Baba Looey

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

In the Jellystone! reboot, Baba is a girl called Bobbie Louie, and is Cuban rather than Mexican. She is the head of Jellystone's Small Business Better Business Bureau of Small Business. She is voiced by Jenny Lorenzo.

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!

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

Movies

 * Yogi's Ark Lark

Shorts

 * Metlife's "Everyone" commercial (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's 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 Cameo
In the episode "The Wacky Always Races Twice," he played the role of one of the "Low Lives" that Penelope Pitstop had to avoid.

Everyone's Back in Jellystone!
In "A Fish Sticky Situation", Bobbie Louie buys an expired fish stick from Top Cat and this gang and is the first person to be turned into a fish.

In "Business", it turns out she is plotting to take over the world using her business ways.

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 production on Jellystone!, Melody Iza, herself a transgender artist, suggested for Baba to be turned into the transgender character of Bobbie mid production. Iza suggested the same change to Loopy De Loop and Squiddly Diddly. Baba Looey's Original name was Poco. It was changed to Baba Looey in reference to the Cuban song "Babalu". He was also based off actor Dezi Arnaz

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 incase you couldn't tell he was 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.
 * 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."
 * In the Daria Episode "Lane Miserables", Trent asks Daria why did Quick Draw McGraw always hung 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 a donkey.