Bonkers
About Bonkers
Life used to be golden for Bonkers D. Bobcat. Back in his Raw Toonage days, the zany bobcat was a cartoon star, appearing in regular "Here's Bonkers" segments with sidekick Jitters A. Dogg, lovely Fawn Deer, and arch-enemy Grumbles Grizzly. Bonkers was a Toon Town icon, but fame is a fickle beast. By the time Bonkers moved from Raw Toonage supporting segments to his own, self-titled series, the former star was out of work.
The new Bonkers! series took a page from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, teaming Bonkers with "real-life" police officers to solve crimes in Tinseltown. Starting as a down-on-his-luck "former 'toon star," Bonkers turned his life around by inadvertently saving the life of world-renowned cartoon actor Donald Duck.
Note the two different looks in this series for Bonkers D. Bobcat. In the earlier made Miranda Wright episodes- produced by Duane Capizzi and Robert Hathcock- Bonkers is on model for the look from the Raw Toonage series. Because of overseas production problems, Disney was not happy with these episodes and fired the Capizzi/Hathcock team part way through the series. Of the 65 episodes slated to be produced, only 19 were salvageable and aired. Nine episodes began airing in February 1993 as a preview to the fall syndicated series, with the rest tacked on to the end of the syndication package.
The show was taken over by Robert Taylor, who made 42 episodes. He trew out the original premise and characters, replacing Miranda Wright with Lucky Piquel. Robert Taylor completely redesigned the character and the back story. Bonkers now has skinnier ears, two black spots on each his tufts, black Tigger-like stripes on his tail, and a different uniform. The episode New Partners On The Block was an attempt to bridge the gap between the two somewhat contradictory storylines.
Episode guide
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Trains, Toons, And Toon Trains
Bonkers and Miranda escort jewel thief Vic 'Stiff Lips' Sullivan to prison by train. But two crooks try to kidnap Sullivan to get him to reveal the whereabouts of his stolen jewels.
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Tokyo Bonkers
Bonkers and Miranda escort toon villain Z-Bot to Tokyo, where Bonkers is still a major star. But Z-Bot escapes with the help of the Ninja Kitties.
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The Stork Exchange
Lillith DuPrave kidnaps the storks that deliver toon babies to their parents and uses them to smuggle stolen weapons to a client.
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Bobcat Fever
Al Vermin tricks toon microbe Cheryl Germ into infecting Bonkers with various toon diseases.
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The Toon That Ate Hollywood
Envious at how easily toons can make people laugh, Gloomy the Clown steals Ludwig von Drake's humorizer, which robs toons of their sense of humor.
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When The Spirit Moves You
Bonkers and Miranda evict a toon ghost from his old house, but the ghost starts haunting the police station instead.
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Fistful Of Anvils
Bonkers tells Miranda's nephew Timmy the story of how TrailMix Bonkers and Two-Gun the bounty hunter saved the old west town of Lawless from the clutches of Al Varmint.
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What You Read Is What You Get
Lillith DuPrave uses Hildy, a magic toon typewriter to make her tabloid's stories come to life. But Bonkers keeps getting mixed up in the stories.
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Toon For A Day
Sergeant Grating gets hit on the head, and thinks he's toon beaver Bucky Buzzsaw.
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Going Bonkers, Part 1
The premiere episode, where Wackytoons Studios star Bonkers D. Bobcat gets fired when his TV show gets cancelled. But he stumbles his way into a job on the Hollywood Police Department. Bonk…
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Going Bonkers, Part 2
The premiere episode, where Wackytoons Studios star Bonkers D. Bobcat gets fired when his TV show gets cancelled. But he stumbles his way into a job on the Hollywood Police Department. Bonk…
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In The Bag
Someone's stealing stuff from the Mad Hatter's house, and all around Halooywood.
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Hear No Bonkers, See No Bonkers
Bonkers and Lucky stumble upon two crooks that are selling shampoo to toons that'll make toons invisible. But Bonkers accidentally gets Lucky fired.
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Out Of Sight, Out Of Toon
Lucky catches Toon Flu, which turns him into a worm-sized toon.
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Is Toon Fur Really Warm?
Marilyn wants her favorite toon, Skunky Skunk, to be at her birthday party. But he's disappeared and is suspected of accidentally killing someone on his show.
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Calling All Cars
Toon tow-truck Ma Parker charms Lucky into letting her in the Police Garage, where she steals police car parts.
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Fall Apart Bomb Squad
Bonkers recruits Fall-Apart as the toon-division bomb expert, and they go after a crazed toon bomb who wants to be a stand-up comedian.
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In Toons We Trust
Lucky arrests giant toon bird Baby Hubert for a string of jewel thefts, but Bonkers believes he's innocent. But then Lucky suspects that Bonkers is in on the thefts, too.
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Never Cry Pig
The Three Big Pigs try to pin their badly-constructed houses collapsing on the Mean Old Wolf.
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Hamster Houseguest
Bonkers and Lucky reluctantly help out the toon team Tiny the Hamster and Mister Big, who are down on their luck.
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A Cheap Sheep Sweep
A wolf's kidnapping toons and making novelty sheep out of them to sell.
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The Day The Toon Stood Still
Pops, who controls toons' sense of timing, gets fed up with being taken for granted and throws toon time out of whack.
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Weather Or Not
Bonkers investigates the disappearance of five weather toons who are popular stars of the local weather broadcast but who are big jerks.
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Basic Spraining
Criminal mastermind Mackey Muslim sets up a phony police training academy as a trap for Bonkers and Lucky.
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Once In A Blue Toon
Bonkers and Lucky try to reform the Louse, a toon monster who does nothing but eat everything in sight.
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Luna-Toons
Aliens send cadet Quark to take over the Earth, but no one will take him seriously because everyone thinks he's just a toon.
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Time Wounds All Heels
Max Cody is released from prison and wants to meet the cop who sent him up twenty years ago: Lucky Piquel.
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Poltertoon
A ghost reeks havoc in the Lucky Piquel household, just on the day the Kanaka's invite themselves over for dinner.
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Hand Over The Dough
Bonkers and Lucky try to determine who's blowing up the delivery trucks of the Butterman Bakery company.
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Tune Pig
For their anniversary, Lucky takes 'Dil' to see her favorite crooner. But the crooner has a secret.
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New Partners On The Block
While pursuing a mad bomber, Lucky apparently dies in an explosion. But Bonkers and his friend, Officer Miranda Wright, team up to find out the truth.
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Witless For The Prosecution
Miranda can testify against publisher Lillith DuPrave at her counterfeiting trial. So she hides out in Bonkers house until the trial. But Bonkers and his friends annoy her by smothering her…
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Do Toons Dream Of Animated Sheep?
Baa-bara, one of the toon sheep that Bonkers counts to get to sleep, gets fed up with her dead-end life and starts stealing Bonkers dreams for herself.
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Quibbling Rivalry
Miranda's sister, TV reporter Shirley Wright, makes Bonkers look bad in a series of reports.
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Springtime For The Iguana
Bonkers persuades a reluctant Roderick Lizard to try out for the monster role in a B-picture. But then Roddy's framed for sabotaging the flick.
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Casabonkers
Bonkers old flame, Catia Legs Go-on-a-lot, gets him involved in a fight between Flaps and Al Vermin over the Maltese Beenie.
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Love Stuck
Toon porcupine Winston Prickly kidnaps bachelors from the game show 'Love Corral' when they won't let him on the show. In investigating the kidnappings, Bonkers falls madly in love with hum…
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Of Mice And Menace
Bonkers takes in three toon mice left on his doorstep, not knowing that they're the accomplices of Flaps, the criminal elephant with a fixation on Dumbo.
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Dog Day Aftertoon
When the Pits and Smarts series is cancelled, Pits the dog holds a bank full of people hostage with a toon bomb, demanding a new series.
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The 29th Page
Aloysius Vermin and his gang search for the key clue to a mobster's loot, hidden in the 29th. page of some book.
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Cartoon Cornered
Sergeant Grating gets lost in the sets of Wackytoons Studio when he gets locked in by Bucky Buzzsaw. Then Wild Man Wyatt breaks out of prison and comes after Grating.
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The Good, The Bad, And The Kanifky
The mayor busts Chief Kanifky all the way down to the toon division.
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I Oughta Be In Toons
Bonkers and Lucky investigate the disappearance of 'THE Mouse-' the most famous toon in the world.'
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Frame That Toon
Bonkers helps a toon saxophone find her brother, Alto the double bass. But they find him helping a pickpocket rip off tourists.
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A Wooly Bully
Mammoth Mammoth turns to crime after losing his job as a superhero on a TV show.
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Stay Tooned
Bonkers loses a record book that's a key piece of evidence against a mobster, and he suspects everyone around him of stealing it.
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Color Me Piquel
Two black-and-white toons steal color from other toons to colorize themselves.
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Stand-In Dad
Lucky goes undercover as Marilyn's favorite kid's show host Grandpa Arnie, but finds out that Marilyn feels neglected by her dad.
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Cereal Surreal
Three thuggish toon elves frame spokesmen Slap, Sniffle, and Plop for stealing cereal box prizes so they can take their jobs.
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The Dimming
Lucky wants to be a horror novelist. So Bonkers sets him up as caretaker of a remote ski lodge in the mountains. But the lodge just might be haunted.
