>>93629108>Shit, even Tazmania aped it with a Baby Taz segment that was purposely calling out everyone for the stupid craze (and then WB made Baby Looney Tunes anywfuckingway...)Warner execs wanted Baby Looney Tunes as early as 1988—or rather, they wanted a treacly, unknowingly brand-damaging series about the Looney Tunes as the Muppet Babies with Granny as Nanny.
Tiny Toons was the first staffers who'd been assigned to do it rebelling, refusing to do it, and manipulating Spielberg to allow them to do something that was smarter, not babyish, and only moderately similar in certain ways.
Taz Babies was the second staffers who'd been assigned to do it rebelling and using Taz-Mania to insult it.
Little Go Beep was the third staffers who'd been assigned to do it rebelling and using the character models Marketing gave them, but for a traditional Looney Tune instead of the heartwarming shitstain WB wanted.
Finally Warner told a team to produce the garbage they'd wanted since the start, or get fired. So fifteen years later, they got their shit-ass Muppet Babies ripoff and sure enough, it damaged the popularity of their brand irreparably with everyone over two. It wasn't even very popular with the babies and parents its boosters had insisted it would attract. It only stayed on the air because it qualified as an educational show, and CN had few.
The staffers who hadn't wanted to do it were right all along, but they couldn't save Warner from itself.
