If one wants an animated show with fine animation that has visually inventive moments, a hip and infectious theme song, smart and wonderfully wacky writing, fun storytelling, characters that engage and entertain and great voice acting from some of the best and most prolific voice artists in the business, 'Tiny Toon Adventures' more than fits the bill. Am not going to say that every episode is great, but most range from good to wonderful.
"Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow", interesting for being the first episode sent into production, is one of the very good episodes of 'Tiny Toon Adventures' in my view. Not one of the show's best episodes by any stretch, and one has to not mind Elmyra to like it (as is the case for a fair share of episodes that centres primarily around one certain character, the Furrball-centric ones are an acquired taste). There is a lot to like about "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow" and it has pretty much all of the above cited elements that the show is more often than not so good in.
Maybe it took a little time to get going and there is a very distracting frequent goof with Elmyra's pants constantly changing. Am aware that there are always goofs in animation, but up to this point of 'Tiny Toon Adventures' the animators weren't usually as sloppy as that.
Otherwise, the animation is bright and colourful with the backgrounds being richly detailed. Continue to love the very inventive and wonderfully crazy facial expressions and reactions. The music is dynamic and never discordant with what's going on, and the theme song has not lost any ounce of its hip coolness or memorability.
The writing could have veered on the wrong side of cutesy and been annoying, but actually it is still typical 'Tiny Toon Adventures' razor sharp wit and wackiness worthy of classic Looney Tunes. Some nifty references to 'The Wizard of Oz' (Babs as Glinda), The 57th Academy Awards (when Buster presents Hamton with the Oscar) and 'ET' (that film's most iconic moment) Likewise with the story when it gets going, the wilder it gets and things do get wacky later on the more entertainment value there is.
Elmyra rarely was a problem for me on 'Tiny Toon Adventures' (she was on 'Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain' though and one of that show's main problems), though can understand why some find her annoying and there are more interesting characters on the show. She isn't a problem here, she isn't too cute and her personality, which is purposefully not likeable, fits the premise. Of the characters, my favourite is Buster. All the voice actors do a fine job, Charlie Adler and Cree Summer having the lion's share.
Summing up, very enjoyable. 8/10
"Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow", interesting for being the first episode sent into production, is one of the very good episodes of 'Tiny Toon Adventures' in my view. Not one of the show's best episodes by any stretch, and one has to not mind Elmyra to like it (as is the case for a fair share of episodes that centres primarily around one certain character, the Furrball-centric ones are an acquired taste). There is a lot to like about "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow" and it has pretty much all of the above cited elements that the show is more often than not so good in.
Maybe it took a little time to get going and there is a very distracting frequent goof with Elmyra's pants constantly changing. Am aware that there are always goofs in animation, but up to this point of 'Tiny Toon Adventures' the animators weren't usually as sloppy as that.
Otherwise, the animation is bright and colourful with the backgrounds being richly detailed. Continue to love the very inventive and wonderfully crazy facial expressions and reactions. The music is dynamic and never discordant with what's going on, and the theme song has not lost any ounce of its hip coolness or memorability.
The writing could have veered on the wrong side of cutesy and been annoying, but actually it is still typical 'Tiny Toon Adventures' razor sharp wit and wackiness worthy of classic Looney Tunes. Some nifty references to 'The Wizard of Oz' (Babs as Glinda), The 57th Academy Awards (when Buster presents Hamton with the Oscar) and 'ET' (that film's most iconic moment) Likewise with the story when it gets going, the wilder it gets and things do get wacky later on the more entertainment value there is.
Elmyra rarely was a problem for me on 'Tiny Toon Adventures' (she was on 'Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain' though and one of that show's main problems), though can understand why some find her annoying and there are more interesting characters on the show. She isn't a problem here, she isn't too cute and her personality, which is purposefully not likeable, fits the premise. Of the characters, my favourite is Buster. All the voice actors do a fine job, Charlie Adler and Cree Summer having the lion's share.
Summing up, very enjoyable. 8/10
