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Recap / Tiny Toons Looniversity S 1 E 9 Tears Of A Clone

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The ninth episode of Tiny Toons Looniversity.

After failing convince all the students (except Plucky) to join him for his favorite band, Buster makes a clone of himself with Wile Coyote’s cloning machine to join him go watch the band and do various other activities but soon regrets his choice after he doesn’t de-clone and Plucky comes to his aid. Meanwhile, Babs and Sweetie buy Wile E. Coyote's Time Machine and use to bring clothes from the past and start own successful clothing stop business but accidentally bring things from the past to the present which alters the future.


This episode provides examples of:

  • Anti-Sneeze Finger: When looking for someone to join him in the Bunniez II Rabbitz concert, one of the candidates Buster asks is Li'l Sneezer, who declines because the pollen count is too high. Sneezer is about to sneeze when Buster uses his finger to stop him. He then puts on a hazmat suit to protect himself from Sneezer's snot.
  • Brick Joke: Foghorn Leghorn accidentally freezes himself with a freeze ray at Wile E.'s garage sale. He is seen again as Buster and his clone play Jack-Cour, still frozen. He appears a third time during the final chase, and this time his head has thawed out and he asks, "What'd I miss?"
  • Costume-Test Montage: Babs and Sweetie get a time machine and use it to go back into the past and try on various fashions from throughout history.
  • Commonality Connection: Buster and Plucky might actually have a lot in common as shown at the near climax that Plucky is an experience Jack-Kour expert as much as Buster is.
    Plucky: Lucky for you I’m an expert at Jack-kour.
    Buster: (amazed) You like Jack-kour too? Time to be hard on myself!
  • The Day the Dinosaurs Died: Buster's evil clone meets his end by being sent back in time to the end of the Cretaceous Period, when the asteroid had hit.
  • Easily Forgiven: After defeating his clone and sending him to the beginning of time, Buster apologizes for not even at least trying to ask Plucky to join him the concert to see his favorite band.
  • Evil Twin: It is revealed that if a clone isn't de-cloned within 24 hours, said clone turns evil. Buster finds out too late after he doesn't declone his clone, and his clone tries to ruin his reputation.
  • Hold Up Your Score: Granny ranks Buster a 10 when he does the "Stinky Winky" move as part of his Jack-Cour sport.
  • Ho Yay: There's some homosexual subtext in the main plot involving Buster and his clones, one of the most blatant parts being them sleeping together.
  • Identical Twin ID Tag: Buster's clone can be identified by his smoother hair and his hoodie having a pointed collar and a zipper. When Buster's clone turns evil as a result of Buster not decloning him after the 24-hour mark, his hair becomes spikier, his teeth become fangs, his hoodie becomes a black leather jacket, and he wears red cowboy boots.
  • Invisibility: Hamton uses an invisibility spray, which makes himself invisible for the rest of the episode.
  • Mythology Gag: This episode has a brief gag where Buster's evil clone tricks Fifi into dying over her stripe with purple hair dye, and Furball making a snarky comment about her horror at it. Not only is it a subtle nod to what her original premise was, but Furball was one of the characters to get a white stripe down his back in the original show.
  • Noodle Incident: This episode's B-plot involves Babs and Sweetie causing disruptions in the timeline by accidentally bringing back historical figures and important items to the present. One disruption they caused which goes unexplained is preventing the non-avian dinosaurs from going extinct.
  • Poke the Poodle: Buster’s clone turns evil and his first agenda is to ruin Buster's reputation. How? By starting a food fight in the Loo Bru and tricking Fifi into using hair dye on her tail.
  • Read the Freaking Manual: Because Buster didn't finish reading the manual, he had no idea that his clone would turn evil if not de-cloned after 24 hours. Meanwhile, Plucky mistook the clone machine manual for the one for his new espresso machine and knew what was going on when Buster asks for his help.
  • Shout-Out: In this episode's B-plot, Babs and Sweetie make a list of "irresponsible things to do with a time machine". One of which is "find every treasure ever", the same thing Louie Duck tried to do.
  • Swapped Roles: Because Sweetie took Bugs Bunny's carrot from the 1940s, he never became a big star and is now ACME Loo's security guard; while Yosemite Sam, who originally had that job, is now the number one toon star.
  • Time Travel for Fun and Profit: In this episode's B-plot, Babs and Sweetie buy Wile E.'s Time Machine and decide to start a vintage fashion shop by gathering clothes throughout history. Their shenanigans lead to the pencil sharpener not being invented, Yosemite Sam becoming the most popular Looney Tunes character instead of Bugs Bunny, non-avian dinosaurs never becoming extinct, and America being still under British rule.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In this episode's B-plot, Fifi shows off her stylish 80s-era sweater to Babs and Sweetie, declaring that the pair will never have one like it, since they went out of style. Babs and Sweetie, having just bought a Time Machine from Wile. E's garage sale, decide to use it to retrieve fashion trends from history. To add to that, Fifi is impressed by their historical collection and asks if they’re willing to sell what they have.
  • The Worst Seat in the House: In Buster's Imagine Spot of him taking Plucky to the concert, one of Plucky's complaints is that he's seated in front of a lion, whose mane is blocking his view of the stage.

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