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** Maybe the problem is that he's a non-anthropomorphic chicken. If he could talk it might make all the difference. Or maybe the problem is that he tricks people by disguising himself as a human. At least Slappy is upfront about being a squirrel.
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* In the Film/TheWizardOfOz parody "Buttons in Ows", Buttons and Mindy are swept away to Oz...a strangely depopulated Oz. There are no Munchkins in Munchkinland, no one in the Emerald City except for one door guard, and the only Scarecrow and Tin Man we see are completely inanimate (which gives the unsettling feeling that Buttons and Mindy have come upon their corpses). The Tin Man's lack of response can be explained as this taking place shortly before Dorothy arrives (since, after all, Buttons and Mindy are pursuing a runaway Toto after he's leaped from Miss Gulch's basket), but where is everyone else?! One would think that a parody of The Wizard Of Oz would have gotten some gags out of Buttons and Mindy interacting with other denizens of Oz besides the guard and the Wizard (who, of course, turns out to be The Brain). So why did they go this route? Were there copyright restrictions on portraying any of the other Oz characters?

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* In the Film/TheWizardOfOz [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]] parody "Buttons in Ows", Buttons and Mindy are swept away to Oz...a strangely depopulated Oz. There are no Munchkins in Munchkinland, no one in the Emerald City except for one door guard, and the only Scarecrow and Tin Man we see are completely inanimate (which gives can give viewers the unsettling feeling sense that Buttons and Mindy have come upon their corpses). The Tin Man's lack of response can be explained as this taking place shortly before Dorothy arrives (since, after all, Buttons and Mindy are pursuing a runaway Toto after he's leaped from Miss Gulch's basket), basket) and therefore while he's still rusted solid, but where is everyone else?! One would think that a parody of The Wizard Of Oz would have gotten some gags out of Buttons and Mindy interacting with other denizens of Oz besides the guard and the Wizard (who, of course, turns out to be The Brain). So why did they go this route? Were there copyright restrictions on portraying any of the other Oz characters?
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* In the Film/TheWizardOfOz parody "Buttons in Ows", Buttons and Mindy are swept away to Oz...a strangely depopulated Oz. There are no Munchkins in Munchkinland, no one in the Emerald City except for one door guard, and the only Scarecrow and Tin Man we see are completely inanimate (which gives the unsettling feeling that Buttons and Mindy have come upon their corpses). The Tin Man's lack of response can be explained as this taking place shortly before Dorothy arrives (since, after all, Buttons and Mindy are pursuing a runaway Toto after he's leaped from Miss Gulch's basket), but where is everyone else?! One would think that a parody of The Wizard Of Oz would have gotten some gags out of Buttons and Mindy interacting with other denizens of Oz besides the guard and the Wizard (who, of course, turns out to be The Brain). So why did they go this route? Were there copyright restrictions on portraying any of the other Oz characters?

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* In the Film/TheWizardOfOz parody "Buttons in Ows", Buttons and Mindy are swept away to Oz...a strangely depopulated Oz. There are no Munchkins in Munchkinland, no one in the Emerald City except for one door guard, and the only Scarecrow and Tin Man we see are completely inanimate (which gives the unsettling feeling that Buttons and Mindy have come upon their corpses). The Tin Man's lack of response can be explained as this taking place shortly before Dorothy arrives (since, after all, Buttons and Mindy are pursuing a runaway Toto after he's leaped from Miss Gulch's basket), but where is everyone else?! One would think that a parody of The Wizard Of Oz would have gotten some gags out of Buttons and Mindy interacting with other denizens of Oz besides the guard and the Wizard (who, of course, turns out to be The Brain). So why did they go this route? Were there copyright restrictions on portraying any of the other Oz characters?characters?
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* In the Film/TheWizardOfOz parody "Buttons in Ows", Buttons and Mindy are swept away to Oz...a strangely depopulated Oz. There are no Munchkins in Munchkinland, no one in the Emerald City except for one door guard, and the only Scarecrow and Tin Man we see are completely inanimate (which gives the unsettling feeling that Buttons and Mindy have come upon their corpses). The Tin Man's lack of response can be explained as this taking place shortly before Dorothy arrives (since, after all, Buttons and Mindy are pursuing a runaway Toto after he's leaped from Miss Gulch's basket), but where is everyone else?! One would think that a parody of The Wizard Of Oz would have gotten some gags out of Buttons and Mindy interacting with other denizens of Oz besides the guard and the Wizard (who, of course, turns out to be The Brain). So why did they go this route? Were there copyright restrictions on portraying any of the other Oz characters?
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*** Heck, it is even lampshaded by Pesto in the scene after the cartoon where he rants about the nonsense of the script.
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* So the Warner Bros. specifically say, in the Mary Poppins parody episode, that they can only annoy or harm someone if they annoy or harm them first... But there are multiple episodes where they harm or annoy someone without them doing anything to them in the first place. In the very first episode, they drive Dr. Scratchinsniff insane and all he was trying to do was psychoanalyze them on the Company's order. On top of that, there are times when the Warners are harassed and harmed, and then help the person who harassed/harmed them in the first place (like Albert Einstein, Sherlock Holmes and Abraham Lincoln), but there are times where their torment is just torment (again, Dr. Scratchinsniff). So what exactly are Warner's Rules with their slapstick?

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* So the Warner Bros. specifically say, in the Mary Poppins ''Sound of Music'' parody episode, that they can only annoy or harm someone if they annoy or harm them first... But there are multiple episodes where they harm or annoy someone without them doing anything to them in the first place. In the very first episode, they drive Dr. Scratchinsniff insane and all he was trying to do was psychoanalyze them on the Company's order. On top of that, there are times when the Warners are harassed and harmed, and then help the person who harassed/harmed them in the first place (like Albert Einstein, Sherlock Holmes and Abraham Lincoln), but there are times where their torment is just torment (again, Dr. Scratchinsniff). So what exactly are Warner's Rules with their slapstick?



** Scratchensniff is a nice person, but he's still performing forced psychoanalysis on the Warners as part of their imprisonment. That doesn't really count as harmless and well-meaning. (Note that the one-time Scratchensniff does stick up for them to Plotz, in the episode where they get sent home from the party, even though Scratchensniff delivered the bad news they correctly focus their wrath on Plotz.)

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** Scratchensniff is a nice person, but he's still performing forced psychoanalysis on the Warners as part of their imprisonment.imprisonment, and wants to tame them into quiet, well-behaved children. That doesn't really count as harmless and well-meaning. (Note that the one-time Scratchensniff does stick up for them to Plotz, in the episode where they get sent home from the party, even though Scratchensniff delivered the bad news they correctly focus their wrath on Plotz.)
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*** According to the manual, somebody apparently did. He's explicitly quoted as saying "I don't care what Mr. Plotz says!" and stating he wants to capture the Warners no matter what. Which is quite out-of-character for him (and could possibly be a retroactive justification, as manuals are often written independent of the game itself).
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* To actually answer the question, it was a common joke in early episodes that someone would make a statement that could sound dirty, and Yakko would just interpret it that way and say "Goodnight everybody!" Usually he would get corrected. An example is an episode where a teacher is trying to teach grammar to him and asks him to "conjugate."
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** One-joke character. Same as the Hippos and the pigeons, yes, but a one-joke character nonetheless. There are only so many fun ways you can show people freaking out to her presence.

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** One-joke character. Same as the Hippos Chicken Boo and the pigeons, Katie Ka-boom, yes, but a one-joke character nonetheless. There are only so many fun ways you can show people freaking out to her presence.
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* More precisely, it's a suggestion that the censors are coming to shut the show down because of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

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* More precisely, it's a suggestion that the censors are coming to shut the show down because of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.all of their DemographicallyInappropriateHumour.
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* More precisely, it's a suggestion that the censors are coming to shut the show down because of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
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* Show's over, time to go home, goodnight?
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** Best guess: the PR people at WB Animation were in a non-stop battle against the MoralGuardians about all the getting-crap-past-the-radar that ''did'' get to stay on the show, and Minerva was considered expendable if it meant they didn't have to edit Slappy or the Warner siblings. There may also have been worries that MisaimedFandom would give ''Animaniacs'' the wrong kind of reputation.

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** Best guess: the PR people at WB Animation were in a non-stop battle against the MoralGuardians about all the getting-crap-past-the-radar stuff that ''did'' get to stay on the show, and Minerva was considered expendable if it meant they didn't have to edit Slappy or the Warner siblings. There may also have been worries that MisaimedFandom would give ''Animaniacs'' the wrong kind of reputation.



* The {{Satan}} episode. How the [[{{Pun}} hell]] did the writers have managed to sneak ''[[{{Hell}} that]]'' and a Minerva Mink short [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the censors]] in the same episode?
** Even the creators themselves aren't sure how they got [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the censors]]. According to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's Animaniacs tribute.

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* The {{Satan}} episode. How the [[{{Pun}} hell]] did the writers have managed to sneak ''[[{{Hell}} that]]'' and a Minerva Mink short [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the censors]] censors in the same episode?
** Even the creators themselves aren't sure how they got [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the censors]].censors. According to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's Animaniacs tribute.
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* The constant fourth-wall breaking in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' is one of the most refreshing aspects of the show. However, they break the fourth wall on so many different levels that I don't understand what's supposed to ''really'' be going on. A good example is in the episode "This Pun for Hire", when WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} "accidentally" bursts into the office where they're shooting the episode, and Dot tells him where to find his own office, then saying to the viewer, "This is a zany episode!" But why would she have said that if that had been unscripted, like it was supposed to seem? How much of the show is meant to be scripted, and how much is "real"? Do we ever meet the "real" Warners, or is it all just an act?
** The 4th wall gags are subject to the RuleOfFunny, and don't need to line up with a coherent story.

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* The constant fourth-wall breaking in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' is one of the most refreshing aspects of the show. However, they break the fourth wall on so many different levels that I don't understand what's supposed to ''really'' be going on. A good example is in the episode "This Pun for Hire", Hire" when WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} "accidentally" bursts into the office where they're shooting the episode, and Dot tells him where to find his own office, then saying to the viewer, "This is a zany episode!" But why would she have said that if that had been unscripted, unscripted like it was supposed to seem? How much of the show is meant to be scripted, and how much is "real"? Do we ever meet the "real" Warners, or is it all just an act?
** The 4th wall gags are subject to the RuleOfFunny, RuleOfFunny and don't need to line up with a coherent story.



* Related to the above question, what are we to make of ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''? It would probably be best to assume it's meant to be a play/movie all the characters are in, rather than "real". But then why are we supposed to care when it's revealed who the Warner's parents are? Whereas if the world of ''Wakko's Wish'' ''is'' supposed to be "real", then how did they get there?

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* Related to the above question, what are we to make of ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''? It would probably be best to assume it's meant to be a play/movie all the characters are in, rather than "real". But then why are we supposed to care when it's revealed who the Warner's parents are? Whereas if the world of ''Wakko's Wish'' ''is'' supposed to be "real", then how did they get there?



*** And despite of this when she wants silence puts his fingers in the tufts on the sides of her head, while her real ears remain perfectly unobstructed.

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**** Yeah, but imagine the disappointed/traumatized faces of the kids watching the last episode back then. and I think the ending we are talking about is probably like some sort of unresolved cliffhanger ending.(or at least until the reboot comes out next month)



* What happened to [[MsFanservice Minerva Mink?!]] I loved her skits! They were funny, and Minerva got her LaserGuidedKarma at the end! How come they kept the [[TheScrappy Hip Hippos]], but got rid of ''her ''? I know half of it was from the innuendo, but I re-watched her two episodes, and nothing caught my eye as "risque", and yet they keep Hello Nurse. Such a DoubleStandard.
** One-joke character. Same as the Hippos and the pigeons, yes, but a one-joke character nonetheless. There's only so many funny ways you can show people freaking out to her presence.
** Another thing...maybe they thought she was too much of a bitch. Granted, she did get a karmic slap in the face, but her character was one that KNEW how hot she was, and used it to her advantage. Hello Nurse didn't go that far. She was simply a hot nurse; didn't manipulate people (not on a regular basis anyway) or lead them on. Or, maybe it's as simple as the character was not popular enough to warrant her own segment like Slappy or Rita & Runt.

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* What happened to [[MsFanservice Minerva Mink?!]] I loved her skits! They were funny, and Minerva got her LaserGuidedKarma at the end! How come they kept the [[TheScrappy Hip Hippos]], Hippos]] but got rid of ''her ''? I know half of it was from the innuendo, but I re-watched her two episodes, and nothing caught my eye as "risque", and yet they keep Hello Nurse. Such a DoubleStandard.
** One-joke character. Same as the Hippos and the pigeons, yes, but a one-joke character nonetheless. There's There are only so many funny fun ways you can show people freaking out to her presence.
** Another thing...maybe they thought she was too much of a bitch. Granted, she did get a karmic slap in the face, but her character was one that KNEW how hot she was, was and used it to her advantage. Hello Nurse didn't go that far. She was simply a hot nurse; didn't manipulate people (not on a regular basis anyway) or lead them on. Or, maybe it's as simple as the character was not popular enough to warrant her own segment segments like Slappy or Rita & Runt.



** Buttons stars in cartoons as a non-speaking role. If he were ever given one, he'd be able to talk.

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** Buttons stars star in cartoons as in a non-speaking role. If he were ever given one, he'd be able to talk.



* Why were the Rita and Runt segments dropped in the latter half of the show? Seriously, I've heard so much conflicting speculation about this, but no official, definite explanation. Some reckon that it was because Bernadette Peters couldn't (or wouldn't) commit to the show, but I've also heard that she really enjoyed voicing Rita (having once owned a cat just like her) and was upset when the R&R cartoons stopped. Others say that ExecutiveMeddling was involved, the R&R shorts being considered too dark in tone (nearly all of their potential homes tended to contain some kind of hidden peril) and just not wacky enough compared to the rest of the show. Me personally, I think it's a bit unfair that Buttons and Mindy were able to keep on recycling the same basic scenario over and over, while the Rita and Runt cartoons which, like all the Animaniacs segments, played to formula, but had a lot more heart and depth, were shafted. Although the show did make a [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Brother Chuck]] gag at their expense (they showed up as "Missing" on a milk carton in one sequence), the fact that they remained in the opening credits and eventually reappeared in the DTV movie "Wakko's Wish" suggest that the show's staff had no desire to completely eliminate them from the viewers' conscious memories.
** This troper seems to remember reading somewhere that Rita's VA was the most highly paid on the show, and believes that they were chopped as a cost cutting measure.
*** Of course she was the highest paid on the show! She's Bernadette Peters! Although I've also heard it was just too hard to schedule her, what with her doing 98 concerts a week and 47 Broadway shows and a few movies here and there.

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* Why were the Rita and Runt segments dropped in the latter half of the show? Seriously, I've heard so much conflicting speculation about this, but no official, definite explanation. Some reckon that it was because Bernadette Peters couldn't (or wouldn't) commit to the show, but I've also heard that she really enjoyed voicing Rita (having once owned a cat just like her) and was upset when the R&R cartoons stopped. Others say that ExecutiveMeddling was involved, the R&R shorts being considered too dark in tone (nearly all of their potential homes tended to contain some kind of hidden peril) and just not wacky enough compared to the rest of the show. Me personally, I think it's a bit unfair that Buttons and Mindy were able to keep on recycling the same basic scenario over and over, while the Rita and Runt cartoons which, like all the Animaniacs segments, played to formula, but had a lot more heart and depth, were shafted. Although the show did make a [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Brother Chuck]] gag at their expense (they showed up as "Missing" on a milk carton in one sequence), the fact that they remained in the opening credits and eventually reappeared in the DTV movie "Wakko's Wish" suggest suggests that the show's staff had no desire to completely eliminate them from the viewers' conscious memories.
** This troper seems to remember reading somewhere that Rita's VA was the most highly paid on the show, and believes that they were chopped as a cost cutting cost-cutting measure.
*** Of course she was the highest paid highest-paid on the show! She's Bernadette Peters! Although I've also heard it was just too hard to schedule her, what with her doing 98 concerts a week and 47 Broadway shows and a few movies here and there.



*** Another theory, which only works if you take ''Series/TinyToonAdventures'' as a part of this show's universe: in one episode of that show, it's revealed that laughter keeps a toon young; when a toon's audience disappears, they gradually get older and older. It's also shown that a single strong showing of laughter can completely rejuvenate a long-aged toon. So it's possible that the Warners ''did'' age, but their brief stints of freedom (and the shared memories of those stints being told to others) would generate enough laughter to keep them youthful. Slappy, meanwhile, has deliberately retired, and her old cartoons aren't shown anymore, so she's aging at a natural rate; however, her "working" on ''Animaniacs'' is creating a new audience that provides enough laughter to keep her spry, but not so much that she ages down.

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*** Another theory, which only works if you take ''Series/TinyToonAdventures'' as a part of this show's universe: in one episode of that show, it's revealed that laughter keeps a toon young; when a toon's audience disappears, they gradually get older and older. It's also shown that a single strong showing of laughter can completely rejuvenate a long-aged toon. So it's possible that the Warners ''did'' age, but their brief stints of freedom (and the shared memories of those stints being told to others) would generate enough laughter to keep them youthful. Slappy, meanwhile, has deliberately retired, and her old cartoons aren't shown anymore, so she's aging ageing at a natural rate; however, her "working" on ''Animaniacs'' is creating a new audience that provides enough laughter to keep her spry, but not so much that she ages down.



*** The Warners could be the latter cat species if that species actually existed in real life, because they have higher foreheads and longer dewclaws (or "thumbs") than actual cat species.

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*** The Warners could be the latter cat species if that species actually existed in real life, life because they have higher foreheads and longer dewclaws (or "thumbs") than actual cat species.



*** And what about all those Warner design based Animaniacs fan characters with convincingly cat-like ears.

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*** And what about all those Warner design designs based Animaniacs fan characters with convincingly cat-like ears.



*** Some people like to call the four-legged "Warner" design that has a white furred face and hindpaws, but with forepaws left the same fur color as the rest of the body "puppycats."

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*** Some people like to call the four-legged "Warner" design that has a white furred white-furred face and hindpaws, hind paws, but with forepaws left the same fur color colour as the rest of the body "puppycats."puppy cats."



** It could be that since the Warners don't consider themselves bad that they let the studio win every once in a while. At the end of many episodes they are seen using a gag bag item to make their way back to the tower, so it isn't that they don't like it there. Maybe they just want to go home at the end of the day and being captured is just a method of getting there.

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** It could be that since the Warners don't consider themselves bad that they let the studio win every once in a while. At the end of many episodes episodes, they are seen using a gag bag item to make their way back to the tower, so it isn't that they don't like it there. Maybe they just want to go home at the end of the day and being captured is just a method of getting there.



** At the time, the idea of a cartoon for adults was still completely new, with people predicting the Simpsons wouldn't last three seasons. Plus, the show had enough humor for kids to run on that. The kids will think of "finger prince" as two nouns, not an action.
** At least in the case of "Finger Prince" you're ignoring some of the context. At the time the Warners are searching for clues and Yakko tells Dot to look for ''PRINTS''. She then produced Prince having misheard him. He then corrects her and tells her "''FINGER'' PRINTS". It's funny to the kids because she misheard him and thought it had to do with the Artist Formerly Known as. There are plenty of other times when the show made other references but most of them were less inappropriate than over the heads of the audience. I know at twelve Charlie Sheen, Ben Vereen just happened to rhyme with lima bean which was the only part I needed to understand.

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** At the time, the idea of a cartoon for adults was still completely new, with people predicting the Simpsons wouldn't last three seasons. Plus, the show had enough humor humour for kids to run on that. The kids will think of "finger prince" as two nouns, not an action.
** At least in the case of "Finger Prince" you're ignoring some of the context.contexts. At the time the Warners are searching for clues and Yakko tells Dot to look for ''PRINTS''. She then produced Prince having misheard him. He then corrects her and tells her "''FINGER'' PRINTS". It's funny to the kids because she misheard him and thought it had to do with the Artist Formerly Known as. There are plenty of other times when the show made other references but most of them were less inappropriate than over the heads of the audience. I know at twelve Charlie Sheen, Ben Vereen just happened to rhyme with lima bean which was the only part I needed to understand.



* Ok... HOW THE HELL DOES KATIE KABOOM HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE IF SHE BECOMES A LITERAL MONSTER AT THE DROP OF A HAT!!!! One possible nightmarish answer could be... what if OTHER Teenage girls besides Katie are like this... pleasant dreams everyone!

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* Ok... HOW THE HELL DOES KATIE KABOOM HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE IF SHE BECOMES A LITERAL MONSTER AT THE DROP OF A HAT!!!! One possible nightmarish answer could be... what if OTHER Teenage girls besides Katie are like this... pleasant dreams dreams, everyone!



** It's a fourth wall breaking sign off. I took it as him implying that the censors would shut the episode down over it if they continued the joke, since it was a blatant radar moment. Or it sounded like a blatant radar moment (like the conjugate joke).
** It's a nod to an old Vaudeville gag, if I remember correctly.

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** It's a fourth wall breaking sign off. fourth-wall-breaking sign-off. I took it as him implying that the censors would shut the episode down over it if they continued the joke, joke since it was a blatant radar moment. Or it sounded like a blatant radar moment (like the conjugate joke).
** It's a nod to an old Vaudeville gag, gag if I remember correctly.



** Sometimes, Brain's world domination plots rely on working in a particular time frame (I remember one had him having to impersonate Cher at a celebrity golf tournament, so he obviously couldn't wait to do that). Brain also has a [[SmallNameBigEgo massive ego]], and prides himself on never repeating a scheme: in one episode, he disguises himself and Pinky as network executives who are [[ShowWithinAShow creating a show about two lab mice who want to take over the world]], then asks for potential writers to provide "plots" that he intends to steal for himself. So if a plan doesn't work once in some way, he discards it and moves onto another.

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** Sometimes, Brain's world domination plots rely on working in a particular time frame (I remember one had him having to impersonate Cher at a celebrity golf tournament, so he obviously couldn't wait to do that). Brain The brain also has a [[SmallNameBigEgo massive ego]], and prides himself on never repeating a scheme: in one episode, he disguises himself and Pinky as network executives who are [[ShowWithinAShow creating a show about two lab mice who want to take over the world]], then asks for potential writers to provide "plots" that he intends to steal for himself. So if a plan doesn't work once in some way, he discards it and moves onto another.



* So the Warner Bros. specifically say, in the Mary Poppins parody episode, that they can only annoy or harm someone if they annoy or harm them first... But there are multiple episodes where they harm or annoy someone without them doing anything to them in the first place. The very first episode, they drive Dr. Scratchinsniff insane and all he was trying to do was psychoanalyze them on the Company's order. On top of that, there are times when the Warners are harassed and harmed, and then help the person who harassed/harmed them in the first place (like Albert Einstein, Sherlock Holmes and Abraham Lincoln), but there are times where their torment is just torment (again, Dr. Scratchinsniff). So what exactly are the Warner's Rules with their slapstick?

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* So the Warner Bros. specifically say, in the Mary Poppins parody episode, that they can only annoy or harm someone if they annoy or harm them first... But there are multiple episodes where they harm or annoy someone without them doing anything to them in the first place. The In the very first episode, they drive Dr. Scratchinsniff insane and all he was trying to do was psychoanalyze them on the Company's order. On top of that, there are times when the Warners are harassed and harmed, and then help the person who harassed/harmed them in the first place (like Albert Einstein, Sherlock Holmes and Abraham Lincoln), but there are times where their torment is just torment (again, Dr. Scratchinsniff). So what exactly are the Warner's Rules with their slapstick?



** Scratchensniff is a nice person, but he's still performing forced psychoanalysis on the Warners as part of their imprisonment. That doesn't really count as harmless and well-meaning. (Note that the one time Scratchensniff does stick up for them to Plotz, in the episode where they get sent home from the party, even though Scratchensniff delivered the bad news they correctly focus their wrath on Plotz.)

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** Scratchensniff is a nice person, but he's still performing forced psychoanalysis on the Warners as part of their imprisonment. That doesn't really count as harmless and well-meaning. (Note that the one time one-time Scratchensniff does stick up for them to Plotz, in the episode where they get sent home from the party, even though Scratchensniff delivered the bad news they correctly focus their wrath on Plotz.)
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1) How come Chicken Boo fails at every attempt at getting a job just for being a chicken, but Slappy Squirrel has been a successful old star for many years? Massive {{Furry Confusion}}, perhaps. But anthro or not, Slappy's still a squirrel so technically she should be rejected too.

2) Not very important, but how come they gave the Mime a red nose like a clown instead of a white one like the rest of his face? Did they have anything against giving him more realistic makeup?

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1) *1) How come Chicken Boo fails at every attempt at getting a job just for being a chicken, but Slappy Squirrel has been a successful old star for many years? Massive {{Furry Confusion}}, perhaps. But anthro or not, Slappy's still a squirrel so technically she should be rejected too.

2) *2) Not very important, but how come they gave the Mime a red nose like a clown instead of a white one like the rest of his face? Did they have anything against giving him more realistic makeup? makeup?

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1) How come Chicken Boo fails at every attempt to stardom just for being a chicken, but Slappy Squirrel has been a successful old star for many years? Massive {{Furry Confusion}}, perhaps but anthro or not, Slappy's still a squirrel so technically she should be rejected too.

2) Not very important, but how come they gave the Mime a red nose like a clown instead of a white one like the rest of his face?

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1) How come Chicken Boo fails at every attempt to stardom at getting a job just for being a chicken, but Slappy Squirrel has been a successful old star for many years? Massive {{Furry Confusion}}, perhaps but perhaps. But anthro or not, Slappy's still a squirrel so technically she should be rejected too.

2) Not very important, but how come they gave the Mime a red nose like a clown instead of a white one like the rest of his face? Did they have anything against giving him more realistic makeup?
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I have spotted two stuff on Animaniacs that really bug me:

1) How come Chicken Boo fails at every attempt to stardom just for being a chicken, but Slappy Squirrel has been a successful old star for many years? Massive {{Furry Confusion}}, perhaps but anthro or not, Slappy's still a squirrel so technically she should be rejected too.

2) Not very important, but how come they gave the Mime a red nose like a clown instead of a white one like the rest of his face?
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** Or, since according to the "Animators Alley" episode, the studio (or at least its animation department) started out as a pie company, maybe in this universe the original Warners were bakers.
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* What happened to [[MsFanservice Minerva Mink?!]] I loved her skits! They were funny, and Minerva got her LaserGuidedKarma at the end! How come they kept the [[TheScrappy Hip Hippos]], but got rid of ''her ''? I know half of it was from the innuendo, but I re-watched her two episodes, and nothing caught my eye as "risque", and yet they keep HelloNurse. Such a DoubleStandard.

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* What happened to [[MsFanservice Minerva Mink?!]] I loved her skits! They were funny, and Minerva got her LaserGuidedKarma at the end! How come they kept the [[TheScrappy Hip Hippos]], but got rid of ''her ''? I know half of it was from the innuendo, but I re-watched her two episodes, and nothing caught my eye as "risque", and yet they keep HelloNurse.Hello Nurse. Such a DoubleStandard.



** The simple answer is that in the Buttons and Mindy shorts, and in the Chicken Boo shorts, is that they're playing an ordinary dog and an ordinary, uh, giant chicken, just like HelloNurse plays up the DumbBlonde stereotype, but we're shown that she's actually a genius. I don't think we've ever seen Buttons and Chicken Boo outside their shorts (and Wakko's Wish) like we do other characters.

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** The simple answer is that in the Buttons and Mindy shorts, and in the Chicken Boo shorts, is that they're playing an ordinary dog and an ordinary, uh, giant chicken, just like HelloNurse Hello Nurse plays up the DumbBlonde stereotype, but we're shown that she's actually a genius. I don't think we've ever seen Buttons and Chicken Boo outside their shorts (and Wakko's Wish) like we do other characters.
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** The creators themselves don't know how they got [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the censors]]. According to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's Animaniacs tribute.

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** The Even the creators themselves don't know aren't sure how they got [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the censors]]. According to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's Animaniacs tribute.
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** Scratchensniff is a nice person, but he's still performing forced psychoanalysis on the Warners as part of their imprisonment. That doesn't really count as harmless and well-meaning. (Note that the one time Scratchensniff does stick up for them to Plotz, in the episode where they get sent home from the party, even though Scratchensniff delivered the bad news they correctly focus their wrath on Plotz.)
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** Well, most of the time the person who doesn't harm them is revealed to be a jerk beforehand (the weasel guy who ran the candy store, the bear with the garage sale, that guy on the plane). Maybe the Warners somehow know beforehand that this guy is a jerk and therefore see no problem in giving them a hard time? I dunno about Dr. Scratchensniff, though. Also, from what I remember they did go pretty easy on Lincoln.
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** It's a old Vaudeville gag, if I remember correctly.

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** It's a nod to an old Vaudeville gag, if I remember correctly.
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** It's a old Vaudeville gag, if I remember correctly.
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** Its also, obviously, a long parody (probably loosely, never saw the play myself) of 'Fiddler on the Roof'.
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*So the Warner Bros. specifically say, in the Mary Poppins parody episode, that they can only annoy or harm someone if they annoy or harm them first... But there are multiple episodes where they harm or annoy someone without them doing anything to them in the first place. The very first episode, they drive Dr. Scratchinsniff insane and all he was trying to do was psychoanalyze them on the Company's order. On top of that, there are times when the Warners are harassed and harmed, and then help the person who harassed/harmed them in the first place (like Albert Einstein, Sherlock Holmes and Abraham Lincoln), but there are times where their torment is just torment (again, Dr. Scratchinsniff). So what exactly are the Warner's Rules with their slapstick?

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