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Sunday, 12 October 2025

Tiny Toon Adventures "Dating, Acme Acres Style" Review


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.

Sunday, 29 June 2025

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation Film Review


While the Looney Tunes brand might be going through a really tough time right now there's one piece of Looney Tunes media that doesn't get talked about all that much. That being the Tiny Toon Adventures movie as that show and movie does feature the Looney Tunes in more of a supporting role and yet both this movie and the show are only talked about be people that grew up with them and so then join me as I review the movie that sees the Tiny Toons cast have a summer vacation with the film in question being called simply just "Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation" enjoy.

The plot of this film is one that's quite hard to describe as the film doesn't just have one plot as it has several dozen plots ranging from Plucky joining Hampton and his family on a cross country road trip to Babs and Buster trying to get back to Acme Acres after a prank goes wrong. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that he actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as the fact that it has so many plots running through does make it feel more like an episode of the show but at the same time tho there's nothing about this films plot that makes it feel like that it's worthy of being the plot of a film which does make it feel like the plots of this film where just unused plots for episodes of the show only edited together to very loosely form a plot which isn't a bad thing but at the same time tho there still should have been more of an effort put into this films plots as there's only a handful of them that are actually good with the rest of them just being there and not really adding anything to the film itself which makes them feel pointless where as the if they were included in an episode of the show then they would come off as being a bit more better then what they are in this film as they just feel like that they are there so that the makers of the film can include alot more of the shows characters and that's really it with the plot of this film being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this film is Charlie Adler as Buster Bunny and The Theater Usher and Tress MacNeille as Babs Bunny , Babs' Mother , Big Boo , Emily Duff , Roseanne Barr , Barbara Walters , Hotel Chef , Drive-thru Waitress and Horatio's Girlfriend. Also starring in this film is Gail Matthius as Shirley The Loon and Sissy Boo , Kath Soucie as Fifi La Fume , Li'l Sneezer , Little Boo and Bimbette , Don Messick as Hamton J. Pig and The Radio Announcer , Joe Alaskey as Plucky Duck , Tupelo Toad , Johnny Carson , David Letterman and Elmer Fudd , Maurice LaMarche as Dizzy Devil , Ed McMahon and Arsenio Hall , Frank Welker as Gogo , Furrball , Little Beeper , Byron Basset , Uncle Stinky and Vinnie , Rob Paulsen as Fowlmouth , Johnny Pew , Mr. Hitcher , Banjo Possum , Hotel Manager , Horatio and The Parking Lot Attendant , Cree Summer as Elmyra Duff , Mary Melody and Oprah Winfrey , Candi Milo as Sweetie Pie , Jonathan Winters as Wade Pig and Superman , Edie McClurg as Winnie Pig , Paul Julian as Road Runner and Sorrell Booke as Big Daddy Boo.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film 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 film was in all honesty really good. With all of his film actors turning some really good performances in this film which is something that really does make alot of sense as there all not only a really good bunch of voice actors in their own but are also reprising their roles from the show as well and therefor it does make sense that they would turn in some really good performances in this film as who else would best know these character then the actors that have been playing for quite some time at this point in time with it being really hard to say just who the best actor is in this film as there all so good with all of this films actors bringing something that helps to make there character feel alot like themselves when it would have been super easy for the makers of this film to loose just what it is that really made these character who they are in the first place with this being a case where all of the actors and the crew involved with the film really loving the characters so much that they wanted to do was right by those characters with that being something that really does shine through in the final film with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films 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 film.


Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Telecom Animation Film and Nakamura Production. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film 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 film was in all honesty really good as while the films animation quality isn't feature film worthy by any stretch of the imagination that was never going to be the case as this film was always going be a direct to VHS release and to be fair to this film it's animation was so good because of the fact that the animation for the show was just so good and with this film sharing the same production staff it does make sense that the animation in he film would be good as well and while yes it would have been nice to see this film get a theatrical release as that would mean much more higher quality animation the animation that we have in this film works really well for the film as the characters have always known that there in an animated show and therefor the animators can and do have fun with the kinds of facial expressions and the things that they have the characters do as there not bound by any real world logic which is something that does help to sell this animation and make it as looney and as a zany as it could have been with all of the characters having some really nice fluid movements to them and all of the films backgrounds looking really good with even the character designs for the films guest characters looking like they could fit in with the world of the show.


What is perhaps the films biggest issue is the fact that it does have so many plots going on all at the same time. With it feeling like the makers of this film wanted to get as many of the shows characters into this film regardless of if they needed to be in the film or not as almost all of the characters barring a very small handful either have plots in this movie or appear in speaking roles in this film with pretty much all of them at the very least making a quick cameo all throughout the film whilst this wouldn't be a bad thing if this one of the shows segmented episodes as then you could argue that there just going from one segment to the other with a movie however it nearly always works best if you focus on just a small handful of characters instead of cutting to a different character every few minuets as all that will do is just confuse your audience with this even having he add on effect of making it hard for the audience to care for any of the films plots as the makers of this film don't really give us a reason to care for any of the films plots as they have to cut to the next character to advance there plot lines and while certain fans of the show will be glad to see the character that they like getting some love in this movie that doesn't mean that they needed to be in the film itself with the best cases of this being both Shirley and Fifi as both of there plots would feel more at home in the show as in the film it just feels like that they are there to pad out the films running time this is despite the fact that both characters are some fairly popular characters but even with that mind the shows main villain Montana Max doesn't feature all that much in the film when he very easily could have been the main villain in the Babs and Buster plot line which is something that would have made perfect sense for his character.

This film is a musical which is something that's to be expected from this franchise with the films song being written by one of the films composers Bruce Broughton. While there aren't that many actual songs that are sung by the main cast in this film infact there's only two the two songs that the main characters do actually sing are actually pretty good with the best one being "Waiting For The Clock" which is just all of the shows main characters just begging for the school to strike three o'clock so that they can go home and start summer vacation with the song itself even weaving in a new rendition of the Tiny Toons theme song something which does oddly play a few more times throughout the film as well which given that the maker of this film do like to use different versions of the shows classic theme song in it's episodes and specials does make sense that they would do the same thing here as it makes the kid audience feel like that there watching the characters that they know and love from the show only in a longer format the issue is tho is that there aren't enough songs in this film as that's just how good that the films two songs by the films main characters are and even then the second song is just another version of the shows main theme song which makes you wonder why the makers of this film even bothered to make it a musical as they don't go all out with that aspect of it something that they could have done given the fact that this is a feature length film as then the makers of the film could have had some more catchy songs in this film something that the Animaniacs film "Wakko's Wish" would actually take full advantage off doing.


In what could be seen as being a really good move the maker of this film do have the character of Plucky Duck feature quite alot in this film. Which is something that does work both for and against the film it works for the film in two ways the first of which being outside of Buster and Babs Plucky was one of the shows more popular characters so much so that he did technically get his own spin off show with The Plucky Duck Show which only aired one new episode and just featured repeats of Plucky centric episodes from Tiny Toon Adventures and the second one being that Plucky and Hampton are always going to be comedy gold and having Plucky in a plot with Hampton and his family was always gong to guarantee some really big laughs but here's where it works against the film because Plucky just isn't that interesting of a character inside of the show as all of his is a smaller version of Daffy Duck and that's really it so he can't have that much of personality due to the fact that he's just a smaller version of a more popular cartoon character which makes it weird that the makers of this film would essentially make him one of the leading characters in this film especially since Babs and Buster who are more interesting and funny characters but are also the leads of the show alot of the time as well and are also the characters that people think about the most when they think of this show but to be fair tho this film does give Plucky some really funny scenes in this film which does justify him basically being the co-lead character of this film and while having him take on a bigger role doesn't really hurt the film it is weird considering the fact that he doesn't have much in the way of a personality outside of the fact that he's essentially just a smaller version of Daffy Duck.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nineteen minuets and forty seven seconds. Which is a pretty solid running time for this film with the film having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time but even so this film really doesn't use that running time all that wisely as it has several dozen plots to fit in and tell and it just can't do that and develop all of them in that short of a running time with this being another case for less equals more as by having lets just say one or two plots lines say for example it's just the Plucky and Hampton plot line as the side plot and for the main plot it's the Babs and Buster plot just by having those two plots alone would more then enough to support an entire movie as you don't need to have as many characters from the show in the movie as all that does is just make them feel like background characters but by just having the two plot lines then it would make that the makers of this film could have developed both plots really well which in turn would help to make this film all the more better then what it already s in the first place with the other thing that this film doesn't do thanks to it's running time is develop it's characters which isn't that big of an issue in this film as we have several dozen episodes of the show for the characters to become fully developed characters but the film doesn't even give it's newer characters much development either with alot of them just being either flat out bad guy or flat out good guy with there being no middle ground but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this 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 film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / featured to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film being genuinely quite laugh out loud funny at times which does make alot of sense as alot of the writers from the show did work on this film with the film having alot of the best writers from the show working on it therefor it does make sense that this film would be painfully funny with nearly all of this films jokes working be it from Babs saying to Superman that this isn't his film to anything with either Plucky or Fifi in it bottom line there's going to be alot of jokes in this film with it being quite hard to say just what the best joke is as there all that funny and they all fit in with the character telling it as well but if push comes to shove i've say that the best joke is anything to do Elmya as her plot line of just wanting a cat and doing anything to get it even sneaking out at the zoo is something that her character would do and seeing her just be herself around all of these animals all of which will do quite literally anything to get away from her will always be funny and to be fair the makers of this film do milk all of the scenes in which that plot plays out for all their worth joke wise that being the same thing that's also being true for alot of the side plots as there just there to tell a few jokes and that's it and while they don't really need to be in the film in the first place the fact that the makers knew when to stop them just show that the makers of this film knew when to cut them off with this allowing for the film to tell alot more jokes with nearly all of this films jokes not only working but working really well as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 


Overall whilst Wakko's Wish is easily the better made of the two films this one feels more true to the show that it's being spun off from and is alot more funnier then what Wakko's Wish was but in saying that tho this film really does have quite alot of flaws in it which do hold it back from being as good as it really could have been 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 film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 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 Animaniacs fandom wiki page 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 film 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 film with alot of them being 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.

Wednesday, 6 September 2023

Tiny Toon Adventures "A Quack In The Quarks" Review


We are now less then a few short days away from the release of Tiny Toons Looniversity with the show set to premier it's first ten episodes this Friday on Max and the following day on Cartoon Network. As such you all just knew that I had to produce a tie in review and well I couldn't do the first episode of the original show as that's already been done and i've already done the movie so that only left me one of the episodes to review and so then join me as I review the episode that is a really very loose parody of the Star Wars franchise with the episode in question being called simply just "A Quack In The Quarks" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when his show boating gets him kidnapped by aliens who want him to defeat an evil tyrant it's up to Babs , Buster and Hampton to rescue Plucky and save Planet X before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the 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 altho I will admit that this episodes was also very rather on the thin side of things as well but it was still a very rather entertaining and engaging plot as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this episode is voice acting legend Joe Alaskey as Plucky Duck and the Director and voice acting legend Charlie Adler as Buster Bunny and Slate Guy. Also starring in this episode is voice acting legend Tress MacNeille as Babs Bunny , voice acting legend Don Messick as Hamton Pig ,voice acting legend Frank Welker as Chewcudda , Elder and a Computer , voice acting and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles legend Rob Paulsen as Frank , voice acting legend Jeff Bergman as Foghorn Leghorn and Duck Vader and Carol Kane as Ollie.

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. Which really shouldn't be that much of a surprise as this episodes cast is made up of  bunch of really good voice actors and actresses and it just goes to show that for this shows early run they always had really good acting in it with this episodes script being really good and so all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and boom a good performance will come out of them really naturally.



Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at AKOM Productions Co. 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 thought / felt that the actual animation thats actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes animation being more then up the already high standard of the shows quality of animation and heck i'd even go as far as to say that this episodes animation is movie quality as it's that good animation wise.


What I really loved is the fact that this film is loose parody of Star Wars with several of the shows main characters even dressing up like Star Wars characters. What would have made this parody even funnier was if the whole entire episode was just one big parody of a Star Wars movie think what Family Guy did but only better and funnier and heck you could even have the characters comment on the Star Wars fanbase as a whole and compare them to their own fanbase which given that this show is executive produced by Steven Spielberg that's something that they very easily could have done if they it's something that they really wanted to do.

I don't really like Plucky as the main character in this episode just because to me he's a character that's better suited for being a recurring character. As his personality makes him come across as being a really unlikable main character with him being very self involved so much so that it stops being funny and starts being annoying I get it he's meant to be the Tiny Toons version of Daffy Duck but even he wasn't always that selfish and that's something that should have been done with Plucky as while he is indeed a very funny character he's also a character that works best when he's not the main focus point of the episode. 


This episode didn't just break the fourth wall it took a sledgehammer to it which was something that I really did like. As it makes sense in the world as the characters in Tiny Toon Adventures are all fully aware of the fact that they are all cartoon characters and heck even the shows first episode dealt with the characters being created ad so to me it makes sense that they would break the fourth wall and while not alot of the fourth wall breaks in this episode are actually funny they are pretty clever which does make them feel fresh and unique I just wish that they commented on the fact that Duck Vader s quite literally a rip off of Darth Vader.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time  of exactly twenty minuets and fifty two seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd for an episode of this show to have and Im will admit that this episode really does take full advantage of it's running time and while I would have liked it if this episode was a tad bit longer just so some of the guest characters could be fully fleshed out a bit if they did stretch this episode out even by just a couple of minuets then they'd be stretching an already thinly drawn story even thinner and I will admit that this episode does have some fairly solid pacing to it tho as well.


So now then as this is a comedy show that means 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 not that bad. While this episode isn't as funny as the first episode was it was still a really funny episode that had a surprising adult joke which really did catch me of guard as it was a really funny joke that came out of nowhere and it's a joke that will go over alot of kids heads as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall Tiny Toons Looniversity has alot of live up and if the leaked episode of the shows fifth episode is anything to go by then we are in for one heck of a bumpy ride as we make our way back tom Acme Looniversity 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 thing that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 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 Star Wars fandom wiki page , the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very post being the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the great freaking the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page are all really fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as them all really being very fairly freaking high in definition.

Thursday, 2 February 2023

My First Impressions Of The Tiny Toons Looniversity TV Series

 


I make it no secret that i'm a fan of Tiny Toon Adventures and so when it announced that the show would be coming back I like many of you was understandably rather excited. However thanks to someone leaking the entire fifth episode of the show online I can now bring you this post a whole earlier then what I was originally planning to do so and so then join me as I give you my first impressions of the show that is tiny toony but not very looney with the show in question being called simply just "Tiny Toons Looniversity" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when his favorite hangout spot is threatened with demolition Buster has to find a way to save it before it's far to late. 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 OK at best since this episodes plot does somewhat have the same feel as a plot of Tiny Toon Adventures which for this show and for this episode is something that is very sorely lacking in this very episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 


Starring in this episode is Ben Giroux as Buster Bunny , Danny Cooksey as Montana Max and Tessa Netting as Sweetie Bird. Also starring in this episode is Candi Milo as Granny , Jeff Bergman as Bugs Bunny , David Errigo Jr. as Hamton J. Pig and Ashleigh Crystal Hairston as Babs Bunny. Try as I might but I cannot find any voice actor listed for Taz , Dizzy and Plucky Duck this is despite the fact that both Dizzy and Plucky have very prominent speaking roles in this episode.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt abut thew 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 episode that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty decent at best. The issue is tho that alot of the voices just don't fit the characters at all and that is such a shame because the original show gave the characters perfect voices and while the voices don;t effect the performances in this episode the voices are very distracting at best and are just straight up bad at their worst.



Try as I might I cannot find out who did the animation for this show or even for this episode for that matter. 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 bad granted this episode isn't fully finished heck one scene appears in storyboard form but the animation is for the most part all done and what animation we do get is pretty bad and is nowhere near the high standard of the original show.


This show feels like that it was made by people who aren't fans of the original Tiny Toon Adventures since so little about this episode has that Tiny Toon Adventures feel to it. Since this episode is just telling one story and not having several segments inside one episode and while the original show did occasionally have one story cover the entire episode they were often done to tell a much bigger story where as here it's only done just because they felt like that they had to it and not because the story dictated that they do it.

The one thing that you'd expect from the Looney Tunes characters is for them to act looney in some way and while that is in this episode. It here feels like that it was done just because they felt like that they had and not because of the fact that the makers of the show feel like that have a love and respect for the original show which is something that the makers of this show really should have had since that would be the only way to make the show good since the original does have alot of fans even all these years later and when you make a show that doesn't respect the original show then you've already alienated the fans of the original who are the same fans that you should really be trying to please with this show.


One of the things that put alot of people of about this show is the fact that Babs and Buster Bunny are now siblings. Which simply wasn't the case in the original show which makes me wonder why it's a thing in this show since that was the whole point of their "No relation" joke something which the makers of this show quite clearly didn't understand and while it's not something that gets brought up in this episode aside from one side reference from Babs it is something that will play a role in the show itself.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and twenty five seconds. Which for what s going to be the fifth episode of the show is a great running time to have simply because of the fact that this episode really doesn't have alot of story to cover a large amount of running time and as such giving this episode the running time that it has means that every single in this episode has to be about advancing the plot and as such that means that we do get some really good pacing in this episode as well.


So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / resented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally tought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really bad. I don't think that I laughed even once during this episode which is a shame because during any comedy you always want to make your audience laugh but this episode just doesn't tell any good jokes at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while this episode is quite alot better then any episode of Velma it's still not a good representation of what the Tiny Toons was or even could be and as such this is just a bad episode of a really bad looking show 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 post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if i'm still watching this show when this shows final episodes airs or is released then i'll give this a show review and a rating as well but so far it's not of to very good start at all.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page , the official Looney Tunes fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very post being Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the great freaking Google Images are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being very fairly freaking high in definition.

Saturday, 31 October 2020

Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery Review

 


Ladies and gents with the announcement that Tiny Toon Adventures is getting a revival within the next for years. I thought that i'd take a look at one of the shows many episodes and well given that i'm writing this on halloween and Tiny Toon Adventures just so happened to produce a halloween special which for some reason didn't air in October and so here is my review of the shows only halloween special "Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery" enjoy.

There is no plot to this episode with the episode instead taking on anthology approach with each segment being hosted by Babs Bunny. I have to admit that I kind of want to see what a Tiny Toon Adventures halloween special would be like if it had one single plot line but at the same taking an anthology approach seems oddly on brand for the show and because of the fact that this episode is taking an anthology approach it does mean that more Tiny Ton characters can appear and that does make the episode more fun to watch in my opinion.


Starring in the episode is Joe Alaskey as Plucky Duck , Tress MacNeille as Babs Bunny and John Kassir as Buster Bunny. Also starring in the episode is Don Messick as Hamton J. Pig and a TV Executive , Cree Summer as Elmyra Duff and Uhura , Maurice LaMarche as Dizzy Devil / The Brain and Gossamer , Gail Matthius as Shirley the Loon , Kath Soucie as Li'l Sneezer and Fifi La Fume , Danny Cooksey as Montana Max , Frank Welker as Furrball /Gogo Dodo /Byron Basset /Calamity Coyote/ Little Beeper and Gremlin , Ron Perlman as Mr. Scratch , Jim Cummings as Paddy /Villager and an Announcer , Jeff Bennett as Shamus / Pumpkin Guy and The World's Biggest Tiny Toon Fan and June Foray as Witch Hazel.

As for what I thought about the acting in this special it was alot better then what I remember it being and bare in mind i've seen this special a few times now. However on this most recent viewing of the special I found the acting to be really good with all of the actors putting in a good performance and for me it helps that alot of the actors have been playing these roles since the very start of the the Tiny Toon Adventures and so they know there characters very well and as for John Kassir who is taking over the role of Buster Bunny from Charlie Adler he does a passable job but he really doesn't have that many lines in this special and so I can't really judge his performance.


The animation for this special was handled by TMS Entertainment otherwise known as Tokyo Movie Shinsha. The animation I thought was really good which given how high the animation quality is for this show really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone , helping things in my opinion is the fact that the backgrounds look visually stunning as well as the fact that all of the characters get these really fluid movements which help give the characters alot of life.

I will say that doing a Halloween special with the character of Elmya is to me a really good choice since you can do a lot of things with that character and it would not only work but would be really funny. I'm not going to say what role they have in in this special but you'll just have to trust me when I say that it's not only fitting for her character but is in my opinion one of the characters most funniest roles.


In a rather odd move for a Halloween special this episode they didn't have this episode air in October which was the original plan instead that had the episode air in May. Which to me defeats the entire purpose of a Halloween and it makes me wonder why the choice was made to have the episode air in May rather then in October since we associate October with Halloween and so it would have made alot more sense to air the special in October rather then in May.


This special is forty four minuets and fifty five seconds long so let's round that up to forty five minuets which either way is still to short for this special. I say that because they have so many cartoons in this one special that only last a few minuets and so you can't really get into the story because by the time everything in the cartoon has been set up they have to end it as such I feel that the special as a whole should have been a bit longer maybe make it closer to an hour without commercials and each cartoon should have been longer as well.

Since I just watched The Nightmare Before Christmas a few days ago I was shocked that Tiny Toon Adventures spoofed Nightmare Before Christmas. I say that I was shocked because it has been a while since I last watched this special and so seeing it again it was like I was watching it for the first time but even so im surprised that Tim Burton didn't get on the phone to the Tiny Toon Adventures team and threaten to sue them since it's so obvious what it is there spoofing.


Now then boys and girls this is comedy and so that means that we have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode / special. Which me to the jokes were very hit and miss since for very joke that worked and every spoof that worked there be a joke and spoof that didn't work which is a shame because when this episode / special does tell a good joke then it is really funny and the same goes for what ever they spoof as well since whenever they do spoof something really well it can be funny but then there are times where I was left thinking "What The Hell Are They Spoofing" because whatever it was they were spoofing just wasn't that good or that funny.


Overall this was a really funny episode and it's one that I can see alot of people espically fans of Tiny Toon Adventures enjoying. That being said tho the episode / special does have some issues which do sadly keep this episode / special from being a perfect ten out of ten and sadly those issues have been covered in this review as such Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery gets a 7.5 out of 10 from this Tiny Toon Adventures fan.

All and I do mean all of the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page. Since I only went to one website for all of the images that I used in this review I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page if you want to get images from either this special / episode or anything to do with Tiny Toon Adventures.





 

 





Saturday, 11 August 2018

Tiny Toon Adventures Review


Hello there toonsters the Looney Tunes have always been and will always be popular characters but in the early nineties something different was done with the characters and before you all say it no the characters weren't turned into little kids instead a new series was created that showcased the next generation of Looney Tunes so here is my review of Tiny Toon Adventures.

The set up of the show is rather hard to explain since there's no plot or premise at all it's the next generation of Looney Tunes living life , having adventures and attending ACME Looniversity where all the teachers are the old cast of characters and each of the episodes would almost always have a different set up but I will say that the pacing of each episode is pretty good at times but there are some episodes that feel slower.


Starring in this show was Charlie Adler , Joe Alaskey , Danny Cooksey , John Kassir , Maurice LaMarche , Tress MacNeille , Gail Matthius , Don Messick , Candi Milo , Rob Paulsen , Kath Soucie , Cree Summer and Frank Welker. Yeah I know that there are alot more actors in this show but that's the thing there's a lot more actors heck i've not even scratched the surface of the people that are in this show.

All of the actors in this show give really great performances and as you can see by who's starring in the show that's not really a surprise alot of the cast members are legends and while this show might not be the best example of their work it's still a group of really fine actors and actresses giving it there all and they are all really good and most importantly really funny in this show.


What helps make this show stand out is the fact that there were several different animation studios involved with each episode while Warner Bros did infact produce the show they didn't do the animation instead companies such as TMS Entertainment , Wang Film Productions, AKOM and StarToons but there was one studio that got let go after the first season due to there inconsistent levels of quality and that's Kennedy Cartoons. 

The overall quality of the animation isn't that bad it still has the same amount of passion init that the classic Looney tunes shorts would have had except now they actually have a budget but tho with that being said there are some episodes where the animation isn't that great but they are few and far between at least in my eyes.


Honestly guys the broadcast history of this show is more interesting than the animation history because the pilot episode and the first season ran on CBS but then from 1992 onward the show aired on Fox kids I guess CBS had figured that they had seen enough of the characters since the first season had a whopping sixty five episodes but it seems strange that CBS wouldn't continue airing a hit show.

The show lasted alot longer then what people think because even tho the show only had three seasons like I said that first season was sixty five episodes and lasted nearly a full year but out side of that the show also had a direct to VHS movie called Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation and two TV specials called Tiny Toon Spring Break and Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery so they made alot of Tiny Toons content and I can guarantee your never going to see the same episode twice because in total there are close to one hundred episodes.


When I went into this show I wasn't expecting there to be alot of adult jokes in it but low and behold in the second ever episode there's a Watchmen reference it's a quick little reference but near the start of episode two on the chalk board behind plucky there's some text that reads "who watches the ducksters"or something like that and it's a nod to Watchmen and i',m sat here wondering if any kid ever got what that was a reference to.

Honestly alot of the jokes in this show are funny there's a really funny anti-smoking episode which was in the first season and so it aired before the infamous "One Beer" episode and it's full of small little jokes all of the jokes in this show are so funny and so well written that you can see why alot of the same staff went on to work on Animaniacs they are that talented and not afraid to poke fun at themselves.


I cannot talk about this show and not mention the theme song to me the Tiny Toons theme song is so good that t should be remembered for years to come in that one minuet intro we get a brief introduction as to who all the characters are and what there personality trait is and it helps that the theme song was done by Bruce Broughton who's worked on alot of great shows even recently he's done the opening to The Orville.


Overall i'm so glad that I went back a re-watched this show (yes I watched it growing up) it is a very funny show and one that I recommend any Looney Tunes fan watch but the show does have some problems tho so it gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me.