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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Rock 'n' Roar
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/5/1990
The characters are playing soccer when Buster's ball falls down into a hole. In it, Buster finds what he believes to be hundreds of soccer balls, one of which he believes is his. Actually, it's a dinosaur egg that hatches, leading Buster to attempt raising the young dinosaur, whom he names Rover. After Rover destroys Acme Acres, Buster finds a passageway to the dinosaur world and returns him to his home.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Cinemaniacs!
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/10/1990
Buster and Babs "theater hop" at a multiplex while being chased by usher Montana Max. "Superbabs": A parody of the Superman film franchise with Babs in the role of Superman and Montana Max as "Wex Wuthor". Superbabs tries to thwart Wex's plot to destroy Acme Acres by pouring ink all over it. "Duck Trek": A parody of Star Trek with Hamton, Plucky, Furrball (in a rare speaking role) and other characters as the crew members. They land on a planet in search of a toupee for Plucky, but are chased by a hair monster. However, they manage to escape the clutches of the planet's hairs when Hamton worries the planet bald. "Pasadena Jones": A parody of Indiana Jones with Buster as Indiana Jones. Buster enters a secret temple to find the Secret of Life, which is revealed to be friendship.
#15 - The Acme Acres Zone
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/3/1990
A parody of The Twilight Zone with Buster as Rod Serling. "A Walk on the Flip Side": Montana Max dreams that he has become a rabbit. He finds Babs and Buster living in his house, who call an animal shelter and have him taken away. After waking from the dream, Max promises to be nice to rabbits, which he disregards as he throws Buster and Babs out into the cold. However, Max then finds several rabbits in his cabinets. "A Bacon Strip": Hamton and Plucky sneak onto Montana Max's property and Hamton goes skinny-dipping in the pool. After having his clothes stolen, Hamton has to return naked to his house, where his friends have planned a surprise birthday party. "Senserely Yours, Babs": Babs loses her sense of humor (personified as a ghost of herself), and Hamton and Calamity attempt to capture it.
#16 - Gang Busters
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/12/1990
Montana Max and his gang frame Buster for stealing a slushie machine, and Plucky Duck acts as Buster's lawyer to prove him innocent. However, Plucky and Buster end up imprisoned together and are commended for capturing escapees Rocky and Mugsy in the process of breaking out. To get his revenge on Monty, Buster and company rap until Monty confesses to the crime.
#17 - Looniversity Days
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 11/20/1990
Buster and Babs, in song, gives us a tour of a typical day at Acme Looniversity. The Learning Principal: Buster gets sent to the principal's office by Yosemite Sam, and his friends are afraid that he is going to be done for, all to get his brand new stereo system. Buster meets the principal, which is a big head and he discovers that Bugs was actually controlling the head. Bugs gives him some timely advice and he goes back to Sam's class and proves himself to be a good student.
#18 - High Toon
Season 1 - Episode 65 - Aired 3/29/1991
Buster and Babs head off to Acmeland, but a wrong turn takes them to a town that is terrorized by a posse of outlaw coyotes. They convince Plucky and Hamton to join them and, with the help of the entire town, bring the coyotes to justice. This episode ends the first season with a great send-off inspired by the old Roy Rogers series.
#19 - Best o' Plucky Duck Day
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/21/1990
Plucky is finally given three stories all about him in this episode. One Minute 'Til Three: Granny is teaching a lesson and asks the class hard questions. Plucky hopes and prays that the clock makes it to 3:00 so class can be over because it's Friday and so that he can have fun over the weekend. Plus, he doesn't want to be called on and give a wrong answer so Granny can give him a thousand-page term paper for not paying attention.
#20 - Hero Hamton
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/23/1990
Hamton mistakenly hits Montana Max with his locker door and Max threatens to hit him. Plucky makes it even worse when he forces Hamton to have a boxing match with Max! Hamton tries to get out of the whole situation, but his friends help him out with physical and spiritual training. On the night of the fight, Hamton is sitting in Porky's prop class feeling sorry for himself, and Buster and Babs go into the ring in his place. When Hamton sees his friends get beaten up, he uses the power of his ancestors (and Porky's props) to get even with Max, who chickens out!
#21 - Whale's Tales
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/26/1990
This episode is about a little whale who gets separated from his mother. His mother is captured by Gotcha Grabmore (still hasn't learned a thing from her last episode) and her octopus henchmen to make cosmetics. The baby whale is beached and who would find him but Elmyra! Buster and Babs hears the whale at Elmyra's house and takes him out of thsi animal prison and back to the wtare to rescue his mom. The rest of this episode is action packed chaos as Buster and Babs go at it with the octopuses and the seagulls and seals get into the fray as well. The episode ends happily, if not, blissful: Mother and child whale are reunited; Gotcha's being tossed around by seals and likes it; and Elmyra has a new octopus pet!
#22 - Ask Mr. Popular
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 12/5/1990
Buster Bunny makes his first appearance as that ever-cool and sophisticated socialite Mr. Popular. Mr. Popular shows examples on how to be a cool person in the following shorts: Dapper Diz: Mr. Popular helps Plucky and Hamton make Dizzy more sophisticated and more collected. It seems that Dizzy is too wild and socially inept, so Mr. Popular guides Dizzy with pizza rolls to his personality chamber where Plucky and Hamton each give Dizzy their own qualities. Dizzy comes out looking clean and suave! But then, the new Dizzy turns out to be as worse as the old Dizzy because he is too snobbish and snotty for his own good. This results in him losing his friends and his sexy girlfriends, and he begs for Mr. Popular to make him the way he was. Plucky and Hamton start reminding him about all the things that Dizzy satnds for, and Dizzy comes Back! There is a lesson to be learned from this: You shouldn't change you life for someone else's approval, and never go out with Dizzy's girlfriends duri
#23 - Son of Looniversity Daze
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 12/7/1990
Buster and Babs do another song about Acme Looniversity and explores more facets about its classes and students. Plucky's Dastardly Deed: Foghorn Leghorn gives out a test, and Plucky freaks out because he didn't study. His evil conscience tells him to cheat! And the perfect candidate is Egghead Junior, the smartest student at Acme Loo. Plucky then makes his way into Foghorn's desk and switches test papers. On his way home, Plucky is sure that no one caught him but the guilt sets in and everywhere he goes, he thinks that someone is calling him a cheater. That night, Plucky dreams of graduating and gets a diploma....that says "CHEATERS NEVER GRADUATE," and from there, the nightmare begins and he wakes up confessing. And then, something incredible happened: Foghorn announces that the class will take a retest because the first tests got messed up in the mud before he even looked at him! So, Plucky has another chance on a test and learns a valuable lesson about doing honest work.
#24 - Mr. Popular's Rules of Cool!
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 12/10/1990
This is just like Episode 46, except Mr. Popular teaches people how to be cool about themselves, crazy fads and not disrespecting people. Mr. Popular's Rules of Cool: Hamton is having a hard time fitting in because he is not cool. Mr. Popular shows Hamton how to fit in, win lots of friends, and how to get in the coolest clubs. He is put to the test when Mr. Popular and Babs take him to the coolest club in town. Arnold then shuts the door on Hamton, and he starts swaying around and unknowingly starts a conga line with the crowd. After that, Babs and Mr. Popular try to get rid of his record collection, but he starts doing some fresh DJ scratch mves that makes him even more cooler with the studio audience. The audience then leaves with Hamton, leaving Mr. Popular and Babs with an empty set and running cameras!
#25 - Fairy Tales for the '90s
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 12/12/1990
Babs as a fairy tries to display the Fairy Tales of the 90's even if it kills her. This is a great homage to the openings of ""Farctured Fairy Tales"" on the classic Rocky and Bullwinkle series. Bunnochio: The Acme Toy Company is in a bit of a slump, and they call on Mr. Gepetto to make a new toy. Gepetto makes an old fashioned drumming bunny and is ostrasized by the executives. That night Gepetto wishes that his toy would come to life. Coincidently, Buster burrows his way into Gepetto's factory and Geppetto thinks that his wish had come true. The next day, Buster is displayed and tells everyone off. Everyone thinks that he is a great toy, and Buster keeps telling them that he is not a toy. This gives way into a chase scene, where Buster has the executives fall into a toy-making vat. Pretty soon, the Executive wind-up toy is the hottest toy to hit toy store and Gepetto and Buster are both reaping the rewards.