“Tiny Toon Adventures” was a 30-minute program that was broken into three segments to accommodate multiple ad breaks. Sometimes the three segments would link together into one overarching story, although just as often, an episode would be split into three smaller, character-forward shorts that were perhaps only loosely connected by a host segment. The split-up episodes lent “Tiny Toons” a freewheeling quality, taking a few drops of Monty Python and adding them to the 1980s-specific experience of watching several Looney Tunes shorts in a row as part of a Saturday morning broadcast block.
That wildness came to the fore in “K-ACME TV” (February 26, 1991), an episode constructed like a half-hour of random channel surfing. There were a few longer shorts (as when Dizzy Devil, played by Maurice LaMarche) ate his podium on a televised game show), some commercial parodies, and shorts that lasted perhaps five seconds; when the cuddle-obsessed animal murderer Elmyra discovers porcupines, it doesn’t go well.
For those keen to see the upcoming “Coyote vs. Acme,” know that “K-ACME TV” already featured a short wherein Calamity Coyote sued Acme (represented by a giant rat) for its malfunctioning gadgets. Acme’s defense? Calamity wasn’t using them correctly.