Western Animation / Tiny Toons Looniversity

Still tiny, still tooney, now learning to be looney.

"We're Tiny, we're Toony, we can't wait to be Looney!
When the bell has rung, come in and join the fun!"
*school bell rings* "...and now class has begun."

Tiny Toons Looniversity is a 2023 animated comedy series reboot of Tiny Toon Adventures. It is showrun by Funny or Die veteran Erin Gibson and executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

The series reimagines Babs and Buster Bunny, Plucky Duck, and the rest of the Acme Looniversity student body as college students on a campus for future cartoon stars, with the Looney Tunes remaining as their professors and mentors. The series was released on Max on September 8th, 2023 and premiered on Cartoon Network the day after. On September 7, an episode was released on YouTube.

Previews: Teaser, Theme Song, Trailer, Sneak Preview Episode

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Major in one of our fine tropes:

• The Ace: Lola Bunny, who's undergone some major Character Exaggeration and now has "effortlessly great at pretty much everything" as her main character trait. As Acme Loo's main chef she combines cooking with extreme sports.
• Achilles in His Tent: In "Tooned in Space", Marvin vowed never to go into space again after being defeated by the Scream Farmers of the No-Goodnik Nebulon and decided to just teach about space. Buster manages to give him the courage to go into space again by playing a fanfare on a bugle.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: Downplayed in the B-plot of "Twin-Con". Plucky turns Hamton into a meme after recording him tripping and falling. Plucky proceeds to capitalise on Hamton’s newfound fame and adoration by making merchandise of him. Hamton is uncomfortable with the fact that the students are willing to make themselves his slaves just to be around him. He even points out that his friends already like him. Despite this, he flies into a fiery tantrum after someone fails to recognise him because they've moved onto the next fad. However, he admits that he’s relieved to not be popular anymore and happily welcomes the new internet sensation: Popcorn Accountant.
• Adaptational Badass: While Plucky can be lazy at times, choosing an elective that appeared “easy” at first, Buster openly considers him a rival and frenemy, with Plucky having managed to earn the same number of trophies as Buster, even managing to receive a C- grade with Babs during the Elective, something Daffy mentioned as being the highest grade anyone had received in his class.
• Adaptational Dye-Job:
  • Babs Bunny's eyes are pink this time around, rather than the blue she had in the original series.
  • Because of the somewhat colorful filter the animation has, Bugs Bunny's fur looks more lavender than gray, though it is nowhere near as pronounced as it was in the first season of The Looney Tunes Show.
• Adaptational Gender Identity:
  • While not directly confirmed at this point in time, Dizzy Devil (voiced by a woman) is heavily implied to be non-binary in the series. There are a few instances where they are referred to with they/them pronouns. In the original, Dizzy was a male.
  • Buster refers to Tweety Bird as "they" in the first episode. "It's where Tweety first tawt they taw a puddy tat!"
• Adaptational Late Appearance:
  • In the original series, Montana Max's first appearance was in the first episode, "The Looney Beginning". In this series, Monty doesn't appear until "Save the Loo Bru", the series' fifth episode.
  • In the original series, Elmyra Duff's first appearance was also in "The Looney Beginning", the first episode of the first season. In this series, she doesn't appear until the Season 2 premiere, "Whatever Happened to Babsy Bunny?"
• Adaptational Personality Change: Most of the major characters have been hit with this to some degree.
  • Buster is pretty close to his original personality, but notably wilder and goofier, and much more prone to getting carried away, probably to compensate for Babs's less goofy personality.
  • Babs, while still a confident smart-mouth, has gone from a wacky anything-goes class clown who does imitations to a neat and organized straight-A student.
  • Plucky is more sophisticated and suave, with a passion for fine arts that he didn't have in the original show. He also doesn't have his original counterpart's Hero Worship of Daffy Duck.
  • Hamton is less of a Neat Freak and more a nervous and overemotional Ditherer. He's also obtained a slight Porky Pig-like stutter, though it's very toned down.
  • Sweetie has gone from a deceptively cute Jerkass to an anger-prone Bruiser with a Soft Center and a punk girl aesthetic.
• Adaptational Romance Downgrade: The creators have announced that Buster and Babs will be twin siblings, after often being portrayed as a couple in the original series.
• Adaptational Modesty:
  • Characters who normally didn't wear clothes in the original series now wear an article of clothing.
  • Fifi is much, much more grounded and less boy crazed than she was in the original show, on top of now wearing a black sweater instead of just sporting a bow.
• Adaptation Name Change: In the original 1990 series, Hamton's mother was named Winnie Pig. In this series, her name is Joan Shwinefeld. As a result, this implies that Hamton’s real surname isn’t “Pig”.
• Adaptational Nationality: In the original Tiny Toons, Fifi was French like her mentor, Pepe le Pew. In this version, the episode "Extra, So Extra" reveals that she is Canadian. This makes more sense as skunks are native to the Americas, not Europe.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Plucky is still the shows Butt-Monkey and just as egotistical as he was in the original show, but is markedly more amicable towards Buster and Babs than he was in the original show, outright admitting Buster is more or less his best friend and breaking down when it seemed like he would lose him.
  • Despite being anger-prone, Sweetie is much more of a Nice Girl than her original counterpart who was a sadistic aggressor.
• Adapted Out: Byron and Banjo Possum haven't been seen among the Acme Loo students.
• Adopted to the House: It is revealed in "Save the Loo Bru" that Dizzy lives in the apartment above the Loo Bru. When Montana Max buys the Loo Bru and kicks Dizzy out of the apartment above it, Babs and Sweetie let Dizzy stay in their dorm room. Dizzy soon proves to be a difficult roommate by keeping Babs and Sweetie up with his loud drumming, being so messy that he makes Sweetie look like Babs, and eating Sweetie's report on the theory of toon gravity.
• Age Lift: The original series vaguely suggested that the Tiny Toons were around 13-14 years old. But here, with the Looniversity now being regarded as a college with dormitories, it's inferred that they are now at least 18, despite looking no older than they did before.
• Anachronism Stew: During the line "since 1933!" in the show's opening, a Retraux sequence shows a black-and-white film strip depicting Bugs, Daffy (the screwball version, in keeping with the era), Yosemite Sam, Granny, Taz, Foghorn, and Wile E. Coyote (still wearing his lab coat for some reason) together. While both Bugs and Daffy did appear in black-and-white Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts^note Discounting the various "prototype" rabbits, Bugs only just barely skirts by thanks to a brief cameo in "Porky Pig's Feat", the same can't be said for any of the rest, all of whom debuted after both series had completely shifted to full-color production (Merrie Melodies in 1934, Looney Tunes in 1943).
• Animal Species Accent: Hamton, a pig, has been given a subtle southern accent in the reboot.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Buster crossdressing as part of his scheme in "Save the Loo Brew" is met with Hamton and Plucky being practically speechless at the end result.
  Hamton: Ga-ga-gorgeous! Not that that's important, I respect your brain, too!
  Plucky: You make a.. rather, convincing, shockingly attractive lady bunny.
• Anvil on Head: Daffy teaches an anvil-dropping class in the B-plot of "Tooney Ball Lights", which Babs and Plucky have to work together at in order to get a passing grade.
• Anti-Sneeze Finger: In "Tears of a Clone", when looking for someone to join him in the Bunniez II Rabbitz concert, one of the candidates Buster asks is Li'l Sneezer, who declines because the pollen count is too high. Sneezer is about to sneeze when Buster uses his finger to stop him. He then puts on a hazmat suit to protect himself from Sneezer's snot.
• Ascended Extra: Sweetie is Babs's roommate and part of the central cast alongside Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton, instead of being a supporting character as she was in the original show.
• The B Grade: In "Tooney Ball Lights", Babs and Plucky study as hard as they can to pass Daffy's anvil class, only to both get a C-. Subverted in that the class is so hard, those are actually the highest grades anyone has ever goten there.
• Bait-and-Switch Comparison: When Babs apologizes to Buster for losing the arm-wrestling competition to Granny, Buster says that he's fine with that, because he's looking forward to hanging out with his new friend... and Plucky.
• Banana Peel: Hamton tries to perform this old gag in "Freshman Orien-toon-tion" when introducing himself to Buster and Plucky, only to find that the peel isn't as slippery as he thought.
• Bare-Bottomed Monkey: Hamton's mental vault of secrets in "Extra, So Extra" is managed by a monkey who keeps the vault secured with his biometric data, including a scan of his bare butt.
• Be Yourself: In "Slay Cheese", Hamton tries to dress in a variety of different costumes for his class photo, so he turns to Dizzy for his opinion. None of the costumes impress Dizzy, who in the end tells Hamton he should just be himself for the photo.
• Bird-Poop Gag: Early in "Extra, So Extra", Sweetie confesses to Hamton that she once pooped in a birdbath. Plucky later manages to extract this secret from Hamton in the latter's sleep and post it in his newspaper, much to Sweetie's horror.
• Birthday Episode: "Prank You Very Much" begins with the Tiny Toons celebrating Dizzy's birthday. In the end, it is revealed that it wasn't really Dizzy's birthday, but rather part of his plan to put ACME Loo and Aqua Loo in a prank war with each other without anyone suspecting it.
• Brick Joke: In "Extra, So Extra", Sweetie describes the smell of the guys' dorm as "old shoes stuffed with seafood." Later in the episode, Hamton emerges from his hiding place in the closet, where he found an old shrimp inside a shoe.
• The Cameo: Arnold the Pit Bull makes a brief one in "Tears of a Clone".
• Canines Gambling in a Card Game: In "Spring Break", when Intimidating Irving is first shown, he is seen playing poker with other dogs.
• Cannot Spit It Out: In "Tooney Ball Nights", Plucky can’t bring himself to tell Babs that they should help each other, so he has to write it as he gags on his own words.
• Canon Immigrant: The trailer confirms that Lola Bunny, not introduced until after the original series ended, will be added to the cast, working as, of all things, a chef in the cafeteria.
• Canon Foreigner: Renaldo Raccoon, who appears in the intro alongside the characters from the original series.
• Chekhov's Gag:
  • In "Freshman Orien-toon-tion", Babs spends the summer prior to applying to ACME Loo working on her digging arm. This is how she takes on Granny in an arm wrestling competition to fulfill her request to get her and Buster to share the same dorm room. She loses, but is fine with that, as she had formed a strong bond with Sweetie, while Buster formed one with Hamton.
  • Throughout "Tooned in Space", Sweetie is seen playing Nebula Blasters IV, a space-themed video game. The other toons use her gaming skills to defeat the drones of the No-Goodnik Nebulon.
  • In "Skulls and Sillybones", Dizzy reveals that he got kicked out of the titular secret organization for telling too many secrets. Near the end of the episode, Buster does this to get himself kicked out, as he couldn't bear to humiliate Babs.
• Chew Bubblegum: In "Toons in Space," Sweetie Bird spends most of the episode playing a space-themed video game, despite winding up on a space adventure. When she puts down the game long enough to realize what is going on, she takes control of the spaceship's wepaons and declares "I came here to eat birdseed and kick butt, and I'm all out of birdseed."
• College Is "High School, Part 2": Subverted; while Acme Looniversity now lives up to its name as being similar to a typical university, including dormitories and a dedicated dining hall building, the main building still has hallway lockers and a school bell system, similar to when the Loo was indeed a high school in the original series.
• Color Blind Confusion: It is revealed in "Give Pizza a Chance" that Sweetie is colorblind. When she gets covered in pizza sauce, she says that she's covered in green glop, only for Babs to remind her that it's red.
• Combining Mecha: In "Tooned in Space", the No-Goodnik Nebulon drones combine to form one giant drone that traps Marvin's rocket ship.
• Competition Freak: Plucky turns everything into a competition for the purpose of winning it, best exemplified in the first scene of "Give Pizza a Chance", when he and Buster compete to see how many trophies each other has.
• Continuity Reboot: Unlike the Animaniacs revival before it, this show takes place in a separate continuity from the original Tiny Toons, with Buster and Babs now being twin siblings and everyone meeting each other for the first time.
• Costume Evolution: The entire original cast have various degrees of updated clothing:
  • Buster's red sweater is now a hoodie, and he has lost his gloves.
  • Babs has a purple jacket over her classic attire.
  • Plucky wears a black t-shirt instead of his white tank top.
  • Hamton now wears a green sweater with a dark blue vest and khakis replacing his overalls.
  • Sweetie Bird is given a more punk-girl aesthetic with a purple jacket and a purple dye-tipped ponytail.
  • Shirley the Loon wears pink glasses and sports a green top with crystal earrings.
  • Fifi La Fume wears a black sweater.
  • Furrball Cat wears a torn yellow t-shirt.
  • Dizzy Devil's propeller beanie is now a propeller cap.
  • As seen in the animated opening, Elmyra Duff now wears a black shirt and purple pants (despite appearing with her original outfit in concept art).
  • Averted with some characters like Montana Max, Calamity Coyote, Little Beeper, Gogo Dodo and Sneezer, whose wardrobes have stayed the same.
• Costume-Test Montage:
  • In "Tears of a Clone," Babs and Sweety get a time machine and use it to go back into the past and try on various fashions from throughout history.
  • In "Slay Cheese" Hampton tries on a variety of costumes in an attempt to find a good look for Picture Day.
• Dark Horse Victory: In "Freshman Orien-toon-tion", Buster and Plucky compete to see who can win Bugs' competition to present the best cartoon gag and get their picture in the Freshman Hall of Fame, with the winner getting the top bunk of their bed. In the end, it's Hamton who wins the competition by flooding the auditorium with his tears.
• A Day in the Limelight: The B-plot of "Extra, So Extra" is this for Merlin the Magic Mouse, an obscure Looney Tunes star from the Seven Arts era who becomes Buster's new mentor and teaches him the art of magic.
• The Day the Dinosaurs Died: In "Tears of a Clone", Buster's evil clone meets his end by being sent back in time to the end of the Cretaceous Period, when the asteroid had hit.
• Depower: It's possible for Toons to have their powers removed through the use of a concoction. Wile E. Coyote ended up making such a thing in hopes of depowering and finally capturing Road Runner, but because of an accident it ended up affecting far more Toons than intended.
• Deranged Animation: Much like the original series, only this time, they go way over-the-top.
• Disguised in Drag: In "Save the Loo Bru", Bugs teaches a class on how to disguise in drag to outsmart adversaries. He first appears as "Brinessa Bunny" as part of his lesson. Buster later disguises himself as a bunny businesswoman named Ruth Less as part of his plan to stop Montana Max from tearing down the Loo Bru.
• The Ditherer: Hamton in "Tooney Ball Lights". He can't choose an elective and just wishes the school would assign him one. He goes to Shirley for help and she puts him in a sensory deprivation chamber, where he has a fantasy where he's a train that has to choose from one of two tracks. He makes a breakthrough by Taking a Third Option.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: "General HOGspital" features Hamton being accepted into a medical school. While there, when he brings up potentially healing Toons of their defective gene that doesn't allow them to heal from Amusing Injuries, he's immediately corrected by the dean who drills in that they treat illness, not cure illness, before prescribing a Skeleton Toon a rather expensive-looking wheel chair, and the rest of the episode hammering in how they'd be out of a job if they found a cure for the defective gene. The obvious critique of real life health care systems might as well be a flashing neon sign in this episode.
• Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project: In "Souffle, Girl Hey", Buster and Babs' Mom's attempt to fix a tiny leak in the bathroom results in her burrow being flooded.
• Duck!: In "Give Pizza a Chance", this exchange occurs when the wall in Buster, Plucky, and Hamton's dorm room is about to break and all the paper snakes that Granny used as insulation are about to fly out.
  Plucky: Everyone, me!
  Everyone Else: Huh?
  Plucky: Duck!
• Escalating War: The plot of "Prank You Very Much" involves ACME Loo partaking in a prank war against Aqua Loo, where the winner will get the trophy for the best prank, eventually culminating in Sweetie launching Aqua Loo into a giant pie. In the end, it is revealed that Dizzy was the one who printed posters a month ahead of when the prank war was supposed to begin as the ultimate prank.
• Evil Twin: In "Tears of a Clone", it is revealed that if a clone isn't de-cloned within 24 hours, said clone turns evil. Buster finds out too late after he doesn't declone his clone, and his clone tries to ruin his reputation.
• Feud Episode: In the B-plot of "Give Pizza a Chance", Babs gets into a feud with Sweetie when she (Babs) organizes her (Sweetie's) side of their dorm room. They make up when they realize their differences, namely that Sweetie grew up an an only child and never had to compromise with anyone, whereas Babs and Buster compromised with each other all the time.
• Fictional Sport: Tooney Ball, as seen on "Tooney Ball Lights", a toon version of American football where the players can use all manner of toon tricks to keep the other team from winning.
• 15 Minutes of Fame: In "Twin-Con," Plucky records Hampton leaping through the air and flailing, leading to Hampton becoming internet famous. Unfortunately, after embracing his fame, he finds that he is not universally famous.
• Fire-Breathing Diner: In "Skulls and Sillybones", when Buster and Plucky eat nachos with ghost pepper sauce on them, Buster breathes fire on Plucky, while Plucky's beak catches fire when he holds it in. Hamton, on the other hand, is able to handle the sauce because he and his mother top their breakfast biscuits with ghost pepper jam for breakfast every morning.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Zig-Zagged with the human characters. While some have four-fingered hands, like Yosemite Sam, others have five-fingered hands, like Granny.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: In "Spring Break," after constantly arguing while on a unplanned adventure, a solar eclipse leads to Hampton and Sweetie Bird swicthing bodies.
• Full-Body Disguise:
  • In "Extra, So Extra", when Plucky confesses to someone who appears to be Hamton that he has been extracting secrets from him in his sleep, "Hamton" is revealed to have been Buster in a full-body disguise, having learned that tactic from Merlin. The real Hamton was hiding in the closet the whole time.
  • In "Prank You Very Much", Ling Lobster and Tony Shark disguise themselves as Fifi La Fume and Calamity Coyote this way, as part of a prank involving sticking a Whoopee Cushion on Hamton's seat.
• Fun with Acronyms: In "Tooned in Space", Buster signs himself and his friends up for a space-travelling class called S.T.A.R.S.; Students Travelling Across R'emote Space.
• Fun with Flushing: During the cleaning montage in "Give Pizza a Chance", Plucky at one point flushes some cheese and pizza sauce down a toilet.
• Gelatinous Encasement: One of the pranks that ACME Loo does to Aqua loo in "Prank You Very Much" is turning their swimming pool into Jello, causing them to get trapped when they dive in.
• The Ghost: Despite having a dormitory named after him, his own statue and a hand in the founding of Acme Looniversity, Elmer Fudd is nowhere to be seen. It appears he’s not viewed very favorably either, at least by Babs, who calls him “boring”.
• Goo Goo Getup: At the end of "Skulls and Sillybones", Plucky's final challenge to be inducted into the titular secret organization is to humiliate his best friend who happens to be himself, which he does by dressing them in a diaper and a pink bonnet and making them cry like a baby.
• Gross-Out Show:
  • Very mild compared to other cartoons of this genre, but Sneezer's sneezes are considerably messier when one looks at his portrayal in the original 1990 show.
  • In "Souffle, Girl Hey", while Buster and Babs look for some after-school jobs to earn some extra money to pay for their mother's repairs on her burrow, some of the positions that are available include Dirty Diaper Stacker, Toenail Collector, and Living Trash Can. Both bunnies are horrified upon reading them.
• Grub Tub: In "Prank You Very Much", ACME Loo gets into a prank war with Aqua Loo. During the montage of the two schools pranking each other, Aqua Loo's students dive into their pool, only to find it filled with Jell-O, courtesy of Buster and Babs.
• Hated Item Makeover: In the B-plot of "Give Pizza a Chance", Sweetie is horrified when Babs cleans her (Sweetie's) side of their dorm room, starting a feud between the two.
• Healing Factor: Toons have this as a genetic trait, allowing them to partake in Amusing Injuries and immediately recover shortly afterwards.
• High-Five Left Hanging: In "Tooney Ball Lights", Babs tries to get a high-five from an irate Plucky. She has to grab his arm and make him reciprocate.
• Hold Up Your Score:
  • In "Freshman Orien-toon-tion", Bugs holds a competition where the Tiny Toons show him, Daffy, and Wile E. their best gag, and the winner gets their picture in the Freshman Hall of Fame. When Little Beeper and Calamity Coyote perform, Bugs and Daffy rank them a 6.2, while Wile E.ranks them a 6.3. When Plucky performs, Bugs and Daffy both rank him a 9, while Wile E. ranks him an 8. When Plucky insults Wile E.'s score, Wile E. ranks him a 7. After Plucky takes back what he said, Wile E. ranks him a 7.00001. After Buster and Babs perform together, Bugs and Daffy both rank them a 9, while Wile E. ranks him a 10. In the end, it's Hamton who wins the competition by flooding the auditorium with his tears, as Bugs, Daffy and Wile E. all rank him a 10.
  • In "Tears of a Clone", Granny ranks Buster a 10 when he does the "Stinky Winky" move as part of his Jack-Cour sport.
• Ho Yay: In "Tears Of A Clone", Buster creates a clone of himself. Even though they aren't dating, there's alot of homosexual subtext, one of the most obvious being them sleeping together.
• Honesty Aesop: In "Slay Cheese", Buster turns to Sweetie for a new look that will solidify his future career for his class photo. He doesn't like any of the looks she gives him, but doesn't want to tell her it out of fear of what she might do to him. Plucky tells him that sometimes he has to people the truth in order to get what he wants. When Buster confesses to Sweetie, she takes it well, saying that she knows not everybody is going to like her work. Criticism about her spaghetti sauce, on the other hand..
• Huge Rider, Tiny Mount: In "Spring Break", Sweetie is able to carry Hamton while flying despite him being three times her size.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • In "Freshman Orien-Toon-tion", Plucky (sharing the same lisp as his predecessor, Daffy Duck), claims that "the general matheth thuffer from diction impedimenth".
  • "Tooned in Space" begins with Sweetie playing Nebula Blasters IV, a space-themed video game. Plucky witnesses this, and says "What a ridiculous amount of energy for such a pointless endeavor!", then gets back to signing a series of his headshots.
• I Call Her "Vera": Two examples in "Prank You Very Much". Sweetie calls her catapult Cathy, and Ling Lobster calls her prank predicting computer Tina Turing.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Buster's clone from "Tears of a Clone" can be identified by his smoother hair and his hoodie having a pointed collar and a zipper. When Buster's clone turns evil as a result of Buster not decloning him after the 24-hour mark, his hair becomes spikier, his teeth become fangs, his hoodie becomes a black leather jacket, and he wears red cowboy boots.
• Inconsistent Dub: The Latin American Spanish done in Mexico dub suffer this in regards with Babs' name. While the remaining characters keep their names used from the Venezuelan dub from Tiny Toon Adventures, Babs in a rather bizarre subversion on this, since her Spanish name "Babsy" is still used, but only in the songs. In the regular dialog, her English name "Babs" is used instead. It's very likely the translators of the songs were not aware that her name wasn't planned to be kept in the regular speech, and they didn't ajusted the translation accordingly.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: In "Slay Cheese", Babs uses a shrinking cream on herself in an attempt to get rid of a pimple. She ends up shrinking herself to the size of a mouse and has to get to the growth cream she left on her bed to use it to return her to her normal size. When she finally gets it, she ends up accidentally using too much and becomes a giant.
• Inevitable Waterfall: In "Spring Break," Hamton and Sweetie Bird get stranded in the Yukon, and at one point attempt to use a raft to travel south. It isn't long before they find themselves going over a waterfall.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: Babs and Sweetie are able to understand Taz in "Extra, So Extra".
• Invisibility: In "Tears of a Clone", Hamton uses an invisibility spray, which makes himself invisible for the rest of the episode.
• Jewish Mother: Hamton's mother fits the trope in appearance, voice and personality. Ironically, she is against her son pursuing a medical career rather than a comedy career, subverting a common stereotype.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": In "Twin-Con", Fifi gets so excited over a (temporarily) famous Hamton touching her hand; as she gives him a fresh bubble tea. So much that she squeals and bursts into joyful tears.
• Lethal Chef: Babs and Buster in "Souffle, Girl Hey", in contrast to Supreme Chef Lola. Their attempts to replicate her complex recipes end up an inedible mess, which spontaneously burst into flames. It's only when they try a simple dish they are familiar with — their family's carrots and grits — that they succeed.
• Loan Shark: In "Save the Loo Bru", a school of loan sharks (portrayed by actual sharks) appear as clients of the La Re Lai Des Mechants restuarant when Buster, disguised as Ruth Less, woos Montana Max as part of his plan to save the Loo Bru.
  Loan Shark Leader: It's not enough that we succeed. Whales must also fail!
• Local Hangout: The Loo Bru, a coffee house ran by the Tasmanian Devil, where students go to hang out after a hard day of studying.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: It is revealed in "Souffle, Girl Hey" during a phone call with their mother that Buster and Babs have 86 younger brothers and sisters.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Gepetto Stronzetti". His last name is essentially derived from an Italian word roughly meaning "butthole". He's, appropriately, the villain here.
  • Plucky's full name, "Pluciferous von Mallard Duck", includes the name Lucifer—the demon most closely associated with the sin of Pride, fitting for his vast ego.
• My Beloved Smother: Hamton's mother appears to be this in the intro.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Buster says in "Freshman Orientoontion" that he looks forward to spending time with his new friend Hamton... and Plucky.
• Mythology Gag:
  • One of the buildings shown off in the trailer is a music hall called Merrie Melodies.
  • In "Give Pizza a Chance" Fifi and Lil' Sneezer are seen talking to each other in the background at the pizza party. In the original series, both characters were voiced by Kath Soucie.
  • Also in "Give Pizza a Chance", during the cleaning montage, Plucky flushes some cheese and pizza sauce down a toilet.
  • "Extra, So Extra" features several pianos falling on Furrball, a reference to Furrball's line in the theme song of the original series, "Furrball's unlucky", which depicts a piano falling on him as he sniffs a flower.
  • Also on "Extra, So Extra", the headline for the article on Plucky is "Duck Amok".
  • The A-plot of "Tooney Ball Lights" involves Buster and his friends playing in a football game in the hopes of winning against a rival team.
  • The episode "General HOGspital" was uploaded to YouTube on September 7th, a day early to the premiere. It also would have been the 97th birthday of Don Messick. The episode put Hamton in the main spotlight.
  • B'shara flooding her burrow in her own attempted DIY project may remind viewers of when Bugs flooded his house trying to put up a shelf for his Nobel Prize in The Looney Tunes Show episode, "The Shelf".
  • Also on "Souffle, Girl Hey", Buster wears a shirt with a picture of Bugs dressed as a king from "Rabbit Hood".
  • "Tears of a Clone" has a brief gag where Buster's clone tricks Fifi into dying over her stripe with purple hair dye, and Furball making a snarky comment about her horror at it. Not only is it a subtle nod to what her original premise was, but Furball was one of the characters to get a white stripe down his back in the original show.
  • "Freshman Orient-Toon-tion" has an emotional outburst cause a building to flood, much like how Shirley set fire to Perfecto Prep and set off the sprinklers in a psychic tantrum. In this case, it’s Hamton's crying flooding the theater.
  • In "Whatever Happened to Babsy Bunny?", a discarded calendar in Elmyra's photography studio has the year 1992 on it, 1992 being the year when the original series' third and final season premiered.
  • "Twin-Con" sees Fifi willingly making a slave of herself for a celebrity. Unlike Johnny Pew however, the object of her desire is sweet little Hamton. All she does is give him a bubble tea and a pickle.
  • "Skulls and Sillybones" begins with Sweetie and Babs arguing with each other. Sweetie insists that she saw a giant mouse, but Babs insists it was a baby kangaroo, a reference to Looney Tunes' Hippety Hopper.
  • From "Spring Break":
    • The special begins with the Toons doing various things to Daffy with a paintbrush as he tries to teach them, much like Bugs Bunny did in Duck Amuck.
    • Plucky's father's name is Ralph, as it was in the original series (specifically "The Potty Years").
    • Several drawings can be seen on Buster and Babs' refrigerator, one of them being the Warners' water tower, another being of "Aunt Bunny and Uncle Claude" (Bunny and Claude being obscure Looney Tunes stars from the Seven Arts era who appeared in "We Rob Carrot Patches"), and another being sketches of Buster and Babs as they appeared in "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian".
• Noodle Incident:
  • The B-plot of "Tears of a Clone" involves Babs and Sweetie causing disruptions in the timeline by accidentally bringing back historical figures and important items to the present. One disruption they caused which goes unexplained is preventing the non-avian dinosaurs from going extinct.
  • In "Slay Cheese", when Buster asks Hamton if he should tell Sweetie he's not a fan of her hairstyles, Hamton tells her that he once told Sweetie that her spaghetti sauce could use a dash of salt, and in response to this, she pretended not to know who he was for three weeks.
• Not on the List: At the end of "Save the Loo Bru", Montana Max tries to get into the Loo Bru to see a stage show featuring Brinessa Bunny and Ruth Less (Bugs and Buster in drag). Dizzy is working as a bouncer and refuses to let him in, saying he's not on the list. When Monty tells Dizzy that he paid to have his name put on the list, Dizzy tells him that he refused to put his name on the list because he tried to tear down the Loo Bru in the first place.
• Ocular Gushers:
  • In "Freshman Orien-toon-tion", Hamton cries so hard that his tears flood the auditorium. It's this act that causes him to win the competition, as Bugs tells him that reaching into the depths of his biggest fears is how he found the best gag.
  • In "Souffle, Girl Hey", Hammer floods the Looniversity kitchen with his tears when he hopes that Top Hat Chef will return Lola's calls to audition for the show, saying she'd be perfect for it.
  • In "The Show Must Hop On", Babs does this after finding out the school play's first act is a disaster. The women's restroom does not get flooded due to there being a drain in the floor.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: In "Freshman Orien-toon-tion", Plucky's full name is Pluciferous Von Mallard Duck.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: Babs and Sweetie are “boomies”: best friends and roommates. Coupled with Noodle Incident, Fifi also made a “broissant”: a beret croissant. When asked why, she explains that she wanted a buttery, crunchy hat.
• Perpetual Smiler: An odd aversion with Road Runner occurs in '"Tooney Ball Lights", where he as a commentator was concerned when Buster Bunny was about to go on a wrong way on a football and did it, causing his team to lose a score to -26.
• Piano Drop: In "Extra, So Extra", it is revealed that the reason why ACME Loo shut down their newspaper is that they spent the budget for it on grand pianos to drop on unsuspecting victims.
• Picture Day: "Slay Cheese" takes place on Looniversity's Class Picture Day. Buster tries to get a new look that solidifies his future career (since he's had the same look and pose since middle school), while Babs has to deal with a talking pimple that appears on her face, and Hamton looks for a costume that solidifies his future career.
• Pie in the Face: Ubiquitous throughout, but taken to the utmost degree in "Prank You Very Much" when instead of throwing a pie at someone, they threw an entire university campus at a pie.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Sweetie. The intro shows her lifting a "patriarchy" statue several times her size and throwing it into a distance where it explodes. Furthermore, when giving the relatively bigger Buster a bro chest bump, she's the one who knocks him flat with an indented chest (blaming the accident resulting from her chest press routine).
• Playing a Tree: In "The Show Must Hop On", Babs casts Plucky as a cactus, much to the latter's ire, since the cactus doesn't have any lines. Ironically, Hamton hopes to be able to get the part of the cactus, much to Babs' surprise, as he played vegetation in seventeen different school plays growing up.
• Playing Sick: Buster and Babs do this in "Spring Break" when they feel neglected by B'shara in favor of Plucky, who let him sleep in the big bed of her guest bedroom while turning their bedroom into an exercise room. This backfires, as it renders them unable to participate in the talent show at the Burrowville talent show, and Plucky having to take their place. Near the end, B'Shara reveals to Plucky that she knew they were faking the entire time.
• Pluto Is Expendable: Referenced in "Extra, So Extra":
  Plucky: What in Pluto's planetary persuasion is going on?
• Poor Communication Kills: Both Babs and Buster in "The Show Must Hop On". Babs's first gig as a professional director is of Wabbit Season, the in-universe origin story of Acme Looniversity. To the chagrin of all the actors who auditioned, Babs casts them as characters they don’t want to play. Babs' aim was to subvert expectations by having her cast go out of their respective comfort zones to broaden their range. She doesn’t explain her motivation until after the first act has gone wrong. Meanwhile, Buster, having taken umbrage at being cast as Elmer Fudd, becomes a passive-aggressive prima donna, refusing to speak to Babs or turn up to rehearsals. Despite this, he shows up on the night of the performance, doing a stunt without knowing how it works. In a sense, he’s equally at fault for the botched first act.
• Porky Pig Pronunciation:
  • Hamton has picked up a small tendency for this, which he didn't have in the original show. It's nowhere near as pronounced as the Trope Namer's Verbal Tic as he only stutters on the occasional word, and even then he doesn't always swap out the words. It still happens every so often, like when he serves as Sweetie's therapist:
    "I noticed you jumped to an angry response instead of calmly dealing with the root of the pr-pr-pr-pr-pr-pr... issue."
  • And of course Porky himself is in true form in this show:
    Porky: How can I help yuh-ah... yuh-ah... yuh-ah... what can I do for ya?
    Babs: I'd like to fill out the necessary forms to fill out the school newspaper!
    Porky: Eeeh, bu-buh-bad news. There's n-n-no money to stuh-thee... stuh-thee... uh, start it back up.
    Babs and Sweetie: What?!
    Porky: We had a t-tuh-tough decision to make. Eh, eh, keep our school paper or buy guh-grand pianos. I suppose the only way to have a sch-eh-school newspaper is for the students to fee-eh.fee... pay for it.
    Babs: So, I'd have to find the money?
    Porky: Precise-luh-luh-lee... precise-luh-luh-lkhh... uh-huh.
• Pretentious Latin Motto: A shot of the school crest reveals that Acme Looniversity has one: “Factum et Dictum Nostrum”, meaning “What we have Done and Said”.
• Prima Donna Director: Babs gradually becomes one in "The Show Must Hop On" when she's assigned to direct the Acme Looniversity production of Rabbit Season. Much of the cast is unhappy with the roles they've been assigned, but she doesn't want to hear their complaints, and keeps insisting Plucky say nothing and do nothing in his role as a cactus. It even gets to the point where Babs starts feuding with her own brother Buster for not letting him play Bugs, all the while claiming the cast's complaints are interfering with "her vision". It isn't until the first act of the performance goes horribly wrong that Babs realizes what she's done and refused to listen to the cast members. Once she directly talks to them about why she made those casting choices, the rest of the play goes smoothly.
• Produce Pelting: When the toons discover that Plucky has been extracting their most private secrets from Hamton, they toss tomatoes at him (and one of them tosses an anvil).
• Promotion to Opening Titles:
  • Sweetie's name is not mentioned in the opening of the original show. In this series, she's one of the few characters to be mentioned in the opening along with Babs, Buster, Hamton, and Plucky.
  • A minor example, but Shirley and Fifi also appear more often in the opening compared to the 1990 show, being seen alongside Babs and Sweetie in the girl's dorm room.
  • Some of the lesser or later-created characters appear in crowd shots in the opening sequence here when they didn't appear at all in the original's, such as Fowlmouth and Marcia the Martian.
• Related in the Adaptation: One of the most well-known running gags of the original 1990 series was Babs and Buster Bunny saying "No relation!" whenever they introduced each other, and the two had often been depicted as a couple. In this series, they're twin siblings, as confirmed in the main trailer.
• Reasonable Authority Figure:
  • Granny is portrayed as a reasonable school dean. She gave Babs a chance to be roommates with Buster and explained her reasons for initially separating them. She even provided funds to Buster, Plucky, and Hamton to repair the wall, taking responsibility for it.
  • Chillest Cat, despite often being on his phone and changing the school’s usual routines set by his dad, has proven himself to be a capable inspector who genuinely wants to understand what makes the school tick. While disappointed by Plucky’s lies, he changes his tune after Plucky apologizes and begs him to maintain the rating. Chillest Cat recognizes the students’ genuine affection for one another, prompting him to keep the rating.
• Rise of Zitboy: In "Slay Cheese", Babs gets a talking pimple on her cheek on picture day. When she tries to shrink the pimple with shrinking cream, she ends up shrinking herself and has to use growth cream to return herself to her normal size.
• Road Trip Across the Street: In "General HOGspital", Buster goes through a Travel Montage of treacherous terrain to get to Festerloon, but when he arrives and looks back, ACME Loo is right next door.
• Saving the Orphanage: In "Save the Loo Bru", the Loo Bru is bought by Montana Max, who plans to demolish it and put a trendy juice bar in its place. Buster sets out to save the Loo Bru by tricking Max into selling it. After failing that, he resorts to exposing him as a liar who pretended to be in the athletic program in order to buy the place.
• Ship Sinking: Because they are twin siblings in this show, the Buster/Babs ship has been sunk.
• Short Teens, Tall Adults: Maintains this even though the Tiny Toon characters aren't even supposed to be teenagers this time around. Short young adults, tall older adults? But that said, they're still "Tiny" Toons.
• Shout-Out: In "Tears of a Clone", Babs and Sweetie make a list of "irresponsible things to do with a time machine". One of which is "find every treasure ever", the same thing Louie Duck tried to do.
• Shown Their Work: Chillest Cat, Cool Cat's white tiger son, is shown to have blue eyes in a close-up shot. Blue eyes are a trait among white tigers, as a result of the same gene that gives them their white color.
• Shrunk in the Wash: In "Prank You Very Much", Hamton has shirts that aren't pre-shrunk and will shrink if they get wet. Near the end of the episode, Hamton gives these shirts to Aqua Loo as part of ACME Loo's plan to win the prank war.
• Sibling Seniority Squabble: It is revealed in "Freshman Orien-toon-tion" that Buster was born one second before Babs.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: In "Save the Loo Bru", Bugs teaches a class on how to deal with a nemesis. Buster quickly finds his nemesis in Montana Max when he buys the Loo Bru to demolish it.
• Start My Own: In "Skulls and Sillybones", Babs and Sweetie decide to start their own club because they didn't get invitations to the titular secret organization.
• Stealth Pun: Several in "General HOG-spital". Witch Hazel is a professor with a doctorate at medical school, making her a Witch Doctor, and it turns out her cure for Toon ailments is laughter, because laughter is the best medicine.
• Students' Secret Society: In "Skulls and Sillybones" we see a secret society among campus calling themselves Skulls and Sillybones. They move about in black cloaks and in order to join them, an inductee has to perform numerous embarrassing rituals.
• Sudden Video-Game Moment: In "Give Pizza a Chance", when Buster and Plucky get into a pizza-eating competition with each other, it plays out like a video game.
• Suddenly Voiced: Like the early episode of the original show, Furrball actually speaks in full sentences here instead of just making cat noises.
• Supreme Chef: Lola in "Souffle, Girl Hey". She is able to prepare an elaborate dish just by tossing around a handful of ingredients.
• Talking with Signs:
  • Wile E. Coyote does this, even giving an Evil Laugh via sign, as in his classic shorts (ignoring the few times he did speak).
  • The Roadrunner does it as well, as seen in "Tooney Ball Lights". He teachers a Mockery with Signage class, and does color commentary at the big game this way.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Happens accidentally on "General HOGspital". Wile E. tries to hit the Roadrunner with his formula to deactivate toon DNA so he can finally get him, but ends up falling into the university's water tower. The formula contaminates the water supply, leaving several students unable to bounce back from Amusing Injuries.
• Take That!: When Elmyra is introduced as an animal photographer, she throws a calendar with silhouettes of Pinky and the Brain on it in the trash. A far from flattering commentary on the poorly received crossover between the three of them.
• Taking a Third Option: In "Tooney Ball Lights", Hamton is in a sensory deprivation chamber to learn to be more decisive. He imagines he's a train who has to choose whether to go to the forest or the mountains, but he can't decide which and ends up crashing. When he tries it a second time, he freaks out and yells, "I just wanna fly!" Which turns out to be an option, and he flies through the sky.
• Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him: Buster and Babs do this in "The Show Must Hop On" when they get into a feud over Babs' casting choices for the school play, with Sweetie serving as their mouthpiece.
• Tempting Fate: In "Whatever Happened to Babsy Bunny?", Buster, Babs, Hamton, and Sweetie are being held captive by Elmyra for photo shoots. Hamton asks where he and his friends are going to find an animal so focused on their own looks that they'd want their picture taken all day. Cue Plucky coming in.
• Terrestrial Sea Life: The students of Aqua Loo, the rival school of ACME Loo, are sea creatures who live on land.
• Thrown Out the Airlock: In "Tooned in Space" Marvin the Martian takes the cast into space, where they get shot at by aliens. A hole is blown in the ship, and all the air is being sucked out, nearly taking the crew with it.
• Time Travel for Fun and Profit: In "Tears of a Clone", Babs and Sweetie buy Wile E.'s Time Machine and decide to start a vintage fashion shop by gathering clothes throughout history. Their shenanigans lead to the pencil sharpener not being invented, Yosemite Sam becoming the most popular Looney Tunes character instead of Bugs Bunny, non-avian dinosaurs never becoming extinct, and America being still under British rule.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: In "Whatever Happened to Babsy Bunny?", Elmyra enjoys taking pictures of animals and refuses to let them leave. When Plucky comes into her photography studio to pose for pictures so Buster, Babs, Hamton, and Sweetie are free to explore the rest of ACME Acres, she is enthralled at first. Plucky's vision for just how he wants to be photographed eventually gets on her nerves and leads to her kicking him out.
• Toon: Obviously, the cast always was, but it's elaborated on here. While in the original show the characters were Animated Actors who interacted with their producer and reacted to real-world fans, here "Toon" is a separate species or taxonomic category with defined genetic traits that let them engage in Toon Physics and Amusing Injuries. They seem to live alongside humans; Hamton briefly visits medical school in "General HOG-spital" and has as classmates several apparently normal humans and a Toon squirrel.
• Totem Pole Trench: In the B-plot of "Souffle, Girl Hey", one of Plucky and Hamton's attempts to impress Chillest Cat involves them turning the Loo Bru into a cool hangout, and having one of its customers being two penguins stacked on top of each other in a trenchcoat, with a blue boy penguin on top and a purple girl penguin on the bottom. Chillest Cat catches onto their plan when the Loo Bru falls apart.
• Trash of the Titans:
  • In "Give Pizza a Chance", Sweetie is revealed to have been hiding garbage under her bed, and when Buster takes notice, he says that her side of her and Babs' dorm room looks like a bomb went off in it.
  • In "Save the Loo Bru", Dizzy is so messy that he makes Sweetie look like Babs. When he drops a bag of garbage off in Babs and Sweetie's dorm room, they tell him that the dumpster is out back, but he tells him that it's his suitcase. Near the end of the episode, when Montana Max's plan to tear down the Loo Bru is foiled, Dizzy returns to his apartment above it. Upon seeing its messy state, Babs believes that Monty trashed it, but Dizzy tells her that the apartment was like that before he left.
• Unaffected by Spice: In "Skulls and Sillybones", it is revealed that Hamton finds ghost pepper sauce mild because he and his mother top their breakfast biscuits with ghost pepper jam for breakfast every morning.
• Unexplained Recovery: "General HOGspital" goes on to explore this trope by explaining that toons that contain the Looney DNA can instantly recover from an injury.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In "Tears of a Clone", Fifi shows off her stylish 80s-era sweater to Babs and Sweetie, declaring that the pair will never have one like it, since they went out of style. Babs and Sweetie, having just bought a Time Machine from Wile. E's garage sale, decide to use it to retrieve fashion trends from history. To add to that, Fifi is impressed by their historical collection and asks if they’re willing to sell what they have.
• Van in Black:
  • In "Extra, So Extra", Babs, Sweetie and Buster use a van that says "ACME Totally Normal Piano Van" to spy on Plucky so they can figure out how he got ahold of everyone's most private secrets.
  • In "Prank You Very Much", after the gang returns to ACME Loo after pranking Aqua Loo, Babs notices a truck with "Grand Pianos" conspicuously plastered on the side. When they find that the entire ground has been replaced with trampolines, they see the truck driven away by the Aqua Loo pranksters, the sign peeling away to reveal "Trampolines" written on the side.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: In "Save the Loo Bru", Montana Max escapes on a helicopter after his plan to tear down the Loo Bru is foiled.
  Monty: Escape the consequences!
• Visual Pun:
  • In "Give Pizza a Chance", when Buster, Plucky and Hamton attempt to repair the walls of their dorm room, Buster asks for some Duct tape. Plucky hands him a tape cassette that says "Plucky Unamped B-Sides". Buster is not amused.
  • In "Souffle, Girl Hey", Buster and Babs get after-school jobs as chefs in the Looniversity cafeteria to earn the money to fix the leak in their mother's burrow. At the end of the episode, when their mother gets the money, she uses said money to plug up the hole.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Buster Bunny and Plucky Duck. They describe their relationship as being frenemies.
• Wild Teen Party: "Give Pizza a Chance" has Buster and Plucky use some of the money given to them to repair their dorm room to throw a wild pizza party, which gets out of control and results in the room getting destroyed again.
• Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer: In "General HOGspital":
  Witch Hazel: I have a theory on looney DNA, but no one wants to hear about it.
  Hamton: I do.
  Witch Hazel: Of course you don't, 'cause I'm a WOMAN! Sorry, force of habit.
• Worldbuilding: Much more than the original. This show makes a point of explaining that toons are a specific genetic branch of those living in the world, that allows those that possess said trait to partake in Toon Physics and have the ability to rapidly heal from any injury.
• Written Sound Effect: In "General HOGspital", Hamton laughs during his first day at Festerloon, producing a "Ha" out of his mouth, when the teacher tells him that there's no laughing in class. Hamton takes the "Ha" and swallows it. Later, when he's making his formula to fix toon DNA, he has the students laugh and puts all the "ha-ha"s into the formula.
• Year X: In the pilot, Sam greets the incoming freshmen class as the Class of Twenty Twenty… and that’s all we hear before he’s trampled.
• You Don't Look Like You:
  • Hamton's mother has been given a complete redesign.
  • Babs' mother was The Faceless and had orange fur in the original. Here, she has green fur and has her face shown.
• Your Makeup Is Running: Exaggerated in "Save the Loo Bru" when Buster, disguised as tough businesswoman Ruth Less to trick Montana Max, finds his makeup melting off while in front of Max's fireplace. It eventually falls off all in one piece like a mask.

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