The Looney Beginning (Tiny Toons episode)
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The Looney Beginning was the premiere episode of Tiny Toon Adventures. It was animated by Kennedy Cartoons and has the production code 148. It first aired in prime-time on CBS September 14, 1990. It was written by Paul Dini and Sherri Stoner, and directed by Rich Arons, Glen Kennedy, Dave Marshall and Ken Boyer.
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Bugs Bunny has been hired by Warner Bros. to introduce the audience to Tiny Toon Adventures, which he explains by way of a flashback. The story begins when an animator (voiced by an uncredited Steven Spielberg), after a failed pitch to the network about a TV series starring a rich brat named Montana Max, is ordered to come up with something better by tomorrow, or else he will be fired. Taking advice from Bugs (who is watching this from a framed animation cel on the wall), the animator decides to start with rabbits, eventually creating Babs and Buster Bunny. When the bunnies demonstrate themselves by planting the "insult kiss" on him, the animator gives up and throws the bunnies in the trash.
Buster and Babs decide to make the series themselves. After Buster creates the series location, Acme Acres, they audition for "wacky but lovable neighbors". Following the introductions of Hamton J. Pig and Gogo Dodo, Buster and Babs meet Plucky Duck, who has a large resume of talent, but he becomes exasperated when the bunnies decide to cast him as their sidekick. Afterwards, the bunnies look for villains by opening a box where these antagonists have been kept, all of whom show up in later episodes; Dizzy Devil and Elmyra Duff are introduced at this point. The last one out of the box is Montana Max, the rich brat whom the animator had pitched earlier, and who now seeks revenge for his series being rejected. The bunnies then have Hamton type several episode scripts for them, but Max then shows up to steal the scripts, during which he boots the bunnies out of the cartoon and takes over the show, renaming it The Montana Max Show.
Buster and Babs are unable to fight off against Max's takeover, so Bugs comes in to help. He draws up the schoolhouse Acme Looniversity and, after an introductory song, gives his new students a few tips about being cartoon characters, one of which is "Villains always fall for cheesy disguises." With that in mind, Buster and Babs pay a visit to Monty's mansion, disguised as his personal heroes, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, and reclaim the episode scripts. Upon realizing he's been tricked, Max executes a series of traps that the bunnies manage to elude.
The next morning, the animator returns to find the new show, Tiny Toon Adventures, all planned out for him. He pitches the series to the network, and they love it. Getting a raise for making this new series, the animator offers to give Buster and Babs anything they want. They requested a "Created by", which he rejects (although after the beating they try to give him, he apparently agrees to it, as shown by the episode's gag credit).
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