Looniversity Daze (Tiny Toon Adventures)

Looniversity Daze is the 42nd episode of Season 1 from Tiny Toon Adventures.

The Learning Principal
Buster is sent to the principal's office for pranking Yosemite Sam with just whoopee cushions and slingshots. When he got to the office, he found out the Great and Powerful Principal was revealed to be none other than Bugs Bunny himself.

Eating Between the Lines
During lunchtime in the library, Bookworm is being pursued by Sweetie Bird through a series of book-related gags. But when she finally captures Bookworm, the bell rang and everyone resumed class.

What's Up, Nurse?
Buster and Babs talk about the Looniversity faculty, including Pete Puma the Janitor, and Foghorn Leghorn, who assigns his students surprise pop quizzes. Plucky fakes an illness to get out of a pop quiz, but soon finds himself in trouble under the care of Nurse Elmyra. He admits that he was faking an illness and decides to take that test. Unfortunately, he was crushed and bruised by the other students and is put in the hospital for real. He ran for his life upon seeing Nurse Elmyra again. Afterwards, Buster and Babs return in time to sing a farewell song to the viewers.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The writing in this episode is pretty good for the most part, at least for the first and last segment of the episode.
 * 2) While Encore's animation tends to fall flat, some of the scenes were reanimated by Jon McClenahan for rebroadcast. The reason is because Steven Spielberg found some of the scenes to be too stiff for a cartoon of high quality and that they need to be redone.
 * 3) * Even then, it isn't enough to save Encore's poorly done animation. Most of them were kept in reruns, resulting in a bizarre mix between Hanna-Barbera esque animation and StarToons.
 * 4) Ed Love's animation is spotty at best, involving one of the Glee Club scenes with Pete Puma and the ending with Buster and Babs singing their last song to end the episode.
 * 5) Buster is still a good character in the first segment and doesn't overreact when he is sent to the principal's office. He was also clever in unmasking the Great and Powerful Principal, who turns out to be none other than Bugs Bunny.
 * 6) Plucky, in the last segment, learns his lesson when he realized that Elmyra is the nurse and that faking sick to get out of a test is not the right thing to do.
 * 7) * His chances of taking a test were soon crushed by being hospitalized for real. So, Plucky couldn't take anymore of Nurse Elmyra's antics and ran away from the hospital.
 * 8) While the first and last segments are more story and moral driven (despite having funny jokes and visual gags to keep them from becoming too bland), the second is more slapstick-based. The Bookworm defends himself from getting eaten by Sweetie Bird. It was able to mix a "books come to life" formula with a "predator and prey" formula.
 * 9) The songs in the bridging sequences do relate to the plot of three segments and they don't drag, since Buster and Babs are part of the ACME Glee Club.
 * 10) Great voice acting from Charlie Adler, Tress MacNeille, Joe Alaskey, Don Messick, Jeff Bergman, Noel Blanc, Candi Milo and Cree Summer.
 * 11) The music is still great and is a tribute to Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn's compositions. It was interesting for an Encore-animated episode to have such a scene-specific music score, despite its poor animation quality.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Although the writing is good, the animation from Encore Cartoons is pretty poor and the directors from the show weren't there to supervise the animation process.
 * 2) * The ink and paint by Fil-Cartoons weren't supervised either, as they let loose with mildly inconsistent results. For example, they made Plucky purple instead of green.
 * 3) After the show was cancelled from Fox Kids, most of Jon McClenahan's retakes remained lost when the episode appeared in reruns on Nickelodeon and on DVD. Some remained, such as the Bugs Bunny scene and the interactions between Buster and Hamton.

Trivia

 * This episode is notable for the conclusion to The Great and Powerful Principal story arc. Afterwards, Bugs Bunny is the main principal at ACME Looniversity for the rest of the series.
 * One of the three episodes to be animated at Encore Cartoons, alongside "Strange Tales of Weird Science" and "Hero Hamton".