Little Audrey

Oh, Little Audrey says
"Save for a rainy day."
She saves, but every time it rains
She spends what she puts away.

She knows her proverbs, A to Z,
And knows the good they bring.
But when she has to follow them,
Well, that's another thing.

Oh, Little Audrey says
"While the sun is out, make hay."
Though she's not immense,
There's a lot of sense
In what Little Audrey has to say.

—"Little Audrey Says" Theme Song

Little Audrey is a cartoon character from Famous Studios, made during The Golden Age of Animation. Her creation was spurred by the studio deciding not to renew the rights to Little Lulu and creating a a similar character to use in the shorts. She is voiced by Mae Questel, who also voiced Betty Boop and Olive Oyl in the Popeye cartoons. During her Famous Studios years, she starred in a fair amount of cartoons between 1947 to 1958 before she appeared in Harvey Comics afterward.

No relation to that other Audrey.

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Filmography

• Santa's Surprise: December 5, 1947
• Olive Oyl For President (Not a Little Audrey cartoon, but she does make a brief cameo in it): January 30, 1948
• Butterscotch And Soda: July 16, 1948
• The Lost Dream: March 18, 1949
• Song of the Birds (a semi-remake of the 1930's Max Fleischer Color Classics short of the same name): November 18, 1949
• Tarts and Flowers: May 26, 1950
• Goofy Goofy Gander: August 18, 1950
• Hold the Lion, Please: August 27, 1951
• Audrey the Rainmaker: October 26, 1951
• Law and Audrey: May 23, 1952
• The Case of the Cockeyed Canary: December 19, 1952
• Surf Bored: July 17, 1953
• The Seapreme Court: January 29, 1954
• Dizzy Dishes ^[1]: February 4, 1955
• Little Audrey Riding Hood: October 14, 1955
• Fishing Tackler: March 29, 1957
• Dawg Gawn: December 12, 1958

Tropes used in Little Audrey include:

• Alien Invasion: The dream theme for "Dizzy Dishes".
• Artificial Human: It was originally explained in the first issue of St. John comic book series that Little Audrey was created by a painter. With one spritz from a bottle, the Little Audrey painting springs to life.
• All Just a Dream: Most if not all of her shorts. Not so the comic.
• The All-American Girl
• Badass Adorable
• Beach Episode: "Surf Bored".
• Blue Eyes
• Captain Ersatz: Little Audrey was created when Famous Studios lost the rights to its previous series of Little Lulu cartoons.
• Dream Land: Pretty much a theme in several Audrey cartoons.
• Electric Torture: The 'Eee-lectric' chair that Little Audrey gets sentenced to by the end of the cartoon 'The Seapreme Court'.
• "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Many of the cartoons end with Little Audrey laughing.
• Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: Blue in the cartoons; Red in the comics. Both match Little Audrey's dresses. Though, sometimes they're mixed in several comic strips.
• Fartillery: Little Audrey has a most powerful and grossest flatulence that she gain the ability to let out a giant fart.
  • Little Audrey also had a belching habit that she burps conjure up nasty winds.
• Force Feeding / I Taste Delicious: The candy people in "Butterscotch and Soda" when Little Audrey's dream turns into a tummy-aching nightmare.
• Four-Fingered Hands
• Genki Girl
• Jazz: Little Audrey really likes Jazz music, especially Swing music. She is also very good at playing jazz like playing a horn in the cartoon "Goofy Goofy Gander".
• Kangaroo Court: "The Seapreme Court".
• Lethal Chef
• Level Ate: Little Audrey's dream in "Butterscotch and Soda".
• Memetic Outfit: Her signature blue dress, white gloves, white socks and black Mary Jane shoes.
• Nursery Rhyme: The cartoon "Goofy Goofy Gander" has 'Mother Goose rhymes' as the theme for Audrey's jazzy dream.
• One of the Boys
• Onion Tears
• Panty Shot: In virtually every cartoon. Even moreso in the comics.
• Sexy Discretion Shot: Subverted in "Surf Bored". As Little Audrey changes into her bathing suit, it cuts to Audrey's pet dog Pal who covers his eyes in shock and then cuts back to Little Audrey again changing her clothes while zipped inside the bag and then comes out fully dressed in her bathing suit.
• Spank the Cutie: Little Audrey got it from her parents on a regular basis.
• The Thirties: The theatrical Little Audrey cartoons will be set in the 1930s.
• Tomboy: Little Audrey loves boy things like reading comic books in class (particularly action, crime and detective stories), went fishing, Jazz music, made inventions, sports, climbing trees and anything else rough and tough.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak
• White Gloves
• Zettai Ryouiki: Little Audrey. A more child example.

1. ↑ No relation to the debut short of Betty Boop, which shares the same name as this cartoon