Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1 Review

time is it Hello folks, TFU and Mike here, and

what you're about to hear is episode 65 of Tooncast

Beyond. This is our tribute to the passing of

Mr. Joe Oleski. This is our second part of our

tribute. This is gonna be myself and Doug Able

from Talking About My Generation talking Tiny

Toon Adventures Season 1. I wanted to let everyone

know that Tooncast Beyond has been going on for

a while. There was a hiatus between episode 59

and episode 60 and 60 .5 and all that stuff.

There's gonna be another hiatus here after episode

65. I am about to embark on something I have

never done ever with podcasting. It's going to

be a cartoon review podcast, much like the TFG

-1 podcast, or the Beast Unleashed podcast, or

the Transformation Animation podcast, where we

review Generation 1 Transformers, Beast Wars,

Beast Machines, and Transformers Animated, or

like over on Power to Grayskull series, with

Kevin and I reviewing all four series of the

Master's Universe cartoons, or Showtime Synergy

the Gem show. It's going to be a cartoon review

show, with myself and Michael Wilson. Not gonna

reveal what the name of the show is or what cartoon

it's going to be reviewing, but it's basically,

you're gonna know. I've been posting this on

Twitter and Facebook and stuff the last few days

and everything. 104 podcasts, 104 days of summer.

So you're going to know what we're gonna review

just by that. But yeah, I'm gonna be starting

a daily podcast with Michael Wilson. We're gonna

pre -record a lot of the stuff, so that way we

can... Get it released daily. It's going to air

on the geocast radio network and on blog talk

radio and iTunes and all that stuff from June

20th until sometime in September So because it's

a daily podcast, it's basically Two and a half

three months something like that I've never taken

on something like this. So Yes, I know I'm crazy.

I've done great because most the time when I

create podcasts folks, I you know Steve Megatron

and I have a podcaster meets world coming up

later this year where we're going to be reviewing

every episode of all seven seasons of Boy Meets

World and then the episodes in whatever seasons

that Girl Meets World gets. That Boy Meets World

for podcaster meets world is going to take Steve

and I two and a half years as far as publications.

So that's usually how I plan my podcasts. I plan

them to last two and a half years with this new

one. Podcast organization is the only tip I will

give you, plus the other tip of 104 days of summer.

This one is 104 podcasts in 104 days. And I need

to dedicate my time to that. Because I do a lot

with Tooncast Beyond and MWire and GCR and all

this and all that. I do a lot of podcasting.

This is a project that I'm very excited about.

This is going to be something that is going to

be extremely epic in my mind. Hopefully this

will bring a lot of people to the Geetcast Radio

Network's website, geetcastradio .com, our Twitter,

Facebook pages, all that stuff. I'm hoping everyone

will enjoy it. I know Michael Wilson and I are

going to have a blast talking about this cartoon.

So, I think that's about it. Like I said, coming

up next, Tooncast Beyond, Episode 65, Tiny Toon

Adventures, Season 1. Thank you so much to everyone

who has commented. May Joe Oleski rest in peace.

Let's get on with the show and have Doug and

I talk about Plucky Duck, Hampton Jay Pig, Buster

and Babs Bunny, no relation. All that good stuff.

So, it's time for Tiny Toons. of Tiny Toon Adventures.

When Warner Brothers asked me to introduce this

show, I said, for you guys, anything, as long

as I'm paid in advance. I don't accept checks.

adventures a fine show it all began quite a while

ago but i remember it as clearly as if it were

a flashback hello and welcome to tune cast beyond

episode 65 it is continuing our homage in retro

not retribution remembrance thank you good lord

Uh, of Joe Aleski this week, we are talking about

Tiny Tune Adventures Season 1. I am your host,

TFGO, and Mike. Joining me from talking about

my generation is Doug Able. Hello. Hello, sir.

Uh, yeah, so Tiny Tune Adventures Season 1. So,

ladies and gentlemen, when I made the transition

and reformatted Tunecast Beyond into the season

format... I was kind of going off of the whole

thing that cartoons nowadays or in the last 15

or so years have anywhere from 13 to 26 episodes

per season going back you know to 1990 oops uh

yeah and going back even further than that I

I keep forgetting that that was you know back

in the days of first run syndication and first

run syndication you had that the magic number

was 65 So there are 65 episodes in Season 1 of

Tiny Toon Adventures. There is no way in hell

neither one of us have 65 half hours to deal

and watch and waste on Tiny Toon Adventures.

Don't get me wrong. We both absolutely love the

show, but there's just no way. Oh yeah. This

is coming from a guy who in 2009 when Tooncast

Classic launched, I spent... It took me two weeks

to watch all four Thundercats DVD sets to do

an overall Thundercats episode back in Tooncast

Classic episode five. So it took me two weeks

to watch all those Thundercats episodes. There's

no way between the time we recorded and posted

Duck Dodgers last week and now that I could have

watched all 65 season one episodes of Tiny Toons.

Now... When eventually we do get to season twos

and season threes of series for Tiny Toons, it'll

be a lot easier for us to watch the episodes

because then they eventually went to, I think

two, I think, I think it's two thirteens or a

13 and a 10 episode run for season two, season

three. I don't know off the top of my head on

something like that, but. If you talk to that

idiot, John K., he basically says Tiny Toons

is a bastardization of Looney Tunes, which he

is completely wrong. God. In that. Tiny Toons

is a loving homage to Looney Tunes. And they

even have the Looney Tunes characters there.

Oh yeah. As teachers at the Loonaversity. Buster

is not, he is Bugs -like, and Bugs is his mentor,

but... See as a kid I you know as a ten -year

-old when this came out. I never could I as a

ten -year -old I thought oh, this is buster bunny.

This is bugs his son and somehow Even though

they constantly say buster and Babs bunny no

relation as a kid I always thought they were

brother and sister or whatever else, but well

Yeah, I thought the same thing too because there

was an episode and God help me if I can remember

what the episode was the name of the episode,

but There was an episode where both of them were

at home. And I'm like, and they're both getting

yelled at by, you know, after and I was like,

OK, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't mind

that they aren't the offspring of the Rooney

Tunes because they need their own individual.

And really, I mean, looking 1990, we're six years.

Previous to Space Jam. Which I believe, and again,

I'm not looking up her character, I don't know.

But I believe, was that the debut of Lola Bunny?

No, actually she was in the show before that.

Okay. Uh, let me see... Does they actually have

it here on the Wikipedia page? I'm trying to

see if it goes up to say... Oh that's good, right?

Because it's saying that it says here on Wikipedia,

now again, taking that with a grain of salt...

that our first appearance was in 1996's film

Space Jam. That's what I thought. But Looney

Tunes or Tiny Tunes Adventures. Oh, she was in

the Looney Tunes show. That was after Space Jam.

That was after Space Jam. This is OK. Obviously

Wikipedia is wrong. Yeah, let's see. Other parents

include a role in a reporter, director, video,

TV, sci -fi and adventure. She appeared as a

playable character in the game Spugs Bunny and

Lullabunny, Operation Fetch, 1998, that's Afterspace

Jam. Oh, what it is is the really concept art

had revealed that Babs, who was in Tiny Toons,

her design was... at least thought upon while

designing Lola. So, yeah. All right. Anyway,

but basically, you know, you've got Lola Bunny,

or not Lola, you've got Buster and Babs, you've

got Flucky Duck, and Hampton J. Pig. You also

have Fowlmouth. You have Furball, who is... His

mentor is supposed to be Sylvester. Yeah. And

then you have Lil Sneezer. I love Lil Sneezer.

Oh, God. I love Lil Sneezer, but the thing with

Furball and Lil Sneezer is they remind me more

of Tom and Jerry than Looney Tunes because Sylvester

never really had... that counterpart mouse. He

had, you know, he had little mice and whatever

else and he had Jumbo the elephant and whatever

else, you know, pretending to be a giant mouse

or whatever with Jerry, with the, no, no, Jumbo's

with Tom and Jerry. Jesus Christ, I'm sorry.

Christ, it's all blurring together. Okay, so

no, Sylvester did not have Jumbo. That was Tom

and Jerry. I get it. I'm wrong. Okay, so Sylvester

was always chasing after mice and he had his

son with him. And that's when the baby kangaroo

happened. I do know that was Sylvester and his

son. But Sylvester never had a Jerry. Sylvester

never had a quintessential mouse character. So

while I do agree that Furball is an offshoot

of Sylvester, I think he's more of an offshoot

of Tom. And Sneezer is an offshoot of Jerry a

little bit more than... Ben's Sylvester and his

son. I remember watching this show as a kid and

just absolutely loving it. And people are gonna

sit here and say, and they'll probably comment

on this episode, they'll comment on iTunes, or

they'll write us email or whatever else saying,

oh well. Tiny Tunes is so dated now because it

always talks about being in the 90s and being

hip and cool. There's still a lot of things in

Tiny Tunes that are relatable today. I think

it's in season one, episode four, test dressed.

After the usual opening song, you go up to Buster's

little rabbit hole there. And he's getting ready,

and he shows that he's going to be late, and

he's like, hiya, Toonstars. Well, it's test day

at ACME Loo. Got a motor, you know? So, I mean,

it's that kind of stuff. You know, the catchphrases

that a lot of these characters had was just amazing.

Well, and I'm going to point this out. If anybody

says it's dated, let's stop and look back on

the original Looney Tunes. And I have to point

this out because a lot of the original Looney

Tunes had... Dated material that was pointing

back to things, you know characters of the 40s

you had References to Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra

and not like, you know The older stuff that maybe

you or I might have known like but like, you

know Frank Sinatra is as young and virile Right,

you know Mae West Remarks so it's yeah, you have

dating going on there with it. You have this

period piece but you know, I don't see this being

any different than what TinyTunes... I don't

see TinyTunes being any different than Looney

Tunes. Yeah. I mean... I only... Okay, so I spent...

I gave you a list, I think, of maybe 10 or 20

out of the 65, and I spent about three and a

half, four hours before we recorded this watching

all of those episodes. Of course... Because of

the website that we go to that we use and I'm

not going to reveal it even though they are on

Facebook now that I found out But it doesn't

matter I'm still not gonna reveal what it is.

Most people already know what the site is, but

I just do not want to lose that resource So I

went on the site and as I'm watching the episodes

I'm like, ooh, you know music television of the

90s or life in the 90s and whatever else and

then it shows up as like five episodes before

I'm like wait this I had to report to them I'm

like, there's something wrong with the Tiny Toons

thing on season one because some episodes say

it's one episode, like Promise Her Anything.

One of the episodes showed Promise Her Anything,

but it was a different titled episode. They were

just labeled wrong or numbered wrong or whatever.

I don't know. So, but it was one of those things

where I spent a total of four and a, you know,

three and a half, four hours today going through

the season one episodes on that list and just.

It's not even really nostalgic as I remember

watching the show, but really my memories of

watching Tiny Toons are of the morning beginning.

I remember that like it's like it's yesterday.

Oh, my God, I remember seeing that when Fox,

like I want to say it was, yeah, Fox or maybe

it was WB. Anyway, they had a prime time premiere

of that show, and I remember seeing it. I went.

Oh, this is cool. How often do you see cartoons

at like eight o 'clock at night? And I remember

watching and going, oh, oh, I'm so going to watch

this thing because it just it looked too funny.

You know, it it wasn't the standard Mooney Tunes,

which at the time I remember watching Mooney

Tunes as a kid and going, OK, this is kind of

stupid, but OK, whatever. You know, ha ha ha

ha. Bugs is going to blow up, you know, blow

up Elmer Fudd type of thing. It wasn't as fun.

Looney Tunes or Tiny Tunes when I saw it and

they're piecing it together with the older characters,

you know Daffy Duck getting kicked out of Warner

Brothers Studios. I was like, oh my god, this

is great. This is what I wanted to see Philistines,

yes You're the light of my life my precious statuette.

Oh Oh, hi there folks Yeah, the good folks at

Warner Brothers wanted me to introduce this this

special episode of tiny tune adventures And you

know, of course, I said for you guys anything

as long as I get paid they hand him a check and

He drops it it bounces and he says I do not accept.

Yeah Everything about the Looney Beginning was

absolutely fantastically well done. The animation,

the character, the creation of the... It's not

often in cartoons nowadays that you see the actual

creation of a character in a show. Oh, yeah.

Very rarely do we see that, if at all. You know,

I just absolutely... love that very first episode.

My favorite part of that, my absolute favorite

part was when we get introduced to the villains

and they break open that box, the do not open

box, and obviously it's like a Pandora's box,

and you see all these nasty villains coming out,

and then Babs and Buster look over the edge and

they're like, Buster. Buster's not bastard. Wow.

Damn, dude. I know, I know, I know. Buster looks

over the edge and he says, hey, Babsy, come take

a look at the leftovers. Yeah. Montana Max with,

you know, his fire and brimstone coming out and

Elmira. I like the fact that they kind of listed

Dizzy as a villain, but you really didn't see

him as that stuff. Dizzy is not a villain. He

is a ladies man. Yeah, okay, I'll go with that

because I really didn't see him as like this

villain I'm like, you know, he isn't but okay

Yeah, I mean that's where they kind of roped

him in but dizzy is when when you had dizzy devil

cartoons it was either he was part of Elmira's

thing of capture the animals or The fire I mentioned

earlier about the promise or anything episode

They're doing, you know, a junior prom at Acme

Lu. And Dizzy comes with this, basically, she's

basically Fifi Lafoum. Not Fifi Lafoum, who is

the red? Who's from the droopy cartoons? Oh God,

what is, Neil is just yelling at his computer

right now. You know who I'm talking about. She's

basically a blonde version of the chick that

that droopy is always hanging around. Right,

it was like a Mae West type character. Yeah,

yeah. So, you know, you had that. You know what

the funny thing is? I didn't get to mention this

over on Talking About My Generation when we talked

about portable games with the Game Gear. I think

I mentioned it, but I don't... Like, the first

time... Outside of television that I saw a Tiny

Toons episode was on the Game Gear. I don't remember

which episode it was, but I do remember seeing

the opening on an actual Game Gear, because the

Game Gear did have a TV tuner in it. Or you could

get an adapter, so I don't know. We're not here

to talk about the games. So there's that. And

because we've dedicated... This episode and last

week's episode, Duck Dodger Season 1, to the

memory of Joe Oleski. Plucky Duck. Oh my god.

It's... Go ahead. Oh, I was just gonna say, I'm

exploding with talent. You know, I'm not even

close to being a Joe Oleski character. Yeah,

obviously. But, you know, the one thing that

I always... Just a... I'll have the audio in

here somewhere, but when he says, you can't pull

this show off without me right before that, he

says, it's just a cotton tail picking Minuto

here. He says Minuto, and all I can think of

is freaking Ricky Martin in Minuto. Oh, God.

See, we got Plucky, you know, and he asks, you

know, so what's my role, you know, or just King?

Buster comes up to him. No, you're a sidekick.

Sidekick? No way. Hampton's the sidekick type.

He's got all the earmarks for being a sidekick.

Pulls Hampton out of wherever he was and pulls

his ear and it says sidekick. Oh yeah. And Tom

Ruger, the guy is epic and amazing right before

this started. He did a pop named spooky do and

we've talked about that on to cast classic We've

talked about it over and talking about my generation

regardless of how anyone feels about that cartoon

Tom Ruger's style in the way he has his writers,

right in the way he has his creators create is

just Amazing. Oh god. Yeah You know there there's

an episode of Scooby -Doo where they have to

go down a chute And it basically pauses on the

show a pub named Scooby -Doo. I think I said

that. But anyway, on a pub named Scooby -Doo,

there's an episode where they have to go down

a chute. Or they end up getting, you know, hit

by a trap door or something. And it basically

pauses the screen as they're going down. Basically,

you know, kind of like, kind of like the old

Looney Tunes things, you know. Kind of one -sided,

isn't it? There's basically a sign there that

says, hey, hey kids, look. it's a classic shoot

gag you know it's that kind of stuff and it brings

that humor and his team brings that humor to

this here with Tiny Toons and they are able to

do so many things by making these characters

their own but they still have the influences

of the classic Looney Tunes characters they are

Buster is no bugs no Babs is is unlike any of

the Looney Tunes characters. Plucky, he's kind

of like Daffy, but he has his moments. He has

his own character, but I would say out of all

of them, he is the most closely, I mean Buster

has wisecrackers like Bugs did. Oh yeah. You

know, Hampton, I don't ever remember Porky being

the straight guy, not saying that. You know what

I mean? Like, it just depended on what you were

doing with Porky and who he was acting opposite

in the Looney Tunes stuff. But, go ahead. Well,

he was, you know, Hampton was great though. I

mean, just the fact that they gave him the neurotic,

whoa, you know, of, oh my god, everything has

to be super clean. You know, I'm obsessed with

that. And here he's supposed to be a pig, living

in a pigsty with mud and dirt all over the place.

He did off since they did a great, great job

with that. Especially when you get into some

of his family, which that I know we'll get into

when we talk about how I spent my summer vacation.

Yeah, that's going to be a whole other episode

because I... Outside of a loony beginning and

a few of the other episodes, that is the only

thing I really remember. And when I already watched

it recently, not for this recording, but it was

on, I think when the hub actually was still the

hub in my discovery. Like, you know, it had aired

on there and I watched it and I'm like, this

is nothing like I thought it was. Like it's nothing

for like, I know they go on a vacation. I know

they go on a road trip. It's basically a... a

vacation parody but it isn't anything like like

I didn't realize it was all plucky and Hampton

for the most part of the of the special there

oh yeah and I'm not not complaining about that

at all um I'm just saying that I just wasn't

really sure about um you know as far as that

goes uh for those that don't know jumping on

the casting couch here Charlie Adler was Buster

Bunny. He was also Yosemite Sam in the Wide World

of Elmira. Joe Oleski was Plucky, Batman in Gangbusters,

George Washington's Ghost, Hugo, Marvin the Martian,

Pete Puma, Porky Pig in Music Day. Speedy Gonzalez,

he actually voiced Steven Spielberg in Kayak

Me TD. Sylvester Wiley Coyote Yosemite Sam in

Gang Busters. Danny Cooksey was Montana Max.

Yeah, the little gunhead from Different Strokes,

Montana Max. Hey, it works. Oh yeah. John Kasser

was Buster in several episodes because there

were only a few episodes that Charlie did not

do it. Maurice LaMarche was Dizzy Devil, Abraham

Lincoln's Ghost, Dick Clark, Jackster, Orson

Wales, Robin Killam's, Tim Burton, Tom Ruger

in Yosemite Sam, Chess McNeil is Babs Bunny,

Babs's Mom, Baby Duff, Barbara Bush, Julia, Barbara

Bush, Julia Roberts, Madonna, Mama Bear, Monty's

Mother, Flucky's Mother, Roseanne Barr, Whoopi

Goldberg, Witch Hazel, and what makes Toons tick.

He had Gail Mathis as Shirley DeLune. Sherry

Stoner voiced Shirley McVean. Don Messick was

Hampton, J Pig, and Bosco. Candy Milo was Sweetie.

Rob Paulson was Odd with the Pit Bull. He was

also Foul Mouth. I love Fowl Mouse. We'll talk

about him in a bit. I'm so excited to be out

here. You had... You had, let's see, Kath Suzy

as Sneezer. You had Tree Summer as Amyra and

Mary Melody. Yeah, Frank Welker as GoGo. Oh,

Frank GoGo the Dodo. If there was anybody that

could ever, and no one really can, but if there

was anybody that could ever replace one of Mel's

voices, Frank Welker as GoGo. Oh. Yeah. Simply

amazing. And I believe I read somewhere that

he is the only one, GoGo Dodo is the only character

in the entire series that is actually a descendant

of The Last of the Dogos from the original Porky

and Wackyland. I would believe that. Yeah. You

had a bunch of other actors. You had Michael

Bell as Batman in Hollywood Plucky. You have

Jeff Bennett in Batman in Return of the Bat Duck.

Bob Bergen was Porky Pig in In the Maniacs and

in Hero Hampton. Jeff Birdman was Bugs and Daffy

and Foghorn, Dr. IQ High, Duck Vader, Elmer Fudd

and Her Wacky Highness, and it just lists them

all by various episodes and things like that

as far as which ones were in. The two that I

was surprised to see was Noel Blank being Bugs

Bunny in the Tiny Toons Christmas Special, Porky

Pig in Fields of Hunting and Acne Bowl, and the

Tasmanian Devil in You Asked For it Part 1. And

of course Casey case I'm playing flaky flakums

Yeah, obviously that was that was a problem.

I'll bet you that was you know massive going

Hey, Casey, you want some work here for a day?

Yeah, good old good old Casey So That's the cast

did you have a favorite character as a kid and

do you have one still now? Is it the same character

is it different? Oh man see It's really kind

of a toss -up. I I had I had a couple because

I had You know buster and bugs for my or buster

and bad for my favorites Because they were kind

of no -nonsense. They were they were screwed

around both building off of each other and then

as just a kind of weird little aside was Calamity

Coyote and the reason for Calamity was because

he was The one episode that I saw of him where

he's doing this whole narration and it's basically

He's Oh God, what's his name? What do you he's

Woody Allen? Woody Allen, you know, he has the

whole he has the whole monologue like you hear

Woody Allen doing for start of Mr. Director No,

that's in a maniacs. I was just totally wrong.

What episode? What episode was this? Oh, God,

it was like it was like in season three. Oh,

OK. I don't want to talk about season one. Yeah.

But I mean, Calamity was still probably still

kind of cool to see him in there. So GoGo, I

I got to admit, much as I like Frank Walker,

I didn't care for GoGo when I was a kid. He just

seemed too weird and creepy to me. I think my

favorite line from him actually happens in a

loony beginning where they shoot him off to wacky

land, and he basically says, home, surreal home.

What I love about GoGo is that, okay, so. We

all know the original Last of the Dodo's. He

had one voice, and to me it was like a Jimmy

Durante kind of sounding voice, even though I

know what was Mel doing the voice, but it was

kind of like Jimmy Durante a little bit. I always

thought it was. And with GoGo, it allowed us

to hear very... because Frank, just like Mel,

Frank is a guy of... multiple thousands of different

voices and sound effects and what Frank Walker

can go into a studio sit down next to his fellow

cast members without even really making a facial

tick he somehow can project a cricket on the

other side of the room and the sound engineer

thinks it's something on his board I mean the

guy is a sound effect genius so with gogo Even

as a kid, I liked him because of the fact that

it was Frank being able to do so many different

types of voices for one character. Yeah. You

know. For me, my favorite as a kid was Buster.

Buster and Babs both. Today, I kind of like them

all because they're just... It's not even nostalgia

looking back on it. Like I said, I don't have...

I have nostalgia for the... being able to have

remembered watching the show. I just don't have

a lot of vivid memories of what episode I watched

where. I just know the characters. I have nostalgia

more for the characters than I do for, you know...

I did a whole podcast on Transformers G1. I can

name you almost every single favorite episode

out of that entire 98 episode cartoon series,

but... I can't do that with Tiny Toons. I can

name off a few things about several different

episodes that I remember. Everybody remembers

Plucky as Bat -Duck and all that, and there's

anything else. I loved Hollywood Plucky. Hollywood

Plucky was awesome. Because you had all these

stars come in. You had Batman come in with the

Batmobile. I mean, come on. And this was right

around that turn where, you know, Warner Brothers

was hitting it big with things like Batman and

Batman Returns and, you know, Home Alone 45 and

all that. Yeah, no, we didn't get to 45 yet.

So I just absolutely adored most of the characters

now. As a kid, like I said, it was probably Buster

and Babs. Talking about the music here, since

we're still talking about the cast, voice director

extraordinaire Andrea Romano auditioned over

1200 voices for the series and chose more than

a dozen main voice actors. Roll of Buster was

given to Charlie Adler who gave the role as producer

Tom Ruger said a great deal of energy. The role

of Babs is given to Tress. Writer Paldini said

that McNeil was good for the role because she

could do both Babs' voice and the voices of her

impressions. Joe Oleski and Don Messick were

given Lucky and Hampton, respectively. Dan Cooksey

played Montana Max. According to Paldini, he

was good for the role because he could do a tremendous

mean voice. Cooksey was also the only voice actor

in the cast who was not an adult at the time.

I've seen a clip of him actually doing the Montana

Max laugh and it was something they did on like

a behind the scenes or behind the music or something

like that type of thing for E! Entertainment

and to see him do it, it was hilariously creepy.

He's got this crazy look in his eyes as he's

laughing which is like, oh this is so good. This

is so cool. Yeah, you'll have to show me that

because I don't remember seeing that So for the

music During the development of the show Steven

Spielberg said that Warner Brothers would use

a full orchestra with some thought Which some

thought too expensive and impossible, but they

ended up agreeing Warner Brothers selected Bruce

Broughton to write the theme for which he would

win a daytime Emmy along with Tom Ruger and Wayne

Katz who both worked with Broughton on the lyrics

and served as music supervisor. In addition to

scoring 11 episodes, Broughton shows 26 other

composers to score each different episode. Steve

and Julie Berenstain, Stephen Bramson, Don Davis,

John Dabney, Carl Johnson, and a lot of these,

some of these names I do recognize because they've

worked with Shirley Walker over the years when

she was still alive at the time. Yeah. I just

love the music for Tiny Toons. I love the music

cues. I love the ins and outs so that the theme

song after watching so many episodes at once

kind of gets on my nerves, but that's because

if you marathon it, you know, that'll happen.

But overall, the theme song in general, absolutely

love it. I love how they're able to change it.

That's what's original. We'll talk about that

as we go down the line here. Not today, but as

we get to season two, season three. For, I remember,

I think it's Night Ghoulery that they completely

changed. It's still the main tune. It's still

the overall Tiny Toon's music, but the lyrics

they changed to fit the Night Ghoulery special.

And I just absolutely love that. I thought that

was great. So getting into some episodes here

out of season one. We already talked about the

loony beginning a bunch of times Episode four

has It's called test dress never too late to

loon Which is basically plucky asking Shirley

balloon to turn him into Albert Einstein to help

him. He's been passed his math test. Yeah You

got little sneezer So that's for the cat tests

furball by asking to catch a mouse and the mouse

sneezer sneezes repeatedly and ports for walls

attempts to catch him And then the infamous,

um, to bleep or not to bleep. Fowlmouth tries

to ask Shirley on a date, but she shuns him because

of his profane language. Buster then tries to

control Fowlmouth, after discovering that he

does not swear around young children. I love

the Fowlmouth episode, because it's Rob Paulson

getting to be Rob Paulson with bleeps. Oh yeah.

And he said when he was doing that that they

had to bleep out so much and he just started

on a roll and he was like And they came to him.

They're like, dude, you can't say that Yeah,

and he's just like well we're bleeping it out,

right? They're like, yeah, but all we're hearing

is bleep I guess they had he said he had to go

through and do it a couple of times because he

got too foul So You got, um, it's Buster Bunny

Time, which is basically a parody of Howdy Doody.

And this is where one of the best lines of Omira,

Buster, and Plucky happens. Uh, you know, oh,

here's our favorite puppet pal, Plucky. This

is my role in today's show. We don't want the

Duck. He's a stinky goo head. We want the cute

bunny. And then Buster's like, you know, Myra's

a revolting and Flucky goes, what else is new?

Absolutely love that. This episode, it's Buster

Bunny Time has bagged that bunny, which is, I

don't know, Myra paying calamity to help her

catch Buster despite several attempts he fails

to catch Buster. and is then taken home by Elmira.

Instead, Lifestyles of the Rich and Rotten, this

parody of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,

Buster and Babs attempt to interview Montana

Max. And this is truly where I think that the

Envelenia theme song came from. This is really

where I truly think... The Animaniacs and Valenya

theme came from the Anvil Chorus. Anvil's repeatedly

fallen plucky during playing of Giuseppe Verdi's

The Anvil Chorus. The finale features Cannon

shooting that plucky to the tune of Tchaikovsky's

1812 Overture. And I love the fact that they

did something like this, because this was like

a running thing throughout the Looney Tunes versions,

you know. I like when you had what's opera doc,

I mean come on, how many of us learn classical

music and opera from Looney Tunes? This is a

perfect example of it. And then one of the other

episodes I watched that we watched for this,

welcome to the Acme Acres Zone. I think the best

part about the Acme Acres Zone episodes are the

wraparounds where Buster and Babs are talking

like Rod Sterling from from the Twilight Zone.

Yes. I mean, the cartoons themselves are OK.

I don't. Excuse me, I don't dislike them, but.

Yeah, I mean, the whole bit like the bacon strip

where, you know, Hampton has to sneak back in

because he has no clothes. His clothes got stolen.

Yeah, like. OK, yeah, I guess that's kind of

funny, but. Then we had Promise or Anything,

which is basically Buster asking Babs to the

prom at the last minute. Everybody else has got

a date. Buster can't dance, so he learns Bugs's

old vaudeville kind of dance routine that would

always... And also I can think of when I'm watching

Buster do this is I know this is sad folks also

anything It was Elmer in a dress because that's

where I remember those dance moves from is that

that short from looney tunes And I'm trying to

think there was an episode later and I want to

say it was the MTV episode where later on we

actually get to see Buster and he's singing along

to do you love me now that I can dance and he's

like doing this whole thing to Babs and he's

like doing all these dance moves and she's like

looking at him like he's absolutely crazy and

just like yeah whatever whatever so it kind of

ties into that and I love that. The other episode

that I absolutely love that I still watched for

this was was Cinemaniacs. Cinemaniacs is epic

because this is basically Buster and Babs theater

-hopping at the multiplicks. And the films that

they theater -hop to is Super Babs, Duck Trek,

and Pasadena Jones. Because we are homaging and

remembering Joe Oleski. His Kirk as Plucky? Oh.

Genius! Yeah. Just... you're... Bloody genius.

All of the actors portraying and mimicking the

Star Trek cast. Just awesome. Just simply awesome.

Danny Cooksey in Super Babs as Lex Wuther. That

was so... I did like that. That was pretty cool.

But we've all, you know, the reason why I think

this episode... appeals to a lot of us that grew

up with this show is because everybody in the

90s theater -hopped as kids. We all theater -hopped

as kids. We all did as teenagers and stuff like

that. Citizen Max, how can you not like Citizen

Max? It's a Citizen Kane parody. Well, and you

know that Maurice Lamarce was just like, he was

looking at this and going, oh my god, I have

to do Orson Welles. I have to let me do stuff

for it. Yeah, and the whole thing is Max they

assume that Max is yelling acne and he's not

yelling acne. He's yelling acne But yeah, okay,

so then we had in season one we've got let's

see Sawdust and Toon soul go go dodo and other

Wacky land characters are kidnapped by a circus

owner and have to be rescued by Buster and Babs

and plucky I like that one, it's alright. Let's

see... Animaniacs, which has nothing to do with

the actual show. Yeah, I remember seeing that

and thinking, wow, did I miss this episode? And

I remember actually seeing the episode, but I

didn't remember the name as being linked to it.

Yeah. Buster, this is the episode where Buster

shows Plucky out of a cartoon, which again, I

think this is really cool. Yes. Not only do you

have this in a loony beginning where you have

them show you one way of making a cartoon and

getting a show on together or whatever else,

you have this now where you're actually showing

the process in a very cartoonish and funny way.

I will just kind of put a little thing in here

because I remember seeing there was an episode

of Phineas and Ferb where they kind of did this.

Yeah. And when I saw it on Phineas and Ferb,

this episode, the Animaniacs episode was immediately

what I flashed back to. And all I could think

of was them going through making jokes and, you

know, go -go -dodo being the storyboard artist

and all sorts of stuff all over. This is what

I remembered. Not anything was to me confirmed.

Yeah. But the Animaniacs episode of Science and

Adventure is the coolest thing about this, the

best line out of the whole thing. This is revenge

for all those rabbit season signs, isn't it,

you sadist? That and... it's short! We love it!

It wins! Yeah. Exactly. That was classic. There's

an episode dating Acme Acres style, which is

interesting. The diversity days. Best O 'Plucky

Duck Day. Hero Hampton. Whale's Tales. Ask Mr.

Popular, Son of the Loan University Days, Fairy

Tales for the 90s, Who Bobbed Bugs Bunny was

probably a favorite of mine as well. That's basically

the one with, it's a parody of Who Framed Roger

Rabbit, but Saffy Stanley tries to eliminate

Bugs and frame Daffy for the crime. Luckily Buster

and Babs are on the case. Saffy, it's funny how

they are able to work in all of these characters.

It's like, oh, I was more, you know, in this

episode, you know, oh, I was, I was more famous

than that guy. And they basically create a whole

character saying that he was around back then.

It's the same thing when they did Slappy with

her, her arch nemesis and whatever else. And,

oh my God, I can't wait till we start doing,

because eventually we're going to do Animaniacs

season reviews. The one I remember from Slappy

and Stiffy, the best one they ever did was Critical

Condition. Critical Condition is the one where

they go after Siskel and Ebert. May they rest

in peace. I probably have seen it, but I don't

remember. I can't think of it too likely. Oh.

Oh, yes. You know. Yes. Because it has Mary Heartless

in it. But anyway, we'll talk about that later.

You had Tiny Toon Music Television, which...

This is where I knew of they might be Giants'

version of Istanbul, not Constantinople. I've

had that stuck in my head for five friggin' years!

Istanbul, not Constantinople, not Constantinople.

That and then you hit Particle Man. I remember

Particle Man and seeing Busy Devil playing the

accordion and that was like, it was a stupid

thing, but that's what stuck in my mind for Particle

Man. Yup. You had, let's see, what's another

good one? The other one we had was KayakMeTV,

which is kind of the last one we'll kind of talk

about. It's a collection of TV parodies starting

with the Sign of Things cast. Some of the targets

are Super Mario Brothers, Jeopardy, I Love Lucy,

The Wonder Years, Honey, We Shrunk the Kids,

People's Court, and Lucky Charms. The lucky charms,

the plucky charms, oh my god, the plucky worms,

oh no. As much as I love plucky, and how awesome

he is, and how awesome Joe is, I'm sorry, no.

The Mario Brothers, the super plucky old brothers,

that was hilarious. I love that, that was great.

Are there any other ones that I haven't brought

up in season one that you want to talk about?

I'm trying to think it probably This part of

the problem. I can't think of like some of the

ones that showed up later I don't want to mention

stuff that's in season. Well, yeah, we don't

want to mention season two or season three Because

we'll get to those eventually I know there's

like there's baby plucky, but that's yeah I think

that's in season two because I have not seen

him I'll have to look that up. Yeah Overall,

going back and looking at Tiny Toons Season 1

out of all the episodes we watched, can you safely

say that this is still a very, very awesome cartoon?

Oh, God, yes. I would sit my niece down in front

of this. You know, she's 15 now. I would love

for her to sit here and watch this show. Yeah,

I understand that some of the jokes would probably

be over her head because she'd be like, I don't

get how this interfaces, but... She would absolutely

adore this. My, you know, my youngest niece and

nephew were, oh my God, they're seven and five.

Good God. Yeah, if they were to sit down in front

of the TV and watch this, they'd love it. They

would absolutely get a kick out of it. And I

still think that, you know, kids today will still

find this as just enjoyable as much as I did.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean I don't see why you

wouldn't All right, so we have let's see here

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Yeah, sorry folks baby plucky went down the season

two hole so we'll have to talk about baby plucky

next time Yeah, because he does show up in in

in season season two Overall I I love watching

this show. I can't wait till we actually get

to be able to actually watch all of the episodes.

I'm sure there might be some we skip, but the

whole idea of the season passes here on Tooncast

Beyond is that we do get to watch all of them.

It's just 65 episodes. That's a lot of cartoons,

folks. Yeah. I mean, I might as well have created

a Tiny Toon Adventures separate podcast outside

of Tooncast, if we're going to do that. Yeah.

Yeah. So Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1. The music

the animation the acting the voice acting the

characters all Simply simply amazing even after

all these years. I still can give it a four or

five stars There are certain episodes and certain

gags that kind of rubbed me the wrong way now,

but it's still Mostly very very well done. What

about you? Yeah for I would say probably four

and a half stars out of five just because I love

it so much it's It's one that's still good even

after 20 plus years Yeah All right, folks that's

gonna do it for episode 65 of tune cast beyond

What do you got coming up over on talking about

my generation well I have got oh You know, I'm

not sure quite yet what we're gonna be talking

about next Was going to do you know something

involving a giant boulder and you know Going

back into the past Nazis and that's just not

quite working out yet So I'll have something

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folks i know next time around i believe it's

going to be steve megatron and i talking about

Because it is episode 66 of Tooncast Beyond we're

going to have an order of 66 and we're gonna

be talking about some of the Lego Star Wars Animated

things stuff like the Yoda Chronicles the new

Yoda Chronicles the Padawan menace the Empire

Strikes Out that kind of stuff So that's what's

coming up there after that. I'm not sure To cast

bump beyond might be going on a small hiatus

I do still plan on doing a lot of episodes this

year, but I've got some other stuff going on

in Quote -unquote real life. So I've got to Ladies

and gentlemen, it's been a while since I've I

mean, I've pretty much been podcasting Non -stop

since my mom passed away almost a year ago kind

of like what I used to do before she got sick,

but at this point I am running like anywhere

between 10 and 15 different shows on GCRN and

I gotta prioritize and stretch out content and

all that stuff and Tooncast Beyond has had a

had a good run here I do know that we do I do

have plans up to at least episode 70 for now

and then maybe after that we'll get to 25 days

of Toon Beyond Christmas this year because I

know now with that website Resource that we have

I have no problem finding all the Christmas cartoons.

I need to find now. Yeah So beyond good beyond

evil beyond your wildest imagination This has

been to cast beyond episode 65 and I think we're

going to let the tiny tunes close it out See

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driving. Once again, thank you everyone for listening

to Tooncast Beyond, episode 65. As I said in

the beginning in the little vocal there, the

very beginning of the show, Tooncast Beyond is

going to be on hiatus from episode 65 until the...

probably September or so. August September we're

basically going to take the summer off folks

And during the summer even though we're not producing

or we're not publishing episodes even though

we're not giving you episodes We are going to

be producing and production wise episodes are

still going to be recorded and stuff like that

Even though I said I need to focus my attention

on that big 104 days of summer project I do still

plan on recording episode 66, 67, 67 .5, episode

68, 69, and 70. Because after episode 70, we

are going to have the 25 days of Tooncast Beyond

Christmas 2016. Now people, if you go back to

Tooncast Classic episode 30, we did a holiday

show, okay? It's not the best audio it was a

number of years ago was 2009 2010 so it was six

seven years ago something like that This is the

that's the reason because that audio is not the

best That's the reason that I wanted to start

doing 25 days of Tooncast Beyond Christmas and

in the first annual 25 days of Tooncast Beyond

Christmas I have 25 different episodes that are

going to be Christmas themed cartoon episodes

or movies I actually have been planning this

25 days of Tooncast Beyond Christmas for about

three years now. About three years ago, I went

and took a list from Wikipedia of every United

States -released animated cartoon I could think

of that was Christmas -themed. I made a list,

and I got 50 podcast episodes out of it. So basically,

you're going to get 25 days to gas beyond Christmas

2016 and then next year 25 days to gas beyond

Christmas 2017 so Just to give you a little preview

I'll give you a preview of the first five days

of this year's 25 days of to gas beyond Christmas

Day one the year without a Santa Claus day two

Santa Claus is coming to town day three Dexter's

lab Dexter versus Santa Claus CA C -L -A -W -S,

boy, I can't spell. Day four, Johnny Bravo, twas

the night. Day five, the Powerpuff Girls, twas

the fight before Christmas. So, even though as

of right now... Episode 65 is gonna be it on

the publishing end. We are still going to be

getting stuff recorded and ready for 25 days

to gas beyond Christmas We're gonna be getting

episode 66 to 70 recorded as well. How that's

going to go is from August to November We're

going to air 66 67 68 69 70 After episode 70

is when 25 days of to cast beyond Christmas 2016

will start and then after that we may take a

few weeks off and we're gonna come back next

year in 2017 with episodes 71 to 80 and 81 to

90 and all that stuff so I don't want anyone

to fret just because Tooncast Beyond is going

away for a little bit for now we are still going

to be getting stuff done behind the scenes It's

all for you guys. It's all to give you guys the

content that I know that you want. It's for myself

I love doing this stuff. I love talking about

cartoons with my friends with Steve Megatron

with my girlfriend spicy with You know Doug Abel

with Kevin optimus solo with whoever hell else

I can get to talk about Christmas cartoons or

whatever cartoons in general I do absolutely

enjoy it. That's why I do podcasting I podcast

mainly for myself But I try my best to give my

listeners and fans and friends You know stuff

that they want to hear about or talk about and

that kind of thing So thank you so much to everyone

who has been a part of tooncast beyond and even

all of you who were a part of tooncast classic

I mean that was two years of my life. That was

one of the flow one of the three flagship shows

that launched the GeekCast Radio Network back

in June of 2009. So, you know, thank you so much

to everybody and we will see you in the fall

with episode 66, Lego Star Wars, cartoons part

one.