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Animaniacs - The Monkey Song
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Pinky and the Brain Introduction
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Animaniacs - Theme Song
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Animaniacs Opening Theme Sing-Along
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Los Tiny Toons [serie animada 1990]
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Road Rovers - My Tribute [Version 1]
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Tiny Toons: Como pase mis vacaciones
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Pound Puppies - part one
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Road Rovers - My Tribute [Version 2]
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Pound Puppies - part four
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Animalia Episode 2 Preview
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Pound Puppies - part two
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Pound Puppies - part three
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Pinky e Cérebro - O Natal de Pinky e Cérebro (Parte 2 de 2)
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Animalia Episode 4 Preview
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Pinky e Cérebro - O Natal de Pinky e Cérebro (Parte 1 de 2)
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Animalia Episode 5 Preview
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Pinky e Cérebro - Quase Humano (Parte 1 de 2)
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Pinky e Cérebro - Pinky e o Névoa (Parte 1 de 2)
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Pinky e Cérebro - Star Warners (Parte 1 de 2)
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Pinky e Cérebro - Figurinha Do Cérebro
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Pinky e Cérebro - Quase Humano (Parte 2 de 2)
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Pinky e Cérebro - Onde Nenhum Rato Foi Antes
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INTRO / OPENING TINY TOONS
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Unless you're a die hard Animaniacs fan with no life (who submits articles) you don't know the half of it! The early story of the Animal-maniacs all starts with the Ruegger family. . i.e. this weird guy! ..And his kids!

WHO IS TOM RUEGGER?.....

significantly larger than your average show at the time, and traditional wacky takes were encouraged. It surely must have cost more, so how was H-B convinced the investment would pay off? By '87, Hanna-Barbera had broken into several fiefdoms. Bill Hanna made sure the production pipeline was filled and functioning. Joe Barbera had his pet projects, including some of those

series ever nominated for an Emmy Award as best animated series. It lost to Winnie the Pooh. By then I was at Warner Bros. working on the first episodes of Tiny Toons. Where did Jean MacCurdy work at H-B? And how did it lead to heading the entire WB animation division? Jean began in childrens programming at NBC, worked at Warners Bros. with Friz, and when I met her

material--TV specials, new merchandise, a 50th Birthday Macy's balloon, and a new theatre short ( Box Office Bunny ). I was wondering if the release of Tiny Toons in 1990 was intentional... I'm not sure the 50th anniversary of Bugs Bunny played a crucial role in the series' conception. But I wasn't working for Warner Bros. at the time. Perhaps they were looking for a way to

. So, we just gave Kathy Page, my assistant, a different job on each show...like raccoonnookkeeper, and many many others. Which TT script was the first ever written? And who wrote it? First written and recorded Tiny Toons episode was the very bizarre half-hour story that feels more like three shorts...each act was handled by a different crew. Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow

Frank from the TV music department, and together they figured out how to finance the scores. It cost a fortune...60 grand per half hour in many cases. But man, those babies sounded good. You've mentioned a lot of your staff, but you have yet to mention two of the greatest hires to ever happen to animation in my opinion -- Bruce W. Timm and Paul Dini. What they and Eric

the banned Warner Bros. cartoon Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs ? I very much doubt this is true and many internet sites on Tiny Toons have printed it as fact. No, she wasn't. Thank you! The resemblance is just coincidental, people. Move on! Were there any characters that were designed for Tiny Toons but ultimately cut out of the final production?

No, she wasn't. Thank you! The resemblance is just coincidental, people. Move on! Were there any characters that were designed for Tiny Toons but ultimately cut out of the final production? Since we were doing junior

. So, we just gave Kathy Page, my assistant, a different job on each show...like raccoonnookkeeper, and many many others. Which TT script was the first ever written? And who wrote it? First written and recorded Tiny Toons episode was the very bizarre half-hour story that feels more like three shorts...each act was handled by a different crew. Hare Today, Gone

story where Buster and Babs are in an animator's office after hours and create the whole show themselves (which is out of continuity with the rest of the series, but a cute idea anyway). I think The Looney Beginning was somewhere around episode 37. Number 37 means that it was the 37th half hour script to have been written and completed. Sherri and Paul and I wrote the

story where Buster and Babs are in an animator's office after hours and create the whole show themselves (which is out of continuity with the rest of the series, but a cute idea anyway). I think The Looney Beginning was somewhere around episode 37. Number 37 means that it was the 37th half hour script to have been written and completed. Sherri and Paul and I wrote the

on for the duck. The cat's name took forever. Maybe the twentieth name. It got so desperate I wanted to kill the cat off...or name it LEUKEMEOW and get rid of it in the second episode. What were some of the abandoned names you remember, and would you have preferred some of them? As I mentioned before, when I first arrived, there was one drawing representing the show: a

coloring and finishing the footage right there in-house, I was afforded the chance to make quick, easy and cheap retakes on the scenes....which made a huge difference in the end product. Glen Kennedy was responsible for the look and feel of Pup's animation, which was very unique at the time (and he would live in infamy thanks to Tiny Toons, but more on that in part II).

all the rest. Cree was a great catch, because she simply brought her own natural comic dementia to the role...she wasn't trying to do anything Elmery at all. I've heard of problems with Buster that lasted beyond casting... Buster was the toughest role to cast, and the last one to be cast. Steven wanted to recast it about 5 episodes into the recording of the series, but

you know I mean it--it practically rivals The Simpsons as far as cast size. Of course, part of that is from the fact that you had to come up with junior versions of just about everybody. The cast was so big that some characters barely got time at all. Barky Marky comes to mind--it became a running gag on the show itself that he was never used. Then there's Mary Melody--her

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I've heard of problems with Buster that lasted beyond casting... Buster was the toughest role to cast, and the last one to be cast. Steven wanted to recast it about 5 episodes into the recording of the series, but Andrea and I fought to keep Charlie Adler

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