From: v050lp7c@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (WARNING--->NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ABOUT TO OCCUR)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: Toon TV
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:09:00 GMT
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In article <BxHEGA.60E@ais.org>, hampton@ais.org (Kevin Podsiadlik) writes...
>One word:  wow.  Wow.  WOW!
> 
>Think of this episode as a workout.
> 
> 
>#10: "It's in His Kiss".  Warm-up.  Buster being shy in Babs' presence is 
>nothing new.  Nice imagery, though, and a nice parody of Superman and Lois.

This song *WAS* cute but my major complaint about it was that it seem like a bad
Japanese movie dubbed into English.  I mean really.....there were words
emmitting from Babs mouth, but her jaws ans lips were not moving.  IMHO I found
it a "LITTLE" annoying.
(B+)
> 
>#8: "Video Game Blues".  On to familiar, yet still meaty ground.  I still
>can't pick out the Amiga-generated animation.  Idle thought:  I wonder if
>any grade-school teachers are going to have a suspiciously familiar
>spelling tests tomorrow?  "Okay, class, spell vacillate..."

I liked this one.
(A)
> 
>Okay, first break.
> 
>#7: "Nothing Comes Close to You".  Okay, some vascular training.  Hold your
>breath until this one ends.  If you're Catholic, do alternate-arm crosses
>in support of your Pope.  Silently curse the one who made Shirley the
>sacrifical lam..er, loon for this one.

All in all I was very VERY happy that it was not the full song.  I had my thumb
poised over the fast-forward for this song.
(C- [like someone else said you can NOT give TTA anything lower])

> 
>#6: "Name Game".  Time to give your mind a logistical workout.  Elmyra,
>with a plan??  Monty, doing something heroic??  Ralph, again?? 
>"Except that." As Will Bell would say, BWAHAHA!!
>(BTW, I like that ten-gallon hat on Monty.  Kind of puts me in mind
>of J. R. Ewing, ya know?)

I enjoyed hearing the Toons sing their own material (But ELMYRA????).  To quote
Dynamo Duck ...."SHEESH!"
(B)
> 
>#5: "Toon Out, Toon In".  No drooling fanboy I, but I was left panting
>with my tongue seriously wet by the time this one was over.  This one was
>the final proof that Nick Sayer was wrong.  White toons *CAN* rap.  They
>just don't necessarily get it right the first time.  I didn't want this
>one to end, and it didn't have to.  They had Shirley and Fifi to go!
>Heck, they could have done Sweetie!  And Fowlmouth!  And Mary!  And Arnold!
>And Concord!  And Bookworm!  And...(gasp, choke, kindly remove your hands
>from my throat, I'll stop)

"Toon out, Toon in"  was an original, funny song.  I liked it better than
"Shoop Shoop Song" (Yes that is its REAL title).  I think of it this way
(except for Elmyra's bit) the toons did not Rap about themselves.
(A-)

> 
>Okay, whew, after that one, you deserve a break before the final segment.
> 
>#4: "How I Learned to Dance".  Feel the burn!  Brilliant implied reference
>to the prom episode.  Buster turns the tables on Babs in 12 minutes flat!
>And the tail end... what is it that I love so much about seeing Babs
>embarassed?  YES!

I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!!
 I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!!
I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! I LOVED IT!!! 

SLAP!!!!  (thank you I needed that)

Buster gets to scream in this one (Babs did in "Respect").  This song was SO
Buster.  And in remembering "Prom-ise Her Anything" it was even more of a
scream.  I mean really....Buster embarassing AND annoying Babs???????  This was
too good to be true!!!!!
(A++++++++)

> 
>#1: "Yakity Yak".  And finally, a cool down period.  Heck, after the last
>two songs I could stand something _relatively_ dull.

Cute...but to quote who-ever said it first "Too literal"  But the Yacs WERE a
nice touch.
(B+)

> 
>And as for the entre acts... well, a tad hot and cold.  "Number Four"
>struck me as the best, while "If you can't he hip, be thigh", well, it
>knee-ded something.
> 
>Gag credit: I love it!  I can just picture eight-year-olds all over the
>country doing "Plucky" in front of their parents.

I loved it!!!!  I got it right away (honestly I did!).  It goes right along
with singing Chuck in "The Name Game".  Although the children who watch the
show would get it (even if they knew of the GAG credit)



> 
>Tomorrow: Uh oh, it *is* Elmyra's Family.  And I can't figure out the
>promo at all.  Savor today.

ELMYRA!?!?!?   To quote Monty Python's "The Holy Grail": "Run away!  Run Away!"


>-- 
>Kevin J. Podsiadlik          | 
>Vaporware Engineer 2nd class |    "But, Master, what if I do bad things?" 
>E-mail: hampton@ais.org      |    "Then, you go to Detroit."
>CompuServe: 71460,3602       |

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