Lydia Karaoke
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Lydia Karaoke
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| Lydia at her desk. | |
| First appearance | Regular on Histeria! since the series premiere. |
| Created by | Tom Ruegger |
| Voiced by | Nora Dunn |
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| Rivals | Mr. Smartypants |
Lydia Karaoke is a fictional character created for the Warner Bros. animated series Histeria! On the show, she is an employee for The WB who has been assigned as network censor for the show, and given the show's nature, this can be quite a hassle for her. Often, she interrupts the sketches to complain that what is about to be or has just been shown is inappropriate for childrens' television. Among these, she has protested usage of curse words in actual expressions (such as "Damn the torpedoes!" in "The U.S. Civil War Part II" and "War is hell" in "General Sherman's Campsite") and the use of the term "poop deck" (in "Around the World in a Daze"), as well as informing the viewers that Hannibal was painted incorrectly (in "Loud Kiddington's Ancient History"), prevented Billy the Kid from sending the Kid Chorus out for firearms, corrected the pronunciation of the Zhou dynasty (in "China"), and even stopped the Vomitorium sketch entirely (in "A Blast from the Past").
In this way, Lydia is the closest that the Histeria! characters have to an antagonist, but she is not necessarily a villain, as she is only doing these things because it's her job, not out of spite. As a matter of fact, Mr. Smartypants is perhaps the only one of the other characters whom Lydia seems to hold a grudge against, given his constant habit of pulling things from out of his pants. Nevertheless, her job as network censor does not prevent her from occasionally actually taking part in the sketches herself, albeit usually in crowd shots. When actually appearing as a character in the sketches, she can be shown hosting a game show, and even once appeared as Athena (or Minerva) in the song "What's in a God's Name?"
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