Tiny Toons' Controversial Babs Bunny Retcon Is All Sorts Of Weird

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Although the return of Babs Bunny for HBO Max’s Tiny Toons Looniversity was as predictable as a Wile E. Coyote short, a retcon for the animated impressionist revealed at SDCC is all sorts of weird. Formerly starring in the popular afternoon cartoon Tiny Toon Adventures, Babs and her co-host Buster were the figureheads for a new generation of Steven Spielberg-produced Looney Tunes in the ‘90s. Now, decades later, the Tiny Toons have returned to continue their education, but their new show has some unusual creative choices.

During an announcement at SDCC 2022, the world met Babs Bunny’s new voice actress Ashleigh Crystal Hairston, known for her role on the CBS show The Neighborhood. However, as audiences became reacquainted with the pink cartoon comedian, many were taken aback by how the panel’s host introduced her and Buster with a single word that couldn’t have hit harder unless it was attached to an Acme device: “twins.” A controversial rewriting of Tiny Toon Adventures’ canon, the idea of Babs and Busters as siblings called into question the two’s previously established relationship and what it meant for the series in countless social media posts as viewers of the original Tiny Toon Adventures responded to the change with distaste.

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Tiny Toons Looniversity’s retcon of Babs and Buster as siblings doesn’t make sense. Although the two may look very similar and even share the same surname, Tiny Toon Adventures made it clear that its hosts were no relation and even had romantic feelings for each other. Surprisingly, the fact that the two weren’t related helped to establish Babs and Buster as icons along with their dynamic.