The 53rd episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, this episode is a sequel to the Acme Acres Zone, this time starring Babs.
Short One: "Real Kids Don't Eat Broccoli"
In the future, Buster is a detective on the case of missing droids.
Short Two: "Boo Ha Ha"
Plucky and Hamton stay at a haunted mansion and get haunted by a ghost.
Short Three: "Duck Dodgers Jr."
Plucky is Duck Dodgers' new eager young space cadet.
This episode provides examples of:
Overall:
- Affectionate Parody: Of The Twilight Zone (1959).
- Credits Gag: Iner-office memo-corrector - Tom Minton.
- Sequel Episode: To The Acme Acres Zone.
- Three Shorts
Real Kids Don't Eat Broccoli:
- Bait-and-Switch: After Babs tells Buster about the case of the missing droids, Buster tells her, "Okay, I'll take your case!", and takes a box that says, CARROT CASE.
- Bond One-Liner: After defeating the droids with a Computer Virus, Buster quips "Hope I didn't bug ya!".
- The Door Slams You: Happens to the Hamton droid when Babs makes her way into Buster's office.
- G-Rated Drug: Plucky's video game addiction.
- Hurricane of Puns: The entire scene where Miss Bunny is at Buster's office is full of them.
- Kids Hate Vegetables: Buster manages to spot the evil droids on the basis that they like broccoli, something real kids don't eat.
- Latex Perfection: Buster finds out what looks like his friends are really the missing androids he was looking for, all dressed in rubber masks.
- Literal-Minded: Buster tells the Hamton droid to get the door for Babs. The Hamton droid does so by pulling the door off its hinges and bringing it to her.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": The droids have a massive Freak Out when Buster reveals he's armed with a computer virus.
- Pun: When Miss Bunny (aka Babs) says she's looking for Buster Bunny the Gum-shoe, Buster pulls a piece of gum off of his foot.
- Title Drop: At the end of the cartoon, when Miss Bunny asks Buster how he saw through the droids' disguises, he says:"Easy, real kids don't eat broccoli".
- Turned Against Their Masters: The droids that went missing were Killer Robots planning a revolt to make humanity their slaves.
- 20 Minutes into the Future: The story is set in the year 2035.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To The Maltese Falcon and Blade Runner.
Boo Ha Ha:
- Bland-Name Product: The Blisterine mouthwash that Hamton uses is a parody of Listerine.
- Didn't Think This Through: At the end of this short, the Ghost offers to take Plucky and Hamton home. Hamton soon realizes he didn't think that the Ghost would take him and Plucky to his home in Heck.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The people who signed the Ghost's guest book include C. Jones, Tex, Steven Spielberg, Jean MacCurdy, David Marshall, I. Freleng, Kent Butterworth, Thomas Ruegger, and Martin Strudler.
- Shout-Out:
- When Hamton passes through the halls and the pictures change, he asks, "Now which amusement park have I seen this in?", referencing the The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland.
- Near the end of the short, Plucky and Hamton encounter a giant horned demon that resembles Chernabog from the 1940 Walt Disney film, Fantasia.
Duck Dodgers Jr.:
- Art Shift: The shot of the animator at the end is very clearly rotoscoped from live-action.
- Chaste Toons: Marcia is Marvin's niece.
- Creator Cameo: The animator is played by director Kent Butterworth.
- Go-Karting with Bowser: As Dodgers and Marvin battle each other, Plucky and Marcia build a block tower from the blocks made by Marvin's Matter-Transmogrifier.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Marvin attempted to used his Matter-Transmogrifier on Dodgers; unfortunately, since Dodgers had run up behind him when it had him cornered, the machine ended up sucking up Marvin too.
- Mundane Utility: Marvin uses his Matter-Transmogrifier to transform planets into blocks...for Marcia's block collection.
- Reality-Breaking Paradox: This short ends with Marvin's Matter-Transmogrifier sucking up everything in the universe, including the very animator who drew the cartoon.
- Spiritual Successor: To Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. Maurice Noble, the original layout designer for the short, provided some of the designs for this segment.
- Traveling-Pipe Bulge: Happens to anything that gets sucked into the Matter-Transmogrifier; including planets, Dodgers and Marvin.
