The Unbelievably Dark Way Tiny Toons Ended

Would you believe that Tiny Toons had some very meaningful yet dark messages for us?
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[@Dragonrider1227]

I remember these as a kid but didn’t realize that was the last episode. It’s actually a perfect way to end it when you remember the first episode was about an animator coming up with the show and showing up drawing the characters out

[@ryshow9118]

Same. I didn't have enough cognition or a solid enough grasp on life to have understood it sas presented I'm definitely thankful for whatever it is we're nearing this time

[@Power-9Hunnid]

Aside from the "Spring Break Speacial" released in 1994, the Christmas episode was the very last episode and Bugs (voiced by Mel Blanc's son) would make a cameo at the end.

[@Dragonrider1227]

@@Power-9Hunnid I didn’t know Mel Blanc’s son voiced Bugs :o

[@camlam5269]

I didn't consciously get it as a kid, but the episode where Hampton's imaginary friend bullies him is pretty deep too.

[@OM19_MO79]

This wasn’t the series ending, it was a post-original run holiday special based on It’s a Wonderful Life and makes everyone go off characters just to achieve the parody/homage of the source material.

[@AshaSelfsDemoFilms]

I had to search for this comment. I waited patiently till the end of video before i searched for the comment to see if it would be mentioned.🤷🏾‍♀

[@angelagokool9514]

Sometimes I forget just how much the characters had grown, over the course of the series. The same thing happened when Animaniacs had ended, especially with the two-part episode, "Hooray for North Hollywood," where the Warners's success had Thaddeus Plotz removed from the studio, only for the siblings to realize just how much he meant to them, and the straight-to-video movie, "Wakko's Wish," which showed how the siblings and their castmates had gone through great lengths, to make their dreams come true.

[@CartoonCommotion]

Yeah, I'd like to make a "Wakko's Wish" video eventually.

[@JAYZ-47465]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is why Tiny Toons is peak

[@Quickdrawingartist]

And why most modern "kid shows" actually suck.

[@the-NightStar]

Seeing you insert so much meaning into this, it's almost hard to inform you that this wasn't intentionally planned to be the "final episode", it's just that as a holiday special, it was completed along with the rest of the season, and aired out of production order, and held over until seasonally appropriate. On top of that, the series would have kept airing if the network had only ordered more episodes. Also there had been irregularly aired Tiny Toons specials produced occasionally after this as well. Honestly it's all just a coincidence. This being any kind of "series finale" was the last thing on their mind when this was being made.

[@CartoonCommotion]

That's okay, just because some of the details are slightly out of order, doesn't lessen the impact that the material made on me personally and I hope that doesn't lessen its impact on anyone watching this video.

[@Hack_Man_VII]

"No toon is a failure who has friends" always felt like a weird way to phrase it. Maybe it's my OCD talking, but I really hate that they didn't say "No toon who has friends is a failure". It just sounds better to me.

[@hitfasthithard]

I hate both phrases. You're a failure if you don't have friends? 😢 How?? That's insulting to lonely people. You can make people like you.

[@PlayStonkers]

It's an older fashion of speaking. It sounds perfectly normal if you read a lot of older literature.

[@PlayStonkers]

@@hitfasthithard The assumption is that everyone has a friend somewhere, whether or not they realize it. There's some truth in that, too. While there are some unfortunate people who don't have anyone, the fact is that most of us really do have someone who cares about us but we may be too stuck within our depression to know it.

[@Hack_Man_VII]

@@PlayStonkers How far back are we talking about? As far or farther than Shakespeare, or maybe closer to the time of Mark Twain?

[@PlayStonkers]

@@Hack_Man_VII It was more common in Shakespearean writing, but still not terribly unheard of around Mark Twain's time.

[@Neosword41]

Interesting that Buster’s guardian angel is a white rabbit. I bet it is a twofer call back to Jimmy Steward. Tho you can catch it from the voice if you recognized it. The first part would from a reversal of his role from “It’s a Wonderful Life”, and the rabbit part is from another one of his movies famous movies “Harvey”. He played a man with a large imaginary white rabbit friend named Harvey. Very cute.

[@CartoonCommotion]

Yeah but we all know who the angel turned out to be in the end...

[@camlam5269]

It is. The angel rabbit in the Tiny Toons episode is named Harvey! Thanks for pointing that out.

[@CartoonCommotion]

@@camlam5269 But he's also???? Remember? At the end??

[@camlam5269]

@@CartoonCommotion yes 🙂

[@JohnEllis-qo7gl]

Another term for the sort of journey Babs experiences is a "Portal Fantasy". The portal may be a mysterious Tollbooth, a Wardrobe, a Rabbit Hole....or in this case Concentric Merrie Melody rings!

[@JohnEllis-qo7gl]

Other episodes that dabbled in the darker side of things- Season 2's "Elephant Issues" has the infamous Drunk Driving PSA segment 'One Beer' that ends with Buster, Hamton and Plucky perishing in a car crash after an alcoholic bender. Yes, really. After the show ended the Animaniacs crew did do a couple of TTA prime time specials (which unfortunately seem to be obscure as they were given to Fox affiliates as "optional programming") but the Halloween special "Night Ghoulery" features a weird and twisted riff on Spielberg's first horror film DUEL.

[@CartoonCommotion]

That's a good term for it, John 🤙👍

[@princesspikachu3915]

The tollbooth wasn’t mysterious. It was a Phantom Tollbooth. Thank you. Also it’s a good book with a really cool movie adaptation that no one remembers.

[@JohnEllis-qo7gl]

@@princesspikachu3915 ? We never learn who sent it or how it works or what the Phantom Tollbooth company's purpose is. By definition, it is every way a mysterious thing. The book is wonderful, but other than as a curiosity for having all of the great Hollywood animation voice talent in one film, I did not enjoy the film.

[@TheTrumpReaper]

​@@princesspikachu3915I recall the flick because it was directed by Chuck Jones.

[@calicocalthecopperkid7230]

Man, I had a huge crush on that purple sunk girl ❤

[@megarockmanz]

Fifi Le Fume

[@philminkeesickquayash8988]

One Dark Episode was the drinking and drinving one... I remember seeing that one as a kid...

[@EddieMillerStudios]

"One Beer"

[@philminkeesickquayash8988]

@@EddieMillerStudios That was funny... One shot they're all wasted... Lol

[@cubechan1938]

That's funny because it was satire complaining about being required to make the episode because of executive orders.

[@philminkeesickquayash8988]

@@cubechan1938 😆They were making fun of the people who wanted them to make a PSA??? 😆 Was it the gov't, MADD, or the concerned children's advertisers???

[@cubechan1938]

@@philminkeesickquayash8988 Who are you referring to - the people running the show or the people who wanted to ruin it

[@termitesc.aardwolf3644]

Isn't there also a Tiny Toons episode about mistreated circus animals or something?

[@Quickdrawingartist]

Yes.

[@brandoncolis3841]

Wackyland creatures I think

[@brandoncolis3841]

the episode is Sawdust and Toonsil, the creatures are a Pegasus, a Dragon, and a Sphixn

[@gugurupurasudaikirai7620]

I remember watching both of those episodes in the 90s. Rewatching it when I was older I caught a lot more of the movie references and adult jokes. Probably the darkest episode I remember was when they parodied Tales From the Crypt and Night of the Living Dead, all of the dead pets buried in the Elmer Fudd girl's backyard came back to life as zombies and tried to get her back. Some of the episodes they did with the old black and white cartoon characters got pretty deep, too.

[@tyreetristan8525]

And the episode after babs going to wackyland is a lesson about not smoking ciggerates

[@CartoonCommotion]

cool, yeah forgot that one.

[@mikef.795]

at first I thought this was gonna be about Captain Chipmunk and Tress MacNeille

[@hrrawr]

That scan-line effect to avoid automatic copyright detection is one I haven't seen before!

[@CartoonCommotion]

That's not why it's there... It's actually an aesthetic choice. But thanks for thinking I'm that clever.

[@buildertherobloxian4731]

The New Series will Never Be this. Ever.

[@oshkeet]

Shouldn't aim for it, IMHO. good or bad a lot of stuff is so a product of its time (and this is really 90s, the idea of a snarky cartoon series was fairly novel), there's not really a feasible way to replicate it the same way.

[@CartoonCommotion]

Not wrong. But somethings should be left as they were and maybe just used as inspiration, rather than even attempting to recapture such a marvelous time in animation history as this was.

[@chrisalford9626]

I was just old enough to know WHY this was the final episode. Still bums me out to this day that a crazy fan wouldn't stop harassing babs voice actor and it got dangerous.

[@megarockmanz]

This shows how good shows used to be

[@LucasKeesee-vm8yp]

Gogo is a "Q", got it. So this is the world Montana Max wanted with the bunnies out of the way. That on its own is a call back to the start of the series as well. Full circle, the best way to end a show.

[@CartoonCommotion]

Agreed.

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

Very good video, i almost forgot Acme Looniversity was where i learned my Toon degree.

[@travisleabeck2572]

Are we all just going to gloss over the annoying friend with 28 fingers?

[@CartoonCommotion]

Okay, I think I missed something or forgot something, please explain?

[@travisleabeck2572]

@@CartoonCommotion sir...are you trying to gaslight about your own joke?

[@CartoonCommotion]

@@travisleabeck2572 No, just kidding around. Haha, thanks for the comment.

[@travisleabeck2572]

@@CartoonCommotion 😁thanks for the fun video. It was a trip down memory lane

[@shadown5757]

I remember that episode in which Babs go to Wacky Land 😎🤙

[@spooklass3588]

10:11 The walk cycle on the right looks a tad bit familiar, especially in this context.

[@atothed84]

So that was the last episode? I vaguely remember it, but what a way to go out. Probably why it never felt like it was taken too soon or anything like that. It had a proper ending.

[@EdmondDantes224]

So what's with the filter over the Tiny Toons footage/screencaps? I guess its to avoid contentID but it does make those bits hard to watch.

[@CartoonCommotion]

No it's not for contentID, it's just my style. I like to make the whole thing feel like it's retro throughout.

[@EdmondDantes224]

​@@CartoonCommotion Speaking as someone who still watches VHS tapes on a CRT television, the filter does not look "retro," it just looks like a too-thick scanline filter. I think just being 480p or whatever the DVDs are (maybe with a VHS filter over it) would probably look retro enough.

[@CartoonCommotion]

@@EdmondDantes224 If you don't like it, it doesn't bother me any dude. 😆

[@shadown5757]

Curious that a white bunny saves buster from deleting himself as a white rabbit was the first cue for Neo in the Matrix to exit the illusory reality in which he was in 🤔

[@lilMissmAlice]

The white rabbit here is actually Harvey, a pookah (a friendly spirit animal). He's the title character of his play from 1944 and when they made it a movie 6 years later Jimmy Stewart is Harvey's best friend, making this ep a double homage to Mr. Stewart. We still loved him when I was growing up.

[@CartoonCommotion]

Yeah, but he wasn't JUST Harvey. He was also....

[@lilMissmAlice]

@@CartoonCommotion I had completely forgotten! I haven't watched Tiny Toons in so long, but you're right! He's got a great reveal, and clearly you avoided the spoilerth🙃

[@ininja32]

I think this was a Christmas special.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I dont remember last one.

[@LadyLeomon]

Like #200 for ruining childhoods 😅😅😅 (Kidding, this was some legitimately dark stuff)

[@buildertherobloxian4731]

… Is that other guy an AI Voice?

[@CartoonCommotion]

Not exactly. Not exactly wrong either. But not exactly.

[@shadown5757]

The cartoon pig 🐷 is the star of the video 😎🤙

[@CartoonCommotion]

He gets that a lot. Not wrong.

[@SgtBilby]

Night Ghoulery was the series finale for Tiny Toons Not the christmas special

[@CartoonCommotion]

I didn't say finale, this is the last "episode".

[@JohnEllis-qo7gl]

Night Ghoulery was a stand-alone prime time special made after the main series ended.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

The carrie spin off lol

[@thomasherzog86]

I get that it works, but the moral that you matter because you improve other lives is kinda wrong. it implies that, once you fall out of favor, you instantly lose value like a horse that gets shot if it cant run in competitions anymore. imo that idea could lead to the insinuation that people are worthless if they dont benefit others.

[@CartoonCommotion]

I said that you matter because your life is what you make it. It's not that other people are required to validate that, it's just that it's easy to see how much value your life has when you look around and see the wonderful people your life touches.

[@thomasherzog86]

@@CartoonCommotion you did, i was talking about what the cartoon said - and eventually movies like its a wonderful life which they reference. their moral is that life matters because others benefit from you.

[@ManFromThePits]

The light switch gag got a little old after a while. Love the pig, though. The pig's a great addition.

[@CartoonCommotion]

Thanks

[@ManFromThePits]

@@CartoonCommotion The video really took me back. The 90's were a great time to be a kid. I look forward to checking out more of your material.

[@CartoonCommotion]

@@ManFromThePits Aw, thanks so much. Enjoy the vids! 😁

[@zombiedude245]

This video was annoying to watch and unnecessary long ..just get to the point

[@CartoonCommotion]

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