Trivia / Tiny Toon Adventures

• Accidentally Correct Zoology: In "Rock N' Roar", Buster finds a Lost World inhabited by Living Dinosaurs and mentions that he "never did buy that extinction theory". It is now the scientific consensus that not all dinosaurs went extinct, since birds are the current lineage of dinosaurs that survived.
• Acting for Two: Cree Summer (Elmyra and Mary Melody), Frank Welker (Gogo, Byron, Furball and Beeper), and Kath Soucie (Fifi La Fume and Li'l Sneezer) all voice several recurring characters, but surprisingly it rarely veers where they talk to themselves. Several more minor characters are played by the cast as well - like Rhubella and Roderick Rat being voiced by Tress MacNeille, Charlie Adler (who also voiced Buster and Babs) and in The Movie, nearly everyone does a side character or two.
• Adored by the Network:
  • The show got this treatment on Nickelodeon getting constant promotion despite the fact that the show had not only already finished its run three years earlier at that point but they were also airing on Kids' WB! by 1997. It also had frequent inclusions in marathons and events that are otherwise exclusive to Nicktoons, a couple of them even had the word Nicktoons in the title. It also got treated better than some of Nickelodeon's own shows at the time such as KaBlam! which also aired during this period. It didn't get this same treatment when it returned in 2002, however, and its sister series were treated even worse.
  • The Hub gave Tiny Toons this treatment too and while it didn't get adored to the extent of Animaniacs (which The Hub would just use holidays as excuses to give it marathons), it still got frequent promotion and they even aired the Spring Break Special which hadn't aired since 1994. And unlike Animaniacs, Tiny Toons still lingered on The Hub for a couple months after it became Discovery Family.
• Alan Smithee: Credited as director on two shorts in "Strange Tales of Weird Science" (animated by Encore Cartoons).
• All-Star Cast: This show has one of the most pedigreed ensembles when it comes to voice acting. Charlie Adler, Tress MacNeille, Joe Alaskey, Don Messick, Kath Soucie, Rob Paulsen and Frank Welker are but a taste of the differing generations of beloved voice talent on display.
• Ascended Fanon: One episode, "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian", was based on an idea by a trio of teenage fans. The Nostalgia Critic interviews one of them here.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: In the Japanese dub, Hamton's first voice actor was late TV actor Yo Yoshimura, and, while he was also a voice actor by his own right, he was very-well known for playing Yoshi-san in a famous children's show named Ichi Ni no Sansū, which lasted from 1975 to 1995.^note Latin American viewers can recognize that show under the name "1, 2, 3 Matemáticas con Nico y Tap'' in that region.
• Channel Hop: The series was first pitched as a Saturday-Morning Cartoon for CBS, who went as far as committing to airing the pilot episode as a prime-time TV special alongside a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles special that was promoting that series' move to CBS as well. Despite being well-received with test audiences, CBS ultimately declined to order a full series, and since the other three networks passed, Warner decided it was in Tiny Toon's best interest to air in first-run syndication as a weekday afternoon cartoon. The strategy paid off handsomely. Eventually, its popularity led to Fox Kids picking it up as part of their first-look production deal after the first season aired. However, Fox wouldn't air the show until season 3, as WB had already renewed the series' second season for syndication. Fox also aired two prime-time specials of the series even after it was canceled (Fox eventually pulled the series in September 1995, along with Animaniacs once Kids' WB! premiered that show's third season).
• Children Voicing Children: Danny Cooksey was only fourteen when he began voicing (pre)teen Montana Max.
• Creator Backlash: Not with the show's creators, but with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants. While the band allowed their songs, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and "Particle Man", to be used in "Tiny Toon Music Television", and it did introduce them to a new generation of fans, Flansburgh, who has a bit of a weight problem, wasn't too pleased with his depiction, as stated in the DVD commentaries of the band's documentary, Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns.
  Flansburgh: There's something about being animated as a pig that keeps you coming back for less.
• Creator Breakdown: According to Jon McClenahan, Glen Kennedy did not take kindly to his studio's episodes being criticized by Steven Spielberg.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: Series creator Tom Ruegger has stated that his favorite episode is "The Anvil Chorus" (part of "It's Buster Bunny Time").
• Creator's Pest
  • Elmyra is in a really weird place. She was utterly despised by the main writers and a majority of fans ^note Most didn't mind if she was just in an antagonist role, being the expy of Elmer Fudd and all. but someone in the higher-ups apparently couldn't get enough of her (presumably Spielberg himself). The constant demand for more Elmyra screentime by the higher-ups really got on the writers' nerves, which reached its peak when she was shoehorned into Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, which has even more Biting-the-Hand Humor than both Tiny Toons and Pinky and the Brain combined. This seems to still be the case today, judging by a Take That! in the Animaniacs (2020) segment "Gift Rapper" ("Wakko's even less likable than Elmyra").
  • Clearly the creators weren't too crazy about Fifi back then, mainly because of her overblown popularity even going as far as making fun of her fans in "Night Ghoulery". This explains why she was rather underused throughout the show.
  • While Concord Condor wasn't as popular with the fans as Fifi La Fume, like her, he had very few shorts centered around him. The gag credit for "Toons From the Crypt", one of his final major appearances, is "We gave Concord Condor a new haircut - And he still isn't funny".
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • Kath Soucie (well-known for voicing young boys) as Li'l Sneezer.
  • In the German dub, Santiago Ziesmer as Sweetie Pie, though that could just be Viewer Gender Confusion.
• The Danza:
  • Julie Brown as Julie Bruin.
  • Henny Youngman as "Henny" Youngman.
  • The Roches as The Roches.
• Depending on the Artist: The show went through seven animation houses overseas^note Two of them, Wang Film Productions and AKOM even getting two overseas supervisors each. As a result, no two episodes had the same quality. Kennedy and Encore Studios and the early Wang episodes are considered the worst of the non-TMS-produced episodes.
• Dueling Works:
  • This show was pitted against Gravedale High. Both shows had a similar premise of taking place at a high school, with teenagers based on classic characters from the Golden Age of Hollywood (theatrical cartoon stars for Tiny Toons, movie monsters for Gravedale High). Tiny Toons won this duel, as it lasted a total of 98 episodes over the course of three seasons, whereas Gravedale High only lasted thirteen episodes over the course of one season.
  • In terms of video games based on the show, Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! (SNES) versus Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure (Genesis/Mega Drive), both developed by Konami:
    • Buster Busts Loose! has a lot of variety, humorous cutscenes and pop culture references that accurately reflect the show, and multiple difficulty settings that affect the ending; if you want to get to the end, you have to beat it on the hardest mode. Six levels are certainly not much, though, and hard mode can be beaten in about 90 minutes. The main gimmicks are the Locomotive Level where Buster has to stop a runaway train, and another set on a football pitch during the closing minutes of a game; the general laws of American football are mostly thrown out the window.
    • Hidden Treasure has more in common with the NES Tiny Toons titles, which are pretty basic. Nearly every feature is a platform game cliché. Buster has to collect carrots that are haphazardly scattered throughout the level, just like Sonic collects rings. Springs send you into the air like Sonic, and Dr. Gene Splicer menaces you in a hovercraft at the end of each world. Levels take you to all of the familiar regions: Forest, Cave, Volcano, Ice... Still, one thing it has going for it is its length. It has an insane amount of levels, and each world contains one or two secret levels to seek out.
• Edited for Syndication: The show, just like its sister shows, had its intro edited on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. However, the edits were nowhere near as severe as in the others, the only real edit in the intro was the shot of the WB shield was replaced with a fade from black straight to the Tiny Toons logo. The oddity was Nickelodeon left the WB shield in when it first aired in the mid to late 90s. But when it returned in 2002, this edit was added in.
• Fan Community Nickname: Buster usually calls the fans "Toonsters", but sometimes he calls them "Toonatics". In at least one episode, he calls them "Tooniacs".
• He Also Did: Backstage Edition: Bruce Timm was a character designer on this show before he did Batman: The Animated Series. Elmyra and Montana Max in particular have a lot of Timm characteristics.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • A couple episodes in season one were released edited on DVD and on Hulu, such as "Tiny Toons Music Television" (missing a brief bit where Buster and Babs announce a number for the viewers to call, though that edit may have been done so viewers wouldn't get confused and try to call the number onscreen) and "Son of the Wacko World of Sports" (missing the title cards for some strange reason). Also, "Looniversity Daze" featured two versions of the same scene, the latter with re-take animation by Jon McClenahan. Only the original animation made it to DVD and Hulu, meaning Jon's version of that scene is lost.
    • Averted come 2014, where it can be found here.
  • The Spring Break Special was never released on home video (due most likely to its heavy music rights), and the "Night Ghoulery" VHS now commands outrageous prices online. However, this has changed on January 4, 2018, when both specials were added on Hulu. Hulu zig-zags the latter, as it's the broadcast version that is missing The Nightmare Before Christmas parody as well as the special theme songs.
  • The Plucky Duck Show, the short-lived spin-off of TTA featuring nothing but Plucky-centric shorts, was never released on VHS or DVD. It's not surprising, since it would be redundant with the TTA releases (save for some footage from "The Return of Batduck" that was cut from the TTA version of the episode to fit in that show's opening titles), but it still counts. Every episode was uploaded to the Internet Archive in 2020, and it did air on several foreign feeds of Boomerang.
• Kids' Meal Toy:
  • In 1991, McDonald's released a set of four flip cars, each one having two characters; Buster and Elmyra, Babs and Plucky, Hamton and Dizzy, and Montana and Gogo.
  • In 1992, McDonald's released a set of eight Wacky Rollers. The characters featured were Buster, Babs, Plucky and Hamton, Dizzy, Sweetie and Furrball, Montana, Elmyra, and Gogo.
  • In 1994, McDonald's released a toy of Buster and Babs as part of their Happy Birthday Happy Meal, which also featured toys based on Ronald and Friends, Barbie, Hot Wheels, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Little Mermaid (1989), 101 Dalmatians, Cabbage Patch Kids, Tonka, The Berenstain Bears, Muppet Babies (1984), Peanuts, Looney Tunes, and the Happy Meal Guys.
  • Burger King released a set of four toys in Europe in 1992. These consisted of Buster and Babs together, Plucky, Hamton, and Dizzy.
  • Wendy's released a set of four toys in 1999, many years after the show had finished its original three-season run and ran for syndication. These four toys included a Dizzy top, an X-ray machine, colorful connectable figures of Buster and Babs, and a lenticular 3d photo frame where a photo of your head could be placed over Hamton's.
  • Hardee's released a set of four toys in November and December 2000, many years after the show had finished its original three-season run and ran for syndication. These consisted of Babs on a bobsled, Plucky on a snowboard, a Dizzy top, and Furrball and Sweetie in a gift box.
• Mid-Development Genre Shift: This was originally planned to be a feature length film for theatrical release, but was later changed to a TV series.
• Missing Episode:
  • The third season Halloween episode, "Toons from the Crypt", was banned from FOX and the WB because of the segment, "Night of the Living Pets", where Elmyra is haunted by the zombies of the pets she smothered to death with affection. Like "Elephant Issues", the full episode is on Hulu.
  • The "Tiny Toons Spring Break Special" aired once on FOX in March 1994 and remained unseen for over 20 years until The Hub picked up the series. Supposedly the reasoning was music licensing issues (the special contains several hit song parodies).
  • Despite being all but finished, Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe never officially released for reasons unknown, though it is known that the publisher of the game, Conspiracy Entertainment, had dire financial issues at the time that caused them to quietly cancel several of their other projects around the planned release date of the game.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: The script for "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian", written by Renee Carter, Sarah Creef, and Amy Crosby. The 3 make a cameo addressing Buster's complaints about the Plane Scene. (see "Promoted Fangirls" below)
• One-Steve Limit:
  • There are two characters named "Egghead Jr." in the series; there's a human one in "Plucky's Dastardly Deed" based on the Elmer Fudd prototype who Plucky swaps tests with, and the chicken one in "Hog-Wild Hamton" who is based on the character originally created by Robert McKimson. To make things doubly confusing, both characters are extremely intelligent.
  • There are also two characters named "Duncan" in the series; the first is Duncan Potter, a toddler rabbit who appears in "I Was a Teenage Bunnysitter" (part of "The ACME Home Shopping Show"), and the second is Duncan Duff, Elmyra's younger brother who appears in "Take Elmyra Please" and "Grandma's Dead".
• The Other Darrin: Buster's voice actor was changed from Charlie Adler (who quit after being rejected for a role on Animaniacs) to John Kassir (the voice behind The Cryptkeeper for the live-action HBO series Tales from the Crypt, the cartoon series Tales From The Cryptkeeper, and the game show Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House) for "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special", "The Return of Batduck", "Spring Break Special", and "Night Ghoulery," as well as the second halves of both "The Horror of Slumber Party Mountain" and "Best of Buster Day." Adler, for his part, has said in interviews that the things people have said about his reasons for leaving are false, but thus far he's declined to elaborate on his side of the story, only saying that if he had been aware at the time that the show wasn't going to go on for much longer, he probably wouldn't have left.
  • Subverted with Plucky Duck, as detailed in The Other Marty below.
  • Rob Paulsen voiced Furball on "Duck Trek" instead of Frank Welker.
  • Hamton's dad, Wade Pig, was, in terms of production, voiced by Jonathan Winters in his debut appearance ("How I Spent My Vacation"). Joe Alaskey took over beginning with "Hog-Wild Hamton".
  • Minor character Vinnie Deer was voiced by Broadway actor Brian Stokes Mitchell in his debut in "Mr. Popular's Rules of Cool", but for his cameo in "How I Spent My Vacation", he was voiced by Frank Welker.
  • After Don Messick's death, Billy West (who also voiced his mentor Porky Pig in the 2003 shorts and some commercials) became Hamton's new voice actor for newer media like video games and commercials.
  • Many of the classic Looney Tunes characters had multiple different voice actors throughout the series, also being the first major project produced after Mel Blanc's death the previous year which necessitated this.
    • Bugs, Daffy, and Foghorn Leghorn were initially voiced by Jeff Bergman in season 1 and the season 2 episode "Elephant Issues". Greg Burson would take over those roles starting in late season 2.
    • Pete Puma is voiced by Joe Alaskey in "Going Places" instead of Stan Freberg.
    • Porky was voiced by Noel Blanc in 3 episodes, Bob Bergen in 2 episodes, and Joe Alaskey, Greg Burson, and Rob Paulsen for one episode each.
    • Sylvester's voice is split between Jeff Bergman and Joe Alaskey.
    • Elmer Fudd alternated between Jeff Bergman and Greg Burson.
    • Tweety is voiced by Bob Bergen in "Animaniacs!" instead of Jeff Bergman like other episodes.
    • Taz is voiced by Jeff Bergman and Greg Burson for 2 episodes each, and Noel Blanc and Maurice LaMarche for 1 episode each.
    • Yosemite Sam is voiced Joe Alaskey and Jeff Bergman for 3 episodes each, and Charlie Adler and Maurice LaMarche for 1 episode each.
  • In the Japanese dub:
    • Shunichi Sugawara replaced the late You Yoshimura as Hamton at the half of the series
    • Ikue Otani replaced Megumi Hayashibara as Lil' Sneezer in the same way.
    • The Looney Tunes are an odd case here, as some voice actors reprise their roles before Warner Bros' Japanese branch replaced the entire cast in 1995, being this show the last time the pre-1995 cast are together in the same place. Oddly enough, Shōzō Iizuka replaced Mugihito, who has being Taz's voice actor since the 1960s exclusively for this show, while some voice actors who began working as their official Japanese voice actors post-1995, such as Tesshō Genda (Foghorn Leghorn, replacing Hiroya Ishimaru) and Wataru Takagi (Daffy Duck, replacing Kenyuu Horiuchi), also began working here.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub:
    • Hamton went from José Gómez from the first season to Juan Guzmán in the second season onwards.
    • Dizzy Devil went from Carmelo Fernandez from the first season to Rubén Leon in the second season onwards.
    • As a result of the show being dubbed in Venezuela rather than Mexico, the Looney Tunes are dubbed by local Venezuelan voice actors, rather than Mexicans, being one of the few times those characters aren't dubbed in Mexico.
  • While it's currently unknown if Tiny Toons Looniversity will go the way of the Animaniacs reboot and bring back the original actors or recast them with more modern actors ^note  Though things seem to hint at the former, as how would Cree Summer know Elmyra wouldn't be appearing unless she had enquired about reprising the role. but either way, Plucky and Hamton will both have to be recast due to the respective deaths of Joe Alaskey in 2016 and Don Messick in 1997^note on a handful of Tiny Toons video games released after Messick's death, Hamton was voiced by Billy West.
• The Other Marty: Joe Alaskey initially quit the series alongside Charlie Adler for being passed over for Animaniacs (see The Other Darrin above) near the end of the third season. Because of this, Plucky was recast with Maurice LaMarche for the remaining episodes of the series. However, Alaskey ended up feeling guilty for what he did and made amends with the studio; returning for the final episodes and rerecording Plucky's dialogue for them.
• Out of Holiday Episode: "Night Ghoulery" was originally intended to premiere in October of 1994, but ended up premiering on Fox on May 28, 1995.
• Out of Order: When released on Hulu, the order, if anything, remembers "The Loony Beginning" was first and cares nothing for the rest.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: "Elephant Issues" is widely believed to have been banned from airing on television due to its third segment "One Beer", which infamously depicts Buster, Plucky, and Hamton all getting falling-down drunk off a single beer and eventually dying in a DUI accident, resulting in outrage from Moral Guardians and the episode being pulled from syndication until the show aired on The Hub in 2013, never once airing on Fox Kids, Nickelodeon, or Kids' WB!. However, as this video reveals after carefully going over old TV Guide listings and newspaper articles, the episode was never actually banned and did air on the networks/blocks it was supposedly withdrawn from at least once (though, granted, it still aired very infrequently), and there is no proof that there was even any kind of controversy over it either. The exact origins of the perception that the episode was banned are a mystery, with it mainly being attributed to Gossip Evolution after Peter Paltridge, creator of Platypus Comix, referred to it as a banned episode in a very early article on the site (which Peter himself admits was based entirely on fan discussions around the internet prior to the article's creation).
• Production Lead Time: Production started as early as January 1989. The series didn't debut until fall 1990.
• Promoted Fangirls: "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian" was actually a spec script written by three girls from Virginia. The producers liked it so much, they decided to greenlight it — and have TMS do it.
  • The girls had mailed their scripts to Steven Spielberg, and the envelope accidentally got to him without being vetted by his secretaries. It was fortunate that he liked the story and decided to produce the episode with full credit to the fan writers, avoiding the possibility that they might try to sue him. This is referenced by the Credits Gag at the end of that episode, "Send your unsolicited scripts, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: SOME OTHER SHOW".
• Real-Life Relative: At the time in the Japanese dub, Kōichi Yamadera (Plucky's voice actor) was married with Mika Kanai (who voiced Shirley); they are now nowadays divorced.
• Recycled Script: "Two-Tone Town" is very similar to "Fields of Honey": Both plots are about has-been cartoon stars who are given a second shot at popularity from the Tiny Toon characters. The execution of both episodes are different, though.
• Referenced by...: See here.
• Role Reprise:
  • Both June Foray and Stan Freberg return to voice Granny and Pete Puma. The former also reprised Witch Hazel in "Night Ghoulery".
  • Likewise, from the Japanese dub, Hisako Kyoda return to voice Granny. Special note that she is the only voice actor who has voiced her or his Looney Tunes basically since day one in Japan since the 1960s, and voicing her in each and all her appearances to this day (as to 2022).^note Mugihito is also another Looney Tunes veteran who has voiced Taz in almost all his appearances, except in this show. See above why.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: The comics from Marvel UK are unlikely to be reprinted any time soon, as not only has Warner Bros. licensed all WB-based properties to their own DC Comics in all territories, but Marvel is now owned by Disney, Warner's competitor.
• Short Run in Peru: The episode "Toons from the Crypt" made its world premiere in Australia on September 22, 1992 due to FOX declining to air the episode due to the content of the final segment. One of the segments first aired on The Plucky Duck Show in November 1992 and the offending segment would see a release in December 1994 on VHS. It wasn't until October 1995, when Nickelodeon got syndication rights, that the episode aired in its entirety.
• Star-Making Role: The Venezuelan Spanish dub deserves a special mention: Not only it was this for the voice actors themselves, the whole series was also for the entire voice acting industry of Venezuela. Previously of this series, Venezuelan dubs were in the So Bad, It's Good territories. The outstanding perfomance of the cast caused Warner Bros. to entirely dubbing almost all their animated series (Excluding anything related with the Looney Tunes and also Static Shock^note Albeit in this case, it was dubbed in Mexico due to a nationwide strike against the then late president Hugo Chavez.) in Latin America in Venezuela rather than Mexico.
• Troubled Production: The first season, while still acclaimed overall, had a hectic production schedule that was hampered by animation studios turning in less than stellar results:
  • Several early-run episodes, specifically "Strange Tales of Weird Science", "Looniversity Daze", and "Hero Hamton", were outsourced to a domestic animation studio based in Nevada called Encore Cartoons. However, Encore turned in results that were far below the standards the crew was looking for, with sloppy character designs, continuity errors (one of the most infamous ones was one in "Looniversity Daze" wherein Plucky was inserted into a classroom scene when he was supposed to be sitting just outside the classroom, resulting in the duplicate Plucky being colored purple with a blue tank top instead of green with a white tank top in the final product to hide this as the production crew was out of time), and extremely Limited Animation out the wazoo ("Strange Tales" features points where the characters' mouths barely even move as they speak). When the crew sent for retakes, they ended up with results that were just as bad if not even worse. The crew eventually ran out of time to get better animation (by which point the episodes, meant to be the third, sixth, and tenth episodes of the season respectively, had ended up being pushed back to the middle of the season) and had no choice but to either use the best Encore takes in the final episodes or have other studios such as Kennedy Cartoons or Startoons replace some of the worst animation. Even with the best takes, these three episodes still ended up with some of the worst animation and Off-Model moments of the entire series. The episodes' troubled production was lampshaded numerously in "Strange Tales" (via self-deprecating dialogue that was added in during its production and the obligatory Credits Gag: "Number of Retakes: Don't Ask"), which also notably had Alan Smithee credits for two of the included shorts. Needless to say, the crew never worked with Encore again after the disastrous production of these three episodes.
  • The aforementioned Kennedy Cartoons itself had very inconsistent animation quality (going from fluid and energetic animation to horrendously sloppy Off-Model animation and character designs at the drop of a hat) and the company didn't always concern themselves with emulating the classic Looney Tunes style that Steven Spielberg (whom company founder Glen Kennedy reportedly argued with over the vision for the series' animation) and the show's crew were aiming for, instead emulating the type of animation they used in shows such as A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. The inconsistent animation and squabbles between Steven and Glen resulted in a few episodes being held up in production^notably... "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow, which was the first episode in production order (but became the 18th episode) and also threw shade at itself in its Credits Gag ("Moral of the Story: We Need More Animators") and "High Toon", which ended up being held up until more than a month after the intended season finale "K-ACME TV" and/or having the worse animation being filled in by Jon McClenahan's crew, much like with Encore (or by Wang, as "The Looney Beginning" credits both), and, also like Encore, Kennedy Cartoons was shown the door at the season's end.
  • It wasn't just Kennedy that Steven Spielberg had a problem with; according to Tom Ruegger, when one of the first Wang episodes came back, he hated the Thick-Line Animation, basically saying it was the very look he was trying to avoid (going so far as to say "This is unconscionable"), prompting Ruegger to fly to Taiwan the next day to order the artists not to use thick outlines anymore. A few of the "thick line" episodes still made it to air, however, such as "You Asked For It", "Hare Rising Night", "The ACME Acres Zone", "Rock 'n Roar", and "Career Oppor-Toon-ities".
• Unfinished Episode: John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp and Jim Smith wrote a Halloween-themed episode of Tiny Toons titled "Hi, Spirits" while waiting for Nickelodeon to greenlight The Ren & Stimpy Show. It was never finished as a Tiny Toons episode, but Spumco remade it as the Ren & Stimpy episode "Haunted House". The idea would later be reworked on Tiny Toons as the short "Boo Ha Ha". ^note R&S creator John K. reportedly had a very bad relationship with the show's staff and would famously blast the show once it became more popular, later doing the same to Animaniacs (under the pseudonym Tom Payne, "animator and historian") purely as vendetta.
• Wag the Director: Downplayed. The reason why Montana was made the protagonist in "Fit to be Toyed" and "My Dinner With Elmyra" was because his voice actor Danny Cooksey was upset about always playing the bad guy.
• What Could Have Been: Has its own page.
• Writer Revolt:
  • The episode "Elephant Issues" was made out to be a Very Special Episode, featuring three shorts that tackled television addiction, racism, and the dangers of under-aged drinking respectively, only to turn into a Stealth Parody instead. The showrunners grew annoyed at Warner Bros. wanting them to incorporate morals into each episode, so they purposely made the morals of each short poorly implemented in hopes of getting them to reconsider.
  • "One Beer", one of said episodes, shows the writers were clearing doing this under protest and weren't even subtle about it. Soon as the Buster, Hamton and Plucky find the beer and Buster suggest they all drink it, Hamton notes how Out of Character Buster's acting as he obviously would never do that, with Buster responding he knows but the ep is just to "Teach kids the consequences of evil virtues". Once the episode reaches it conclusion, we see the three walking off the set stating they hope they can do a funny episode next time.
• Write Who You Know:
  • In the episode, "Looking Out for The Little Guy" the final segment "Bird-Dog Afternoon" was based on a real event. The writer, Tom Ruegger had a basset hound named Lucy who once saved a flock of baby birds from a hungry cat, and Ruegger adapted that into this episode with Byron Basset saving fledgling birds from becoming Furrball's lunch. This gets lampshaded in the episode's gag credit; "Basset Hound Model - Lucy Ruegger".
  • Baby Plucky was based on Tom Ruegger’s youngest son Cody, who was 3 years old at the time.
• Written by Cast Member: The episode, "Best of Buster Day", specifically the segments, "Compromising Principals" and "Maid to Re-Order" were co-written by Charlie Adler, Buster's original voice actor.

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