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Ling-Ling is a fictional character in the animated series Drawn Together. He is one of the eight housemates who are the focus of the show. Ling-Ling is labeled as a sociopathic Asian trading card battle monster. He is voiced by Abbey DiGregorio. Ling-Ling:

• BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ° FULL NAME: Ling-Ling Hitler bin Laden Seacrest (Freaks & Greeks [ https://drawntogether.fandom.com/wiki/Freaks_%26_Greeks ]). ° AGE: 3, 21 (in Battle Monster years). ° RELATIONS: Unnamed (mother), Jun-Jee (father) [ https://drawntogether.fandom.com/wiki/Jun-Jee ], Unnamed (twin brother, deceased), Gash (former trainer) [ https://drawntogether.fandom.com/wiki/Gash ].
• DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION: ° GENDER: Male. ° RACE: Asian (battle monster). ° HAIR COLOR: Orange (fur). ° SEXUALITY: Bisexual. ° RELIGION: Scientologist.
• Ling-Ling is a fictional character in the animated series Drawn Together. He is one of the eight housemates who are the focus of the show. Ling-Ling is labeled as a sociopathic Asian trading card battle monster. He is voiced by Abbey DiGregorio.
• Biography: Ling-Ling is a crazy and homicidal spoof of Pikachu and speaks in an incomprehensible parody of the Japanese language along with occasional phrases of broken English. His language, referred to by show personnel as "Japorean" (though not in the series itself), is complete gibberish which is captioned in English with subtitles, although his subtitles often contain Engrish as well. (See Race and culture below.) According to Ling-Ling's driver's license, he is three years old (though, he explains is 21, in battle monster years), and stands one foot, six inches tall (or 45.72 centimeters). Like Pokémon, he is a creature who battles regularly, utilizing an array of supernatural powers (examples being his ability to glow in the dark, shoot lasers from his eyes, fly, and create balls of energy capable of stunning or immobilizing his opponents). He is also able to use his tail as a sword, as seen in the episode "Foxxy vs. the Board of Education". His tail is the shape of an exclamation point in its natural state (a parody of Pikachu's lightning bolt-shaped tail), but it is capable of assuming other shapes (such as a question mark, profanity symbols, or the Japanese yen symbol) depending on Ling-Ling's emotion. In one episode, Ling-Ling uses his tail to give Wooldoor the middle finger, and in another, it turns into a feather shape when he is cockfighting. In "Clum Babies", it swells like an erect penis when he is making out with Ni-Pul. A now seemingly forgotten parallel to Pokémon was Ling-Ling's initial androgyny; the first few episodes referred to Ling-Ling as an "it" instead of being gender-specific. Initial speculation was that Ling-Ling might be female since the voice actor playing the character is female, and it would make the male/female ratio among the houseguests an even 4/4. In the first episode, Captain Hero said he would "stick and stir any one of these broads", pointing toward Clara and Toot as Ling-Ling lay asleep next to them. It is unclear if the statement was also intended to include Ling-Ling as well. However, in the first season finale, Ling-Ling was placed on the guys' team during the parody of The Apprentice, and in Season Two, Ling-Ling's gender has been definitively established as male; in "Super Nanny", he is shocked and disappointed to discover that he has a small penis instead of a large one. The character is now always referred to as "he" rather than "it". In "Freaks & Greeks", Ling-Ling's father states that Ling-Ling's full name is Ling-Ling Hitler Bin Laden Seacrest. However, according to Executive Producer Bill Freiberger, this is just a gag and not canon. His father also refers to their house as the Ling family; assuming the family follows the custom in most Asian countries of putting the surname first, Ling-Ling's name would actually be Ling Ling-Ling. In "Nipple Ring-Ring Goes to Foster Care", It's revealed that under Ling-Ling's fur, his body is very muscular, as seen when Dr. Wooldoor tears off his fur. Ling-Ling's species secretes a hallucinogen through the skin when disappointed, though he may not be able to do this anymore after Xandir, Toot, and Wooldoor licked him dry in "The Other Cousin". In Drawn Together Babies, Ling-Ling was shown when he was a baby. When Ling-Ling was a baby, he was able to speak fluent English entirely and didn't even mispronounce his "L"s and "R"s. He still suffered the problem of always being ignored though. Eventually, he became so fed up with everyone ignoring him, he decided to stop speaking English altogether and speak a crazy made up language (Japorean) that he made up with his dead twin brother. This episode also revealed that Ling-Ling had a dead twin brother. Very little is known about his but it may be possible that he was referring to Sid when he said this. However, Sid and Ling-Ling look nothing alike which contradicts with this. Mostly because Sid is a human and Ling-Ling is a battle monster but seeing as how in the same episode, Walter was a human and he transformed into a Sockbat, it may be possible that Ling-Ling went through a similar transformation. Also, as previously mentioned in Nipple Ring-Ring Goes to Foster Care, Ling-Ling was shown to have a human-like muscular body under his fur, meaning that without his fur, Ling-Ling may look exactly like a human. So it can be said that Sid is just a battle monster without the fur or vice versa.
• Appearance: Ling-Ling is an Asian trading card battle monster who is definitely the shortest member of the house. He looks very similar to Pikachu given that he is a parody on him. Ling-Ling has orange fur with brown stripes and rabbit-like ears that stand up on his head. He has dark brown beady little eyes and a little black nose. He has a black tail that is in the shape of an exclamation point. Ling-Ling's appearance slightly changes whenever he goes into battle mode. When he enters battle mode, he grows a whole bunch of yellow spikes. There is a bout three or four rows of these spikes that start on his head, just above his eyes and the spines run down his back all the way to just above his tail. Ling-Ling also develops a bunch of little yellow scale-like ruffles in the fur on his stomach and his tail also becomes bigger and more frizzled up. In the episode Charlotte's Web of Lies, it was revealed what it looks like under Ling-Ling's fur when Xandir shaved his eyebrow, revealing his skin underneath. Ling-Ling's skin skin is pink and had a few very small black hairs left behind. Not much was seen other than that, but it can be implied that that's what the rest of his body looks like without his fur. In the episode Nipple Ring-Ring Goes to Foster Care, more of his furless body was revealed, although it contradicted with this, although it was most likely just a gag. Ling-Ling's fur was ripped off of his chest, revealing what his body looks like underneath. Ling-Ling's body looks much like that of a human being's, being shaped and colored like that of an Asian male's. His body is also very muscular and sculpted, with biceps and a six pack of abs. It was also revealed that the color of Ling-Ling's fur on the side that is always attached to his body, is actually held together in a blanket-like fabric that appears to be very smooth. It's color is a very light and dull shade of red. However, Ling-Ling was O.D. at the time this was seen and the outer-layer colors of his skin was blue, meaning that this may not be the actual color of in internal fur.
• Powers and abilities: Like Pokémon, Ling-Ling has a wide array of powers and abilities which he uses in battle. Unlike Pokémon, however, most of his moves inflict real damage and have the potential to kill. His main attack is a ball of dark energy which mirrors the move Shadow Ball in Pokémon. Ling-Ling can fly, shoot lasers from his eyes and flatten and reshape his body. He is used as a boat sail at the end of "Lost in Parking Space, Part Two", and in The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, he inflates into a rubber life raft when his tail is pulled. His tail is removable without any harm to him and can be used like an actual sword. When Ling-Ling gets angry or is about to kill someone, he often grows spikes and becomes more powerful. Two levels of this have been shown. Though stronger in this form, he has only used it three times in the series' run: once in "Hot Tub" to kill Toot, again in "Mexican't Buy Me Love" when he battles chickens, and a third time in "Charlotte's Web of Lies" to kill Xandir.
• Sexuality: Ling-Ling likes to go clubbing every night to battle female Pokémon-like monsters. While the encounters resemble his regular battles on the surface, their purpose is actually to provide sexual gratification rather than the death or injury of one of the two parties. In "Clum Babies", he battles a green monster named Hoochie in this fashion; though he appears to brutally murder her, she is shown the next morning to have emerged from the encounter relatively unscathed. Ling-Ling is shown to be something of a player, at least until an episode where he had to submit to an arranged battle with a beautiful purple monster named Ni-Pul. They fell in love, but the relationship eventually became stale before they "dropped the metaphor" and had regular sex (which also caused Ling-Ling's tail to get bigger). Ni-Pul and Ling-Ling were both murdered at the end of the episode in a shooting rampage by Bob The Cucumber. She has not been mentioned since this occurred, though she makes a cameo appearance in "The Drawn Together Clip Show" as a member of the audience. It is not known whether she and Ling-Ling are still involved with each other. There are possible hints that Ling-Ling is a necrophiliac; in "Hot Tub", when challenging Clara to a fight, he wanted to have sex with Clara's skull before turning it into a birdhouse, however that could just be seen as defiling the body after a battle. In "Requiem for a Reality Show", after being accidentally eaten by Toot, he had sex with a roast chicken that Toot had eaten before she regurgitated them both. In "The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II", Ling-Ling demonstrates a fetish for used schoolgirl underwear; this is a reference to the Japanese burusera trend. Both Ling-Ling and his father are mentioned as liking women with small feet in several episodes ("Gay Bash", "A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special", "Freaks & Greeks"), referencing another Asian sexual stereotype. In "Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable!", when the Terminator performs a scan of the housemates, his sensors label Ling-Ling as bisexual. As Mr. Nagasaki in A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special, he solicits Xandir's services as a prostitute, but since he is role-playing, this act cannot be considered indicative of Ling-Ling's true character. ° In the Drawn Together Movie, there are several songs that play whenever Ling-Ling is trying to hang out with Xandir, who only wants to hang out with Captain Hero and is jealous over his Dead Girlfriend Molly. One song even states that 'If Ling-Ling loves Xandir as Ling-Ling thinks he does..." and then Ling-Ling proceeds to help Xandir gain Captain Hero's attention by saying Molly asked him out to prom, which causes Hero to throw Molly's dead corpse out of a flying plane.
• Race and culture: Ling-Ling is Asian, but it is never stated explicitly what his particular ethnicity is; this is because the character is intended to represent all East Asian subcultures rather than any particular nationality. Ling-Ling's depiction most closely resembles Japanese, but there are hints of Chinese ancestry as well, such as constant references to fortune cookies, Chinese food, and dry cleaning (although these references are based more on Chinese stereotypes than actual Chinese culture). While it is possible that Ling-Ling is of mixed ancestry, in all likelihood, the character's nationality is kept deliberately ambiguous to allow for a wider reach of Asian references to draw from. In Season Two, Ling-Ling takes on even more Asian stereotypes (see Stereotypes below), such as being unable to drive well and always acing standardized tests. The episode "Super Nanny" reveals that Ling-Ling's perception of the world is radically different from that of the other characters; when Clara simulates his vision, the other housemates look like anime characters, a seemingly empty road seems filled with oncoming cars (the given reason for Ling-Ling's inability to drive), and a variety of other differences are shown which play off Asian stereotypes. When Wooldoor rounds out his eyes with tape, Ling-Ling sees the world normally and can speak English, albeit with his previous speech patterns ("Everything be okay as long as Ling-Ling still have humongous penis"). However, at the end of the episode, he takes the tape off and reverts back to his old self after seeing another Asian person with rounded eyes gain weight and become stupid. A running gag on the show involves Ling-Ling's difficulty pronouncing the letter "L", usually substituting the letter "R". He even has difficulty in pronouncing the words that have "R" in them and substituting them with "L" In "Clum Babies," Ling-Ling discusses his shampoo Prell, lamenting that "Plerr" leaves his hair smooth, but leaves his soul stained with shame and embarrassment due to his difficulty in pronouncing the name. "In "Super Nanny", Ling-Ling reads an eye chart and says "R" for every letter when each letter is actually "L". In "Spelling Applebee's", Ling-Ling is asked to spell the word "L" at the spelling bee; his only response is to stare blankly. At times, the gag is reversed, and Ling-Ling substitutes "L" for "R". In "A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special", one of Ling-Ling's speeches mixes both gags; when he lists synonyms for breasts, he says, "Merrons, hootels, headrights, flied eggs, cleam puffs!" These gags are just two of many references to Engrish in the series. It may be noted however, that in earlier episodes, Ling-Ling could pronounce the letter L. The show is somewhat vague as to how well the other characters can comprehend Ling-Ling's speech. Though they seem able to understand him some of the time, they frequently misinterpret him, and often imagine he is saying whatever they want to hear. The only character who unquestionably can understand him is Spanky Ham, but Spanky doesn't bother translating for the housemates. It is suggested in Season Three that Toot may be able to understand Ling-Ling as well; in the episodes "Freaks & Greeks" and "Mexican't Buy Me Love", Ling-Ling and Toot have several conversations during which Toot seems to be able to understand Ling-Ling's dialect perfectly, despite her inability to do so in previous episodes. Ling-Ling, on the other hand, seems to have no trouble understanding the others' English. Three times during the episode "Freaks & Greeks", Ling-Ling is speaking and the Comedy Central bug expands to say that an all-new Daily Show is coming up next, almost completely blocking the subtitles translating what Ling-Ling is saying. Then, Captain Hero or Jun-Jee looks at the bottom of the screen and comments about Jon Stewart or The Daily Show while completely disregarding Ling-Ling's subtitled speech. This suggests that some characters (even his own father) actually comprehend him by the English subtitles on screen; indeed, Xandir explicitly says that he can't understand Ling-Ling simply because he can't read the subtitles. This is an example of breaking the fourth wall. However, this does not hold true in all cases. In "Hot Tub", Clara is clearly unable to understand his battle challenge, and in "Clara's Dirty Little Secret", all the housemates except Spanky think he is telling them to kill Clara's Octopussoir when he is actually telling them to clean the dirty dishes in the sink. In an interview for Comedy Central's Motherload, Abbey DiGregorio dubs Ling-Ling's language "Japorean," which she admits is nonsense gibberish that is only supposed to sound like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or other languages from Eastern Asia. Ling-Ling's speech does contain occasional words of English added for comic effect (for instance, when discussing the death of a Mexican prostitute, the only understandable words are "Paris Hilton"); however, they are simply gags rather than an actual attempt to translate Ling-Ling's language.
• Gender: Ling-Ling's gender in the series has usually been a pretty unclear concept before. Right now, it's canonical that he is male but this wasn't always how things were. According to a DVD commentary, Jeser and Silverstein didn't make it canon that Ling-Ling was male until the episode Clum Babies. Before then, they didn't really assign Ling-Ling a gender and just sort of made him strongly imply that he was one or the other and go back and forth between the two, dependent on the setting of the scene he was in. Even after the events of Clum Babies, however, Ling-Ling has done things that implies that he's female. In the episode Hot Tub, Captain Hero and Spanky talked about the female housemates in the house. Hero said that "He'd stick and stir any one of those broads." as he gestured over to the couch with Clara, Toot, and Ling-Ling sitting on it. In the episode Terms of Endearment, Ling-Ling was seen in the shower, coveting with the female housemates. Ling-Ling was tied to a stick and served as a loofah, which Clara used to clean her vagina. However, Ling-Ling then made a pleasured smile after this and he is a heterosexual so it's more likely that he is male and he was only in the shower with the girls because of the gag of using him as a loofah and the gag of his enjoying his job as one. In the episode The Other Cousin, Jun-Jee addressed Ling-Ling as his son. In the episode The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, the housemates were split up into two teams, based on their genders. Ling-Ling was put on the guys team. In the episode Little Orphan Hero, Ling-Ling was part of a suicide hotline and he was seen wearing a bikini, along with the girls on the team. However, so was Spanky Ham so this gag applied to all of the male members of the team. In the episode Clum Babies, it was made official that Ling-Ling was a boy as he was seen going clubbing with Hero and Xandir and he was obviously a man, having been surrounded by women and dressing like a pimp. He brought multiple women home and banged them every night, only to dump them in the next morning. Jun-Jee also called him on the phone, addressing him as his "Number one son" and telling him that "He knows he's enjoyed living the bachelor life." again, implying that he is a male in the same way again. He was assigned a woman to get married to and Ling-Ling was seen having sex with her twice. Both times, revealing that he was male. The first time, his tail became erect, started to pump, and became very vascular, resembling that of an erect penis. The second time, he was seen in a position where he was on top of her and thrusting his pelvis into her vaginal area. This episode made it official that he was male. In the episode Super Nanny, Ling-Ling became Americanized and he said that it would be okay, as long as he still had his humongous penis. He then looked at his penis with his new American eyes and screamed in horror. Being able to see better, he now saw that his penis was actually a short little stub, contributing to the Asian stereotype. In the episode Captain Girl, Toot wanted to get impregnated. When Xandir heard about this, he asked "Who would want to drop a log in that thing." He the people with him, all played "Not it" and Ling-Ling was the last to do it. Ling-Ling was so angry about this, that he killed himself. This implies that he's male, since this would mean he's have to impregnate her, and because Xandir said "Drop a log", being a slang term for "Stick his penis into" to which Ling-Ling responded to. However, Foxxy Love also complied with this, opening the possibilities for females to be able to do this too. In the episode Mexican't Buy Me Love, it was implied that Ling-Ling had a romantic relationship with Toot. However, this episode was not canon for any of the characters, it was never acknowledged again, and the other couples in the episode were denied and written out of the show faster than his, being ended in the same episode so it only makes sense that his was too. The other two couples were Captain Hero and Xandir, who are not a couple because Xandir has professional feelings for Hero and even hates him, and Clara and Spanky who's relationship ended in Foxxy vs. the Board of Education. Neither of which were real relationships at the time so it's unlikely this one was real either. In the episode Toot Goes Bollywood, Toot asked the housemates if anyone wanted to have sex with her. Everyone declined to this, except for Clara and Foxxy because they were both female. Since they were excluding them. Ling-Ling was one of the people to decline, crossing his arms and shouting "No way!" which must mean that he was included as one of the guys. However, Toot, herself was also included, shouting "As if!" in response to this, including a female. This, however, was obviously a gag and not to be taken seriously or canonical at all. In the episode American Idol Parody Clip Show, Ling-Ling was seen singing a smooth jazz song and wearing a red dress as he layed down on the piano and did all the seductive positions that a woman would do. This, however was just a gag. Overall, Ling-Ling has done many things that strongly imply that he is female, but all of the other housemates have done the exact same thing too. (Ex. Captain Hero acting feminine, or showing that he has tits, or Toot getting a visible boner while sleeping.) so all of these occasions can safely be considered as non-canonical gags. Ling-Ling's voice actor is a female, but many female voice actors have voiced male characters. If Ling-Ling were female, it would even out the 4 on 4 ratio of men and women in the household. However, Ling-Ling's personality seems to commit more to being a male and he was confirmed to be male by the creators, themselves in a commentary so it's officially settled that Ling-Ling is male.