Tiny Toons Looniversity - Season 2
Stream on HBO Max
Runtime: Ten 22 Minute Episodes
Rated TV-PG
This is an ongoing review that will be updated as I watch episodes. I have watched all released so far.
Bugs, Babs, Hamton, Plucky, Sweetums, and the gang return for season two! This season introduces Elmyra, who was noticeably absent from the first season. If you grew up with the original show you’ll quickly notice that Emyra is a bit different in this one. She is an animal photographer, instead of a kid who kidnaps animals and forces them to become her bet…sometimes to lethal ends. She now finds ways to manipulate animals into letting her take photos of them.
Themes:
College life, roommates, art, animal photography, the big city, always being the person that takes the pictures, ACME, picture day, pimples, bad hair days, being honest, self discovery, yearbook, space travel, classes, video game addiction, home sickness, twins, fame, memes, secret societies, and pledge week.
Language: “I came here to eat bird seed and kick butt, but I’m all out of seed.”
Minor name calling such as
Typical exclamations of Daggum, dang, and jeez.
Stuff to be aware of:
Grossiness - Hampton pukes multiple times in episode one, but you only see him with his head in a trash can. Babs gets a pimple (that talks) and she tries to pop it. In episode three there are some evil aliens that have heads that look like brains, similar to the aliens in Mars Attacks.
Other - A pigeon construction worker makes comments on different parts of character’s physical features (like their ears) and gets flack about it. One example is, “you ain’t seen ears like these before.” There is some typical Looney Tunes cross dressing here and there. Some aliens talk about a friend of there that gets married, divorced, and married again. One character mentions, “that cold water must have felt pretty good on your buns.” The response is, “don’t talk about my buns!”
Overall: “Maybe, no, yes…”
The show finds its groove a little more in this season. The puns and humor works sometimes and I found that I laughed out loud a few times. I’m not a huge fan of the way they do Hamton’s voice, but the others do a great job. I loved that my favorite Looney Tune, Marvin the Martian, is in an episode. One complaint I have is that many of the Tiny Tunes don’t get much screen time. This is great if you love the five main characters, but not if you enjoy the others like Furball, Dizzy, Little Beeper, Calamity, and the others.
So far, nothing much different than the first season to be aware of. I have watched all the episodes released so far.