It's been a good long while since anything from Tiny Toon Adventures was last covered on here and well I wanted to dive back into the world of Tiny Toons. However with there being so many good episodes to choose from it really was hard to pick out an episode to take a look at and while this episode might have been better served for a review in February it works just as fine here as well and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Calamity get a win over Little Beeper with the episode in question being called simply just "Dating, Acme Acres Style" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is Buster and Babs decide to tell the viewers of Tiny Toon Adventures all about the wonders of dating. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought // felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as even tho there's not technically a plot to the episode overall as what was described in this review could be considered just a premise to the episode and not it's plot it is something that the show would would do quite frequently with alot of the shows best episodes being made up of nothing more then segments with wraparounds usually involving Buster and Babs with this episode being a good example of that as they themselves get in on the action and take part in a few of the segments as well but and it does help that this kind of episode really doesn't need a plot as the whole point of the episode is to show various characters from the show either going on a date or having one of them fall in love with them and showing how they'd react to it and that is something that just wouldn't be possible to show if this episode had a more traditional plot to it as the episode would have to be more focused on it's plot and while that is usually a good thing here it would be something that would work more against the episode then with it and while each of the episodes three segments do have some fun plots on their own with the second segment "Love Stinks" being not only the best one but also the most fun one as well this episode on the whole works just fine without having a main plot to it as well with the plot of the episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Charlie Adler as Buster Bunny and Babs' Father and Tress MacNeille as Babs Bunny. Also starring in this episode is Joe Alaskey as Plucky Duck , Scooby-Doo legend Don Messick as Hamton J. Pig , Cree Summer as Elmyra Duff , Danny Cooksey as Montana Max , Kath Soucie as Fifi La Fume and voice acting and Scooby-Doo legend Frank Welker as Calamity Coyote and Little Beeper.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With it being made crystal clear that all of this episodes actors are not only turning in some really good performances in their own right but are also having blast in recording this episode as this along with pretty much all of the segment episodes gives the actors a chance to be a little but more looney then what they normally are in the show it self with the episodes acting really being helped by the fact that alot of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors in their own and therefor it is something that does make sense that they would turn in some really good performances in this film with the episodes best actor being Charlie Adler as he does get the chance to show off the best just what he can do as not only an actor in his own right but also as a voice actor as well as he has to go from using his regular Buster voice to then shouting like a monster to going back to Buster in the same scene and that is something that even the best voice actors struggle to do and while it possible that Charlie recorded his lines as Bab's Father at another time the voice chosen for the character is one that oddly works for this kind of show with the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.
Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Wang Film Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with the episodes animation really giving the characters these really over the top and yet at the same time also very expressive expressions all of which work really well for the looney world that this show takes place it and while you can tell that this episode was the more budget friendly episode as alot of the wraparound segments not only take place at night but also in a forest so the animators didn't really have to do that much animation in those segments it's when the episode gets to it's segments that the animation gets to be really zany and fun to watch be it from Buster and Babs arguing in "Buster's Guide To Dating" which is the first segment to Fifi chasing Calamity all over the city in the episodes second segment to even Elmya taking part on a game show in the episodes third and final segment as there are lots of really good looking animation in all three of those segments which is something that's really all that surprising as this is a show that really did have alot of really good looking animation in all of it's episodes , movie and specials and while this episodes animation wont be as good as the animation in the Night Ghoulery special this episodes animation was still really fun to see and even helped to make some of the jokes even more funnier then what they already were in the first place.
In what was a rare move for both this show and for Looney Tunes in general we actually get to see Calamity win one of his episodes. As while he doesn't out right capture Little Beeper he does manage to start to get him tormented by Fifi when some tar and feathers fall on him making him look a male skunk something which Calamity takes delight in little Fifi know all about as it's not only something that makes her feel better about herself but it's also something that does allow him to get the win over Little Beeper in the process and while this is a solid idea as it does show that the makers of this show were more the willing to take chances in letting a character that is very much based off of Wile Coyote a character that pretty much never won any of his episodes come out on top granted it was done in a more kid friendly and TV friendly way but it is also something that worked for the episode and for the character of Calamity as well as it shows that not only does he have a good heart as he didn't want to see someone upset but it also shows that he's more then willing to think on his feet to achieve his goal of capturing Little Beeper however tho this is something that shouldn't be done all that often in the show as the whole point of those characters is also the same point of the Road Runner cartoons where you only watch them for the chase and you never want to see either Wile or Calamity achieve their goal and win over their respective foes as then there's not really much else that you can do with those characters and while Calamity would come of fairly better then this due to the fact that he has all of the other Tiny Toons characters around him so he really could join in one of their stories for example Wile doesn't have that excuse which is one of the many reasons why he never won an episode against the Road Runner.
Out of this episodes three segments "Buster's Guide To Dating" , "Love Stinks" and "Dream Date Game" it really is hard to say just which one is the best one as really they are all really good segments. With each of three segments having some really funny moments in them as well which is something that is kind of shocking given the fact that it would have been OK for people to expect one or two of these segments to be pretty lame and unfunny and while "Dream Date Game" is easily the weakest of the three segments as not alot really happens in it before it suddenly rushes to it's climax it is still a really good segment in it's own right with Elmya getting alot of chances to show us just why she is so beloved as a character with the same thing also being true for Fifi who is rather rightfully given the spotlight in "Love Stinks" and is even given a key plot point of that segment something which the makers of this show really didn't have to do and yet they did it anyways with both characters working really well in their respective segments even tho they both do end in rather predictable ways with the only thing that could have made all three segments better was if they were all given more time as that would then allow for the jokes and the set up for each of the segments to be all the more funnier then what they already are in the first as while Fifi believing and then thus chasing Calamity thinking that he's a skunk is not only true to her character and is a really funny idea in it's own right it would have been even more funnier if we got to see her interrupt his scheme t capture Little Beeper instead of just the twice and it would have been even more funnier showing us just how insane that Fifi really is that is something that would have felt true to her character as well.
There was one thing that really did bug me in this episode and that's the fact that they gave all of the female characters who bare in mind or meant to be middle schoolers either these really suggestive poses , clothes or in the case of Fifi scientific names. As Babs wears two different sets of clothes which were clearly there to attract boys in "Love Stinks" Fifi is identified as being "Sexius Skunkius" and worst of all is the fact that we see Elmyra's underwear at the start of "Dream Date Game" now look fair enough this show is a cartoon and there isn't meant to be taken seriously and you can find anything offensive and weird if you actively go looking for it but to do all of that to these young kid characters just felt a little bit to weird and while yes fair enough Babs has worn similar clothing in other Tiny Toon adventures there tho she was doing because of the fact that she was doing an impression of someone and not because of the fact that she was trying to attract a boy like she is in the start of the episode and while Fifi is mean to be the female version of Pepe La Pew he was never given such a name in any of his cartoons and yet the makers of this show did it for her in this episode and it just felt weird as was having Elmyra showing of her underwear granted she ended up pulling her dress down because of but it's the fact that it was there in the first place that felt odd like maybe the makers of this show were trying to see what they could get away interms of content for an episode but surely they had to know that they were doing was weird in some degree and while yes kids shows back in the eighties and nineties did have content that was for adults in them as well as stuff that are for kids they were usually done in ways that didn't feel weird and just plain wrong like they are in this episode.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and forty four seconds. Which to be fair is a perfectly fair amount of running time for this episode to last as that is the stereotypical running time for this show to have with even each segment lasting around about five minuets in length with the episode even having the right amount of plots there to cover it's running time as well and while the episode doesn't really use it's running time all that wisely as the plots for each segment aren't that well developed it could also be argued that that's the point as each of the episodes segments are only meant to show us certain characters falling in love with another character and showing us how that second character reacts to it and that's really it and to be fair that's not really something that requires alot of plot in order to do it justice as all that requires is just the main set up for the the plot and that's really it and that's all each segment gets and it is something that works for this episode because of it and while the episode also doesn't take the fully develop it's characters it doesn't really need to as the characters all appear in the earlier episodes of the show and with alot of them just being versions of the older Looney Tunes characters they don't really need to be that well developed with the only thing that we need to know about them is which Looney Tunes character that there meant to be taking after and that's really it and while it would have been nice if we got to find out more about the characters it's not something that's needed to make the episode work as the episode works just fine as it is but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode having alot of painfully funny moments in it across all three segments with all of this episodes jokes not only feeling very true to the character but even for a kids show do feel to be very well written on top of all that with even Elmyra's segment basically being one long spoof of the show "Blind Date" which is something that no kid watching this episode would have gotten but it's something that the adults would have been laughing at as it's something that was so well done in the episode itself however tho that's not the episodes best joke as that honor goes to a much more smaller joke as when Fifi thinks that she's gotten her heart broken she starts crying by saying " Le Boo Woo" over and over again which isn't a big joke in the episode but it's one that did get a big laugh out of me as it is something that her character would say with alot of the episode having these really big jokes that the episode does rather rightfully call attention to as they are really well done it does say something when the episodes best joke is one that flies right by you as that small crying joke is one that does feel right for Fifi as she would of course cry like that she's basically a French stereotype but not one that's done to be offensive but is rather ne that's done to be funny and in that regard this episode is really funny as she she does get alot of good jokes in this episode as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this show might have other and quite frankly better segmented episodes like Night Ghoulery and Elephant Issues to name but a few this one surely has to be up there as well as it gives you all of the zanyiness that you'd come to expect from Tiny Toons in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.
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