Which of these shows was the most dependent on pop culture references?

Which of these shows was the most dependent on pop culture references?

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From what I’ve seen, tiny toons.

Fuck is that in the top right

You telling me taz of all people got his own show

Definitely Tiny Toons. Animaniacs has a tad more original content and ideas, but Tiny Toons from conception is just a shadow of Looney Tunes.

You've never seen it? It was surprisingly decent, but nowhere near as memorable as the rest in the pic

Tiny Toons relied on more 90's references than Animaniacs did, though both absolutely made references to things from throughout history of American cinema and television. I always like to point at that Tiny Toons literally had Henny Youngman as a guest star.

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And Julie Brown.

Taz was really, really fucking popular in the 90s for some reason. I remember in elementary school, whoever got the Taz valentine on Valentine's day was considered a fucking badass for the rest of the day.

And a version of Robin Williams based on his coked-out comedy club days. I can use this gif to also point out that while TMS might have had the best animation out of the...nine or so studios they used...Startoons is definitely up there and has the undeniably cutest Babs.

The most memorable thing about it for me is Taz's Dad's Bing Crosby shtick.

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Tiny Toons tended to make topical references central to the plot in a way that the others didn't and also having the joke be the reference in itself.

The references in the other shows were often just bizarre but were still funny even without the context. Like Taz's dad being Bing Crosby; the cool glass of orange juice is a reference to ads Bing used to do but even if you don't know that, it's still funny because he just comes across as a weird, out-of-touch dad.

Not that Tiny Toons couldn't pull off stuff like that, you don't have to know who Shirley MacLaine is to like Shirley the Loon for instance, but it just seems a lot more dated despite coming out at around the same time as most of that material.

Histeria was the worst about that by a nigh infinite margin though.

'Nice cool refreshing glass of ohhh jayyy' is permanently etched into my memory

It was because 90’s was full edgy, so Taz was equated to being edgy.

That and "Blah blah blah yakity schmakity".

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user...I...I'm not sure how to tell you this.

Taz-Mania ran from 1991 to 1995.

Kids who were born in 2000 are 18 this year.

Yeah I’m that guy and was born in ‘95. But to be honest I’m as surprised as you are, I thought I was at least aware of pretty much all major Western cartoons.

So, does Taz, like...talk?

literally all of them

>So, does Taz, like...talk?

Yes and no? Sometimes, for comedic effect, there are whole words. Mostly it's just Jim Cummings spouting gibberish.

The premise of the show is that everyone in the family is generic American sitcom topes except for Taz himself.

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What was wrong with Histeria? I see a lot of people not liking the show and as someone who barely saw the show as a kid, I never really understood the hate, since I never really had an opinion on the show

It was mediocre. Not all that funny, few memorable characters, and hampered by its E/I requirements.

how was freakazoid so much better than the other spelbeirg era toons

Good cast and it wasn't sketch comedy.

Tazmania was fucking weird. Imagine the extreme meta-humor of Animaniacs in a sitcom setting. I remember there was one character whose entire shtick was that he was the only character who knew they were in a cartoon, but he was portrayed as a bit role Hollywood actor. He spent every scene he was in sucking up to Taz and trying to talk him into using his pull at WB to give him a lead role in another cartoon. Meanwhile, Taz didn't seem to understand what the fuck he was talking about.

>Freakazoid
>not sketch comedy, particularly season 1
I am confuse.

I remember seeing Taz-Mania syndicated well into the 00s.

>I can use this gif to also point out that while TMS might have had the best animation out of the...nine or so studios they used...Startoons is definitely up there and has the undeniably cutest Babs.
Honestly, I prefer StarToons over TMS, because when the latter hit lows, they really hit lows animation-wise. StarToons may have had inconsistent drawings (thanks to the different styles of its artists), but I feel they nailed the timing of certain shorts in a way not even TMS could do.

It helped that StarToons was the only American studio working on the show, so they had a better understanding of the timing and techniques of American animation; something the slave labor Japanese at TMS never really understood.

I'd say Pinky and the Brain aged a lot better than nearly everything else on that picture. It juggled some pretty clever references not restricted by what was popular at the time but you didn't need to understand most of them to laugh at the show.
Like this scene
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which is funny enough on it's own even if you don't know about the Orson Welles tapes (or even that Brain is supposed to be a parody of Welles which is part of why the joke works and isn't just a random pointless gag)

As an adult, I'm disappointed that they didn't push the gag to it's furthest reaches and made Taz's Dad a child abusing piece of shit.

>TMS
>TMS
>TMS
>TMS

You've said it over and over, and yet HE hasn't been summoned.

...Is it over? Is Sup Forums finally free of his autism?

Don't jinx it man

You'd think three would be enough.

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>...Is it over? Is Sup Forums finally free of his autism?

I don't know, Robin. But somehow, I don't think we've heard the last of Famicom.

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Your example, however, was part of an Animaniacs episode. PatB as its own show perhaps had a more consistent level of quality, but IMHO wasn't capable of hitting the highs that Animaniacs did.

Well, the reunion special episode was probably the funniest thing they ever did and that was part of the spin-off series.

Then again, Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain was so unbelievably fucking bad, it reduces the show's grade point average to a fucking F-.

>Well, the reunion special episode was probably the funniest thing they ever did and that was part of the spin-off series.

The "Make Room for Moses" bit was so fuckin good, though I can't help but feel that if the show hadn't been produced by ((((them)))) that bit would have never made it through.

>So, does Taz, like...talk?
Like said, only if it's for a gag. Funny thing I should mention, since so many people here seem to not even know about Taz-Mania, is that this show was the first time Jim Cummings ever voiced the character (and he's pretty much been cemented as THE voice for Taz since then).

This cartoon was also the first time Taz referred to himself by name rather than by pronoun (for example saying "Taz hate water" instead of "me hate water").

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Also worth mentioning the catchy theme song, another successful effort from Richard Stone.
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the cast for one. I think the writing was more for how Pinky & the Brain became its own solo show, like they sorta had the adult audience in mind, but kept the humor kid friendly.

Taz-Mania was definitely an underrated gem. It probably got overlooked because it didn't have Steven Spielberg backing it.

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Tazmania introduce me to Bin Crosby and Bob Hope by ways of Taz's Father and uncle.

Pinky and The Brain (Tazmania was the least)

I remember there was an episode of Animaniacs that made reference to the 'Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg are totally going out' thing. The story fucking died after six days and they still couldn't help themselves.

Warners had 7 studios on Tiny Toons, TMS had 11 studios including Telecom who was the head studio on Tiny Toons.
Japanese studios have a tendency to outsource alot and when a bad studio shows up it shows.
TMS is not a slave labor studio as they got paid 2600 yen at the time and work 8 hour shifts (the only time they ever slept under their desks is when they were doing Little Nemo, they stoped doing that when Nemo was finnished), on top of that the episodes they did of FMA:Brotherhood and Aikatsu cost more to make then the episodes done by Bones and Sunrise/BNP respectively due to higher wages.

TLDR; TMS is not A1 Pictures.

I feel like Animaniacs depended on pop culture references just as much as Tiny Toons, at least for the first few seasons. But unlike Tiny Toons (which was cancelled because of an overly creepy fan stalking the voice actresses), Animaniacs went on for way more seasons, so it later went on to dial it back a bit with the pop culture references.

Fuck off, Famicom/TMS Fag.

We ALMOST had a Tiny Toons/Animaniacs without your autistic ass showing up.

>...Is it over? Is Sup Forums finally free of his autism?

Nice going, asshole. You jinxed it: Now TMS Fag is here to shit up the thread.

Its not Family Guy

>Cartoons used to be animated

Based.

Fuck off, TMS Autist.

*2600 yen a hour at the time.

>TMS is not a slave labor studio

No, they're a sweatshop and they can't even afford air conditioning.

TMS is not a sweatshop, that's Trigger as even A1 as bad as they are have AC.

A couple of people here have already told you this for many months now so buzz off, you don't know what you're talking about.

Keep taking the bait, TMS Fag. Your autism cripples you.

I guess Famicom really WAS here then.

it's so annoying that the people who jerk off to these shows are the same people who complain about "MUH TOO MANY REFERENCES" in modern cartoons with a tenth as many references that are a tenth as integral to enjoying the stories

Geez, bites I missed it.

Was it archived?

Man these drawings are not doing a good job conveying the action at all lmao

What did he mean by this?

So you got me curious and I went digging to find it. It's a cameo appearance of a few seconds in an episode literally revolving around a Hollywood celebrity dinner. It's not like it came out of nowhere.

>Looney Tunes is so old now people don't even realize how full of pop culture references it was

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Tain't funny, McGee!

Weren't most of the characters just parodies of famous people!

Stop shouting goddamn

Some were, like Foghorn Leghorn. I would say that better describes Hanna-Barbera, though.

Morocco Mole = Peter Lorre
Top Cat = Phil Silvers
Big Duke (Posse Impossible) = John "the Duke" Wayne
Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble = Jackie Gleason and Art Carney
Yogi Bear = also Art Carney
Snagglepuss = Bert Lahr
Jabberjaw = Curly Howard
Peter Potamus and Lippy the Lion = Joe E. Brown
Wally Gator = Ed Wynn

My first bicycle had prints of Taz on it, weird in retrospect since now he seems like one of the more obscure Looney Tunes.

>watching the french AVGN knockoff play the Taz-Mania SNES game
>he complains that water hurts you and that doesn't make sense
>mfw

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>But unlike Tiny Toons (which was cancelled because of an overly creepy fan stalking the voice actresses)
Really? Story?

>Either before or shortly after the stalking incident (we can't nail down a date), Tom Ruegger (one of the writers for and co-creators of the Tiny Toons show) was interviewed on TV, and related the stalking incidents as one of the reasons for losing interest and moving on to Animaniacs. He said he was fed up with the "internet fans", adding that the final episode of the show (a Halloween special) contained a satirical poke at "the main guy". Falk was indirectly caricatured in that episode as "The world's most terrifying creature", an overweight, pathetic, obsessive, mumbling loser who talked about various flaws in the visual presentation and wondered aloud when Fifi LeFume would get her own show.
IIRC the experience turned off Tress MacNeille from attending conventions for many years.
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Because of the lack of two things:
1.Production observation
2.A script

On that subject, I think too many reviewers on YouTube seem abrasive to that game because they don't quite "get" it. And that's mostly because there's really no other game like it. It's got elements of a racing game, a platformer, and maybe even some kind of prototypical collectathon. The only valid complaint is that it can get a little repetitive.