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* DownerEnding: The short ends with Buster, Plucky, and Hamton driving a stolen cop car off a cliff, causing it to land in a graveyard and kill them. Somewhat averted since it was all just an act designed to teach kids a lesson.

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* DownerEnding: The short ends with Buster, Plucky, and Hamton driving a stolen cop car off a cliff, causing it to land in a graveyard and kill them. Somewhat averted Subverted, since it was all just an act designed to teach kids a lesson.
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* XRaySpecks: An interesting variant. When Plucky drives the cop car into a subway, and it's almost run over by a train, the skeletons of himself, Buster and Hamton are visible thanks to its headlamps.

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* XRaySpecks: XRaySparks: An interesting variant. When Plucky drives the cop car into a subway, and it's almost run over by a train, the skeletons of himself, Buster and Hamton are visible thanks to its headlamps.
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* ShoutOut: When in their drunken state, Buster, Plucky, and Hamton dress like Larry, Darryl, and Darryl from ''Series/{{Newhart}}''.

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* ShoutOut: When in their drunken state, Buster, Plucky, and Hamton dress like Larry, Darryl, and Darryl from ''Series/{{Newhart}}''.''Series/{{Newhart}}''.
* XRaySpecks: An interesting variant. When Plucky drives the cop car into a subway, and it's almost run over by a train, the skeletons of himself, Buster and Hamton are visible thanks to its headlamps.
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* KickTheDog: Babs, Mary, Fifi, and even Elmyra, who are all normally nice, all cruelly laugh at Dizzy for reading his script upside-down.
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* SaveTheVillain: Monty orders an attack robot called S.N.I.D.E. to attack C.L.I.D.E., specifially, programming S.N.I.D.E. to "Attack Nearest Geek". As a result, S.N.I.D.E. tries to attack Monty. C.L.I.D.E. transforms into a race car to catch up to them, then to an airplane to catch Monty and get him away from S.N.I.D.E..

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* SaveTheVillain: Monty orders an attack robot called S.N.I.D.E. to attack C.L.I.D.E., specifially, specifically, programming S.N.I.D.E. to "Attack Nearest Geek". As a result, S.N.I.D.E. tries to attack Monty. C.L.I.D.E. transforms into a race car to catch up to them, then to an airplane to catch Monty and get him away from S.N.I.D.E..
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* AnimatedActors: At the end of the short, following their "deaths", Buster, Plucky, and Hamton remove their angel costumes and hope that the viewers got the message of the evils of alcohol.

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* AnimatedActors: At the end of the short, following their "deaths", Buster, Plucky, and Hamton remove their angel costumes and hope that the viewers got the message of about the evils of alcohol.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: At the beginning of the short, Hamton tells Buster that it isn't like him to drink beer or make them do it. Buster tells him he's aware, but the point of the short is to teach the viewers the evils of alcohol.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: At Lampshaded at the beginning of the short, short with Hamton tells telling Buster that it isn't like him to drink beer or make them do it. Buster tells him that while he's aware, but the point of the short is to teach the viewers the evils of alcohol.
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* NoodleIncident: As a ShowWithinAShow example, one fictional episode of ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' involved Plucky [[PrisonEpisode getting thrown into a Turkish prison]]. Babs doesn't like it because she hated the way she was drawn in it.

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* ShootTheTelevision: When "Plucky's Turkish Prison" is about to come up on Dizzy's television, Babs grabs a lamp and chucks it through the screen, on the grounds that she didn't like how the animators drew her in that episode.



** When Dizzy get's hit by Buster's book, he says, "Me so Dizzy, me head be spinning!", a reference to the Tommy Roe song, "Dizzy".

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** When Dizzy get's gets hit by Buster's book, he says, "Me so Dizzy, me head be spinning!", a reference to the Tommy Roe song, "Dizzy".
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* OffModel: In-universe; Babs [[ShootTheTelevision trashes a TV]] showing a rerun of ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' because she hates the way she was drawn in that episode. She then says the she also hates the way she was drawn in this episode.
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* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: Buster, Plucky and Hampton (All young teens [[VagueAge at the oldest]]) drink beer.

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* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: Buster, Plucky and Hampton Hamton (All young teens [[VagueAge at the oldest]]) drink beer.
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* AntiAlcoholAesop: Spoofed when Buster, Plucky, and Hamton [[CantHoldHisLiquor immediately get drunk after a single sip of beer]], ending with them stealing a cop's car and driving it off a cliff. The short itself admits that the characters are doing this both [[OscarBait in an attempt to win an Emmy]] and to teach kids the message that drinking is uncool.

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-->'''Buster''' (''taking his fake angel wings off''): I hope the kids got the message.\\

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-->'''Buster''' (''taking -->'''Buster:''' ''[taking his fake angel wings off''): off]'' I hope the kids got the message.\\


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* PoliceAreUseless: The cops left the car window open, and the key in the car, allowing it to be easily stolen. They fail to notice the car crashing into other cars for a good few moments, and then when the Toons set off, the cops make no effort to stop them.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of the TV shows Dizzy watches is an episode of ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' where Plucky Duck ends up in a Turkish prison. If you've ever seen the movie ''Film/MidnightExpress'', you'd know that a place like that isn't appropriate to talk about on a kids' show.

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** Bugs asks Buster and Dizzy to act out scenes from the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "Devil May Hare", with Buster and Dizzy in his and Taz's respective roles.

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** Bugs asks Buster and Dizzy to act out scenes from the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "Devil May Hare", "WesternAnimation/DevilMayHare", with Buster and Dizzy in his and Taz's respective roles.
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* OffModel: In-universe; Babs trashes a TV showing a rerun of ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' because she hates the way she was drawn in that episode. She then says the she also hates the way she was drawn in this episode.
* ReadingIsCoolAesop: Dizzy is addicted to television, but eventually embraces reading after a DreamSequence he has upon being knocked out by a book on fairy tales. The punchline of the episode is that we see a group of kids so engrossed in reading that they're not watching cartoons, leading Dizzy to stick his arm out of the TV set and turn it off.

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* OffModel: In-universe; Babs [[ShootTheTelevision trashes a TV TV]] showing a rerun of ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' because she hates the way she was drawn in that episode. She then says the she also hates the way she was drawn in this episode.
* ReadingIsCoolAesop: Dizzy is addicted to television, but eventually embraces reading after a DreamSequence he has upon being knocked out by a book on fairy tales. The punchline of the episode is that we see a group of kids so engrossed in reading that they're not watching cartoons, leading Dizzy [[TelevisionPortal to stick his arm out of the TV set set]] and turn it off.
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Babs wasn't one of the drinkers- she was disgusted by them drinking


* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: Buster and Babs (who are fourteen) and Hampton (who is thirteen) drink beer.

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* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: Buster and Babs (who are fourteen) Buster, Plucky and Hampton (who is thirteen) (All young teens [[VagueAge at the oldest]]) drink beer.
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* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: Buster and Babs (who are fourteen) and Hampton (who is thirteen) drink beer.
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* ReadingIsCoolAesop: Dizzy is addicted to television, but eventually embraces reading after a DreamSequence he has upon being knocked out by a book on fairy tales. The punchline of the episode is that we see a group of kids so engrossed in reading that they're not watching cartoons, leading Dizzy to stick his arm out of the TV set and turn it off.

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* NeverLearnedToRead: It is revealed in this episode that Dizzy has trouble learning how to read because he is addicted to television. He shows interest in reading after reading from a book of nursery rhymes (and wanting to eat the food from it).



* NeverLearnedToRead: It is revealed in this episode that Dizzy has trouble learning how to read because he is addicted to television. He shows interest in reading after reading from a book of nursery rhymes (and wanting to eat the food from it).
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The third episode of the second season of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and the sixty-eighth overall.

After finishing a cartoon of him in Wackyland, Gogo explains to the viewers that today he is going to take a break from his wackiness to discuss important issues. An elephant mishears him, and brings him a box of tissues.

'''Short One:''' "Why Dizzy Can't Read"

Buster and Babs discover that Dizzy Devil can't read because he wastes his time watching television.

'''Short Two:''' "C.L.I.D.E. and Prejudice"

A robot student named C.L.I.D.E. joins Acme Looniversity, and turns to Buster for help after being teased by Montana Max.

'''Short Three:''' "One Beer"

Buster, Plucky and Hamton become intoxicated after finding an unopened bottle of beer, steal a cop car, take the car to a tall mountain, and "kill" themselves by driving the car off the mountain.

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''Overall:''
* AnimatedActors: Gogo Dodo. On the set, he is his ordinary wacky self, but off the set, he's actually very sophisticated.
* CreditsGag - Today's Lesson - Reading [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Ir Berry Impertant]].
* RuleOfThree: In the third wraparound, the Elephant has three different dares. The first two (jumping off a cliff and swallowing live porcupines) Gogo ignores, but the third (dressing in cold cuts and running through the lion pit screaming, "Lunchtime!") Gogo is unable to resist.
* ThreeShorts
* UnexplainedRecovery: In the third wraparound, the Elephant is in a full-body cast from jumping off a cliff when he tells Gogo that he's going to swallow live porcupines. When the Elephant returns to tell Gogo that he's going to dress in cold cuts and run through the lion pit screaming, "Lunchtime!", he is no longer in his full-body cast.
* AVerySpecialEpisode: Parodied; this episode deals with illiteracy, racism, and alcoholsim/drunk driving, and in the opening wraparound, Gogo mentions that the main reason they're doing this is as [[OscarBait a fruitless attempt to win another Emmy]].

''Why Dizzy Can't Read:''

* AnimatedActors: Bugs Bunny. After Dizzy leaves, Bugs asks the director if he can get his paycheck, since his scene's over.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of the TV shows Dizzy watches is an episode of ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' where Plucky Duck ends up in a Turkish prison. If you've ever seen the movie ''Film/MidnightExpress'', you'd know that a place like that isn't appropriate to talk about on a kids' show.
* OffModel: In-universe; Babs trashes a TV showing a rerun of ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' because she hates the way she was drawn in that episode. She then says the she also hates the way she was drawn in this episode.
* NeverLearnedToRead: It is revealed in this episode that Dizzy has trouble learning how to read because he is addicted to television. He shows interest in reading after reading from a book of nursery rhymes (and wanting to eat the food from it).
* ShoutOut:
** This short's title is a reference to the 1955 book, ''Why Johnny Can't Read''.
** Bugs asks Buster and Dizzy to act out scenes from the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "Devil May Hare", with Buster and Dizzy in his and Taz's respective roles.
** On their way to Dizzy's cave, Babs asks Buster if this same plotline happened to Tootie in an episode of ''Series/TheFactsOfLife''. [[note]]The name of the episode is "What Price Glory?", wherein Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsy finds out that Jeff can't read, and he asks her to help him cheat on an upcoming test.[[/note]]
** At one point, Babs imitates Creator/BillCosby, who at the time, was an advocate for children's reading.
** When Dizzy get's hit by Buster's book, he says, "Me so Dizzy, me head be spinning!", a reference to the Tommy Roe song, "Dizzy".

''C.L.I.D.E. and Prejudice:''

* AnvilOnHead: C.L.I.D.E. transforms into an anvil after he saves Monty as revenge for trying to program S.N.I.D.E. to attack him.
* FantasticRacism: Throughout the short, Monty discriminates against C.L.I.D.E. for being a robot.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''C'''ybernetic '''L'''aser '''I'''onized '''D'''igital '''E'''ntity, and '''S'''uper '''N'''ew '''I'''mproved '''D'''roid '''E'''radicator.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Having spent the short discriminating against C.L.I.D.E. and trying to program S.N.I.D.E. to attack him, not only does Monty get chased by S.N.I.D.E., but after C.L.I.D.E. rescues him, he [[AnvilOnHead transforms into an anvil to flatten him]].
* SaveTheVillain: Monty orders an attack robot called S.N.I.D.E. to attack C.L.I.D.E., specifially, programming S.N.I.D.E. to "Attack Nearest Geek". As a result, S.N.I.D.E. tries to attack Monty. C.L.I.D.E. transforms into a race car to catch up to them, then to an airplane to catch Monty and get him away from S.N.I.D.E..
* TakeThat: During lunch, the students of Acme Looniversity are served [[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam Green Eggs and Spam]]. When C.L.I.D.E has his lunch of oil, nuts, and bolts, Plucky tells C.L.I.D.E. that they look more appetizing than what he's eating.
* ThumbtackOnTheChair: Monty does this to C.L.I.D.E. with a bolt.
* VerbalTic: C.L.I.D.E. speaks in game show metaphors, and refers to everyone as "Dave".

''One Beer:''

* AnimatedActors: At the end of the short, following their "deaths", Buster, Plucky, and Hamton remove their angel costumes and hope that the viewers got the message of the evils of alcohol.
-->'''Buster''' (''taking his fake angel wings off''): I hope the kids got the message.\\
'''Plucky:''' Yeah, drinking's uncool!\\
'''Buster:''' So, do we get to do a funny episode tomorrow?\\
'''Hamton:''' I hope so.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Buster, Plucky, and Hamton immediately get drunk after one sip of beer. Justified in they're technically teenagers and the point of the short was to show kids the dangers of underage drinking.
* DonutMessWithACop: The cop car that Buster, Plucky, and Hamton take for a joyride is conveniently parked next to a donut shop called The Donut Hole. The cops are inside, enjoying coffee and donuts, until they hear Buster, Plucky, and Hamton crashing their car.
* DownerEnding: The short ends with Buster, Plucky, and Hamton driving a stolen cop car off a cliff, causing it to land in a graveyard and kill them. Somewhat averted since it was all just an act designed to teach kids a lesson.
* DrunkenMontage: Shown after Buster, Plucky, and Hamton first drink the beer.
*FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Buster, Plucky, and Hamton get drunk and die in a car accident.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: At the beginning of the short, Hamton tells Buster that it isn't like him to drink beer or make them do it. Buster tells him he's aware, but the point of the short is to teach the viewers the evils of alcohol.
* ShoutOut: When in their drunken state, Buster, Plucky, and Hamton dress like Larry, Darryl, and Darryl from ''Series/{{Newhart}}''.

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