Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

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Tiny Toon Adventures:
How I Spent My Vacation

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Directed by Rich Arons
Produced by Tom Ruegger
Steven Spielberg (exec.)
Written by Paul Dini
Nicholas Hollander
Tom Ruegger
Sherri Stoner
Music by Richard Stone
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Release date(s) 1992
Running time 73 min.
Country U.S.A.
Language English
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation is a direct-to-video (though it was briefly considered for theatrical release) animated movie made in 1991, and released in 1992 from Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment. It features the regular cast from the animated program Tiny Toon Adventures. The film was produced by Tom Ruegger and written by Paul Dini, Nicholas Hollander, Tom Ruegger and Sherri Stoner. It was executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The film was released unrated in the U.S., but was rated U in the UK and G in Australia. It is available only in VHS format at the moment (catalogue number 12290). It was also released on Laserdisc. The film is 73 minutes, and is closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

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[edit] Plot

Superman makes a cameo, saving Babs and Buster Bunny and Byron Basset
Superman makes a cameo, saving Babs and Buster Bunny and Byron Basset

The plot of the film centers on the various Tiny Toon characters and what adventures they have during the summer after their term at the Looniversity ends.

  • Buster and Babs Bunny have a water pistol fight, which leads to Acme Acres being flooded. The two bunnies float down the river and end up in the southern United States, with a few loose parodies of the movie Deliverance.
  • Plucky Duck tags along with Hamton J. Pig and his family as they drive to the amusement park HappyWorldLand. It is a very long and painful trip and ends in Plucky getting chased by an escaped, Jason-esque lunatic with a chainsaw and a hockey mask.
  • Fifi Le Fume has her eye on movie star Johnny Pew, and manages to track him down at the hotel he's staying at. They end up going on a date—too bad it is not a dream date.
  • Fowlmouth drags Shirley the Loon to see Skunknophobia (presumably a play on the 1990 film Arachnophobia), a movie he has seen 100 times already—and one he will not shut up through.
  • Elmyra Duff has the time of her life at a nature park, as the animals run for their lives.

[edit] Cast

Voice Actor: Character:
Charles Adler Buster Bunny
Tress MacNeille Babs Bunny/Babs' Mother/Drive-thru Waitress/Big Boo
Gail Matthius Shirley the Loon/Sissy Boo
Kath Soucie Fifi Le Fume/Li'l Sneezer/Little Boo/Bimbette Skunk
Don Messick Hamton J. Pig/Radio Announcer
Joe Alaskey Plucky Duck/Tupelo Toad
Maurice LaMarche Dizzy Devil
Frank Welker Gogo Dodo/Furrball/Calamity Coyote/Little Beeper/Byron Basset/Uncle Stinky
Rob Paulsen Fowlmouth/Johnny Pew/Mr. Hitcher/Horatio/Banjo Possum
Cree Summer Elmyra Duff/Mary Melody
Candi Milo Sweetie Pie
Jonathan Winters Wade Pig
Edie McClurg Winnie Pig
Sorrell Booke Big Daddy Boo
Greg Burson Elmer Fudd

[edit] Credit gags

Tiny Toon Adventures is known for its gags, often only visible when watching the show frame-by-frame. Such is the case with How I Spent My Vacation, which has numerous gags inserted into its rapidly scrolling credits. The list includes:

  • Reason This Movie Went Straight to Home Video: Cuz It's So Darned Good!
  • Original Running Time: 8 hours, 47 minutes
  • Hey, What About That Urkel Kid? Is He Funny or What?
  • First Theatrical Screening: June 8, 1991. Old Orchard Theatre. Skokie, Illinois.
  • Last Theatrical Screening: (Same as Above.)
  • This Film Has Been Edited for Your Protection.
  • Do Not Back Up. Severe Tire Damage.
  • Man In Sound Recording Booth Who Pushes That Funny Red Button A Lot: Link Poonie
  • Moral of the Story (Pick One):
    1. Enjoy Your Vacation.
    2. Relish Your Youth.
    3. Don't Pick Up Chainsaw-Wielding Hitchikers.
    4. Feature Length Movies Should Not Have 18 Different Plots.
  • Additional Viking Dialogue: Jerry Van Dyke
  • These End Credits Are Interminable.
  • Top 4 Reasons a Caricature of David Letterman Is in This Video:
    1. We Admire His Comedy Stylings.
    2. We Wanted to Use Merv Griffin, but He Threatened to Sue.
    3. We Needed Some Filler.
    4. We're Brown-Nosing Weasles Who Want Him to Mention Us on His Show.
  • Other Stuff Done By: Some Guy Named Bob
  • And That's the Final Credit. There is a pause in the credits as ending music, which is the Tiny Toons theme in its original opening arrangement, plays. Suddenly, the key modulates. We Lied. Cast listing begins, the last of which is "Valhalla as Himself."
  • Our Only Regret: Joe Piscopo
  • Woman Who Cleans Studio: Queegee Bananahoe
  • Suggested Retail Price: $19.95 Without Rebate.
  • With Rebate: About a Buck and a Quarter.

The end tag is of Byron Basset, who sniffs around before saying "Woof."

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