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How I Spent My Summer Vacation


1992-03-11-01 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Brief opener cameo: the burly mall cop/security type barrels after Plucky and Hamton as they "camp" in the shopping mall
Trivia and other appearances: Originates in Tiny Toon Adventures as an (initially unnamed) studio/security guard showing up in episodes like Hollywood Plucky, Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian or K-ACME TV. He's later canonized as Ralph T. Guard in Animaniacs (the Warners' perennial WB-lot nemesis), a role he reprises in the Animaniacs reboot with expanded gags and continuity nods.


1992-03-11-02 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Pops up at the start to trumpet school's out with classic Wackyland flair, then exits the movie as fast as he arrived.
Trivia and other appearances: Recurring chaos ambassador from Wackyland in the series; fourth-wall trickster with reality-warping gags.


1992-03-11-03 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Background-only came: zips through the opening musical sequence and vanishes. He can be seen with no name background characters during the movie.
Trivia and other appearances: Series regular Road-Runner analogue; usually paired with Calamity Coyote in chase shorts.


1992-03-11-05 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Sleepy, droopy stowaway on the river thread, gets scooped up with Buster and Babs and winds up on the predator-packed Delta Burke showboat and saving the day flying over the boat.
Trivia and other appearances: Recurring basset in Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995), typically a silent, Welker-style "dog-sounds" performance.


1992-03-11-06 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Brief opener in Elmyra's yard, where she "teaches" him to swim; when he escapes, it sparks her full-blown cat obsession that drives the safari sequence's feline-targeting gags.
Trivia and other appearances: Series regular of Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995)


1992-03-11-07 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Obligatory star cameo reduced to a gag: she appears only as a calendar pin-up flipping to announce that summer is over, no lines, no subplot.
Trivia and other appearances: Series regular of Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995)


1992-03-11-08 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: When Babs plummets off the waterfall, she splashes into a blink-and-gone Disney send-up: a grotesquely cute Elmyra with a fish tail, warbling "in the ocean" and doing absolutely nothing else, so out of place that Babs literally calls it out.
Trivia and other appearances: Movie-only gag. Part of the early '90s WB wave of Disney lampoons; for a flood of them, see Animaniacs, which practically made studio parodies a house sport.


1992-03-11-09 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: He swoops in mid-waterfall to save Babs but when she snaps "get out of our movie" the offended Man of Steel lets her drop.
Trivia and other appearances: WB has a long Superman streak: classic parodies include Bugs in "Super-Rabbit" (1943) or Taz in "Comics Madness", he also appears in "Stupor Duck" (1956); the character then anchors Superman: The Animated Series (1996-2000)


1992-03-11-10 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Creepy silent hitchhiker who latches onto the Pig family road trip, rhapsodizing about cold cuts: salami, bologna, pastrami etc. Apparently pigs products are the trigger for his madness so... good call Pig family!
Trivia and other appearances: He Pops up in the TV series (e.g., "Going Up" "The Return of Batduck") and even as a boss in the GBA game "Scary Dreams/Buster's Bad Dream". Clear parody blend of Jason Voorhees/Leatherface.


1992-03-11-11 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: When the switch flips, Hitcher goes full slasher: hockey mask, chainsaw, thunder-and-lightning pursuit of Plucky and the Pigs, straight out of Friday the 13th playbook. Just to add some thrills, he also chase Buster and Babs in the climax.
Trivia and other appearances: He Pops up in the TV series (e.g., "Going Up" "The Return of Batduck") and even as a boss in the GBA game "Scary Dreams/Buster's Bad Dream". Clear parody blend of Jason Voorhees/Leatherface.


1992-03-11-12 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: When Johnny Pew summers at the Acme Resort, Fifi tries every scheme to meet him dueling the hotel staff, crashing a late-night show, only to finally cross paths when she's given up, proving the old rule: never meet your idols.
Trivia and other appearances: Series regular in Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995)


1992-03-11-13 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Celebrity skunk heartthrob, main actor of "skunkophobia", becomes Fifi's dream date until his ego shows; he dumps her for Bimbette, kicking off Fifi's meltdown. His terrible fate is to become the new "kitty" of Elmyra.
Trivia and other appearances: Movie-only character.


1992-03-11-14 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Pink, flirty skunk who swans into Fifi's segment and steals Johnny Pew's attention. He even signs Fifi's photo to Bimbette, triggering Fifi's glorious meltdown
Trivia and other appearances: Sadly for the fans, she is a movie-only character.


1992-03-11-15 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Loudmouthed rooster who drags Shirley to see "Skunknophobia", heckles every scene, and gets ejected in spectacular fashion
Trivia and other appearances: Debuts in early Season 1 in the episode "To Bleep or Not to Bleep"


1992-03-11-16 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Starts as a Deliverance-style banjo prodigy and would-be predator's kin, but bonds musically with Buster; later flips from menace to savior, helping rescue Buster and Babs from the showboat mob. He's the only possum of his family who actually talks.
Trivia and other appearances: Silent Cameo in season 3 "Music Day" episode of Tiny Toons Adventure


1992-03-11-17 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Hillbilly hunters in grubby overalls: mute, pupil-less stare, who stalk the riverbank during the dueling-banjos bit and try to eat Babs like it's the house special.
Trivia and other appearances: Film-only gag figures


1992-03-11-18 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Two shabby hillbilly gals, axes and cauldrons in tow, plus a baby (likely a daughter of the clan). They pile into a hollow log with the brothers, collide in slapstick chaos, and Babs ties their tails together, shoving the whole bundle into the river.
Trivia and other appearances: Film-only; unnamed on-screen


1992-03-11-19 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Fifi's detour in her segment lands on a Letterman caricature: gap-toothed grin, desk 'n' banter, folded into the movie's late-night spoof run (alongside Carson and Arsenio).
Trivia and other appearances: The real Letterman hosted Late Night (NBC, 1982-1993) and Late Show (CBS, 1993-2015), becoming one of TV's longest-serving late-night hosts but talking about his animated self he can be seen in the "At the Big Wrap Party Tonight" episode of Animaniacs


1992-03-11-20 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Bayou patriarch in a Louisiana-style mansion who tries to marry Buster to his three daughters (or... serve him for dinner), complete with the "that's bigamy!" / "No, that's big o' me!" bit
Trivia and other appearances: No official reuses confirmed beyond the movie, but there's a cameo in the same film when the lights on the Delta Burke shows the audience, he's there with his daughters.


1992-03-11-21 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: The large sister, the most forward in the"courtship" needles Buster about decorum (the running joke about him not wearing pants lands hardest with her).
Trivia and other appearances: A "Looniversity" appearance is claimed on wikis but is not officially documented


1992-03-11-22 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: The medium sister: plays the prim hostess in the trap-hospitality routine while Daddy Boo angles to keep Buster at the house.
Trivia and other appearances: No confirmed reappearances


1992-03-11-23 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: The small sister, mostly shy giggles and blink-and-you-miss-'em beats as the trio preps the "wedding"
Trivia and other appearances: No verified reuses beyond this film.


1992-03-11-24 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Blink-and-zip-it cameo energy, Calamity is stuck in the town rollerskating for the big part of the movie, not a single line spoken. (yeah, right.)
Trivia and other appearances: Series regular of Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995)


1992-03-11-25 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Brief stay-in-town connective cameo, she just goes ups and down with Calamity in rollerblades and followe the empty box dress mania
Trivia and other appearances: Series regular in Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995), first cameo in "The Buster Bunny Bunch" but first effective role in "Furrball Follies" - "Cross-Country Kitty"


1992-03-11-26 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Summer crisis: he can't spin because he's molting; after Shirley says "follow your inner self" he tornadoes, ends up stark naked, and accidentally launches the season's cardboard-box couture.
Trivia and other appearances: Series regular in Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995)


1992-03-11-27 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Bluffing riverboat captain/announcer of the showboat Delta Burke: a mysteriously all-predator cruise. He "hires" Buster and Babs for a stage act, but his "dinner show" means they're on the menu, not the bill.
Trivia and other appearances: Film-original heavy, small role but the start of the final chase


1992-03-11-28 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Likely a background member of the Pig family during the HappyWorldLand road trip, the best depiction of a '90 mom. Her eyes are Always covered in sunglusses in the movie and the show as well.
Trivia and other appearances: Again in "Hog Wild Hamton" for a brief cameo, as in the "Spring Break" episode


1992-03-11-29 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Hamton's straight-laced dad on the HappyWorldLand road trip: rule-book driver, "sanitize the restroom" drill sergeant, and inadvertent architect of Plucky's backseat misery.
Trivia and other appearances: Not film-original; recurring parent in the TV series, for example in the Hog-Wild Hamton episode


1992-03-11-30 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: The odorous back-seat menace on the Pig family road trip: glassy stare, mystery stains, and a bathroom-break hazmat charge, turning Plucky's HappyWorldLand dream into a rolling olfactory nightmare.
Trivia and other appearances: Best-known, substantial role is in the movie. Reported cameos in the series include "Hog-Wild Hamton" (photo/non-speaking), "Love Disconnection - The Amazing Three," and "Toons from the Crypt - Wait Till Your Father Gets Even"


1992-03-11-31 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Quintessential '90s teen: acne, messy hair, terminal apathy, whose sole job is snapping the Pig family photo; the on-screen result is a glorious disaster
Trivia and other appearances: Film-only gag character; unnamed on-screen


1992-03-11-32 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Proud feline until Elmyra grabs its tail, cue panicked sprint and a catastrophic shed. Elmyra then wears the lost fur for the rest of her safari bit
Trivia and other appearances: Film-only gag; not a recurring character.


1992-03-11-33 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: The segment's creepiest beat: Elmyra ties multiple puppies to chairs for a "food-chain lesson" accidentally triggering a predatory frenzy in the lion cubs. Educational? Sure. Appropriate? Absolutely not.
Trivia and other appearances: Film-only gag; not a recurring character.


1992-03-11-34 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Introduced as the terror of the safari... until Elmyra drops a massive boulder on it, flattening both the cat and its reputation in one Looney second.
Trivia and other appearances: Film-only gag; not a recurring character.


1992-03-11-35 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Elmyra's "safari day" became an animal nightmare. She terrorizes every animal she meets, especially felines, peaking with the lion whose mane she trims into a full-on Bart Simpson parody
Trivia and other appearances: Elmyra is a series regular in Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995) and later headlines her own spin-off Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998-1999)


1992-03-11-36 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: On the road trip, the Pig family snaps into a full decon drill: white suits, gas masks, industrial scrub, sterilizing a public restroom with military zeal leaving the waterless Duck stuck in the car.
Trivia and other appearances: The hyper-cleanliness is a recurring Pig-family trait but the exact wardrobe as movie-specific


1992-03-11-37 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: New-Age bridge between plotlines, she "like, totally" stitches together the at-home vignettes with the vacation chaos, and her only extended beat is giving spectacularly bad advice to a desperate Dizzy Devil.
Trivia and other appearances: Recurring support in Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995), often (reluctantly) orbiting Fowlmouth


1992-03-11-38 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: The road-trip from heck duo: Hamton is the unfailingly polite navigator in his family's station wagon, while Plucky endures every kid-vacation nightmare: back-seat boredom, snack disasters, bathroom detours, and the soul-crushing pilgrimage to HappyWorldLand. Their odyssey crescendos with the musical jingle, a queue that loops into eternity, and the ultimate punchline: one glorious ride... then the park goodbye.
Trivia and other appearances: Both are core leads of Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995); Plucky fronted the spin-off The Plucky Duck Show (1992) for just one episode. The HappyWorldLand segment is a fan-favorite parody of theme-park culture and '90s family road trips; quotes and the jingle are among the film's most cited gags.


1992-03-11-39 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Pink-hurricane co-pilot of the river odyssey, trades water-guns for white-water, volleys rapid-fire impressions and fourth-wall zingers, and keeps Buster afloat with vaudeville-grade improv amid swampy weirdness.
Trivia and other appearances: Core lead of Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995) and returnee in Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023-)


1992-03-11-40 Release date: 1992-03-11
Name and role: Ringleader of water war who became the river odyssey in no time. Improvises a raft, banters with Babs, and deadpans his way through Deep-South hazards with last-second schemes that somehow work. Features the iconic banjo duet with Banjo the Opossum, a clear nod to Deliverance (1972).
Trivia and other appearances: Core lead of Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995) and returnee in Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023-)