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They were all intended to be "kid versions of Looney Tunes IPs". At its' very core TTA is derivative of the WB cartoons, down to having a kid version of the fucking Wackyland Dodo.
This is why Animaniacs is better than TTA in every way — it's inspired by the classics, but brings enough new to the table to stand on its' own
It's also funnier than TTA so that helps too
Right the obligatory John excerpt
>Tom Ruegger told me he loved Mighty Mouse and had already imitated it in "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" for Hanna Barbera. Being once an artist himself and having some sympathy for us, he said he believed in the same things as I did, and he set up the studio for WB and Spielberg. Steven himself is a big cartoon fan and wanted cartoons done the way they used to be done at WB's original studio, not some crappy Saturday morning thing that was just like everything else.
>Tom started with my adapted-to-TV unit system and doing layouts in-house (which everyone else was doing overseas) and having artists write the cartoons. I think they still used scripts like we were forced to on Mighty Mouse and that may have been the parasitic worm that eventually devoured the system.
>This was all happening at the same time Spumco was starting production on Ren and Stimpy, and once we got into heavy production I began stealing many of my artists back from Tiny Toons and installing a more advanced artist/unit system. There was a lot of overlap between the 2 studios.
He says at the end "Eddie, you can correct me if I get anything wrong. Or Tom or anyone else that worked on that first season in paradise." but I dunno if that's referring to Tom Minton or Tom Ruegger. Probably the former but who knows Blogspot wiped all the comments on his blog for some reason