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Tiny Toon Adventures

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Created byTom Ruegger
NetworkCBS (pilot)
First-run syndication (season 1-2)
Fox (season 3)
Production companyAmblin Televison
Warner Bros. Animation
DistributorWarner Bros. Television Distribution
Original releaseSeptember 14, 1990December 6, 1992
StarringCharlie Adler
Tress MacNeille
Joe Alaskey
Don Messick
Kath Soucie
Gail Matthius
Candi Milo
Cree Summer
Danny Cooksey
Maurice LaMarche
Frank Welker
Executive producer(s)Steven Spielberg
Producer(s)Sherri Stone
Music composed byBruce Broughton
Writer(s)Tom Ruegger
Sherri Stoner
Paul Dini
Bruce Timm
Tom Minton
Jim Reardon
Nicholas Hollander
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Tiny Toon Adventures, also called Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures, is an American animated television series created by Tom Reugger. It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation for first-run syndication, and later, the Fox Kids block at Fox network. It is inspired by the Looney Tunes theatrical shorts that ran from 1930 to 1969, acting as a spin-off of sorts. It is also the first Looney Tunes-inspired series not to be a compilation of the shorts. It ran from 1990 to 1992, spanning 100 episodes across three seasons. The first episode, "The Looney Beginning," aired in prime-time on CBS on September 14, 1990.

Set in a town known as Acme Acres, it centers on a young generation of characters who attend Acme Looniversity, where they are educated by mentors comprised of the traditional Looney Tunes cast. The majority of this new cast are essentially younger, spiritual successors of their forerunners, which included the likes of Buster and Babs Bunny ("no relation"), Plucky Duck, Hamton J. Pig, and antagonists Elmyra Duff and Montana Max.

The series would also receive two specials, along with a feature-length direct-to-video film titled Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation.

  • 1 Production
    • 1.1 Development
    • 1.2 Aftermath
  • 2 Music
  • 3 Episodes
  • 4 Specials
  • 5 Cast
  • 6 Release
  • 7 Promotion
  • 8 Legacy
  • 9 In popular culture
  • 10 Merchandise
    • 10.1 Home media
    • 10.2 Reading material
    • 10.3 Toys
    • 10.4 Video games
  • 11 References

Production

Development

Aftermath

Music

The theme song was composed by Bruce Broughton.

Opening Theme Lyrics

Buster: We're Tiny!
Babs: We're Toony!
We're all a little Loony!
And in this cartoony, we're invading your TV!

We're comic dispensers
Buster: We crack up all the censors.
On Tiny Toon Adventures, get a dose of comedy

So here's Acme Acres, It's a whole world of apart.
Our home sweet home, it stands alone, a cartoon work of art.

Plucky: The scripts were rejected, expect the unexpected.
On Tiny Toon Adventures, it's about to start!

They're furry, they're funny,
They're Babs and Buster Bunny.
Montana Max has money.
Elmyra is a pain!

Buster: Here's Hampton,
Plucky: I'm Plucky!
Babs: Dizzy Devil ducky.
Furrball's unlucky,
and Gogo is insane!

At Acme Looniversity, we earn our toon degree
The teaching staff's been getting laughs since 1933.

We're tiny,
We're toony,
We're all a little looney.
It's Tiny Toon Adventures, come and join the fun!
Babs and Buster: And now our song is done!

Episodes

EpisodeOriginal air date
1x01
  • "The Looney Beginning"
September 14, 1990
1x02
  • "A Quack in the Quarks"
September 17, 1990
1x03
  • "The Wheel O'Comedy"
September 18, 1990
1x04
  • "Test Stressed"
September 19, 1990
1x05
  • "The Buster Bunny Bunch"
September 20, 1990
1x06
  • "Her Wacky Highness"
September 21, 1990
1x07
  • "Journey to the Center of Acme Acres"
September 24, 1990
1x08
  • "Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night"
September 25, 1990

Specials

TitleNumberOriginal air date
Tiny Toons Spring Break1March 24, 1994
Tiny Toons Night Ghoulery2March 28, 1995

Although It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special is considered a Christmas-themed special, it is only called this as it is Christmas-themed and is treated like a regular episode. However, it did air in prime time on December 6, 1992.

Cast

  • Charlie Alder as Buster Bunny
  • Tress MacNeille as Babs Bunny
  • Joe Alaskey as Plucky Duck
  • Don Messick as Hamton J. Pig
  • Danny Cooksey as Montana Max
  • Maurice LaMarche as Dizzy Devil
  • Frank Welker as Furball and Gogo
  • Cree Summer as Elmyra Duff
  • Kath Soucie as Fifi La Fume
  • Gail Matthius as Shirley the Loon
  • Candi Milo as Sweetie Bird

Release

Premiere dates are in order of release

  • United States: Septemer 14, 1990

Promotion

Legacy

The series was cancelled as it wasn't performing as well as its sister series Animaniacs, although, that didn't stop the series from getting two specials: Tiny Toons Spring Break and Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery with the latter serving as the finale for the series. A feature-length direct-to-video film, entitledTiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, was released on March 11, 1992.

After the show ended, the series would get 4 spin-off series: The Plucky Duck Show, the aforementioned Animaniacs, and Pinky and the Brain; the latter of which was followed by its own spin-off Pinky, Elmrya, and the Brain.

After the success of the 2020 Animaniacs reboot, a Tiny Toons reboot in the same vein, called Tiny Toons Looniversity, was released in 2023. Unlike the original show, this series is set in its own continuity and takes several liberties from it predecessor.

In popular culture

  • In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "On Leather Wings," a guard reads a Tiny Toons Adventures comic. This may be both a reference to the cartoon and the comic book adaptation DC Comics published briefly in 1990.
  • In the 1993 film Wayne's World 2, when Wayne and Garth talk to the permit guy for permission to have Waynestock, he mentions how they have had other big acts including "Tiny Toons."
  • In the The Golden Palace episode "Tad," Tad tells Rose that he watches Scooby-Doo, Tiny Toons, and Muppet Babies.
  • In the Young Sheldon episode "A Proposal and a Popsicle Stick Dress," Missy watches "A Quack in the Quarks."

Merchandise

Home media

Reading material

Toys

Video games

References

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