Animaniacs! is the 36th episode of Tiny Toon Adventures. It was written by Paul Dini and Tom Minton, and directed by Art Vitello.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Quotes 4 Gag Credit 5 Allusions 6 Trivia 7 Gallery 8 Home Video Releases

PlotEdit

The episode begins with Plucky being late for school, as he overslept. He rushes to Animation 101, a class he has never seen or heard of before, as he kept cutting classes. He assumes all he has to do is watch cartoons, but the other toons are busy working on their cartoons. Buster tells them that making a film for the animation festival tonight is the only way to get a passing grade. Plucky is unfamiliar with how to make a cartoon, so Buster uses the magic pen to give him a lesson through all the steps in animation.

In the second act, Bugs Bunny announces to the other Looney Tunes that it is once again time to judge the films at the Acme Looniversity animation festival. Most of the other Looney Tunes Run Away, but Bugs stops Daffy and Porky before they can escape. Meanwhile, Plucky, having learned how to animate, is having trouble with his life story. He wants to see his childhood, so Buster teaches him how to use various cartoon transitions, including flashing back. They flash back to Plucky as a baby with his first inner tube. Baby Plucky's inner tube gets popped by a log and Baby Plucky cries. Plucky in his normal age cries as well, having remembered such a sad moment.

Buster suggests flashing forward to the present day, but Plucky instead accidentally flashes them back to World War II. Plucky quickly flashes them back even further, to the dawn of time. Buster tells Plucky "You shouldn't mess with time so much. Remember what happened in Back to the Future? Plucky tells him "Yeah, it was a great movie." and holds up a $PLUG$ sign. Buster flashes forward back to the present day, but remembers he never taught Plucky to flash forward. He uses the magic pen and retrieves Plucky as an amoeba from a history book.

In the third act, it's time for the animation festival. Buster is the host, and Bugs, Daffy and Porky are the judges (although they want little to do with the films). As the other films are shown, Plucky works on his movie, The Plucky Duck Story. Meanwhile, the first film is Aminals, Aminals, Aminals, and More Aminals in Color by Elmyra Duff, which ends up being a critical failure. The next film, My Worst Nightmare by Hamton J. Pig, is somewhat more successful, as Hamton is the only one who likes it. Dizzy Devil's film, Dizzy Eat World, a 5-second film drawn crudely in crayon where Dizzy's gaping jaw engulfed the Earth, met with deafening silence from the Toon audience, aside from Daffy telling someone to shoot him. Monty's film, which he paid other cartoonists to do, A Montana Max Christmas is a huge critical failure and Monty is disqualified. Gogo Dodo's film So You Want To Learn To Dance, is a black and white silent live-action film depicting a couple dancing. Babs tells Gogo it was the dumbest movie she'd ever seen, and that everyone expected something wacky from him. Gogo tells Babs that even he has to take a break from wackiness occasionally.

Porky and Daffy want to quit judging the films, but Bugs ensures them that there are only two films left. Shirley the Loon introduces the next film, Song of the Loon, and she tells the audience that she had to cut her film down to 17 hours and 34 minutes to fit onto the program schedule. Bugs, Daffy, and Porky, horrified, try to leave, but Shirley has attached a battery charger to the doorknob to prevent the judges from leaving. As Plucky finally finishes his movie, The Plucky Duck Story, Buster tells him that he is going to have to cut his film short because of Shirley's 17-&-1/2 hour long film, Song of the Loon. After Song of the Loon finally ends, Buster announces that Plucky's film is the last. The shortened version of The Plucky Duck Story, which shows Baby Plucky crying and THE END, wins first prize, simply because it's short. Plucky is excited that he won, and asks what he won. Bugs tells him he has to take animation class over, because he missed it the first time.

CastEdit

Voice Actors:	Character(s):
Charlie Adler	Buster Bunny
Tress MacNeille	Babs Bunny
Joe Alaskey	Plucky Duck, Daffy Duck
Don Messick	Hamton J. Pig
Danny Cooksey	Montana Max
Cree Summer	Elmyra Duff
Maurice LaMarche	Dizzy Devil
Frank Welker	Gogo Dodo, Road Runner
Gail Matthius	Shirley the Loon
Jeff Bergman	Bugs Bunny
Noel Blanc	Porky Pig

QuotesEdit

• Bugs: "Distinguished friends, honored colleagues, beloved cartoon stars, oh, and you too, Daffy."

Daffy: (sarcastically) "Oh, har har. It is to laugh."

• Buster: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and Monty."
• Daffy: "This is your revenge for all those Rabbit Season signs I put up every year, isn't it? Sadist." (after seeing "Elmyra's Aminals, Aminals, Aminals, and More Aminals in Color")
• Daffy: "Shoot me! Shoot me now!" (after seeing "Dizzy Eat World")
• Babs: (After seeing Monty mistreat the rabbit actors in A Montana Max Christmas) "Oh, that's sick."

Buster: "Boo! Get it off!"

Monty Claus: "Now to ring in the new year!"

(Monty Claus pulls out a hammer from the bag and hits the rabbit actors with it, however, the film is cut from the projector, and boos, whistles, hisses, and obscenities are heard in the background as the Toons pick up Monty)

Montana Max: "What? What? This will be a beloved holiday classic! Hey, put me down!"

(The Toons toss Monty out of the auditorium)

Montana Max: "This is censorship! I'll sue!" (Monty's film is tossed into his mouth.)

• Gogo: "Wacky? Uh, Can't I have a serious moment now and then? It's always 'Stand on your head, Gogo!'" (detaches his head and his body stands on top of it) "'Do that weird thing with your tongue, Gogo!'" (sticks out his tongue) "Even I have to take a break from wackiness occasionally." (walks away)

Gag CreditEdit

Class Couple

Dougman and Victoria

AllusionsEdit

• Buster tells Plucky he shouldn't mess around with time too much, and asks him, "Remember what happened in Back to the Future?" Plucky replies with, "Yeah, it was a great movie," and holds up a $PLUG$ sign. Back to the Future is a live-action movie involving time travel made by Warner Bros. in 1985.
• Shirley the Loon's 17-&-1/2 hour long film, Song of the Loon may have been named after the 1946 Disney film ,Song of the South, which has not yet officially been released on DVD in the US due to racial issues.

TriviaEdit

• This episode is not to be confused with the WB cartoon series of the same name. In fact, it predates it by a few years.
• When Daffy tries to sneak away, Taz can be seen in Dizzy's lavender color scheme.
• The rock band, Jimmy Eat World might have been inspired by Dizzy Devil's film, Dizzy Eat World in this episode.
• When Plucky was told to put down one of the Art Tools, He was called "Toshiro", a common Masculine Name given in Japan.

GalleryEdit

Home Video ReleasesEdit

• Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1, Vol. 2 DVD