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| − | '''Sheryl Juanita "Shushu" Willis''' is a [[wikipedia:fictional character|fictional characters]] from the animated television series ''[[Queen of the Willis]]''. She is voiced by series creator [[Ava Zinn]].
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| − | Shushu is an [[wikipedia:anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] Tabby cat. She can talk, generally walks on her hind legs (using her front legs as arms) and has opposable thumbs. Shushu, like Heather and Tabby acts in an adult way. In earlier seasons, Shushu was initially obsessed with violence.
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| − | Over the duration of the series, her violent aspects to some extent and personality have been toned down (most notably after Tabby's gender transition), and both Tabby and Shushu have evolved into an eccentric, friendly and flamboyant character. They also come to have a very close friendship with the family's [[wikipedia:anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] lobster, Heather. Shushu, along with Tabby, are considered to be the show's [[wikipedia:List of breakout characters|breakout character]].<ref>??</ref>
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| − | ==Development of Shushu==
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| − | Shushu's voice is provided by ''Queen of the Willis'' creator [[Ava Zinn]], who also provides the voices of Tabby Willis, [[Heather Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Heather Willis]], [[Ava Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Ava Willis]], and [[Anna Pamhouser]] as well as numerous other characters.<ref>??</ref> Zinn based Shushu's voice was based on the voice of Cat Deeley,<ref name="cbs news">??</ref>, as well as accent on Zinn's late cousin who was gay. Zinn has stated that her inspiration for the Shushu character was based on Garfield the cat character created by fellow Hoosier Jim Davis.
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| − | Zinn has also linked Tabby and Shushu with Nancy Cartwright and Yeardley Smith, respectively on more than one occasion, saying she wants Cartwright and Smith to respectively play Tabby and Shushu if a live action version of the show would ever be created.<ref name="Advocate"/>
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| − | ===Shushu's role in ''QOTW''===
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| − | Shushu is a 7-year-old female grey Tabby cat who is a pet prodigy who has a very sophisticated psyche and is able to speak very fluently in an [[wikipedia:Received Pronunciation|upper-class English accent]] with quite advanced vocabulary. She is rescued by [[Tabby Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Rags (now Tabby)]] and Heather in [[Back Home Again in Indiana (Queen of the Willis)|Back Home Again in Indiana]] already 7, and like Tabby has not been referred to as being more than 7 years old since, despite being seen in many episodes attending Vivica A Fox Elementary School. Like Tabby, she highly literate and able to cite pop culture references that long predate her birth. She succumbs to other feline tendencies such as meowing, wagging her tail in distress, catching mice, birds, clawing people and has no idea how to use a litter box. Zinn has stated that Shushu is meant to represent the general helplessness of an cat through the eyes of an adult. Per cartoon physics, her ability to assist Tabby to move heavier objects of greater weight than themselves is not surprising to other characters, nor is her ability to retrieve chemicals from hammerspace, neither is her ability to talk.
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| − | She can talk, generally walks on her hind legs (using her front legs as arms), has opposable thumbs, drives a [[wikipedia:Oldsmobile Bravada|Oldsmobile Bravada]] (with the [[wikipedia:Vehicle registration plates of Indiana|license plate]] "TABBYCAT"), and often acts more rationally than the other characters in the series. She is the pet cat and close friend of the [[Willis Family]], and, although anthropomorphic animals are not a regular element of the show, Shushu's human attributes receive little acknowledgment and no explanation; she is largely treated as a human character, as much as Heather and Tabby. Shushu has a particularly close friendship with [[Heather Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Heather]] and [[Tabby Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Tabby]], and many of the show's sub-plots center around them. They are occasionally at the center of the plot, for instance in the [[Back Home Again In... (Queen of the Willis)|"Back Home Again in..."]] episodes. Heather, Tabby and Shushu have a [[wikipedia:love-hate relationship|love–hate relationship]] in which they constantly argue and humiliate each other, and yet show appreciation for each other several times.
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| − | Shushu has helped Tabby construct robots, clones, as well as an assortment of guns and crossbows. Like Tabby, Shushu also employs these to cope with the stresses of feline life and to murder her owner, Angie, with mixed success at best depending on the objective. As made clear in "Back Home Again in Indiana", Shushu's matricidal tendencies are a result of Angie constantly (and unwittingly) thwarting her schemes, and so she desires to kill Angie to carry out her and Tabby's plans without their interference. In other, later episodes, Shushu and Tabby engages in other violent or criminal acts, including, [[wikipedia:aggravated assault|aggravated assault]] ("[[Revenge of the Male Anchors 2]]") and killing off many minor characters (with knives, guns, and other assorted weaponry).
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| − | Like Tabby, Shushu also shows a complete disdain for most people, but does show affection and even rare instances of kindness to her family. Such moments include her support for Ava (whom she traditionally calls "Aeverine") despite generally thinks of Ava as an inferior{{spaced ndash}} regarding her simply as "the tranny" and, at one point, harboring doubts that Ava could possibly be her biological father. In only one, such as "The former life of Sheryl Willis", it is shown that Shushu can love her owners. In that episode, after Ava recovers and repairs a lost Rupert and serves Shushu her favorite food lasagna (referencing to ''Garfield''), she rethinks Ava and accepts her as a loving owner.
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| − | In the more recent seasons, Shushu has a larger amount of freedom from her pet parents, usually spending much of her time with [[Heather Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Heather]] and Tabby.
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| − | ===Shushu's Bisexuality===
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| − | Shushu's sexuality as a female cat and since Tabby's gender transition is ambiguous. When the writers began to incorporate Shushu's character since her first appearance in [[Back Home Again in Indiana (Queen of the Willis)|Back Home Again in Indiana]], Zinn and the writers began to explore the female cat's sexuality with a series of one-off gags, which hinted in one episode is where Shushu's cellphone screensaver is of Tila Tequila. Another is where she has a picture of Karly Jameson in her wallet and she expresses her wishes to have sexual relations with Heather's daughter, Alexandra. Like Tabby, when she plays with a a male cat or female dog, husband and wife living in a little house in the garden, she discovers he has a girlfriend or a transgender boyfriend.
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| − | It is also shown in "[[Back Home Again in the Galaxy]]", it shows a part of the multiverse where there are many homosexuals, and Tabbby says "Love it," then Shushu says "Like it" and Heather says "Hate it," and they leave to another part of the multiverse. In "Unhappy Customers", Shushu (who plays the role of Angela Baker) sniffs the women's underwear after the male campers performed a panty raid in the girl's cabin until a transwoman (who plays the role of Mare) flashing her breasts. It turns out Mare is a muscular transman, whom Shushu does "lick", but not on the breatst nipple. The woman states "They're real-," and is interrupted by Shushu who replies, "I know." It is implied that Shushu is "lick" the transwoman's clitoris as a means of grasping, suggesting homosexual action on her behalf.
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| − | Zinn told CBS 11 in Indianapolis in 2008 "We had an episode that went all the way to the script phase in which Shushu does come out as bisexual. It had to do with the harassment she took from other pets at the kennel. Rags ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from being written: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination.' But we decided it's better to keep it vague, which makes more sense because she's a five-year-old. Ultimately, Shushu will be a lesbian, transman or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual. It also explains why she's so hellbent on killing his owner, Angie and taking over the world: like Rags, she has a lot of aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about her orientation."<ref name=gay/>
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| | + | ===Bibliography=== |
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| | + | * {{cite book | author = S. Callaghan | title = ''Family Guy: The Official Episode Guide: Seasons 1 - 3'' | publisher = New York: Harper Paperbacks | year = 2005 | isbn = }}--> |
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