Line #47 Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E14MusicDay


1	The fourteenth episode of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and the nintety-second overall.
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3	The Tiny Toons present three musical adventures in a proscenium theater.
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5	'''Short One:''' "Ruffled Ruffee"
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7	Buster plays his electric guitar, which inadvertently interrupts a concert hosted by the Raffi {{Expy}}, Ruffee, who yells at him to be quiet and tosses his electric guitar and speakers into his burrow in response. To get back at him, Buster attends Ruffee's concert, disguised as a baby, and sabotages the concert.
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9	'''Short Two:''' "The Horn Blows at Lunchtime"
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11	Li'l Sneezer practices his trumpet in the basement of Acme Looniversity while eating limburger cheese during lunch, causing assumed flatulence in the cafeteria.
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13	'''Short Three:''' "Loon Lake"
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15	Shirley the Loon attends a ballet class alongside the snooty Perfecto Prep swans, led by Giselle. The Swans bully her, but with Babs' encouragement (and backstage sabotage), Shirley manages to outshine the Swans at their recital.
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17	!! This episode provides examples of:
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19	''Overall:''
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21	* ContinuityNod: Banjo Possum is seen in the opening wraparound and in "The Horn Blows at Lunchtime", meaning this episode could have taken place after the events of the Direct-to-video movie, ''[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation How I Spent My Vacation]]''.
22	* CreditsGag: Just between us - [[Creator/DavidLetterman Letterman]] should have gotten the Carson gig. [[note]]A reference to the fact that many were upset that Jay Leno replaced Johnny Carson on ''Series/TheTonightShow'' instead of David Letterman.[[/note]]
23	* MusicalEpisode
24	* ThreeShorts
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26	''Ruffled Ruffee'':
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28	* BabyTalk: Buster pretends to talk this way while in his baby disguise.
29	-->'''Ruffee:''' Excuse me, little boy, are you having trouble finding your seat?\
30	'''Buster:''' Nope. (shoves his diapered butt in Ruffee's face) It's wight hewe.
31	* {{Bookends}}: The short begins and ends with Buster playing his electric guitar.
32	* TheFaceless: Like many of the parents on ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', the father of the baby that Ruffee yells at is only seen from the neck down.
33	* FriendToAllChildren: Buster saves the children from being bored to death by Ruffee by sabotaging his concert. He even plays his electric guitar for them at the end of the short, and they dance along.
34	* GooGooGetup: As part of his plan to sabotage Ruffee's concert, Buster dresses himself in a diaper and a green bonnet. This comes into play near the end of the short, when Ruffee reaches his RageBreakingPoint and tries to yell at the disguised Buster, but instead yells at a human baby dressed in a nearly identical way.
35	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Played with; the normally pantsless Buster doesn't wear his red shirt while in his baby disguise, but his waist is covered by his diaper.
36	* ImpactSilhouette: When Buster tests his electric guitar right as Ruffee is standing next to the speakers, Ruffee gets launched into the air and lands in the ground, leaving a hole shaped like his body in it.
37	* IncessantMusicMadness: The short begins with Buster playing his electric guitar and inadvertently interrupting Ruffee's concert, promting Ruffee to yell at him to be quiet and toss his electric guitar and speakers in response.
38	* MistakenForAnImposter: When Ruffee reaches his breaking point, he tries to yell at the disguised Buster, but mistakenly yells at a human baby dressed in a nearly identical way. This proves unwise.
39	* PapaWolf: The human baby's giant father, who scolds, and later beats up Ruffee for yelling at his son.
40	-->"No one yells at my son! It's not nice!"
41	* RageBreakingPoint: Ruffee reaches this after the children cry due to Buster messing with the "Baby Monkey" song.
42	* RuleOfThree: Buster sabotages three of Ruffee's songs. He sabotages "The Animal Song" by choosing animals that aren't particularly known for making sounds (A giraffe and a three-toed sloth), "The Body Song" by speeding up the tempo to the point where Ruffee explodes, and "Baby Monkey" by adding his own sheet music so that the song ends with the monkey getting hit by a bus.
43	* ScriptSwap: Buster does this to Ruffee so that the "Baby Monkey" song ends with [[LookBothWays the monkey getting hit by a bus]].
44	* SpiritualSuccessor: To the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare" with Buster and Ruffee in the roles of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and Giovanni Jones, respectively.
45	* TakeThat: Ruffee is a parody of the famous children's singer, Raffi Cavoukain, and this short satirizes his earliest perfomances, where he found it difficult to perform for his target audience (children under the age of three), due to their tiny attention spans being a distraction to him and the rest of the audience.
46	* TakeThatKiss: Buster gives one to Ruffee when he announces a new song where only he knows the words. It's possible that he did this so that he could get a better look at Ruffee's sheet music.
47	* ThisMeansWar: Buster decides to get back at Ruffee after the latter yells at him to be quiet, tosses his electric guitar and speakers into his burrow, and even slaps him forcefully.
48	* WhiteGloves: During "The Body Song", Buster takes his hands out of his gloves so that they can continue gradually speeding up the beat while he builds a fort out of sandbags to hide behind when Ruffee explodes from singing too fast.
49	* WholePlotReference: This is a loose remake of the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short ''WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare''.
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51	''The Horn Blows at Lunchtime:''
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53	* CameraAbuse: In the prologue, Buster and Babs hide behind a fort of sandbags as Sneezer is about to play his trumpet. Sneezer sneezer while he does so, which causes the camera lens to break.
54	* FoodFight: Sneezer causes assumed flatulence, leading to everyone blaming and tossing food at each other, until Buster finds him in the vent near the end. Sneezer then plays his trumpet gracefully, and the food fight continues.
55	* GrowlingGut: Sneezer is a victim of this before he starts practicing his trumpet, which sets the short's plot in motion.
56	* LaserGuidedKarma: Sneezer is splattered by a tomato at the end of the short.
57	* MistakenForFlatulence: Sneezer blowing on a tuba and eating smelly cheese in the Looniversity's air ducts, which permeates into the cafeteria and leads everyone there to accuse one another of passing gas.
58	-->'''Babs:''' [[WhoWritesThisCrap Who wrote this?]]
59	* PassThePopcorn: At one point in the short, Buster and Babs sit back and share a bag of popcorn as they watch the chaos ensue.
60	* PorkyPigPronunciation: From the TropeNamer himself at the beginning of the short:
61	-->'''[[WesternAnimation/PorkyPig Porky]]:''' N-now, Sneezer, you've gotta practice your trumpet extra hard. Alo-alo-alo-alo... all by yourself.
62	* ShamefulShrinking: When Plucky blames Hamton for Sneezer's assumed flatulence, Hamton shrinks down to the size of a mouse and hides behind his milk carton.
63	* SmellySkunk: Surprisingly averted. Fifi is present and is among the group of toons blaming each other, but she's never called out specifically for causing the smell.
64	* WhoWritesThisCrap: At one point, Babs bluntly asks, "Who wrote this?", before Sneezer plays his trumpet right under her.
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66	''Loon Lake:''
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68	* AxCrazy: At one point, Babs cuts holes in the floor with a chainsaw that the swans fall through. She even laughs maniacally whilst she does it.
69	* BalletEpisode: Shirley takes up ballet in this short.
70	* BananaPeel: One of the swans ends up a victim of this thanks to Babs.
71	* BreakTheHaughty: Giselle and the Swans end up being put through the wringer thanks to Babs, all because they tried to ruin Shirley's performance. By the end, Shirley's the only one left standing and gets all the applause.
72	* CheatersNeverProsper: Giselle and the Swans try to mess up Shirley's dancing, which not only fails but convinces Babs to step in and unleash Hell.
73	* ChromosomeCasting: All of the characters in the short are female.
74	* ADayInTheLimelight: For Shirley. Also, this is the only segment where all the speaking characters are female.
75	* DeathGlare: The swans give Shirley particularly disturbing ones as they surround her during the finale.
76	* TheDeterminator: Shirley goes through with the entire performance despite the Swans repeatedly trying to trip her up and actively threatening her.
77	* EvilLaugh: Nearly all of Babs' dialogue in the last half the short is one ''long'' stream of maniacal laughter, as she unleashes chaos.
78	* HeroicBSOD: Shirley goes through this when she overhears what Giselle and the Swans said about her. She even considers quitting ballet, until Babs sticks up for her.
79	* ShoutOut:
80	** This short's title is a reference to the famous ballet, ''Theatre/SwanLake''.
81	** In the prologue, Babs shows the viewers posters for ''[[Theatre/TheNutcracker The Nutty Cracker]]'' and ''[[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Monteo and Julieidiot]]''.
82	** Babs imitates [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Glinda the Good Witch of the North]] to encourage Shirley during her ballet recital.
83	* ValleyGirl: Shirley, and this is one of the things Giselle and the Swans make fun of her for.

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