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Marketers for Wonderful Pistachios, introduced in 2009, are pivoting from a reliance on personalities to focusing on an animated elephant who enjoys pistachios. There is still a bit of a celebrity angle, however: Ernie the Elephant is voiced by WWE star John Cena.
Betty Boop. When Betty made her 1930 debut in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes, she was originally drawn as a poodle with floppy ears. Nonetheless, Betty was one of the first overtly sexual female cartoon characters, modeled after the flapper and singing sensation Helen Kane. (Helen Kane actually sued Fleischer Studios for using her signature image and baby voice.) Photo: Fleischer Studios.