1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,760 Hello and welcome back to the podcast. 2 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:13,760 I'm Michael. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,560 And I am the Knights of Entertainment, a podcast covering your favorite and unknown movies, 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,720 games, comic books, anime, and more weekly. 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,880 We appreciate you being here and hope you enjoy the show. 6 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,200 This is what we are covering tonight. 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:29,280 We are going over the top 24 facts for Animaniacs. 8 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,000 But before we do, like, share, and subscribe to the channel. 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,240 You can enjoy the show on YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, Odyssey, and more. 10 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,360 We also have membership tiers on those platforms if you'd like to support the channel or you 11 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,100 can check out BuyMeACoffee.com forward slash KLEpodcast. 12 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:43,760 But let's go ahead. 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:44,960 All righty. 14 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:50,360 So we have 24 facts about Animaniacs. 15 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,720 What do you remember about Animaniacs? 16 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,680 They were crazy to the max. 17 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:02,080 I mean, everybody knows the theme song, I think, for them. 18 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,920 The first one, 24. 19 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,960 You can't have Animaniacs without the Warner siblings. 20 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:10,960 Yacko, Wacko, and Dot. 21 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:13,200 These guys were a great source of hilarity. 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:18,280 And the way they played off everyone and each other, just all around funny. 23 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,600 Because they did some crazy shit. 24 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,680 Their different personalities worked well together and they have always had many zany 25 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:27,400 shenanigans going on. 26 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,680 Creating pretty much anybody who had to interact with them within that universe. 27 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:32,680 Oh yeah. 28 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:33,680 I guess they were. 29 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,680 Annoying as fuck to everybody else. 30 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,280 Like the doctor where he pulled his hair out. 31 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,960 Like he started off with hair and then he was bald. 32 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:46,960 But did you know the original designs for these cartoon siblings was going to be different? 33 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:50,760 They were originally going to be ducks and were going to be called Yacky, Smacky, and 34 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:51,760 Wacky. 35 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:52,760 That sounds terrible. 36 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,760 Yes, it does. 37 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,040 So why change them to what they are now? 38 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,360 Apparently, the creators decided that there were too many ducks in the animation world 39 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:02,440 as it is. 40 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,960 So they decided to go for something a little different. 41 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:05,960 What Daffy and Donald? 42 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:06,960 I guess the Scrooge. 43 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:13,480 Daffy, Donald, Howard, Scrooge, and the three nephews. 44 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:14,840 I guess there was a lot of ducks. 45 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:15,840 There's a lot of ducks. 46 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:16,840 Damn. 47 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:17,840 You never really think about it. 48 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:23,480 There's a shitload of ducks. 49 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:29,040 The next, now there are a lot of jokes that managed to get past the censors, which is 50 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:34,160 actually kind of surprising that the network actually allowed them to get away with it. 51 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,880 Animaniacs definitely pushed the boundaries on what was appropriate for children's programming. 52 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:43,560 But apparently, there were a couple of fully recorded episodes that never ended up airing. 53 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,800 In these recordings, the voice actors were pretty much having a heyday and it shows. 54 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,080 The recordings are full of swearing and all kinds of jokes you probably wouldn't want 55 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,360 your kids hearing. 56 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,000 Apparently the actors just needed a break and did a couple of sessions where they could 57 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,280 say whatever they wanted. 58 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,400 Just the character voices? 59 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,400 Yeah. 60 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:02,400 Oh boy. 61 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,440 It reminds me of that SpongeBob episode where they can say the F word, but they actually 62 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:13,440 had to say the F word because it didn't feel right with not saying it. 63 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:21,840 So somewhere deep in the vaults of a, I guess Paramount, there's SpongeBob and Patrick just 64 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:27,120 saying as many cuss words, fully censored and no one's ever going to see the light of 65 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,120 day. 66 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,120 That's the same thing with these. 67 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:34,400 Like it just yacko, wacko and dot just saying the word fuck over and over and over. 68 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:35,960 Horrendous shit they can think of. 69 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:36,960 They're saying bitch. 70 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:37,960 Only in their voices. 71 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:42,960 It would make it way different. 72 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,920 All right. 73 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:46,920 Next fact. 74 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:52,120 Number, what are we down to? 75 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,920 22, 23. 76 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,360 Did you know the Animaniacs technically wasn't an original work? 77 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,720 The idea for it didn't just come out of thin air. 78 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:07,000 The show was actually a spinoff of another popular cartoon series going to be called 79 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,600 Tiny Toons Adventures. 80 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,000 I remember Tiny Toons was like that Looney Tunes spinoff? 81 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 They were kids? 82 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Yeah. 83 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 That was, this was a spinoff. 84 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 They were going to be a part of that? 85 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Yeah. 86 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,920 Well, it's going, it was called Tiny Toons, but they were after Tiny Toons. 87 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,320 So because Tiny Toons is a success, they created Animaniacs. 88 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:29,520 Okay. 89 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,440 After Tiny Toons did so well, Spielberg said that they needed to do another cartoon similar 90 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:34,440 to it. 91 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:39,240 The inspirations for the Warner siblings came from Plucky Duck and the show was originally 92 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,400 going to be just about him, but the care of the creators decided to go in a different 93 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,800 direction and that's how we got Yakko, Wacko and Dot. 94 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,240 Animaniacs itself has inspired other spinoffs such as Pinky and the Brain. 95 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,080 Wow, my favorite. 96 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,160 One's a genius and the other one's fucking inside. 97 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:58,160 Yeah. 98 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:04,360 A lot of theories was that Pinky was a genius and the Brain was actually insane. 99 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:05,360 Yeah. 100 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,360 Yeah. 101 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:11,320 That was, I've heard that theory before where they want to take over the world in one night. 102 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:16,160 Yeah, and somehow it always fails for the Brain and allegedly it was because Pinky was 103 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:17,720 always stopping. 104 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:18,720 I think so. 105 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:19,720 I remember that theory. 106 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:20,720 Oh no, no. 107 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:21,720 Maybe that was true. 108 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:22,720 What are we doing tonight, boss? 109 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:23,720 Same thing we do every night, Pinky. 110 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:24,720 You still my son, my bitch. 111 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:25,720 You just fucking file this shit. 112 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:26,720 I can't fucking stand you. 113 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,720 I can't stand this lab. 114 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:28,720 I can't stand anything. 115 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:29,720 All right. 116 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:30,720 The next one is 21. 117 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:31,720 I'm going to go with 21. 118 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:32,720 I'm going to go with 21. 119 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:33,720 I'm going to go with 21. 120 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:34,720 I'm going to go with 21. 121 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:35,720 I'm going to go with 21. 122 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:36,720 I'm going to go with 21. 123 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:37,720 I'm going to go with 21. 124 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:38,720 I'm going to go with 21. 125 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,520 The next one is 21. 126 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,360 You can't deny that Rita, the wisecracking cat, had a very beautiful voice. 127 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,920 All of her shorts had her belting out some gorgeous songs, whether they were originals 128 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,480 or parodies of famous songs. 129 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,320 But there is a reason that Rita's voice was so good. 130 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:01,120 That's because she was voiced by Bernadette Peters, a talented Broadway actress. 131 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:06,400 The creators were actually going to have Ricky Lee Jones voice Rita. 132 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:11,480 But when she backed out a week before recording was supposed to start, they contacted Peters 133 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,520 sending her a formal letter and everything. 134 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,780 She responded to the invitation and resounding yes. 135 00:06:17,780 --> 00:06:23,440 So Rita's voice could have sounded completely different than what it originally did. 136 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:29,360 I forgot that before going into all the details for it, I forgot that it really was a Broadway 137 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,320 actress that did one of the voices for the singing. 138 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:38,800 They had enough intelligence to do the singing part from somebody that could sing instead 139 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,400 of just going with it. 140 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,120 Hoping she could knock one out. 141 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:44,120 Right. 142 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,080 And then since they had a Broadway actress, they could make every single one of those 143 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,160 shorts that she had within the show. 144 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:50,160 More musical? 145 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,160 Yeah. 146 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:52,160 Cool. 147 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:53,160 It's actually smart. 148 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:57,200 Next one we have, it's not surprising that many inspirations for cartoons come from real 149 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:58,200 life. 150 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,200 In the case of the Animaniacs, a lot of the stories and shorts were inspired by things 151 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,880 that actually happened to the writers. 152 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,640 But did you know that the Warner siblings had their own real life inspirations? 153 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,960 The show's creator, Tom Ruger, based the Warner siblings on his own kids. 154 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,040 It is, I hope not. 155 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,200 This actually does make a lot of sense since many of the Warner siblings' antics are pretty 156 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,200 childish. 157 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,600 They mastered the art of being simultaneously hilarious and annoying that only kids can 158 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:24,600 really do. 159 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:30,720 Plus, the way that they interact with each other is definitely a sibling dynamic. 160 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:35,400 Actually he created them just because how he's seen his kids. 161 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,920 Geez, and he must have had a lot of inspiration. 162 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,560 Let's watch them just lose their minds. 163 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,480 Bouncing off the walls like the Warner siblings do. 164 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:44,480 Oh boy. 165 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:52,160 All right, next one we have, the Pinkie and the Brain shorts got so popular that they 166 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,800 became a spin-off series of their own. 167 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,520 Yeah, that shit was fucking gold. 168 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:56,520 Yeah. 169 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,520 And there's a good reason for it. 170 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,600 It has a great combination of witty and absurd humor as it pits a genius mouse against a 171 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:04,960 rather dim-witted insane mouse. 172 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,560 Brain's attempts to take over the world are hilarious and get even funnier as he's constantly 173 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,160 thwarted by Pinkie unwittingly. 174 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:16,640 Or the theory goes, maybe not so unwittingly. 175 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,360 But did you know that Brain almost had a different voice actor? 176 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:24,160 Originally, the producers wanted Patrick Stewart to be the voice for the brilliant little man. 177 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:25,160 Man, Patrick Stewart? 178 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,080 I would have fucking loved that. 179 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:35,040 But we don't know why this didn't happen, but Maurice LaMarche was chosen instead to 180 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:36,040 voice Brain. 181 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:37,040 He still killed it. 182 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:38,040 Yeah. 183 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,040 It's hard to imagine Brain's voice as anyone else's though. 184 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:42,040 I know that. 185 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,040 No, what am I doing tonight? 186 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,920 Sounding like it's Patrick Stewart, that'd be crazy. 187 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,800 That'd be very weird. 188 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,400 The British accent. 189 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,000 That would be very weird. 190 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Like when you go back and actually think about it. 191 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Yeah. 192 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,200 I think things worked out for him. 193 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:04,040 Is that John Luke Picard? 194 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:10,600 That would just be, it's like, I think that since he's so famous, it might not have worked 195 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,220 as well because you couldn't picture you. 196 00:09:13,220 --> 00:09:16,040 Every time you hear it, you'd be thinking about John Luke Picard. 197 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,040 Yeah. 198 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:18,760 It'd be a little too close in time. 199 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:19,760 Who knows? 200 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,680 Or now you'd be thinking of Professor X. 201 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:24,840 I guess we'll never know. 202 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:30,240 Next one we have the catchphrase that we likely remembered the most from Animaniacs is hello 203 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:31,240 nurse. 204 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:32,240 Oh yeah. 205 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,480 Fucking perverse they were. 206 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:35,480 And it's many variations. 207 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:36,480 Hello nurse. 208 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:43,240 Yakko and Wacko would often say this whenever they seen Dr. Scratch and Sniff. 209 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,440 That was her name? 210 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:46,440 Jesus. 211 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:47,440 Scratch and Sniff. 212 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,480 It's like when they just reach for boobs. 213 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:52,480 Oh no. 214 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:58,320 Don't do that. 215 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,560 Or any other attractive female. 216 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:07,520 But did you know that the catchphrase wasn't originally written for the Warner Brothers? 217 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:12,900 The catchphrase was created initially for Buster Bunny who use to use whenever he saw 218 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:14,880 Babs Bunny in Tiny Toons. 219 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,560 Don't work his though. 220 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:17,560 I know. 221 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:18,560 Fuck. 222 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:19,560 Don't do that. 223 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:23,520 But they could never get it to work coming out of Buster's mouth. 224 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,160 Yeah I imagine not. 225 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,320 It always sounded a little bit weird. 226 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:31,840 So the writers scrapped the catchphrase and it was later used for the Animaniacs. 227 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:32,840 Whatever works. 228 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,360 Apparently yeah. 229 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:35,920 I couldn't see Buster Bunny. 230 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,320 And saying that to Babs Bunny. 231 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,920 A fellow child? 232 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,200 Yeah that'd be kind of awkward. 233 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:46,440 It's a good thing that they scrapped it for the Tiny Toons. 234 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,480 Next one we have who doesn't remember Minerva Mink? 235 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:55,600 The sedaciously sultry character that made every male character drop their jaws and howl 236 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:56,600 at the sky. 237 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,920 She was basically like Hello Nurse but on steroids. 238 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,720 She was likely Mini Boy's first crush. 239 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,080 And the shorts she was in often capitalized on her sensuality. 240 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,280 Minerva was definitely a memorable character in Animaniacs. 241 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:16,320 But Minerva actually has the least number of solo shorts out of all the characters on 242 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:17,320 Animaniacs. 243 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:18,320 She only has two. 244 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,320 And the reason behind this is that she was too good. 245 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:27,320 Her character was deemed too suggestive for the show's audience so she was scaled back. 246 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:31,320 The character was even redesigned so that she showed less cleavage. 247 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:36,720 Why would they mess with perfection? 248 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:42,600 And this is where everybody's anthropomorphic furry fetish came in. 249 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,320 I never had one probably because mine was Jessica Rabbit. 250 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,040 That was a woman. 251 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,040 Redhead. 252 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,960 Who's friend Roger Rabbit. 253 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,720 He was a rabbit banging the chicks of human women. 254 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,920 I never had the anthropomorphic lust. 255 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:01,840 I always had the because of Jessica Rabbit was my first one. 256 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,760 You weren't into all the furry shit? 257 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:05,760 I'm not bad. 258 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:10,880 I'm just drawn that way. 259 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:16,360 Alright next one we have while Steven Spielberg produced Animaniacs it was Tom Ruger who helped 260 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,160 create and direct the show. 261 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:24,080 He came up with the idea of the Warner siblings and he was instrumental in how the show came 262 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:25,440 to be. 263 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:30,480 But what you might not know is that this isn't his first working on cartoons. 264 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:35,320 He's also done work on a few other shows that are likely part of your childhood. 265 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:39,960 Before Animaniacs Tom Ruger also worked on He-Man, A Pup Named Scooby Doo and even Batman 266 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:40,960 the Animated Series. 267 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,960 A Pup Named Scooby Doo? 268 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,480 That's on Tubi as well. 269 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:49,480 Yeah. 270 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:54,600 It just goes to show how versatile he was and how he could work on basically any show 271 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,400 whoever the intended audience was. 272 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,440 Yeah man knew his target audience and he worked with him. 273 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,280 He worked within that fucking time or that frame. 274 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:07,080 Yeah I mean even with it like you can kind of tell I guess that he did work with Batman 275 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,960 the Animated Series too because it was very adult themed. 276 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:11,280 Oh yeah. 277 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:18,080 He tried to make instead of Minerva Mink he made Catwoman. 278 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,960 That or I don't know if Harley Quinn counted but didn't he create that character? 279 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:23,960 I believe so. 280 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:24,960 Or was that someone else? 281 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:25,960 Off the top of my head. 282 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,360 I know it wasn't in the comic books. 283 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:29,360 She was from the Animated Series. 284 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,840 No it was from the Animated Series but I can't remember who like actually created her. 285 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,640 It was a good character. 286 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,540 Mr. J. 287 00:13:37,540 --> 00:13:41,480 The character from the Animated Series can never be replicated though. 288 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:42,760 They tried. 289 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:43,760 With Margaret Robbie. 290 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:44,760 They got him. 291 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,760 They got all of him. 292 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,760 It's not bad but. 293 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,160 It's so good though. 294 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:54,640 But you're also waiting for the soft slides. 295 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,160 I'm not into clowns but you know. 296 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:58,880 You want to make her honk? 297 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,880 I'll never see that. 298 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:09,520 Alrighty, next one, another memorable aspect of Animaniacs was the music. 299 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:13,920 Whether they were parodying popular songs and musicals or coming up with their own original 300 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:14,920 works. 301 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,400 This show was steeped in music and having a lot of fun with it. 302 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,680 The score itself was done incredibly well fitting the tone of the show in the old style 303 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,440 cartoon. 304 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,720 Steven Spielberg the producer was the one to thank for the music. 305 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:32,800 Spielberg insisted that each episode feature at least one original orchestral score. 306 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:37,080 That meant that they had to have a full time orchestra playing and recording music for 307 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:38,720 these episodes in the studio. 308 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,720 Jesus, one a week? 309 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:41,720 Yeah. 310 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,720 Aren't you demanding Steven Spielberg? 311 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,720 Why don't you take it down on just a kids show? 312 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,060 I know. 313 00:14:49,060 --> 00:14:55,240 Next one, fans may remember that Dot's name is actually short for a much longer name. 314 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,920 Do you know the name though? 315 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:06,600 Her real name is Princess Angelica Cantessa Luisa Francesca Banana Fana Bobeska the third. 316 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,040 Oh yeah, yeah I remember that part. 317 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:15,120 Yeah, that's a long ass fucking name. 318 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:16,640 How did this come about? 319 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,920 Well, it actually took inspiration from another plucky female character. 320 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,080 Producer writer Sherry Stone came up with Dot's full name and said that it was inspired 321 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:26,880 by Pippi Longstocking. 322 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:32,440 This girl also had a very long name which was Pippa Lotta Delicatessa Window Shade Markle 323 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:36,320 Mint Ephraim's daughter Longstocking. 324 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:37,320 Window Shade? 325 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:38,320 Okay. 326 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:39,320 Window Shade. 327 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:40,320 All right. 328 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:41,320 Just threw that one in there huh? 329 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:42,320 It's like just a random word. 330 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:47,320 Yeah, I like to see who would notice. 331 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:53,120 It doesn't really make any sense but again neither does half of the show most of the 332 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:54,120 time. 333 00:15:54,120 --> 00:16:01,520 Next one we have Mindy and Buttons were a great segment added to Animaniacs with the 334 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:07,160 adorable baby Mindy getting into incredibly dangerous situations and her loyal dog Buttons 335 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,200 protecting her from danger. 336 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,040 Often to its own detriment. 337 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:16,600 That dog put in some work trying to keep that baby alive. 338 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:21,360 It was both cute and really funny making great use of slapstick humor but what you may not 339 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,720 know is that these two almost didn't make it into the show. 340 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:30,320 It actually again is thanks to Steven Spielberg's kids that the two got put into the show. 341 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:36,920 Spielberg was thinking about cutting Mindy and Buttons but when his kids saw the drawings 342 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,080 for them they loved them so he added it in. 343 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:41,720 They were lucky. 344 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,680 Apparently that made Spielberg's change his mind about taking the characters out so the 345 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:52,160 whole reason everybody's favorite girl and dog do or even in the show is due to the kids 346 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,160 of the producer. 347 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:54,160 Cool. 348 00:16:54,160 --> 00:17:00,840 You know they're looking back at that like hey we got that in there for everybody. 349 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,840 Alright next one we have Remember the Wheel of Morality? 350 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:05,840 Yeah. 351 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,680 Where the Warner siblings try to decide what the moral of the episode was? 352 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:10,680 Oh yeah. 353 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:15,000 It was a great way to include more witty humor and have fun with some of the popular quotes 354 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,720 and morals plus we get more entertaining banter between the Warner siblings. 355 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,520 But what was the purpose of the Wheel of Morality segment? 356 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,600 Apparently it was just to fill time. 357 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:29,080 Not all of the shorts for the episodes always stick up the right amount of time. 358 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,720 Sometimes they had a few minutes left over after each segment which wasn't enough for 359 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,800 the other short but they still had to fill in the gap. 360 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,200 That's where the Wheel of Morality comes in. 361 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:44,280 The repetitive nature of the segment meant they could reuse animation cheaply so it was 362 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:46,560 an easy way to fill up the time and still be entertaining. 363 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,720 So they have the dialogue they don't have to make any more cartoons. 364 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:50,720 Exactly. 365 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:51,720 Smart. 366 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,200 I remember seeing that all the time at the end. 367 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,480 Yeah I was wondering like that shit's done a lot but I'm like yeah that's normal. 368 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:01,440 Where as the Wheel of Morality goes round and round and it would always be something 369 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:05,200 fucking crazy. 370 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:11,040 Next one we have there are quite a few references in Animaniacs between all the celebrity cameos 371 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:12,920 and the parodies nothing was safe. 372 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,560 In fact it got to the point that it was considered a compliment and a badge of honor if Animaniacs 373 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,000 made a parody of you. 374 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,720 But the show also snuck in some subtler references. 375 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,720 One of these was reference to Mystery Science Theater 3000. 376 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,800 The popular TV show that made fun of terrible sci-fi movies. 377 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,000 In the episode Potty Emergency the Warner siblings are at the movie theater watching 378 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,360 a sci-fi movie. 379 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:42,320 If you look closely you can see the characters of Mystery Science Theater 3000 MST 3K show 380 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:43,680 up in the movie. 381 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:49,480 It all goes to show that the detail that they put into each episode. 382 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,760 So like they even made little parodies in there that you never even paid attention to. 383 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:53,760 That we would never reference to later. 384 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:54,760 Exactly. 385 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:55,760 Next one. 386 00:18:55,760 --> 00:19:02,160 It's no secret that Animaniacs is full of jokes and would likely sail over kids heads. 387 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,360 But make an adult laugh at the same time. 388 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:12,280 Despite the work of the network censors a lot of humor snuck its way into the show. 389 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:16,720 What was also funny was after a particularly irrelevant joke happened. 390 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,320 Yakko would often say good night everybody. 391 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:24,060 As if expecting to be taken off the air. 392 00:19:24,060 --> 00:19:29,320 But despite the leniency the writers had there was one joke that Steven Spielberg himself 393 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:30,320 outlawed. 394 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:31,320 Fat jokes. 395 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,000 Couldn't make any fat jokes. 396 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,960 Apparently Spielberg saw that positive body image was very important. 397 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,720 And a joke about this would be inappropriate. 398 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,480 Of all fucking things that they made him try to have. 399 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:47,480 That's what he thought I guess you know. 400 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,480 I guess he respected the decision. 401 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,280 Yes but the fat jokes are the funny ones. 402 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,800 As a fat person I take credit. 403 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,640 I love fat jokes they're funny. 404 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,000 As myself and also a beached whale I also enjoy the fat jokes. 405 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Like they don't bother me. 406 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,200 Like as a fat person fat jokes do not bother me. 407 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,440 It's funny because I know like if I really maybe it's the thing like if you know that 408 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,040 you can put in an effort and lose the weight. 409 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,480 Yeah maybe that's why. 410 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:14,480 And most people can. 411 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,480 Like what was it you said? 412 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,480 I want a bacon biscuit. 413 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,760 Got the latest. 414 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,000 Got the latest. 415 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:31,400 Like there's very few people that again unpopular opinion but most people can lose weight if 416 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:32,400 they try. 417 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:38,360 So yeah if you have like you have to like it is truly a fucking daunting task. 418 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:46,280 You know what one time I did lose weight I went from like 240 to 160 was anytime I had 419 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:47,880 a set plan of meals. 420 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,200 I eat morning, lunch and then night. 421 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:53,200 That's it. 422 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:54,480 Nothing in between. 423 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:58,240 And I had one phrase that I said to myself that doesn't work anymore. 424 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,880 But I would tell myself ride the wave. 425 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:05,320 Usually I would ride the wave of like any feeling of wanting to eat some junk food, 426 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:06,320 some soda, anything. 427 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:13,000 Just ride that feeling out and like a fucking ocean the wave will eventually ebb down back 428 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000 into normal. 429 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Yes. 430 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,700 Oh you know flat. 431 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:21,760 So if you can ride the wave of that fucking craving it'll go away. 432 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,400 Yes and it usually does. 433 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:28,080 And to me I think there's only a few instances like where there's you know how every fat 434 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,120 person they always say I have a thyroid problem. 435 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:32,120 Not everybody does. 436 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:33,120 I'm sorry but you do. 437 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:36,000 I don't know if every fat person says that. 438 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,680 Most of the people that I know that are fat yeah. 439 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,720 I got a thyroid problem. 440 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,840 It's like no you have an eating problem. 441 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:46,720 These are the same people that have like what is it the hobbits how they have second breakfast. 442 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:47,720 These motherfuckers. 443 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:48,720 Fourth and fifth breakfast. 444 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,000 What about fifth breakfast and second lunch? 445 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,600 I don't know like I've always enjoyed it. 446 00:21:53,600 --> 00:22:00,000 Well me being like a more enjoyment like I'm a person I'm a connoisseur of the female 447 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,920 form so I don't mind a nice big heavy set woman. 448 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,440 I don't mind a 90 pound woman. 449 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,280 No my whole thing is you can like whatever you want and you can be whatever you want 450 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,120 to be but don't get mad if you get made fun of. 451 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:16,680 All that cushion though. 452 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:17,760 So nice. 453 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:19,360 I don't need a Tempur-Pedic. 454 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,880 I do. 455 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,040 It's memory foam it contorts to your body. 456 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,920 Is it like a? 457 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,720 I'm very open to all female body types and ages. 458 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,760 You can be 92 years old. 459 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:41,880 You know who was a surprise was she's 76 is Susan Sarandon and she can get all the business 460 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,080 to this day. 461 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,360 I can't remember the comedian's name now. 462 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:54,200 I'm sure you've seen it before where he talks about how he set up his friend's bachelor 463 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:58,720 party and had that one big girl that wrestled him. 464 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:03,720 Yeah I remember where he said he ran at her and then she fought she was like she was ready 465 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,000 because she used to apparently she fights him all the time so she beat the she was like 466 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,320 six two wasn't she. 467 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,800 Yeah she hit him with her titties and fucking knocked him the foot. 468 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:11,800 I remember that. 469 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:12,800 Titty bombs. 470 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:21,440 I remember he ran full force at her and he ran into her and it stopped and he just stopped 471 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,920 and got thrown back out across the floor. 472 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,040 That's the kind of thing that I don't need. 473 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:34,120 All right moving on though number nine we have remember the famous song Yakko's World 474 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:37,040 where Yakko sang all the countries of the world. 475 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,560 It was catchy and educational. 476 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:39,560 It was. 477 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,840 And then Rob Paulson Yakko's voice actor still has a song memorized and will sometimes sing 478 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:44,840 at a convention. 479 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:45,840 Yeah. 480 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,760 I remember seeing those too. 481 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,400 He actually will do that and he changed the countries that don't exist no more into the 482 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:52,400 ones that do. 483 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:53,400 That's cool. 484 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,680 So he rechanged the words to where it's completely accurate still. 485 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:56,680 Nice. 486 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,240 He should probably like drop another like a drop a TikTok. 487 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:00,240 He did. 488 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,240 With the animation. 489 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,240 He did. 490 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,240 He did the whole thing. 491 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,240 Nice. 492 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,920 I think it was for the new Animaniacs that came back out. 493 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,200 And they have the one with like with Donald Glover where he's like and then he gets shot 494 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,200 like this is America. 495 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,200 This is my area. 496 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,800 I got the strap. 497 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,480 The song has become one of the most popular songs in Animaniacs. 498 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:19,480 Yeah. 499 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,480 Where did it come from? 500 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:25,080 Apparently the guy who wrote the song wasn't even working on Animaniacs at the time. 501 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:29,080 Randy Rogel was working on Batman the Animated Series when he wrote the song. 502 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,680 The story goes that he was helping out his son with his geography homework when he realized 503 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,720 that he could make a song out of all the countries. 504 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:37,720 He wrote it up. 505 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,280 He somehow figured out all the countries can be made into one song. 506 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:41,280 Yeah. 507 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:42,280 That's a lot of countries. 508 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:43,280 Some of them don't even rhyme sometimes. 509 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,280 Yeah. 510 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,960 He then gave it over to the writers of Animaniacs since he figured they could use it. 511 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,080 They eventually brought him onto the staff as a writer too after that. 512 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:53,080 Nice. 513 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,840 Because that's a long ass song too. 514 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,760 Didn't they like that was I don't know if it was just that one episode but I feel like 515 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,440 they added it to almost a lot of the episodes. 516 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,920 Well they had that though they had the one where Wacko did the state capitals in states. 517 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:05,920 Yeah. 518 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,480 I feel like they just like either put it at the end of the episode or in between or something 519 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,520 or was it just one episode that had those specific. 520 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:12,880 I think it was just one episode. 521 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,680 Because I saw that shit all the time. 522 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:15,680 It was on rerun. 523 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:16,680 Jesus. 524 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,680 That was like one of the episodes that always showed up. 525 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:21,920 Next one we have number eight. 526 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:28,840 The part of Wacko was actually Jess Harrell's first big step into voice acting. 527 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:33,080 You wouldn't have thought that the way he nailed the part. 528 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,840 But another thing you may not know is that Jess Harrell is also with a lead vocalist 529 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,480 in a rock group called Rock Sugar. 530 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,040 Like nobody would have would have really expected that. 531 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,280 Wacko was voiced by a rock star. 532 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,280 Metalocalypse? 533 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:49,280 No. 534 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:53,440 No I'm just saying that's that's actually a cartoon. 535 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:54,440 Yeah. 536 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:55,440 Yeah. 537 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,440 So basically Wacko. 538 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:01,960 Ice lips in and out of diabetic coma. 539 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,280 Number seven. 540 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:09,040 The actors behind the three Warner siblings Rob Paulson, Jess Harrell and Tress McNeil 541 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,000 definitely had a blast doing the roles. 542 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,400 But did you know that the actors have voiced many other cartoon characters as well? 543 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,920 They've become quite the voice acting legends at this point. 544 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:27,720 Paulson who voices Yakko was also he voiced Dr. Scrat and Sniff and Pinky. 545 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:33,480 He also voiced Raphael from TMNT and countless voices on other cartoons. 546 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:38,880 McNeil the voice of Dot was also the voice of Babs Bunny from Tiny Toons. 547 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,320 Principal Skinner's mother from The Simpsons and a whole bunch more. 548 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,680 Jess Harrell was actually a newcomer to the voice acting world whenever he voiced Wacko. 549 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:54,360 But since then he has done Ironside from Transformers and Cedric from Sofia the first. 550 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,440 So he's done a few others. 551 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,160 They've been getting down on the voice acting business. 552 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,480 Yeah they've done a lot of different things. 553 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,000 Number six. 554 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,680 You can't really imagine the Animaniacs without the three crazy Warner siblings. 555 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:12,440 They also they always introduced themselves as Yakko, Wacko and our sister Dot. 556 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,280 And it seems that the three the three was the magic number for the siblings. 557 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:20,040 But there was actually going to be a fourth Warner sibling. 558 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:26,200 The creators toyed around with the idea of beginning but ultimately decided to go with 559 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,200 just the three. 560 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,840 The idea was brought about later in one of the Animaniacs movies that never got made. 561 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:40,240 The writers had an idea that they had a fourth sibling named Lacko. 562 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,600 He would prove himself to be so useless that the other Warner siblings would essentially 563 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:44,600 fire him. 564 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:49,520 That's a funny kind of concept but they never went through with it. 565 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,440 So it's going to be the three and it's like he's so horrible that they fire him out of 566 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:53,440 the three. 567 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:54,440 So we're related. 568 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,440 I don't understand. 569 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,440 Exactly. 570 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,040 Last, let's see number five. 571 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,440 Wacko is often the favorite Warner sibling for many fans. 572 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,720 He's endearing, strange and incredibly funny. 573 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,220 His voice is also quite contrast to his name since he is a pretty mellow tone. 574 00:28:12,220 --> 00:28:16,840 But apparently when it came to his voice, the casting director had a really hard time 575 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,840 trying to find one that fit. 576 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:23,280 Many of the auditions consisted of actors making their craziest voice since the character's 577 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:24,280 name was Wacko. 578 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:30,080 None of these voices worked for Wacko as they were coming up empty basically. 579 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:35,480 But when Jess Harnel was brought on, he won the director over with his impersonation of 580 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,720 the Beatles as they eventually went with a modified version of Ringo Starr's impression 581 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,320 for the voice of Wacko. 582 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:43,320 Huh, okay. 583 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:49,520 That's why he's got that kind of like slow voice, even though he's crazy. 584 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,920 So if you think of a speech pattern, sounds familiar. 585 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,760 That's probably why he sounds like one of the Beatles. 586 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,320 Like Ringo Starr. 587 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:57,320 Pretty much. 588 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:58,320 Yes. 589 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,600 Uh, next one we have, it's no secret that animaniacs attracted not only kids, but a 590 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,400 lot of adults as well. 591 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,920 Uh, there was a, this was kind of a weird thing for cartoons at the time. 592 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:14,040 Most cartoons were generally just marketed towards kids as an excuse to push toys. 593 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,680 But a lot of that changed with cartoons like animaniacs. 594 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,680 In fact, its adult fan base was a bit larger than what you would think. 595 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:25,200 Back in 1995, over one fifth of the animaniacs viewers were 25 and older. 596 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,480 Damn, that's a lot. 597 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,800 It's totally different than like now that's normal. 598 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,520 But back then, not so much. 599 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,840 So when Harry Potter first came out, then all of a sudden all the adults were trying 600 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,440 to read it and it was so embarrassing for them that they actually made with, they made 601 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,640 it like a blank hardcover copy. 602 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:43,640 I remember that. 603 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:44,640 Yeah. 604 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:45,640 Yeah. 605 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,880 Cause they didn't want to be spotted reading Harry Potter. 606 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,640 So a good portion of the viewers were actually adults who were really enjoying the show. 607 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:57,380 Uh, basically it was because it had great animation, witty banter, and just enough jokes 608 00:29:57,380 --> 00:30:00,040 to make you snicker while your kids look at you in confusion. 609 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:05,120 Really like what the fuck is so funny? 610 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,920 You'll get it when you're older. 611 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:12,520 Number two, ever wonder why the animation seems to age so well in animaniacs, especially 612 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,080 compared to other nineties cartoons? 613 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,120 Well, the quality of the animation for the show had a much higher production value than 614 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,680 standard TV shows. 615 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,280 The show also had a much higher cell count than other TV shows. 616 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,960 Basically those behind the show went above and beyond to make the cartoon as high of 617 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:32,320 quality as possible in the animation itself. 618 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,200 It definitely shows you'll notice that the animation is very smooth and the movements 619 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,160 of the characters are incredibly fluid. 620 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,480 You can also see that the characters don't just stand still and speak, but move around 621 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:41,480 as well. 622 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,960 Animaniacs pretty much raised the bar quality for TV animation of the time. 623 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:46,960 Nice. 624 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,160 Something that most people don't think of. 625 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:50,880 But that's kind of like a lot of them were kind of hold. 626 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,880 I don't know if they were remastered, but like Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes. 627 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,440 Yeah, they remastered a lot of them. 628 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,880 I can remind them. 629 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:57,880 Yeah. 630 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,240 I think that was one of the huge things that stood out for animaniacs is that they, instead 631 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,640 of the characters, like even now, like, um, there's some like, uh, my family guy where 632 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:07,640 they're just standing and talking. 633 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,280 It's just the, the, the lip flaps basically. 634 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,280 That's it. 635 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,440 They even do it at like an actual anime now where there's like the, you can tell the low 636 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,800 budget ones because it'll have them just standing there talking and not moving at all. 637 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,820 Like they gotta save money somehow. 638 00:31:23,820 --> 00:31:24,820 And that's a way to do it. 639 00:31:24,820 --> 00:31:29,360 Apparently they spared no, I know one piece is fucking dipping into the bank. 640 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:35,200 Man, I actually seen the last, like, I don't, I haven't watched the show, but I seen those 641 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,200 two episodes. 642 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,720 These episodes are going way too hard. 643 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,360 Give me a migraine. 644 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:40,360 Just watching this. 645 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,920 Oh, you, what I told you about the whole thing. 646 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:43,920 Yeah. 647 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:44,920 Hard to follow. 648 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,560 Like I get the concept that it's more of a cartoonish character, like where he becomes 649 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,040 almost kind of like Looney Tunes. 650 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,040 He finally, yeah. 651 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,920 He reached his peak, which is fucking tuned for everything. 652 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,600 Makes him, it reminded me of Yu-Gi-Oh! 653 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:58,600 The tune characters. 654 00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:59,600 The tune force. 655 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:00,600 Yeah. 656 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:01,600 Yeah. 657 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:02,600 That's exactly what it is. 658 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:03,600 Exact, perfect. 659 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:04,600 But the camera just has to stay set. 660 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:05,600 That's horrible. 661 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:06,600 Horrible. 662 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,600 And I only watched 15 minutes of the highlight. 663 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:10,600 It's like, oh. 664 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,600 That's basically the whole fight. 665 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,080 Like the first like 15 minutes of them talking. 666 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,080 Like the, the, the powers. 667 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,200 I don't know why people were getting mad about that really. 668 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,160 Cause I do get the point of like, uh, he's more of a cartoon. 669 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,160 Yeah. 670 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,160 Like, tuned for. 671 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:26,600 He's got the fucking stretch abilities. 672 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:27,880 He's been doing goofy shit. 673 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:29,160 His whole fucking career. 674 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,160 Yeah. 675 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:36,560 So him becoming like the epitome of pure cartoon-esque character and laughing the entire fucking time. 676 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,760 He was losing his shit. 677 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,960 All right. 678 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:41,960 Last one. 679 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:46,320 Uh, we do love Yaku, Wacko and Dodd and we adore their crazy antics and one, uh, witty 680 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:51,120 one-liners, but, uh, do we actually know what species these kids are? 681 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:56,800 The short answer is not really the long answer kind of, but not really. 682 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,000 The creators of the show designed the civilians to look like the cartoon characters from the 683 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,400 1920s, uh, such as Oswald, the lucky rabbit and Mickey Mouse. 684 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,560 This explains their slightly thinner designs with long ears. 685 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,440 The show also didn't want them to look too much like Mickey Mouse. 686 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,200 So they rounded out their features a bit more, giving them a more distinctive look. 687 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,680 As a result, uh, they don't really have a specific species, what they look like. 688 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:21,680 Damn. 689 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,600 It's pretty much like, like, uh, Vin Diesel. 690 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:25,600 Yeah. 691 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:30,480 Nobody really knows what he is. 692 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:31,480 Kind of everything. 693 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:32,480 Apparently bigger. 694 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:33,480 A little bit. 695 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:34,480 Yeah. 696 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:39,720 He just kind of wants of everything, you know, or the rock. 697 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,440 You don't really know what he is. 698 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,240 You know what he is, but you don't know what he is. 699 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,640 He got, he got a good mixed apparently. 700 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:46,640 Yeah. 701 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:47,640 It's weird. 702 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,640 Like, uh, it's always interesting seeing people like from different, uh, hereditary 703 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,520 just when they come together and have a kid, they kids just like, man, you just sure came 704 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:55,520 out. 705 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:56,520 I'm not trying to turn out a fuck about that. 706 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,520 I've seen this one. 707 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:58,520 I know everyone has beautiful babies. 708 00:33:58,520 --> 00:33:59,520 No. 709 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:00,520 Some of them look like garbage. 710 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:01,520 That's one ugly ass baby, ma'am. 711 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:02,520 I'm sorry to tell you. 712 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:03,520 I don't want to be an asshole, but I can't remember. 713 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:04,520 Uh, damn it. 714 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,600 There's a YouTube channel where he's a Japanese guy, but he goes up to people that live in 715 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,600 Japan that look different than normal Japanese people. 716 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,160 He went up to this one dude. 717 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,040 It's like, Oh my God, what the fuck happened to you? 718 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:20,040 He has a, he has a, he has a, he has a, he has a, he has a, he has a, he has a, he has 719 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:44,340 a, he, he has a Mother's Memoir on like, It was odd looking. 720 00:34:44,340 --> 00:34:50,220 It was just I've never seen somebody with the hairstyle. 721 00:34:50,220 --> 00:34:54,380 It's hard to describe. 722 00:34:54,380 --> 00:34:55,380 It wasn't braids. 723 00:34:55,380 --> 00:34:57,820 It's kind of like the weekend weekend. 724 00:34:57,820 --> 00:34:58,820 Huh? 725 00:34:58,820 --> 00:35:01,380 You know, the crazy weird fucking hair. 726 00:35:01,380 --> 00:35:07,660 He usually has said that was just a regular like kind of an Afro, like a really low and 727 00:35:07,660 --> 00:35:12,900 not the Afro and Afro. 728 00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:14,820 I wouldn't say Afro. 729 00:35:14,820 --> 00:35:21,660 This dude, he specifically chose to have these like dreadlocks on the side like Joe Dirt. 730 00:35:21,660 --> 00:35:23,220 I just came onto my head. 731 00:35:23,220 --> 00:35:28,300 Well, it was on the back and then it wasn't a fro on top because everybody knows what 732 00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:30,740 a fro looks like or even like it just a short fro. 733 00:35:30,740 --> 00:35:33,620 Yeah, this is like nappy, nappy, nappy fro. 734 00:35:33,620 --> 00:35:36,540 Bro, what the fuck happened to you? 735 00:35:36,540 --> 00:35:38,100 But the guy went up to me the whole. 736 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:39,100 That's mean. 737 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:43,380 He came around the corner of the store. 738 00:35:43,380 --> 00:35:46,380 Oh, are you? 739 00:35:46,380 --> 00:35:49,460 You ask these people questions. 740 00:35:49,460 --> 00:35:58,260 It was hilarious though, the expression that he had because he's never seen somebody that 741 00:35:58,260 --> 00:35:59,260 looked like that. 742 00:35:59,260 --> 00:36:00,740 Maybe just playing up for the camera, probably. 743 00:36:00,740 --> 00:36:03,020 No, because he went up to everybody else normal. 744 00:36:03,020 --> 00:36:08,220 And he went up to other black people that were in Japan that, you know, they speak Japanese 745 00:36:08,220 --> 00:36:11,620 fluently and everything like that because they've lived in Japan their whole lives or 746 00:36:11,620 --> 00:36:14,060 their family lived there or whatever. 747 00:36:14,060 --> 00:36:17,220 And he is asking him kind of like, how do people treat you? 748 00:36:17,220 --> 00:36:18,740 Do they treat you like an American? 749 00:36:18,740 --> 00:36:22,140 Do they treat you, you know, like different ways or whatever? 750 00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:28,020 But just that one dude specifically, that's kind of like that gas almost that you have 751 00:36:28,020 --> 00:36:29,020 a sailor moon. 752 00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:32,700 That was a real recognition of glory from the old days. 753 00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:36,780 Oh my God, that sailor moon. 754 00:36:36,780 --> 00:36:40,180 Slay Queen. 755 00:36:40,180 --> 00:36:41,180 The first heroin. 756 00:36:41,180 --> 00:36:42,180 Yeah. 757 00:36:42,180 --> 00:36:47,500 What about sailor Mercury in Venus? 758 00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:53,060 And that bitch is it's all about the moon or nothing. 759 00:36:53,060 --> 00:36:58,020 You just want to see that. 760 00:36:58,020 --> 00:37:01,780 But that's all I got for Animaniacs today and everything and a little bit of information. 761 00:37:01,780 --> 00:37:04,460 Hopefully it's stuff that you didn't already know. 762 00:37:04,460 --> 00:37:05,460 Yeah. 763 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:11,340 That you entertain yourself with on this long, cruel existence we call life. 764 00:37:11,340 --> 00:37:16,700 And think it exists again, too, because they created more episodes of Animaniacs, I believe 765 00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:17,700 on Hulu. 766 00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:19,700 Oh, look that up. 767 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:20,700 Yeah. 768 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:21,700 They restarted it again. 769 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:23,060 Do I still have Hulu? 770 00:37:23,060 --> 00:37:26,860 I did quite a stream purge recently. 771 00:37:26,860 --> 00:37:29,180 Well, everybody went out to did you see that? 772 00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:30,180 Yeah. 773 00:37:30,180 --> 00:37:31,180 Fucking bullshit. 774 00:37:31,180 --> 00:37:33,180 Disney Plus is going up like 30 percent. 775 00:37:33,180 --> 00:37:35,380 Netflix is going to be I don't know if they're going to be better. 776 00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:37,220 I'm already giving them 20 dollars. 777 00:37:37,220 --> 00:37:40,260 Hulu is going to be going up to take it. 778 00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:41,260 Yeah. 779 00:37:41,260 --> 00:37:43,540 Because since Disney owns Hulu. 780 00:37:43,540 --> 00:37:46,460 So you get you get fucked on both ends like a goddang spit rust. 781 00:37:46,460 --> 00:37:47,460 Yeah. 782 00:37:47,460 --> 00:37:48,460 Damn. 783 00:37:48,460 --> 00:37:49,460 Yeah. 784 00:37:49,460 --> 00:37:50,460 Disney doesn't have enough content. 785 00:37:50,460 --> 00:37:51,460 No, they don't. 786 00:37:51,460 --> 00:37:54,500 And they fucking keep you in the end and they drop a bunch of stuff. 787 00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:55,500 Yeah. 788 00:37:55,500 --> 00:38:00,020 Like like if you couldn't handle being a streaming service, you shouldn't have done it. 789 00:38:00,020 --> 00:38:01,020 Right. 790 00:38:01,020 --> 00:38:02,620 But they don't hear cost cutting. 791 00:38:02,620 --> 00:38:06,380 They took off a bunch of like popular movies and stuff like that. 792 00:38:06,380 --> 00:38:07,380 So unbelievable. 793 00:38:07,380 --> 00:38:10,980 I mean, I had it and I cut it off as soon as they added Guardians of the Galaxy three 794 00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:13,100 and I got to see that and I'm done. 795 00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:14,460 I kept it for two months, I think. 796 00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:16,940 And I owe them the price of a film ticket. 797 00:38:16,940 --> 00:38:17,940 If you were to go. 798 00:38:17,940 --> 00:38:18,940 Yeah. 799 00:38:18,940 --> 00:38:20,500 So it's like it is what it is. 800 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:24,060 Film tickets are cheap and to man name, but then they sure fuck you on the food. 801 00:38:24,060 --> 00:38:25,060 Yes, they do. 802 00:38:25,060 --> 00:38:29,660 I don't know where they get this food or why they marked up so high. 803 00:38:29,660 --> 00:38:34,220 I will never understand movie theater economics because that's the only way they make their 804 00:38:34,220 --> 00:38:35,220 money. 805 00:38:35,220 --> 00:38:36,860 It's like this movie is like 750. 806 00:38:36,860 --> 00:38:37,860 Awesome. 807 00:38:37,860 --> 00:38:38,860 You want a bottle of water? 808 00:38:38,860 --> 00:38:39,860 Nineteen forty seven, please. 809 00:38:39,860 --> 00:38:44,220 I'm like, it's almost Disneyland prices. 810 00:38:44,220 --> 00:38:46,140 It's like it is just the most rich. 811 00:38:46,140 --> 00:38:47,140 I'll rant about it later. 812 00:38:47,140 --> 00:38:50,140 This will be another rant. 813 00:38:50,140 --> 00:38:51,140 Yeah. 814 00:38:51,140 --> 00:38:53,140 But anything else that before we head out? 815 00:38:53,140 --> 00:39:00,020 No, I was about to say something truly. 816 00:39:00,020 --> 00:39:01,020 All right. 817 00:39:01,020 --> 00:39:26,020 Well, listen to Noe's rant this Monday and we will see you guys on the next one.