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Animaniacs: 20 Years of HELLLO Nurse Birthday
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PhoncipleBone
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It is even better as an adult. I was a teenager when it premiered and loved it, but watching it again over the last few years I am getting so many more jokes.
And since Yakko's World (impossible to top) has been posted, allow me to post something else amazing from the show:
Cartoon Individual
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
the best version of this shtick ever
PhoncipleBone
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Choppasmith
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Well well, don't you feel special.
As a kid, I used to love Tiny Toons, but then Animaniacs came and I remember shoving Tiny Toons aside as it just seemed like it was on a whole new level.
Watching Tiny Toons now on the Hub, and I'm surprised I feel the same way. It hasn't aged well at all compared to Animaniacs. I think there's something about Animaniacs that's fresh and original and stands out while Tiny Toons was stuck being in Looney Tunes shadow and just feels like a really awkward teenager in comparison.
DrFaustPhD
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I loved this show when I was a kid and still do. The animation is incredible, especially for TV. You can tell they had a top notch team working on it. A couple years ago I found myself re-watching a lot of this show and realized there were so many jokes that must have just flown over 6-11 year old me. It's no wonder it was one of the few shows I loved as a kid that my older siblings would actually watch and enjoy with me.
I loved the Good Idea, Bad Idea segments. And Pinky and the Brain.
This was great because I remember crying when I saw Bambi
Bumbie's mom
This was great because I remember crying when I saw Bambi
Bumbie's mom
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Me and my friend are actually going to try and marathon as much of this today as we can. :lol
Azure Dream
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Great show, but some of the "parental bonus" jokes, especially involving old movie actors and political figures, sometimes got a bit too much focus. I remember being a bit older than the target audience, and they'd occasionally hinge a joke on something or someone that I had no chance of knowing, killing the humor. Looney Tunes made a bunch of pop culture references, but it did a better job of either caricaturizing the people, or sliding the jokes by quickly.
I hated the Katie Kaboom bits, as well.
Slappy Squirrel was an amazing character, though. How they made "Old, Embittered Auntie" work on a cartoon, the references to cartoon history, teach Skippy the "old school" ropes in a kinder, gentler age, and so on.
I hated the Katie Kaboom bits, as well.
Slappy Squirrel was an amazing character, though. How they made "Old, Embittered Auntie" work on a cartoon, the references to cartoon history, teach Skippy the "old school" ropes in a kinder, gentler age, and so on.
Oh man this is great.
bryanee
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Every animated WB show I've bought from the States has been region free, the Animaniacs DVD's might be the same.
Patrick Bateman
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Blew my mind not that long ago. And I thought I was a smart kind, when I understood the joke about the difference of prints and Prince...
Choppasmith
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I think the weakest were those Hip Hippos. I hate to sound all pc and sensitive, but it just seemed like their cartoons boiled down to "Ha ha they're so fat and oblivious." Really weak compared to everything else.
I'd say Katie Kaboom would follow, but it is funny to hear the creator talk about how she's based on his own daughter on the DVDs and I can appreciate the idea.
lazybones18
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20 years later and I still can't understand what The Godpigeon is saying 
SuperAndroid17
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They never did a Tiny toons/Animaniacs cross-over did they?
This was one of my favorite shows growing up. Aside from loving so many of the characters, the show itself felt very "fresh" compared to other shows at the time; I think it was the quality of the animation that did it.
I also played the Sega Genesis game a lot. I wish I could play that again to see if it holds up at all.
I also played the Sega Genesis game a lot. I wish I could play that again to see if it holds up at all.
Some of the Tiny Toons characters cameo-ed in a few Animaniacs episodes, but that's it. There was never a full fledged cross over.
Choppasmith
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The episode where the Warners outsmart Elmyra is gold. She never did get any sort of comeuppance in Tiny Toons.
Good Idea: posting on a thread about Animaniacs' 20th anniversary.
Bad Idea: posting this:
Bad Idea: posting this:
on a thread about Animaniacs' 20th anniversary.
Yeah, great show. Always had a fondness for the episodes that mixed in a bit of education and stuff, like the skit where they meet Beethoven. With that in mind I'll toss up Histeria! as another great WB cartoon from that era that was damn good.
I feel old whenever I see these sort of tidbits pop-up, doubly so today because 20 years ago today was also the release of In Utero. It's not the fact something is 20 years that me makes feel old, it's placing myself into that time period that makes me feel old. Like, if I'm in 1993, and I go back an additional 20 years, then cartoons would have been stuff like early run Scooby-Doo and Flintstones, which to 1993 me seemed dated - fun enough to watch yeah, but dated. But when I look at stuff that's 20 years old now, doesn't seem all that old. I wonder sometimes if stuff from when I was a kid just holds up better because cartoons were purposefully walking the line between kids/adult humour, or if it's all rose-tinted glasses and my own kids would wonder "what is this old junk?" if I showed it to them.
I feel old whenever I see these sort of tidbits pop-up, doubly so today because 20 years ago today was also the release of In Utero. It's not the fact something is 20 years that me makes feel old, it's placing myself into that time period that makes me feel old. Like, if I'm in 1993, and I go back an additional 20 years, then cartoons would have been stuff like early run Scooby-Doo and Flintstones, which to 1993 me seemed dated - fun enough to watch yeah, but dated. But when I look at stuff that's 20 years old now, doesn't seem all that old. I wonder sometimes if stuff from when I was a kid just holds up better because cartoons were purposefully walking the line between kids/adult humour, or if it's all rose-tinted glasses and my own kids would wonder "what is this old junk?" if I showed it to them.
Tizoc
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I always loved that song...if only because my country gets mentioned XP
Happy 20th anniversary to the Warner Trio!
The presidents of the U.S.A. song is still great to watch .
next to Ren and Stimpy this was my childhood . *wipes away tear.
next to Ren and Stimpy this was my childhood . *wipes away tear.
There's that, and also the fact that Steven Speilberg's Amblin Entertainment owns partial ownership to these characters. They'd have to deal with him first before using them in anything.
Speaking of which I remember reading that an earlier draft of Looney Tunes: Back in Action actually was meant to have a Yakko, Wakko, & Dot cameo after the scene where the WB water tower falls over, but it was cut out due to them not being able to use the characters.
CrunchyFrog
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Spielberg should get back into TV again. Just about everything he touched turned to gold in the 90's.
He is with Halo!
lazybones18
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Les Miseranimals is underappreciated, I feel, given it's a note-perfect parody.
TheContact
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This was one of my favorite cartoons growing up, especially Pinky and the Brain. There was a ton of adult humor in it too
Azure Dream
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But she got her revenge, by ruining a fantastic spin-off...
Somebody (Spielberg?) was way too obsessed with Elmyra. In addition to appearing in Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and PE&TB, there was an episode at the end of the second season of Tiny Toons, "Take Elmyra, Please", that was clearly a pilot that had been thrown together with the idea of Elmyra getting her own show, that was repurposed. (It even had the "slap the main characters on to do a brief intro" bit at the beginning, the Buster and Babs footage recycled from another episode, while the meat of the episode was animated by TMS.) They fleshed out a family for her and everything.
Strange thing was, when it came time to do PE&TB, they apparently pitched all that out the window, I remember her family being very different.
Choppasmith
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But she got her revenge, by ruining a fantastic spin-off...
Somebody (Spielberg?) was way too obsessed with Elmyra. In addition to appearing in Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and PE&TB, there was an episode at the end of the second season of Tiny Toons, "Take Elmyra, Please", that was clearly a pilot that had been thrown together with the idea of Elmyra getting her own show, that was repurposed. (It even had the "slap the main characters on to do a brief intro" bit at the beginning, the Buster and Babs footage recycled from another episode, while the meat of the episode was animated by TMS.) They fleshed out a family for her and everything.
Strange thing was, when it came time to do PE&TB, they apparently pitched all that out the window, I remember her family being very different.
I thought party of that were network execs pestering the showrunners to add a third character which they mockingly obliged in the episode, Pinky, the Brain, and Larry. But yeah, that does sound really fishy.
Starphoenix
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So many responses on GAF can be summed up in this one video.
You know...this joke really isn't that funny.
Love the show, though. Slappy and Skippy and the Goodfeathers were my shit.
Ranking of skits (from what I remember):
Pinky and the Brain > Slappy > Goodfeathers > The Warners > Buttons and Mindy > Rita and Runt
BigJonsson
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Rhomega Beta
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It's not so funny when you know what it's based on.
Own all the dvd sets. Love the show. Didn't realize how many jokes I didn't get as a kid until I rewatched it.
But yeah, I hated the hippo (don't even remember their names) segments, and didn't like a good amount of the Aunt Slappy, and Rita/Runt ones. But yeah, the good, far outweighed the bad (I bought the dvd sets after all).
But yeah, I hated the hippo (don't even remember their names) segments, and didn't like a good amount of the Aunt Slappy, and Rita/Runt ones. But yeah, the good, far outweighed the bad (I bought the dvd sets after all).
Bright Side of Life
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This makes me feel so old and I'm only in early 20s D:
Also "Finger prints" didn't get that until I was roughly 20
Also "Finger prints" didn't get that until I was roughly 20
This is the best one, imho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cOeG4GtXUk&noredirect=1
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