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Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures is an American animated television series created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It originally aired from September 14, 1990 to December 6, 1992, airing in syndication before eventually settling at Fox's Fox Kids block. It was the first animated series by Warner Bros. Animation to be produced in association with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. The show follows the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend Acme Looniversity to become the next generation of characters from the Looney Tunes series. The pilot episode, "The Looney Beginning", aired as a prime-time special on CBS on September 14, 1990, while the series itself was featured in first-run syndication for the first two seasons. The final season aired on Fox under the Fox Kids programming block. The series ended production in 1992 in favor of Animaniacs, which premiered a year later; however, two specials were produced in 1994. Tiny Toon Adventures won seven Daytime Emmy Awards, a Young Artist Award, and an Environmental Media Award, with nominations for one other Daytime Emmy Award, two Annie Awards, one Primetime Emmy Award, and one other Young Artist Award. Spin-off media include magazines, toys, video games, and home media releases. The Plucky Duck Show, a spin-off television series, was created for Fox Kids and ran for one season. A second spin-off series, Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain ran on Kids' WB for one season. A reboot/revival series, Tiny Toons Looniversity, was released on September 8, 2023, on Max and then premiered the next day, on September 9, on Cartoon Network.
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The Looney Beginning
A fictionalized origin story for the series. Taking inspiration from Bugs Bunny, an animator attempts to create rabbit characters, Buster and Babs Bunny, but discards the sketches. Bugs, Buster and Babs then create the show's setting of Acme Acres and find characters to inhabit it.
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A Quack in the Quarks
A loose Star Wars parody. Plucky Duck has to save a planet called Planet X from "Duck Vader".
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The Wheel o' Comedy
Wraparounds: Buster and Babs spin a special wheel to determine the characters that star in each segment. "Devil Doggie": Elmyra Duff mistakes Dizzy Devil for a dog and takes him home with her. "Optical Intrusion": Furrball accidentally glues a pair of magnetic 3-D glasses to his face and attempts to remove them. "Win, Lose or Kerplowie": Babs, Plucky and Montana Max compete on a game show. After Buster discovers that Max is cheating, he and Babs kidnap the host and take his place to get revenge on Max.
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Test Stress
Wraparounds: Buster introduces the start of each segment. "Never Too Late to Loon": Plucky asks Shirley the Loon to turn him into Albert Einstein to help pass a math test, only to fail the test because Einstein had poor grades as a youth. "Li'l Sneezer": Sylvester the Cat tests Furrball by asking him to catch a mouse. The mouse, Lil' Sneezer, sneezes repeatedly and thwarts Furrball's attempts to catch him. "To Bleep or Not to Bleep": Fowlmouth tries to ask Shirley on a date, but she shuns him because of his profane language. Buster then tries to control Fowlmouth after discovering that he does not swear around children.
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The Buster Bunny Bunch
Wraparounds: In a spoof of The Mickey Mouse Club, various characters sing about Buster. "Buffed Bunny": Presuming that Babs is showing excitement over a billboard for a gym, Buster tries to win her over by conditioning his body. At the end, he discovers that she was actually looking at a billboard for carrot cake. "Squish": After Dizzy steps on a bug, Shirley predicts bad things for him, which results Dizzy dreaming that he has become the size of a bug. "Born to Be Riled": Babs' classmates become offended by her impersonations of them, and retaliate by impersonating her.
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