How bout Beckers?
Gidget: I think of Rebecca Cunningham as a challenge to Baloo’s famous line from The Jungle Book line: “Forget about those…they ain’t nothin’ but trouble!” Well, when I was growing up, there were hardly any female cartoon characters except when the hero needed a love interest or a nagging mother or something. The classic Warner Bros. cartoons were awful for that Mel Blanc even did the females by speaking in a weird falsetto, as if that would fool anybody. Today its much better — weve got PowerPuff Girls, Kim Possible, practically anyone from the Batman Animated Series. Rebecca is something of a maverick in the Disney TV world — shes tough, no-nonsense, runs a business, keeps the Mollybeast fed and happy. She also has an appealing design for a cartoon bear — when you compare her and say, Cindy (of Yogi Bear lore), theres no contest. She has a pretty face and a cute, trim little figure and yes, is much better dressed. Cindy runs around practically nekked — nothing but a skirt a
