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.