Similarities between Muppet Babies and Looney Tunes

[bobhopesite]

Similarities Between Muppet Babies and Baby Looney Tunes

1. Kermit is like Bugs.

2. Daffy is like Gonzo.

3. Taz is just like Animal (crazy talk)

4. They have a lady who watches them. (ex. Granny and Nanny)

5. Lola is like Piggy.

6. The characters are not played by there Original Perforrmer who usally plays them.

[Rowlf's Roadie]

Well, DUH! As if Baby Looney Tunes hasn't been done before. :rolleyes:

[Infinity Sirius]

Okay, when has Baby Looney Tunes been done before in an animated cartoon series? Sure, they have been done in the orginal Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies; not in their own series.

[ravagefrackle]

well it is a simalar concept to TINY TOONS, as i recall reading the idea behind that show was to avoid creating another "muppet babies" like show hence the reason new charecter with simalar personalities were created (quite well done as well , was one of my guilty pleasures back in high school, i guess comming up with original concepts and doing new things is beyond most of this big corporate entertainment companies, god forbid they should try to do something new instead of re-inventing the wheel.

maybe the muppets should try something like thta, with the classics teaching a performance class to new upand comming muppet kids,

[Rowlf's Roadie]

I meant that the whole concept was done before as Muppet Babies.

[Klonoa]

There is a Baby Looney Tunes cartoon. It's horrible.

Not like Muppet Babies, which was brilliant.

--Klonoa

[McFraggle]

Yeah, I seen a little bit of the Baby Looney Tunes a few years ago and Klonoa is right, it's horrible.

[hdofu]

well it is a simalar concept to TINY TOONS,

The concept was simmilar, but Tiny Toons was a vastly superior result

[Muppet Crypts]

I agree Tiny Ton s was funny Muppet Babies was a masterpeice and Baby lonny toons has its merits

[bobhopesite]

It thought tiny toons were like muppet babies sort of.

[Fozzie Bear]

Jim Henson created the Muppet Babies for The Muppets Take Manhattan, and after that we were inundated with horrible spin-offs like A Pup Named Scooby Doo, Flintstone Kids, Tom and Jerry Kids, and it still goes on today. There were duo shows such as Popeye and Son, Pink Panther and Son...the list goes on.

Muppet Babies was the first in any franchise to make a big deal out of prequelling adult characters as babies.

[Drtooth]

Don't forget the crappy "Gadget boy and Heather" show.... at least Don Adams supplied the voice... oy!

Yeah, baby Looney Tunes was pathetic. the others were passable, Tiny Toons was great (though I much preferred Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain). But Muppet Babies was the best of all of them....

[bobhopesite]

I think all of its just the same.

[Skeeter Muppet]

The concept was simmilar, but Tiny Toons was a vastly superior result

Even though I'm a fan of Muppet Babies, I have to agree that Tiny Toon Adventures probably did pull the concept off better than most shows with that theme. It was probably because the characters in Tiny Toons weren't younger versions of the Looney Tunes characters, like the Muppet Babies and so many other shows that were inspired by that. They may have resembled their adult counterparts to a point, but that was where the similarities ended. The TTA characters were their own individual characters who had their own schtick and their own lives.

-Kim

[Phillip Chapman]

An important thing to keep in mind is that Muppet Babies was the first babies/kids version of classic characters. The Muppets Babies were the first television show to use the "babies" concept.

Many others followed because Muppet Babies was so sucessful (Flintstone Kids, Scooby Doo Kids, Tiny Toons, etc).

[McFraggle]

Muppet Babies was the first in any franchise to make a big deal out of prequelling adult characters as babies.

I think they did a better job than anybody else as well. Tiny Toons was great but it's not really a prequel as much as a spin-off.

[Daffyfan2003]

Jim Henson created the Muppet Babies for The Muppets Take Manhattan, and after that we were inundated with horrible spin-offs like A Pup Named Scooby Doo, Flintstone Kids, Tom and Jerry Kids, and it still goes on today.
Careful. I liked "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo." Anyway, I really liked "Muppet Babies." I used to watch that one a lot more than the original Muppet shows and movies.

[Fozzie Bear]

Most folks raised during the Muppet Babies years have watched them more than TMS or most other puppet related Muppet productions. I have a cousin who still considers Muppet Babies the ORIGINAL Muppets.

Pup named Scooby Doo wasn't TERRIBLE, but I still can't stomach it. I prefer the older versions of those characters...sans Scrappy. Scrappy is actually the worst thing to ever happen to ANY franchise!!

[Daffyfan2003]

I understand. You're entitled to your opinion.

[Drtooth]

Most folks raised during the Muppet Babies years have watched them more than TMS or most other puppet related Muppet productions. I have a cousin who still considers Muppet Babies the ORIGINAL Muppets.

Personally, I had the rare privalage (sp?) of being able to see TMS reruns Saturday morning (locally) an hour before MB was on... SWEET!

Pup named Scooby Doo wasn't TERRIBLE, but I still can't stomach it. I prefer the older versions of those characters...sans Scrappy. Scrappy is actually the worst thing to ever happen to ANY franchise!!

I liked it myself, considering Scooby Doo is a pretty campy show. I prefer the newer, "What's new Scooby Doo?" show because there's more possibilities (not just throwing on a costume) and the dialogue is pretty self satirical in it's own way (funnier than the self satirical stuff from the live action movie). My favorite example:

Villain: I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids.

Velma: Technically you DID get away with it. No one got hurt, so you didn't do anything wrong.

But totall agreement on Scrappy.... people complain about the Great Gazoo on Flintstones, Orbity on Jetsons, and Corperal Capeman from Inspector Gadget... Scrappy was just the worst thing they did to the frnachise, even worse than the 3000 ripoffs of Scooby Doo Hanna Barbara spat out in the 70's....

[Disneys Muppets]

Its like the baby muppets went into a cloning machine and Baby Looney Tunes came out.

Taz and animal are crazy.

[Philo and Gunge]

Careful. I liked "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo." Anyway, I really liked "Muppet Babies." I used to watch that one a lot more than the original Muppet shows and movies.
And thank lord it's better then "Scooby-Doo Meets The Boo Brothers" (Warner Bros. still calls it a 'brand-new movie').

[Klonoa]

Sigh...nobody likes Scrappy but me.

But then, I tend to like the annoying kid characters in things. Some of my favorites are Scrappy, Tails, Genis, Ewoks, Jar Jar...(ducks flying objects).

When I was little I'd wake up my parents by jumping on their bed and yelling, "Dah dah dah dahdah! Puppy Power!"

--Klonoa

[Skeeter Muppet]

Sigh...nobody likes Scrappy but me.

I like Scrappy!

-Kim

[McFraggle]

I like the Ewoks and Scrappy too!

[sarah_yzma]

I don't think bobhopesite is talking about tiny toons (although I could be wrong) I think it's about the actual cartoon with baby looney toons (the name of it, I can't recall) I've seen it, it's not all that good

[McFraggle]

I've seen it. It's pretty bad.

[Beakerfan]

I think you guys are all forgetting that all of these shows were geared for little kids. And most little kids shows have to be really simple-minded for little kids to comprehend them. Now, yes, being a teenager, the only one I would really watch is probably Muppet Babies, because it's not as simple minded, and because I still find it funny. I'll also have you know I used to watch every single one of those shows!

[Drtooth]

While we're on the subject, Jeremy Scott (the head writer for Muppetbabies) worked on 2 proposed pilots (or at least one, I have to double check) for a Baby-fication of the Three Stooges...obvious pun title "Wee Stooges"

At this point in time, you should know that Jeremy was the grandson of Moe of the stooges. This also explains the reason they used so many clips of Stooge shorts in episodes.

You know, I thought Baby Looney Tunes died, but apparently thy air 2 eps a day on Cartoon Network.... yet another reason not to get cable.

[Klonoa]

Jeremy Scott? Don't you mean Jeffrey Scott?

I know that a Jeffrey Scott wrote scripts for the Muppet Babies cartoon. Other good ones he worked on were TaleSpin. And of course, he's had his share of stinkers, too, like the Pac-Man cartoon and Mega Man and Super Friends. I think he has his own Web page somewhere.

--Klonoa
Hey I loved the Pac-Man cartoon, but it certainly wasn't well written!

[McFraggle]

TaleSpin, now there was another good show.

[Klonoa]

Yeah, Disney TV cartoons around that time were actually pretty decent. DuckTales, Gummi Bears, Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, DarkWing Duck. They were all pretty fun.

--Klonoa

[Drtooth]

Jeremy Scott? Don't you mean Jeffrey Scott?

I know that a Jeffrey Scott wrote scripts for the Muppet Babies cartoon. Other good ones he worked on were TaleSpin. And of course, he's had his share of stinkers, too, like the Pac-Man cartoon and Mega Man and Super Friends. I think he has his own Web page somewhere.

--Klonoa
Hey I loved the Pac-Man cartoon, but it certainly wasn't well written!

Yah know, I have his "How to write for cartoons" book and I STILL screwed up his name....

He also worked on the last season of the original TMNT, he had an excellent handle on the Turtle's characters, but the episodes were'nt too strong. mainly he came into the series when Lord Dregg replaced Shredder...

[Klonoa]

Wait a minute, are you talking about the TMNT episodes where the turtles could turn into super mutant monsters all ugly with spiky shells? And they'd only turn that way during pivital plot points? Oh brother! :)

The most recent thing I read that Jeffrey Scott did was DragonTales.

--Klonoa

[Drtooth]

Wait a minute, are you talking about the TMNT episodes where the turtles could turn into super mutant monsters all ugly with spiky shells? And they'd only turn that way during pivital plot points? Oh brother! :)

Undoubtedly almost as bad as the live action female fifth Turtle! I feel kinda sorry for the guy.... he didn't really start these rediculous concepts... he worked on season ten, and the Super Mutations (as per my understanding) started in Season 9, by Dave Wise. It's almost like they were sabotaging the show for Jeff's arrival, so he could take the blaime.
:p

They were pretty lousy, though. Seen them on the old Ninja Turtles DVD rerelease. Four episodes of Season 10 were bonus features, backing up the first 5 episodes mad in 1987!

[McFraggle]

Yeah, Disney TV cartoons around that time were actually pretty decent. DuckTales, Gummi Bears, Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, DarkWing Duck. They were all pretty fun.

--Klonoa

Yeah, I liked all of those. DuckTales was probably my fave though. :)

[Drtooth]

The only good thing about Baby Looney Tunes? June Foray is the voice of Granny.... and that's coming from a die Hard Bullwinkle fan, like me!