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* OffModel: In the [[http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/File:OhForArtsSake-StudentsCheerForPlucky.JPG shot]] of the other students applauding for Plucky and his "painting", Shirley is drawn noticeably smaller than the other characters (even smaller than Hamton and Fifi) and is bald.
** It's worth noting that although this episode was animated by Creator/{{AKOM}}, it was erroneously miscredited to Creator/KennedyCartoons. This is very similar to what happened in ''Sawdust and Toonsil'', another AKOM episode that was miscredited to Creator/WangFilmProductions.



* OffModel: Babs' foot is purple (like Duncan) as Duncan taps it and asks "Whatcha doin'?"
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Outright introduced as this (word for word) by Babs in the preceding wraparound, this short stars the Three Bears (who have been around since ''Looney Tunes'') as the main characters, with no ''Tiny Toons'' characters present beyond Elmyra. (Whose presence has little impact on the plot.)
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Buster when Elmyra calls to ask how much he costs in the third wraparound segment.

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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Buster when Elmyra calls to ask how much he costs in during the third wraparound segment.segment, referring to Buster as a "cute bandaged bunny".
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Buster when Elmyra calls to ask how much he costs in the third wraparound segment.
-->'''Buster''': I'M! NOT! FOR SALE!
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* BigBallOfViolence: The fighting cat-and-dog when they initially show up fighting outside of Plucky's house. Plucky pauses them in the middle of it, getting [[http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dog%26CatFightPaused.png this result]], and giving Plucky the idea for his "painting".

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* BigBallOfViolence: The fighting cat-and-dog cat and dog when they initially show up fighting outside of Plucky's house. Plucky pauses them in the middle of it, getting [[http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dog%26CatFightPaused.png this result]], and giving Plucky the idea for his "painting".

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* SplitScreenPhoneCall: In the first wraparound when Plucky calls to order the paint-by-numbers kit. As he talks to Babs, she tells him that she'll "give him a honk" and proceeds to whack him with a mallet from her side of the split-screen.



* SplitScreenPhoneCall: In the first wraparound when Plucky calls to order the paint-by-numbers kit. As he talks to Babs, she tells him that she'll "give him a honk" and proceeds to whack him with a mallet from her side of the split-screen.



* CheatersNeverProsper: The ending.



* CheatersNeverProsper: The ending.



* TheChewToy: Pa takes a lot of abuse in this episode. Elmyra, too, for that matter.



* TheChewToy: Pa takes a lot of abuse in this episode. Elmyra, too, for that matter.

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* OffModel: In the [[http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/File:OhForArtsSake-StudentsCheerForPlucky.JPG shot]] of the other students applauding for Plucky and his "painting", Shirley is drawn noticeably smaller than the other characters (even smaller than Hamton and Fifi) and his bald.

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* OffModel: In the [[http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/File:OhForArtsSake-StudentsCheerForPlucky.JPG shot]] of the other students applauding for Plucky and his "painting", Shirley is drawn noticeably smaller than the other characters (even smaller than Hamton and Fifi) and his is bald.


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* HongKongDub: Oddly, sometimes Elmyra's lip movements as she sings don't seem to match or look fairly weird, giving one the idea that she was originally going to be narrating normally along with singing. (It's particularly noticeable at the very end as she closes the short out.)
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* BigBallOfViolence: The fighting cat-and-dog when they initially show up fighting outside of Plucky's house. Plucky pauses them in the middle of it, getting [[http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dog%26CatFightPaused.png this result]], getting the idea for his "painting".

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* BigBallOfViolence: The fighting cat-and-dog when they initially show up fighting outside of Plucky's house. Plucky pauses them in the middle of it, getting [[http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dog%26CatFightPaused.png this result]], getting and giving Plucky the idea for his "painting".



* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: A wide of of the inside of Plucky's house shows many paintings and sculptures that Plucky has already made of himself. It's heavily implied that Plucky could have just used one of those instead of going through all the trouble he gets with his fighting pets "paintings".

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: A wide of shot of the inside of Plucky's house shows many paintings and sculptures that Plucky has already made of himself. It's heavily implied that Plucky could have just used one of those instead of going through all the trouble he gets with his fighting pets "paintings".
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** It's worth noting that although this episode was animated by Creator/{{AKOM}}, it was erroneously miscredited to Creator/KennedyCartoons. This is very similar to what happened in ''Sawdust and Toonsil'', another AKOM episode that was miscredited to Creator/WangFilmProductions.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Plucky is shown to live in an apartment in this short, as opposed to a house throughout the rest of the series.


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* RunningGag: Whenever Pa is about to hit Junior for messing up, Ma hits Pa with a newspaper (and at one point, a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]]). At one point, Pa decides to save Ma the trouble of hitting him with the newspaper, so he snatches it from her and hits himself instead.


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* TheFaceless: Mr. and Mrs. Potter.
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* StoryboardBody: The grizzly bear has levels of anger tattooed on his arm, so he can roll up his sleeve to the appropriate level when he gets mad.
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The 53rd episode of ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', "The ACME Home Shopping Show" features Buster and Babs hawking as seen on tv items on the eponymous infomercial program as they introduce the episode's shorts.

'''Short One''': "Oh, For Art's Sake"

Having failed to create something for ACME Loo's student art exhibit and needing to do so by the next day, Plucky gets the idea to pause a fighting cat and dog with a TV remote, put a frame around them, and pass it off as a painting he did. His art becomes a national sensation, but how long will it last?

'''Short Two''': "Teddy Bear's Picnic"

Elmyra introduces the viewers to the Annual Bear Company Picnic, which the Three Bears are attending. Havoc ensues as Junior inadvertently injures Pa while trying to have fun and they both run into a much larger and easily angered fellow bear.

'''Short Three''': "I Was a Teenage Bunnysitter"

Babs has set off to baby-sit little bunny Duncan Potter while his parents are away. Duncan's preferences and things he wants to do drive Babs' patience thin.

!!Tropes found in this episode include:

''Overall'':

* CreditsGag: '''Ms. Personality''' - Kirstyn Smithen
* HatOfFlight: The ACME Flyboy Beanie in the second wraparound, which enables Buster to zip (and crash into things) around the studio.
* {{Infomercial}}: The setting of the wraparound segments.
* SuddenAnatomy: Parodied in the first wraparound when Babs begins hawking the ACME Jackson Pollock Paint-by-numbers kit and suddenly has human-like hands and arms...only for a wider shot to reveal that they are fake arms being held and manipulated by Babs.
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: In the first wraparound when Plucky calls to order the paint-by-numbers kit. As he talks to Babs, she tells him that she'll "give him a honk" and proceeds to whack him with a mallet from her side of the split-screen.

''Oh, For Art's Sake'':

* BigBallOfViolence: The fighting cat-and-dog when they initially show up fighting outside of Plucky's house. Plucky pauses them in the middle of it, getting [[http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dog%26CatFightPaused.png this result]], getting the idea for his "painting".
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Plucky actually cuts the frozen cat and dog out of the frame with scissors.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: A wide of of the inside of Plucky's house shows many paintings and sculptures that Plucky has already made of himself. It's heavily implied that Plucky could have just used one of those instead of going through all the trouble he gets with his fighting pets "paintings".
* CheatersNeverProsper: The ending.
* IKissYourFoot: Dan Dogma when he rushes in to congratulate Plucky on his "painting".
* LaserGuidedKarma: Once the secret of Plucky's "paintings" is found out, all of his accolades are stripped from him and the enraged art experts trap him in one of his own fighting animal "paintings".
-->'''Babs''': Kinda gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "tortured artist", doesn't it?\\
'''Buster''': You got that right.
* OffModel: In the [[http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/File:OhForArtsSake-StudentsCheerForPlucky.JPG shot]] of the other students applauding for Plucky and his "painting", Shirley is drawn noticeably smaller than the other characters (even smaller than Hamton and Fifi) and his bald.

''Teddy Bear's Picnic'':

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Outright introduced as this (word for word) by Babs in the preceding wraparound, this short stars the Three Bears (who have been around since ''Looney Tunes'') as the main characters, with no ''Tiny Toons'' characters present beyond Elmyra. (Whose presence has little impact on the plot.)
* BookEnds: Opens and closes with Elmyra singing the song "The Teddy Bear's Picnic". (Which the short's title gets its name from.)
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Pa is at one point flung into the sky and straight out of the cel an animator is working on.
* ColorFailure: Pa when first meeting the grizzly bear.
* TheChewToy: Pa takes a lot of abuse in this episode. Elmyra, too, for that matter.
* HairTriggerTemper: The grizzly bear whose bad side Pa and Junior get on throughout the short.
* MassOhCrap: Pa, Junior, and the grizzly bear when they all three fall onto a grill that just had a gratuitous amount of lighter fluid dumped on it.
* PerpetualFrowner: The grizzly bear's face is seldomly seen without an angry scowl on it.
* ShoutOut: One of the levels of anger tattooed on the grizzly bear's arm is "[[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Oh Bother]]". (Being the lowest level, this straddles the line between being just this or an outright TakeThat.)
* SquashedFlat: Elmyra by Junior, who in turn is squished by the grizzly bear.

''I Was a Teenage Bunnysitter'':

* BabysittingEpisode
* BaitAndSwitch: When Duncan first appears, he appears to be a huge hulking kid...but then we see him in full and he barely comes up to Babs' waist.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Duncan requests a "really scary story" from Babs as a bedtime story. Babs then tells him a tale about a headless mutant monster in her usual LargeHam way that [[GoneHorriblyRight works a little too well at scaring Duncan]].
-->'''Duncan''': (''after Babs finds him hiding in his closet'') That was ''too'' scary!
* CatharticScream: When her patience with Duncan's specific way of having mashed potatoes wears thin, Babs excuses herself, runs outside to a cliff, and jumps off while making one of these.
* DagwoodSandwich: Babs makes one as soon as the parents leave. Duncan has made one himself by the time his parents return.
* {{Malaproper}}: Little Duncan says "mashed topatoes" and "pasghetti" instead of "mashed potatoes" and "spaghetti".
* OffModel: Babs' foot is purple (like Duncan) as Duncan taps it and asks "Whatcha doin'?"
* PickyEater: Duncan has a ''very'' specific way of having mashed potatoes, as it turns out. Though it's not that he's intentionally trying to be hard to get along with; more because that's just how his mother usually fixes potatoes for him.
* RoadTripAcrossTheStreet: A variant; when Babs leaves to go to the Potter's rabbit hole, she walks down a long road into the distance...which ends at the Potter's hole which is right next to Babs' own.
* ShoutOut: When Duncan balks at eating the mashed potato man because he's bald, Babs claims that it's because it's a Music/SineadOConnor mashed potato man.

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