Recap / Tiny Toon Adventures S 2 E 2 Going Places

The second episode of the second season of Tiny Toon Adventures, and the sixty-seventh episode in both production and broadcast order.

The Tiny Toons go on a field trip to see people at work. Their three stops are the ACME Acres Firehouse, the ACME Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Montana Max Merry Meat Factory.

Short One: "When You're Hot..."

At the ACME Acres Firehouse, Pete Puma teaches about fire and safety. In his dangerous demonstrations, he sets the school on fire. Plucky, Buster and Hamton try to put out the 'Flame' that spreads. They manage to defeat the 'Flame', but not before the Looniversity is completely destroyed in the process.

Short Two: "That's Art Folks!"

At the ACME Art Museum, Babs has a distaste for paintings. After getting a hit on the head, she dreams about an art world where everyone shuns her.

Short Three: "Slaughterhouse Jive"

At The Montana Max Merry Meat Factory, the Tiny Toons are shown how meats are manufactured. After they avoid getting caught in the production line, they convince Monty to shut down his factory.

This episode provides examples of:

Overall:

• The Cameo: Cecil Turtle appears in the opening wraparound as the bus driver.
• Credits Gag: Moral of Story (Choose One) ^note A. Eat more Meat. B. Don't Play With Matches. C. Never put a bowling ball in your underwear.
• Schedule Fanatic: The teacher, who reminds Cecil Turtle that they're a few minutes behind schedule.
• Shout-Out: The Teacher's appearance is a parody of the late legendary actress Edna May Oliver. Not only that, she is also based on the Looney Tunes character named Priscilla from a 1940's classic short, The Hardship of Miles Standish and Porky's Road Race in 1937.
• Three Shorts

When You're Hot...:

• Abnormal Allergy: Sneezer is revealed to be allergic to smoke in this short.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Hamton chases the Little Flame after he scorches him and Buster, only to come across a giant flame that the Little Flame is sitting on the shoulder of.
• Born in the Theatre: When Hamton threatens the Little Flame in the Tiny Toons film library, the camera pans out to reveal that the scene is being played out on a film strip. The flame proceeds to burn the strip, comically reducing Hamton into a roasted pig.
• Clothing Damage: Happens to Buster and Hamton when the Little Flame fills their bucket with gasoline, and to Elmyra at the end of the short when she hugs the Little Flame.
• Drives Like Crazy: Pete. When attempting to drive the fire engine to ACME Looniversity to put out the fire, he ends up launching himself into a fire engine kiddie ride.
• Evil Living Flames: Buster, Plucky, and Hamton's efforts to put out the fire at ACME Looniversity are impeded by an anthropomorphic flame interfering with their progress. The flame does such things as fill their water buckets with gasoline, pose as a lady in peril only to burn their fire engine's wooden ladder, and even burn the film strip Hamton is on when he corners him in the Tiny Toons film library. When the fire is eventually put out thanks to Li'l Sneezer's trademark sneeze, the flame escapes and makes a break for Universal Studios, only to get hugged by Elmyra, causing him to burst and burn her clothes off.
• Firefighting Episode: When ACME Looniversity catches fire thanks to Pete lighting a rocket, Buster, Plucky, and Hamton set out to put out the fire, made all the worse by anthropomorphic flames, and end up putting it out with Li'l Sneezer's trademark sneeze.
• Open Sesame: Throughout the second half of the short, Plucky unsuccessfully attempts to open a box that says, "OPEN IN CASE OF FIRE". When Buster tells him to get the box open, Plucky tells him, "I've tried everything except saying, 'Open Sesame!'". Turns out, saying "Open Sesame!" opens the box.
• Pepper Sneeze: Invoked; near the end of the short, it is revealed that Sneezer and a pepper shaker were in the box that says, "OPEN IN CASE OF FIRE". Buster takes Sneezer and stuffs pepper in his nose so that his sneeze will put out the fire.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: By the time the fire is put out, ACME Looniversity is already burnt to the ground.
• Shout-Out: After the fire in ACME Looniversity is put out, the Little Flame holds up a sign that says, "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS". Universal Studios Hollywood's back lot has been damaged by fire nine times throughout its history.
• Too Dumb to Live: Pete Puma. His idea of teaching the students of ACME Looniversity about fire hazards is by setting them on fire. Buster lampshades his incompetence.
  Buster: Why is this guy on our show?!

That's Art Folks!:

• All Just a Dream: The premise of this short.
• Ms. Fanservice: Babs, when she changes costumes during the "Squash and Stretch" musical number.
• Shout-Out: When Babs awakens from her dream, she nearly quotes Dorothy's lines at the end of the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz word-for-word.
• Standard Snippet: The short uses selections of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition on the soundtrack.
• Tempting Fate: When the Teacher leads the other students away from Babs after finding out she was reading a Bugs Bunny comic, Babs says, "Some people wouldn't know good taste if it hit them on the head.". Sure enough, she walks into a pillar, causing a bust to hit her on the head, knocking her out and setting the short's events in motion.

Slaughterhouse Jive:

• Animal Gender-Bender: Happy the Cow is male, but has an udder.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While Elmyra is more Obliviously Evil, she is absolutely horrified when Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton get turned into giant sausages, so she pulls the lever that turns them back to normal. Then she helps them scare Monty out of killing animal meat.
• Here We Go Again!: Near the end of the short, Monty destroys his meat factory and replaces it with a veggie emporium. Unfortunately, just as Buster is about to eat his lunch of a veggie sandwich, the vegetables beg for him not to eat them and run away.
• Let's Meet the Meat: Parodied; Buster and Babs are appalled by Montana Max's carnivorous eating habits, so they strap him in a chair and show him a Squick-filled informative video on how his food is made, starring Happy the Cow.
• The Ludovico Technique: Monty is strapped to such a machine so that he'd stop eating meat byproducts after his meat factory turns Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton into giant sausages. By the end of the short, he is so disgusted by the Nausea Fuel-inducing informative video about how burgers get made, that he destroys his meat factory and replaces it with a veggie emporium.
• Shout-Out:
  • This short's title is a reference to the 1969 Kurt Vonnegut novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, which was adapted into a film in 1972.
  • The scene where the toons force Monty to view How to Make a Hamburger is a reference to a similar scene in A Clockwork Orange.
• Take Our Word for It: Happy the Cow being processed to make a hamburger. We don't see it occur but Montana Max is visibly horrified.
  Happy: For those of you at home with weak stomachs, I suggest tuning in the Disney Channel.
• Trash the Set: Monty destroys the Merry Meat Factory after a little "gentle persuasion" from the other toons.