The twelfth episode of the third season of Tiny Toon Adventures, the eightieth episode in production order, and the nintieth episode overall.
Buster and Babs present another collection of music videos in the form of a top ten countdown.
10. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" by Betty Everett
Babs wonders if Buster loves her after he doesn't say yes to being her date to The Sadie Hawkins Dance.
8. "Video Game Blues"
Fowlmouth and Plucky trade vocals as Plucky fights space aliens in a video game, to the tune of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" and "Russian Dance" from The Nutcracker.
7. "Nothing Comes Close to You"
A brief Sinéad O'Connor parody sung by Shirley.
6. "The Name Game"
Elmyra sings about the various characters while thwarting space aliens.
5. "Toon Out, Toon In" by Vanilla Lice
A rap about the various characters on the show.
4. "Do You Love Me?" by the Contours
Buster keeps telling Babs that he loves her.
1. "Yakety Yak" by the Coasters
Plucky is ordered by his dad to take out the trash and do the laundry. During this time, he is chased by the cops, who are trailing a criminal on the run.
This episode provides examples of:
Overall:
- Affectionate Parody: of MTV.
- Credits Gag: Name inadvertently omitted in "The Name Game" - Plucky.
- Early-Bird Cameo: The "Video Game Blues" and "Yakety Yak" music videos premiered on the short-lived spin-off, The Plucky Duck Show on September 26, 1992.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: This episode abandons the usual Three Shorts format in favor of seven music videos.
- Musical Episode: Like "Tiny Toon Music Television", this episode features music videos.
- No Name Given: In the opening wraparound, Babs introduces herself as "Downtown Babsy Brown", while Buster introduces himself as "someone else".
- Shout-Out: In the prologue to "Toon Out, Toon In", Babs asks if the song is by "That Bart Kid", a reference to Bart Simpson from The Simpsons.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Although this episode is done in the form of a top ten countdown, the ninth, third, and second music videos are never shown.
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss):
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Buster and Babs travel through one in the scene parodying "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid (1989).
- The Cameo: Shirley and Fifi appear as the chorus during the Bride of Frankenstein and King Kong parodies.
- Deliberately Monochrome: The Bride of Frankenstein-esque scene is done in black and white.
- Face-Revealing Turn: Used in the scene parodying "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid. Babs' back is shown in her mermaid form. When she reveals her face, it is actually very fish-like and ugly, much to Buster's horror.
- Iris Out: This music video ends with a heart-shaped one.
- "King Kong" Climb: In the King Kong-esque scene, a giant Buster climbs to the top of the Empire State Building.
- Ship Tease: One between Buster and Babs. In many scenes, Buster is shown to be attracted to Babs, nervously retreat from her, or any combination of the two. The music video ends with Buster agreeing to go to the dance with Babs.
- Shout-Out: Buster and Babs reenact classic film scenes from Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong, Superman: The Movie, The Little Mermaid, and The Phantom of the Opera.
Video Game Blues:
- The Faceless: Mrs. Duck.
- Public Domain Soundtrack: This music video is set to the tune of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" and "Russian Dance" from The Nutcracker.
Nothing Comes Close To You:
- Affectionate Parody: Of "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor (itself a cover of the song by Prince's band The Family).
The Name Game:
- Balloon Belly: Maximus Flush becomes a victim of this when Buster inflates him with an air pump.
- Banana Peel: Dizzy slips on one after he eats the banana from it.
- The Cameo: The Little Man from the Draft Board from Draftee Daffy appears as Maximus Flush's messenger.
- Call-Back: Ralph from the second wraparound of "The Buster Bunny Bunch" appears in this music video, repeating the gag of "Ralph? Who's Ralph?" from that episode.
- Go-Karting with Bowser: Elmyra, of course, is the lead singer, and she and Montana Max join the protagonistic toons in the fight against Maximus Flush and his Tony robots.
- Tickle Torture: Maximus Flush attempts to tickle the toons with a feather to get them to tell him the location of Earth.
- Trash the Set: Maximus Flush's spaceship is destroyed when Maximus Flush gets overinflated and bursts.
- The Unintelligible: An alien that speaks in gibberish tells Elmyra his name, disproving the lyrics that say, "There isn't any name that I can't rhyme.".
- Whoopee Cushion: Two of the Tony robots land on one when Babs and Fifi push them off a ledge.
Toon-Out, Toon-In:
- Agony of the Feet: Babs steps on Buster's foot when Vanilla Lice sings about her.
- And Call Him "George": Elmyra sings a solo describing her as such.
- Anvil on Head: Albert Einstein gets hit with a 16-ton anvil when he attempts to do regular schoolwork at ACME Looniversity.
- Big Eater: Vanilla Lice describes Hamton as such."Now, this hog's name is Hamton Pig,
Dining's his idea of big,
He's eatin' three squares an hour,
a glutton to the tenth power!" - Disney Villain Death: Calamity falls off a building attempting to catch Little Beeper.
- Handbag of Hurt: Shirley hits Plucky with her purse when he tries to make a move on her.
- Improbably Low I.Q.: While the actual number is never shown, Dizzy's IQ is shown to be between that of a dopefish and a chicken leg.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Vanilla Lice is a parody of Vanilla Ice.
- Rhyming List: Plucky shows off his flow with his verse."This here is Plucky Duck, Jack!
I'm (uh!) your number one quack!
I'm a wise-crackin', never slackin', got the knackin', love flapjackin',
Love to stack 'em, for my snackin', films I'm actin', book adaption,
Lots of passion, overactin', cars are smackin', bullets flackin',
Planes attackin' ack ack ack quack quack quack quack quack quack!" - Rich Bastard: Vanilla Lice describes Montana Max as such."There goes Montana Max,
he's got money by the sacks,
I would not say that he's greedy,
to him, the Trumps are really needy!" - Temporary Bulk Change: Hamton becomes fat from overeating.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pizza rolls for Dizzy Devil when Vanilla Lice sings about him. Specifically, a box of one takes the place of a blood pack when Dizzy is in a hospital bed.
Do You Love Me?:
- Accordion Man: Buster becomes one after he becomes Squashed Flat.
- Incessant Music Madness: When this music video appears to conclude, it only appears to iris in on Babs plucking her eyelashes and getting annoyed that the song is still going.Babs: MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!!!
- Ship Tease: For Buster and Babs. Ironically, while in many shorts and episodes Buster tends to be the one who's evasive when Babs is hinting at romance, this time Buster is the pursuer (to Babs increasing frustration).
- Squashed Flat: Happens to Buster after he falls out an open window.
Yakety Yak:
- Butt-Monkey: Plucky. He is saddled with chores from his father, and ends up working in the County Prison thanks to Mr. Hitcher.
- Call-Back: Mr. Hitcher from the Direct to Video movie, How I Spent My Vacation, appears in this music video as a criminal who escaped from prison.
- The Faceless: Averted with Mr. Duck for once, though he looks very different from the rest of his appearances on the show.
- Knife Outline: Done with bullets and a glass window, providing Mr. Hitcher the opportunity to hide out in the laundromat Plucky is at.
- Trash of the Titans: Plucky's bedroom is revealed to have a mountain of trash in it, with some of the trash being anthropomorphic.
- Visual Pun: Yaks, of course, are seen in this music video.
- You Don't Look Like You: Mr. Hitcher is given a less scary redesign in the episode. Plucky's dad also looks quite different from other times he's been seen in the series.
