Plucky Duck - Baby Plucky

Baby Plucky

Among the more notable of the Plucky-centric Tiny Toons shorts featured "Baby Plucky", a look back at Plucky's diaper-clad toddler days (with cameos by other "Baby" Tiny Toons characters, such as Babs Bunny). Baby Plucky was characterized by a higher-pitched voice and stilted "baby-talk" diction ("Not you push the button, I push the button!"), and wore nothing except a diaper. He was also full of the wholly (or at least mostly) innocent mischief for which toddlers are known. Baby Plucky could easily be considered a not-so-subtle parody of the genre of re-imagining established characters as younger versions of themselves; Tiny Toons was often accused by critics of jumping on the bandwagon of that genre. Baby Plucky was voiced by Nathan Ruegger (the son of writer/producer Tom Ruegger and the future voice of Skippy Squirrel on Animaniacs and Froggo on Histeria!).

In one short, Baby Plucky discovers that items in the toilet bowl disappear when the toilet is flushed ("Water go down the hoooOOolle."), and proceeds to flush various items simply to watch them vanish, not realizing until far too late that he was clogging the plumbing. In another, Baby Plucky and his mother (who was heard but only shown from the waist down, similar to the appearances of Nanny on the animated series Muppet Babies and the characters of Mom and Dad from Cow and Chicken) visit a shopping mall and Plucky's obsession with an elevator ("Wanna go on the el-a-lator. Wanna push the button.") leads him to cross paths with and eventually foil a criminal trying to make a getaway (that same criminal years later would appear in Tiny Toons How I Spent My Vacation). Yet another cartoon has Baby Plucky and his father (also seen only from the waist down) playing miniature golf, in which Plucky manages to infuriate his father by either hitting the golf ball too lightly or hitting it so hard that it bounces off things and injures Plucky's dad, often by striking him in the groin. His father (now on crutches) falls down and says "Congratulations, Plucky. You're going to be an only child!" in a wavering voice. At the end of the episode he hits the "free game" button so hard he gets several dozen balls. In these episodes, his catchphrase became "Elelator (sic)/Blue ball go down the hole.'

Baby Plucky also had several guest appearances in Animaniacs (normally as a background cameo), whereas when other Tiny Toons characters had cameos, they would be shown in their proper age.

Baby Plucky's end tag credit is him sucking his thumb, then pulling it out to say "I wanna flush it again!", then sucking his thumb again.