The Looney Beginning

The Looney Beginning is the debut episode of the series Tiny Toon Adventures. It aired on September 14th, 1990 and was writen by Paul Dini, Sherri Stoner. Despite being the premise episode, it was ironically the 48th episode produced.

Storyline
Bugs Bunny has been hired by Warner Brothers to introduce the audience to the new series Tiny Toon Adventures, which he explains by way of a flashback. The story begins with an animator (played by an uncredited Steven Spielberg), after a failed pitch to the network about a Television-series starring a snotty boy named Montana Max, is ordered by his boss to come up with something better by tomorrow morning, or else he will be fired. Bugs Bunny (who is watching this from his picture frame on the wall), advises the animator to start with bunnies, resulting in the creation of Babs and Buster Bunny. When the bunnies surprise him by leaping out of the drawing and hugging him, the cartoonist throws the bunnies in the trash can and leaves. 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 enemies 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 the infamous Montana Max, whom the animator had pitched his very own show to, but was turned turned down because of his brattiness. After unleashing their archenemies, the bunnies have Hamton write the scripts. Just then, Max kicks the bunnies out of the cartoon and takes over the show, retitling 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 a theme-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 Montana's mansion, disguised as his personal heroes, Yosemite Sam and Elmer J. Fudd, and retrieve their scripts. Upon realizing he's been tricked, Max executes a set of booby traps. However, the bunnies manage to dodge them, and Montana is squished by his own rolling coin. The next morning, the animator returns to find the new show, Tiny Tunes 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 request a creation-credit, as is indicated by the episode's humorous title-card.

Memorable Quotes

 * (The first line in the series) Daffy: "I tell you, T.S., it'll be a smash; Honey, I Shrunk the Laundry, starring Daffy Duck! What do you say, hm?" (gets kicked out of the studio) "Philistines."
 * WB Boss: (tears a cartoonist's idea in half) "This is garbage!" (puts idea in the trash bin) "GARBAGE!" (balances the bin on his hand, then dumps the trash on the cartoonist's head) "No one wants to see a show about some rich little brat named Monty! You'd better come up with a hit show by 9:00 AM tomorrow, kiddo... (pulls out an ax) ...or it's the ax for us! Now, GET TO WORK!"
 * Cartoonist: (stammering) "Yes, sir." (glumly comes out of boss's office and back to his desk) "Oh, it's hopeless! I don't even know to start!"


 * Baby Rabbit: (giggles) "Golly, gee whiz. Aren't I just the cutest thing you ever saw? Uh-huh, uh-huh. I sure am. I'll go to your house and I'll live forever and ever and ever... ...and you'll never, ever, ever get tired of me. And I'll go hippety-hop, hippety-hop right straight into your heart."
 * Cartoonist: "Ewww. That thing will give people cavities."
 * Baby Rabbit: "I love everybody in all the world. (muffled) And I even love..." (voice gets muffled as the cartoonist crumples his sketch up) "... being rumpled and thrown away."
 * Cartoonist: "Maybe something a bit more manly." (draws in a Rambo-like rabbit)


 * Buster "Say, how about drawing me a best friend? A buddy, a compadre, someone I can talk to rabbit-to-rabbit."
 * (the Animator paints in Babs)
 * "A girl?"
 * Babs: "Welcome to the '90s."
 * Animator: "Huh?"


 * Babs: "So, what's your name?"
 * Buster: "Good question." (to the animator) Hey, what are our names?! (The animator writes "Buster" over the blue rabbit) "I'm Buster Bunny."
 * (The animator then writes "Babs" over the pink rabbit)
 * Babs: "And I'm Babs Bunny."
 * Buster and Babs: "No relation."


 * Babs: "Darn. I'm 14 and I already have wrinkles."
 * Buster: "We'll create the show ourselves for everyone who loves toons. For the little guys, for the big guys... ...for the strange medium guys with bad haircuts!"
 * Babs: (after Buster creates the show's setting of Acme Acres) "So, what do you call it, Rembrandt?"
 * Buster: "Green Acres."
 * Babs: "Get current."
 * Buster: "Okay. Acme Acres."


 * Gogo: "I'm Gogo Dodo. And I shall perform Hamlet's Seliloquy. (clears throat) Two bees..." (splits into two bee versions of himself) "...or not 2B..." (Transforms into a door marked 2B and crosses the 2B out, then transforms into himself dressed as the Riddler) "...that is the question."
 * Plucky: "Sidekick? No way. I am no sidekick. Hamton's a sidekick type! He has all the earmarks of a sidekick."
 * Elmyra: "Come back, you spinny, purpley puppy thing.
 * Dizzy: (gasps) "Dizzy out of here!"
 * Elmyra: "Elmyra just wants to hug you and squeeze you into itty-bitty pieces! And then I'm gonna change your diaper all by myself."


 * Babs: "Oh peanuts. That brat stole our show."
 * Buster: "Without those scripts, We're doomed."


 * Buster: "Oh, pater. Oh, mentor. Oh, great unaffordable one."
 * Bugs: "Eh, you can call me Bugs."


 * Babs: "Oh, I love the plush green carpet."
 * (The carpet reveals itself as a flattened Plucky Duck)
 * Plucky: "I've decided the sidekick role is workable."
 * Buster: "What happened to you?"
 * Plucky: "A steamroller with Monty's name on it!"

Allusions

 * Many moments in the creation of Babs and Buster Bunny reference the Looney Tunes short, "Duck Amuck."
 * Buster's response to the animator's first attempt at his color scheme is a reference to the often-disastrous colorizations that Ted Turner was responsible for giving to the black-and-white films his company owned.
 * The 1988 Disney/Spielberg film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, is referenced twice in this episode. One of Babs' first impressions is Jessica Rabbit (Roger's wife), and when Buster and Babs escape from the garbage bin, Buster says, "Roger, Rabbit!," and Babs responds with, "You've got the wrong bunny."
 * One of Babs' first impressions is Glinda the Good Witch, specifically, Billie Burke Zeigfeld's interpretation of the character from the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, as she asks Buster, "Is it a good voice or a bad voice?" Babs also imitates Dolly Parton, Jessica Rabbit, Pee Wee Herman ("La la la! I'm Eraser Head!"), and Elmer Fudd.
 * Buster's original name for Acme Acres was Green Acres, a show on TV Land.
 * When Montana Max takes over Acme Acres, Gogo says, "Redrum, redrum!," which is "Murder" backwards, made famous in Stephen King's novel, The Shining, and its subsequent film adaptations.
 * The scene where Babs and Buster quickly escape from Monty's mansion with the episode scripts is similar to the famous opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was directed by the same person (Steven Spielberg) who executive-produced Tiny Toons.
 * When Gogo says, "That is the question," he wears an outfit that resembles Frank Gorshin's version of The Riddler, on the 1960s Batman show.
 * In one of the deleted scenes, Gogo says, "You got parsley and sage but you're running out of time!" A reference to a repeating line in "Scarborough Fair", an English folk song popularized by Simon & Garfunkel.
 * The rejected muscular rabbit is a parody of John Rambo of the Rambo film franchise.

Cut Scenes
The above scenes were not cut out of the show when aired in the UK.
 * When shown in reruns and syndication, several scenes were cut. These scenes can be seen on the Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1, Volume 1 DVD. These scenes include:
 * 1) The animator painting Mexican clothes on Buster, and Buster sarcastically replying, "Ha ha. Tutu funny," before being put in his red shirt.
 * 2) Sweetie and Furrball introducing themselves to Buster and Babs during the auditions (Sweetie's name is still listed in the end credits).
 * 3) After Bugs' song about Acme Looniversity, Gogo Dodo appears out the clock tower and says, "You got Parsley and sage, but you're running out of 'thyme'!"
 * 4) Buster quoting Bugs' lesson about how "villains always fall for cheesy disguises" outside Monty's Mansion.

Trivia

 * An unused scene from this episode features Elmyra Duff introducing herself to Buster and Babs during the audition sequence, then capturing them, dressing them in baby clothes, and feeding them mud pies, only for them to outwit her and get back to the auditions. This scene would later be used (with a rough fade-in and altered dialogue) as the opening to Strange Tales of Weird Science.
 * The voice of the WB animator is none other than Frank Welker, although Welker was only credited as the voice of Gogo in this episode.
 * Although Sneezer is credited as the one Kath Soucie voiced in this episode, Sneezer only briefly appears as an extra. Instead, it is the Rejected Baby Rabbit that Soucie voiced. However, she used the same voice for both characters, similar to her voice for Lil DeVille in the Nickelodeon cartoon, "Rugrats".
 * After Babs says, "You're all in!," Montana Max and Dizzy Devil can be seen in the crowd, contradicting their actual appearances minutes later when they escape from the villains box.
 * Hamton isn't the first person in line for the audition, but is the first to go up to Buster & Babs.
 * Some of the villains who escape from the villains box include Dr. Gene Splicer (the main antagonist of the episode, Hare Raising Night), a Red Devil who appears in the ending to the episode, Sawdust And Toonsil, the Metropolis Marvels who appear in the beginning of the episode, The Acme Bowl, one of Monty's cronies from the episode, Gang Busters, and The Candy Bar Monster from the Best O' Plucky Duck Day episode segment,Sticky Feathers Duck.
 * During Bugs' song about Acme Looniversity, Wile E. Coyote is seen in Calamity's gray color scheme.
 * In the second deleted scene, as Babs tells Sweetie and Furrball that they're in, Furrball's eyes are yellow, not white.
 * Buster says he calls the town "Green Acres", however, "Acme Acres" is already written on the map before he even says it.
 * The Tiny Toons staff was not satisfied with the way Kennedy Cartoons animated the chase scene in Monty's mansion. So that scene was handled by Wang Animation.
 * This episode earned Tiny Toons its first and only Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) as it originally aired in primetime before it moved to daytime. It lost to The Simpsons episode, Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment.
 * The music for the "Welcome to Acme Loo" song would later be used for certain episode title cards.
 * During a scene where Monty (sat on the back of Arnold the Pitbull) when he confronts Babs & Buster, Buster is seen floating in mid-air.


 * Babs does several impressions which include Glenda the Good Witch from The Wizard of Oz and Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Also Buster says "Roger, rabbit" and Babs replies "You've got the wrong bunny!" another reference to Roger Rabbit.

Act One
(The cartoon begins in Hollywood, California. The camera then moves to the Warner Bros. studio, where we hear Daffy voice about a new movie)Daffy: "I tell ya, J.F., it'll be a smash; Honey, I Shrunk the Laundry, starring Daffy Duck! What do you say?" (The Camera then pans to the front of the entrance, where Daffy is then kicked to the curb and bounces right back onto his legs)

Daffy: "Phillistines!" (Daffy then looks at the camera angrily with his eyes squint together)

(In the next scene, we see a bunch of houses until the camera moves to Bugs Bunny's mansion, specifically to his backyard pool, which is in the shape of his head, then we hear Bugs as he is siting in a chair talking to someone)

Bugs: "Ah, light of my life, I'll never take you for granted, you're the only one for me." (the camera then zooms to Bugs) "And I love you..."

(The camera then moves to reveal that the person Bugs is talking to his is Shloskar award, he keeps talking to it while he is on his knees)

Bugs: "My precious statuette." (Bugs then notices the camera, then begins talking to the viewers) "Oh! Eh, what's up, Docs? Welcome to a speical edition of Tiny Toon Adventures. Eh, when Warner Bros. asked me to introduce their show, I said, 'For you guys, Anything! as long as i'm paid in advance'."

(As Bugs holds right hand out, a human hand hands him a check, but as Bugs looks at the check, he drops it and it bounces)

Bugs: "I don't accept checks!"

(As Bugs kicks the check off the screen, a huge truck with a large amount of carrots and carrot products appears and drops them on to him. Bugs pops out and is shown to be happy about it)

Bugs: "Thanks! Ah yes, Tiny Toon Adventures, a fine show. It all began quite a while ago, but I remember it clearly as if it were a flashback."

(A flashback ripple is shown, which takes the viewer to what seems to be a tall building with the WB symbol on it)

Bugs: "It was late one night at the Warner Bros. Studio."

(The camera pans to a picture of Bugs)

Bugs "I was just hanging around, as usual, while the artists were coming up with brilliant new TV ideas."

(The camera pans to a sillhoute of the Animator and his boss behind a door)

The Animator's Boss (While tearing up a script and tossing it into the garbage): "This is garbage! Garbage!" (balances the bin on his hand, then dumps the trash on the cartoonist's head) "No one wants to see a show about some rich little brat named Monty! You'd better come up with hit show by 9:00 A.M. tomorrow, kiddo..." (pull out an axe) "...or it's the axe for us! Now, GET TO WORK!"

The Animator: "Yes, sir!"

(The animator glumly walks over to his desk, but is unable to come up with anything)

The Animator: "Oh, it's hopeless! I don't even know where to start!"

Bugs Bunny: "Can't go wrong with rabbits, doc."

(The camera pans to Bugs' picture)

The Animator: "Hmmm. Rabbits."

(The animator puts a piece of paper on the drawing board and draws a picture of a baby rabbit)

Baby Rabbit: (giggles) "Golly, gee whiz! Aren't I just the cutest thing you ever saw? Uh-huh, uh-huh, I sure am! I'll go to your house and I'll live forever and ever and ever and you'll never ever ever get tired of me, and I'll go hippety-hop, hippety-hop right into your heart!"

The Animator: "Ewww! That thing'll give people cavities!"

Baby Rabbit: "I love everybody and all the world, and I even love..." (voice gets muffled as the Animator crumples his sketch up and puts it in the garbage can) "...being crumpled and thrown away."

The Animator: "Maybe something a bit more manly."

(The animator draws a picture of a Rambo-esque muscular rabbit)

Muscular Rabbit: "Aaaah! Prepare to fry, you insignifigant slug!"

(He fires his flamethrower, which sets the paper on fire. The Animator puts out the fire with a cup of coffee.)

The Animator: "Never get him past the Parent-Teacher's association. I'll split the difference."

(The Animator draws a picture of Buster Bunny)

Buster: "Hey! Nice shocks! How bout' a splash of color, pal?"

(The Animator paints Buster in different colors, including green, pink, and orange)

Buster: "Whoa! Who are you, Ted Turner?"

(The Animator paints Buster light blue and white)

Buster: "Hmmm, better. Now, for the censors, how bout' some clothes?"

(The following scene was cut from syndicated reruns, which cut to Buster being put in his red shirt and white gloves:)

(The Animator paints a Mexican outfit on Buster)

Buster: "Huh?" (sarcastically) "Har har. Tutu funny."

(The Animator removes the Mexican outfit and puts a red shirt and white gloves in its place)

Buster: "A star is drawn!"

(The Animator looks at Buster with satisfaction)

Buster: "Say, how bout' drawin' me a best friend? A buddy? A compadre? Someone I can talk to rabbit-to-rabbit?"

(The Animator then paints two pink rabbit ears with purple ribbons, a pink rabbit head, then a pink rabbit body with a yellow shirt and a purple skirt, and we have Babs)

Buster: "A girl?"

Babs: "Welcome to the 90's."

The Animator: "Huh?"

Babs: "So, how do I look?"

Buster: "Well, you..."

Babs: "And how's my voice?"

Buster: "Well, it's, uh..."

Babs (Imitating Glinda the Good Witch): "Is it a good voice or a bad voice?" (Babs then dresses like Dolly Parton) "I'm a-bustin' out all over!" (Babs then dresses like Jessica Rabbit)

(Buster's jaw drops in a lovestruck state)

Babs: "Or maybe... a bit more bunny heat?"

(Buster reacts lustfully as Babs grabs him and kisses him. The Animator reacts in question)

Babs: "So, which voice do you like?"

Buster: "I like em' all! How do you do that?"

Babs: "It's a girl thing. So what's your name?"

Buster: "Good question. Hey, what are our names?"

(The Animator writes BUSTER above Buster)

Buster: "I'm Buster Bunny!"

(The Animator writes BABS above Babs)

Babs: "And I'm Babs Bunny!"

Buster & Babs: "No relation!"

(The jump off the paper and kiss the Animator)

The Animator: "When they start jumping off the paper and kissing you, it's time to call it quits!" (He grabs the paper and puts it in the garbage can) "Oh, who am I kidding? I could never come up with a cartoon show by tomorrow morning." (He leaves the office and heads home)

Buster (As he and Babs climb out of the garbage can and float down to the floor): "That poor guy is throwing his career away!"

Babs: "Not to mention ours. Requesting clearance for landing."

Buster: "Roger, rabbit!"

Babs: "You've got the wrong bunny." (She looks at her wrinkled state) "Darn! I'm fourteen and I already have wrinkles!" (She pulls out an iron and irons herself)

Buster: "He just doesn't know star potential when he sees it."

Babs: "Who does?"

Buster: "We do! We'll create the show ourselves, for everyone who loves toons! For the big guys, for the little guys, for the strange medium guys with bad haircuts!"

Bugs: "I like this kid, he's got moxie!"

Babs: "But Buster, it takes dozens of highly paid network executives years to come up with a TV show!"

Buster: "Which means it should take us... about as long as this next commercial break."

Babs: "Exactly."

(The screen blacks out, ending Act One.)

Act Two
(After the commercial break, we are at the front entrance of the studio, where Bugs continues telling the story of the origin of Tiny Toon Adventures)

Bugs: "Eh, Warner Bros. need a hit series by 9:00 am," (Bugs is seen telling the story while in his picture) "And the fate of the project rested in the hands of two hard-working and brilliant young rabbits."

(The camera then moves from Bugs to the desktop, where Buster and Babs are work. But a closer look shows Buster doing the work by writing a list while Babs is fooling around with an eraser on her head)

Babs (Imitating Pee-wee Herman): "La la la!" I'm Eraserhead! La la la!" (Laughs) "La la la la la!"

(Bugs looks down at the two rabbits)

Buster: "I've made up a list of everything needed for a hit show."

(Bugs looks down at the two rabbits as Babs talks to Buster)

Babs: "Let's do Tiny Toons instead."

Buster: "Right. We need appealing stars."

Buster and Babs: "Done."

Buster: "Also, we need an exciting locale, wacky but lovable neighbors, arch-enemies, and stories.

Babs (as Buster rushes off) "Okay. What's our location?"

(Buster runs back with a pair of scissors, which he uses to cut a piece of paper with. The scraps fly past Babs)

Buster (standing next to a map): "Feast your eyes, Babsy!"

(The camera pans over the map as Buster and Babs speak to each other)

Babs: "So, what do you call it, rembrant?"

Buster: "Green Acres."

Babs: "Get current."

Buster: "Okay, Acme Acres."

Babs: "What do we need next?"

Buster: "Wacky but lovable neighbors."

(Buster jumps into the map)

Babs: "Last one in is eraser dust!"

(Babs jumps into the map. She and Buster fall, landing near a sign that says, Audition Today For Wacky But Lovable Neighbors)

Babs: "Audition today. Well, isn't that convenient?"

(A few moments later, Buster and Babs are dressed in robes and sitting at a desk, interviewing candidates for the show, who have lined up behind the sign)

Babs: "Next!" (Hamton walks up to the desk) "All right, baby! This is your audition! What do you do?"

Hamton: "My name is Hamton J. Pig, and I, uh, uh... clean!" (pulls out a mini-vacuum cleaner) "I react to characters funnier than I am, and I have low self-esteem."

Babs: "Well, every show needs a straight man. You're in!"

Hamton: "I'll get my sponge!"

(Buster pulls a background of a pigsty towards Hamton, who lands in the mud)

Hamton: "Ick! Mud!" (Pulls out his mini-vacuum and vacuums up the mud)

(The following scene was cut from reruns and syndication, which cut to Gogo's audition:)

Babs: "Next!"

(Sweetie flies and lands toward Buster and Babs)

Sweetie: "Hello, I'm Sweetie." (giggles) "I can be the birdie who is always being chased by that mean old Furrball." (Furrball is standing next to her, licking his paw and not even bothering to catch her) "Leave me alone, you nasty vicious predator!" (She pulls out a mallet and hits him with it)

Babs: "That's what this show needs, more heart! You're in!"

(Sweetie and Furrball get launched. Sweetie lands in an egg in a nest and hatches out of it)

Sweetie: "I'm only three and a half minutes old." (giggles)

(Furrball lands near an alley, where it starts to rain. Furrball pulls out an umbrella, but the lightning strikes it, torching him.)

Babs: "Next victim."

(Gogo jumps next to Babs and splats)

Gogo: "Hey! Who ordered the two-footie?"

Babs: "Not me."

Gogo: "I"m Gogo Dodo, and I shall perform Hamlet's soliloquy. Ahem. Two bees..." (Transforms into two bee versions of himself) "Or not 2B..." (transforms into a door marked 2B, which he crosses out, then transforms into himself dressed as The Riddler) "That is the question." (Giggles)

Buster: "We have just the place for you, nut boy!"

(Buster grabs Gogo and he and Babs use a slingshot to launch him into Wackyland. When Gogo lands, he looks at the sign, and the WB logo chasing the Time Warner logo with a mallet in the background.)

Gogo: "Wackyland! Home surreal home!" (Singing) "Lo-do-de-o, lo-do-de-o, lo-do-de-o-do-do! Aaah-aaah-aaah-ooh!"

(Back at the audition, the other toons are in line, then the camera moves to the right and shows Buster and Babs looking at the list)

Buster: "We need a few more characters."

Babs: "Okay, you're all in!"

(Upon hearing that, all of the remaining toons then run past Buster and Babs (Note a goof is shown that both Monty and Dizzy are in the crowd) and as the clouds fade away, we see Buster and Babs on the ground)

Babs: "Give actors a break, and they'll walk all over you."

(Suddenly, Buster and Babs hear an annoying voice out of nowhere and reveals it belongs to none other than Plucky Duck)

Plucky: "Just a cotton-tailed minuto! You can't pull this show off without me!" I am Plucky Duck." (He hands them his card) My Resume. I'm a Swashbuckler!" (Plucky turns into a 16th-century swordsman while doing swordman tricks) Oh, Ah! Perry, Thrush!" (Plucky then changes into a superhero) "Superhero!" (Plucky then flies up while saying a famous catchphrase) "Up, Up, and Up some more!" (Plucky then comes back down and turns into a romantic man) "A romanic lead," (Plucky then takes out a small mirror and pretends it was someone else) "Ah, you gorgeous hunk of duck! Let me take you away from this, and back to my place!" (Plucky runs to the side, then returns in his normal clothing) "And funny duck extraordinaire!" (Plucky then takes out a pie and smashes it on his face) "So what do you say uh, hmm uh?"

Buster: "Ok!"

Babs: "You're in!"

Plucky: "Great! what's my role?  Musketeer?" (Plucky turns into a musketeer) "Romeo?" (Plucky turns into Romeo) "Or just king?" (Plucky turns into a king, then Buster shows up next to him)

Buster: "You're our sidekick." (Buster then kicks Plucky into a pond, where he is standing in mid-air just as he is about to complain his new role)

Plucky "SideKick?!, no way!" (Plucky then notices the pond under him and falls into it. He then returns to Buster and Babs in his normal clothes)

Plucky: "I am no sidekick! Hamton's the sidekick type!  He has all the earmarks of a sidekick" (Plucky then shows one of Hamton's ears to reveal it has the word SIDEKICK written on it, then tosses Hamton off-screen) Plucky: "I am a superstar, a super duper nova star! That's what I am! I'm exploding with talent!"

(Plucky then really explodes, we then move back to Buster and Babs who are checking out their list)

Buster: "Yeah, next we need are the villains."

(Buster then leaps out of Acme Acres, back to the desktop and notices a green box on a shelf  and climbs up to get a closer look. There, he sees that the box has warnings such as, Danger, Stay Out, and Go Away! written on it. Buster then tiptoes to the side of the box and pushes it off the shelf, where both him and the box land next to Babs. The box opens, releasing all of the future villains of the series, such as the Candy Bar Monster, a Brain with an eyeball, The Devil, one of the Metropolis Marvels, and even Dr. Gene Splicer. Buster and Babs are shown in fear of what happened, until they think all of the villains are gone. Buster jumps to see what is left and laughs)

Buster: "Hey Babsy, check out the leftovers." (The first leftover shown is Dizzy, who is both spinning and screaming in fear of the second leftover)

Elmyra: "Come back, you spinny purpley puppy thing!"

Dizzy: "Dizzy out of here!" (As Dizzy spins to escape from Elmyra, Elmyra jumps out of the box and chases Dizzy)

Elmyra: "Elmyra just wants to hug you and squeeze you into itty bitty pieces! And then i'm going to change your diaper by myself!"

(Elmyra and Dizzy then run and jump into the picture of Acme Acres)

Buster: "Eh, they'll be pushovers."

(Suddenly Buster and Babs hear an explosive shout behind them, then notice a small boy who comes out of the box while it is on fire)

Babs: "Who are you?"

Montana Max: "I'm Montana Max! That stupid Animator promised me my very own show!" (Monty then jumps out of the box) "Where is that no-talent hack?!"

Babs: "He went that a-way!" (Babs points to the right) "If you hurry, you can catch up with him."

Montana Max: "He can't do this to me! I'm rich! I'll Sue!" (Monty then jumps into the picture of Acme Acres) "He'll never work in this town again!" (Buster and Babs then walk back to the picture while Buster looks over the list)

Buster: "Arch-Enemies? check! now let's write some stories."

(In the next scene, we see Buster and Babs next to a pile of scripts as they are looking at their list while Hamton is finishing the last script)

Buster: "How're we doing, Hamton?"

Hamton: "I typed down every word, Buster."

Babs: "And each script is jam-packed with comedy."

(Just then we see Monty on top of Arnold while they are hiding in the bushes as they see Buster, Babs, and Hamton with the scripts)

Buster: "The scripts are done! we have a show!"

Babs: "All right!"

(Suddenly Monty appears and scares Buster and Babs)

Montana Max: "I'm staging a takeover and you rabbits are out of here!" (Monty then uses a golf club to whack Buster and Babs out of Acme Acres)

Montanan Max: "FORE!!!"

(We then see Buster and Babs as they scream when they fly out of Acme Arces)

Montana Max: "Ha ha ha! Welcome to the Montana Max Show."

(As Buster and Babs are out of Acme Acres, We still hear Monty's voice)

Montana Max: 'Where I'll be the only star! Got any last words, Duck?"

(Buster and Bas then see lots of explosionS in the picture, then see Plucky's beak out of his face)

Plucky: "HELP!"

Babs: "Oh, Peanuts! That brat stole our show!"

Buster: "Without those scripts, We're doomed!"

(We then see a dark cloud as it hovers over Acme Acres and shoots lighting over it. The screen blacks out, ending Act Two.)

Act Three
(After the break, we return to back to Bugs' pool where he narrates the rest of the origin while a purple rabbit is giving him a back rub)

Bugs: "Time was running out for Buster and Babs,"

(we then see Buster and Babs see a picture of Acme Acres under attack while small explosoins are happening)

Bugs: "And Acme Acres was in ruins!"

(Buster and Babs are horrified to see and hear what's happening to their home while hearing Monty laugh so evilly)

Montana Max: "HAHAHAHA!"

(Plucky pops out of Acme Acres and then falls back down)

Plucky: "Send in the Stunt Duck!"

(Gogo also pops out of the picture, and then falls back down)

Gogo: "Redrum, redrum, redrum!"

(The camera moves to Bugs, who is in shock to see what is happening. The camera then moves back to Buster and Babs, where Babs is dressed like a tired boxer and Buster is her trainer)

Bugs: "Buster and Babs were ready to throw in the towel, so I decided to give them a little wabbit wisdom."

(Just as Buster and Babs are about to leave and throw away the towel, Bugs then grabs the towel and jumps out of his picture to stop them. As he jumps out, Buster and Babs run while on their knees and beg for Bugs' help)

Buster: "Oh, pater. Oh, mentor. Oh, great unaffordable one."

Bugs: "Eh, you can call me Bugs."

Buster: "Bugs! Monty stole our show and..."

Babs: "And stole our scripts!

(Babs wraps her arms around Bugs and pleads for his help)

Babs "Please, please help us!"

(Babs looks at the viewers. Buster does as well, while giving a weird smile)

Babs: "This always works. Please, please!"

(Just then, Bugs walks up to the picture with a large paint brush)

Bugs: "Well since you asked so nicely, sure."

(Bugs then takes the paint brush and paints a building in the center of Acme Acres. A closer look shows us that it's a school and its given name is Acme Looniversity.)

Bugs: "Now follow me, and I'll learn you something."

(Bugs throws away the brush, then jumps into the picture. Buster and Babs also jump into the picture. As they fall, they land on the steps of Acme Looniversity, where Bugs is waiting for them)

Bugs: "Welcome to Acme Looniversity, Institute of higher learning and lower comedy."

(As Bugs walks into the school, we then cut to Babs, who notices a green carpet on the ground.)

Babs: "Oh, I love the plush green carpet."

(The carpet reveals itself as a flattened Plucky Duck)

Plucky: "I've decided the sidekick role is workable.

Buster: "What happened to you?"

Plucky: "A steamroller with Monty's name on it!"

(As Bugs, Buster, Babs and the corrected Plucky walk into the school, a musical number is about to begin)

Bugs (Singing): "Our faculty is like no others, the Looney Tunes of Warners Bros., now we'll proudly demonstrate, tricks to help you animate."

(During the song, on the left side we see Pepé, Foghorn, and Porky closing their doors, while on the right we see Sam, Sylvester and Elmer close their doors)

Bugs (Singing): "There's wild takes,"

(Bugs opens the door to reveal Porky giving a funny wild-take while a sign that says, "Y-Y-Y-ikes" comes out of his tongue)

Bugs (Singing): "Exploding cakes,"

(Bugs gives Sam a cake, and after a few seconds, the cake explodes with Sam looking like a strange creature)

Bugs (Singing): "Anvil dropping,"

(We see Wile. E looking scared as an anvil is about to smash him and the only thing to protect him is a small yellow umbrella, which doesn't work, as he still gets smashed)

Bugs (Singing): "Villain Whopping!" (Bugs opens the door, where we see Sylvester running from Tweety, who is trying to hit him with a shovel)

Tweety: "Bad ol putty tat!" (Tweety then hits Sylvester with the shovel, which causes him to break into a million pieces. Bugs then rushes towards a Happy Buster and Babs and one unimpressed Plucky while wearing Elmer's hat)

Bugs (Singing): "Imitations are a must, If you're to gain a bad guy's trust."

Plucky: "Is that all?"

(Bugs then appears behind Plucky, wearing a duck beak mask)

Bugs (Singing): "No, there's classes ducks will find appealing, Like for instance, spotlight stealing!

(Bugs then points out Daffy, who comes out of a janitor's closet with a spotlight in his hand)

"Daffy: "It's mine! It's mine! Woohoo! what luck!"

(The camera cuts to a close-up of Plucky's face)

Plucky: "Gasp, my hero, Daffy Duck!"

(Daffy then approaches Plucky and gives him advice while spitting on him)

Daffy (Singing): "Even though you're kinda little, I'll teach you how to spray your spittle!"

Plucky: "Anyone got a shammy?"

(The camera then cuts back to the front of the school with Bugs, Buster, and Babs)

Buster and Bags (Singing): "Thank you, Bugs, from both our hearts!"

"Bugs (Singing): "You'll be okay if you use your smarts. So now my song is almost through. Welcome, toons, to Acme Loo!"

(The song ends)

(The following scene was cut from later syndicated runs, which cut to Bugs telling Buster and Babs three important rules to outsmarting villains:)

(Gogo appears out of the clock tower, holding parsley and sage)

Gogo: "Cuckoo, cuckoo! You've got parsley and sage, but you're running out of time!"

(Gogo then appears above Babs, holding a sign that says, Plot Exposition)

Babs: "We've only got five minutes to get our scripts back and save our show!"

Bugs: "Eh, you'll be fine if you remember three things..."

(Bugs then brings in Elmer Fudd)

Bugs: "One; your adversaries have tapioca for brains,"

(Bugs removes Elmer's hat, revealing he does have tapioca for brains. Elmer laughs nervously, then Bugs puts his hat back on and pushes him away)

Bugs: "Two, always eat your carrots,"

(Bugs pulls out a carrot and eats it)

Bugs: "And eh, Three; villains always fall for cheesy disguises."

(Bugs spins around, and when he stops spinning, he is revealed to be wearing a costume of Taz the Tasmanian Devil. He growls like Taz, then removes the costume)

Bugs: "Eh, I think you'll find Monty at the big mansion at the end of the woods."

Babs: "Thanks, Bugs!"

(Buster and Babs head off to Monty's mansion to recover the stolen scripts)

Bugs: "Eh, good luck!"

(We then cut to Monty's Mansion that has a banner that says, "Montana Max's Estate Home of the Montana Max Show" while lighting hits.)

(The following scene was cut from later syndicated runs, which cut to Monty placing the stolen scripts in his vault)

(The camera zooms down to Buster and Babs)

Babs: "Buster, how are we gonna get in there?"

Buster: "Villains always fall for cheesy disguises."

(The camera then zooms into the front of the door where we see Monty carrying the stolen scripts and placing them in a vault)

Montana Max: "Ha ha ha ha! without these scripts, those rabbits will never have a show!"

(As Monty places the scripts in the vault full of money, his doorbell rings)

Doorbell: "Money."

Montana Max: "Huh?! Probably some razzle-frazzle charity worker!"

(As Monty runs to the door and opens it, we see Buster and Babs disguised as Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd)

Buster (Western Accent): "Howdy, son!"

Babs (Elmer Accent): "Gweetings. Hahaha!"

Montana Max: "Wow! Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd. My Heroes!"

(Buster and Babs walk past Monty as he is surprised to see his "Heroes" in his home)

Babs (Elmer Accent): "I wish I cared!"

(Monty then runs to meet his "Heroes")

Buster (Western Accent): "Congratulations for getting rid of those varmints! How'd you do it? Did you flatten them, like this?"

(Buster drops a red bowling ball on Monty's foot)

Montana Max: "Ow!"

(Babs takes out a water bottle and sprays it on Monty)

Babs (Elmer Accent): "Or did you spawy them, wike this?"

(Monty gargles)

Buster (Western Accent): "Or did you do it like this?"

(Buster swats Monty with a giant fly swatter)

Babs (Elmer Accent): "How about this?"

(Babs hits Monty with a pie)

Buster: (Western Accent) "And this?"

(Buster wraps Monty into a tortilla, turning him into a giant burrito)

Babs (Elmer Accent): "A buwwito is good. And what about this?"

(Babs takes out a large mallet and hit Monty with it, knocking him out of the burrito and onto the wall of the safe)

Montana Max (Woozy): "No. All I did was steal their scripts!"

(The scripts are shown to glow a golden light while Buster and Babs are amazed and run to grab the scripts out of the vault. Afterwards, Buster is seen holding all the scripts while Babs is reading one of them)

Buster (Western Accent): "Why that's a great trick!"

Babs (Elmer Accent): "Weally Well Written!"

(Buster and Babs walk out with the scripts)

Buster (Western Accent): "Well, we'll be seeing ya!"

Babs (Elmer Accent): "Have a nice wife!"

(Suddenly, Buster and Babs' ears and tails are exposed. Monty notices them and gives out a large shout)

Montana Max: "AAAH! RABBITS!"

(Buster and Babs remove their disguses and begin to make a run for it with the scripts while the Tiny Toon Adventures closing credits theme is playing. Monty first presses one of the red buttons and actives his security system, which includes three giant pairs of chattering teeth, which are placed in the hallway. Buster and Babs dodge them, then they dodge a giant boxing glove that destroy a bit of the floor. Next, they run past a few cannons that shoot out bags of coins. Just as they get to the door, they try to open it, but then they spot a giant gold coin with Monty's face engraved on it as it rolls down the stair and is about to crush them. Luckily, they are able to open the door and escape while the coin bounce off it and now begins to chase Monty. Monty then gets squished by the coin as Buster and Babs are on the balcony above, and the music ends)

Buster: "Let get these scripts back where they belong."

(As Buster and Babs walk out to the right side, we return to the office, as it is now morning, and we see the picture of Bugs as he is about to finish the story)

Bugs: "Buster and Babs did it in just the nick of time."

(The Animator then walks into his office, looking sad, as he is about to be fired, then notices something on his desk)

The Animator: "Now what's this? Tiny Toon Adventures?"

(The Camera then moves to show the viewers the scripts, the picture of Acme Acres and the opening title picture with Buster and Babs. We then see another sillhoute of the Animator and his boss behind a door)

The Animator's Boss: "The Network loves the entire concept! You're a champion!"

(The Animator's Boss gives him a trophy)

The Animator's Boss: "Congratulations, my boy! Here's that bonus!"

(A silhouette is shown of the Animator's Boss boss giving him a bag of money, which is so heavy that it causes the Animator to fall. The Animator gets up and his eyes turn into dollar signs. The Animator then walks out the his boss' office with a happy face and walks back to his desk where he encounters Buster and Babs)

The Animator: "Thanks, guys! You saved my job. If there's ever anything I can do for you, I mean anything, just name it."

(We then zoom to Buster and Babs, who at first look at their feet, then come up with the favor)

Buster: "Okay. Can you get us a "Created by" credit on the show?"

(The Camera then moves back to the Animator)

The Animator: Yeah, in your dreams, pal!"

(We then zoom back to Buster and Babs, who are angry at what the Animator said. They leap out of the picture and attack him, With Buster pulling his hair and Babs pulling his ear. The camera then moves to Bugs as he is about to finish the story)

Bugs: "Eh, you know, I think they're learning."

(The screen then goes black, ending the cartoon. The credits roll, and true to his word, the Animator gives Buster and Babs their "Created By" credit in the gag credit)