chose to do the same because Spielberg wanted to make a series similar to Looney Tunes, as series producer/show-runner Tom Ruegger explained: "Well, I think in Warner Bros. 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, Tom & Jerry Kids and The Flintstones Kids. 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. Animation department", and at the same time create a series with junior versions of Looney Tunes characters. Most of the adults teach classes at Acme Looniversity and serve as mentors to the Tiny Toons while others fill secondary positions as needed.Īccording 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. Supporting characters included Li'l Sneezer, a gray mouse with powerful sneezes Concord Condor, a purple condor Byron Basset, a usually sleeping basset hound Bookworm, a green worm with glasses Arnold the Pit Bull, a muscular white pit bull Fowlmouth, a white rooster with horrid language Barky Marky, a brown dog, and Mary Melody, an African American girl.įeeding off the characters are the more traditional Looney Tunes such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig among others. As villains, Elmyra is seen as an extreme pet lover while Montana Max is a spoiled rich brat who owns either many toys or polluting factories. Two human characters, Montana Max and Elmyra Duff, are regarded as the main villains of the series and also are students of Acme Looniversity. These include Fifi La Fume, a purple-and-white female skunk Shirley the Loon, a white female loon Dizzy Devil, a purple tasmanian devil Furrball, a blue cat Sweetie Pie, a pink canary Calamity Coyote, a bluish-gray coyote Little Beeper, a red-orange roadrunner and Gogo Dodo, a zany green dodo. Other major characters in the cast are generally nonhuman as well. The two main characters are both rabbits: Buster Bunny, a blue male rabbit, and Babs Bunny, a pink female rabbit not related to Buster, Plucky Duck, a green male duck, Hamton J. Most of the Tiny Toons characters were designed to resemble younger versions of Warner Bros.' most popular Looney Tunes animal characters by exhibiting similar traits and looks. 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. Occasionally, episodes delve into veiled ethical and morality stories of ecology, self-esteem, and crime.Īrtwork displaying a majority of the Tiny Toon cast. The series parodies and references the current events of the early 1990s and Hollywood culture. anvils falling on someone, liberal use of explosives) and slapstick. Like the Looney Tunes, the series makes use of cartoon violence (e.g. The school is not featured in every episode, as not all of its storylines revolve around the school.
In the series, the university is founded to teach cartoon characters how to become funny. cartoons, such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Wile E. The characters attend "Acme Looniversity", a school whose faculty primarily consists of the mainstays of the classic Warner Bros. 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. A reboot series, Tiny Toons Looniversity, was announced in October 2020 and is set for a 2022 release. The series ended production in 1992 in favor of Animaniacs which premiered a year later however, two specials were produced in 1994. 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 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.
Animation and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment after being conceived in the late 1980s by Tom Ruegger. Tiny Toon Adventures is an American animated comedy television series that was broadcast from Septemto Decemas the first collaborative effort of Warner Bros.