Tiny Toon Adventures

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And in this cartoony, we're invading your TV.

We're comic dispensers, we crack the law of the

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of comedy. So here's at the acres, it's a whole

wide world apart. Our home sweet home it stands

alone, a cartoony work of art. The scripts were

rejected, except the unexpected. Our tiny toony

adventures is about to - And now our song is

done! Oh and welcome to the third episode of

yeah third episode of tooncast I had to think

there for a second I am tfd1 Mike and I'm joined

by Kevin Bosque dog and Dion hello guys It's

going and we are gonna be talking about tiny

tunes tiny tune adventures here in a little bit,

but Yeah, I've had kind of a rough week Yeah,

I wouldn't be wouldn't be surprised because I

believe it was Wednesday or Thursday morning

I woke up in a piece of my tooth chipped off

inside my mouth Yeah Exactly and You know, I'll

be the first to admit that I need dental work

badly, but I hate the dentist dentists are evil

My problem is they never let you breathe. I was

I believe I was I was 12 years old and Yeah,

go back down memory lane with me. I was 12 years

old. I told the dude I said look unless you let

me breathe I'm gonna end up puking all over you

and all over this chair Exactly he kept going

in and going in and everything else about five

minutes later. I had no water I could not breathe

and I heaved up all over him his nurse and in

the entire chair and myself Yeah Yeah, but Yeah,

it's been a very very often in strange week.

I don't know. What is the deal? I actually uninstalled

the The update to Pamela call recorder. So hopefully

this audio will be okay for some odd reason It's

still jumbling. I don't know if it's the recorder.

I don't know if it's Skype Steve and I recorded

an episode of geek cast radio on Saturday And

it still did the same thing with my voice coming

out louder and it kind of running on top of each

other I don't know Not really sure so what's

been going on with you guys? I'm in summer mode,

so every week's a weird week for me. Speaking

of the dentist, though, I did just make a dentist

appointment for, let's see, probably in about

10 days. And I think it's going to be the first

time I've been in the dentist for, I don't know,

two, three years. So I'm with you. Yeah, yeah.

I'm like you guys. I know that dental work is

important. Yeah, you should always go into the

dentist once in a while to get your teeth checked.

But it's like, eh. Get that thing away from me.

Exactly. Exactly. I did see two movies this week

that I'd been wanting to see. We saw The Hangover

and Gran Torino. They're interesting. The movie

experience in the theater for Hangover is quite

the different movie experience, that's for sure.

We got vinyl put down in our apartment a couple

days ago, Friday. We're noticing now that the

kitchen and the dining room has a bit of an acoustic

echo to it. So we actually did that though for

the kids because sometimes my son and stepson

like to eat all over the place and they spill

things every now and then and most kids do. So

we figured, you know what? this is easier to

clean than carpet exactly that's why we did it

yes good move yeah they only here's the thing

thursday night we get we we we unhook you know

my girlfriend's computer and you know my talking

reading machine and we unhook it and we move

it all into the living room and my son who's

a year old almost two he's trying to help you

know pull move a big huge ass table with a computer

sitting on it and he means well he doesn't understand

that it's heavy you know but so he's helping

me you know with the light stuff i give him the

light stuff to move because i obviously don't

want him hurting himself you know then my girlfriend's

uh aunt or cousin came over and That you know

gave her a high chair and you know some extra

stuff and some extra clothes because she had

a baby So yeah, we had a busy Thursday night

and then Friday I was cooped up in the back bedroom

and I forgot you know what? I have a laptop damn

it. I can get on the internet So I but I was

also tired too. It was just like Friday Just

was one of those days that it just all sunk in

so it was just really really really crazy Yes,

I'm sure it was actually Now that I've actually

finished my tiny tunes watching for our topic

today I've started on Voltron and oh my god.

I'll be watching Voltron all week for next Sunday's

recording. Oh Crap not that I don't like the

cartoon, but it's just I just looked at the sets

on my on my on my DVD thing the other day I'm

like oh Should I have five? five DVD sets with

three discs apiece, and I have to watch all these

by next Sunday. What the fuck was I thinking

when I made this podcast? Oh, I forgot the biggest

thing I did this week, actually. I had a friend

come over, and for about, I want to say almost

12 hours, we went from one cartoon to another

just kind of having a marathon. We hit everything.

We hit Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Super Mario Bros.,

Super Show, Thundercats, Dungeons & Dragons,

Cops... I can't remember that cartoon! Oh my

god! It was just 12 hours of nonsense. So I did

have that going on this week, so that was kind

of a fun trip down memory lane. Yeah, that's

cool. Let's see I'm trying to think there was

a oh I guess we can go ahead and get into today's

topic Which is actually the predecessor to Animaniacs

tiny tune adventures I said in episode two that

I don't know what I was thinking when I made

the schedule I don't think I was because I didn't

realize at the time that tiny tunes came before

Animaniacs But that's what we will be discussing

today, and I think it's time for the history

lesson already good Good evening, Cartoon Nerds.

It's Professor Boss K -Dog bringing you another

history lesson. For episode three, we travel

back in time to actually 1990 for Steven Spielberg

Presents, as we said before, Tiny Toon Adventures.

The Tiny Toon Adventures, like Animaniacs, was

a Warner Brothers production. aired in half -hour

installments and almost always had at least two,

if not three, four individual cartoons within

that half hour. The show premiered in syndication

in September of 1990 after a sneak preview special

which aired September 14th of that year. It was

later picked up by Fox where it aired from September

of 1992 to September of 1995. It has since been

rebroadcast obviously on numerous occasions,

most notably on Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network.

in all the Tiny Toon Adventures lasted for three

seasons and included a hundred episodes. The

cartoon itself was set in the fictional city

of Acme Acres where most of the Tiny Toons and

the Looney Toons before them live. The show's

main setting was Acme University, a school whose

faculty primarily consists of the mainstays of

the classic Warner Brothers cartoons, such as

Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, et cetera. In the series,

the university was founded to teach cartoon characters

how to become funny. The show focuses on the

antics of the students of Acme University, Babs

and Buster Bunny, Plucky Duck, and a whole other

cast of characters which we're going to get to

shortly. The show is basically a test for the

young Warner Brothers animation firm. If they

were successful with Tiny Toons, the sky was

the limit for future endeavors. It was designed

kind of to follow the mold of using established

characters to gain interest that some of their

competitors had been using, such as Disney with

DuckTales and Chippendale Rescue Rangers. And

they also, in a way, used another idea that was

kind of the fad at the moment, which was creating

younger groups of those established characters.

We're also going to get into that a little bit

later. But for now, that is the history lesson.

So let's move on to the rest of the show, Class

Dismissed. yes and um... it should be mentioned

even though i do not i wish i'd went ahead and

grabbed it i can't do it now but the funniest

thing about uh... buster and babs uh... after

they would always say you know i'm buster and

and i'm babs bunny if that they would say no

relation afterwards because they were technically

best friends and they were not related uh...

as far as my memories of this it was like This

was like what Animaniacs had later. It took off.

Everybody was watching this thing in the early

90s. I mean, it was a mainstay afternoon cartoon.

It's not like nowadays where practically nobody

watches weekday afternoon cartoons anymore, as

far as I know. Nobody I know does anyway. Or

has kids that do, other than like that purple

bastard Barney. But anyway, I really did like

this. As of now and we can go into how it held

up later, but I think that it's it's very dated

at this point Just because there are some episodes

where Buster says that you know It's the 90s

and it's hip to be following everybody and it's

you know this that the other thing It's a it's

a funny show. I think the characters that most

Most disturbed me was Elmira We'll get to her

later. We'll talk about her later, but yeah,

that's my memories of it it overall I I do like

it, and I'm glad it's on DVD Yeah for me. This

is kind of similar obviously the Animaniacs.

I was Probably in the middle school, junior high

age when this was coming out, at least when it

was really popular. So I was kind of not into

cartoons as much as I had been, obviously when

like Transformers and G .I. Joe and all them

were out. But I do remember it being one of the

first shows where I knew, at least one of the

first cartoon shows where I memorized lines from

it. I always remember the little plucky duck

with the, you know, go down the hole or push

the butt or whatever. and the same with Elmira

with, you know, I'm gonna hug you and love you

and squeeze you forever type thing. So it's one

of the first cartoon shows I can actually remember.

Well, besides maybe Yo -Joe, remembering the

actual lines from the cartoon. So that's pretty

much my memory for Tiny Toons. Tiny Toons for

me was just, you know, when I saw it, it was

very humorous. It had a lot of heart, I think.

Steven Spielberg. can really put a lot of heart

into cartoons, even though it's a kid's show.

A lot of the characters that I liked, of course,

was, one of them was Plucky Duck and, of course,

Babs and Buster Bunny, even though they weren't

related. But they were funny to watch. All the

characters were. And Myra, even though she was

a bit annoying, yes, she did have her moments

in the cute department. No, that was an overwhelming

amount of cute. Oh my god That was like No, no

No No, what I mean like I mean like sickly cute

I mean like, you know having someone yeah. Oh,

yeah. I mean like, you know Like having a whole

bunch of Having a giant box of sugar sticks and

eating the entire box and you just overloaded

on sugar. That's how bad Elmira is That gets

us that gets us right into the characters and

the voice actors Maybe we can go around and say

our favorite favorite and least favorite characters.

I can start My least favorite character would

have to be Montana I could not stand him. I could

not stand him back then when I was a kid watching

it this week. I can't stand him still So he was

by far my least favorite and I think my favorite

would have to be both the the young and the regular

version of plucky Yes, I actually do have something

for Monty. Let's see if it works I think I'll

go next I actually liked a majority of of these

characters and I know we're gonna get into this

down the line, but This show Even though they

are kind of like direct descendants of each Looney

Tune like Buster is obviously his his influence

in any his prayers his idle is is bugs uh...

same thing with plucky and daffy and hampton

and porky and so on and so forth uh... but i

would have to say that money leased outside of

elmira my least favorite character or actually

have to it was um... uh... cc and uh... swede

okay uh... i'd just i don't know swede is I understand

they were going for a younger version of Tweety,

but I don't know. It's just she's mixed in with

that type of dual personality of, you know, don't

mess with me or I'm going to do this to you.

And then she goes all sweet on you. It's like,

oh, God. Yeah. How about you, Dan? Babs and Buster.

Were your favorites? Were my favorites, yes,

because I think that Just some of the Some of

the comedic stuff they could do together, you

know, whether it be a duo or as you know, whether

it be duo or solo They were just very very funny

I also liked and I hope I'm getting the name

right. It was a I think it was Shirley. Was it

Shirley? Yeah, sure. Shirley the Loon. Shirley

the Loon. Yes She was very funny at times So

those would probably be my three. I think I think

I think I think I like Monty not because of not

because I think I like Monty because he just

had a really angry personality. Yes. You know,

I mean, I guess we could say this now. All of

the all of the characters in Tiny Toons were,

as we said before, were younger versions of the

Looney Tunes characters. Babs and Buster were,

you know, mixes of bugs. Actually, Babs was kind

of her role model in the show. I saw an episode

about it was actually Honey, Bosco's girlfriend

in the original, in the old, old Looney Tunes

days, in the very first Tunes. But Hampton, like

I said before, is obviously a protege after Porky.

Montana Max is actually supposed to be a Yosemite

Sam type. Right. Yeah, well that didn't work.

The other one that's maybe not as obvious to

people, Elmira. Elmer. Yeah, Elmer. So that was

kind of a different take on that. Well, the big

difference in that is Elmer actually wanted to

shoot the animals. She wants to love them. She

wants to love them and squeeze them to death.

Which usually ends up in the same result. You

get dead animals either if you're shooting them

or if you're loving them to death and squeezing

them and putting them in cages and stuff like

that. Right. Guess there was one or besides obviously

the regular characters that we've mentioned.

There was a couple other ones that we haven't

mentioned yet go go Furball after Sylvester yeah

Sylvester and calamity coyote. Yeah, I think

we're the other ones and then Little beeper was

after Roadrunner Yeah, I think I think what the

Difference I'm gonna probably bring up animaniacs

a lot so I apologize ahead of time But I think

the difference for me between these two I think

the main characters in both shows were excellent

But I just like the side characters and animaniacs

better And I don't know if it's just because

I didn't like Elmira in Montana very much But

that was kind of one of the drawbacks for Tiny

Toons is I loved the main characters I just didn't

like some of the you know the excess rating characters

if you want to make up a word there for the show

Going into the Going more in depth into the voice

acting The role 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

was given to Tress McNeil writer Paul Dini said

that McNeil was a good for the role because she

could do both Babs voice and the voices of her

impressions now on a side note the the impressions

that were done. I don't know if you guys watched

the very first episode of Looney Beginning when

they first end up drawing her and she does all

these like turnarounds and goes into all different

kinds of people for impressions. That was just

amazing to me. I mean say what you want about

Babs' voice and it not being as good as Dot's

version in Antimaniacs, but for this cartoon

I don't think that you could have somebody else

doing that like that. No, and after watching

it this week, I kind of take back a little bit

of what I said in the Animaniacs episode, because

she does do an excellent job with Babs. I get

a little bit of a better appreciation after this

week. Terez was very good with Babs. I know that

she could do a very, very good Katharine Hepburn,

which was very, very good for her. you know and

she she could also do some evil roles if necessary

so you know she could do those those Costume

changes in animation just as quick and you know

be back to her old self within seconds You would

never know it wasn't her. Oh, really? Yeah, also

going on with the voice actors Joe Oleski and

Don Messick were given the roles of plucky duck

and Hampton J pig respectively I did not actually

know Don Messick was in this until I actually

saw him I think Don is right up there with with

with with Frank And Don Messick is the god of

olden -day cartoons, basically. Well, between

him and Mel Blank, yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah.

I mean, there's a whole bunch of people like

that. Actually, I believe it's not the next episode.

I believe it's episode five. I think it's either

episode five or six. We'll be covering a pup

named Scooby -Doo, and I believe that was Don's

last Scooby -Doo. role before he passed away.

Actually no, there were some movies before he

died. Well, we'll get into that once we get...

Right, I'm just saying there were some movies

before he died. I think they were done in like

the late 90s. Yeah. And then I think the last

thing that the last thing that was released was

in 1995. And then he passed away two years later.

You had mentioned Joe Alasky with Don Messick.

That's kind of interesting, because he's kind

of in that same vein. I mean, he wasn't as old

as Messick was, but that was his specialty was

imitating other voice actors, especially Mel

Blanc and some of those old -in -time guys. So

I thought that was kind of interesting. And I

was watching an interview that he gave. I don't

know who was doing the interview, but he talked

about how he got his start. And he actually got

his start. The guy that played Bullwinkle in

Rocky and Bullwinkle, kind of picked him out

after hearing him and basically got him into

the role of Boris for Rocking of Bullwinkle,

so he was kind of discovered way back then. He

also gave a little bit of insight onto how he

came up with the Plucky Duck voice, obviously

it's mostly based off of... Daffy Daffy and he

said that the difference that he did is with

Daffy Duck he does the you would do the voice

with a front lisp and he says and to do plucky

duck he just changed that from a front lisp to

a back lisp to get the youth kind of sound going

so I thought that was kind of interesting. Yes.

Oleski also does Daffy in in multiple other I

believe he did him in Looney Tunes back in action

I'm not sure if he did him in Space Jam, I don't

know. I'm not really sure about that. But he

also did him in the 2003 cartoon Duck Dodgers

that is currently in syndication on Boomerang.

Danny Cooksey played Montana Max and according

to Paul Dini 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. And for all the nerds out there

that are listening, Danny Cooksey, Bobby Budnick,

and Salute Your Shorts. So for those of you that

watch that show, you've seen them in real life

too, not only as a voice actor, but a real actor.

Right. This next listing, Chris Summer plays

the roles of Elmira and Mary Melody, former Saturday

Night Live cast. Cree summer she's she does have

great talent But wasn't around very long. Oh

she was well you mean in this show or yes Well,

she played Elmira throughout the entire thing.

I think no well I mean yeah, she did Elmira,

but you I mean like when the show first was you

know when the show was first aired you saw a

lot of Elmira and then I think Let's see in season

two. It's either season two or three I can't

remember which but you saw less and less of her

I'm not really sure I'm I can I could be wrong.

I I don't know I really don't know Cree Summer

brings up one of those connections that I always

like to look for. We got the Sonic the Hedgehog

connection with her because Charlie Adler was

in Sonic, Cree Summer was in Sonic, and so was

Rob Paulson. So they all three were in the Sonic

the Hedgehog together. And to go back to our

first and second episode, the Inspector Gadget

connection, Cree Summer played Penny in Inspector

Gadget. Oh, really? I did not know that. Oh,

wow. I didn't know that. I did not know that.

Penny in Inspector Gadget, Susie from Rugrats.

Most recently that some of us would know maybe

transformers animated black or acne. Yeah, I

did know that She also played Max Maxine Gibson

in Batman Beyond which I'm gonna just do a little

shout out here to my world's finest podcast buddies

the for Mike and James they Crazed voice for

Elmira is pretty much a higher More annoying

voice than Max. So she plays two annoying characters

in cartoons Well, you know, I just saw swat cats

the other day and I heard Tress McNeil and that

yeah, I think she played Deputy mayor What's

her name? Yeah deputy Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs,

yeah. Yep, I just saw that episode a couple nights

ago, and I thought, that's Tres McNeil. So apparently

Tres does get around with voice stuff. Yes, she's

got a huge voice actor career. uh... former saturday

night live cast member gail mathis or you know

what the answer played chill in the loon and

kath susie played roles of if you look for a

man little sneezer other actors for the series

included marisa marsh as the voice of dizzy devil

uh... can be a lot of the voice of sweetie bird

frank welker is the voice of go -go dodo furball

calamity coyote which calamity really doesn't

have a voice uh... little deeper uh... barky

barky and other voices uh... rob balsam as the

voice of foul mouth arnold the pit bull and conquered

condor uh... uh... fall mouth all my god i watch

that it's not on the first all uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... I gotta say, in a fight between

Fowlmouth and Yakko, Fowlmouth would win. Yeah,

Yakko would stand a chance. There would be no

way. A couple other interesting people to be

in this, as I was kind of looking through things,

you had Noel Blanc, which was Mel Blanc's son,

who did the role of a porky pig. You have June

Foray, the original granny yeah playing granny

and still doing it yeah so that was yeah she's

still doing that place yeah that was awesome

and um we had um nathan ruger who we talked about

a little bit in animaniacs the son of tom ruger

was actually got got a couple episodes in this

one too and uh solilo moon fry The actress that

played in a blossom. You had Susan blue from

Transformers fame and Jeff Bennett and Sally

Struthers some big names that kind of did some

guest work We should also mention that it was

not I believe Mel had already passed Mel Blank

had already passed away. It was Jeff Bergman

playing Bugs Bunny and Blank passed away in 1989.

Oh, well that that would have been really cool

If he was still around when they went to cast

this, because I am pretty much betting you if

Mel was still alive when this went to air, he

would be doing all of the Looney Tunes voices.

I pretty much guarantee you he would be. There

would be no cast in that room, just him. Yeah,

exactly. I think it's very good that they got

his son to play Porky. I think that's a nice...

Homage to that also Stan Freberg who was big

in the Looney Tunes? cartoons played Pete Puma

Yeah, Nathan Ruger play Tom Ruger's son played

little plucky and I might have little plucky

stole from Animaniacs. Let's see I love that.

That's actually one of my favorite characters.

I love that. I don't? Okay, that might have been

the second season. See, right now, and we'll

talk about this later, right now only season

one, volume one, and volume two are on DVD. They

have not released the second and third season

yet. Now, are they separate discs? Each of them

is a four disc set. Volume one is a four disc

and volume two is a four disc. And we'll talk

about the DVD releases here in a few minutes,

but Dan Castellaneta was in this I did not know

that Yeah, he played Harvey which that that's

what I'm saying in 1992. I don't remember Yeah,

I don't either it wasn't one of the main characters,

I don't think I do have to jump back up just

so I can make another Transformers connection

We kind of talked about Charlie Adler for a brief.

Yes animated Starscream but But also, he and

Peter Cullen are the only two voice actors that

appeared in both the original Transformers cartoon

and the live -action movie. See, now, Mike, you

should feel special. I didn't mention Peter's

name this time. Yeah, but see, the difference

is Kevin knows he's actually alive and doing

stuff. Actually, Peter's doing voiceover work

for Cartoon Network. Go ahead, Kevin. I was gonna

say we also didn't mention at the beginning how

much of an undertaking the casting of the voices

were for this show I mean this Andre Romano did

so much to get this voice cast together I mean

consider the the task you have if you're gonna

audition over 1200 voices Like that's just insane.

I just wish that you know at the end of tiny

tunes And be fine. I'm just gonna bring up an

Animaniacs thing before Animaniacs started I

really wish that Charlie Adler and Rob Paulson

had just put their differences aside and just

gone in with you know to Animaniacs and I I Don't

know. Maybe Charlie would have sound sounded

great as Yakko who knows but I just really wish

they had you know left on such I Don't want to

say jealous terms because that's not the word

I'm looking for I don't want to say hateful terms

either, but I don't I mean maybe spiteful would

be the word but I just I just wish that they

hadn't left on you know such you know those terms

because Maybe they would have still been great

together in animaniacs since we are talking about

the Charlie Adler Rob Paulson thing It should

be noted that in the in the later episodes of

tiny tunes, I'm not sure where exactly it is

but charlie did leave the show because he realized

that rob got picked up for the lead for animaniacs

he was pissed because rob paulson was virtually

an unknown at this time apparently and he was

like well it should go to me so it's like the

whole jealous actor syndrome uh... welcome to

hollywood exactly you know that's what happens

when you're in l .a. yes do we have any other

uh... notes on the voice actors I'm just the

person that replaced Charlie Adler after he Left

so if you're watching the Tiny Toons and you're

watching the the last you know a couple dozen

episodes It wasn't Charlie Adler anymore. It's

a guy named John. I don't know how to say his

last name Yeah, John Castor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

cuz sir. I don't know. I'm not really sure So

there was two different Buster bunnies throughout

the series just so no one's confused about that

It was 1992 that that John did it Yeah, but I

think Charlie was better at it. Well see I think

Oh, no doubt. I'm not yeah, we'll see I think

Charlie actually came he left and came back because

John only did To it according to DB. He only

did two episodes in 1992. So maybe they kind

of worked it out Between Warner Brothers and

him and he I believe he came back. I'm not real

Yeah, I'm not really sure It's hard telling I

just like I said, I just wish that Charlie had

moved over to Animaniacs because you know Maybe

that would have been an interesting combination.

Yes No, yes, I actually wish I had some gogo

stuff. I love gogo. He's so cool Go go is just

one of those off -the -wall. Well, obviously

off -the -wall wacky characters because he is

from wacky land, but he was just so cool I guess

we can move on to the behind -the -scenes segment

and I don't actually have any behind -the -scenes

stuff from the The only special feature on either

one of the either one of the volume sets that's

out already is on volume one From Looney Tunes

to tiny tunes a wacky evolution go inside the

Warner Brothers water tower to discover how the

tiny tunes crew got their start in the shoulders

of Looney Tunes legends Which I will talk about

a little bit more in -depth once we get to the

DVD things so I did find I actually was looking

through some stuff and I ended up finding an

article that was actually printed in 1990 it

was a article written in one of the entertainment

magazines that was kind of previewing Tiny Toons

before it actually hit the air and it kind of

goes into a little behind the scenes I'm gonna

just read a little bit on that so picture us

being in 1990 here and it's saying that Until

recently kids afternoon television has been a

low -budget dumping ground filled with poorly

animated space adventures and decade -old reruns.

Three years ago the Walt Disney Company took

a chance on higher quality programming with its

animated DuckTales series and now Warner's is

raising the stakes. Warner's taking this entry

into animation very seriously. This is Vice President

of Production Management for Warner Brothers,

who is quick to point out how much has been spent

on things like digital audio, more drawings per

second animation, storage techniques guaranteed

to preserve the show for at least 100 years.

From the beginning, Warner Brothers executives

have paid more attention to quality than to cost.

And then it kind of goes into some Steven Spielberg.

And this is Tom Ruger talking. It says, Spielberg

is very concerned about the look of the series

because, after all, his name is on the marquee.

Occasionally, we'll send over a sequence that

might be good enough for me. But maybe the shadow

or the texturing or something about the background

won't be up to Steven's standards. So call us

on that and say, let's not cut corners here.

Spielberg has micromanaged every step of the

production process, approving every character,

every script, every storyboard, every background

design, and every voiceover. And not a second

of it airs without his advice and consent. And

he was always stressing that he wanted these

to look like a movie, not a TV show. So I thought

that was kind of interesting going all the way

back to what they were looking at it back in

1990 about it. And they did a very good job with

that. Steven was, as I said, you know, Steven

was a perfectionist. I think he was looking for

perfection and he got it. Yeah. If he didn't

like it, it was it was it was not. Oh, no. I'm

going back to kind of what we I brought it up

briefly in the first take and I'd never said

it again in the second take for the Animaniacs.

But that. d that concern a detail i think it's

what made animaniacs and tiny tunes the great

shows and they were uh... it did have some negative

side effects i'm just to give you two quotes

from people that worked on it uh... one is from

bruce tim who was one of the storyboard artists

and this is from uh... uh... interview he did

with uh... not of this earth magazine it says

literally every drawing is moving it was just

characters moving their arms and and being in

motion all the time it's hard to look at it's

not acting or telling the story it's just moving

And I guess that kind of influenced Bruce Timm

to kind of take a step back when he did Batman

the animated series because he didn't like the

fact that that Steven Spielberg was making it

move so much. And then another one from Bob Camp,

who actually left Warner Brothers because he

was so upset about. the control the writers had.

This is a quote from him from a Wild Cartoon

Kingdom magazine. It says, the writers had all

the power and none of the talent. You couldn't

change things. It was all written out. The writers

were writing sight gags, which is something you

need to work out physically by drawing, not by

some guy at the typewriter who doesn't know how

to draw. So even though Spielberg was involved

all the time, and I think that was a great thing,

and I think that's why the cartoons were good,

it did have a couple side effects of pushing

some of the people out that didn't like that

control factor being taken from them. I'm going

into the some more into the behind the scenes

thing. According to writer Paul Dini, Tiny Toons

originated as a idea by Terry Semmel, then president

of Warner Brothers, who wanted to inject new

life into the Warner Brothers animation department

and at the same time create a series with junior

versions of Looney Tunes characters. Semmel proposed

that new series would be show based on Looney

Tunes where the characters were either young

versions of the original Looney Tunes and Mary

Melody's characters or new characters as the

offspring of the original characters. The idea

of the series was based on younger versions of

famous characters which was common at the time

in that era. Tiny Tunes was produced such as

cartoons as Muppet Babies, Pup Names Scooby Doo,

Tom and Jerry Kids and the Flintstones Kids.

Warner Brothers chose to do some of Shows to

do the same because us Steven Spielberg Wanted

to make the series similar to Looney Tunes as

a series producer showrunner Tom Ruger explained

Well, I think the Warner Brothers case they had

the opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg

on a project But didn't want to just work on

characters that Chuck Jones for his feeling Bob

McKimson and Bob Clampett made famous and Created

he wanted to be involved with the creation of

some new characters The result was a series similar

to Looney Tunes without the use of the same characters

uh... which i think it's that in itself lends

it to the fact that they did bring in the old

characters as like teachers and guidance because

technically technically this entire cartoon is

to teach them how to make cartoons they even

actually have an episode where uh... a film festival

episode where uh... buster teaches plucky how

to how to how how animation is done uh... so

That was quite the cartoon there. That was quite

the episode. That was very funny. I think the

only part that I had to fast forward through

was the 17 -hour whatever it was, Shirley the

Loon film, and Buster comes into the thing and

says, Bluggy, you're going to have to cut yours

short because Shirley's is running long. You

had mentioned, obviously, the basis of younger

versions of famous characters. I do want to point

out, I mean, there was... every cartoon that

was famous had seem like had a version of itself

as a younger group on you mentioned some of them

but there's much more i know i do i do want to

say that Tiny Toons and Muppet Babies are probably

the only two out of all of those that I actually

liked. I couldn't stand it when they did that

to all the different cartoons and made like,

ooh, this is the baby version of Flintstones,

or this is the baby version of that. I couldn't

stand that, but Tiny Toons and Muppet Babies

pulled it off. I think a pup named Scooby -Doo

pulled it off too, which we will be talking about

at some point down the line here, and I love

that show. I actually like that more than I do

the adult version, just because it's... Yeah,

I think it's much funnier than the adult version

of Scooby. Let's see. Actually, it's funny. Let's

see. In 1987, Warner Brothers Animation Studio

approached Steven Spielberg to collaborate with

Semmel and Warner Brothers head of licensing,

Dan Rominelli. I think I said that right. on

on the symbols ideas they eventually decided

that the new characters would be similar to the

looney tunes characters with no direct relation

however changes did not go into production then

nor was even plan to be made for television the

series initially was to be a theatrical feature

length film yeah yeah i thought that was very

interesting because uh... they mentioned that

in the uh... in in the uh... dvds thing that

was originally supposed to be a film And then

it goes on to say in December of 88 Tiny Toons

was changed from a film to a television series

with Gene McCurdy Overseeing production of the

first 65 episodes McCurdy said that Tiny Toons

was changed into a television series To reach

a broader audience for the series McCurdy hired

Tom Ruger who previously wrote cartoons for Filmation

and Hannah Barbera to be producer In January

1989, Ruger and writer Wayne Katz began developing

the characters and the setting of Acne Acres

with Spielberg. I like how they started this

show, how in the very first episode, a loony

beginning, how they actually made it look like

the cartoon characters after the initial artist

drew them. were the ones creating the show for

him because obviously Warner Brothers needed

a hit cartoon and they're actually making fun

of themselves with this information that I just

read in that cartoon they're actually making

fun of themselves because like it said they were

trying to revive the animation department and

in the cartoon because the cartoon characters

are making it they're all yeah it's just one

big joke I'm just touching real quick on the

animation. Obviously, we talked about this with

a little bit with the Animaniacs. It was just

above the standard for what was going on in that

time period, especially in the early 90s. The

cell counts more than double of most television

animation at the time. And just looking at one

of the animation producers said it was a fun

but a big challenge because he always had a short

schedule and it's not always easy to work full

blast nonstop. Said that he made six to eight,

six or eight panels per scene. instead of the

usual three or four. And just another side note,

it took basically 34 weeks per episode to finish.

And I thought that's just ridiculous. Yeah, that

is. I mean, luckily a lot of times they had multiple

episodes going on at the same time that they

were producing. But thinking 30 weeks, that's

almost, that's over half a year for an episode.

Oh, yeah, I know I mean and animation cartoons

and animation and it's it's just Awful how long

how long the wait is to get it back Going into

more of the production in April 89 fall a full

production of the series of series episodes began

with five overseas animation houses and a total

budget of 25 million dollars now I don't know

what cartoon budgets are like today, but I I

don't think I've ever heard of a cartoon having

a 25 million dollar budget Luckily Steven Spielberg

was pumping in per episode. He was pumping in

thousand like a hundreds of thousand dollars

Well, that's probably why the budget was 25 million

because you had him attached to it The first

65 episodes of the series aired in syndication

on 135 stations during that time Tiny Toons was

a huge success Got higher ratings than its Disney

afternoon competitors and some affiliates after

a successful run in syndication Fox got the rights

for season two and three Production of the series

halted in late 92 to make way for animaniacs

to air the following year bastards At least it

somewhat made sense what they yeah, I guess wasn't

it wasn't like it just faded off into the distance

with me Yeah, at least it wasn't canceled. Yeah,

that's that's true, too Where else are we gonna

go with this, let's see Yeah, I think actually

it should be noted the series as far as directors

because I watch some of the actual Looney Tunes

stuff the actual Looney Tunes DVDs just for fun

a while ago Art Leonardo was director of ten

at ten episodes in this show which he was originally

attached to the original Looney Tunes Show as

well Not really. Yeah, I think that's that's

pretty much it for For this section, so we will

go on to the actual show. The show often contained

political and entertainment satire. Character

versions of celebrities made frequent appearances,

though were most always voiced by imitators,

and often appeared under parody names. The show

also parodied other TV shows and cartoons of

the day, including The Simpsons, a flagship series

of the Fox Network, which aired tiny tunes for

two seasons. Like the original winning tunes

the cartoon violence EG anvils explosions slapstick

were prominent The anvil chorus, um, I Thought

it was interesting that they actually dropped

I saw the statistics for it then I'm talking

about the little skiff the anvil course. Um 40

anvils Dropped on him within Wow, if you counted

if you counted them all up 40 40 and Wow That's

creepy and Speaking of the cartoon violence,

which we got into a little bit in the last time

and with animaniacs I think the Tiny Toons dealt

with it best within their own little episode

where they had a snooty looking grown -up who's

speaking to the one cartoon and she gets up there

and she says, I'm the chairperson for adults

against funny cartoons and I've already counted

16 acts of mindless violence in this cartoon.

And quotation from Sherry Stoner, one of the

writers that we've talked about a little bit

before. She said, look, we don't use guns. with

there's no war toys are tanks are bombs we've

kept a strictly cartoon violence anna anvils

and dynamite on but nothing you could find in

your mom's house unless you're not uh... it should

be noted though even though that's what miss

stoner said the original in and i keep going

back to a loony beginning and i think it's one

of the best episodes uh... when the uh... when

the animator guy inside the cartoon was growing

buster he first made him super cute and that

wouldn't work so he was going for like maybe

a more bulkier type and there was an actual gun

but it was on the drawing page but yeah uh the

gag credits oh my god i did not know this until

i had the dvds because i don't i didn't remember

seeing them because i mean when you're a kid

as soon as the credits roll you're done with

the cartoon exactly well now that that i have

these i've looked through almost every one of

them and i can't count uh... every episode of

the show also featured a gag credit during the

closing credits after the credits the episodes

close with one or more characters appearing in

the war brothers ring saying a closing line uh...

but the other thing is with that the gag credits

not only at the end of what it at the end of

it like if buster and babs came up or something

like that in the actual credits uh... It was

right before like the producer of something.

I think it was Paul Strickland was his name the

credit right before that There was a gag credit

at the very bottom in the first episode. I believe

it says created by Buster and Babs Bunny because

at the end of a loony beginning they asked the

guy they asked the animator Hey, can we get a

created by credit and he's like, oh, yeah, right

like that's gonna happen They actually jump off

the page and and and basically attack the animator

And then at the end of the show, as the credits

go up in one panel, you see a gag credit saying,

created by Buster and Babs Bunny. Yes, very much

so. And I guess you can go into some of the more,

the actual end credits if you want. Probably

some of the most rememberable ones. I remember

this one actually without even reading it, the

one where Buster says, say good night, Babs.

And Babs says, good night, Babs. uh... they they

referenced a lot of different things uh... different

classical literature uh... we had again that

the instance of breaking the fourth wall which

again we talked about it and it's something i

loved about our lives is that characters breaking

the fourth while you had a go -go dodo popping

into the rings holding a t b remote control and

saying it's not real and they points the remote

to the viewer presses power button in the screen

goes out. So you had that type of stuff. And

then basically these same types of things were

continued in Animaniacs. You see the same thing

with the Warner Water Tower instead of the Rings.

So a little trademark of all these shows. Yes,

very much so. And I guess we can move on to trivia

here. Wackyland, the bizarre world that Go Go

Dodo comes from, wasn't created for this show.

It actually first appeared in a little -known

Looney Tunes short named Porky in Wackyland in

1938, which also featured a Dodo that looked

and acted exactly like Go Go Dodo from this series.

Which, again, they're not insulting the Looney

Tunes, they're taking homages from that and I

do like that. They're giving the Looney Tunes

cartoons. Exactly, and I think that that's a

great thing more than somebody coming in and

saying, oh, well, we're just going to copy them

and just, you know, do it whatever the hell we

want to do with it. Tiny Toons stuck to the,

I'm sorry Mike, I was going to say, Tiny Toons

stuck to the Warner tradition of making something

funny, putting it together, you know, not only

kids were watching this, you know, just like

the Animaniacs, adults were watching this, but

It wasn't just for kids. It was for adults too

because of the generations, you know, you know

back then you had you know in the 30s and 40s

and 50s you had Looney Tunes, you know in the

90s you had Tiny Tunes and Tiny Tunes to me was

just it was more than a cartoon show You know

a regular show that was a cartoon. It was a tribute

exactly because it gave You know, it gave you

know tributes to the original Looney Tunes characters,

you know So that was that was what made it work.

I think for as long as it lasted I also liked

how it kind of although it did tributes to you

know Like the looney tunes and some of the things

that they respected from the past how it also

kind of poked at the current competition Actually

did You guys there I'm here Kevin. Oh Crap you

there Kevin. Okay. I'm good Well, we kind of

lost you there for a minute. Yeah. Oh, OK. I

was just saying, I remember one episode in particular

where it's all about Plucky Duck. And it was

three specific individual cartoons about him.

And Buster is introduced in it. And he says,

all right, now it's time for three DuckTales.

And Plucky Duck comes flying into the screen

and is like, never, ever need that. Yeah, I do

remember. And then Buster's like, um. three stories

about a doctor like three trying to come up with

something else to say so i kinda thought it was

funny how they acknowledged who they were competing

against oh yes very much so um the nonsensical

word narf which was made famous by pinky on animax

in nineteen ninety three made its first appearance

in a secret message in the credits of the episode

you asked for it uh... the message guy who says

narf eddie fitzgerald uh... which that goes back

to the fact uh... of Ruger wanting to use Fitzgerald

and Minton as the, he didn't actually use them

but he took the idea for Pinky and the Brain

from them which we mentioned last episode. Oh,

yeah, I remember this I mentioned this last episode

the character of Ralph the Warner Brothers studio

security guard later appeared as a regular character

on another Warner Brothers animated series in

a maniacs That was kind of shocking to me when

I saw him because as I said before The schedule

obviously is backwards with us doing anime acts

last week and doing tiny tunes this week I was

actually shocked to see Ralph in in tiny tunes

uh... if you look for rooms perfume of choices

and they stink you can go through the memorable

quotes kevin yet we we've mentioned that we've

mentioned most of the others go around one more

time because kind of each character and and some

of their best quotes of the buster best thing

hi kids i'm buster bonnie and i'm best one of

the relation there no relation Um little plucky.

I love little plucky, but it didn't matter what

he was talking about He's always you know elevator

go down the hole or diaper go down the hole or

you know water go down the hole He was always

doing something like that so I pushed the button

I pushed the button and then of course Elmira's

I love them and hug them and hold them forever

and make me want to shoot myself Just wondering

for either one of you guys. I know Mike. You've

been watching a lot of the episodes lately Deon

I don't remember if I don't know if you've watched

any of them recently or you have a good memory

But do any of you have like a favorite a favorite

episode or a favorite skit that you just sticks

out in your head. I think Obviously, I love a

loony beginning and it we haven't really because

the other two seasons are not on DVD it's kind

of premature that we're recording this before

they're released but I vaguely remember, which

I forgot to look at YouTube last night to see

if I could find it, I vaguely remember how I

spent my summer vacation. But I think that was

a really, really cool, it was actually a direct

-to -video film and then they broke it up into

episodes, I believe, to put into the airings

of the show. But I think that was a really, really

good one as well. I think my favorite... One

that I can actually remember is the kind of the

spoof on Batman that they did. I think it was

called That's All Folks or something like that.

It was one of the ones within the show, but they

had a character instead of the Joker called the

actor. Which had Maurice LaMarche doing a Jack

Nicholson take on this animated version I just

thought that whole episode or that whole cartoon

was just hilarious without the the pig Hampton

or not. Yeah Robin Yeah, Hampton was Robin, and

Plucky was Batman. I just thought that show cracked

me up from the beginning. Actually, it should

be noted that Bruce Timm wrote that episode,

which Bruce would eventually go on to the DC

Animated Universe, Batman the Animated Series,

stuff like that. I guess we can move into the

music segment. Obviously, with the music, the

number one thing that comes up is the theme song.

The theme song was fantastic. In my little ranking

that I always bring up, number 18 out of the

top 70 for me. So not quite as good as Animaniacs

theme song, but still a pretty good darn start

to your cartoon. Oh, yeah. And after a while,

it gets to the point where you just can't watch.

You just want to skip over it because, oh my

god. Oh, wow, it got. It got so grating on me

to watch the theme. As much as I like the theme,

it's a good theme, but yeah, after a while it

kind of went down the drain. Which I don't get

with the Animaniacs theme. I don't know if it's

because I'm always listening for the last line,

the now, to see what it's going to say, but I

didn't get as tired of Animaniacs theme song

as I do, like even watching the DVD back after

about the second episode, I started skipping

the theme song. I'm like, I can't do anything.

Think the reason that you couldn't really turn

the Animaniacs theme off is because they always

change the ending line. Yeah With a tiny tune

song. It was just the same old song, you know

same old lines. Yeah And whatnot so and you know

that I think that's I think that's what made

the difference For both those shows cuz Animaniacs

you could you could listen to the song You're

like, okay the first part of our it's the same

yawn, but then you hear this last line. It's

like, huh? I didn't say that before I think you

know, you you actually get interested in the

team. I think after a while for me I am like

just sick of it all and I'll probably end up

getting that way with the rest of the schedule

as far as series I think I think the only one

that I believe it's episode 8 which is mask which

as I've said as we've said before we don't have

DVDs for So that's gonna be kind of hard for

me It's gonna be kind of hard for me to you to

I mean, you know, I can do research on it, but

I Would like to find somewhere where there's

some sort of direct download of some even one

episode of the show Um, because even though I

do remember the theme and I do remember the show's

premise, I still like to refresh by watching.

By the way, you had asked what my, you know,

going back to the favorite episode or skit, mine

was probably Super Pluckio Brothers just because

it was so damn rare. Yes, and we will be mentioning

that more in a bit, I believe, if we have, I

don't know if we have, yeah, yeah, I'll be mentioning

Super Pluckio Brothers a little bit later. Very

funny. It should be noted that this, just like

Anime Next, was the music had a full orchestra.

I think they used the same people. 40 -piece

orchestra, yeah. Yeah, I believe so. Let's see.

Are we done with the music? Yeah, it wasn't as

musical as Anime Next. No, it wasn't. Not really.

Going into the pop... Yeah, I don't like that

though. Because Animaniacs is supposed to be

more musical, and this was, I guess, supposed

to be more dramatically. We can go into the popularity

and reception. Films and television specials,

a feature -length movie which I already mentioned,

was released direct -to -video in 1992 entitled

Tiny Tune Adventures, How I Spent My Vacations.

The special was re -edited for syndication and

aired as part of the original series. Other featured

releases for Tiny Tune Adventures include Spring

Break Special, It's a wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas

special and a night gulary Christmas special

aired on Fox on December 6th, 1992. Spring Break

special was shown during primetime on March 27th,

1994. Spinoffs, obviously, Animaniacs, The Bluckey

Ducks Show. was produced as a spinoff for Fox

Kids based on the character Plucky Duck, except

for the premiere episode, the return of Bat Duck.

The show was composed of recycled Plucky -centric

episodes from the series. Although 13 episodes

were produced, only half of the episodes were

aired as production of the series was aborted

when Fox acquired exclusive rights to Tiny Toons

Adventures third season. In 1998, a spin -off

of Pinky, Elmira, and the Brain debuted on KWB.

This series featured Elmira character as well

as Pinky and the Brain, two characters who were

originally on Animaniacs, before receiving their

own series, also entitled Pinky and the Brain.

Pinky Elmira and the Brain picks up after Pinky

and the Brain leaves off, where Pinky and the

Brain become Elmira's pets after Brain accidentally

destroys their original home, Acme Labs. During

a lab experiment, Pinky Elmira and the Brain

lasted for 13 episodes as well. I thought that

was kind of interesting how they took took some

characters from Animaniacs and then put them

with some characters or a character from Tiny

Toons I thought that was kind of a yes very much

so I guess you can go into the awards and not

oh my yeah my goodness the awards of this show

one is just the list is endless um I'm just gonna

give you a basically a shopping list here of

all the awards you have an Emmy Award for Outstanding

Animated Program for a program one hour or less

for the episode The Looney Beginning in 1991.

So there's reason that you like that episode

so much. It had seven daytime Emmy, I'm sorry,

eight daytime Emmy nominations. Seven of them

end up being wins for Tiny Toons. They won for

Outstanding Animated Program in 91. They were

nominated again in 92, won again in 93. One for

outstanding original song for the theme song

in 91. One for music direction and composition

in 91. For William Ross for episode Fields of

Honey. One again for music direction and composition,

Mark Waters for episode The Love Disconnection

in 1992. Again for music direction and composition,

Steve Bramson, The Horror of Slumber Party Mountain

in 93. And then they won for outstanding writing

in an animated program in 1992. You had a couple

of young artists awards. They won the award for

best new cartoon series in 1991. Also nominated

for outstanding young voiceover in an animated

series for Whitby -Hurtford in 1993. to any awards

for best animated television programs are both

nominations ninety two and ninety three and then

they won an environmental media award for children's

animated series for the episode whales tales

nineteen ninety one so that's over nine ten eleven

twelve thirteen fourteen either nominations or

wins for these different awards so is definitely

uh... received very well by not only the fans

but by the actual animation gurus in the in the

television group though yes very much so uh...

going back to the love connect or the love disconnection

episode here's what babs has to say i'm sorry

the rabbit you have dialed has been disconnected

i guess as much as i don't want to go i'm just

going to go to the reception really quick and

then i'll come back to criticism in january 2009

IGN named tiny tunes uh... as the forty first

in the top one hundred animated tv shows um...

which i thought was was kind of uh... uh... i

don't know forty first out of a hundred i think

i think i think something that you do got a note

i went through and actually looked at at what

i can have the top one hundred and i i guess

the reason i was looking at that list a little

differently before is that i was thinking just

uh... basically children's animation and that

that list is everything that list is everything

from like Simpsons you have like adult swim stuff

in there. You have like Family Guy Futurama like

like it's everything. It's all animated TV shows

all the way up to you know 2009 basically So

I think that's the reason why we're seeing a

couple of these further down the list and we

should be seeing them Because they they're including

a whole lot more than I expected. Oh, yes and

going back to the criticism. Oh my god Tiny Toons

Tiny Toons Adventures has been criticized by

cartoonist John I'm just going to say John K,

because I don't know how to say the dumbass's

last name. Creator of the Ren and Stimpy show,

which probably now we may or may not record a

Ren and Stimpy episode after this, I'm not sure.

In a 1994 issue of Animation Magazine, John K

wrote a column about the series, calling it a

super -bastardization of the original Looney

Tunes characters using... Parasitism and other

bad writing tricks until the premise becomes

so twisted that it is beyond any coherent statement

John Kay also criticized the improper use of

the characters in the series saying that Every

character is a comedy relief character. Even

the ones who were originally straight man characters

glue and exceptionally Unreverent live -action

directors name Steven Spielberg to it and plug

these stolen bastard ization personalities into

Situations not suited for them. For example into

stolen movie plots then commit every single other

bad writing crime known to man Tiny tune adventures

director John John McCallahan. Yeah said that

the people's that that the people at one of brothers

ignore john k's criticism nobody except john

k fans cared was on k thought the thing about

john k is he is really really talented guy who

is also pretty good uh... hurling criticisms

that others but unfortunately will not collaborate

with anyone very few people wb were john k worshippers

certainly none of the decision -makers coincidentally

repeats of the show would later air on nickelodeon

which also aaron and stem be he just didn't get

it He just didn't get what the point of it was.

I mean, you know what? I didn't even like Renan

Stimpy when it was on. I mean, not that we're

talking about it, but I didn't really care for

it. So but I think he was I think he was thinking

that it was supposed to be like true to form

of the Looney Tunes and he just didn't understand

what they were trying to do. No, he did. I don't

think he got it. I just think like Kevin said,

I think he missed the concept. Right. And he's

talking about twisted beyond any coherent statement.

And you're the guy who created. Yeah, exactly.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Yeah. About

twisted. So I go out and twist it. I mean, I

enjoy Ren and Stimpy back in the day, but you

can't call out someone else and say that they're

twisted beyond coherency when that's what your

whole show is. Yeah, I am not a fan of Ren and

Stimpy. I've watched probably one episode of

that show. I've watched two, and I think I've

watched two. Yeah, I will never watch Ren and

Stimpy. I guess we can go onto the merchandise,

and I guess you can read the print, Kevin, the

print stuff for... Yeah, some of the... the way

that you can see Tiny Toons in print. There used

to be a quarterly children's magazine based on

the series, but only for about five issues. There's

also various storybooks actually by the Little

Golden Book Company, which I used to own a ton

of, including a few episode adaptations and some

original stories lost in the Fun House and Happy

Birthday Babs. Tiny Toon Adventures did not spin

off its own comic book. However, the characters

did make occasional cameos in the Animaniacs

and Pinky and the Brain comic books. And Marvel

did produce a comic book for the UK. Yes, and

now we come to the toys and... Well, that's what

we're coming to. Toys and video games. Since

its debut, numerous video games based on Tiny

Toons have been released. Many companies have

held the development and publishing rights for

the games, including Konami. during the nineties,

Atari, Kidco, Conspiracy Games, Warthog, Terra

Glyph, Interactive Studios, and Treasure Toys.

For the series included plush dolls and plastic

figures. The video games, it's actually funny,

they actually mention video games on the show

and here's what it was. through Fungo World!

Ooh, like save me in junk! Rescue Princess Loon

from the Toadstool Tower by picking the magic

kumquat! But be sure to pick the right magic

kumquat or the Dizzy Doofus will pluck you balls!

I have to go back just a little bit before I

get into the DVD releases. There was an episode

where Buster had lost his soccer ball down a

down a cave and in this cave was a whole bunch

of eggs and they didn't realize this at first

well he just grabbed one and apparently it was

a baby t -rex egg and The thing hatched it grew

attached to Buster and he eventually started

raising it as his own uh... and of course in

the episode uh... monty wanted the dinosaur who

dinosaur must have can make money off of it and

all this and other stuff well there's a line

that says uh... buster doesn't realize that that

rover the t -rex is not behind him and plucky

and babs on the way home he turns around and

says home sweet and then he says hey and then

plucky goes home sweet hey what kind of pun is

that and buster goes it's not pun it's plot but

i don't have the rest of it but i do have this

sweet hey what kind of pun is that that's funny

well you were talking about video games i actually

own in cartridge form for my original nintendo

uh... the tiny toons game you know cuz we mentioned

konami That they did, you know back in 1991 and

then of course Game Boy, you know years later

the original Game Boy had some games too that

actually the original Nintendo had two NES games

and Game Boy had I believe three And then you

had Super Nintendo And that I think that was

it at least for the Nintendo side And was Buster

have to say about that That was actually from

the Well, he don't okay it started with Buster

but Yeah, and the reason why it started with

Buster was because in that in that same episode

that I was talking about with the dinosaur inside

the cave A wall opens up and you see this giant

paradise and Buster says, I never bought that

whole extinct theory. So going into the DVD releases

um Let's see we have on July 29th 2008 one or

home video release season one volume one of Tiny

Toon Adventures on DVD and region one comprising

the show's first 35 episodes season one volume

two was released on April 21st 2009 several of

the episodes on this collection however are edited

which I did not notice that they were or not

I don't know I think what you're trying to say

is this Season season Seasons two and three are

Still to be to be announced. They have not been

done Yeah, I know I told Warner would do something

like that But honestly, they just had their last

release in April. So I mean you can't expect

them to have the okay Well, this is what I don't

get. Okay, and we'll get to this eventually when

we get to the Looney Tunes episode which unfortunately

isn't until episode 20, but the Looney Tunes

DVDs are The unedited versions and on it on every

I think from collections three to six There's

a thing I know for a fact on Looney Tunes Golden

Collection Volume 3 Whoopi Goldberg comes up

and says the jokes that are in these cartoons

have Remained in because they're a part of our

culture. She says it's like some PSA About it,

which I don't understand why that they would

leave the original Looney Tunes stuff in but

edit these that makes no sense to me Yes, I'm

not really sure that's pretty much all for this

episode unless I mean we can do our closing thoughts

I'll let you guys go first Great show I wish

it I wish it had actually run as long as the

Animaniacs did, you know Yeah, but hey, what

are you gonna do? Yeah I was happy that it was

successful because if it wasn't successful, we

wouldn't have had Animaniacs. I mean, I like

Tiny Toons for what it was, but watching it now

and looking back on it as this many years later

does not hold a candle to Animaniacs and does

not nearly stand the test of time as well as

Animaniacs has. They were both great in the 90s.

but it's not quite as great as Animaniacs has

remained. For a minute there, I - Probably two

of the best shows from the 90s from my standpoint.

I think Wonder Brothers did a very good job with

the show. There were some very funny moments.

There was always a bit of humor there. You never

did want to change the channel. That was what

made you actually sit. you know and just be glued

to the TV because you never knew it was coming

next I did wish though that you know like Animaniacs

they had changed the ending line you know a bit

around so it didn't sound all you know because

like you said the first time it was great but

then after hearing the theme yes very much so

for a second there Kevin I thought I was gonna

have to use the classic when you were talking

bad about tiny tunes you bastard I don't know.

It'll never happen. It'll always be. It'll be

in every episode, yeah. It'll be always able

to be in every episode. Unless for some reason

I don't show up in every episode. You can always

be fired if you'd like. No, I'm just kidding.

Alright, so I think we're gonna go into the closing.

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