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Season	Episode
1	Career Oppor-Toon-ities

Broadcast Information

Airdate

November 13, 1990

Credits

Written by

Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV, David Cohen, Roger S. Schulman, Sherri Stoner

Directed by

Art Leonardi

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Career Oppor-Toon-ities is the 37th broadcast episode and 11th production episode of the animated series, Tiny Toon Adventures.

Wraparounds

In the opening to the first act, Buster shows people that EVERYTHING costs money. He says that in order to earn the money, you must have a part-time job, as today is "Get a Job Day" on Tiny Toon Adventures.

In the second act, Buster finds out that mowing lawns may not be the best job for him, because sprinkler heads could be tough on your teeth. There are several jobs to do in the Acme Mall, such as work in the library, work in the janitorial area, and work in the department store.

In the third act, after getting some money, Buster and Babs decide to order a pizza from Bombino's. Little Beeper is the delivery boy, and Buster and Babs introduce the next episode segment about Calamity trying to get pizza from him.

Episode Segments

Buster's Guide to Part-Time Jobs

Buster tells the viewers that the first step to choosing a part-time job is to be enthusiastic. Babs first thinks of being the President of the United States, but the position has already been filled. She finally chooses a job, and she works alongside Buster at Weenie Burger (the Boss of Weenie Burger calls it "Big Weenie"). Babs' boss, who is semi-rude, tells Babs that she must work fast on the hamburgers, and to treat the customers with respect.

Buster and Babs have their first customer come, and unfortunately, it is Montana Max. Montana Max talks in an unfriendly way when he orders his food. He orders a hamburger with pickles and relish, and a Mega Weenie Cola (a parody of Coke), and he tells Babs to hurry up. Babs gets him his food, but then Montana Max obviously changes his mind and he wants two double cheeseburgers, a fish-o-burger, and a large chocolate shake. Babs gets angry, but Buster insists on giving Monty 'service with a smile'. Montana Max throws his skateboard in the counter area of Weenie Burger, which causes Babs to trip over Montana Max's skateboard when delivering his meal. She ends up crashing into Buster and spilling the food, and Buster decides he's had enough of Monty's harassment.

To get revenge (all the while with forced smiles on their faces), they introduce Monty to the Weenie Burger Wacky Pack. It consists of a mega jumbo Weenie Wipeout, three Mega Weenie onion balls, a vat of super-secret weenie sauce, and a Mega Weenie toy surprise. They trap Monty in the food box with the toy surprise (which turns out to be a stick of dynamite) and use his skateboard to whack it out of the restaurant. The box containing Monty disappears into the city skyline and explodes in a mushroom cloud. Unfortunately, this also costs them their jobs, which Buster describes as "the best time to quit." Buster says that mowing lawns is a great way to earn money if your first job doesn't work out. He likes to eat greens while mowing lawns instead of using the actual lawn mower.

Working Pig

Hamton J. Pig gets a job at the Acme Mall, and he works in the toy store there. He must attend a job in order to get promoted to cleaning supplies, including rug shampooers. He meets the manager there, and the manager asks him to work in the toy store, and see if there is a promotion for him if he succeeds. Unfortunately, Hamton's first customer is Elmyra Duff, who complains because Hamton is the salesman. Hamton wants her to help him find something that she wants. Elmyra agrees with him, and she gets to see a bunch of toys. Hamton suggests a video game system, the Muffy Smuffs, and the Robotic Switch-o-change-o, all of which Elmyra breaks carelessly. Hamton asks her if there is anything specific he can get for her, so she tells him she needs a new Debbie Drooley doll, as her current one is broken.

Hamton quickly goes off to see if there are any Debbie Drooley dolls in stock. When given one, Hamton gets trapped in the box. Elmyra opens the box and finds Hamton dressed as a baby girl inside. She hugs him and squeezes him. Embarrassed, Hamton says, "All the rug shampooers in the world aren't worth this!" Fed up, he picks up an Acme space blaster and wants to zap Elmyra, but she is finally acting peacefully. She finds a red crayon that she wants, and gives Hamton a dime for it. The manager is impressed, and promotes Hamton to working with cleaning supplies. Although Hamton is honored for this promotion, his first customer is once again, Elmyra Duff. She wants to buy a rug shampooer because she made a huge mess on her rug with her red crayon. Hamton loses his mind and is last seen crazily driving a vacumn cleaner out of the mall.

Falling to Pizzas

During lunchtime, Calamity Coyote finds out there is a $1.50 per slice sale at Bombino's Pizza. Unfortunately, he has no money, so he tries to steal pizza from Little Beeper, who is working as a delivery boy there. His first attempt is with a tightrope with a grappling hook. It fails to snatch the pizza and instead attaches to a speeding taxi.

Calamity's next attempt is with a solar-powered helicopter. A cloud constantly blocks and reblocks the sun, powering the helicopter up and down. After doing some research, Calamity finds out that roadrunners are very vain and cannot resist mirrors. He uses a mirror to distract Little Beeper, but fails to snatch the pizza from him. Finally, Calamity uses a laser to try to zap Little Beeper, but the laser instead reflects off the mirror from the previous attempt and zaps him instead.

The manager of Bombino's announces that he is giving away free pizza slices to the next 10 customers. The characters who get free pizzas are Plucky Duck, Hamton, Dizzy Devil, Montana Max, Elmyra, Gogo Dodo, Fifi La Fume, Shirley the Loon, Sweetie Bird, and Furrball. Obviously, Calamity Coyote also gets a free slice, but it is a hot chili pizza slice and too hot for him; he boosts into the air like a rocket, explodes in mid-air, and falls down to earth, cracking the asphalt as he hits. Buster and Babs conclude the episode by saying that they're finished with part-time jobs, as keeping injured patients like Calamity healthy is a full-time job. They load him into an ambulance, and Little Beeper is its driver.

Cast

Voice Actors:	Character(s):
Charlie Adler	Buster Bunny, Weenie Burger Boss, Acme Mall Manager, Bomino's Manager
Tress MacNeille	Babs Bunny, President's Secretary, ACME Infomercial Woman
Don Messick	Hamton J. Pig
Danny Cooksey	Montana Max
Cree Summer	Elmyra Duff
Maurice LaMarche	Dizzy Devil
Frank Welker	Calamity Coyote, Little Beeper

Quotes

Babs: "I'd be great for this job! I'd be collosal, stupendous, fantastic, mediocre even!"

Babs: "Service with a smile?"

Buster: "No, now it's personal."

Elmyra: "Ew. The dirty yucky piggie. I want another salesman."

Elmyra: "A cute little piggy doll? I always wanted one of these. I love you, I love you and I'll never let you go!"

Hamton: "All the rug shampooers in the world aren't worth this!"

Calamity's Computer: "Roadrunners are very vain and cannot resist mirrors."

Calamity Coyote (via sign): "Why me?"

Little Beeper (via sign): "Why not?"

Allusions

In the episode segment, Buster's Guide to Part-Time Jobs, one of Babs' impressions to her boss is the famous Star Wars villain, Darth Vader.
In the episode segment, Working Pig, Hamton's boss is a caricature of Frank Nelson, best known for being the constant foil to Jack Benny.
In the episode segment, Working Pig, the Muffy Smuffs are a parody of the Smurfs toys.
In the episode segment, Working Pig, Robotic Switch-o-Change-os are a parody of the Transformers toys.
In the episode segment, Falling to Pizza's, Bombino's Pizza is a spoof of Domino's Pizza.

Trivia

In the episode segment. Buster's Guide to Part-time Jobs, Montana Max's limo has a built-in swimming pool.
Elmyra treats Hamton with respect in the episode segment, Working Pig, one of the few episode segments she does so. Elmyra usually doesn't like Hamton because she thinks he's a dirty pig, which is ironic, because Hamton is obsessed with being clean.
The boss at Weenie Burger/Big Weenie is portrayed by "Ralph" from the Season 1 episode The Buster Bunny Bunch and The Name Game music video. Despite claiming to be a caricature of rude animator Ralph Bakshi, he actually bares a resemblance to "Nasty Canasta" from the Bugs Bunny short, Barbary Coast Bunny (not to be confused with the other well known Nasty Canasta that antagonizes Daffy Duck).
This is the earliest produced Wang Film episode of Tiny Toons, which is evident by the thick outlines on the characters.

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 |director = Art Leonardi
 |previous = [[Animaniacs!]]
-|next = [[Strange Tales of Weird Science]]|caption = Buster announces today is "Get a Job Day" on Tiny Toon Adventures}}
+|next = [[Strange Tales of Weird Science]]
+|gagcredit = Don't miss our next show - It's actually entertaining
-'''Career Oppor-Toon-ities''' is the 37th broadcast episode and 11th production episode of the animated series, ''Tiny Toon Adventures''.
+|endtag = Buster & Babs - "Aloha!"
+|caption = Buster announces today is "Get a Job Day" on Tiny Toon Adventures}}'''Career Oppor-Toon-ities''' is the 37th broadcast episode and 11th production episode of the animated series, ''Tiny Toon Adventures''.
 ==Wraparounds==
@@ Line 16: / Line 18: @@
 In the second act, Buster finds out that mowing lawns may not be the best job for him, because sprinkler heads could be tough on your teeth. There are several jobs to do in the [[Acme Mall]], such as work in the [[wikipedia:library|library]], work in the janitorial area, and work in the [[wikipedia:department store|department store]].
-In the third act, after getting some money, Buster and Babs decide to order a pizza from Bombino's. Little Beeper is the delivery boy, and Buster and Babs introduce the next episode segment about Calamity trying to get pizza from him.
+In the third act, after getting some money, Buster and Babs decide to order a pizza from [[Bombino's Pizza|Bombino's]]. Little Beeper is the delivery boy, and Buster and Babs introduce the next episode segment about Calamity trying to get pizza from him.
 ==Episode Segments==
@@ Line 22: / Line 24: @@
 ===''Buster's Guide to Part-Time Jobs''===
-Buster tells the viewers that the first step to choosing a part-time job is to be enthusiastic. [[Babs Bunny|Babs]] first thinks of being the President of the United States, but the position has already been filled. She finally chooses a job, and she works alongside Buster at [[Weenie Burger]] (the Boss of Weenie Burger calls it "Big Weenie"). Babs' boss, who is semi-rude, tells Babs that she must work fast on the hamburgers, and to treat the costumers with respect.
+Buster tells the viewers that the first step to choosing a part-time job is to be enthusiastic. [[Babs Bunny|Babs]] first thinks of being the President of the United States, but the position has already been filled. She finally chooses a job, and she works alongside Buster at [[Weenie Burger]] ([[Weenie Burger Boss|the Boss of Weenie Burger]] calls it "Big Weenie"). Babs' boss, who is semi-rude, tells Babs that she must work fast on the hamburgers, and to treat the customers with respect.
-Buster and Babs have their first costumer come, and unfortunately, it is [[Montana Max]]. Montana Max talks in an unfriendly way when he orders his food. He orders a hamburger with [[wikipedia:pickles|pickles]] and [[wikipedia:relish|relish]], and a Mega Weenie Cola (a parody of ''[[wikipedia:Coke|Coke]]''), and he tells Babs to hurry up. Babs gets him his food, but then Montana Max obviously changes his mind and he wants two double cheeseburgers, a fish-o-burger, and a large chocolate shake. Babs gets angry, but Buster insists on giving Monty 'service with a smile'. Montana Max throws his [[wikipedia:skateboard|skateboard]] in the counter area of Weenie Burger, which causes Babs to trip over Montana Max's skateboard when delivering his meal. She ends up crashing into Buster and spills the food, and Buster decides he's had enough of Monty's harassment.
+Buster and Babs have their first customer come, and unfortunately, it is [[Montana Max]]. Montana Max talks in an unfriendly way when he orders his food. He orders a hamburger with [[wikipedia:pickles|pickles]] and [[wikipedia:relish|relish]], and a Mega Weenie Cola (a parody of ''[[wikipedia:Coke|Coke]]''), and he tells Babs to hurry up. Babs gets him his food, but then Montana Max obviously changes his mind and he wants two double cheeseburgers, a fish-o-burger, and a large chocolate shake. Babs gets angry, but Buster insists on giving Monty 'service with a smile'. Montana Max throws his [[wikipedia:skateboard|skateboard]] in the counter area of Weenie Burger, which causes Babs to trip over Montana Max's skateboard when delivering his meal. She ends up crashing into Buster and spilling the food, and Buster decides he's had enough of Monty's harassment.
 To get revenge (all the while with forced smiles on their faces), they introduce Monty to the Weenie Burger Wacky Pack. It consists of a mega jumbo Weenie Wipeout, three Mega Weenie onion balls, a vat of super-secret weenie sauce, and a Mega Weenie toy surprise. They trap Monty in the food box with the toy surprise (which turns out to be a stick of dynamite) and use his skateboard to whack it out of the restaurant. The box containing Monty disappears into the city skyline and explodes in a mushroom cloud. Unfortunately, this also costs them their jobs, which Buster describes as "the best time to quit." Buster says that [[wikipedia:mowing lawns|mowing lawns]] is a great way to earn money if your first job doesn't work out. He likes to eat greens while mowing lawns instead of using the actual lawn mower.
@@ Line 30: / Line 32: @@
 ===''Working Pig''===
-[[Hamton J. Pig]] gets a job at the [[Acme Mall]], and he works in the toy store there. He must attend a job in order to get promoted to cleaning supplies, including rug shampooers. He meets the manager there, and the manager asks him to work in the [[wikipedia:department store|toy store]], and see if there is a promotion for him if he succeeds. Unfortunately, Hamton's first costumer is [[Elmyra Duff]], who complains because Hamton is the salesman. Hamton wants her to help him find something that she wants. Elmyra agrees with him, and she gets to see a bunch of toys. Hamton suggests a video game system, the Muffy Smuffs, and the Robotic Switch-o-change-o, all of which Elmyra breaks carelessly. Hamton asks her if there is anything specific he can get for her, so she tells him she needs a new Debbie Drooley doll, as her current one is broken.
+[[Hamton J. Pig]] gets a job at the [[Acme Mall]], and he works in the toy store there. He must attend a job in order to get promoted to cleaning supplies, including rug shampooers. He meets [[Acme Mall Manager|the manager]] there, and the manager asks him to work in the [[wikipedia:department store|toy store]], and see if there is a promotion for him if he succeeds. Unfortunately, Hamton's first customer is [[Elmyra Duff]], who complains because Hamton is the salesman. Hamton wants her to help him find something that she wants. Elmyra agrees with him, and she gets to see a bunch of toys. Hamton suggests a video game system, the Muffy Smuffs, and the Robotic Switch-o-change-o, all of which Elmyra breaks carelessly. Hamton asks her if there is anything specific he can get for her, so she tells him she needs a new Debbie Drooley doll, as her current one is broken.
 Hamton quickly goes off to see if there are any Debbie Drooley dolls in stock. When given one, Hamton gets trapped in the box. Elmyra opens the box and finds Hamton dressed as a baby girl inside. She hugs him and squeezes him. Embarrassed, Hamton says, "All the rug shampooers in the world aren't worth this!" Fed up, he picks up an Acme space blaster and wants to zap Elmyra, but she is finally acting peacefully. She finds a red [[wikipedia:crayon|crayon]] that she wants, and gives Hamton a dime for it. The manager is impressed, and promotes Hamton to working with cleaning supplies. Although Hamton is honored for this promotion, his first customer is once again, Elmyra Duff. She wants to buy a rug shampooer because she made a huge mess on her rug with her red crayon. Hamton loses his mind and is last seen crazily driving a vacumn cleaner out of the mall.
@@ Line 40: / Line 42: @@
 Calamity's next attempt is with a solar-powered helicopter. A cloud constantly blocks and reblocks the sun, powering the helicopter up and down. After doing some research, Calamity finds out that roadrunners are very vain and cannot resist mirrors. He uses a mirror to distract Little Beeper, but fails to snatch the pizza from him. Finally, Calamity uses a laser to try to zap Little Beeper, but the laser instead reflects off the mirror from the previous attempt and zaps him instead.
-The manager of Bombino's announces that he is giving away free pizza slices to the next 10 customers. The characters who get free pizzas are [[Plucky Duck]], [[Hamton J. Pig]],[[Dizzy Devil]], [[Montana Max]], [[Elmyra Duff|Elmyra]], [[Gogo Dodo]], [[Fifi La Fume]], [[Shirley the Loon]], [[Sweetie Bird]], and [[Furrball]]. Obviously, Calamity Coyote also gets a free slice, but it is a hot chili pizza slice and too hot for him; he boosts into the air like a rocket, explodes in mid-air, and falls down to earth, cracking the asphalt as he hits. Buster and Babs conclude the episode by saying that they're finished with part-time jobs, as keeping injured patients like Calamity healthy is a full-time job. They load him into an ambulance, and Little Beeper is its driver.
+[[Bombino's Manager|The manager of Bombino's]] announces that he is giving away free pizza slices to the next 10 customers. The characters who get free pizzas are [[Plucky Duck]], Hamton, [[Dizzy Devil]], Montana Max, Elmyra, [[Gogo Dodo]], [[Fifi La Fume]], [[Shirley the Loon]], [[Sweetie Bird]], and [[Furrball]]. Obviously, Calamity Coyote also gets a free slice, but it is a hot chili pizza slice and too hot for him; he boosts into the air like a rocket, explodes in mid-air, and falls down to earth, cracking the asphalt as he hits. Buster and Babs conclude the episode by saying that they're finished with part-time jobs, as keeping injured patients like Calamity healthy is a full-time job. They load him into an ambulance, and Little Beeper is its driver.
 ==Cast==
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 ==Quotes==
+*'''Babs''': "I'd be great for this job! I'd be collosal, stupendous, fantastic, mediocre even!"
+*'''Babs''': "Service with a smile?"
-*Babs: "I'd be great for this job! I'd be collosal, stupendous, fantastic, mediocre even!"
+: '''Buster''': "No, now it's personal."
-*Babs: "Service with a smile?"
-Buster: "No, now it's personal."
-*Elmyra: "Ew. The dirty yucky piggie. I want another salesman."
-*Elmyra: "A cute little piggy doll? I always wanted one of these. I love you, I love you and I'll never let you go!"
-Hamton: "All the rug shampooers in the world aren't worth this!"
+*'''Elmyra''': "Ew. The dirty yucky piggie. I want another salesman."
-==Gag Credit==
+*'''Elmyra''': "A cute little piggy doll? I always wanted one of these. I love you, I love you and I'll never let you go!"
-Don't miss our next show
+: '''Hamton''': "All the rug shampooers in the world aren't worth this!"
+*'''Calamity's Computer''': "Roadrunners are very vain and cannot resist mirrors."
-It's actually entertaining
+*'''Calamity Coyote (via sign)''': "Why me?"
-==Allusions==
+:'''Little Beeper (via sign)''': "Why not?"
+==Allusions==
 *In the episode segment, ''Buster's Guide to Part-Time Jobs, ''one of Babs' impressions to her boss is the famous ''Star Wars'' villain, Darth Vader.
+*In the episode segment, ''Working Pig'', Hamton's boss is a caricature of Frank Nelson, best known for being the constant foil to Jack Benny.
 *In the episode segment, ''Working Pig,'' the Muffy Smuffs are a parody of ''[[wikipedia:the Smurfs|the Smurfs]]'' toys.
 *In the episode segment, ''Working Pig'', Robotic Switch-o-Change-os are a parody of the ''[[wikipedia:Transformers|Transformers]]'' toys.
 *In the episode segment, ''Falling to Pizza's'', Bombino's Pizza is a spoof of ''Domino's Pizza''.
-==Trivia==
+==Trivia==
 *In the episode segment. ''Buster's Guide to Part-time Jobs'', [[Montana Max]]'s limo has a built-in [[wikipedia:swimming pool|swimming pool]].
 *[[Elmyra Duff|Elmyra]] treats [[Hamton J. Pig|Hamton]] with respect in the episode segment, ''Working Pig'', one of the few episode segments she does so. Elmyra usually doesn't like Hamton because she thinks he's a dirty pig, which is ironic, because Hamton is obsessed with being clean.
 *The boss at Weenie Burger/Big Weenie is portrayed by "Ralph" from the Season 1 episode[[The Buster Bunny Bunch| ''The Buster Bunny Bunch'']] and ''The Name Game ''music video. Despite claiming to be a caricature of rude animator Ralph Bakshi, he actually bares a resemblance to "Nasty Canasta" from the Bugs Bunny short, ''Barbary Coast Bunny'' (not to be confused with the other well known Nasty Canasta that antagonizes [[Daffy Duck]]).
+*This is the earliest produced Wang Film episode of Tiny Toons, which is evident by the thick outlines on the characters.
 ==Gallery==
+''Main article: [[Career Oppor-Toon-ities/Gallery]]''
-<gallery columns="3">
-BustersGuidetoPartTimeJobsTitleCard.png|Title Card for ''Buster's Guide to Part-Time Jobs''
-BabsWashington.png|"I cannot tell a lie."
-ABabshamLincoln.png|"Four score and seven years ago..."
-GeorgeH.W.Babs.png|"Read my lips."
-Babs - Russian, English &amp; Chinese.png|Babs making Russian, English, and Chinese phone calls
-BabsVader.png|"If only you knew the power of the dark side..."
-DartboardBunnies.png|What happens to Weenie Burger employees when they make a mistake
-ServiceWithaSmile.png|"Service with a smile?" "No, now it's personal."
-BigWeenie.png|The outside of Big Weenie
-BusterLawnmower1.png|Buster tries to work as a lawnmower...
-BusterLawnmower2.png|...but he finds it may not be the best job for him
-FifiPerfumeShop.png|Fifi at her perfume shop with [[Granny]]
-IKnowWhyTheCagedSweetieSings.png|I Know Why the Caged Sweetie Sings
-WorkingPigTitleCard.png|Title card for ''Working Pig''
-EwTheDirtyYuckyPiggie.png|"Ew. The dirty yucky piggie. I want another salesman!"
-ElmyraAtari.png|Elmyra plays with a new video game system
-ElmyraSmuff.png|Elmyra breaks a Smuff
-HamtonBallerina.png|Hamton as a ballerina
-ElmyraDebbieDrooley.png|Elmyra requests a new Debbie Drooley doll, as her current one is broken
-Elmyra&HamtonDressedasaBaby.png|"All the rug shampooers in the world aren't worth this!"
-Elmyra&TheRedCrayon.png|Elmyra and the Red Crayon
-HamtonRugShampooer.png|Hamton gets his promotion, and goes insane when Elmyra is once again, his first customer
-FallingtoPizzasTitleCard.png|Title Card for ''Falling to Pizzas''
-CalamityWantsPizza.png|Calamity Coyote: Hungrious for Pizzius
-Images.jpg|Little Beeper: Pizzius Deliverius
-CalamitySolarPoweredHelicopter.png|Calamity's solar-powered helicopter
-LittleBeeperComputer.png|"Roadrunners are very vain and cannot resist mirrors"
-PizzaCrowd.png|Everyone races to get one of ten free slices of pizza...
-SweetiePizza.png|...even Sweetie Bird
-HotChilliPizza.png|Calamity realizes he just ate a Hot Chilli Pizza
-BusterBabsAmbulance.png|Buster and Babs arrive to the rescue
-LittleBeeperAmbulance.png|Little Beeper drives the ambulance
-</gallery>
-==Home Video Releases==
+==Transcript==
-*'''Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1, Vol. 2''' DVD
+To read this episode's transcript, [[Career Oppor-Toon-ities/Transcript|click here]]
+==Home Video Releases==
+<gallery>
+TTADVD2.png|'''Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1, Vol. 2''' DVD
+</gallery>
 [[Category:Season 1 Episodes]]
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+[[Category:Episodes Made By Wang]]
+[[Category:Episodes focusing on Calamity]]
+[[Category:Episodes focusing on Hamton]]
+[[Category:Episodes focusing on Elmyra]]
+[[Category:Episodes focusing on Montana Max]]
+[[Category:Episodes focusing on Buster]]
+[[Category:Episodes focusing on Babs]]
+[[Category:Episodes focusing on Little Beeper]]