Tiny Toon Adventures/Tiny Toons Looniversity

I did think it was funny how everyone in Acme Acres was afraid of Elmyra, not just the animals.

LOL, as a kid I barely saw it, but thought it looked like complete blasphemy, an inferior ripoff of the classic Looney Tunes (I mean, seriously...BUSTER Bunny??!! Where have I heard that before?), and actually considered Baby Looney Tunes the sequel to the classics...that's how messed up I was.

HOWEVER...now I look back and really like it. Is it the classics? No, but it's still a very good kids show and clearly gives a heck of a lot more respect to the classics than Taz-Mania, Baby Looney Tunes, Duck Dodgers, Lunatics Unleashed, the 2011 series, and the two movies. The characters are great (OK, Elmyra sucks, but she's supposed to) and the classic ones make appearences. I almost want to say I think it's better than Animaniacs.

I knew they were expies of the Looney Tunes even as a kid, but I was never ANNOYED by it! I thought that's simply what the studio wanted to do. There was nothing negative about it. It's just about the next generation of toons growing up and being trained to become just as successful (though, judging by how we never seen any of them past their own show, I fear to consider how they're doing today!).

That just makes me picture a True Hollywood Story about the Tiny Toons to see what happened to them afterwards. See where they are after their time in the light ended, see who's still around, who's dead, and who's on smack.

There's an in-universe explanation for what happened to Toons that lost their audience. Watch the Bosko and Honey episode and prepare to be sad. :( It's called "Fields of Honey."

But as long as the Tiny Toons make us laugh, they'll be ok :) And they starred in good video games too!

edited 16th Sep '14 12:25:15 PM by lalalei2001

Well, we all know what happened to Elmyra at least. Though I like to think that Pinky and the Brain eventually escaped.

Did Freakazoid air after PEATB ended? Because there, Brain was the President of the USA. It's something I have a hard time seeing happening BEFORE they met Elmyra (if we're generous and want to give these cartoons some sense of continuity), so if we're playing that game, we should pretend Brain finally reaches the presidency at some point after his coexistence with Elmyra anyway.

Then again, that was due to Freakazoid going back in time and changing history.

Yeah, but the changed timeline was sticking by the episode's end and never was explicitly undone, so...

Wasn't there a later episode of Freakazoid with President Clinton?

edited 11th Apr '15 6:30:25 PM by AllenJ

I hope no one minds me necro-ing this thread.

So...yeah, Tiny Toon Adventures. Anyone have a favorite episode of the show? (Or a least favorite episode?)

Anything you'd like to see in a potential boot?

edited 17th Jun '17 6:25:35 PM by kablammin45

For some reason, I keep thinking that they should age up the kids into adults if they do a continuation. Either have them go to college or graduate from college. I'm not saying bump up the rating all the way to TV-MA, but maybe have something that adults can relate to in the same way Regular Show did.

I like the Halloween episode, the Christmas Special "It's A Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas", "High Toon", "Hollywood Plucky", "Fields Of Honey", "Who Bopped Bugs Bunny", "Journey To The Center Of Acme Acres", "The Anvil Chorus", and the Summer Vacation TV movie. Also the "One Beer" segment of "Elephant Issues", because it was banned from airing.

Yeah, "Elephant Issues" was something special, especially that last segment.

"Animaniacs!" (no relation to the show of the same name), is one of my favorite episodes of the series. I like how it covers the typical animation process circa. the 90s, and the payoff with the animation festival is a barrel of laughs. "Best Of Plucky Duck Day" is another one I like. (That first segment with Granny...)

edited 18th Jun '17 8:54:42 PM by kablammin45

I always like the episode where they did their own version of MTV (the first time; they did two episodes like that). They did a great job with They Might Be Giants ("Who are these guys?" asks Buster) songs "Particle Man" and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)."

And Baby Plucky episodes, which don't need any explanation why.

I remember my favorite episode (besides The Movie) being the "Kon Ducky" episode.

I liked Night Ghoulery, with its Abbot and Costello send-up, plus the fun bit with Elmyra as Dr. Frankenstein. The Journey To The Center of Acme Acres one is another one I always remember. Seconding both of the music episodes and Who Bopped Bugs Bunny.

There are a lot where I remember the individual segments more than the whole episode, like the one where Babs lost her sense of humor or the one where she helps Shirley get revenge on a bunch of bully ballerinas.

Also, the theme to Tiny Toon Adventures is still, to this day, my favorite theme to an animated seires of all time - up there with BTAS' theme.

edited 19th Jun '17 10:21:42 AM by KnownUnknown

I love it whenever they lampshade and deconstruct cartoon conventions, like the segment where Plucky pushes his wild takes to the extent that he gets stuck in one and has to go to see Elmyra, who is the school nurse for some reason, or the one where Bugs kills a joke and it plays out like a tragic death.

You know, having just part of the series in DVD really makes you notice how wildly varied the animation quality was with all these animation companies working on it.

It just so happens that the DVD set I have is the one that has the three episodes done by Encore Cartoons. I heard that they were terrible, but boy, the animation was hard to look at sometimes, especially "Strange Tales of Weird Science".

All I really remember from Tiny Toons was the one where Elmyra pulled the universe down the hole, and the Baby Plucky flushing the toilet segment.

The different animation companies could definitely be jarring, especially when one of them was the excellent TMS. The American company Startoons also did a particularly good job (they did one of my favorite episodes, "Thirteensomething"), and, interestingly, adhered a lot closer to WB's character designs than TMS. TMS is excellent, but everything they animate has their indelible stamp on it; that's not a criticism, just an observation. There was something about the way Startoons animated Tiny Toons that just made everything look funnier.

And with a slight necro: Hulu is gaining exclusive streaming rights to Tiny Toon Adventures (alongside Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs and giving Animaniacs two new seasons).

You know, once Tiny Toons Looniversity comes out, can we use this thread to talk about that show too or should we make a new one?

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Sep 4th 2023 at 1:52:49 AM