HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rjung@sal-sun101.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: two masters
Date: 16 Apr 1992 18:21:11 -0700
Organization: Southern California Lynx Enthusiasts
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In article <1992Apr16.121212.25349@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> kschudt@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Karl C Schudt) writes:
>     I thought I was, well, somehow different from the rest of you,
>with all the disney cheap shots that go around here.

  The only reason you don't see cheap shots at Warner Bros. over at
rec.arts.disney is that it doesn't fit into the Disney mentality. There's an
alternate reality where cheap-shot-cross-posts between alt.tv.tiny-toon and
rec.arts.disney fly like spitballs.  B-)

>     Thanks fro all your comments. I can now go watch BATB for the record
>6th time with a clear conscience, and then come home and watch HISMV
>[again].

  I presume you mean "...watch HISMV [for the eigth time]".  B-)

						--R.J.
						B-)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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            a green valet!"
 Hamton: "But I don't know how to drive."
 Flavio: "Hey, typecasting! Even better!"
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From: tmorgan@astro.as.arizona.edu (Tad Morgan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: ET reviews HISMV
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:54:35 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Forget those hacks at _Entertainment Weekly_, Lenard Maltin gave HISMV a great
review on Entertainment Tonight tonite.  Started off with scenes from "Waiting
for the Clock" and included the "Under da Sea" and knocking over ET's bike bits
as examples of TTA's irreverent humor. Maltin (being a big animation fan) did a
good job of pointing out that it's not just for the kiddies with lines like:
"If you or your children enjoy the daily series.." (paraphrased, but close).
He also mentioned that the video has already become one of the most successful
direct to video releases, even though it hasn't been out very long.  And, to
top it all off, they used the "dueling banjos" for the end credits!

[the other direct to video he reviewed look sorta interesting too, 
_Frankinfurterstein_ (I think) a live action short about a kid who brings his
pet dog back from the dead.  Looks campy in a old horror movie way, and, get
this, its by _Disney_.  Seems they didn't have a clue what to do with it other
than direct video <g>]

Tad
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From: jaleit01@vlsi.louisville.edu (Joe A. Leitsch)
Subject: Test (Please Help)
Organization: University of Louisville
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:53:18 GMT

I am attempting to post using the ultrix.  If anyone outside the University of
Louisville sees this please e-mail me at:
	jaleit01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu or jaleit01@ulkyvx.bitnet
				Thanks.
From: JALEIT01@ULKYVX03.LOUISVILLE.EDU ("FIFI LAFUME ", SEXIUS SKUNKIUS)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: RE:Fifi Ramblings
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:11:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: ulkyvx.01GILN9RKW28BDJJFA

In article <r32t!an@rpi.edu> schwae@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Eric A. Schwartz)
writes:
>In article <01GIIVK3E54GBESFHG@ulkyvx.bitnet> JALEIT01@ULKYVX03.LOUISVILLE.EDU ("FIFI LAFUME ", SEXIUS SKUNKIUS) writes:
>>In article <01GIDGRGZ0WGB8JXIC> schwae@aix.rpi.edu (Eric A. Schwartz) writes:
>>
>>I'll agree with the need for airtime and TMS animation, but we need to see more
>>of what Fifi can do outside of chasing down other "skunks" and end up getting
>>dumped. :-(  Its not a big schocker anymore.  Sense I've been reading this
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        Sorry, I ment that its not a big schocker to me
anymore.  That maybe thats why I like "Prom-ise Her Anything", Fif doesn't get
dumped by Hamton *grin, le really BIG grin*  When I first watched "Love Stinks"
I knew that Fifi would eventually get dumped, but during the short I actually
though that Fif wouldn't, guess I was hopping too much.  I guess what I want is
for Fif to get into other situations besides Romance.

>>group I've found that not everybody likes Fif, but there are more than enough
>>fanboys and drooling fanboys to make up the difference.  Note the two
>>categories of fanboys. ;-)
>>
>Not everyone likes fine food or wine.  There is no accounting for taste.

>*drool*
 *le really big drool* 

>>Uhmm, we will not got into how you came about this mutation, but I know I could
>>stand the odor if that ment I could be around Fif.  Some people can't stand the
>>odor, go figure. :-\
>>
>Their loss.  :-)

You betcha'

>E.S.
 
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Quagmire High School
 
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From: sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: Drooling Fanboys
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:42:10 GMT
Organization: What?

In article <_#qj7!n@lynx.unm.edu> synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:

>So, when do we break out the body oils?
>(Did I just say that?? :-)

Heh. Heh. Heh. (I like chocolate)

>Suddenly I keep thinking of a wet t-shirt contest for some reason ... :-)
Yours or mine? :-)

Sally, who suspects the woman from WB is wondering just what the heck
she's wandered into!

-- 
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sally@tardis.tymnet.com    | I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
From: bluejay@feathr.enet.dec.com (Bluejay Adametz)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: Gang Busters
Date: 17 Apr 92 12:38:04 GMT
Reply-To: bluejay@feathr.enet.dec.com (Bluejay Adametz)
Distribution: na
Organization: Technical Support & Magic


In article <1992Apr16.215548.24286@midway.uchicago.edu>, sado@ellis.uchicago.edu (Rob Sadowski) writes:
>Does anyone else think that this one could have been saved by some better 
>animation and a more practiced job by the voice actors on the last act ? 
>Or does the majority find rap (in any form) distasteful ?

I actually quite liked this one until they got to the rap junk in the 3rd
act.

I _almost_ didn't watch the whole episode, but then this is TTA, so I did.

						- Bluejay Adametz
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From: tomm@gemed (Thomas Manteufel 5-4257)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: The Potty Years
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:40:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: mr.1992Apr13.144026.6604
Reply-To: tomm@gemed.ge.com (Thomas Manteufel 5-4257)
Distribution: na
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee,  WI

I just saw this last Friday, with some trepidation, after the bad publicity
it has received here.  I won't judge it on artistic merits [but as a
father I can relate, especially to the toilet paper roll].  Is the beginning
supposed to be a take-off on "The Wonder Years"?
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From: klein@kira.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein)
Subject: Your Mission (should you choose to accept it) 
Organization: Michigan State University College of Stunt Piloting
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 22:02:07 GMT

In article <ku219kINNp5a@aludra.usc.edu> rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung) writes:
>In article <6APR92.18051610@vax.clarku.edu> wcox@vax.clarku.edu writes:
>>In a previous article, vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell)) wrote:
>>>Personally
>>>I've always thought Startoons does an *excellent* job drawing Babs --- and
>>>for that matter, everyone;  just watch those parts of "Acme Bowl."  And don't
>>>forget, Startoons does most of the non-bunny tag sequences.
>
>  WHAT? Not to be rude, but
>
>  (a) THE ACME BOWL was animated by Kennedy studios (may they rot in Hades).
>        Actually, the first two acts were rather well-done (a rarity for KS),
>        but Startoons was nowhere in there.
>
>  (b) Most of the non-bunny end tags are clearly identifiable (to me, anyway)
>        as animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsa or Wang Film.
>
>  Unless something was happening "behind the scenes" that I didn't know about,
>Startoons only TTA work was HENNY YOUNGMAN DAY. I don't recall the animation
>quality offhand -- I want to see it again this Friday -- but I do have a vague
>memory that I wasn't much impressed.

Here is your assignment:

Watch "The Acme Bowl" - first the "cutest toes" openeing bit.  Compare to
the Perfecto bonfire scene and the ACME pep rally.

Watch "The Weird Couple" - note normal animation, and bouncy - squishy scene
when Hamton opens the door.  Also note scenes with terrific eyebrow expression
intermixed with normal scenes.

Watch "Fields of Honey" - first the lunchroom scene, then Babs at the
faculty meeting.

Watch "Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?" - compare "the Donner Party" to "Hello you 
lucky Parisians".  Also watch the scene where they find Bugs.  Note Babs'
worried expression, especially the eyes.

NOW watch "Stand Up and Deliver".  Watch Babs and Buster.  Note Plucky's 
snubbed bill and large forehead (also in "The Return of the Toxic Revenger")
Watch the "Taz - Mania" intro too.


YOU, sir, are not WORTHY of the title "Drooling Fanboy".

My original theory was that Kennedy's one good director defected to StarToons.
Others have thought that Kennedy actually went to StarToons for help. 
-- 
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                            |  and the other has a hand growing out  
klein@kira.egr.msu.edu      |  of his(?) head!" - Blue Bunny
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From: tbrowne@jarthur.claremont.edu (T. Erik Browne)
Subject: Re: Gang Busters
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:21:10 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.215548.24286@midway.uchicago.edu> sado@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>I originally listed this one as one of the worst (and it seems that net.opinion
>agreed with me for the most part) but after seeing it again today, I have
>a somewhat more favorable opinion.  IMHO, I think the writing was really good.
>
>Does anyone else think that this one could have been saved by some better 
>animation and a more practiced job by the voice actors on the last act ? 
>Or does the majority find rap (in any form) distasteful ?

I don't think this is a horrible episode, though I sometimes don't sit all
the way through the 3rd act.  The bit in the 2nd act in the hole is wonderful
stuff, though.  The eyes, the tunneling (more Disney bashing, and some poking
at WB) are great.  It could have definitely been improved by some better
animation, but most of Kennedy's stuff could garner that remark.  And while
the story isn't a Dini or Stoner, it has its merits.

>
>-- 
>===============================================================================
>Robert Sadowski				             sadowski@cs.uchicago.edu
>The University of Chicago                            sado@midway.uchicago.edu
>#include <stddisclaimer.h>

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From: sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: Why Buster spurns Babs.
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:27:29 GMT
Organization: None

In article <h9wjayq@lynx.unm.edu> synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:

>For the benefit of new subscribers to alt.tv.tiny-toon:  Roger Randall
>periodically makes references to stories he's written with the delusion that
>they are somehow "definitive" or "canon" with regard to TTA.  They are not;
>they are purely his own speculation.  You should not proceed on the mistaken
>assumption he encourages that these stories are in any way "official".


Oh, Synth, dear...

remember, the Acme (tm) Water Death Star (tm)...

...also has a DIP setting.

Remember?

Sally
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"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
From: schwae@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Eric A. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Drooling Fanpeople (was: Re: Drooling Fanboys)
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 04:40:01 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.041300.7417@news.clarkson.edu> wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo) writes:
>(But, being a former system administrator and an alumni with job
>contacts *does* help.  Now If I could only persuade Enable to get their
>own Internet connection, I would be saving buku $$ on phone calls...)
>
Tell them your customers (as represented by me) want you to have
Internet access. :-)

E.S.
From: JALEIT01@ULKYVX03.LOUISVILLE.EDU ("FIFI LAFUME ", SEXIUS SKUNKIUS)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Thanks y'all!
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:46:00 GMT

I just wanna say thanks everybody who responded to my "Test (Please Help)"
message.  I'm starting to use my Ultrix account more and wanted to figure out
how to post, (I usually use my VAX account).  I'm treading in unknown waters
with this, at least at the Computer center I work at nobody else has done this. 
Well I'm rambling again so I'm outta here.  
					Again Thanks
 
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Joe Leitsch                        BITNET: JALEIT01@ULKYVX.BITNET
                                 INTERNET: JALEIT01@ULKYVX.LOUISVILLE.EDU
Student of Steamology and Fifi's biggest fan.
Quagmire High School
 
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From: sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 10 Apr 92 00:53:08 GMT
Organization: Death Star Lending Service

In article <1992Apr9.234336.22321@muddcs.claremont.edu> tbrowne@jarthur.claremont.edu (T. Erik Browne) writes:

>all said and done, Sally, can I borrow the Death Star and nuke Synth?  Just
>for fun.  Please??

Welll....

Since I was gonna say "Erik, you really should have them on tape" myself,
no. Not for this.

But if ya come up with another reason, I will. :-) [heh heh]

BTW, I get the DS when it gets back from Texas...I turned on my TV to
find (ack!) baseball today. Grumble grumble.

On another topic, *yeah* on the ET review of HISMV! I was just surprised
it took ol' Leonard (who has always struck me as a Drooling Fanboy
himself) this long to get around to it.

And I do hope I wasn't the only one singing/gargling along with Buster
and Banjo at the end.

Sally
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sally@tardis.tymnet.com    | I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
From: JALEIT01@ULKYVX03.LOUISVILLE.EDU ("FIFI LAFUME ", SEXIUS SKUNKIUS)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Fifi Ramblings
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:36:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: ulkyvx.01GIIVK3E54GBESFHG

In article <01GIDGRGZ0WGB8JXIC> schwae@aix.rpi.edu (Eric A. Schwartz) writes:
>In article <01GIDGRGZ0WGB8JXIC@ulkyvx.bitnet> JALEIT01@ULKYVX03.LOUISVILLE.EDU ("FIFI LAFUME ", SEXIUS SKUNKIUS) writes:
>She isn't really in need of development, just airtime and TMS quality 
>animation.  It kind of surprises me there are people who WOULDN'T do 
>anything for her.

I'll agree with the need for airtime and TMS animation, but we need to see more
of what Fifi can do outside of chasing down other "skunks" and end up getting
dumped. :-(  Its not a big schocker anymore.  Sense I've been reading this
group I've found that not everybody likes Fif, but there are more than enough
fanboys and drooling fanboys to make up the difference.  Note the two
catagories of fanboys. ;-)

>>>knock anybody out when she is sitting in class or at the lunch table eating. 
>

>She's quite a knock-out anywhere!

Ain't that the truth!

>I still say it is a pleasant aroma.  And one I'd love to wear on myself.
>Butane thiol is oxygen to my lungs.  *le sigh* 

Uhmm, we will not got into how you came about this mutation, but I know I could
stand the odor if that ment I could be around Fif.  Some people can't stand the
odor, go figure. :-\

>>Okay I didn't factor in cafeteria sludge into the equation. Listen to me
>>"factor" "equation" MY GOD classes are getting to me.  AAAARRRGGGG!!! four
>>weeks until three months of glorious non-constructive downtime.  I think I'll
>>watch HISMV a couple of dozen times to relax. B-)
>>
>Cafeteria sludge is bad enough when you have someone to eat it with.  Poor
>Fifi.  I'd even eat cafeteria "Mystery Meat" with her, to keep her
>company.

Amen to that brother, amen to that. :-)

>E.S. 
 
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From: klein@kira.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: My bid to stir up major controversy.... 8^)
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:34:35 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University College of Stunt Piloting

In article <uc-chan.703182804@mcl> uc-chan@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Christina Callihan) writes:
>
>
>		The Eternal Answer =
>
>			GOOBERS!
>
>
>Any arguments?  I could always start up a straw poll.....NOT!  :)

The Eternal Answer is NOT Goobers, NOR is it Raisinets.

The Eternal ANSWER is:

		       JUNIOR MINTS!!!

(And here you thought I was going to say Sno-Caps.  Shame on you! :) )
-- 
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                            |  and the other has a hand growing out  
klein@kira.egr.msu.edu      |  of his(?) head!" - Blue Bunny
From: furrball@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Which group *is* this?
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:04:32 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club


  I must say that I find Robert's assessment of the flamelessness of this
group to be entirely accurate.  Unfortunately, I have to say it in a usenet
article, which eats up bandwidth, so while I'm at it, I'll also post something
people might be interested in: Poll results in process!

  (Oh, btw, Robert, somebody wrote to me that they'd seen a lot of complaints
on alt.tv.tiny-toon about poll entries being too brief, which made *me* wonder
if we're all reading the same group ... Maybe there's another group -- an evil
twin ... something like noot-ynit.vt.tla, where they flame each other all the
time and do nothing but complain?  It's possible, I suppose ... :-)

  Anyway, with just over half the precincts reporting, this is where some of
the categories stand in the Poll:

  For Absolute Favorite Character, it looks like the wet pink bunny is running
away with the title in a landslide.  Also in Favorite Character.  In fact, the
only place she's in a real race is with Plucky, for Favorite Star, where she
leads by a vote.

  Fifi and Shirley are battling it out for Best Supporting Character (Gee, 
could you *guess* that most of the a.t.t-t readers are male?  TAT will turn
out to be quite popular, I think. ;-).  Best One-Shot, always a rather even
category, looks to be leaning towards Orson Whales, leading by a vote over
the Chainsaw Maniac.  

  The Second Season Improvements look to have favored Hamton and Sweetie (! --
Well, I suppose she couldn't have gotten much *worse*), while Buster and
Monty seem to have come out the worst.  New second season additions to the
cast?  Hard to say.  It looks like Banjo Possum is the favorite, and the Duffs
the least favorite, but it's not a clear race by any means.

  No episode information yet -- Furrball's doing those with a special system
that even I don't understand.  Somehow, though, "Starting From Scratch" keeps
showing up ...

  Big surprise in the animation studios: Kennedy is actually ahead of Tokyo in
the Best category, and Tokyo has garnered more "Worst" votes than any other!


  (NOT!!  Hahaha! ... No, it's Tokyo best, and Kennedy worst.  Hell has not
frozen over.)

  Best Voice is going to Tress MacNeille, and Best Tag is heading Fifiwards,
so it's beginning to look like an "Amazing Three" kinda year ...

  Anyway, more as processing continues...

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From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: ET reviews HISMV
Date: 8 Apr 1992 21:23:29 -0700
Organization: Southern California Lynx Enthusiasts
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In article <1992Apr9.025435.28029@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> tmorgan@astro.as.arizona.edu (Tad Morgan) writes:
>Forget those hacks at _Entertainment Weekly_, Lenard Maltin gave HISMV a great
>review on Entertainment Tonight tonite.

  Darn! Someone beat me to this.  B-)

  I dunno if it was really a review -- almost more like "What's new on video".
Still, good press, even if it was a little late IMO.

>He also mentioned that the video has already become one of the most successful
>direct to video releases, even though it hasn't been out very long.  And, to
>top it all off, they used the "dueling banjos" for the end credits!

  "...a takeoff of the 'dueling banjos' scene from DELIVERANCE."

>[the other direct to video he reviewed look sorta interesting too, 
>_Frankinfurterstein_ (I think) a live action short about a kid who brings his
>pet dog back from the dead.  Looks campy in a old horror movie way, and, get
>this, its by _Disney_.  Seems they didn't have a clue what to do with it other
>than direct video <g>]

  The movie is FRANKENWEENIE. I think the only reason Disney is releasing it
now is because Tim Burton (who made it many years ago, when he was a Disney
animator) is now "hot". Hey, any way to fill Wil Eisner's coffers...

                                                --R.J.
                                                B-)

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