History Headscratchers / Animaniacs

* 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?

*** Maybe being in the Water Tower for 50 years made 'em [[TheAndyGriffithShow beautiful preserved!]]

* If the Warner Brothers were animated in the 40s, does that mean they're [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld actually as old as Slappy, just drawn/animated younger]]?
** Presumably it's because the Warners have been locked up in the Water Tower for the past 50 years, while Slappy has been out and starring in Cartoons for all this time.

* I can't believe no one's asked this yet. In "Goodfeathers: The Beginning", why were they trying to cross the road to get a bagel? When THEY CAN FLY?! And what about that time when they were about to get run over by a car, again THEY CAN FLY!!!

* Was the red-haired woman in "Yabba Dabba Boo" a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Deanna Oliver? Only going by a YouTube comment on this one. The actual episode is on YouTube - can't remember where.

* Between this show, ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', and ''Freakazoid!'', there are a lot of references to pop culture, celebrities in particular. However, I also noticed that most to all of the jokes are affectionate to the famous people involved and are playful in nature. What I'm wondering is the people who write these shows--do they have any thoughts on ''SouthPark'' and its mocking of pop culture and celebrities, which is far more malicious and are more like personal attacks? (For instance, an episode has KanyeWest portrayed as a narcissist who becomes violent when offered help or suspecting anyone through wild accusations. The Steven Spielberg group of shows would never do something like that.) I know Trey Parker takes every opportunity to let people know that he hates actors unless they give him a reason to like them. Don't get me wrong; I love ''South Park''. But the way the Steven Spielberg batch of shows and ''South Park'' handles jokes on celebrities and some pop culture movements is like night and day.

* Between this show, ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', and ''Freakazoid!'', there are a lot of references to pop culture, celebrities in particular. However, I also noticed that most to all of the jokes are affectionate to the famous people involved and are playful in nature. What I'm wondering is the people who write these shows--do they have any thoughts on ''SouthPark'' and its mocking of pop culture and celebrities, which is far more malicious and are more like personal attacks? (For instance, an episode has KanyeWest portrayed as a narcissist who becomes violent when offered help or suspecting anyone through wild accusations. The Steven Spielberg group of shows would never do something like that.) I know Trey Parker takes every opportunity to let people know that he hates actors unless they give him a reason to like them. Don't get me wrong; I love ''South Park''. But the way the Steven Spielberg batch of shows and ''South Park'' handles jokes on celebrities and some pop culture movements is like night and day.

** The 4th wall gags are subject to the RuleOfFunny, and don't need to line up with a coherent story.

** RuleOfCute, and the ones on the side are just tufts of fur.

* Since Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Rita all have white feet, I can't tell whether their hands are actually white or are wearing {{white gloves}} over their hands sometimes, especially when they are drawn crudely.
** I personally think the Warner's hands, which are usually covered by {{white gloves}} are white, just like Rita's gloveless hands are white.

*** In "Chalkboard Bungle" and "Space Probed," Wakko's hands were drawn white, but in "{{White Gloves}}," Wakko's hands were drawn black like his arms.

*** In one picture of Rita, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/animaniacs_tv.gif she is shown with hands the color of the rest of her arm.]] Makes some people (including myself) think she was wearing {{white gloves}} all along, just like what the Warner Sibs wear most of the time.

*** Tom Ruegger replied in his blog, [[http://cartoonatics.blogspot.com/2010/11/happy-thanksgiving-from-animaniacs.html#comments Cartoonatics]], "Without gloves, I think their hands/paws would/should have white fur on them. In any case, they should wear their gloves so that these issues do not plague mankind."

** It was probably due to a number of reasons. The most commonly cited reason (and probably most likely) is indeed Bernadette Peters being too expensive to keep on the show. It's also been said that it was hard to come up with new songs for each segment - this is probably the least likely, when you consider just ''how many unique songs'' pop up in the series as a whole. Running in the middle of the believability road is the darker tone of the segments: Rita and Runt never got a home for long, so many of the segments could be seen as having DownerEndings (though very mild ones, considering the people they ran into were all villains).

** Unlike Rita, they are supposed to be an ambiguous species that follows the {{Rule of Funny}}, but I like to think of them either as housecats (like Rita) or as members of an ambiguous looking species of cat.

--->'''Eddie Valiant:''' [[WhoFramedRogerRabbit You mean you could've taken your hand out of that cuff at any time?]]

*** Yeah, and it's not like it was a new thing either - RockyAndBullwinkle did the same thing with pop culture and literary references that no kid would have gotten. Besides, Animaniacs also ran on wacky humor, so I figure most kids would just giggle because "finger prince" sounds funny.

** Apparently they were watching the preceding cartoon (but didn't have stunt doubles)? Maybe? So it's possible that they only found her funny because they were in one of her cartoons.

* What bugs me is Dot's label. No, she ISN'T cute. She is funny as hell though.
** She is also completely insane, just like her siblings, and somewhat comically violent about it. Do ''you'' want to tell her otherwise?
*** I find them all pretty cute, not as in "attractive", but as in * puppies, yay* !
**** I find them all pretty cute in both senses.

** A better question is why the H did they fill the timeslot with ''Katie Ka-Bloom''?

* Am I the only one who hated "bologna in our slacks" in the theme song, even nearly 20 years later? It just seems so "random" in a forced way.
** Of course it's random. It's Animaniacs.
*** I know. But it just seemed so forced in its randomness. It just wasn't the kind of random that made me laugh.
*** I never thought it was particularly random or funny; it's just something that rhymes with "acks."
** You aren't the only one.
*** I always thought of it as a particularly risque innuendo.
*** You sir, are one sick bastard.
**** ''Bologna?'' In our ''pants?''
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** It was the early 90's, so Invader Zim-style LOLCHEEZRANDUM humor had not been invented. It's like blaming the Sugarhill Gang for Soulja Boy.
*** Who?

** Unlike Rita, they are supposed to be an ambiguous species that follows the {{Rule of Funny}}, but I like to think of them as a member of an ambiguous looking species of cat.
** I like to call their species newcats, more specifically red-nosed newcats or loces.

*** 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."

*** When drawn on all fours, they are usually depicted with mannerisms somewhere in between that of a dog and that of a cat - sometimes being more like a cat, sometimes being more like a dog.

* In "Critical Condition", after Hisskill and Eggbert (spoof of Siskel and Ebert) give Slappy Squirrel's cartoons a bad review, Slappy and Skippy decide to get even with them by making them go through a lot of hell. In the end, Hisskill and Eggbert have apparently changed their minds about Slappy and say that her cartoons are actually quite good. Now this leaves me to wonder: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation are Hisskill and Eggbert's new opinions on Slappy completely real, or is it just out of fear of having to go through more hell?]] It begs an explanation.

** Personally, I'd say they are more ChaoticGood with moments of CharoticNeutral.