Pollution Solution is the 57th episode of Tiny Toon Adventures.
Wraparounds[]
Babs as Tinkerbunny tries to introduce the show, but Acme Acres is riddled with piles of garbage. Buster arrives and tells her that magic won't clean up the mess.
In the second act, after Buster and Babs recycle their garbage, they decide to go somewhere majestic.
In the third act, Babs plants a tree and hopes to find a place that's pollution-free.
Segments[]
No Deposit, No Return of the Trash Bag Dispenser[]
Plucky is doing some spring cleaning, when he notices that someone is littering the swamp with tin cans that can easily be recycled. The litterbug is Elmyra Duff, who is playing tea party with her captive pets as their Mommy tying them up in their chairs dressed in baby bonnets and feeding them mud pies from the cans. Plucky dresses as the Trash Bag Dispenser to teach Elmyra the dangers of littering. As he tries to talk to her, she accidentally drops one of her mud pies on him. To her delight at having another pet Elmyra squeezes Plucky and quickly ties him up declaring he will be joining their tea party; despite his protests Elmyra places a baby bonnet on him and starts to play with him as if he were a doll. He tries to tell her that she is littering his swamp, but she doesn't listen to him; force feeding him a can of mud pie stew causing him to change colors at its awful taste. Then with a girlish giggle and mischievous smile she claims it's time to change his diaper as she pulls out a cloth diaper and safety pin. Plucky claims that the Trash Bag Dispenser doesn't wear a diaper but it falls on deaf ears as Elmyra grabs him tightly and tosses him on a changing table. Plucky attempts to resist but Elmyra grabs him and attempts to diaper him while he tries to escape. After a brief struggle Elmyra has changed Plucky's diaper he appears in a boxing ring and is humiliated to find out he is still wearing a baby bonnet and has been diapered in front of thousands of people.
Back at his swamp, Plucky asks Elmyra if she knows how long it will take for disposable diapers to biodegrade. She asks, "Is that a riddle?" Plucky tells her that it is litter and that litter is bad. He tries to teach her to separate her recyclable garbage, such as tin cans, but she still doesn't listen to him. He asks her what she will listen to if she won't listen to him, and she tells him, "Television." Plucky uses a cardboard television and Mr. Science, a hand puppet of a beaker with glasses and a lab coat, to teach her that it's up to everyone to recycle their garbage. Under the advice of Mr. Science, Elmyra decides to recycle from now on, but she doesn't know how. Plucky tells her first to separate it, then put it in an environmentally safe trash compactor, Dizzy Devil, then send it off to the Acme Recycling Center. Elmyra finds Dizzy cute and attempts to hug him, but Plucky gets eaten and spit out as she hugs Dizzy. Little Beeper, who works at the Acme Recycling Center, takes the compacted Plucky away.
Jungle Bungle[]
It's a hot day in Acme Acres, and global warming is causing the polar ice caps to melt. Buster rescues a family of penguins and gives them shelter in his burrow while he tries to figure out what's causing the heat wave. He talks to Babs and tells her they have to go to Acme Looniversity to find the cause. After doing some research, Bookworm shows the two bunnies on his computer that the destruction of the Acme Rainforest is the cause of global warming.
A giant scorpion-shaped robot is destroying the rainforest. Buster and Babs go inside the robot and find out that each tree was cut down to make one elevator button apiece, and the rest of the trees were used to power the robot. The robot's owner is none other than millionaire Ronald Grump. Ronald's plan is to destroy the rainforest, sell the elevator buttons (similar to Montana Max in the Toxic Revenger shorts), and when the rainforest is clear, he will have the world's largest front yard. Buster and Babs explain that millions of animals are losing their homes, and that the robot's smoke is causing global warming. Ronald doesn't care and attempts to eject the bunnies from his robot, but Buster ejects him instead. He and Babs take over the robot and attempt to destroy his home. Ronald finally knows how the animals feel about losing their homes and tells the bunnies to stop. They agree to stop the machine under the condition that he plant new trees on his own.
Back at Acme Acres, Buster goes into his burrow to check on the penguin family. The air conditioner is set to arctic cold and the penguins redecorate. Buster freezes up, and the baby penguin says, "He's speechless."
Waste Deep in Wackyland[]
Montana Max is on the news, introducing his new pollution-free, environmentally safe factory. His motto is, "Give a hoot, don't leave garbage lying around!" What the media doesn't know is that Monty is dumping his factory waste in Wackyland.
At Wackyland, Gogo Dodo is fishing and finds out Wackyland is being polluted. He tells his friends to evacuate, and so they do. He finds Montana Max and puts him on trial. The jury, which consists of Gogo's clones, find Monty guilty and Gogo attempts to behead him. Montana Max agrees to clean up Wackyland, and so he does. Buster and Babs give the moral of the story, "Pollution Stinks!"
Allusions[]
- The title "No Deposit, No Return of the Trash Bag Dispenser" is a reference to the 1976 film No Deposit, No Return.
- Ronald Grump in "Jungle Bungle" is a parody of Donald Trump.
- In "Waste Deep in Wackyland", Montana Max's motto "Give a hoot, don't leave garbage lying around", is a parody of Woodsy Owl's motto, "Give a hoot, don't pollute!"
Goofs[]
- In the opening wraparound, when Buster first appears, he is carrying two brooms. The very next scene, the second broom (which he hands to Babs in the scene after) turns into a rake. The scene after that, the rake turns back into a broom.
- Li'l Sneezer is listed in the end credits, although he does not appear in this episode.
Trivia[]
- In "No Deposit, No Return of the Trash Bag Dispenser", Plucky's alter-ego is the Trash Bag Dispenser. Plucky's alter ego when cleaning up other's messes is usually The Toxic Revenger, a parody of the Toxic Avenger, as in the episodes "Looking Out For The Little Guy", "You Asked for It, Part II", "Strange Tales of Weird Science", and the Buster's Hidden Treasure video game.
- In "Jungle Bungle", Buster mentions booking a reservation on Noah's Ark. He and Babs would later appear in the Animaniacs cartoon "Noah's Lark" as the two bunnies that board the ark.
Cast[]
| Voice Actors: | Character(s): |
| Charlie Adler | Buster Bunny, The Elephant |
| Tress MacNeille | Babs Bunny, The Baby Penguin |
| Joe Alaskey | Plucky Duck, The Turtle |
| Danny Cooksey | Montana Max |
| Cree Summer | Elmyra Duff |
| Maurice LaMarche | Dizzy Devil |
| Candi Milo | Sweetie Bird |
| Frank Welker | Gogo Dodo, Little Beeper |
| Roger Bumpass | Ronald Grump, The Snowman |
| Kath Soucie | The Mother Penguin |
Quotes[]
- Elmyra: "Mr. Turtle Baby Head Man not hungry-ungry?"
- Turtle: "I hope my family isn't watching this episode."
- Buster: Anybody got Noah's number? I wanna book a reservation.
- Buster (After ejecting Ronald Grump): "Well, all them hours of video games sure paid off."
- Babs: "Hey, Buster, if this is the rainforest, how come it hasn't rained once since we got here?"
- (It begins to rain)
- Buster: "You had to ask."
- Gogo (While fishing): "I haven't had a bite all day." (A pair of chattering teeth bites his tail feathers) "That's better." (Deep voice) "Lame puns are pound for pound, your best entertainment value."
- Gogo (Riding the WB Logo): "Row, row, row your logo, quickly as you can!"
Transcript[]
- To read the transcript for this episode, click here
Gallery[]
Main article: Pollution Solution/Gallery
Home Video Releases[]
