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Tiny Toon Adventures is an American animated television series created by Tom Ruegger that was broadcast from September 14, 1990, to December 6, 1992. It was the first animated series produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television (credited as Amblin Entertainment) in association with Warner Bros. Animation.[1] 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.[2]
The pilot episode, "The Looney Beginning", aired as a prime-time special on CBS on September 14, 1990,[3] 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.[4] A reboot series, Tiny Toons Looniversity, was released on September 8, 2023.
Tiny Toon Adventures is a cartoon set in the fictional town of "Acme Acres", where most of the Tiny Toons and Looney Tunes characters live. The characters attend "Acme Looniversity", a school whose faculty primarily consists of the mainstays of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons, such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Wile E. Coyote and Elmer Fudd. In the series, the university is founded to teach cartoon characters how to become funny. The school is not featured in every episode, as not all of its storylines revolve around the school.
Like Looney Tunes, the series makes use of cartoon violence (e.g. anvils falling on someone, liberal use of explosives) and slapstick. The series parodies and references the current events of the early 1990s and Hollywood culture. Occasionally, episodes delve into veiled ethical and morality stories of ecology, self-esteem, and crime.
The series centers on a group of young cartoon characters who attend a school called Acme Looniversity to be the next generation of Looney Tunes characters. Most of the Tiny Toons were designed to resemble younger versions of Warner's Looney Tunes characters by exhibiting similar traits and looks. The main characters are Buster and Babs Bunny, two young rabbits with "no relation", their friends, Plucky Duck and Hamton J. Pig, and antagonists Elmyra Duff and Montana Max. They are accompanied by a wide variety of supporting and recurring characters, such as Dizzy Devil, Furrball, Gogo Dodo, Calamity Coyote, Little Beeper, Sweetie Bird, Fifi La Fume, Shirley the Loon, Li'l Sneezer, Byron Basset, Concord Condor, Fowlmouth, Arnold the Pit Bull, Mary Melody, and Bookworm, among others.
Feeding off the characters are the more traditional Looney Tunes including (but not limited to) Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig. Most of the adults teach classes at Acme Looniversity and serve as mentors to the Tiny Toons while others fill secondary positions as needed.
According to writer Paul Dini, Tiny Toons originated as an idea by Terry Semel, the then-president of Warner Bros., who wanted to "inject new life into the Warner Bros. Animation department", and at the same time create a series with junior versions of Looney Tunes characters. Semel proposed that the new series would be a show based on Looney Tunes where the characters were either young versions of the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters or new characters as the offspring of the original characters.[5] The idea of a series with the basis of younger and junior versions of cartoon characters was common at the time; the era in which Tiny Toons was produced for had such cartoons as Muppet Babies, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (which Ruegger worked on), Tom & Jerry Kids and The Flintstone Kids.
On January 20, 1987,[6] the Warner Bros. Animation studio approached Steven Spielberg to collaborate with Semel and Warner Bros. head of licensing Dan Romanelli on Semel's ideas.[5] They eventually decided that the new characters would be similar to the Looney Tunes characters with no direct relation. As series producer/show-runner Tom Ruegger explained: "Well, I think in Warner Bros. case, they had the opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg] on a project [...] But he didn't want to just work on characters that Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob McKimson and Bob Clampett made famous and created. He wanted to be involved with the creation of some new characters." The result was a series similar to Looney Tunes without the use of the same characters.[5] However, Tiny Toons did not go into production then, nor was it even planned to be made for television; the series initially was to be a theatrical feature-length film.[5][7]
On December 27, 1988, Tiny Toons was changed from a film to a television series, with Jean MacCurdy overseeing production of the first 65 episodes.[5] MacCurdy said that Tiny Toons was changed to a television series to "reach a broader audience".[7] For the series, MacCurdy hired Tom Ruegger, who previously wrote for Filmation and Hanna-Barbera, to produce.[5] In January 1989, Ruegger and writer Wayne Kaatz began developing the characters and the setting of "Acme Acres" with Spielberg.[5]
On January 9, 1989, Warner Bros. Animation chose its voice actors from over 1,200 auditions and put together its 100-person production staff.[7] On April 13, 1989, full production of series episodes began with five overseas animation houses and a total budget of $25 million.[7] The first 65 episodes of the series aired in syndication on 135 stations, beginning in September 1990.[8] During that time, Tiny Toons was a huge success and got higher ratings than its Disney Afternoon competitors in some markets. After a successful run in syndication, Fox attained the rights for season 3. Production of the series halted in late 1992 to make way for Animaniacs to air the following year.
The series and characters were developed by series producer, head writer and cartoonist Tom Ruegger, division leader Jean MacCurdy, associate producer and artist Alfred Gimeno and story editor/writer Wayne Kaatz. Among the series' first writers were Jim Reardon, Tom Minton and Eddie Fitzgerald. Other writers included Arleen Sorkin. The character and scenery designers included Alfred Gimeno, Ken Boyer, Dan Haskett, Karen Haskett and many other artists and directors.
Voice director Andrea Romano auditioned over 1,200 voices and chose more than a dozen main voice actors.[7] The role of Buster Bunny was given to Charlie Adler, who gave the role, as producer Ruegger said, "a great deal of energy".[5] The role of Babs Bunny was given to Tress MacNeille. Dini said that MacNeille was good for the role because she could do both Babs' voice and the voices of her impressions.[5] Voice actors Joe Alaskey and Don Messick were given the roles of Plucky Duck and Hamton J. Pig, respectively. Child actor Danny Cooksey played Montana Max and, according to Dini, was good for the role because he could do a "tremendous mean voice."[5] Cree Summer provides the roles of Elmyra Duff and Mary Melody; former Saturday Night Live cast member Gail Matthius voices Shirley the Loon, and Kath Soucie provides Fifi La Fume and Li'l Sneezer. Other voice actors include Maurice LaMarche as Dizzy Devil; Candi Milo as Sweetie, Frank Welker as Gogo Dodo, Furrball, Byron Basset, Calamity Coyote, Little Beeper, Barky Marky and other voices; and Rob Paulsen as Fowlmouth, Arnold the Pit Bull, Concord Condor and other characters. Legendary original Looney Tunes voice actor, Mel Blanc, was initially set to reprise his roles as the classic characters, but due to his death in July 1989, his characters were recast to Alaskey, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, and Bob Bergen.
During production of the third season, Adler left the show due to a feud with the producers. Adler was angry that he had not been offered a role in Animaniacs while his fellow Tiny Toons voice actors with smaller roles, such as Paulsen, LaMarche and Welker, were given starring roles in the new series.[10] John Kassir replaced Adler for the remainder of the show's run (although Adler would eventually return to voice Buster in the cancelled video game, Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe). Alaskey, voice of Plucky Duck, briefly left for financial reasons, but returned when an agreement was reached with the studio.[10]
In order to complete 65 episodes for the first season, Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Television contracted several North American and international animation houses, including Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Wang Film Productions, AKOM, Freelance Animators New Zealand, Encore Cartoons, StarToons[11] and Kennedy Cartoons.[12] Tokyo Movie Shinsha also animated the series' opening sequence. Some of the Warner Bros. staff disliked working with Kennedy Cartoons due to the animation studio's inconsistent quality, and episodes that they animated were often subjected to multiple re-takes; in other cases, portions of Kennedy-animated episodes were reanimated by other studios.[10][unreliable source?] Kennedy Cartoons was dropped after the end of the series' first season.
Tiny Toon Adventures was made with a higher production value than standard television animation. It had a cel count that was more than double that of most animated television shows then.[5] The series had about 25,000 cels per episode instead of the standard 10,000, making it unique in that characters moved more fluidly.[5] Animation producer Pierre DeCelles described storyboarding for the series as "fun but a big challenge because I always had a short schedule, and it's not always easy to work full blast nonstop".
During development, Spielberg said that Warner Bros. would use a full orchestra, which some thought too expensive and impossible, but they ended up agreeing. Warner Bros. selected Bruce Broughton to write the theme tune (for which he would win a Daytime Emmy alongside Ruegger and Kaatz) and serve as music supervisor. Screen credits for the composers were given based on the amount of music composed for, or composed and reused in, the episode.
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