Fifi La Fume - Character's Profile and Personality

Character's Profile and Personality

Fifi is a teenage skunk based on the Looney Tunes character Pepé Le Pew, who occasionally, though not often, serves as her mentor in the series. Her fur is purple and white, as opposed to a normal skunk's black and white, and she keeps a ribbon tied to her hair which causes it to fall over one eye, giving her a sultry, coquettish look. She has a massive tail, over twice the size of her own body, which is the source of her powerful odor. She uses her tail for a number of things, including a pillow, a pom-pom, and a snare to capture potential boyfriends before they can get away.

Like Pepé, Fifi is French and very flirtatious. She mainly speaks English with a few French words. She also shares the same faults as her idol: intense skunk-odor, and an inability to take "no" for an answer when pursuing the romantic object of her choice. When she falls in love, she loses all self control, and will not allow anything to stop her from literally capturing her prey.

Fifi's putrid stench has been shown to be powerful enough to melt solid steel (seen in "Love Stinks") and the more she falls in love, the stronger her stench gets. However, unlike Pepé, 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's character is also taken in a somewhat sympathetic light, for she, alone, longs for a lover, leaving many people to feel sorry for her. Also, while Pepé seems oblivious of himself smelling bad, Fifi realizes she has a foul odor and often uses it to her advantage during desperate situations. For instance, in "Out of Odor", she wielded her tail like a machine gun to fire clouds of musk. Other uses include providing a means of causing mishaps among an opposing team. Two such examples are "The Acme Bowl" and "Son of the Wacko World of Sports". In "The Acme Bowl", Fifi caused Roderick Rat to turn green and fumble the football after she laid out a wall of brownish yellow clouds in his way. In "Son of the Wacko World of Sports", Fifi knocked out the Perfecto catcher (Rubella Rat) in a baseball game after Sylvester joked that she hadn't reached first base since 1988, which annoyed Fifi. It is also shown that her smell can be erased by tomato juice, but the effects are only temporary and can be reversed quickly by washing the tomato juice off.

Fifi is also referred to in casting documents as being something of a feminist, as she is the pursuer, as opposed to the more usual female role of pursued. She's described as imagining that there's nothing a boy could do that she couldn't do herself. Her remarks toward boys are also rather self-regardingly amusing. For instance, in "Aroma Amore", Fifi affectionately remarked, "Little boys are such children!"

Fifi is also far more versatile than her Looney Tunes counterpart, appearing in stories that do not entirely revolve around enrapture with Romance. Apart from being a 'lovair', her many adventures include the prom, looking for mature boys, having to deal with Elmyra, attempting to get an autograph from a famous movie star skunk hunk, and much more.

Her end tag credit has Fifi bidding goodbye to the viewer with a somewhat flirtatious "Au revoir, ma petite potato du couch" which (roughly) means "Goodbye, my little couch potato" in mock French.