The merging of two bad fandoms. Yes, very bad
Tiny Toon Adventures, Warner Bros., 1990
Color, Sound
Season 1, Episode 36: “Animaniacs”.
Get this: a cartoon about making cartoons! Bizarrely, the tutorial that Plucky Duck gets in this short more resembles the process of the 1940s and ’50s than it does the actual process of 1990. By this point, the major animation studios (Warners, Famous Studios, Hanna-Barbera, even Disney) had been either defunct, dormant, or dull for over thirty years. In the intervening time, the major studios had established an assembly line style to animation described by John Kricfalusi here: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2008/11/jetsons-1984-george-ghoul-and-trends.html Most actual animating was done overseas in China, Korea, and Japan. Writing, storyboarding, and key frames were done at the studios in California, and the inbetweens and animation were done abroad.
This television cartoon represents a major step away from corporate run animation back toward the animation unit style of the Golden Age Studio system. The creator-driven movement sought to recreate the Golden Age for a new television audience. Characters got looser, and returned to some of the Golden Age’s wildness. The ’90s added a pop-culture savvy, post-modern self-awareness. The US Congress also required all “children’s” programming, including all Saturday morning cartoons, to have some amount of educational material.
Well I just tried this out and it wasn’t that great.
There were about two minutes between pouring in the milk and my actual eating of it. In this time all of the cookies had already become soggy. The centers of the Oreo’s were good throughout the entire bowl but the rest was a chocolatey mush. Also I used the entire bag which was really necessary for one bowl.
Overall I would not recommend.
