![]() ![]() 42 episodes of the "Piquel Era" were made, including one ( New Partners on the Block), which attempted to bridge the gap between the two somewhat contradictory storylines. He replaced it with the Lucky Piquel scenario, but his episodes were revised and established to occur before the original episodes. Taylor threw out the old premise of the show. Greg Weisman (co-creator of Disney's Gargoyles) worked on the "Miranda Episodes", and Bonkers' relationship with Miranda inspired Goliath's relationship with Elisa Maza. The 19 Miranda Wright episodes are shown toward the end of the series in the official continuity. Nine of these episodes being aired on the Disney Channel during the first half of 1993, as a preview for the series before its syndicated premiere in the fall. Only 19 of the original order shows survived to air they are what is known as the "Miranda Wright episodes" of Bonkers. Ultimately, the original team was replaced, and a team headed by Robert Taylor came in. These episodes came back from overseas animation studios looking less than spectacular, causing considerable concern at Disney. The episodes theoretically would feature Bonkers with Wright as his partner. Meanwhile, Duane Capizzi, making his producing debut, was brought into the fold and teamed with animation veteran Robert Hathcock and charged with making 65 episodes (a full season's worth in syndication). In syndication, the shorts were collected into four full episodes with fillers of new material in between. The animated short entitled Petal to the Metal was originally shown in theaters in 1992 before the feature movie 3 Ninjas, while the rest were shown on the program Raw Toonage. These shorts were, in the context of Bonkers, explained to be some of the shorts Bonkers made at Wackytoons Studios before he was fired. While the Bonkers series was in pre-production, the Raw Toonage team, headed by Larry Latham produced 12 "He's Bonkers" shorts. ![]() The Raw Toonage shorts were an after-thought of production. The series also occasionally featured episodes of "cartoons" from Bonkers's pre-police actor days, all lifted from the Raw Toonage series. The Miranda Wright-era episodes (produced by Duane Capizzi & Robert Hathcock) use Bonkers's original look from Raw Toonage. When the Lucky Piquel episodes (produced by Robert Taylor) were made, the character had a major overhaul: skinnier ears, two black spots on each his tufts, black Tigger-like stripes on his tail, and a different uniform. In the Raw Toonage shorts, Bonkers was orange with one brown spot, golf-club-like ears, and an undone tail. This discrepancy becomes evident when observing the look of the main character in both sets of episodes. They were not created in chronological order: The "Miranda" episodes were actually produced first, excluding the two-part series premiere, which featured Piquel and Bonkers meeting for the first time. The series played 65 episodes, as part of The Disney Afternoon. Together with its predecessors DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop and the successor Quack Pack, Bonkers is the last cartoon series dedicated to the popularity of Disney characters that mated with the new. With Miranda, Bonkers was more the brunt of the slapstick.Ĭontrary to popular belief, Bonkers was not originally conceived as a series based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit but was still inspired by the world of that film. Although also human, she was far more patient and tolerant of his antics than was Piquel. At the end of the "Lucky" episodes, Bonkers was given a new partner, the attractive Sergeant Miranda Wright. job in Washington, D.C., and with great glee was finally able to leave Bonkers, but finally realized that after all the time spent hating working with Bonkers he had grown to love him. Bonkers repeatedly tried to win Piquel's praise, but usually just ended up ruining missions with his antics.īonkers with his second partner, Miranda Wright.Īfter several years of working with Bonkers, Piquel was given an F.B.I. Throughout the series, the pair works together to solve crimes in the Hollywood, Los Angeles, California region. He was made the junior partner of Detective Lucky Piquel, a grim and ill-tempered stick-in-the-mud human cop who hates Toons. Bobcat (inspired by Roger Rabbit), an anthropomorphic bobcat who was a popular cartoon star (he appeared in '' Raw Toonage'' shorts in the fictional world of ''Bonkers'' as well) had washed out of show business and became a cop. The premise of the series was that Bonkers D. Premise Main article: Bonkers episode listīonkers with his first partner, Lucky Piquel, and his pet, Toots. ![]()
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