Fifi Le Fume
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Fifi Le Fume (voiced by Kath Soucie) is a fictional character featured in the Warner Brothers 1990-1992 TV animated series, Tiny Toon Adventures. (Both Fifi and Kath have alternate spellings of their last names: La Fume and Souci, respectively.)
Fifi is a female variant of Pepe Le Pew, which in itself was a rarity among the conversions from the original Looney Tunes characters. Her fur is purple and white, instead of black and white, and she has pink hair that falls over one eye, giving her a sultry, coquettish look. She shares the faults of her predecessor: body odor and an inability to take "No" for an answer. Fifi is as guilty of sexual harassment as Pepe, but modern gender roles make the female skunk's antics seem amusing, whereas the original character strikes many as being threatening, not to mention a bad example for young boys.
Unlike Pepe, who reeks all the time, Fifi's musk only comes into play when she is attracted to someone, or when it would advance the plot, thus allowing her to interact with other characters when she is not the central focus of the story. Fifi sometimes dates Hamton J. Pig, and has mistaken both Furrball and Calamity Coyote as boy skunks, with predictable results. In one episode, she had a crush on her favorite teacher and mentor, Pepe. In the movie How I Spent My Vacation, Fifi finds brief joy with movie-star skunk Johnnie Pew, whom she later discovers to be an arrogant jerk.
Fifi sometimes hangs out with Babs Bunny and Shirley the Loon.
In homage to Porky Pig's classic "Th-th-th-th-that's all, folks," each episode of Tiny Toon Adventures concluded with one or more of the characters speaking a line. Fifi's end tag credit was, "Au revoir, ma petite potato de couch!"