Backdoor Pilots: Tiny Toons Tries to Spin Elmyra Off Into a Family Sitcom… Twice (Patreon)

“Take Elmyra Please” (February 24, 1992) and “Grandma’s Dead” (November 10, 1992)

Weirdly, Tiny Toon Adventures tried two different times to sell viewers on a different version of Elmyra that had her existing in a normal-seeming sitcom family, the Duffs. It didn’t work, and this doesn’t seem surprising, especially since the first trial ep hinges around the idea that Elmyra starring on her own show would be terrible, but that *still* didn’t stop execs from inserting Elmyra into Pinky & The Brain years later. So yeah, this is going to be a lot more Elmyra than most people can deal with in a single sitting, but Elmyra is more important to the Warner Bros. animation machine than you might guess. Long live Queegee Bananahoe!

Listen to our Cartoons That Made Us Gay episode about Tiny Toons.

Listen to the Monday Afternoon Movie episode about Eve Plumb’s non-Brady Bunch work in Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway.

Listen to the Talking Simpsons episode that links Elmyra with Baby Doll.