The BEST episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures season 1
Every episode of Tiny Toon Adventures season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures season 1!
Set in the fictional town of Acme Acres, the series follows the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend Acme Looniversity to become the next generation of characters from Looney Tunes. The cartoon was the first animated series produced by the collaboration of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation.
#1 - Test Stressed
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/1990
Buster introduces the start of each segment. "Never Too Late to Loon": Plucky asks Shirley the Loon to turn him into Albert Einstein to help pass a math test, only to fail the test because Einstein had poor grades as a youth. "Li'l Sneezer": Sylvester the Cat tests Furrball by asking him to catch a mouse. The mouse, Sneezer, sneezes repeatedly and thwarts Furrball's attempts to catch him. "To Bleep or Not to Bleep": Fowlmouth tries to ask Shirley on a date, but she shuns him because of his profane language. Buster then tries to control Fowlmouth after discovering that he does not swear around young children.
#2 - The Looney Beginning
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1990
A fictionalized origin story for the series. Taking inspiration from Bugs Bunny, an animator attempts to create rabbit characters, Babs and Buster Bunny, but discards the sketches. Bugs, Babs and Buster then create the show's setting of Acme Acres and find characters to inhabit it.
#3 - A Quack in the Quarks
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1990
A loose Star Wars parody. Plucky Duck has to save a planet called Planet X from "Duck Vader."
#4 - It's Buster Bunny Time
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/26/1990
A parody of Howdy Doody with Buster as Buffalo Bob and Plucky as Howdy Doody. "Bag That Bunny": Elmyra pays Calamity Coyote to help her catch Buster. Despite several attempts, he fails to catch Buster, and is then taken home by Elmyra instead. "Lifestyles of the Rich and Rotten": In this parody of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Buster and Babs attempt to interview Montana Max. "The Anvil Chorus": Anvils repeatedly fall on Plucky during the playing of Giuseppe Verdi's The Anvil Chorus. The finale features cannons shooting at Plucky to the tune of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
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#5 - The Wheel o' Comedy
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1990
Elmyra Duff mistakes Dizzy Devil for a dog and takes him home with her. "Optical Intrusion": Furrball accidentally glues a pair of magnetic 3-D glasses to his face and attempts to remove them. "Win, Lose or Kerplowie": Babs, Montana Max and Plucky compete on a game show. After Buster discovers that Max is cheating, he kidnaps the host and takes his place to get revenge on Max.
#6 - The Buster Bunny Bunch
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/20/1990
A parody of The Mickey Mouse Club, various characters sing about Buster. "Buffed Bunny": Presuming that Babs is showing excitement over a billboard for a gym, Buster tries to win her over by conditioning his body. At the end, he discovers that she was actually looking at a billboard for carrot cake. "Squish": After stepping on a bug, Shirley predicts bad things for him, which results Dizzy dreaming that he has become the size of a bug. "Born to Be Riled": Babs' classmates become offended by her impersonations of them, and retaliate by impersonating her.
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#7 - Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/25/1990
Buster and Babs scare each other. "Home Wrecker": After finding steel bars driven down into his burrow, Buster finds that Montana Max is building a house right over him. He then disguises himself as a ghost to scare Max away. "Fang You Very Much": Elmyra joins a pet-of-the-month club and receives a bat who turns into a vampire. "Easy Biter": Hamton is annoyed by a mosquito who keeps trying to bite him. He finally releases him, only to have the mosquito's entire family invade his house.
#8 - Sawdust and Toonsil
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/5/1990
Babs, Buster, and Plucky spend a fun-filled day in Wackyland with Gogo. All of a sudden, a train pulls into town advertising a big circus. Gogo freaks out and runs away. The gang finds out why Gogo ran off so quickly. The reason: Silas Wonder has a sideshow act with stolen characters from Wackyland: a dragon, a Sphinx, and a Pegasus. Gogo breaks in to try to free his friends, but he ends up getting caught himself. Gogo finds himself fading away and getting weak like the rest of the captives. The bunnies try to help Gogo, but Plucky wants to go into the circus business. They dress up like a three-headed rabbit duck and gets into a high-diving act, where they are expected to dive in a thimble of lime jello. After bypassing that obstacle, they free Gogo's friends and send them back to Wackyland where they get better.
#9 - Fields of Honey
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/2/1990
The gang has their own Warner Bros. mentor, except Babs. Buster and Plucky are fighting over who is the best: Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck. They all go to an underground film vault where they check out cartoons of their favorite stars. Babs is disheartened because there hasn't been not one girl star at Warner Bros. The vault keeper gives her some advice: If You watch them, you will find her. So Babs watches one of the movies and she discovers the old cartoon duo of Honey and Bosko. Babs tries to find Honey, but the vault keeper says that no one has seen her in over fifty years. After some extensive research, she finds out that Honey and Bosko were very popular in the 1930s before Porky Pig became popular, and then they disappeared without a trace. Babs tries to find all she can about Honey, and everyone thinks that she is crazy. The vaultkeeper tells her that laughter is what keeps a toon young, and when the people stop laughing, the toon grows old and fades away. In order for Honey to be
#10 - Tiny Toon Music Television
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 2/1/1991
The Tiny Toons do an MTV-style episode with their own laugh-filled videos. They even have Julie Brown doing a cartoon version of her show as she waits for Buster, Babs and Madonna (Uh, That's Fuddonna).Istanbul, not Constantinople: (Performed by They Might Be Giants) In this video, a king's green duck statue gets stolen by thieves and he hires Plucky and Hamton to help get it back. The king's reward: his shrouded daughter. This sets Plucky off to find the thieves and the statue. When they do get it back, the king offers his daughter, who just happen to be ELMYRA! She knocks the Statue out of Plucky's hands and it breaks. Now the king has a new duck statue- Plucky!
#11 - Journey to the Center of Acme Acres
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/24/1990
A massive earthquake leaves ruins to Acme Acres and sends the characters to the center of the Earth, where they find that gremlin's are causing the earthquakes because their large gold nugget has been stolen by Montana Max. The characters then take the gold nugget from Max and return it to the gremlins.
#12 - Starting from Scratch
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/28/1990
This episode is a homage to Don Bluth's An American Tail, only it's done with fleas instead of mice. A family of fleas becomes separated when their younger child lands on Furrball. Buster, Babs and Plucky shrink themselves to flea size to help the young flea reunite with his family, who then take residence on Furrball.
#13 - A Ditch in Time
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/9/1990
Plucky doesn't do his homework and he needs a few days to do it, so he builds a time machine, but that is already taken care of when the Plucky of the future pops into his living room. The Pluckys go back a few days when Plucky was first assigned the homework and the current Plucky gets the future Plucky to do his homework for him while he plays around with the time machine. Plucky takes the bunnies on a trip in time and inadvertantly bailed out in mid-trip. Plucky then ends up in prehistoric Acme Acres where he is instantly proclaimed leader. The prehistoric gang is at the mercy of prehistoric Montana Max and a giant Dizzy Devil monster. The bunnies eventually find Plucky and he takes the time machine and the Dizzy monster back with him to the present time, leaving Buster and Babs in prehistoric Acme Acres. As Buster and Babs are helping their prehistoric counterparts defeat the prehistoric Montana Max, The Dizzy Devil monster is terrorizing present-day Acme Acres, but he stops when E
#14 - Career Oppor-Toon-ities
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/13/1990
Buster details the virtues of having a part-time job. "Busters Guide to Getting a Job": Buster walks Babs though a step-by-step course on how to get a job. Buster and Babs end up at Weenie Burger, waiting on an unruly Montana Max. "Working Pig": Hamton must attend to a customer in the toy department in order to get promoted to cleaning supplies. Unfortunately, that customer is Elmyra. "Falling to Pizzas": A penniless Calamity Coyote attempts to steal a pizza from Little Beeper, who's working as a delivery boy.
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#15 - Hare-Raising Night
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/1/1990
Buster, Babs, Plucky and Hamton attempt to stop a mad scientist named Dr. Gene Splicer, who performs mutation experiments on animals.
#16 - Furrball Follies
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/2/1990
Each of these shorts is linked to the other chronologically. In all three, Furrball attempts to find a home, after being chased by two bully cats named Amby and Floyd. "K-9 Kitty": Furrball is taken into the house of a couple with poor vision after they mistake him for a seeing-eye dog. After the couple receive new eyeglasses, they find out that a cat is in their house, and get rid of him because they dislike cats. "Aroma Amore": After having a stripe accidentally painted on his back, Furrball hides in a junkyard, where he is pursued by Fifi La Fume, who mistakes him for a skunk. In the end, Furrball paints Amby and Floyd to look like skunks. "Cross-Country Kitty": Furrball is taken into Mary Melody's house, where he begins pursuing Sweetie Bird. Mary takes him on vacation to distract him from the bird, but he still travels across the country several times in attempts to capture Sweetie. At the end, Furrball is scared off by dogs that Sweetie has brought into the house, and runs back to the cardboard box he had been living in at the beginning.
#17 - Looking Out for the Little Guy
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/27/1990
Buster describes each episode as an example of the characters looking out for those smaller than they are. "Awful Orphan": Elmyra discovers Sneezer in a basket on her doorstep and cares for him as if he were a baby. "The Re-Return of the Toxic Revenger": When the water from Plucky's swamp is stolen by Montana Max to fill his pool, Plucky dresses as a superhero (The Toxic Revenger) and tries to return the water. "Dog-Bird Afternoon": Byron Basset tries to keep Furrball from getting to a nest with baby birds in it. After Furrball is thwarted, the birds rescue Byron from the top of the house.
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#18 - Life in the 1990s
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/4/1990
Buster introduces each segment, describing them as examples of life in the 1990s. "Whining Out": Buster, Babs, Hamton and Plucky attend a fancy restaurant called Attitude, where they are treated poorly by the staff. "Paper Trained": While on his paper route, Buster demands subscription money from Montana Max. After Max finally pays, he reads in the paper that the last of his diminished funds was used to pay Buster. "Butt Out": Babs is annoyed by Roderick and Rhubella Rat, who are smoking next to her at a restaurant. She teaches them about the dangers of smoking by posing as a doctor.
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#19 - Prom-ise Her Anything
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/8/1990
After being asked to the prom by Babs, Buster tries to learn how to dance by watching an old Bugs Bunny routine, but performs them poorly until Bugs comes in and assists him. Meanwhile, Elmyra tries to get Montana Max to like her, even though he is instead focusing on the girl that Dizzy has brought.
#20 - Inside Plucky Duck
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/15/1990
Buster and Babs go inside the brain of Plucky to see what makes him tick. This first 20-minute short features the evolution of Plucky as Bat Duck and his partner Decoy (Hamton in a lame disguise) as they fight crime.
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#21 - Viewer Mail Day
Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 2/11/1991
Buster and Babs answer mail from faithful viewers. Pluck of the Irish: Plukcy and Hamton spend the night in an Irish castle to get rid of a sad Banshee.
#22 - You Asked for It
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/11/1990
Buster and Babs describe the episode as a "viewer request" day. Plucky invents a machine to pick who will star in each segment, but becomes frustrated when it fails to pick him. "Debutante Devil": Taz gives Dizzy instructions to eat Babs. She then corrects Dizzy's behavior by giving him a finishing school-style routine. "Sleight of Hare": Buster works as a magician's rabbit at Montana Max's birthday party, then gets revenge after the magician quits due to Max's constant interruptions. "Duck Out of Luck": Buster and Babs say that the viewers decide what happens to Plucky within the episode. Plucky goes through several transformations and settings.
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#23 - Her Wacky Highness
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/21/1990
After being punished for misbehavior at school for her lack of self-control, Babs runs off to Wackyland. She becomes queen of the land, but soon finds herself annoyed by the inhabitants' lack of self control, and has to be rescued by Buster, Plucky and Hamton.
#24 - Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/9/1990
Buster Bunny is brought home by Elmyra, but tries to escape when he realizes how awful it is. Before leaving, Buster frees the other pets Elmyra has locked up, but he himself is recaptured. Babs, Fifi, Furrball and Tyrone Turtle come to the rescue.
#25 - Strange Tales of Weird Science
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/14/1990
It's sci-fi time when Buster and Babs present three science-fiction thrillers. Pit Bullied: Fed up with being chased by Furrball, Sweetie reprograms him to make him chase pit bulls. Sweetie might be out of the woods, but Furrball realizes what she has done and programs Arnold the put bull into chasing Sweetie!