Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1, Vol. 1 DVD: Review By aeinhorn

While arguably Warner Brothers did it better with “Animaniacs”, “Tiny Toon Adventures” was the first attempt from the studio to bring back the days of cutting-edge, slightly mocking animated characters in the vein of the classic Loony Tunes cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.

Introducing the next generation of Looney Toons as students at Acem Looniversity, “Tiny Toons” gave us Babs and Buster Bunny, Plucky Duck, Hamton Pig, Elmyra Duff, Dizzy Devil and of course, Montana Max. Instructed by the classic Looney Tunes characters, the show featured the young tunes as they worked there way through the trials of school and learning how to become cartoon icons themselves (when not going off on random tangent episodes).

The basic premise of the show carried through both seasons of it's production, so if you liked any of “Tiny Toons”, then you'll probably like all of it. This first volume suffers (slightly) from being forced to introduce the characters, and the basic premises of Acme Loo. Still it does contain some of the more hilarious and memorable episodes from the series, including “A Quack in the Quarks” (a “Star Wars” parody) “The Acme Acres Zone” (wherein each episode features a “Twilight Zone” style twist, and arguably the best film parody episode “Citizen Max”.

For those curious about the reinvention of the Looney Toons in the form of their Tiny Toons descendants (even though the characters are explicitly not the children of the original toons), there is a fun and informative featurette “From Looney Tunes to Tiny Toons – A Wacky Evolution!”, where the series creators discuss how they re-imagined the characters.

“Tiny Toon Adventures” doesn't stand up to the test of time quite as well as “Animaniacs” does, but it remains a fun watch. Those of us who grew up with “Tiny Toons” on in the afternoons will find this disc provides a lot of fun and nostalgia, and the episodes are perfect to share with the kids we have now.