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Acme Cable TV is the seventh episode of the second season of Tiny Toon Adventures, and the seventy-second episode overall.
Synopsis
The episode opens as Buster and Babs have a sneezing and coughing fit. Then Buster welcomes the viewers and says that he and Babs have caught the Taiwan Flu, which causes them to sneeze with an accent and they decided to take it easy and watch TV. Then Babs said that her parents recently got Acme Cable.
Sketches
The Babsy and Buswinkle Show
Buster and Babs get tied to a missile headed for the bay of pigs (whose population are literally anthropomorphic pigs) after falling for a trap by Montana Max and Elmyra Duff. They pass the time by making fun of dated 60's references.
Foot Loops Commercial
When Shirley gets tired of eating granola for breakfast every day; Gogo tells her about a new sickeningly sweet cereal.
Walt Dizzy Presents The Cat Who Thought He Was Hammerhead Shark
Dizzy Devil, as Walt Dizzy presents the story of Furrball being raised by a family of hammerhead sharks.
Flassie
Monty falls off a cliff and Flassie witnesses his fall. She tries to warn Elmyra, but Elmyra doesn't understand her and speaks in barks.
The Ballad of Montana Max
Montana Max loses his mansion because of income tax and has to live with Banjo Possum and his carnivorous family.
Toonywood Squares
Montana Max and Elmyra Duff compete to win on Blink Winkleman's new game show, with Buster, Babs, Plucky, Hamton, Dizzy, Furrball, Gogo, Shirley, and Byron as the nine squares. The winner wins the $800,000,000 prize, and the loser takes a trip to Heck.
Grossanne
Buster and Babs (who are shown to be two very fat people) are married. Babs eats all of the food in the refrigerator when she tells Buster that neighbors complained about his snoring (specifically, she told them they said that it sounded like there was a drag race in the bed room). Buster tries to kiss Babs goodbye before he goes to work, only to have both their fat bounce off of each other, causing a cabinet to fall on her head (but not before singing the national anthem).
Bungle Boy Jeans Commercial
Babs asks Buster if he's wearing Bungle Boy jeans, only to find out from him that he's not wearing any pants
The Gogosby Show
In this sketch, Gogo (now named Cliff, who is married and a father) is approach by his son Theo, who ask if he could borrow the car in which he said yes and came him a few Acme Pudding Bar for him and his date. After Theo left Clare,Cliff's wife told him that their kids are growing up and cliff called central casting to add a cute new daugther to the show, in which we see her coming into the chimney. After that Cliff then give his new daugther a pudding bar. and the sketch ends with Cliff,Clare and the new Daugther hugging.
Incredible Discoveries:
Babs is selling a soda-power clothes dryer. This item was $99.99, but with a few boos and everything including the sun, it's only $1.99.
Cast
| Voice Actors: | Character(s): |
| Charlie Adler | Buster Bunny |
| Tress MacNeille | Babs Bunny, Ma Shark, Prize Announcer, New Daughter |
| Danny Cooksey | Montana Max |
| Cree Summer | Elmyra Duff, Clair |
| Maurice LaMarche | Dizzy Devil, Narrator #2 |
| Frank Welker | Gogo Dodo, Furrball, Byron Basset, Narrator #1, Elmyra (barking), Announcer, Theo |
| Kath Soucie | Flassie |
| Gail Matthius | Shirley the Loon |
| Rob Paulsen | Blink Winkleman, Banjo Possum, Narrator #3 |
Gag Credit
The characters in this program are fictitious, and any similarity to any real person is purely coincidental, Etc., Etc., so don't sue us, OK? Thanks.
Allusions
- The following TV shows are parodied:
- The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show
- Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
- Lassie
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Hollywood Squares
- The Outer Limits
- Roseanne
- The Cosby Show
- The Home Shopping Network/QVV
- In addition, there are ad parodies of Froot Loops and Bugle Boy Jeans.
- The song that Babs sings at the beginning of Act 2 ("TV in the mornin', TV in the ev'nin'...") is a parody of the McGuire Sisters' song "Sugartime".
- The Grossanne segment not only parodies Roseanne, but when Babs as Roseanne gets knocked out, she sings "O say can you see...", parodying Barr's infamous performance of the National Anthem at a baseball game.
- In The Gogosby Show, Gogo gives his children and family pudding pops. This is a parody of Bill Cosby's role as spokesman for Jell-o Pudding Pops.
- The title of Gogo's book, What? Me Worry? is also Alfred E. Neuman's catchphrase.
Trivia
- In the sketch, Toonywood Squares, Blink Winkleman mentions that Montana Max is president of the Saddam Hussein fan club. Saddam Hussein would never be allowed to be mentioned on a children's cartoon nowadays.
- In the sketch, Flassie, Monty's mouth doesn't move when he says, "'Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go".
- The host of Toonywood Squares, Blink Winkleman, is a reference to a real-life game show host Wink Martindale.
- In the sketch,Foot Loops Commerical, instead of being voice by Frank Welker, Gogo is voice by Rob Paulsen.
Gallery
Home Video Releases
- Tiny Toon Adventures Vol. 3: Crazy Crew Rescues DVD