{"id":16897,"date":"2014-10-05T08:12:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16897"},"modified":"2015-10-08T08:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:17:26","slug":"tiny-toons-night-ghoulery-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/05\/tiny-toons-night-ghoulery-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Toons’ Night Ghoulery (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the many aspects of Warner animation from the nineties is their ability to recall classic television and cinema, while also entertaining their target audience. How can you not love a Tiny Toons Halloween special that includes references to Rod Serling, Abbot and Costello, and \u201cDuel\u201d? \u201cNight Ghoulery\u201d is thankfully about as funny as the \u201cTiny Toons\u201d has ever been, and when they were on, they could really inspire some raucous laughter. Their brand of wacky and clever comedy set them apart from their Looney Tunes predecessors, allowing them to form their own niche, and it was successful to say the least. \u201cNight Ghoulery\u201d is an anthology of tales involving the Tiny Toons with narration by Babs Bunny, who takes on the visage of Rod Serling. Spoofing \u201cNight Gallery,\u201d the one hour special gives us a ton of really funny gags and in jokes that (even if kids don\u2019t understand them) are still hysterical.<\/p>\n

Plucky and Hamton lead the special with \u201cThe Tell Tale Vaccuum,\u201d a spin on the classic short story, where Plucky destroys Hamton\u2019s beloved vacuum. Soon the guilt of the crime overtakes him, driving him mad. \u201cSneezer the Sneezing Ghost\u201d stars the hilarious sneezing mouse as Furrball sets out to catch his ghost, due to demands by the dreaded Witch Hazel. \u201cThe Devil Dog on the Moors\u201d is a fun short segment involving Babs who is confronted by an evil cult that demands she wear horns to protect herself from a vicious hound of the moors. The finale which sports two surprise twists is memorable, thanks to Tress MacNeille\u2019s ace voice acting. \u201cFuel\u201d is a short but sweet spoof of Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cDuel.\u201d Running afoul a mysterious truck on the road, Calamity Coyote finds a truck stalking him, and soon discovers it\u2019s impossible to evade being run over by it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hilarious exaggeration of the movie that gives Calamity and Little Beeper a chance to be funny. No small feat considering I often found them a lame aspect of the series. \u201cDaniel Webfoot and the Devil\u201d is abrupt but still funny, featuring Plucky as Daniel Webfoot who goes to Montana Max\u2019s house to save his soul from Satan. Things don\u2019t go as planned because, who can outwit Satan? \u201cHold that Duck\u201d is a great spoof of Abbot and Costello featuring Bugs and Plucky in the titular roles, heading out to a mysterious mansion Plucky has inherited. Things go awry as Plucky is driven crazy by the spooks and ghosts in the house, and it ends on a funny final scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cNight of the Living Dull\u201d is a short but funny look at Gogo Dodo and his Wackyland pals evading boring door to door salesmen and rabid animation fanboys at every turn. \u201cFrankenmyra and Dizzygor\u201d is an okay spoof of \u201cFrankenstein\u201d with Elmyra the mad scientist building a twisted monster. Along with the dreaded cameo of Brain from Pinky and the Brain, foreshadowing the inevitable spin off between the characters, this is fairly forgettable. Finally, \u201cThe Night Ghoulery\u201d goes whole hog \u201cThe Twilight Zone\u201d with \u201cA Gremlin on the Wing,\u201d where the classic Looney Tunes gremlin begins tearing apart the plane Plucky is riding home. It\u2019s a hilarious satire of the classic episode of the Rod Serling series, ending in yet another goofy surprise ending. It\u2019s a shame FOX Kids didn\u2019t give this special enough respect, airing it in its original intended date on Halloween 1994. That doesn\u2019t detract from the entertainment value, thankfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the many aspects of Warner animation from the nineties is their ability to recall classic television and cinema, while also entertaining their target audience. How can you not love a Tiny Toons Halloween special that includes references to Rod Serling, Abbot and Costello, and \u201cDuel\u201d? \u201cNight Ghoulery\u201d is thankfully about as funny as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[99,103,219,340,409,441,580,1099],"class_list":["post-16897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-tv-tomb","tag-animation","tag-anthology","tag-comedy","tag-family","tag-ghosts","tag-halloween","tag-kids","tag-tiny-toons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16899,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897\/revisions\/16899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}