Toot Braunstein

<p>Toot Braunstein (born in the April 28, 1900s) is a fictional character in the animated series Drawn Together. She is one of the eight housemates who are the focus of the show. Toot is labeled as an outdated black and white heartthrob from the 1920s.</p><p>Toot Braunstein:</p><h6>- Background: <em>A spoof of Betty Boop, Toot is a feisty black-and-white former sex symbol who had her glory days in the 1920's. The confessional captions give her age as 22 years old. The show sometimes implies she is actually considerably older, easily over 100, by depicting her with cellulite-ridden buttocks and hips, liver spots, distended labia, and breasts that sag to her knees. However, whether Toot is actually supposed to be as old as her 1920's origins would imply is somewhat doubtful (see Age Issues, below). 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her looks and body type were considered the female ideal, but in the world of today, she is regarded as overweight and outdated, a contrast that provides much of her character's conflict. Relatively little is known about her past. It is revealed that she went to fat camp when she was younger, but as her flashback devolves into a parody of Born on the Fourth of July, the details are somewhat unreliable. She apparently has a strained relationship with her parents (or just her mother); after Ling-Ling wins his first cockfight in "Mexican't Buy Me Love", she declares, "Suck my balls, Mom! I'm somebody now!" as she holds up the prize check, and in "Lost in Parking Space, Part One", when Xandir asks if she wants her parents' approval, she says yes, but is told that she will never have it. The episodes "The Other Cousin" and "N.R.A.y RAY" show Toot with a penile erection, suggesting she is intersexed. However, these appear to be little more than sight gags in the tradition of the classic Looney Tunes cartoons, the aforementioned circumstance being a visual metaphor for arousal. Additionally, Toot supposedly having a penis is just one in a long series of transgender gags in the show; Foxxy has been shown on multiple occasions with beard stubble, and both Xandir and Captain Hero have been suggested as having the ability to become pregnant. The uncensored DVD release of "The Other Cousin" shows Toot completely nude at one point with no penis being visible. In Drawn Together Babies, Toot was seen as a baby. When she was a little kid, she was a very happy and friendly person and she was always being nice to everybody and she was always up for playing a fun game. She wanted nothing more than to be a good person and didn't have a mean bone in her body. However, later in that episode, when she, Foxxy, and Walter were hiding Charlotte's body, they dumped her in the pool, only to find that she was still alive. Charlotte started screaming at the top of her lungs and flailing around trying to break free and Toot had to stop her by beating her with the pool net and killing her. Toot was so miserable and depressed with what she did, that she felt an empty void inside of her that couldn't be filled, so she drank an entire jar of pureed Ho-Ho’s to fill it. This was the beginning of her eating disorder and possibly the beginning of her rage issues and murderous behavior. According to creators Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, Toot is partially based on Amy Crews from Big Brother 3. Toot's passion for cheese (see Personality below) as well as her tendency to cry and put on weight (from "Requiem for a Reality Show"), come directly from Crews. Her last name has likely been chosen as a pun on "brown stain". In an interview on Comedy Central's website, Tara Strong states that Toot is the most fun role in her career.</em></h6><h6>- Role on the show: <em>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 and reform her life by adopting a Nicaraguan baby, though the experience turns out to be a miserable failure after the