Love 'Animaniacs' and 'Pinky and the Brain'. Love 'Tiny Toon Adventures' (which pre-dated them but for a while was more familiar with the other two) every bit as much, while putting it a touch below the other two. It was a great show through childs eyes, while not being as familiar with what was being referenced the dialogue and characters were still enormously entertaining. Love it even more as a young adult, and the humour is funnier and cleverer.
Spoofing 'The Twilight Zone', "The Acme Acres Zone" is another segment-structured episode rather than one that has one individual story, that 'Tiny Toon Adventures' (and even more so 'Animaniacs' and 'Pinky and the Brain', both of which did them more consistently) mostly did very well in. It is made up of three segments, "A Walk on the Flip Side", "A Bacon Strip" and "Senserely Yours Babs", and the execution is mostly very solid making for a very enjoyable episode on the most part.
My least favourite of the segments is "A Bacon Strip". Not because of Hamton, although there are 'Tiny Toon Adventures' characters more interesting than him he is a nice character. Just found the other two segments funnier and with even more interesting stories that fitted the theme of the episode better. The skinny dipping idea, and one of the show's least likely characters to do it, is suitably strange.
Faring best was "Senserely Yours Babs". It is partly to do with that Babs is one of my favourite characters on the show, but it is the segment that has the most razor sharp wit and wackiness, both of which 'Tiny Toon Adventures' excelled in. Montana Max has grown on me.
Animation is full of vibrant colour and is throughout rich in detail. The music is as good as the old Looney Tunes cartoons (prime-Looney Tunes, not most of the 60s ones) in being characterful and adding to the action, if not quite enhancing it in the same way. The use of pre-existing music is clever and the pre-existing pieces are great on their own. It always helps to have a memorable theme tune, and the one for 'Tiny Toon Adventures' is suitably hip and very catchy. The writing is sharp, smart and witty, with some inspired references that don't come over randomly. The voice acting is great across the board, particularly Tress MacNeille.
In conclusion, very enjoyable. 8/10
Spoofing 'The Twilight Zone', "The Acme Acres Zone" is another segment-structured episode rather than one that has one individual story, that 'Tiny Toon Adventures' (and even more so 'Animaniacs' and 'Pinky and the Brain', both of which did them more consistently) mostly did very well in. It is made up of three segments, "A Walk on the Flip Side", "A Bacon Strip" and "Senserely Yours Babs", and the execution is mostly very solid making for a very enjoyable episode on the most part.
My least favourite of the segments is "A Bacon Strip". Not because of Hamton, although there are 'Tiny Toon Adventures' characters more interesting than him he is a nice character. Just found the other two segments funnier and with even more interesting stories that fitted the theme of the episode better. The skinny dipping idea, and one of the show's least likely characters to do it, is suitably strange.
Faring best was "Senserely Yours Babs". It is partly to do with that Babs is one of my favourite characters on the show, but it is the segment that has the most razor sharp wit and wackiness, both of which 'Tiny Toon Adventures' excelled in. Montana Max has grown on me.
Animation is full of vibrant colour and is throughout rich in detail. The music is as good as the old Looney Tunes cartoons (prime-Looney Tunes, not most of the 60s ones) in being characterful and adding to the action, if not quite enhancing it in the same way. The use of pre-existing music is clever and the pre-existing pieces are great on their own. It always helps to have a memorable theme tune, and the one for 'Tiny Toon Adventures' is suitably hip and very catchy. The writing is sharp, smart and witty, with some inspired references that don't come over randomly. The voice acting is great across the board, particularly Tress MacNeille.
In conclusion, very enjoyable. 8/10
