Tiny Toons Looniversity’: Steven Spielberg EP’d Reboot Gets Two-Season Series Order For HBO Max & Cartoon Network.
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Sweet music to the ears of the Warner Brothers fans. Some of us won't believe it at first but it is happening since this page has validity. Since Animaniacs will appear on Hulu and Tiny Toon Looniversity will be on HBO Max and Cartoon Network, it'll be an opportune moment for more people to show Dizzy Devil and Furrball and Fifi la Fume and Yakko Warner and Wakko Warner and Dot Warner a lot of respect, especially those who have not seen these shows before. Next thing you know, I guess more Warner Brothers shows will appear on more channels. Remember Taz-Mania or Freakazoid? These shows that were produced by the people at Warner Brothers studios have done a great job at making people laugh.
The sad thing is that Tiny Toons could've gone into a third and fourth season, but Spielberg got bored with it, came into the studio and said "I'm tired of Tiny Toons, do something else," and nobody had the nerve to tell him "Steve, we've got the ratings and the merchandise deals, you don't throw away the golden goose just because you're bored with it." Instead, they all saluted and cried "Yassah, Boss," and ginned up Animainiacs, which I always thought was a piss-poor substitute. It'll be interesting to see how the new version of Tiny Toons goes.
I wouldn't be too surprised about that. She wasn't controversial like Minerva Mink, but she did creep people out with her innocent but deadly I-luv- animals fetish, and if she was dropped from the cast it would probably be to pacify the PETA types. At one point, during the second season of the original Tiny Toons the producers tried to spin-off an Elmyra show, but it didn't work. They made some pilot episodes that were broadcast on the show that year, but they took her out of the Tiny Toons universe, gave her a "whacky" family to play off of, toned down her animal obsession, and with that set-up, she lost the weirdness that made her interesting. So why did the suits try to create an Elmyra show? Well, a poll had been taken with fans to see who the most popular Tiny Toon characters were. To everybody's shock, they were Shirley The Loon, Arnold The Pit-Bull, and Elmyra, and they thought of the three that she had the best chance of starring in a successful separate series. Nope.
I'd have thought Fifi was among the most popular too, honestly, even back then.
Also, let's be real, there's nothing actually "controversial" about Minerva for anyone who isn't the exact type of person who got her and Nurse removed from the Animaniacs reboot because the production team knew those people would be enraged by the very sight of those characters.
Also, let's be real, there's nothing actually "controversial" about Minerva for anyone who isn't the exact type of person who got her and Nurse removed from the Animaniacs reboot because the production team knew those people would be enraged by the very sight of those characters.
Oh, Minerva was controversial, a victim of studio politics and Warner's company policy. First off, she started off as Marilyn Mink, as a female Bugs Bunny, a wise-gal who used her wit and sexiness to overcome opponents. She did not wear a dress, her fur working as a body-suit. Some of the women writers on the staff complained about how sexist she was, so "Marilyn" became "Minerva" as "Marilyn" was a bimbo name, and the red dress was added. There was also concern about her being a "furry". Warners TV was touchy about the subject- The flood of on-line Tiny Toons porn had Warner's legal sending out cease and desist or else threats to certain sites and artists, and some creeps actually tried to get jobs at the studio with portfolios of the stuff thinking the staff got off on that kind of thing. In fact, I knew one guy who desperately wanted to work on the show so he could get his sweaty hands on the big secret file of Dan Haskitt Tiny Toons porn he knew we all had copies of but wouldn't share with outsiders. It didn't exist, but I just couldn't convince him. Also, there were problems with Minerva's character. As I said, she was supposed to be a female Bugs Bunny, sexy and funny, but the staff writers either made her an airhead Valley Girl or a man-hating borderline dyke. And the company had a policy about anything that looked sexist, so the suits grumbled about her. In the end, they made two cartoons with her, decided not to broadcast them on Animanicas, then did when it was pointed out money was being wasted by letting them sit on the shelf. Afterward, though, Warners left the character to the comic books and pretty much pretended she didn't exist. Also, you're right, Tiny Toons did do a third season. I worked on season's two and three, and just plain forgot.
Hold up, Marilyn was seen as a "bimbo name"? Jeez, bet anyone who happens to have that name would be pleased to hear that's what was thought of the name by some of the show staff. :V
But yeah, sounds to me like the controversy was entirely contained within the studio, not so much a big problem the viewers had with her, the latter being the line of thinking that went into removing her and Nurse from the reboot. Sounds like she could've been a pretty fun character in that original concept too, dunno why it was seen as "sexist" just because she wasn't wearing clothes and had a name someone didn't like. Slappy didn't wear clothes either, why was that okay but the Marliyn concept was somehow "sexist"? Or is it because she was a sexy character who totally owned it and used it combined with her intellect to her advantage, and the staff who had a problem with that were like the prototype model for people who get offended by Bayonetta?
But yeah, sounds to me like the controversy was entirely contained within the studio, not so much a big problem the viewers had with her, the latter being the line of thinking that went into removing her and Nurse from the reboot. Sounds like she could've been a pretty fun character in that original concept too, dunno why it was seen as "sexist" just because she wasn't wearing clothes and had a name someone didn't like. Slappy didn't wear clothes either, why was that okay but the Marliyn concept was somehow "sexist"? Or is it because she was a sexy character who totally owned it and used it combined with her intellect to her advantage, and the staff who had a problem with that were like the prototype model for people who get offended by Bayonetta?
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