Tiny Toon Adventures in Popular Culture

Tiny Toon Adventures has been mixed in popular culture with many references, spoofs, and parodies of the characters of the show.

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Shows

Animaniacs

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Batman: The Animated Series

• The Tiny Toons characters Buster and Babs Bunny make cameos in a magazine based on the series.

Darkwing Duck

• Two of the characters in the episode, "Malice's Restaurant", known as "The Cute Little Lost Bunnies", bear a striking resemblance to Buster and Babs.

Fairy OddParents

• The Fairly OddParents movie Channel Chasers has a scene where series protagonist Timmy Turner and Cosmo & Wanda, along with an older version of himself from the future, chase Vicky through several parody scenes of other TV shows, including Looney Tunes. In this particular scene, Cosmo and Wanda have become rabbits resembling Buster and Babs. 

The Flash

• Babs, Buster, & Dizzy stuffed toys are seen at the Trickster and Prank's hideout in Trial of the Trickster.

Full House

• DJ used a joke on the show wants about the Tiny Toons wouldn't be so tiny if they get a new tv.

I Am Weasel

• In "I Am Cliched", Weasel points out that The Red Guy had been using an unoriginal script that had already been used for both Looney Tunes and Tiny Toon Adventures. In fact, to quote Weasel himself, "You crossed out 'Bugs Bunny', then 'Buster', then scribbled in 'Weasel'!"

Looney Tunes Show

• Plucky & Buster as plush toys in The Looney Tunes Show episode, "Mr. Weiner".

  

Married... with Children

• In "England Show III: We're Spending as Fast as We Can", Kelly calls Bud "Tiny Toon".

Mystery Science Theater 3000

• In The Unearthly, Servo says "Sipping cocoa and watching Tiny Toons."

New Looney Tunes

• Buster chases Plucky with a mallet in the episode, "Not So Special Delivery".

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

• In "Fat Boy and Little Man", Jerry's care package includes "Tiny Toons" medicated heat rub.

Saturday Night Live

• The show is mentioned while interviewing Alec Baldwin and/or Whitney Houston

Seinfeld

• On one episode Jerry says he is going to watch Tiny Toons on Nickelodeon and sung the wheel on the bus song that played on the show. However Tiny Toons aired on syndication then on Fox Kids and never played the wheel on the bus song on the series. The joke was more meant for preschool aged series which the show is not.
  • Tiny Toons did air on Nicktoons in the 2000s in reruns.

The Simpsons

• Treehouse of Horror IX has a segment named Terror of Tiny Toon. The name is a parody of both The Terror of Tiny Town and Tiny Toons.

Taz-Mania

• Babs and Buster make cameos on comic books in these two episodes:
  1. Comic Madness
  2. Sub Commander Taz

Young Sheldon

• In A House for Sale and Serious Woman Stuff, Sheldon and Missy watch this on TV.

Movies

Batman Returns

• An observer in the cemetery has a shirt depicting Go-go.

Blended

• The Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Ask Mr. Popular" can be seen in the 2014 romantic comedy WB movie, Blended. Jim (Adam Sandler) and Lou (Alyn Lind) were watching it.

Carpool

• A Dizzy Devil plush doll appears in a prize booth.

Clerk

• Dante mentions Tiny Toons at one point.

Fly by Night

• Babs, Max and Elmyra appear as graffiti art.

  

Inspector Gadget

• A Plucky Duck Pez dispenser appears.

Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus

• Lupin briefly watches a cartoon featuring a woodpecker who looks like Plucky chasing a bear that looks like Buster with a mallet.

RiffTax: the Hunger Games

• Mike: "Some guy out there has a Gogo from 'Tiny Toons' tattoo."

Secret Sunshine

• The steering wheel of Shin-ae's car depicts Babs Bunny.

Wayne World 2

• Tiny Toon Adventures is mentioned.

Web Animation

Homestar Runner

• Email theme song — The announcer quotes the theme song to the TV show Tiny Toon Adventures when he says, "They're tiny, they're toony, they're all a little loony. It's the Cheat Commandos."
• Email mini-golf (DVD commentary) — Matt compares "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes" to Wackyland where Gogo the Dodo lives. Gogo is a character on Tiny Toon Adventures and is related to the Dodo from Looney Tunes cartoons like Porky In Wackyland, which is also where Wackyland originated.

Magazines

Cracked

• The Looney Tunes and the characters from Tiny Toon Adventures made other appearances in this magazine.
  • For example, one magazine featured a wanted poster for Buster Bunny, Babs Bunny, Hamton J. Pig and Plucky Duck.

    

See Also

• Animaniacs (series)
• The Walt Disney Company