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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.
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- 98 (233 segments) (list of episodes)
- September 14, 1990 –, December 6, 1992
Tiny Toon Adventures: Created by Alan Smart. With Charlie Adler, Tress MacNeille, Joe Alaskey, Don Messick. The wacky adventures of the new young hip generation of Warner Brothers Looney Tunes characters, most of them descendants of the original classic toon cast.
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- 1990-09-14
Original Run 14 September 1990 – 1992. Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures, usually referred to as Tiny Toon Adventures, is an American animated television series created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation.
- Background
- Characters
- Production
- Films and Specials
- Spin-Offs
- Response
- Merchandise
- History
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It began production as a result of Warner Bros. reinstating its animation studio in 1989 after a decade of dormancy. After the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a new series was begun, making revivals of the classic Looney Tunes characters under the name Tiny Toon Adventures. It was the first of many original animated series from the new televisi...
Most of the Tiny Toons characters were designed to resemble younger versions of Warner Bros.' most popular Looney Tunesanimal characters by exhibiting similar traits and looks. The two main characters are both rabbits: Buster Bunny, a blue male rabbit, and Babs Bunny, a pink female rabbit. Other major characters in the cast are generally nonhuman a...
Screenwriters
The series and the show's 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 first writers on the series were Jim Reardon, Tom Minton, and Eddie Fitzgerald. The character and scenery designers included Alfred Gimeno, Ken Boyer, Dan Haskett, Karen Haskett, and many other artists and directors. One episode was co-written by three then-teena...
Animation
In order to complete 65 episodes for the 1st season, Warner Bros. and Amblin Entertainment contracted several different animation houses. These animation studios included Tokyo Movie Shinsha (now known as TMS Entertainment), Wang Film Productions, AKOM, Freelance Animators New Zealand, Encore Cartoons, StarToons, and Kennedy Cartoons. Tokyo Movie Shinsha also animated the series' opening sequence. Warner Bros. staff disliked working with Kennedy Cartoons due to the studio's inconsistent quali...
Music
During the development of the show Steven 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 (for which he would win a Daytime Emmy along with Tom Ruegger and Wayne Kaatz, who both worked with Broughton on the lyrics) and serve as music supervisor. In addition to scoring 11 episodes, Broughton chose 26 other composers to score each different episode:J...
A feature-length movie was released direct-to-video in 1992, entitled Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation. This was later re-edited and aired as part of the series. The length of the movie is 73 minutes. Fox aired It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special in primetime on December 6, 1992. This episode is a parody of It’s a Wonderful L...
Main articles: The Plucky Duck Show and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain In 1992, The Plucky Duck Show was produced as a spin-off for Fox Kids, based on the character Plucky Duck. Except for the premiere episode The Return of Batduck, the show was composed of recycled Plucky-centric episodes from the series. In 1998, a spin-off entitled Pinky, Elmyra, and...
Critical Response
The show received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the show's characters (particularly Buster, Babs, and Plucky), writing, humor, and music. Despite this, the show also received criticism, with most of the criticism for the show being targeted at its animation quality, as well as some of the humor being hit-or-miss. Most viewers and fans praised the animation quality from Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS). Many consider the episodes animated by TMS to be the best of the show, with gr...
Print
Among the same time that Tiny Toon Adventures premiered, a quarterly children's magazine based on the series was published for at least seven issues. Also, various storybooks were published by the Little Golden Book company, including a few episode adaptations and some original stories (Lost in the Fun House and Happy Birthday, Babs!). Tiny Toon Adventures also had a comic book series made by Warner Bros and DC. The characters also made occasional cameo appearances in the Animaniacs and Pinky...
Toys and Video Games
Since its debut, numerous video games based on Tiny Toons have been released. There have been no less than nine titles based on the series released after its original television run and as recently as 2002. Many companies have held the development and publishing rights for the games, including Konami (during the 1990s), Atari, NewKidCo, Conspiracy Games, Warthog, Terraglyph Interactive Studios, and Treasure. Toys for the series included plush dolls and plastic figures.
Home Video
On 29 July 2008, Warner Home Video released Season 1, Volume 1 of Tiny Toon Adventureson DVD in Region 1. Much like the concurrent DVD releases of Animaniacs & Pinky and the Brain, the series was released concurrently on DVD with Freakazoid. How I Spent My Vacation was released on DVD on August 21, 2012. The third volume, entitled Tiny Toon Adventures - Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescue was released 8 January 2013. It includes all 13 season 2 episodes and the first four episodes from Season 3. Init...
Preproduction
According to writer Paul Dini, Tiny Toons originated as an idea by Terry Semel, then the 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...
Post-series Syndication
Tiny Toon Adventures, along with Animaniacs, continued to rerun in syndication through the 1990s into the early-2000s (decade) after production of new episodes ceased. In the US, the series re-ran on Nickelodeon from 1995–1999 and again from 2002–2004 (albeit the Warner Bros logo omitted from the intro), and also aired on Kids WB from 1997–2000, Cartoon Network from 1999–2001, and finally on Nicktoons Network from 2002–2005. On 27 October 2012, the series aired on broadcast television once ag...
Apr 28, 2016 · To mark the 20th anniversary of the series' conclusion (the final episode, the prime time special Tiny Toons’ Night Ghoulery, aired on May 28, 1995), we've rounded up 15 fun facts you might not...
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Mar 5, 2024 · 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.
The final season was aired on Fox Kids. The series ended production in 1992 in favor of Animaniacs; however, two specials were produced in 1994. A reboot series, Tiny Toons Looniversity, was announced in October 2020 and is currently in development for HBO Max and Cartoon Network .
