Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992) (V)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Directors:

Rich Arons
Ken Boyer

Writers:

Paul Dini (writer)
Nicholas Hollander (writer)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family

Plot:

Term-time ends at Acme Looniversity and the Tiny Toon characters look forward to a summer filled with fun...

Plot Keywords:

Pigs | Water | Deep South | Summer | Road Runner Coyote

Cast

Charles Adler	...	Buster Bunny (voice) (as Charlie Adler)
Tress MacNeille	...	Babs Bunny / Big Boo (voice)
Joe Alaskey	...	Plucky Duck / Tupelo Toad (voice)
Don Messick	...	Hamton J. Pig / Radio Announcer / Others (voice)
Jonathan Winters	...	Wade Pig (voice)
Edie McClurg	...	Winnie Pig (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Uncle Stinky Pig / Byron Basset / Furrball / Little Beeper / Gogo Dodo / Others (voice)
Cree Summer	...	Elmyra Duff / Mary Melody (voice)
Sorrell Booke	...	Big Daddy Boo (voice)
Rob Paulsen	...	Fowlmouth / Banjo the Woodpile Possum / Mr. Hitcher / Others (voice)
Maurice LaMarche	...	Dizzy Devil (voice)
Gail Matthius	...	Shirley the Loon / Sissy Boo (voice)
Kath Soucie	...	Fifi Le Fume / Little Boo / Sneezer (voice) (as Kath Souci)
Candi Milo	...	Sweetie (voice)

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

UK:U

Company:

Warner Bros. Animation

Trivia:

The THUD sound system promo during the theater scene is a parody of Lucasfilm's famous THX promos, the slogan of which is "The Audience is Listening". The announcer in this says "The Audience is Now Deaf."

Quotes:

Babs Bunny: We've got snappers and crackers and poppers and bangers. We've got them Roman candles, yucky curly snakey things, and the little spinny whirly balls that never work.

Movie Connections:

References The Sound of Music (1965)

Soundtrack:

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Unforgettable!

I discovered this nearly ten years ago at the video store rented it several times then bought it, because I was a huge Tiny Toon Adventures fan. The movie was so funny and just plain bizarre that it's one of my childhood favorites. Buster and Babs Bunny end up going on a Huck Finn Odyssey down the Mississippi, mistakenly after the two of them have a repetitive water fight where no matter what Buster pulls some wisecracking act to squirt Babs. Plucky ends up going on a tedious never-ending road trip to Happy World land. Where he gets hit by the car over and over, until Hamton's folks let him come. Plucky is hyper, and egotistical while Hamton on the other hand is tender and always goes with flow. Buster is witty and loves to pick on Babs with the water gun, while Babs is the showy actress. Elmyra goes to a Wildlife Safari to get a kitty, Foulmouth Lepew brings his girl Shirley The Loon to "Skunknophobia", and Fifi searches the entire globe for her dream guy Skunk. One of the best moments is when Hamton's folks pick up a psychotic killer with a buzz saw, and think he's such a sweet guy. Happy World Land is so bizarre and hilarious it's the best most unforgettable part, with only 6 rides and 400 gift shops, where it makes Six Flags look like the carousel like the Happy Go Pukey ride, a bullet train that shoots in the air then drops and explodes, a hand that slaps to the ground with the riders. Buster is really alert and worreis too much as implied when he and babs escape from possums that want to cook them for dinner, and there's a 7-mile tunnel, where Hampton and his folks play a game where they hold their breath the whole time pretending to get their wish if they do which was so memorable it started me on timing how long I could hold mine. Buster's squirting gets pretty annoying after a while, but just hold on for the end!