From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Comments on TWO-TONE TOWN (was Re: 2-Tone Town)
Date: 28 Sep 1992 19:25:55 -0700
Organization: Southern California Lynx Enthusiasts
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In article <BvBBpB.99w@ais.org> hampton@ais.org (Kevin Podsiadlik) writes:
>And, just as the government's definiton of "fat free"
>doesn't mean 0% fat, this post is not 0% spoiler.
>But it's close enough to get by without a ctrl-L, I
>believe.

  I'll slap one on anyway, since I want to address the episode in great detail:

 
>Well.   Well, I'll take it over Fields of Honey, but then again, it beat
>that one on animation alone.

  Agreed. I admit, TTT is similar to FOH (Babs helps saves the career[s] of
old WB toons), but I like TWO-TONE TOWN over FIELDS OF HONEY, for the following
reasons:

#1: Better animation. YEAH! 'nuff said.
#2: Better jokes. Especially liked Buster and Babs' opening banter ("Buster,
      we already have a show, remember?"
#3: Not as contrived. I'm sorry, I _never_ liked the "Babs needs to find a
      mentor" excuse that drives FoH. I admit that "Babs wants to play
      humanitarian" is not perfect (see below), but at least it wasn't a big
      of a mental shock...

  On the other hand, even though I liked TWO-TONE TOWN, I'm not wild and crazy
about it, for the following reasons:

#1: A little bit _too_ cliche'd. Geez, two-tones get driven to poverty, and
      have to sell their last possessions to hang on, and get saved by landing
      a new show? A Little TOO pat and predictable for my taste. I would have
      been content if Buster and Babs clobbered the goombah in the trenchcoat,
      leaving the not-hired-by-Warner-Bros.-two-tones to go home and live
      quiet retirement, freed from the spectre of the foreclosed mortgage...
#2: Pacing was off. I thought the first and last acts were too fast (setup
      and resolution went by too quickly), and that time could have been taken
      out of the second act (Buster robs for the greater good). There were
      some good jokes, but other times there was just dead space.
#3: The "Buster & Babs get cancelled" subplot. I'm sorry, that hit a little
      TOO close to home for me...

  Minor nit: Another rewrite of the TINY TOON ADVENTURES Theme Song? This is
starting to get a little tiring, especially when the lyrics feel forced (and
the song for Foxy/Roxy's show did, IMO). As "Ducklahoma" showed, original
music can be QUITE entertaining...

  Also minor nit: What's the obsession with ears and butts near the end of the
show? To quote Roxy, "I don't get it"...
 
>Also, from what little I saw of the two-tones, I think these guys were a
>better choice than Bosko and Honey as stars-of-the-past-who-perhaps-
>deserve-a-second-chance.

  Agreed. I like Roxy and Foxy, and wouldn't mind seeing them in a few
cameos. Heck, they could have showed up in "Sound Off!", it would have been
appropros.

  Overall rating: 6/10.

>This one might gain "Must-See" status on the basis that it might be
>very significant; sort of a passing of the torch from TTA to the
>series Jenny Lerew referred to as "Animaniacs", if in fact this is what
>it turns out to be.

  I don't think so. According to assorted sources (including yours truly and
the TTAUEC), ANIMANIACS! will feature wild-and-crazy "hues" having '90s kind
of adventures. Wacko and Yacko (the "Warner Brothers"), and their friend
Dot. I doubt Foxy and Roxy will show up, except maybe as a cameo.
 
>As for the episode itself, well, for a comedy, it was a really good tear
>jerker.  Buster asking THE "What if...?" question.  And it actually
>coming to pass!  This is scary stuff, people. ...
>(And those who cling to a TTA revival in '94, I admire your faith,
>but...you're going to vote for Ross Perot, too, aren't you?)

  Fie! Fie! Bringing TINY TOONS back is a better bet than electing Ross Perot,
and we *CAN* do it! But we need *EVERYONE* to join in! If you're going to give
up NOW, you're part of the problem, not part of the solution...

  (No, I ain't voting for Ross)

                                                --R.J.
                                                B-)

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