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2. Lyrics and freeze-frame material
3. Toon queries
5. Net and newsgroup questions
This fall TTA will cease being carried by Fox and begin syndication on the Nickelodeon cable network.
Charlie Adler, John Kassir as Buster Bunny
Tress MacNeille as Babs (Barbara Anne) Bunny
Danny Cooksey as Montana Max(imillion)
Cree Summer as Elmyra Duff
Don Messick as Hamton J. Pig
Joe Alaskey as Plucky Duck
Maurice LaMarche as Dizzy Devil
Frank Welker as Furrball
Frank Welker as Gogo Dodo
Gail Matthius as Shirley the Loon
(f/k/a Shirley McLoon)
Kath Souci as Fifi La Fume
Frank Welker as Calamity Coyote
Frank Welker as Little Beeper
Kath Souci as Sneezer
Candi Milo as Sweetie Bird
Cindy McGee, Cree Summer as Mary Melody
Rob Paulsen as Arnold
Rob Paulsen as Fowlmouth
Steven Spielberg as Himself
[sorry, couldn't resist. :-)]
Be warned, however, that HISMV is occasionally broadcast as an extremely butchered four-part episode. Avert your eyes, and rent/buy the video instead!
> TTA got the Emmy for "Best Animated Series" for two of the three
> years it was nominated: 1990-1991 (season 1) and 1992-1993 (season
> 3). Only RUGRATS prevented it from taking the 1991-1992 season,
> though us TTA fans got to gloat with glee that TTA beat out BATMAN:
> THE ANIMATED SERIES for the '93 Emmy.
> According to the UK broadcasters, this is the international format
> that Warner Bros distribute the cartoons in. I believe that it is the
> same in Australia and Finland. As to why Warners choose to do this I
> have no idea!
TPDS also enjoyed its own theme song and opening, which you can see on "The Return of Batduck" (which now airs as a regular TTA episode). (FYI, bits of this episode have been edited out in order to squeeze in the regular TTA opening.)
We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little looney,
And in this cartoony, we're invading your TV!
We're comic dispensers, we crack up all the censors,
On TINY TOON ADVENTURES get a dose of comedy!
So here's Acme Acres, it's a whole wide world apart,
Our home sweet home, it stands alone, a cartoon work of art!
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!
Here's Hamton and Plucky, Dizzy Devil's yucky,
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!
... and now our song is done!
We're Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs
We love to thrash criminals and slice 'n' dice thugs!
We're totally radical, gnarly dudes,
Cowabunga homeboys with nothin' to lose ...
Our arch-enemies want us iodized
But they can't beat us 'cause we're merchandised!
(Iodizer: "DESTROY THEM!!")
Count off!
So kick back, dweebs, it's the end of our rhyme,
The show's gonna start and it's time to slime!
WARNER BROS. and AMBLIN ANIMATION
CO-VENTURES in association with
LOTS O' CASH PARTNERS IV present a
TOM RUEGGER PRODUCTION of a KEN
BOYER ART LEONARDI AND KENT
BUTTERWORTH film -- HAMTON J. PIG
GOGO DODO in "HONEY, I SHRUNK THE
CLOTHES" Starring BUSTER BUNNY
BABS BUNNY (no relation) MONTANA
MAX PLUCKY DUCK CESAR ROMERO THE
ENTIRE POPULATION OF OAKLAND,
CALIFORNIA LITTLE BEEPER CALAMITY
COYOTE and introducing EDDIE
FITZGERALD as "MOOKIE"
APPEARANCE BY FIFI LA FUME as THE
IRATE CUSTOMER Executive Producer
G. WHO Written by THE USUAL GUYS
Drawn by KEXX BYRON BARRY DEMELO
AND THE REST OF THE GANG AT THE
TINY TOONS CARTOONY FACTORY. Model
colors figured out at great expense
by BUNNY MUNNS Backgrounds by
KARTHARINE and BRIAN Music by ONE
OF BRUCE'S GUYS Based on the book
"Crime And Punishment" by FEODOR
DOSTOEVSKY Harried assistant to the
harried producer DEBRA BLANCHARD
AND KENNETH ROSS
Monitor PAUL STRICKLAND DOESN'T IT
HURT YOUR EYES TO READ PRINT THIS
TINY? Live Action Reference by
SHERRI STONER Mildly disgusted with
the whole thing TOM MINTON person
with nothing better to do than to
write this PAUL DINI THIS LINE IS
FOR PEOPLE WHO HIT FREEZE FRAME AND
LOOK FOR SUSPECT MESSAGES Art
Direction VINCENT VAN GOGH EDITED
BY CUISINART MOST OF THE PEOPLE
LISTED HERE HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER
TO DO WITH THE MAKING OF THIS MOVIE
THEY JUST LIKE TO SEE THEIR NAMES
WHIZ BY AT ONE-TENTH OF A SECOND
Hamton J. Pig appears courtesy of
OSCAR MEYER INC. Gogo Dodo's hair
by VEG-O-MATIC ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
RECORDING AVAILABLE ON ELEVATOR
P.A. SYSTEMS BE SURE AND BUY EVERY
PRODUCT CONNECTED WITH THIS MOVIE
OR YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE JACK WE'RE
NOT KIDDING WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE
Directed by KEN BOYER ART LEONARDI
KENT BUTTERWORTH KENNEDY CARTOONS
DON'T WASTE YOUR SEVEN BUCKS ON
THIS HOUND SEE GRIM-LOONS 2
INSTEAD HI MOM
You're lucky, it's Plucky,
"I'm absolutely ducky,"
Other shows seem yucky now that Plucky's on the air!
"I'm wacky, I'm quacky,"
He's an egomaniac-y,
Hamton plays the lackey of this duck extraordinaire!
Who knows the way to close his endless babbling beak?
Drop an anvil down upon his feathery physique!
Toast him, roast him, the show will still be most him,
"It's THE PLUCKY DUCK SHOW and it's on each week!"
His antics are frantic, at times he gets romantic,
"My talent's so gigantic it'll burst from your TV!"
The writers are hackers, the artists all went crackers,
The actors are yakkers,
"But don't complain -- it's free!"
Plucky goes to Acme Loo to learn to be a star,
There're other toonsters at the school,
"But who cares who they are ..."
So enjoy, don't be coy,
And don't fall for a decoy,
It's THE PLUCKY DUCK SHOW, come and laugh along!
... "I also wrote this song!"
We're comic dispensers, we crack up all the censors,
It's TINY TOON ADVENTURES for some special yuletide cheer!
So here's Acme Acres, it's a wonderland of snow,
Sleigh bells ring, toonsters sing beneath the mistletoe!
Our writers are gifted, the story has been lifted,
On TINY TOON ADVENTURES, let's start the show!
They're furry, they're funny, they're Babs and Buster Bunny,
Montana Max has money, Elmyra is a pain!
There's Hamton, and Plucky, Dizzy Devil's yucky,
Furrball's unlucky, and Gogo is insane!
At Acme Looniversity we trim the Christmas tree,
Deck the halls and guess what falls? An anvil, naturally!
We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little looney
On TINY TOON ADVENTURES -- it's our Christmas show!
-- to Grandma's house we go!
In Australia where they say "G'day"
Elmyras catch bunnies the boomerang way
In Alaska where it's froze
Rub a rabbit on the nose
Elmyras 'round the world!
In Japan, the land of the samurais
Elmyras use a ninja disguise
We don't have much smarts
So we use martial arts
Elmyras 'round the world!
In the South Seas, Elmyras hit the beach
(Buster) "But this bunny's going to stay out of reach!"
A seagoing girl
Snagging you with her pearls
Elmyras 'round the world!
> Babs is 14 (confirmed in THE LOONEY BEGINNING). From what I've
> heard from some of my pro writer friends on GEnie (such as Bill
> Neville), Buster is also 14. Plucky is the same age as Buster and Babs.
>
> I believe that Hamton was 12 at the beginning of the series, celebrated
> his 13th birthday in "A Bacon Strip" (THE ACME ACRES ZONE), and
> celebrated his 14th birthday in, appropriately enough, "Happy Birthday
> Hamton" (PLAYTIME TOONS). Hammy, interestingly enough, seems
> to be the only Tiny Toon aging!
>
> Both Fifi and Shirley are at least 13, possibly 14. Elmyra is 12 (but
> we all know her mental age is MUCH lower... :), as is the object of
> her desires, Montana Max.
>
> The other Tiny Toons are between 12 and 14.
> Once you begin to recognize his regular character speaking voice and
> his cute-alien high-pitched squeals, you can pick him out almost
> anywhere.
Will Bell (bell@cs.tamu.edu) writes:
> As part of my never-ending quest to find some image of that elusive
> imp known as Frank Welker, I bought a tome entitled "The Complete
> Directory To Prime Time Network TV Shows Past And Present" and
> learned that he has been in the following shows:
>
> The Burns and Schrieber Comedy Hour (ABC, 1973)
> The Don Knotts Show (NBC, 1970-71)
> Keep On Cruisin' (CBS, 1987) (Welker is referred to as a "hip
> young comedian")
Please extend common courtesy to Jenny or any WB staff member that may appear on Usenet and refrain from sending them email inquiries -- ask it publicly on the newsgroup instead.
> I believe the semi-official word is that Warner Animation didn't
> like their art. When the "Kennedy got dropped" news was first
> reported, someone (I think) forwarded a message from CompuServe
> about it, where someone at Warners was quoted as saying that Kennedy
> was being dropped because WB disliked the Kennedy style (the original
> poster was a Kennedy fan). The Warner rep cited the same reasons
> many Kennedy-haters cited: the shuffling feet, cigar-chewing mouths,
> excessive bouncing/stretching. Unless someone from Warner Animation
> wants to enlighten us officially, this is the closest we have to "fact".
> Note: I saw this on 20/20 sometime [in 1991];
>
> The three kids were the "biggest" TTA fans ever ... they always
> rushed home to watch the show etc. etc. ... so they wrote their own
> script ... almost a storyboard on notebook paper -- they drew
> pictures & everything.
>
> They sent their script to their local Fox affiliate, who put the
> script into an official Fox folder and forwarded it to Amblin (I
> think Amblin). Thinking this was an "official communique" from Fox,
> Jean MacCurdy (I think it was her) opened the script, loved it, and
> eventually Spielberg was given a look at it.
>
> The three kids got a call one afternoon from Spielberg [and were]
> invited to a meeting of the TTA [staff] who asked the kids questions
> like, "What do you like about the show, the characters, etc." They
> also worked out their story with the writers into a format which
> could be animated.
> In an attempt to avert having alt.tv.tiny-toon devoured by flames
> about Startoons' animation and "who animated what tags?", four of
> the TTAUEC staff took the initiative and found the answers the
> old-fashioned way -- they called.
>
> Surprisingly enough, they got answers! Even I'm flabbergasted.
>
> TINY TOON ADVENTURES End Tag Credits
> (thanks much to "Alfred" of Warner Animation)
>
> 100% certain attributions:
> Speaker Quote Animator > ======= ========================================= ============ > Baby Plucky "I wanna flush it again!" Startoons > Buster "And that's a wrap." Warner Bros. > Buster/Babs "Say goodnight, Babs." "Goodnight, Babs" Warner Bros. > Elmyra "Let the show begin!" Wang Film > Fifi "Au revoir, ma petite potato de couch." Startoons > Furrball "ROAR! ..Meow?" Startoons > Gogo Dodo "It's been surreal!" Warner Bros. > Plucky "Parting is such sweet sorrow." Warner Bros. > > Not-so-certain attributions: > > Buster/Babs "Aloooooooooooha!" Warner Bros. > Byron Basset "Woof." ??? > Dizzy "Show over!" Warner Bros.
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Picture and/or sound files can also be found at:
TTA UPCOMING EPISODES GUIDE. Schedule of upcoming episodes to be broadcast in the USA on Fox (both new episodes and reruns), along with production numbers, topical news and information, and addresses for Warner, Amblin and Fox. Posted weekly to the newsgroup. Maintained by: Robert Jung (rjung@netcom.com)
TTA EPISODE GUIDE. Chronology and plot summaries for each episode of TTA, as well as production numbers, airdates, and animation house information. Available for FTP retrieval at ftp.coe.montana.edu under the /pub/TV/Guides directory as "tinytoons.txt.Z" (Unix-compressed format), and at utpapa.ph.utexas.edu under the /pub/tta/docs directory as "TTA_Episode_Guide". Maintained by: Chris Adamson (plucky@aol.com)
TTA REFERENCE GUIDE. Listings of cast/production credits (including gag credit & end tag), production numbers, airdates, episode indexes, and commentaries by a.t.t-t'ers for each episode of TTA. Available for FTP retrieval at utpapa.ph.utexas.edu under the /pub/tta/docs directory as "TTA_Ref_Guide". Maintained by: Synth Oberheim (synth@swcp.com)
TTA TOONSTATIONS LIST. Listings of local television affiliates currently broadcasting Tiny Toon Adventures. Available for FTP at utpapa under /pub/tta/docs as "ToonStations". Maintained by: Joe Leitsch (jaleit01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu)
VINCE'S GUIDE TO FTP. A step-by-step guide on using FTP to gain access to Tiny Toons sound/picture files & guides. Maintained by: Vince Taluskie (taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu)
TOONPICS MAIL-SERVER. Email server for digitized GIF pictures for people without FTP access. Maintained by: Paul J. Osze (posze@ecst.csuchico.edu)
TTA SOUND FILE GUIDE. Guide to digitized sound files from TTA available at utpapa.ph.utexas.edu. Includes a how-to on FTPing. Maintained by: Vince Taluskie (taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu)
HISMV DYN (DID YOU NOTICE) LIST. Compendium of hard-to-spot gags, references and other notables during HISMV. Available for FTP at utpapa under /pub/tta/docs as "HISMV-DYNS". Maintained by: John R. Johns II (jrjohns@rock.concert.net)
HISMV LYRICS SHEET. Lyrics to all the songs in HISMV. Available for FTP at utpapa under /pub/tta/docs as "HISMV-Lyrics". Maintained by: John R. Johns II (jrjohns@rock.concert.net)
ALT.TV.TINY-TOON PERSONALITIES LISTING. Dossiers on many residents of a.t.t-t. Available for FTP at utpapa under /pub/tta/docs as "TTA_Personalities". Maintained by: K J Beeley (ug1003@sees.bangor.ac.uk)
QUICKLIST: EPISODE NUMBERS. List of all TTA episodes in order of production numbers. Available for FTP at utpapa under /pub/tta/docs as "Quick_Ep_Nums". Maintained by: Karl Meyers (kmeyers@nyx.cs.du.edu)
QUICKLIST: BROADCAST HISTORY. List of all TTA episodes in order of original broadcast dates. Available for FTP at utpapa under /pub/tta/docs as "Quick_Airdates". Maintained by: Karl Meyers (kmeyers@nyx.cs.du.edu)
TTA MERCHANDISE LIST. Exhaustive list of currently-available and out-of-circulation Tiny Toons-related merchandise. Available for FTP at utpapa under /pub/tta/docs as "TTA_Merchandise". Maintained by: Marc Pawliger (pawliger@adobe.com)
TTA SPY SHEET. Data on cameos, appearances, and histories of TTA voice actors & staff. Maintained by: Synth Oberheim (synth@swcp.com)
Many people contend that Dr. Roger Rabbit is really John Palmer. For more information, ask about him on alt.fan.john-palmer.
alt.animation.warner-bros: Discussion of any and all Warner animation, old and new.
alt.tv.tiny-toon.fandom: Peripheral and non-canon discussions of Tiny Toons and its characters sometimes involving sexually explicit language and situations.
alt.tv.animaniacs: Discussions of the Warner animated show Animaniacs, where numerous TTA references, production staff and other influences have been spotted.
rec.arts.animation: General Usenet discussion group about film and TV animation.
Warner also has a chain of fantastic gift shops in select cities across the US. Will Bell (wbb@netcom.com) periodically posts a list of shops and their locations.
Marc Pawliger (pawliger@adobe.com) maintains a list of all known TTA merchandise, both currently-available and out-of-print.
> The TINY TOONS album is only available on audio cassette [in the US;
> you may be able to find it as an import compact disc -ed.]. There
> are ten tunes on it, most of it being "existing works re-sung by the
> voice actors".
>
> Reaction (from the people here, anyway) has been mixed; some have
> complained that it's cutesy stuff for young children, while others
> have said that they enjoyed it anyway. All I'll say is that I didn't
> get the album, and I doubt I will. If I wanted cute kids' stuff, I'd
> go buy "Sebastian Sings!" and that stuff from Disney ...
Best of Buster and Babs
