Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
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Added by MrJoshbumsteadTiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation is a direct-to-video animated movie made in 1991, and released in 1992 from Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment. It features the regular cast from the animated program Tiny Toon Adventures. The film was produced by Tom Ruegger and written by Paul Dini, Nicholas Hollander, Tom Ruegger and Sherri Stoner. It was executive produced by Steven Spielberg. It is available only in VHS format at the moment, It was also released on Laserdisc. The film is 73 minutes, and is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. This special was re-edited and cut into four separate episodes for syndication and airs as part of the original series. These syndicated versions first aired in February of 1993 on the FOX Network.
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Plot
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The plot of the film centers on the various Tiny Toon characters and what adventures they have during the summer after their term at the Looniversity ends.
- Buster and Babs Bunny have a water pistol fight, which leads to Acme Acres being flooded. The two bunnies, along with Byron Basset, float down the river and end up in the southern United States, with a few loose parodies of the movie, Deliverance (also from WB).
- Plucky Duck tags along with Hamton J. Pig and his family as they drive to the amusement park, HappyWorldLand. It is a very long and painful trip and ends in Plucky getting chased by an escaped Jason-esque lunatic with a chainsaw and hockey mask (who later chases after Babs and Buster Bunny). He endures all of this only to arrive at HappyWorldLand and only to ride the monorail, and then go home, severely disappointing Plucky, who wanted to ride the park's "legendary" rides.
- Fifi La Fume has her eye on movie star, Johnny Pew, and manages to track him down at the hotel he's staying at. They end up going on a date—too bad it is not a dream date.
- Fowlmouth drags Shirley the Loon to see Skunknophobia (presumably a play on the 1990 film, Arachnophobia and is similar to the main theme from Psycho), a movie he has seen 100 times already—and one he will not shut up through.
- Elmyra Duff has the time of her life at a nature park, as the animals run for their lives.

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- Frankenstein (1931) (Babs' joke)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- I Love Lucy (1951) (Babs impression)
- Tonight! (1953) (Caricatures of Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon)
- Psycho (1960) (similar theme is used for Skunknophobia)
- Hawaii Five-O (1968) (Theme soundalike)
- Deliverance (1972) (The entire basis for Buster and Babs's storyline, particularly their encounter with Banjo and the Possum family)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
- The Barbara Walters Special (1976) (Caricature of Bawbawa Wawtews)
- Superman (1978) (Superman cameo)
- 1941 (1979)
- Friday the 13th (1980) (The basis for Mr. Hitcher)
- Late Night with David Letterman (1982) (Caricature of David Letterman)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial* (1982)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) (Basis for the entire movie)
- Tom Sawyer (Bugs and Babs' down river travels)
- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (1984) (Babs impression)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (Minecart chase)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) (Caricature of Oprah)
- The Hitcher (1986) (Another basis for Mr. Hitcher)
- The Sound of Music (1965 film) (Plucky's joke)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- The Arsenio Hall Show (1989) (Caricature of Arsenio Hall)
- The Little Mermaid (1989) ("Beneath the Ocean")
- Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990) (On the movie theater board displaying the movies playing, one of them says Die Hardest).
- Arachnophobia (1990) (parodied as Skunknophbia)
- Ren And Stimpy (1991)
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) (Jay Leno caricature wheeling his own chin on a pushcart)
- Beavis and Butthead (1993)
- Underdog
- The R rating (as F: Not suitable for Fowlmouth)
- Also parodies the THX Deep Note logo before a movie with an incredibly loud bang followed by "The audience is now deaf," and the Tiny Toons theme, when Plucky suggest they watch TV all summer.
- The Simpsons - Elmyra cuts a lion's hair like Bart Simpson's.
- Family Matters - Urkel is mentioned in one of the gag credits.
Trivia
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Notes
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- The car that Hamton's parents own is based upon a 1955-1957 Chevrolet Bel Air sedan.
- The car that Elmyra's parents own is a fictional Volvo station wagon. It is not based upon any Volvo cars in real life.
- Banjo Possum has been shown as a student at Acme Looniversity in some episodes that aired after this film's first VHS release, an example is the Season 3 episode, Music Day.
- This film was the 1st time Road Runner was shown to get ran over
Goofs
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- In the scene where Wade backs up the car to pick up Plucky on the road when Plucky wanted to tag with them badly, the gear shift lever appeared to be mounted between the driver and passenger seats; but in every other shot, the gear shift is mounted on the steering column and the whole front seat is a bench seat, which the car seats up to 6 occupants at the most.
- The Duff family's car originally had the license plate holder on the liftgate after Elmyra jumped out of the car; yet after the animals steal the car and escape from the park and cross the bridge cables, the license plate holder is on the bumper; but in the next few seconds where the animals are about to crash into Wade's car, the license plate holder is back on the liftgate.
- Hamton happens to have vomited on the comic book that Plucky just bought (though the perspective was only shown outside the car since it is repulsive to show someone vomiting, and this was only heard in dialogue); but in a later scene, the same comic book is clean and like new.
- In the final scene when everyone returns to Acme Looniversity, Calamity, Mary, Furrball, Li'l Sneezer, and Vinnie were wearing their skating clothes during the lyrics "We've been outdone!"; yet in the next few seconds, the skating clothes and Vinnie are gone and Mary is back to her usual clothes.
Voice cast
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| Voice Actors: | Character(s) | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Charlie Adler | Buster Bunny and the Movie Theater Ticket Taker | |
| Tress MacNeille | Babs Bunny, Babs' Mother, Drive-thru Waitress, and Big Boo | |
| Gail Matthius | Shirley the Loon and Sissy Boo | |
| Kath Soucie | Fifi La Fume, Li'l Sneezer, Little Boo, and Bimbette | |
| Don Messick | Hamton J. Pig and the Radio Announcer | |
| Joe Alaskey | Plucky Duck and Tupelo Toad | |
| Maurice LaMarche | Dizzy Devil | |
| Frank Welker | Gogo Dodo, Furrball, Calamity Coyote, Little Beeper, Byron Basset, Uncle Stinky, Road Runner | |
| Rob Paulsen | Fowlmouth, Johnny Pew, Mr. Hitcher, Horatio, and Banjo Possum | |
| Cree Summer | Elmyra Duff and Mary Melody | |
| Candi Milo | Sweetie Bird | |
| Jonathan Winters | Wade Pig | |
| Edie McClurg | Winnie Pig | |
| Sorrell Booke | Big Daddy Boo |
Gag Credits
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- Reason this movie went straight to home video:
- Cuz it's so darned good!
- Original Running Time:
- 8 hours, 47 minutes
- Hey, what about that Urkel kid?
- Is he funny or what?
- First theatrical screening:
- June 8, 1991
- Old Orchard Theater
- Skokie, Illinois
- Last theatrical screening:
- (Same as above.)
- This film has been edited
- for your protection.
- Do not back up
- severe tire damage
- Man in sound recording booth who pushes
- that funny red button a lot
- Link Poonie
- Moral of the story (pick one):
- Enjoy your vacation.
- Relish your youth.
- Don't pick up chainsaw-weilding hitchhikers.
- Feature length movies should not have 18 different plots.
- Additional viking dialogue
- Jerry Van Dyke
- These end credits
- are interminable.
- Top 4 reasons a caricature of David Letterman is in this video:
- 4. We admire his comedy stylings.
- 3. We wanted to use Merv Griffin, but he threatened to sue.
- 2. We needed some filler.
- 1. We're brown-nosing weasels who want him
- to mention us on his show.
- Other stuff done by
- Some guy named Bob.
- And that's the final end credit.
- [Blank Screen]
- We lied.
- Valhalla
- as himself
- Our only regret:
- Joe Piscopo
- Woman who cleans studio
- Queegee Bananahoe
- The characters in this photoplay are ficitious. Any similarity
- to persons living, dead, or undead, for that matter, is purely
- coincidential.
- Suggested retail price
- $19.95 without rebate
- With rebate
- About a buck and a quarter.