Tiny Toons ended 30 years ago this week with Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery.
Is it time to admit this is the peak of the show?
Tiny Toons ended 30 years ago this week with Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery
Peak
Compared to the modern version, the whole show is peak.
The fact that it lasted 1990-1995 says a lot.
I was there even when the pilot premiered in prime time on CBS before it went to Fox kids afternoon the following week.
It’s much better than the Spring Break but I think mostly below the best of the show. Parodies of familiar stories are always a bit hit and miss and the Abbott and Costello bit in particular is really just too close to the original.
There are some good ones of course. My favorite is the “Devil Dog” segment Paul Rugg wrote (I think the only Tiny Toons he ever wrote). It’s the kind of thing you’d later see on Freakazoid like when the rule that the Devil Dog can’t hurt people who wear fake antlers on their heads.
I mean it might be, I feel like the show in general just improved as it went on. You can really feel a lot of production issues with that first season ranging from animation to writing in general that got ironed out later on.
Tiny Toons Adventures taught me about how animation worked. I saw cartoons before it and I had the general idea that it was a series of drawings moving frames per second. But TTA would have animation studios swap within episodes. I think I first noticed it in Hero Hampton and Buster and the Wolverine. The art style would change, the animation "fidelity" would change and they did it tastefully like between transitions. It also didn't happen once per episode. It would switch like back and forth and that was interesting. It looked like a collab.
My Vacation is in the Tiny Toons S tier, mayhaps Night Ghoulery is just below S. It had some parts that tried to be really funny or really entertaining, and the music was doing all the heavy lifting to make the scenes more entertaining than they really were. Pic unrelated, I only made 2 screnshots and not making new ones RN can't be arsed.
Why didn't Night Ghoulery rerun after its initial airing until 2012 on Vortexx and 2013 on The Hub
One post.
It took one post before a Anon Babble Tiny Toons thread turned into a place to drool over cartoony birds that would pull your dick off with their feet for a joke.
As it should be.
Ah, the good old days...
Yet, it still lost hard to Bobby's World.
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Symbolic ending, all the characters return to the rainbow iris and say "That's all we got!"
This was the only special Montana Max had a large role in. He was absent from Summer Vacation and Spring Break.
If we’re talking about roles, Buster had almost nothing to do in Night Ghoulery. Guess it’s because the new voice was poorly received but it’s only a guess.
You know it's kind of weird that the last thing Tiny Toons did was a Halloween special now that I think about it.
90's cartoons had balls. Night Gholery was the episode Plucky and Montana Max went to hell for a gag. Strange that Buster hardly played a role in this episode and Plucky played many important roles in the segments. Buster didn't even join Babs hosting it.
Rather that than a standard 11 minute episode.
No more that it's a Halloween special of all things since the series didn't exactly have its core identity tied up in Halloween or ghost stuff even in general.
I mean they did Summer, Christmas and Spring Break/Easter, Halloween was the next logical step.
Tiny Toons episodes are 26 minutes that may be 1 whole 26 minute story or 3 smaller 8'ish minutes stories with whap around bumpers.
Tiny Toons never had 11 minute episodes because it was made before that became a thing in the US.
It had a kino cameo of Brain
The setting was perfect they just needed TTA writing but in an actual college
Uh yeah, that character was made in direct response to their experiences with the online fandom and one particular guy that was obsessed with Fifi. Tiny Toons was basically the first time cartoon creators interacted with people online, it's kind of a fascinating historical moment.
Buster had been recast after Charlie Adler quit over not getting a part on Animaniacs. They probably were not entirely comfortable with the new Buster VA.
For me it’s Little Beeper The roadrunner. I might have gotten the name wrong it’s only been 30 years.
That one was kino
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Could the setting of Jimmy Neutron work if you replaced the cast with the Tiny Toons cast?
Who's Barky Marky?
Production ended in 1992 but they cranked out a few specials + the movie.
Still waiting.
Yet, they still released video games in 93+94
How Come the TTA fanbase is still strong, yet Tom & Jerry Kids has no fanbase? Both debuted a week apart.
Tiny Toons is a show that holds up and lets be real has a coomer audience, while T&JK really is just there and has no appeal to go back to
Tiny Toons made the very smart decision not to do junior versions of the classic Looney Tunes characters, but new characters trying to model themselves after the originals.
That liberated them from fan complaints about what they did to the original characters, because the originals are right there on the show, acting and looking like themselves. Nobody complains "look how they massacred Porky" because Hamton isn't Porky, he's just a similar character.
Impressive for Bobby with 81 episodes for 7 seasons.
Tiny Toons (98 episodes 3 seasons), Animaniacs (99 episodes 5 seasons) and Batman (85 episodes 2 seasons) all interestingly had 65 episodes for season 1
Taz and Pinky & the Brain both had 65 episodes within 4 seasons.
Freakazoid was a total of 24 episodes for 2 seasons.
Tom and Jerry Kids was just the usual Tom and Jerry slapstick but holding back a great deal on the violence, an inferior version of the golden age cartoons.
The OJ Simpson trial really killed a lot of afternoon shows.