YMMV / Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

• Broken Base: Plucky's treatment throughout the movie is either incredibly unfair or a Karma Houdini Warranty for being a jerk.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Bimbette Skunk. She only appears for a brief few seconds to serve as the catalyst that pushes Fifi past her Rage Breaking Point with Johnny, but going off most Fanon, you'd swear she was a major character in the show.
  • The insane hitchhiker who attacks Plucky in the car. On one of the regular episodes (a music video collection featuring a take on "Yakkity Yak"), he was also an escaped convict who hides out in the laundromat while Plucky is cleaning clothes. He also appears in the third-season episode "Goin' Up" (where Baby Plucky is obsessed with a mall elevator), which is also animated by TMS (like this movie was).
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Plucky predicts that they will reach Happy World Land on April 6, 2021. Joe Alaskey (Plucky), Don Messick (Hamton J. Pig), and Jonathan Winters (Wade Pig) did not live to see that date, so it's fortunate Wade turned down Plucky's theory and got them to the Park much, much sooner.
• Heartwarming Moments: Babs' and Buster's little moment of Ship Tease towards the end:
  Babs: Oh, Buster, I didn't think that I'd get a chance to tell you...
  Buster: Shh! I feel the same way.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Buster and Babs tell Superman to get his own video. A few years later, Superman: The Animated Series aired. Not only did it have the same crew as Tiny Toon Adventures, but the 3-parter "World's Finest" originally premiered as a television movie in prime time, which was then almost immediately released on home video as The Batman Superman Movie.
  • Two decades later, the same crew made Superman vs. the Elite, there were other Direct to Video Superman movies, but most of them were done by other studios (like Moi Animation and Lotto Animation, both of which are in South Korea).
  • Some combination of Harsher and Hilarious is that Plucky's questionable calculation of when they would arrive at Happy World Land lands him on "April 6th, 2021." Meaning that, in what is already a road trip comedy of errors, they would arrive at an entertainment park still in the midst of lockdown and the place would be closed.
  • The Happy World Land theme song mentions that tickets cost $80 a day, which was considered comically expensive in 1993. 30+ years later, a ticket to Disneyland (of which Happy World Land is an Expy) can easily exceed twice that amount during peak season.
• Mandela Effect: The title is frequently misremembered as "How I Spent My Summer Vacation". That was actually its Working Title until it changed later in production, but people still tend to think that's the actual title.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The spoof of the infamous THX promo and Deep Note: "THUD: The Audience is Now Deaf".
  • When looking at the map, Plucky predicts they will reach Happy World Land on April 6, 2021. On that exact day, Twitter user Yotome tweeted the clip.
• Tear Jerker: The treatment Johnny Pew gave to Fifi after all she went through. Unlike many other series, there were no gags or slapstick (even Fifi's journey in trying to meet Johnny were filled with slapstick on her expense), and when Johnny declared (and lied) that he did not have any pens to give her an autograph, for this very once, Fifi actually cried by screaming loudly first instead of just her usual 'Le boo hoo' or the likes. All of it just to underscore how miserable Fifi is with the treatment of Johnny. Though it builds up for her awesome moment to shine more.

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