Recent content by Tom Ruegger

Back in 2008, I pitched a series to Warner Bros Animation called "Mixed Nutz." You can read about it and see images from it at...http://cartoonatics.blogspot.com/

Yakko's what? The Warners' animation from Cuckoo's Nest/Wang is very cute and appealing thanks in large part to the way they handled the Warners' upper EYELIDS and not so much the Warners' eyebrows. IMO, it's the eyelids in the animation of Yakko, Wakko and Dot that sets Cuckoo's Nest apart...

from tom ruegger you can find some stuff at my blog http://cartoonatics.blogspot.com also there are 2 fairly lengthy interviews at Platypus Comix website

this is a non issue Jave wrote: I suppose it's possible that it's a coincidence, but who knows? Who knows? I know. It's no coincidence. The line is original to Animaniacs. Yes, it sounds vaudevillian...but it's the Warner's line. It's supposed to sound vaudevillian. That's the point...

sorry, but incorrect, Jave I made up the line myself "Helllllooo Nurse." The joke was that the Warners used the line in Vaudeville. It wasn't actually used in Vaudeville. I made it up as a modern day twist of "What's Up Doc" and planned to use it for Buster in Tiny Toons, but it didn't quite...

thanks Sun! You've brightened my day! Greatly appreciate the kind words! May the cartoons keep us young -- at least at heart.

circa 1990 a lot of faces... there are plenty of talented people to pick out of the crowd. closer views available at http://cartoonatics.blogspot.com/

...Tiny Toons invaded your TV http://cartoonatics.blogspot.com/

pinky and the brain on "Bones" not sure if this was already mentioned. At the beginning of an episode, Booth mentions some bit of trivia to Bones, who admits to not knowing about he fact mentioned, to which Booth responds with delight: "Aha! Pinky beats the Brain!" My wife is a big "Bones"...

akom, tms, cuckoos nest (wang), startoons, freelance graphics Philmister978 wrote: I know, and this mix-up came from Tom himself. Oy. Wrong. No. Sorry. "Oy" back atcha. If you'll notice, there was not a single comment from me regarding any of the overseas studios, probably because the...

macadamia nuts mimitchi33 wrote: "I heard a year ago that they won't release Animaniacs Volume 4 due to "Macadamia Nut" (Look it up on Google)" Nope Not the reason. they could simply cut that single cartoon out of the package if that were the reason they weren't releasing the 4th volume. The...

I didn't voice cooper deville While the visual model for Cooper De Ville is based on a drawing of me back then, the voice for Cooper was provided by Rob Paulsen -- and on occasion, Jeff Bennett. Maurice LaMarche and Frank Welker would do impressions of me as well. Thanks for the kind words...

nice job Your Tiny Toon Adventure site is very impressive. Nice work! BTW, when I was working on the initial development of the Tiny Toons show, I named the little girl nemesis of Buster and Babs after my next door neighbor in Northridge CA -- an octogenarian named Elmyra Lamb. all the best...

simple explanation We weren't sure Bill Clinton was going to win re-election in 1996, so we wanted to have a back-up lyric ready, just in case. As it turned out, Bill won again, so we probably didn't need to make the adjustment.

byron Byron was based on my basset hound named Lucy who actually saved baby birds who fell out of a nest from a neighborhood cat. We built a Tiny Toons cartoon on that real incident and Byron was born.