'Tiny Toons Looniversity' Is On Enroll, Debuting Its Updated Theme Song At San Diego Comic-Con
That fall release is coming really soony
By the time you’re reading this, Looney Tunes Cartoons will have released its final batch of cartoons on Max, but at San Diego Comic-Con last weekend, attendees got to experience the next series in the world of Looney Tunes. Tiny Toons Looniversity, the long-awaited Tiny Toon Adventures debuted its theme song, updating the original for the new circumstances.
No longer are they a little Looney, but that’s the aspiration now, for the purposes of fame. Now living on Acme Looniversity campus, the college of their dreams, the whole of Acme Acres is now a world apart, irrelevant to this iteration. They are no longer invading your TV, but that is probably recognizing TV’s not the only device around anymore, nor are they concerned with the censors. As students instead of hosts, it’s no longer the show about to start, but class, Of course there’s a jab at tuition fees, they tip their cap twice to their mentors, the esteemed Looney Tunes that serve as faculty. They go the extra mile with a throwback filter on “The teaching staff’s been getting laughs since 1933!”, a fantastic touch. It’s even much earlier .Babs and Buster are still furry and funny, but Montana Max’s money and the pain of Elmyra Duff are out in favor of punny comedy and guaranteed… friendship? I mean sure, siblings are guaranteed friends so it works.
Hampton and Plucky do get actual descriptions this time: The former a worrier, the latter the perfect frenemy. However, they’re not consecutive items anymore: Sweety gets a major promotion with her own line that couldn’t be parsed. Due to this, yucky Dizzy Devil, unlucky Furball, and insane Go-Go Dodo (how did you especially make it in the first place?) are all dropped. The new theme comes from composer Matthew Janszen, based on Bruce Broughton’s original.
The main cast of the younger generation has all been recast, with Eric Bauza as Buster, as well as Daffy and Gossamer; Ashleigh Hairston as Babs; David Errigo Jr. takes both Hamton J. Pig and Plucky; and Tessa Netting as the most-redesigned Sweety. Meanwhile the staff has plenty of familiar voices. Candi Milo moves from voicing that character to one she took on following the death of June Foray: Granny, who serves as Looniversity Dean. Milo’s also continuing in the role of Hazel she took on at the same time. Jeff Bergman is this series’s Bugs, as he Bob Bergen’s Porky, and Cree Summer’s Elmyra continue from Adventures. Indeed, both Max and Elmyra are present but how involved they’ll be is unconfirmed. Bergman also voices Sylvester and Foghorn Leghorn. Fred Tatasciore continues to voice Taz and Yosemite Sam.
Class is in session at Tiny Toons Looniversity this fall on Cartoon Network and Max, showrun by Erin Gibson and Nate Cash. Steven Spielberg returns as executive producer alongside Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios president Sam Register, Amblin Television’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank. It was ordered in 2020 as a presumed counter to the revival of sibling series Animaniacs, which ended up running for three seasons that concluded in February. School yourself on the Looniversity theme song below.
