Female Projectionist (The Critic)

Female Projectionist is an unnamed villainess in the syndicated cartoon The Critic. She only appears in the very second episode Miserable.

Background
The projectionist is an employee at a movie theater in New York City. She operates the projectors in the theater. Having no friends or family, the woman is a loner. Despite her loneliness, she was in love with famous film critic Jay Sherman. The woman was obsessed over Jay Sherman to the point where she would do anything to be with him.

History
Famous film critic Jay Sherman was feeling miserable. He wasn't in a relationship with any woman. He was also jealous of his friends because they are in relationships.

One night, Jay went to a film screening at a local movie theater. During the screening, he noticed a beautiful woman in the projecter room. Desperate, Jay went to meet her. After a conversation, they ended up making out with each other.

The next day, Jay went to a different screening which took place in the same movie theater. He noticed the same woman from the previous night. They made out with each other again. Later that day, Jay told his friend Jeremy Hawke about the woman.

Jay later tells Jeremy about his escapades with the woman, and he wishes to talk to her. That night, Jay goes to talk to the woman, only to find that she has a gummy bear stuck in her throat, which she removes. Jay convinces the woman to go out with him.

They soon meet at her home, and Jay finds out that she has pictures and merchandise of him all throughout her home. The woman reveals that she's Jay's biggest fan. As the two share some wine, Jay suddenly drifts off to sleep. When he wakes up, he finds himself tied to the fan's bed.

The woman intends to use Jay to help her tell the difference between good and bad movies, since she finds every movie to be a good one. Jay wants to be freed, but the stalker injects him with a sleeping dose a few times. Days later, Margo shows up at Jeremy's apartment, recruting Jeremy for assistance in the search for Jay, who has gone missing.

Back at the obsessed fan's house, she begins a 16-day method to kill Jay by giving him a haircut. The woman leaves, and Jay soon finds company via an elderly woman through a vent (the older woman confuses Jay's voice as one of her cats talking).

Jay then attempts to escape the house, but to no avail---the stalker catches him while doing so. Later, Jeremy gets an idea while watching one of his movies---he remembers Jay telling him about where he first met the stalker. Jeremy spots the stalker in the projection room. She runs off, and he chases after her. He soon reaches the fan's apartment and attempts to shoot her, but he misses. The stalker chases after Jeremy with a knife, only for Jay to stop her by clapping his hands, triggering a cardboard cutout of him that repeatedly says "Buy my book!," in which an arm strikes her in the head.

In the end, Jay heads over to Vlada's restaurant and chats with the stalker, who was recently released from prison.