SW in Western Animation Compilation

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The "short person shrinking other people so he's bigger than them" plot was used in an episode of Underdog, "The Big Shrink". Simon Bar Sinister creates "shrinking water". First he just does one person at a time, with one of those fake flowers that squirts water. ("Simon says "Smell my flower."."). But then he puts it in a rain making machine, causing mass shrinking. More recently there was an episode of Stripperella, "Evil Things Come in Small Packages". Small Fry uses a shrink ray, shrinking one person at a time. But later he makes himself a giant.

Our own Sally Reynolds is 4'10" or 4'11". She was tired of having girlfriends who were taller than her, so she started fantasizing about shrinking them.

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Shrinking episode of the Punky Brewster Saturday morning cartoon. (Not that great.)

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I found out about this from a post on my Facebook page. I haven't watched Mad Monster Party, so I didn't know that King Kong is in it.

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Bumblebee guest starring in Cartoon Network's earlier Teen Titans series. She's drawn much more realistically than she is in more recent incarnations.

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The past two Sundays, I watched Speed Buggy on MeTV Toons while my sister was out of town. The opening titles include a clip of Speed Buggy getting picked up by a giant ape.



I always assumed that the clip was made for the introduction, like the clip of a giant ape following the Mystery Machine in the opening titles of The New Scooby Doo Movies. But in this past Sunday's episode, Speed Buggy and the gang have to jump out of a plane when one of the engines fails. They land on a plateau inhabited by a tribe of giant apes. Their leader is "Kingzilla", which is the title of the episode. We only get one scene of Kingzilla picking up Speed Buggy while everyone is in him. Debbie says "Put us down, you big ape!", then complains that it feels like she's riding on a rollercoaster. But after that, no one is in Speed Buggy when Kingzilla interacts with him. This clip was all that I could find on YouTube, playing on someone's cell phone. Maybe someone else can find the entire episode online.

[Kira123]

Got it covered.
https://m.wcostream.tv/speed-buggy-episode-5-kingzilla

[rscholar]

Got it covered.
https://m.wcostream.tv/speed-buggy-episode-5-kingzilla

There's also an actual shrinking bit in episode 12, around 13:30

https://m.wcostream.tv/speed-buggy-epis ... anging-man

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Without watching, I'm betting that it's the episode with "Metamorpho". I remember Speed Buggy shrinking, then melting into a puddle. Then he reforms and grows to giant size, with Tinker hanging on to the giant steering wheel for dear life. That's one of three episodes of Speed Buggy that I remember watching as a child. (The other ones are the one with the "ringmaster" who has a pitch pipe that he can use to control animals, and the one with the Amazons who can brainwash men. ("I hear and obey.") Mark, Tinker and Speed Buggy have to dress in drag to rescue Debbie from the Amazons.)

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I found out from the Cartoon Research Facebook group that Tinker Bell has a cameo in the Roger Rabbit short "Trail Mix-Up". But she has black hair, and instead of wearing green, she's made up to look like a bee. I tried watching it on YouTube, but I didn't see her. There's a screen cap of her on the Cartoon Research Facebook group. It's in the post about the "The Best of Roger Rabbit" laserdisc



("I almost dropped a log back there!")

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In one episode of Wabbit (aka New Looney Tunes), "To Catch A Fairy", Bugs Bunny loses both of his buck teeth to the Tooth Fairy because he slept with his head under the pillow. (The Tooth Fairy gets a $50 commission for each tooth that she brings in.) "Of course you know this means war!" I could only find a clip on YouTube:

[KaraAliasRaidra]

"The other ones are the one with the 'ringmaster' who has a pitch pipe that he can use to control animals..." I remember that one! I think he called it a Control Calliope even though it wasn't remotely what a calliope (a kind of pipe organ) looks like. I guess the writers just thought the name sounded cool.

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As a child, I didn't know what a pitch pipe was. I thought that it was some kind of weird harmonica.

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Without watching, I'm betting that it's the episode with "Metamorpho". I remember Speed Buggy shrinking, then melting into a puddle. Then he reforms and grows to giant size, with Tinker hanging on to the giant steering wheel for dear life.

My memory of this episode was way off. Speed Buggy isn't the only character who gets shrunk.

Clips courtesy of foreverlurk:

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Wcostream isn't picking up this series yet. Looks like I'm gonna be waiting long.

Buy the DVD. Right now Deep Discount DVD has it for less than $9. I used a 15% off coupon code and got both seasons for around $15 (plus sales tax).