• This was probably released back in the 90's when every network was required to have 30 minutes of educational programming every day. This is what passed for education. Funny how they didn't do an abortion episode with Plucky trying to use a plunger and a wire hanger in a back alley so his parents wouldn't find out what he did to Fifi La Fume.

• Anyone else notice that even Buster thought it was weird they got that drunk off one bottle. Who's beer was that anyway, and what was it obviously switched with?

• Next time I get drunk, I'm gonna carry around a boombox playing that jazzy background music.

• Thank you, Tiny Toons, for teaching me not to leave my keys in the car, or drunken anthropomorphic children will take it for a joy ride.

• ...because the best way to teach kids that it's not cool to drink is with an extended belch medley. As all 10 year olds know, burping is neither fun nor popular, and the people who can hold a loud, sustained burp will never, EVER be accepted by their peers. At least they got one thing right--generic beer is disgusting, though it gets better the more drunk you are.

• This whole thing smacks of a cartoon made under Bush 1.0. Considering the whole anti-drug schtick him and Barbs had, and the stringent regulations a lot of children's cartoons has to follow on content, odds are WB was bullied into making this cheeseball.

• Preachy episode that's funnier than their regular schtick. Hampton lost some teeth during the binge. Maybe they had some sort of hobo fight club off camera.

• Isn't this the episode that netted them an emmy?

• This short was part 3 of an episode called "Elephant Issues" where Go Go Do Do host the show ans preaches certain issues "in a fruitless attempt to win another Emmy" to quote the crazy boid! Look at the entire show if your interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i08qjoGJI2E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXuOzhkLa4I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKb4EafxLiI

• hmm theys not in cali.. dui here and magic bear gives you clothes...

• Between this and the very special episode of Saved By The Bell where Zack and the boys wreck a car after ONE SIP of beer, it's a wonder I wasn't booting black tar heroin by the time I left junior high. These kind of shows insult a child's intelligence, let alone anyone else's.

• Man, that beer is so goddamn powerful that it's capable of growing stubble almost instantly, even in pre-teens. That's some pretty heavy stuff there.

• i remember seeing this episode. so id dont think it was banned. Tiny toons kinda sucked tough. considering they just reused old gags from the original looney toons or featured b uster and babs continuously . but occasionally they had a funny episode .

• Ah, that brings back the early teen memories. Except it was a bottle of whiskey from my buddy's dad's bar, and it was a city bus. And we only got one block before the passengers ganged up on us and sent us running and laughing down the block. Damned commuters. By the gods that was a stupid thing to do! Ah the memories.

• Why doesn't the funky bass start up when I start drinking? I WAS PROMISED A FUNKY BASS!

• I love how they decide to sneak a beer and then go outside to drink it in public.

• Tiny Toons was always so damn preachy. Don't swear in front of babies, don't pollute, don't look down when crossing a bridgeless gap.

• The lessen i take from that is, after getting drunk, hitting on some underage chicks and then stealing a police car and driving it off a cliff you go to heaven. Awesome.

• I think this got kids to drink

• yeah this was definitely not banned and i saw this several times when i was a kid. at an age when getting drunk wasn't even something i remotely thought of doing.

• I remember that episode well. Good times. I love the cop car slammed into a tomb in that very gothic looking cemetery at the end. The entire drinking message was lost on me as I began to ponder the possibilities of cursed bottles filled with ethereal ichors planted by unearthly beings to lure souls to their damnation in a lost, forgotten realm beneath the mountain. God I was a weird kid. Anyways, this segment was at least enjoyable. The one preceding it in the same episode was about smoking. Two asshole something-or-others (possums?) are in the non-smoking section of a restaurant and prevent Babs from eating a carrot Sundae by blowing smoke in her face. Seriously, it didn't have anything to do with the dangers of smoking. The whole lesson was that if people are dicks, you dress up in a costume and drop an anvil on them. Still love Tiny Toons, though. Good times.

• when that episode was made the execs did it figuring they could get the message of what would happend if some one drank under age . thinking kids would listen more to cartoon characters then parents. and the episode was not banned since remember seeing it a few times. the ban could be the guy posting it did not have permission to do so on you tube

• Why did they have to make this episode? Was their target demographic really into drinking?

• I remember my first beer. Good old Uncle Jack and his fishing trips. He couldn't be bothered hauling things like milk or juice or even soda, no. The kids drank what he said we drank. Mmmyep. It was even Moosehead. I had to have been 10 at most, more likely 8 or 9. I still remember my Mom's face when he handed me that, the slow dawning realization that there was nothing else on the boat. Priceless.

• I think Tiny Toons had a missed opportunity. With the girls, they could have gotten them drunk and then explored teenage pregnancy (or would it be pre-teen? How old are they supposed to be anyway?), date rape, fetal alcohol syndrome, and other "inappropriate for unrealistic kid's cartoon" issues.

• I don't know what is more awesome. The fact that A) They all dressed like Hobos, other then Plucky who dressed like a pimp B) Even after the crash the bottle did not break c)A life of boozing and then driving to your death, you still go to heaven

• Good ol' Beer-brand Beer, where one sip gets ya shit-faced and it never empties...also a guaranteed ticket to Heaven, for those of you not wanting to deal with religion.

• Corny as hell, sure, but how great, and emblematic of what made the show great, are the little meta moments like "Buster this isn't like you!" "I know, but in this episode..." and "so, do we get to do a funny episode tomorrow?"

• Back in junior high I used to come home from school and watch the GI Joe cartoon whilst slowly nursing (over several weeks) a long-forgotten bottle of sake my parents kept in the wetbar. Thus I look on "very special episodes" of cartoons like this with a mixture of both nostalgia and irony.

• "What'll it be boys? Juice, milk, soda...or...A COLD ONE?" Well, honestly, I'd like a COLD ONE of any of those. The forced slang they use throughout the episode is ridiculous. When's the last time anyone has SERIOUSLY called a beer a "cold one"? Also, the guy who posted this on Youtube said it was a "banned episode only shown once," but I remember seeing this one several times...each time more ridiculous than the last.

• "4) That Buster, Plucky and Hamton have found a never-ending bottle of beer." Not to mention that they're plastered after only one sip, that's some potent stuff.

• amazing... simply amazing. Those kids need to build up a tolerance before trying to drive. Or... was there some other point I was supposed to get out of that?

• I remember this episode growing up. It was part of a "very special" episode.

• The clip says banned but I'm pretty darn sure I saw that segment on TV growing up. I know I've seen it before.

• And that's why I am the way I am...

• Even as a kid, I thought this segment was awful. Incredibly heavy-handed and insulting of children's intelligence, I didn't need cartoon character's "playing a skit" telling me not to drink...because I had PARENTS telling me not to drink. Sure, I sipped my dad's beer from time to time with his permission, then immediately said "Ugh, I don't like it" and went back to my coke (the drink, not the drug).

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