TwoWhiteSocks: When I think of it, the scene where Margot enters a hot tub with Plucky and some other male duck from Perfecto may just have been the genesis of my cartoonphilia. That was pretty racy stuff for a kid's show.
Anonymous5: TWS: Tiny Toons was a lot more daring than people realize. Even as a little kid when I saw stuff like that episode where Perfecto was trying to get Plucky to help them beat Acme via coeds in hot tubs (spot-on parody of corruption in college sports recruiting), or the episode where they got censored by anti-violence activists and Babs and Buster went to the White House to protest and they (accurately) portrayed Dan Quayle as a retarded man-child, they were pushing the edge of what you could get away with in a kid's show. People are more likely to remember the political satire in Animaniacs, but Tiny Toons blazed the trail for it and showed Warner Bros. what they could get away with and still sell it as family-oriented.
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