Baba Looey

Baba Looey, short for Baba Louis, is an anthropomorphic Mexican burro who stars as a main character in the Quick Draw McGraw animated television shorts. His voice was originated by Daws Butler using a Mexican accent.

Working both as a deputy sheriff and Quick Draw's trusty sidekick, often provides the solution to whatever mess Quick Draw gets into. He is clearly the more sensible of the two, and provides sarcastic quips to Quick Draw's intelligence (or lack thereof).

In the HBO Max series Jellystone!, Baba is a girl named Bobbie Louie, and is Cuban rather than Mexican.

TV series

 * Quick Draw McGraw
 * The Yogi Bear Show
 * 2.7 "Yogi's Birthday Party" (no lines)
 * Yogi's Gang
 * Yogi's Treasure Hunt
 * 2.6 "Yogi's Heroes"
 * 2.11 "Yogi & the Beanstalk"
 * Yo, Yogi!
 * I Am Weasel
 * 2.7 "I Am My Lifetime" (no lines)
 * Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
 * 2.10 "Droopy Botox" (no lines)
 * 2.11 "Guitar Control"
 * 4.3 "Babysitter" (no lines, he's dead Jim)
 * 4.6 "Juror in Court" (no lines)
 * Wacky Races
 * 2.11 "The Wacky Always Races Twice" (no lines)
 * Jellystone!

Movies

 * Yogi's Ark Lark
 * The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound

Specials

 * Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (no lines)
 * The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo

Shorts

 * "Everyone" (no lines)
 * Cartoon Network Shorties
 * "City E-scape"
 * Cartoon Network Groovies
 * "El Kabong Rides Again" (no lines)
 * Boomerang- Blue Glue No Loose
 * Web Premiere Toons
 * "The Pitch"

Comics

 * Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
 * #23 "Go West, You Meddling Kids"

Yo, Yogi!
Baba works alongside Quick Draw on the Wild West show in Jellystone Township.

I Am Cameo
Having become old and retired, Baba now lives at the Old Cartoon Sidekicks Retirement Home.

A Web Premiere Toon
In the episode "The Pitch," Baba Looey pitches his idea to the producer for a cartoon about cavemen and dinosaurs called The Flintstones. It gets approved by the producer; Fred Flintstone himself.

Harvey Birdman
Baba Looey appears in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Guitar Control," where he hangs out with Peanut. He is later accidentally killed by Peanut, who wanted to mess with Quick Draw's guitars. In "Babysitter," he is seen at a morgue. In "Juror in Court," he and Quick Draw appear in a Kama Sutra book, performing the "Cowboy" position. In "Droopy Botox," his first alive appearance, he is a paperboy.

Wacky Reboot
He played the role of one of the "Low Lives" that Penelope Pitstop had to avoid.

Everyone's Back in Jellystone!
In Jellystone!, Bobbie Louie is the head of the town's Small Business Better Business Bureau of Small Business.

In the episode, "A Fish Sticky Situation," Bobbie buys an expired fish stick from Top Cat and his gang and is the first person to be turned into a fish.

In "Business," it is revealed that she has plans to take over the world using her corporate tactics.

Baba Sells Out
Baba Looey makes a cameo in the Samurai Jack episode "Couple on a Train." He informs Quick Draw that a fight is about to commence on the train. Quick Draw states that no one will be fighting on this train as long as the two of them were around. He is then shot in his hat, covering his eyes. He assumes that it's already time for bed due to how dark it is under his hat.

Scooby-Doo teams up with Quick Draw
In Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #23, in the story "Go West, You Meddling Kids," Baba assists Quick Draw and Mystery Incorporated in defeating a hypnotized Ricochet Rabbit.

Based on a true story
Baba Looey makes a background cameo in Exit Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles. In the final issue, he's talking to someone on set of Quick Draw's animation studio.

Development
During the planning stages of The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Baba Looey's original name was going to be "Poco". It was changed to "Baba Looey" in reference to the Cuban song "Babalú". He was also said to be based on actor Dezi Arnaz, who at the time starred as Ricky Ricardo in the television sitcom I Love Lucy, and made the "Babalú" song a household name for his character.

During production on Jellystone!, Melody Iza, herself a transgender artist, suggested for Baba to be made into the transgender character of Bobbie mid production.

Behind the scenes

 * Baba Looey is renamed Pepe Trueno in the Spanish dub for Quick Draw McGraw.
 * For Jellystone!, Bobbie Louie is renamed 'Pepa Trueno.
 * Scooby-Doo! Team Up Issue 23 reveals that Baba Looey can cook and normally does so for Quick Draw, and that he went to deputy training with Droop-a-long Coyote.
 * In an episode of The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Baba Looey reveals that he regularly shaves, just in case you couldn't tell that he is an adult.

In popular culture

 * On The Howard Stern Show, Executive Producer Gary De'llAlbate mistakenly called Baba Looey "Baba Booey" when discussing how he wanted to purchase an animation cel of Quick Draw and Baba Looey. "Baba Booey" then became Gary's nickname on the show. Dell'Abate later explained that when he watched Quick Draw McGraw as a child, Quick Draw would often call Baba Looey "Baba Boy", usually in frantic moments ("Help me, Baba Boy!"). Quick Draw's drawn-out pronunciation of "boy" sounded like more like "booey", which led Dell'Abate to think that the character's name was actually "Baba Booey".
 * In the Drawn Together episode "Breakfast Food Killer," Baba Looey appears as Baba Booey who is waiting in line to become the next mascot of Quackers. He is seen jumping around and attacking people while yelling "Baba Booey."
 * A clip of De'llAlbete saying "Baba Booey" became an internet meme sometime around 2020.
 * In the Daria Episode "Lane Miserables", Trent asks Daria why Quick Draw always hangs around with that "freaky little mule", referring to Baba Looey.
 * In the South Park episode "Imaginationland Episode III," during the final battle between the good and bad sides of fictional characters, Baba can be seen on the good side alongside Quick Draw.
 * In Japan, there is a burger restaurant named Baba Looey, with its mascot coincidentally being that of a donkey.