Julia and Geoffrey watch the first episode of Tiny Toons Adventures.Image description: Babs and Buster Bunny popping out of a rainbow ring with the words Tiny Toon Adventures.Here's Geoffrey's summary: TinyToonAdventures, if I remember correctly, was part of the "Kids shows with younger versions of the originals to make the kids like it more even though the characters were for kids shows to begin with so why is that necessary?" run of shows. This was more high-class though, because it had pedigree. It was sort of the bridge between traditional Looney Toonsand the Animaniacs. There were versions of each old-school character and they went to school and had adventures, and I don't remember much of what they did. Oh, and I felt very clever for figuring out that the human girl who was overly affectionate was the updated version of Hugo the Abominable Snowman."and Julia's:Babs and Buster Bunny are twins who live in Acme Acres with a cast of other small tooncharacters including a duck girl? Webigail??? And a human girl named Elmyra who wants to smother fuzzy things with too much affection. I remember feeling super cool for getting some of the references, and especially for already knowing They Might Be Giants before i saw this cartoon because I was a super nerd who listened to the album Lincoln a lot in like 5th grade...What were we wrong about? Several things. Babe and Buster? Not related! Webbigail? From Ducktales! Julia remembers loving this show as a kid, but as adults… we were both underwhelmed.What do you think? Did you love this? Should we try another episode? Do you have a favorite?If you're having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We're also on Patreon if that's your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we're @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe
