Trivia / Baby Looney Tunes

• Acting for Two: Samuel Vincent voices Bugs, Daffy and Tweety here.
• Adored by the Network: Since every one of their attempts to create an entire block aimed at preschoolers prior to the American version of Cartoonito all bombed tremendously, Cartoon Network loved to air this show in its early morning timeslots as an easy way to compete against Nick Jr. and Playhouse Disney. Even when the show stopped airing producing new episodes, Cartoon Network continued airing it until 2009, and even brought it back to the schedule between 2015 and 2016.
  • Later on, its sibling channel Boomerang started giving Baby Looney Tunes the same treatment for its 2015 rebrand, airing the series every morning around the 6-8 AM timespan until 2021, when it moved over to a graveyard timeslot of 3 AM, before getting removed completely the following year. The series would later return to Boomerang in June 2023, now airing there during the day again alongside fellow Spin-Off Babies reimaginings of the channel's most popular franchises, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and Tom & Jerry Kids.
  • Cartoonito, the preschool spin-off channel of Cartoon Network, loves this series as well, as it often used to air for at least 12 times a day, every single day. Eventually, it stopped being adored as much in Europe, but when Cartoonito finally made its debut in the United States in September 2021 as a block on Cartoon Network, Baby Looney Tunes became a cornerstone of the American version. It used to be the first series to air on Cartoonito every single morning, thus making Baby Looney Tunes the only series that was shown on the U.S. version of Cartoonito every day of the week. However, the block's treatment of the series went downhill fast.
• Children Voicing Children: While definitely not a toddler, Britt McKillip was only 11 years old when she started voicing Lola.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: On VOD purchases for "For Whom the Toll Calls", it's said that "Petunia and Tweety learn to call long distance and amass a huge phone bill." This is wrong for two reasons: One, they didn't really learn how to call long distance, they called Japan by mistake (not that you can do that in real life). Second, the phone bill was never brought up in the entire episode.
  • On the TV Guide description for "I Strain" it's said that Sylvester is addicted to watching television. In the actual episode Petunia is the one who can't stop watching television. The episode is actually more about the babies cheering Petunia up when the TV breaks, and her insistence on obsessively watching her shows is only barely mentioned by Melissa.
  • The TV Guide description for "Present Tense" says that "Baby Lola suggests the gang use their money to buy Granny a present." In actuality Lola suggests the gang make Granny a gift for Arbor Day before trying to make one herself.
• Distanced from Current Events / Missing Episode: In 2020, "Oh Brother, Warehouse Art Thou?/Flu the Coop" was dropped from the show's rerun rotation on Boomerang and Cartoonito. This is likely due to the latter being about Bugs and Daffy avoiding their flu shots, ending with them getting the flu; causing some unintentional correlations with the COVID-19 Pandemic. Though the episode can still be bought on digital platforms and watched on the Boomerang SVOD service, and would eventually return to reruns with the show's addition to Discovery Family and return to Boomerang in 2023.
• Edited for Syndication: Italian airings of the series for years kept everything as it is, but since 2017 they started removing the songs that are usually played between each episode, repacking every 10-minute short as a standalone episode with opening and closing themes in order to cram more advertising in between (again, this is another way to circumnavigate the law forbidding commercial breaks during cartoons).
  • This was also how the series was first shown on Cartoonito in the United States when the American version of the block launched in September 2021, with five of its standard segments airing together to make a 75-minute broadcast of the series. However, on November 2, 2021, the block started airing the show in its original format so that it can run on the clock.
  • The show's broadcasts on Discovery Family not only cut out the music videos, but also present the series with PAL speed and audio, in order to increase the show's commercial break length to as long as possible. This thankfully doesn't affect Boomerang's concurrent airings of the series, however.
• Follow the Leader: One could make the argument that despite the decade difference and the Spin-Off Babies trope being a thing, this show was most directly attempting to channel the success of Muppet Babies (1984).
• Invisible Advertising: Cartoon Network and Kids' WB! did squat when they aired this series with no merchandise and it was hard to tell when new episodes were coming.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The live-action specials Backyard Adventures and Musical Adventures haven’t been re-released since their VHS debut back in 2003.
  • Finally averted for the latter as the special is now available on HBO Max. Oddly, the special is but the actual series was not, though the series itself averted this by virtue of being available on digital platforms and Boomerang's SVOD subscription service.
• The Other Darrin: Twice in the Italian dub.
  • The Easter special features a slightly different cast from the main show, with Corrado Conforti, Francesco Pezzulli and Fabrizio Vidale replacing respectively Sergio Luzi, Alessio De Filippis and Davide Perino as the voices of Bugs, Daffy, and Sylvester.
  • Lola and Tweety are voiced by Monica Ward and Ilaria Latini in Season 1 and by Ilaria Giorgino and Perla Liberatori in Season 2.
• Out of Holiday Episode: The Halloween Episode "A Mid-Autumn Night's Scream" was first aired on April 11, 2005.
• Production Posse: A good chunk of the writing staff worked with Tom Minton on Tiny Toon Adventures and The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries .
• Recycled Script: This series has recycled plots from other cartoons where infants are the main characters;
  • "Like a Duck to Water" is similar to the Muppet Babies (1984) episode, "Beach Blanket Babies", wherein one character (Baby Daffy, Baby Fozzie) is afraid to go swimming for the first time.
  • "Leader of the Pack" uses the same basic plot as the Rugrats (1991) episode, "Tommy and the Secret Club", wherein one character (Baby Daffy, Angelica) starts their own secret club and makes their friends do certain tasks for them in order to join.
  • "I Strain" uses the same basic plot as the Muppet Babies (1984) episode, "I Want My Muppet TV" and the Rugrats (1991) episode, "Kid TV". In all three episodes, the TV breaks, so the characters make their own TV out of a cardboard box and act out their own TV shows with it.
  • "The Dolly Vanishes" is similar to the Rugrats (1991) episode, "Murmur on the Ornery Express". In both episodes, the favorite toy of one of the babies (Edna, Wawa) goes missing during a train ride, and the other babies search the train for it.
• Role Reprise:
  • In the Japanese dub, unlike other dubs, some of the voice actors who normally dub the adult Looney Tunes characters also voice their baby selves here. Specifically, Kappei Yamaguchi, Satomi Koorogi and Hisako Kyoda reprise their roles as Bugs, Tweety and Granny respectively.^note Albeit this isn't exactly surprising, as both Yamaguchi and Koorogi are normally typecasted with voicing kid or younger characters and Granny doesn't change too much regarding age or characterization.
  • In the Italian dub, Ilaria Latini and Monica Bertolotti reprise their roles as Tweety and Granny. Albeit Tweety was replaced in Season 2.
  • In the original English version, Granny was voiced by June Foray, who voiced Granny from 1955 until The Looney Tunes Show in 2014, a few years before her death.
  • Again in the Italian dub, a very weird example: Sergio Luzi voiced Bugs Bunny in a bunch of bootleg tapes of public domain cartoons from the late 80's before taking the role officially as Baby Bugs in this series.
  • In the French dub, Tweety and Granny are once again voiced by Patricia Legrand and Barbara Tissier respectively, who have been voicing them since the 90's.
  • In the Romanian dub, most of the main cast is dubbed by the same actors that gave their RO voices in the original shorts. Even though some have a higher pitch.
• Screwed by the Network: Kids' WB! barely gave the show advertising but did give it a consistent air schedule (of sorts). There was notably a 3 year delay between season 1 and 2 on Cartoon Network, with the latter being burned off in less than a month. Most likely because of the failure of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, which caused the original Looney Tunes shorts to get removed from Cartoon Network.
  • While the show was removed in 2009, it came back in 2015 as promotion for a special Uncle Grandpa baby episode. It was later giving a morning slot only to be yanked again along with Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production a year later. It later returned to Cartoon Network in 2021 as part of its Cartoonito block, who originally gave the series the opposite treatment. However...
  • ...despite being the second highest-rated program on the block (behind only Caillou), the series was taken off Cartoonito's line-up on January 27, 2022, with its timeslots being taken over by Care Bears: Unlock the Magic. The series returned to Cartoonito on March 22, 2022, airing in the place of Care Bears on Tuesdays and Thursdays...only to be removed from the block again only one week later.
  • Thankfully, though, the series returned to Cartoonito once more on April 4, 2022, ironically replacing the very series that replaced it on the block's line-up. However, as of June it is once again off the block.
  • The show left Boomerang's schedule in August 2022, meaning that it was no longer airing on American television and could now only be legally obtained through iTunes and the Boomerang SOVD service.
  • Eventually, though, the series would return to American TV in May 2023 courtesy of Discovery Family, taking advantage of the recent Warner Bros. Discovery merger, thus averting this situation once again. The series would also return to Boomerang's schedule a month later, with Boomerang finally retiring their old 4x3 masters of the series and presenting the show in its widescreen production aspect ratio, like how both Cartoonito and Discovery Family air(ed) it, with the show's latest comeback to Boomerang's schedule.
• Similarly Named Works: The episode "Now Museum, Now You Don't" shares its title with an episode of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and another from Lupin III: Part II.
• Un-Canceled: After season 1 had aired in a bomb format throughout Fall 2002, it underwent a three-year hiatus, until it finally received a second and final season.
• What Could Have Been: The series was originally announced back in 1997 under the name Li'l Looney Critters, but in 1999 the name was changed to what we know now.

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