Warner Home Video Brings More Of The Emmy® Award Winning Animated Series “Tiny Toon Adventures” And “Freakazoid!” To DVD On April 21, 2009
(February 23, 2008 – Burbank, CA) – More cartoon madness will be unleashed on April 21, 2009 when Warner Home Video (WHV) releases further installments of the zany animated television series “Tiny Toon Adventures” and “Freakazoid!” on DVD. “Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1, Volume 2,” will feature 34 episodes on a four-disc set which will retail for $44.98 SRP. “Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid! Season 2” will include 11 episodes on a two-disc set which will retail for $26.99 SRP. Order due date for both has been set for March 17, 2009.
They’re tiny, they’re toony, they’re all a little loony! Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, “Tiny Toon Adventures” is a Daytime Emmy® Award-winning animated series that spawned a whole new generation of madcap Looney Tunes characters including Buster Bunny, Babs Bunny, Plucky Duck and Hamton J. Pig, among others. The characters reside in Acme Acres and are enrolled at Acme Looniversity, where they are schooled under the wise (guy) guidance of veteran toon legends such as Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd and others in hopes of graduating with a "Diploma of Lunacy."
Important life lessons combined with outrageous high jinks and clever pop culture references, this is what comprises the second volume of “Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1.” In “Inside Plucky Duck,” Buster and Babs go inside the brain of Plucky to see what makes him tick. The bunny duo also gives pointers on how to get a date with that special someone in “Dating, Acme Acres Style.” In “Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?,” the Looney Tunes stars and the Tiny Toons gang all go to Paris for a big awards ceremony honoring Bugs Bunny. Buster and Babs head off to Acmeland, but a wrong turn takes them to a town that is terrorized by a posse of outlaw coyotes in “High Toon.” Gogo Dodo teaches about the evils of peer pressure and immoral crimes in “Elephant Issues.”
Summary of Featured Episodes:
Disc 1 – “A Ditch in Time,” “Animaniacs!,” “Career Oppor-Toon-ities,” “Strange Tales of Weird Science,” “Inside Plucky Duck,” “The Acme Bowl,” “Dating,” “Acme Acres Style” and “Looniversity Days”
Disc 2 – “Best O’Plucky Duck Day,” “Hero Hamton,” “Whale’s Tales,” “Ask Mr. Popular,” “Son On Looniversity Daze,” “Mr. Popular’s Rules of Cool,” “Fairy Tales for the 90’s,” “Who’s Bopped Bugs Bunny?” and “ Tiny Toon Music Television”
Disc 3 – “The Return to the Acme Acres Zone,” “The Acme Home Shopping Show,” “Weirdest Story Ever Told,” “Viewer Mail Day,” “Son of the Wacko World of Sports,” “Pollution Solution,” “You Asked for it Again” and “Brave Tales or Real Rabbits”
Disc 4 – “How Sweetie It Is,” “New Character Day,” “Here’s Hamton,” “No Toon is an Island,” “K-ACME TV,” “High Toon,” “Pledge Week,” “Going Places” and “Elephant Issues”
Also executive produced by Spielberg, “Freakazoid!” is a Daytime Emmy® Award-winning series that chronicles the adventures of Freakazoid, a manic, insane superhero who battles a vast array of super villains. Freakazoid is the alter-ego of geeky teen Dexter Douglas, who upon surfing the web one night, is swept into a digital techno-electric smash up that zaps him in the gigabytes and he is transformed from geek to Freakazoid, a smart-mouthing, butt-kicking, mega-voltage superhero.
Donning his signature red underwear and lightning-streaked hair, Freakazoid the electrifying superhero saves the day on more than one occasion during the action-packed second season of the show. Freakazoid battles against several of his worst arch-enemies including the Lobe, Cobra Queen, Cave Guy, Invisibo and Armando Guitierrez. His closest friends, including Sgt. Mike Cosgrove and girlfriend Steph come to his aid on several occasions. Freakazoid encounters an ancient monster with the ability to devour the energy of other people in order to stay young forever. He also faces an evil scientist who combines humans with orangutans to form “Orangumen.” When his girlfriend is turned to stone by arch-nemesis Jeepers, it’s up to Freakazoid to change her back.
Summary of Featured Episodes:
Disc 1 – “Dexter’s Date,” “The Freakazoid,” “Mission: Freakazoid,” “Virtual Freak,” “Hero Boy” and “ A Matter of Love”
Disc 2 – “Island of Dr. Mystico,” “Two Against Freak,” “Freak-a-Panel”/”Tomb of Invisibo,” “Normadeus” and “Statuesque”
Special Features on “Freakazoid Season 2” include:
• A full season’s worth of commentaries (in five minutes or less)
• An original demo tape recording that provides fans of Freakazoid’s zany songs the chance to hear the creative genius of Richard Stone at work
• A featurette that looks back on creating the final episode and bringing a close to a production that ended far too soon “Both of these animated series quickly established a loyal fan base and became enormously popular with television viewers. The programs consistently delivered clever writing, imaginative plotlines and brilliant animation,” said Amit Desai, WHV Vice President, Family, Animation and Sports Marketing. He added, “That devotion from fans has remained strong to this day. It is evident in the way the first two volumes were received by consumers. We are delighted to bring more ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’ and ‘Freakzoid!’ to the public.” The Credits Warner Bros. Animation has been producing award-winning original animation since 1930, when it released its first cartoon, “Sinkin' in the Bathtub.” Since then, Warner Bros. Animation’s characters have set the standard for innovative, quality animation. Producing for network and cable television, online, home entertainment and feature films both domestically and internationally, Warner Bros. Animation is highly respected for its creative and technical excellence, as well as maintaining the studio’s rich cartoon heritage. Warner Bros. Animation also oversees the creative use of, and production of animated programming based on classic animated characters from the Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics libraries. Warner Bros. Animation is one of the most honored animation studios in history, garnering a grand total of six Academy Awards®, 35 Emmy® Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents’ Choice Award, a Humanitas Award, two Prism Awards and 20 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation). With operations in 90 international territories Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.# # #
• An original demo tape recording that provides fans of Freakazoid’s zany songs the chance to hear the creative genius of Richard Stone at work
• A featurette that looks back on creating the final episode and bringing a close to a production that ended far too soon “Both of these animated series quickly established a loyal fan base and became enormously popular with television viewers. The programs consistently delivered clever writing, imaginative plotlines and brilliant animation,” said Amit Desai, WHV Vice President, Family, Animation and Sports Marketing. He added, “That devotion from fans has remained strong to this day. It is evident in the way the first two volumes were received by consumers. We are delighted to bring more ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’ and ‘Freakzoid!’ to the public.” The Credits Warner Bros. Animation has been producing award-winning original animation since 1930, when it released its first cartoon, “Sinkin' in the Bathtub.” Since then, Warner Bros. Animation’s characters have set the standard for innovative, quality animation. Producing for network and cable television, online, home entertainment and feature films both domestically and internationally, Warner Bros. Animation is highly respected for its creative and technical excellence, as well as maintaining the studio’s rich cartoon heritage. Warner Bros. Animation also oversees the creative use of, and production of animated programming based on classic animated characters from the Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics libraries. Warner Bros. Animation is one of the most honored animation studios in history, garnering a grand total of six Academy Awards®, 35 Emmy® Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents’ Choice Award, a Humanitas Award, two Prism Awards and 20 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation). With operations in 90 international territories Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.