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What A Cartoon! - Animaniacs "Yakko's World / Cookies for Einstein / Win Big" (Patreon)

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2019-11-25 05:00:01
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We all wondered where Warner Bros. would go after changing kids' TV with Tiny Toon Adventures in 1990, and the answer was Animaniacs: a faster, funnier, and often more esoteric show that didn't need to use classic characters as a crutch. While extravagant animated productions of this nature would soon become a thing of the past thanks to cheapo imports like Power Rangers, for five seasons and 99 episodes, Animaniacs gave us song-filled, sarcastic adventures in pop culture parody and satire, often with brilliant animation. For our examination of this classic series, we'll be taking a look at the second episode—a sophomore non-slump that single-handedly brought us Yakko's World, the debut of Pinky and the Brain, and an incredibly memorable Warners short. Sit back and relax, and prepare to learn about Animaniacs history and outdated geography with this week's podcast!

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Frank Grimes

Slappy's probably my favorite, outside the Warners & Pinky/Brain...never really cared for Rita/Runt...and while I did like Goodfeathers, it probably is lower tier for me.

ShyRanger

“ how many furries found them selves thanks to Minerva ?” Well... at least one .

Joe Hodgson

I've been watching this show sporadically with my kids (ages 3 and 4) on Hulu and it still blows my mind how exclusive the jokes are to this show and yet how well it works. There are so many jokes that no 8 year old would understand and I probably didn't get them as a kid. Not necessarily dirty or adult humor, just deep cuts into pop culture. My kids mostly enjoy the easy to grasp aspects of the show like the slapstick humor. And they especially enjoy Wakko's burping concerts as that is apparently the height of comedy for a small child. And lastly, they're quite fond of the main theme and are prone to singing it in unison from their car seats, rarely getting any of the words right, but it's one of those things that is endearing to a parent though probably sounds like the wail of a banshee to anyone else.

About to Happy

Maria Abramovic - The Bonkers Is Present

Devin Hoffarth

I'm surprised you failed to bring up the actual worst short on Animaniacs. Katie Ka-Boom. A truly terrible list of shorts that played into the negative teen girl stereotype of them being overly emotional (you can read the subtext there) and basically causing her family untold grief by turning into a monster. Maybe you just purged her from your minds but try to watch some of her shorts and realize how cruel and vaguely misogynistic they are.

Professor Gascan

While it would be nice to see a new good Animaniacs show, I'm skeptical because A) As Bob has said repeatedly there really isn't a monoculture of people watching/reading/listening to the same things anymore so what exactly would they do parodies of and B) while this isn't something that ruins the show for me, as time goes on we're just more and more aware of how infested Hollywood is with white collar crime and sex creeps, and even though Animaniacs did poke fun at the movie biz it always to me felt like it regarded it as a trendy, hip, 'let's do lunch bubelah' kind of place and it's so much harder for me to be interested in something that keeps that kind of humor. Like I said, it doesn't ruin the show and I actually hope it's good but it also kinda put a damper on things for me.

crystalhearts

Animaniacs, to me, is pretty evenly split between Enjoyable segments and Frustrating segments

MilesDX

I actually loved Rita and Runt as a kid. My favorite segments back then went Slappy, Rita, than Pinky and the Brain. As time went on Pink and the Brain moved up on my list (probably due to me finally getting the majority of the references). I've always loved musicals and showtunes. My parents were very instrumental in introducing me to that genre. Oddly, my grandfather on my dad's side disliked them pretty much due to how illogical musicals numbers were. He just couldn't suspend disbelief when a story came to a stop and everyone started singing.

Paul Jansen

Great episode! In response to the new lyrics for Yakko’s World, Randy and Rob updated it together. They actually play the songs live often in a performance called Animaniacs Live. They perform often in the LA area. They talked about it a lot when Randy was on Rob’s podcast “Talkin’ Toons”.

littleterr0r

"So for two years you've watching the same 69 episodes." NICE.

Harry Thornton

There are some people out there who treat this show as the be-all end-all of animation comedy, and while I'm not really one of those people I DO give the show credit for two things: Pop culture references that cut deeper than anything before or since, and the next-level musical numbers.

Brian Hortin

I’m guessing this is the Disney Afternoon stage show that Bob mentioned. There is a little Bonkers at the beginning, but things get really Bonkers around the 13:30 mark. I’m a sucker for these theme park stage shows having gone to a lot of them on family vacations in Orlando growing up. https://youtu.be/47e4SMCqsmg

Kyle Orland

I didn't realize it until this listen, but the song at the beginning of "Cookies for Einstein" sounds a bit like an off-key version of The Lonely Goatherd from the Sound of Music. Listen for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vtq9t08ktU Of course that movie was set in Austria, not Switzerland, but hey, alps are alps.

Jacob Reed

I just have to say it’s kind of serendipitous that this episode went live the same day that Rob Paulsen’s return episode of Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast went live. That episode closes out with the “Yakko’s Universe” song whereas this episode’s plot discussion starts with it. Didn’t expect to be hearing so much Animaniacs today

Thad Komorowski

Have not listened but just need to comment that beyond Pinky and the Brain and some work by TMS and Startoons, this show has probably aged worse than Tiny Toons and I could never understand the preference. Despite the inherent un-originality of being Looney Tunes Jr., TTA inherited the appeal/strengths of those characters by proxy (which is why Plucky was probably the strongest character to come out of this whole stable). Whereas A!, beyond Pinky and the Brain which is just the classic little jerk/big idiot dynamic, always felt like a line-up created by a sterile boardroom. (Tom Ruegger is a good guy and has always been nice to me, but his bible for A! might be the most sickening example of executive sucking up/appeasing I've ever seen.)

Dan Vincent

Punching my membership card to the "Please Please Get A Life Foundation," Randy Rogel did write the new part of Nations of the World. Rob had performed it before it was on that nerdist show, he did it first in a live show with Randy a few years prior to that.

KaiserBeamz

Animaniacs will always have a special place in my heart because it was part of the first batch of TV shows I discovered on my own at the tender age of three (alongside Bobby's World, Tiny Toon Adventures and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.) In fact, I think was this show that motivated me to start memorizing channel numbers and schedules. (Channel 4, FOX affiliate, 4 PM EST on weekdays)

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Pinky & the Brain were definitely my favourites as a kid, so much so that I have stronger memories of their show than of Animaniacs (though I certainly watched both). Going back to their first appearance, it's crazy how strong it still is, and I can see why kid me loved it, even oblivious to all of the old Hollywood references baked into it. I hope they make an appearance in the rebooted show, and that it's at least close to being up to snuff with the Rock's Modern Life revival. Otherwise, why bring these things back and shit on their legacy, when good cartoons are still being made today?! Nostalgia waves hitting the 90s, and therefore finally stuff I watched as a kid, is a bizarre thing and makes me feel old.

Bennett Billard

Jessica Chobot recently left Nerdist, late this summer. She's pursuing personal projects.

Sabrina

The animaniacs theme song still pops into my head at random times, especially the ending part of “We’re animaney, totally insaney [insert rhyme here]... Animaniacs! Those are the facts!” For some reason the rhyme that has stuck with me for the past 25 years is “chicken chow meiney.” Not sure if the rhymes were tied to certain episodes, but that particular one is seared in my mind.

Daryl Nathanson

Listening to Yakko's Universe in the episode made me realize it's very "inspired" by the Galaxy Song by Monty Python (just sped up and using a symphony instead of 70s synth).

Daryl Nathanson

Also the Hippos aren't great but they did have the most(?) dirty joke on the show (the "finger prints" one).

Stephen C. Nedell

I can say with conviction that Animaniacs was a hit from day one with all ages. To betray my age, Animaniacs was totally appointment television for my friends and I back in college, like Batman TAS was the previous fall. Every afternoon at 4 o'clock a group of us would torture the dorm with our off key rendition of the theme. A stuffed Wakko Warner was the first present from my then girlfriend (now wife). We even used a bad impersonation of the Pinky and the Brain What do you want to do tonight Brain as a bumper for the campus radio station. What's the point of this story? I like stories

Jessica Lovejoy

One of my favourite episodes of What a Cartoon! Amazing!