The female characters were taken seriously as personalities and developed, unusual considering the opposite is usually true for cartoons of that period. Notably, the character development in this episode and in several others (usually the ones penned by Deanna Oliver or Sherri Stoner) is rather good. For example, one of the best comedy dialog exchanges ever animated is in ThirteenSomething when Babs and Buster are on the phone in a split screen, hoping each misses the other.

You only have to look at episodes like 1 minute to 3, the baby Plucky toilet episode. Since Tiny Toons had a lot more time to play with, they had some genuine moments of great animated inspiration. Even so, they did a good job making an original show with original gags AND still paying homage to and patterning after the comedy stylings of the old Looney Tunes. They are two different styles from two different periods, being done under two very different circumstances - Looney Tunes being made for adults in theaters and Tiny Toons being made for kids watching TV. There certainly are differences in many respects - the timing, the delivery, and obviously the duration of the shows. So it's easy to perceive Tiny Toons in an unfair light due to our exposure to current events and our overexposure to cartoons in general. Also, Looney Tunes was original back in those days but today cartoons are rehashed over and over. But the reason we don't think Looney Tunes are corny is because we weren't alive back in the 40s. We recognize the cultural references in Tiny Toons and we can roll our eyes when something we don't like comes up. Most definitely a throwback to the classics which hadn't been done well (if at all) in cartoons in the decades prior to this show. The comedy styling is 'spiritually' the same.

You can say this exactly for Tiny Toons as well. There were a lot of corny period jokes, slang, and dialog. The old Looney Tunes made a lot of social commentary and parody. If you look at the old Looney Tunes, they did an awful lot of stuff exactly like Tiny Toons did. The ensuing cartoon is similar to Looney Tunes, just in a different era. For example, there is a singer that attacks Buster and so he exacts revenge on this singer's concert -exactly like the old Bugs Bunny cartoon. There are a few episodes that are structured like the old cartoons. In concept, the cartoon is partly an homage to the classic Looney Tunes but also its own original show. Now that I'm an adult in my 30s I can look back with a serious eye as I watch the episodes again. I haven't actually watched it seriously or closely in about 10 years. It's now 2005 and 15+ years since this cartoon first aired.

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