Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

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
Starring	Charlie Adler Tress MacNeille Joe Alaskey Don Messick Rob Paulsen Cree Summer Jonathan Winters Edie McClurg Gail Matthius Kath Soucie Frank Welker Sorrell Booke
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Studio	Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	1992
Running time	73 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English

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. The animation was done by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, a current Japanese animation studio. It features the regular cast from the animated programme 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. This special was re-edited and cut into four separate episodes for syndication and airs as part of the original series. These syndicated versions first aired in February 1993 on the FOX Network.

Plot

Superman makes a cameo, saving Babs, Buster 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, along with Byron Basset, float down the river and end up in the southern United States, with a few loose parodies of the movie Deliverance (also from WB).
• 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. He endures all of this only to arrive at HappyWorldLand and only to ride the Monrail and then go home, severely disappointing Plucky, who wanted to ride the parks "lengendary" rides.
• 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 and is similar to the main theme from Psycho), a movie he has seen 100 times already—and one he will not shut up through. The film also features a knockoff of the THX system, which literally blows away the crowd away with a gale-forced sound and says "THUD" "The Audience is Now Deaf".
• Elmyra Duff has the time of her life at a nature park, as the animals run for their lives, No surprise there.

Cast

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:

  4. We Admire His Comedy Stylings.

  3. We Wanted to Use Merv Griffin, but He Threatened to Sue.

  2. We Needed Some Filler.

  1. We're Brown-Nosing Weasels 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
• The Characters In This Photoplay Are Fictitious. Any Similarity To Persons Living, Dead, Or Undead For That Matter, Is Purely Coincidental.
• 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."

Parodies

• Frankenstein (1931) (Babs joke)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• I Love Lucy (1951) (Babs impression)
• Tonight! (1953) (Caricatures of Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon)
• Psycho (1960) (similar theme is used for Skunknophobia)
• Hawaii Five-O (1968) (Theme soundalike)
• Deliverance (1972) (The entire basis for Buster and Babs's storyline)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• The Barbara Walters Special (1976) (Caricature of Bawbawa Wawtews)
• Superman (1978) (Superman cameo)
• 1941 (1979)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Late Night with David Letterman (1982) (Caricature of David Letterman)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial* (1982)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) (Basis for the entire movie)
• Tom Sawyer (Bugs and Babs down river travels)
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (1984) (Babs impression)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (Minecart chase)
• The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) (Caricature of Oprah)
• The Hitcher (1986)
• The Sound of Music (1965 film) (Plucky joke)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• The Pink Panther (2006) (Fifi Le Fume Meet the Pink Panther)
• The Pink Panther 2 (2009) (Fifi and Pink Panther see the Pink Panther Diamond)
• The Arsenio Hall Show (1989) (Caricature of Arsenio Hall)
• The Little Mermaid (1989) ("Beneath the Ocean")
• Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990) (On the movie theater board displaying the movies playing, one of them says Die Hardest).

• Arachnophobia (1990) (parodied as Skunknophbia)
• Ren And Stimpy (1991)
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) (Jay Leno caricature wheeling his own chin on a pushcart)
• Beavis and Butthead (1993)
• Underdog
• The R rating (as F: Not suitable for Fowlmouth)
• Also parodies the THX Deep Note logo before a movie with an incredibly loud bang followed by "The audience is now deaf," and the Tiny Toons theme, when Plucky suggest they watch TV all summer.

Also references

• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Peter Pan (1953)
• Not of This Earth (1957)
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968)
• Hee Haw (1969)
• Stairway To Heaven (1971) (Hampton points out an attraction that leads to heaven in Happy World Land called: Stairway To Heaven.From the Led Zeppelin song).
• Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
• Heathers (1989)
• Family Matters (1989)
• The Simpsons (1989) (Elmyra cuts lion's hair like Bart Simpson)
• Animaniacs (1993) Even though Animaniacs was made after the movie, Ralph the security guard makes a brief cameo, possible foreshadowing his apparence in Animaniacs, which was being produced by the same people that makes Tiny Toon Adventures at the time the movie was being made.

Celebrity caricatures

• Woody Allen
• Roseanne Barr
• Johnny Carson
• Cher
• Arsenio Hall
• Pee-wee Herman
• Jay Leno
• David Letterman
• Ed McMahon
• Jack Nicholson
• Steven Speilberg
• Paul Shaffer
• Sylvester Stallone
• Meryl Streep
• Barbara Walters
• Oprah Winfrey

External links

• Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation at the Internet Movie Database
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  How I Spent My Vacation at the Internet Movie Database
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  How I Spent My Vacation at Allmovie