Am watching Tiny Tunes on my computer. Saturday morning cartoons FTW.

blinkidybah  gave me this clip last night and told me she thought Babs Bunny from Tiny Tunes was a mid-nineties feminist heroine.

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And sporffle all you like, but the episode is so about the birth of feminist criticism/research, presented in a non-patronizing manner for children, that preserves the historical reality of dissatisfied female artists/academics dealing with the dearth of legacy.

There’s something utterly charming about Babs, who’s sarcastic and sharp, sitting alone in the vault, falling in wide-eyed, joyful love with Honey. The idea of re-discovering/re-appropriating the material via Babs building the theater (tricking Montana Max to get the money) and showing the cartoons, so that other people can see this thing she loves so much, is well-developed.

The leitmotif running through the episode of the boys fighting over ‘Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy,’ this exclusively male contest, feels real and apropos. And the analogues between the cartoon Honey getting pushed out and the studio-system’s marginalization of their female actors in that period are Sunset Boulevard-style dead on.

And there’s all those moments when the show is cleverer than it needs to be. The Groucho Marx joke ftw.


Ed Sullivan (in itself a great reference), unenthused after an act drops out:
    “Great, now all I’ve got is mop-topped Liverpudlians!”


For American kids that’s a hard reference to get (we don’t hear words like Mancunian/Liverpudlian, not even in college level history classes, until we grow up and have to write slash :p ), and kind of an awesome one.

The show’s language was always super-saturated and cute, like a 90s children’s Bertie Wooster. The Bosco/Honey at the end is super-sweet too.

Thanks, Tiny Toons. You were a good show to grow up on.

Also blinkidybah  linked me to the Animaniacs’ President’s Song.

God, that show was also clever/fun!

Am watching Tiny Tunes on my computer. Saturday morning cartoons FTW.

blinkidybah  gave me this clip last night and told me she thought Babs Bunny from Tiny Tunes was a mid-nineties feminist heroine.

Part II
Part III

And sporffle all you like, but the episode is so about the birth of feminist criticism/research, presented in a non-patronizing manner for children, that preserves the historical reality of dissatisfied female artists/academics dealing with the dearth of legacy.

There’s something utterly charming about Babs, who’s sarcastic and sharp, sitting alone in the vault, falling in wide-eyed, joyful love with Honey. The idea of re-discovering/re-appropriating the material via Babs building the theater (tricking Montana Max to get the money) and showing the cartoons, so that other people can see this thing she loves so much, is well-developed.

The leitmotif running through the episode of the boys fighting over ‘Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy,’ this exclusively male contest, feels real and apropos. And the analogues between the cartoon Honey getting pushed out and the studio-system’s marginalization of their female actors in that period are Sunset Boulevard-style dead on.

And there’s all those moments when the show is cleverer than it needs to be. The Groucho Marx joke ftw.


Ed Sullivan (in itself a great reference), unenthused after an act drops out:
    “Great, now all I’ve got is mop-topped Liverpudlians!”


For American kids that’s a hard reference to get (we don’t hear words like Mancunian/Liverpudlian, not even in college level history classes, until we grow up and have to write slash :p ), and kind of an awesome one.

The show’s language was always super-saturated and cute, like a 90s children’s Bertie Wooster. The Bosco/Honey at the end is super-sweet too.

Thanks, Tiny Toons. You were a good show to grow up on.

Also blinkidybah  linked me to the Animaniacs’ President’s Song.

God, that show was also clever/fun!