Line #12 Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode4


1	'''Release date:''' November 20, 2020
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3	'''Opening line:''' (Dot) "Never mansplain-y!"
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5	'''Bun Control:''' The Warners deal with an infestation of bunnies on the studio lot.
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7	'''Ex-Mousina:''' The Brain invents a robotic "son" that turns on him.
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9	'''Bloopf:''' The Warners launch a new app.
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11	!!Tropes found in "Bun Control":
12	* {{Animesque}}: During a fight sequence against Dwayne, the Warners adopt an anime art style, similar to ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. According to the artist Genevieve Tsai ([[https://twitter.com/GenevieveTsai/status/1331789281044512771?s=20 source)]], Yakko's design is based on Kamina from ''Gurren Lagann'', while Dot is based on Ryuko from ''Anime/KillLaKill''. Being animated by Creator/StudioYotta helped with this.
13	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Yakko says that fearmongering is the fourth-worst kind of -mongering, "Right after war, rumor, and fish."
14	* BaitAndSwitch: The Warners honestly thought the dingoes would have eaten the bunnies.
15	* BigBrotherInstinct: When Wakko gets hurt during the anime sequence, Yakko goes absolutely ''ballistic'', complete with BattleAura, and attacks Dwayne head on.
16	* ColdOpen: Before the theme song, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot meet their new neighbor and adopt bunnies, which unbeknownst to them, they start to cause chaos around the studio lot.
17	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At the end of the episode, Wakko is still confused on what the episode was an allegory for. His siblings don't tell him what it was.
18	* CurbStompBattle: In the anime-style sequence, despite their newfound mega-powers, the Warners can't lift a finger against Dwayne and are promptly defeated.
19	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lampshaded; Dot and later Yakko all but flat-out admit that this episode is an allegory for America's gun control debate, particularly with the part where Australia handles the problem a lot better. The only Warner who didn't get it was Wakko. Nora Rita Norita even references the Second Amendment.
20	** Also serves as a double-pronged bonus: Australia suffered a problem several decades ago when rabbits were carelessly introduced into its already-stable ecosystem, breeding rapidly and overtaking grazing lands meant for cattle and sheep. Efforts were made to eradicate the intrusive pests, with some successes, but the great country-continent still hasn't fully recovered to this day from the bunny invasion.
21	* DoubleEntendre: When Dwayne [=LaPistol=] tells the Warners to look at his buns, the camera zooms on his buttocks. Lampshaded by Yakko saying his trademark "Good night, everybody".
22	* ExplosiveBreeder: The bunnies start multiplying the morning after Dwayne starts distributing them, to the point where they literally flood the WB lot.
23	* HulkingOut: [=LaPistol=] becomes a muscular bruiser during his anime-style battle with the Warners.
24	* InsistentTerminology: The little rabbits Dwayne spreads around the studio are only ever referred to as "buns", never bunnies or rabbits. This is to emphasize the allegory.
25	* LandDownUnder: When Wakko calls Australia to "solve the issue of bun violence", he hears didgeridoo sounds in response. Australia proceeds to send a paratrooper unit of ''dingoes'' who only speak in stereotypical Australian phrases like "G'day mate", "How you goin'", and "Cheers, mate". Played with in that, instead of eating the buns, the dingoes initiate a "bun buyback" program.
26	* MusicalisInterruptus: Yakko's song about Giuseppe Arcimboldo is interrupted by the doorbell ringing.
27	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Dwayne [=LaPistol=] is basically a caricature of [=NRA=] executive vice president Wayne [=LaPierre=], complete with an exaggerated DeepSouth accent (ironic, since [=LaPierre=]'s family is from New York).
28	* PunnyName To go with the allegory of this episode, the antagonist is named Dwayne [=LaPistol=]. (Subverted in the fact that the dude just sells bunnies.)
29	* ShoutOut: Mrs. Norita tells the Warners to fill out a complaint and take it to the nineteenth floor, and Wakko objects [[Literature/WaysideSchool "But there is no nineteenth floor!"]]
30	* StealthPun: The two outrageously muscular buns in the episode are ''jacked'' rabbits.
31	* TransformationIsAFreeAction: During the {{Animesque}} sequence, Dot summons a magical bow (and strikes a pose). However, Dwayne quickly attacks her before she even has a chance to use it.
32	* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: At the end of the segment, Dot expresses a desire to never do thinly veiled allegories again.
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34	!!Tropes found in "Ex-Mousina":
35	* AIIsACrapshoot: B.R.A.I.N. does try to take over the world, but that’s what he was designed to do. However, he turns against Brain to do so, whom he was built to aid in such an endeavor.
36	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: When Pinky tries to use B.R.A.I.N. as a microwave, it asks him "Defrost, popcorn, or enslave all humanity?"
37	* BrickJoke:
38	** Pinky wonders if Brain is working on "a razor cartridge with six blades". Later, when B.R.A.I.N. is unimpressed by Brain's ideas for evil schemes, Brain suggests designing "a razor cartridge with six blades" while desperately trying to come up with new ideas.
39	** At the beginning of the segment, Pinky asks Brain, "If I ate myself, would I become twice as big or completely disappear?" Near the end, he asks B.R.A.I.N the same question, which causes a LogicBomb shorting out the robot.
40	* FunWithAcronyms: Brain builds the "Binary Rodent Artificially Intelligent Nanotechnology", or B.R.A.I.N. for short.
41	* GoneHorriblyRight: B.R.A.I.N sets out to take over the world alright... for himself.
42	* GoodTimesMontage: The "Bonding" song depicts Brain and his robot son teaming up to do simple father-son activities that double as crimes to acquire parts for Brain's latest scheme.
43	* JobStealingRobot: Brain builds a robot version of himself to replace Pinky as his assistant in taking over the world. When the robot turns against him, Pinky ends up helping him stop it.
44	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After B.R.A.I.N. proclaims that he will destroy Brain and take over the world for himself, he gives him this on how Brain [[HisOwnWorstEnemy ultimately brought this upon himself]]:
45	-->'''B.R.A.I.N.:''' You created me with one sole purpose, and it was to take over the world no matter what obstacles I encounter. And given your narcissistic implementation of such a stern pecking order, you will never let me spread my wings and fly. Ergo: ''[DeathGlare]'' you must die.
46	* RobotMe: Brain builds a robot of himself to replace Pinky in helping him take over the world.
47	* ShoutOut: The title is based on the robot thriller ''Film/ExMachina''.
48	* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The obvious outcome of Brain building a robot version of himself.
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50	!!Tropes found in "Bloopf":
51	* {{Blipvert}}: As a parody of micro-video platforms like Vine, "Bloopf" is for sharing videos that are only ''one-tenth of a second'' long, with the result that a "top ten trending videos on Bloopf" list literally lasts only one second.
52	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The kids parody Steve Jobs.
53	* WardrobeMalfunction: The episode ends with the siblings getting tangled up in their three-headed suit as they try to leave.

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