History WesternAnimation / Histeria

* ArtisticLicense/{{History}}: Or what did you expect?

* ArtisticLicense/History: Or what did you expect?

* CutShort: Unlike with its Speilberg-produced predecessors, ''Histeria!'' had no GrandFinale other than audio of the characters singing a goodbye song over the end credits of the last episode produced.

** the sketch about the Boston Tea Party ends up being a homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch, replacing types of cheeses with types of tea (and even having John Cleese do a voice cameo)

** One alternate opening credit is done exactly in the style of ''SaturdayNightLive''.

** In "The Dawn of Time", [[WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim a cow falls on]] FoghornLeghorn.

** Lydia Karaoke the Network Censor is voiced by Nora Dunn from ''SaturdayNightLive'' (she was the female cast member who got fired from the show for refusing to appear in the episode hosted by Andrew "Dice" Clay because she hated his vulgar sense of humor).
** In the episode about World War II, AdolfHitler sounded like [[InspectorGadget Dr. Claw]].

** Viewers of Disney's One Saturday Morning can pretty much recognize Nostradamus as Manny the Uncanny.
*** ...He also played the JerryLewis-inspired director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.

** Averted ''hard'' in the episode involving the Underground Railroad, which took it very seriously. [[BerserkButton You do NOT make fun of slavery in America (or in most of the rest of the world, come to that).]]

* TakeThat: A cat burps up MickeyMouse's shorts in "Really Really Oldies but Goodies", and a later episode opens with Loud, Charity, Aka, and Toast parodying the {{Teletubbies}} (much to their chagrin).

* ThemeSong: Many, plus themes for segments featuring regulars like Loud or Pepper. The two main themes were a 30 second version and its extended version. Occasionally, a parody of another show's theme song was used, such as ''TheAddamsFamily'' or ''SaturdayNightLive'', as mentioned above.

** The episode involving the Underground Railroad was a rare exception. [[BerserkButton You do NOT make fun of slavery in America - or in most of the rest of the world, come to that.]]

** Pepper constantly mistaking historical celebrities for pop cultural ones, never realizing her mistake until she's gotten their autograph. For instance, mistaking Vladimir Lenin for [[TheBeatles John Lennon]].

'''Warner Bros' Histeria!''' was one of several shows created in part as a result of [[ExecutiveMeddling the FCC deciding in 1996]] to start enforcing the 1990 Children's Television Act that required a certain percentage of "informative" and "educational" programs. It premiered on [[TheWB Kids' WB!]] in September 1998. But having come from the creators of ''TinyToonAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', this show, which centered on comedic sketches loosely based on historical events and topics, was actually pretty much the best show to come out of the CTA. Unfortunately, probably because it came out at around the same time as the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, barely anyone realized this when it was originally airing, and thus didn't bother to watch it much.

* BrainlessBeauty: Miss Information, providing the page image.

** The fact that, much like ''TinyToonAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs'', that Spielberg and company (although Creator/StevenSpielberg wasn't involved with this one) once again pisses off the censors with as much radar-dodging crap as possible. Added bonus for the fact that the censor character here is often treated like a ButtMonkey.

** Froggo's regular outfit is much like the one of Wakko from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. (Unlike Wakko, though, [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal he actually wears pants]].)
** A song introducing a sketch about Alexander the Great is sung to the tune of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' theme, and the sketch about Florence Nightingale as a HospitalHottie ends with the boys shouting "HelloNurse!" Also, the World's Oldest Woman's jingle is sung to the tune of Slappy Squirrel's theme.

** Loud Kiddington's ExpositoryThemeTune bears a striking resemblance to the theme tune of BatMasterson.

One season (52 of the planned 65) of episodes were produced before the show was cancelled over budget concerns (i.e. being $10 million over it), then were repeated numerous times for the next three seasons before being taken off the network in 2001. Unlike its predecessors, ''Histeria!'' did not reappear in syndication on Creator/CartoonNetwork or {{Nickelodeon}}. The show would've been forgotten altogether if not for the fact that, in 2006, it reappeared as part of the initial lineup of Time Warner's [=In2TV=] channel until they were inexplicably removed in January 2009.

'''Warner Bros' Histeria!''' was one of several shows created in part as a result of [[ExecutiveMeddling the FCC deciding in 1996]] to start enforcing the 1990 Children's Television Act that required a certain percentage of "informative" and "educational" programs; it premiered on [[TheWB Kids' WB!]] in September 1998. But having come from the creators of ''TinyToonAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', this show, which centered on comedic sketches loosely based on historical events and topics, was actually pretty much the best show to come out of the CTA. Unfortunately, probably because it came out at around the same time as the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, barely anyone realized this when it was originally airing, and thus didn't bother to watch it much. (''But '''we''' did''!)

One season (52 of the planned 65) of episodes were produced before the show was cancelled over budget concerns (i.e. being $10 million over it), then were repeated numerous times for the next three seasons before being taken off the network in 2001. Unlike its predecessors, ''Histeria!'' did not reappear in syndication on Creator/CartoonNetwork or {{Nickelodeon}}. The show would've been forgotten altogether (''But not by '''us'''!'') if not for the fact that, in 2006, it reappeared as part of the initial lineup of Time Warner's [=In2TV=] channel until they were inexplicably removed in January 2009.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Cleopatra

* AxCrazy: Lizzie Borden is portrayed this way. In one episode, she refers to herself as the "O.J. [Simpson] of 1849."

One season (52 of the planned 65) of episodes were produced before the show was cancelled over budget concerns (i.e. being $10 million over it), then were repeated numerous times for the next three seasons before being taken off the network in 2001. Unlike its predecessors, ''Histeria!'' did not reappear in syndication on CartoonNetwork or {{Nickelodeon}}. The show would've been forgotten altogether (''But not by '''us'''!'') if not for the fact that, in 2006, it reappeared as part of the initial lineup of Time Warner's [=In2TV=] channel until they were inexplicably removed in January 2009.

** Froggo's room is decorated with merchandise for ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.

* {{Crossover}}: Some of the ''LooneyTunes'' characters made a few cameos.

* LongList: In an homage to the [[MontyPython Cheese Shop sketch]], a segment about the Boston Tea Party has an Englishman appear at the aforementioned "party" and ask for many, many different kinds of tea, only to be informed that they're "fresh out".

** Big Fat Baby's jingle (the one where Father Time's chasing him in the desert) is based on the theme song from ''[[LooneyTunes The Road Runner Show]]''.

** The fact that, much like ''TinyToonAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs'', that Spielberg and company (although StevenSpielberg wasn't involved with this one) once again pisses off the censors with as much radar-dodging crap as possible. Added bonus for the fact that the censor character here is often treated like a ButtMonkey.

'''Warner Bros' Histeria!''' was one of several shows created in part as a result of [[ExecutiveMeddling the FCC deciding in 1996]] to start enforcing the 1990 Children's Television Act that required a certain percentage of "informative" and "educational" programs; it premiered on [[TheWB Kids' WB!]] in September 1998. But having come from the creators of ''TinyToonAdventures'' and ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}'', this show, which centered on comedic sketches loosely based on historical events and topics, was actually pretty much the best show to come out of the CTA. Unfortunately, probably because it came out at around the same time as the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime, barely anyone realized this when it was originally airing, and thus didn't bother to watch it much. (''But '''we''' did''!)

** A notable one is [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Clark Kent]] as well... William Clark

* DoesNotLikeMen: {{Creator/Sappho}}.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Big Fat Baby's flatulence, Mr. Smartypants being a man who "spends a lot of time in his pants", two episodes using the words "Hell" and "Damn," and {{Creator/Sappho}} "wasn't into men".
** Perhaps part of the reason for this was that the show often had Lydia Karaoke, Network Censor complain about this trope.
*** In one episode, they were talking about ancient Greece and the vestal virgins. One of the kids asked what a virgin was and World's Oldest Woman replied "Let's just say, we didn't do a lot of dating."

* GenderFlip: A promo where they flipped every word they could find from male to female and vice versa.

** Sitting Bull is apparently possessed by CandleJack.

*** ...He also played the JerryLewis-inspired director on ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}''.

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: Somewhat parodied because GeorgeHWBush was known for banning broccoli in the White House as a rather funny thing he did.

** Pepper constantly mistaking historical celebrities for pop cultural ones, never realizing her mistake until she's gotten their autograph. For instance, mistaking Vladimir Lenin for [[TheBeatles John Lennon]].

** The last time the Big Fat Baby had his diaper changed. Whenever someone asked, a character would respond by asking, "Remember when [insert historical event here]?" The inquirer would respond affirmatively, the character would respond with "Before that."

** Froggo's regular outfit is much like the one of Wakko from ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}''. (Unlike Wakko, though, [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal he actually wears pants]].)
** A song introducing a sketch about Alexander the Great is sung to the tune of the ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}'' theme, and the sketch about Florence Nightingale as a HospitalHottie ends with the boys shouting "HelloNurse!" Also, the World's Oldest Woman's jingle is sung to the tune of Slappy Squirrel's theme.

** Sitting Bull is apparently possessed by CandleJack. That is a strange pa

** A skit involving the Spice Islands involves, naturally enough, a Spice Girls parody. World's Oldest Woman is peeved that she's apparently "[[TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Old Spice]]".

* DoesNotLikeMen: Sappho.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Big Fat Baby's flatulence, Mr. Smartypants being a man who "spends a lot of time in his pants", two episodes using the words "Hell" and "Damn," and {{Sappho}} "wasn't into men".

** A notable one is [[SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Clark Kent]] as well... William Clark

* HeyItsThatVoice: Billy West voiced a Stegosaurus in "The Dawn of Time" with the voice he would use for [[{{Futurama}} Dr. Zoidberg]].

** the sketch about the Boston Tea Party ends up bein a homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch, replacing types of cheeses with types of tea (and even having John Cleese do a voice cameo)

* TakeThat: A cat burps up Mickey Mouse's shorts in "Really Really Oldies but Goodies", and a later episode opens with Loud, Charity, Aka, and Toast parodying the {{Teletubbies}} (much to their chagrin).

* RalphWiggum: Lucky Bob

** Fetch bears a bit of resemblance to Hunter from ''RoadRovers''. This could just be a result the Kids' WB! "house style" though. Notably, though, the last episode contains a brief gag in which Fetch dashes onstage joined by dogs who appear to be of the same breeds as Blitz, Exile, and Shag.

** The episode involving the Underground Railroad was a rare exception. [[BerserkButton You do ''not'' make fun of slavery in America (or most of the rest of the world, come to that).]]

** The fact that, much like ''TinyToonAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs'', that Spielberg and company once again pisses off the censors with as much radar-dodging crap as possible. Added bonus for the fact that the censor character here is often treated like a ButtMonkey.

** The episode involving the Underground Railroad was a rare exception. [[BerserkButton You do ''not'' make fun of slavery in America (or most of the rest of the world, come to that).]]