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Fridge Logic in Tiny Toon Adventures.

Fridge Logic

  • In the 7-minute short "Falling To Pizzas", Calamity is unable to purchase pizza selling for $1.50 a slice — yet is apparently able to purchase gadgets as expensive as a solar-powered helicopter from the Acme Shopping Network! One wonders if he holds a credit card that can only be used exclusively for Acme products...
  • In the segment, "Piece of Mind", Calamity is really concerned about falling from an extremely tall skyscraper to his apparent demise, yet has survived numerous falls from great heights just like his mentor.
  • In Going Up, the mall thief that Baby Plucky encounters is the chainsaw maniac from How I Spent My Vacation, which means Plucky is the reason he went off the deep end, and he recognizes him after all that time.

Fridge Horror

  • Gogo is the son of the original Dodo. He's also referred to as "last of the dodos" and his father is never seen on screen. This implies that his father is dead. Of course, when his dad claimed to be the last of the dodos, his other dodo pals chimed in to confirm, so maybe the "last of the dodos" is a title of some sort? In Wackyland, anything goes.
    • What's weirder, is in one episode a Joker Jury of little dodos call him "Uncle Gogo". This would suggest he had at least a brother or sister, who may have also died... so perhaps he is the last of this generation, and the one surviving niece or nephew will inherit the title after he passes.
    • Or, as pointed out in the former thing? He's playing it up.
  • How bad is Fifi's odor? Furrball flees in terror from it... after he just managed to eat a rotting fish for dinner.
  • The character of Rhoda Queen: like her inspiration, she's a little psychopath with no remorse. She seems so similar to Rhoda Penmark that she also probably would murder without batting an eye.
    • When Elmyra first meets her, Rhoda is ripping a doll apart to amuse herself. What would she have done to Furrball if Elmyra DID hand him over?
    • Rhoda is a sociopathic manipulator who constantly abused, gaslighted, and coerced Elmyra in the short time they were hanging out together. She only treated her with (extremely fleeting) kindness when Elmyra submitted to her demands and let Rhoda walk all over her. But even when Elmyra complied, Rhoda treated her like garbage 99% of the time. While viewing Elmyra with utter contempt, Elmyra's standing was strictly based on what she could do for Rhoda at any given time. The most disturbing part about this is that there are people like this out there (even children), and they aren't even uncommon.
  • In the movie, Babs and Buster are tricked into performing on Tupelo Toad's riverboat so they can be a meal for his carnivorous passengers. A giant warthog is among them. Warthogs are cousins of pigs, which is what Hamton, one of the Bunnies' friends, is.
  • The "Night of the Living Pets" segment confirms that Elmyra has actually KILLED animals, and knowing this only makes watching her interactions with animals even more unsettling to watch. No wonder why her animal classmates are terrified of her, because any animal she comes in contact with is literally risking their lives! This is like if you had a classmate who you knew has repeatedly committed involuntary manslaughter.

Fridge Brilliance

  • The show's premise wasn't quite a reboot and it wasn't quite a Spinoff Babies scenario, but kind of a mix of both. Instead of trying to repackage 40-year-old characters as hip to appeal to pre-teens (e.g., the mess that was Yo Yogi!), it introduced new characters built for the 90s early teens loosely based on previous characters. It really worked well, giving Gen-Xers a new WB mythology that was their own, not just a retread.
  • The show practically has No Fourth Wall, so it makes sense that Calamity, modeled after Wile E. Coyote, would have considerably less trouble getting Acme products than his inspiration did. After all, technically Wile E. should have had to pay for shipping, too, while Calamity can probably just go to the AcmeMart.
  • Why does Acme Looniversity have a Spotlight Stealing class? Because it was built by Bugs Bunny, who stole the spotlight from Daffy Duck as the star of the original Looney Tunes.
    • Actually, Porky Pig preceded both Bugs AND Daffy, and the very first Looney Tune was Bosko, the Talk-ink Kid.
  • Homeless, down on his luck, endearing, constantly fighting the odds— Furrball is the feline version of a certain Little Tramp...
  • The show mirrors many conventions of the classic WB cartoon lineup:
    • The villains all have counterparts: Dangerous but dimwitted simpleton hunting animals? Elmyra Duff/Elmer Fudd. Aggressive and loudmouthed bully? Montana Max/Yosemite Sam. Brawns-not-brain brute? Dizzy Devil/Taz. Finally, like Daffy Duck, Plucky Duck sometimes pinch-hits as a villain due to his greed and egotistical personality.
    • Buster and Babs split Bugs Bunny's tendencies: while Babs shares his off-the-wall-wackiness, impersonation skills and hamminess, Buster focuses more on Bugs' acerbic wit and resourcefulness. They both share Bugs' tendency to "get even" (and then some), though neither of them take it nearly as far as Bugs usually does.
    • But the show also subtly subverts the classic character rivalries. Furrball/Sweetie and Calamity/Beeper seem to be 1:1 expies of Sylvester/Tweety and Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner, but in both cases, the younger counterparts feature the villain halves to be far more sympathetic, and the hero halves to be somewhat mean-spirited.
      • In Sweetie's case it also puts her much closer to Tweety's earliest incarnations penned by Bob Clampett when he had a more sadistic streak.
  • When Shirley channels Einstein's ghost into Plucky, he fails his math test, which is explained as Einstein being bad at math as a child (which isn't actually true). But there's another explanation: Plucky's test was not normal math but cartoon math! Of course a physicist whose theories helped explain the real world wouldn't be much help for that!
  • When the opening credits say, "the teaching staff's been getting laughs since 1933", that wasn't a year picked at random, that was the year Warner Brothers was founded and they made cartoon shorts from the start. Granted Bugs Bunny or other recognizable characters wouldn't exist for a while...
  • Hamton asking out Fifi. Most guys are terrified by the skunkette’s odor but not the young pig. It’s probably because being so into cleaning, Hamton’s simply used to bad smells.
  • John Kassir filled in for Buster in a few of the final episodes, since Charlie Adler quit the show. Kassir's Buster is noticeably deeper than Adler's. In-universe, this means Buster's going through puberty and his voice is deepening.
  • In "Fields of Honey", Bosko and Honey were slated to feature on The Ed Sullivan Show alongside The Beatles. Both in-universe and on a meta level, Bosko is The Pete Best of the Looney Tunes.

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