From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: Toon TV takes on top TTA titles!
Date: 9 Nov 1992 20:12:45 -0800
Organization: Southern California Lynx Enthusiasts
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In article <1992Nov10.005759.27899@wam.umd.edu> vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell)) writes:
>I finally saw the lengthy version of the McDonald's commercial.  This was the
>first time I heard Kassir as Buster.  Okay, so it's not perfect;  but it's
>damn close!

  I just find it hard to believe that this is Adler doing Buster. Considering
how short these promos are set up, and considering how long it's been since
Adler left and Kassir took over, I'm calling the commercial a Kassir job. And
it's *DANG* good.

>I'll leave the endless praise of "Toon TV" to others.

  You mean you liked it?

Here there be spoilers and comments on TOON TV:


TOON TV is clearly a sequel to TINY TOON MUSIC TELEVISION. But while TTMTV was
different, refreshing, and lots of laughs, TOON TV felt bland and left me
indifferent.

General problems: I think the problem was in the music selection used; there
wasn't much room for comedy/entertainment in the videos. To paraphrase Babs,
"isn't there anything in this list written after 1960?".

The animation by Wang was decent; I think not even TMS could have saved this
one.


Specific comments ('cuse the mis-memory of the song titles):

* "How Do I Know He Loves Me?" Definetely had potential, but lost it halfway
through.  First Buster is staying away from Babs, then halfway through we get
an ugly mermaid and the Phantom of the Opera. Huh? Not enough laughs, IMO.

* "The Nutcracker Suite". I liked this even more than when it aired on TPDS.
The lyrics were funny, the music was fast, the animation/video worked.
Probably the best video of the whole show, eventhough Fowlmouth singing still
strikes me as a little odd.

* Whatever-the-Sinead-O'Connor-swipe-was. Huh?

* "The Name Game". Bleagh. If this is the best from the TINY TOONS SING! album,
I'm glad I didn't buy it. Not only did I not like the song to begin with, but
the video didn't make much sense either.

* "Toon Out, Toon In". Closest thing TOON TV had to being contemporary, but
still flubbed it. Problem IMO is that this was an "original" song, and not a
real-life rap. As it is, TOTI felt too commercial for me to enjoy it.

* "Do You Love Me?". Second funniest video, after "Nutcracker Suite". Here we
have a coherent "story" to the video, and lots of exaggerated humor (Buster's
screaming and the never-ending-ness were especially delightful).

* "Yakkity Yak". As someone said after this aired on TPDS, the video was too
literal.

  Suggestions to Warner Animation, Jenny Lerew, Sherri Stoner, or whoever: For
TINY TOON MUSIC TELEVISION III, let's stick to more current songs/raps, and
fewer rewriting of the lyrics. I mean, the TTMTV video for "Istanbul, Not
Constantinople" was a perfect example. Trying to find contemporary songs that
are suitable for kids isn't that hard; gimme a call sometime.

                                                --R.J.
                                                B-)

P.S. I _still_ would love to see Buster & Babs do "Weird Al" Yankovic's "I Was
Only Kidding!" for a video. Ooooh, I can already picture Babs in a wedding
dress, chasing Buster with an axe around the chapel...

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                    French National Anthem."
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