spoken in a patronizing manner. In the nursing home, she throws away her tampons, indicating she has not yet gone through menopause (which happens to a woman between the ages of 45 and 55). Also in this episode, Toot is unaffected - unlike the senior citizens - by Clara's Vajoana's comedy routine. In the episode "Captain Girl", when Toot indicated plans to get pregnant, though everyone belittled or criticized the idea, no one ever suggested that it might be biologically impossible or unlikely. In the first season's confessional captions, Toot was designated as being 22 years old; older than Clara (20), but younger than Foxxy (23). Several other episodes contain allusions to her age supporting this notion. For example, in "A Tale of Two Cows", Toot attends a ten year reunion at her fat camp. In the flashback, she is depicted as being a teenager or adolescent, making her current age somewhere from 20 to 30.
Toot's sagging breasts and cellulite-ridden hips are often cited as evidence that she is middle-aged or elderly. However, Drawn Together is known to spontaneously alter the characters' artwork for a quick visual gag, usually making it clear that it is just a momentary gag rather than a true representation of the character's actual physical form. (Toot is also depicted with a donkey tail and hoofs at one point.) The unflattering images of Toot's body could very well fall into this category, but even if they don't, it doesn't necessarily mean she is old, just out of shape. If there is indeed some continuity to character age on the show, the most likely solution to the age problem in the Drawn Together universe is two separate concepts of age: physical and chronological. Toot is chronologically the oldest character, but she is not elderly. She is physically in her 20s, just overweight and out of shape. Spanky is chronologically the youngest character (being a webtoon), but he is designated as physically being the oldest (31). The characters may all have existed for the duration of their chronological lifespan, but the speed at which they age is independent of that fact. Worth noting is the fact that most cartoon characters never age at all, a situation Drawn Together follows most of the time. However, the show very often blurs these lines deliberately for the purposes of humor. The premise for Toot's character is that she is a sex symbol from the 1920s, not since the 1920s. She is temporally displaced to appear in the show, not aged since that time. MyGen Profile Generator