Tiny Toon Adventures (1990)

Genre

children's television series, comedy television series, slapstick

Country

United States

Length

3 seasons, 98 episodes

Rated

TV-Y7

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 527 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young cartoon characters attend a school to train as the next generation of classic cartoon stars. They get into comedic adventures and slapstick situations with each other.

playfulenergeticcomiclightheartedsillyfast-pacedwhimsicalnostalgic

What happens

Tiny Toon Adventures, also known simply as Tiny Toons, is an American animated comedy television series created by animator Tom Ruegger and produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment. The series 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. The series originated in the late 1980s as an idea by Warner Bros. Animation president Terry Semel, who proposed a show featuring either young versions or offspring of the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters. With Steven Spielberg serving as executive producer, the new characters were modeled on Looney Tunes characters but shared no familial relationship. The project was developed as an animated film for two years before being reworked into a television series. After character design sessions and story meetings, production began in April 1989 and concluded in 1991, with Spielberg approving every production aspect of each episode. The first episode, "The Looney Beginning", aired as a prime-time special on CBS on September 14, 1990. The series subsequently ran in first-run syndication from September 17, 1990, to February 24, 1992. The final season was broadcast on Fox's Fox Kids block from September 14 to December 6, 1992. Tiny Toon Adventures received generally favorable reviews from critics and won seven Daytime Emmy Awards, a Young Artist Award, and an Environmental Media Award. It was also nominated for two Annie Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. A direct-to-video film spin-off, Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, was released in 1992, followed by two specials aired on Fox Kids in 1994 and 1995. The Plucky Duck Show, a spin-off television series, was created for Fox Kids and ran for one season in 1992. A second spin-off series, Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, ran on The WB's Kids' WB block for one season from 1998 to 1999. From 2023 to 2025, a reboot titled Tiny Toons Looniversity streamed on HBO Max and aired on Cartoon Network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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