Los Angeles, June 24: Former Baywatch beauty Pamela Anderson is making her animation debut as a superhero who dances in a strip club, but she demanded and received a no-nudity clause for her cartoon alter-ego. As a result, the upcoming cable series Stripperella features lots of cartoon cleavage and sexual innuendo - she is after all "Secret Agent 69" - but Anderson insists the show could be rated PG.
"It's harmless. It's only a cartoon," the actress told Reuters in a recent interview to promote the series, created by Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, the man who beefed up the Hulk and had Spiderman climbing walls.
"We came up with a concept, and we just kind of made it really, really silly, and we both can't believe it's going to be on the air." The series is due to premiere June 26 on TNN, the Viacom Inc-owned cable channel planning - despite a legal challenge - to relaunch itself this month as Spike TV, with a new slate of programming tailored to men.
The show's concept is pretty simple. It centers on buxom exotic dancer Erotica Jones, an Anderson-esque character voiced by the actress who leads a double life as the masked superhero Stripperella. She's a stripper by night, a crime fighter by later at night and the cartoon character even has the same tatoos as the real-life Anderson.
Using her sex appeal to cloud the minds of male crooks, she comes equipped with special gadgets, such as her lipstick laser and wall-climbing stiletto heels. Her breasts are natural lie detectors and her legs are powerful weapons she wraps around the heads of her foes in a move she calls the "scissor-ella". "I'm very proud of Stripperella," Anderson says. "She's my alter ego - strong, smart and sexy and, let's face it, a bit of a slut."

In the premiere episode, Stripperella battles the evil plastic surgeon Dr Cesarian, who is deliberately ruining the figures of supermodels and has "booby-trapped" his latest victim with an exploding breast implant.

Still, Anderson said the series is far from pornographic and at her insistence contains no nudity - employing cartoon pixilation and other devices to keep the body parts blurred and the animation tasteful.
For example, "I do a dance in a martini glass, and the bubbles are strategically placed," she said. A number of celebrities lend their voices to some of the recurring characters, including Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame and Anderson's boyfriend Kid Rock, who also wrote and performs the theme song.
Canadian-born Anderson, 35, sprang to world fame as lifeguard CJ Parker on the TV series "Baywatch" and went on to produce and star in the syndicated TV series VIP, playing a beautiful celebrity bodyguard.