Line #1 Trivia/Animaniacs


1	!!The show:
2	* AccentDepundent: In "King Yakko," Wakko rhymes "friend" with "hand." This works okay in his [[UnexplainedAccent Liverpudlian cadence]], but to his siblings it's a PainfulRhyme.
3	-->'''Wakko:''' "Hend"! "Hend"! It rhymes!
4	* ActingForTwo:
5	** Rob Paulsen voiced Yakko, Dr. Scratchansniff and Pinky.
6	** The director and Mr. Klump from "The Sunshine Squirrels" were both voiced by Creator/CoreyBurton.
7	** Chick Vennera voiced both Godpigeon and Pesto.
8	** [=MacNeille=] voices Dot, Hello Nurse, Martia the hippo and Mindy's mom.
9	** Greg Burson voices Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety, and Yosemite Sam in "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special".
10	* ActorInspiredElement:
11	** Creator/JessHarnell randomly decided to try a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]]-inspired Liverpool accent for Wakko and it stuck. He originally based it off Music/JohnLennon's voice, but went with Music/RingoStarr's instead (pitching it up a bit to match his smaller size).
12	** Dot's voice gets slightly deeper as the series progresses, a change reflected in ''Wakko's Wish''. This was Creator/TressMacNeille's idea - as she thought it would be a good idea to have the Warners age and have Dot go through puberty.
13	** Yakko's "uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh" was Creator/RobPaulsen's idea, becoming one of his catchphrases.
14	* AdoredByTheNetwork: It was this to Creator/KidsWB when it [[ChannelHop channel-hopped]].
15	** Creator/TheHub adored this show more than Kids WB, Creator/CartoonNetwork, Nickelodeon, and FOX ever did. They aired promos for it during every program on the channel including ''Animaniacs'' itself, and had constant marathons whenever a holiday was near (Christmas, Martin Luther King Day, Super Bowl Sunday, and even President's Day). Not only that, the show at one point aired for three hours on weekdays. They even got Paulsen, Harnell and [=MacNeille=] to record new spots, in character as Yakko, Wakko and Dot respectively, for the show's reruns. Due to this, it gained a new generation of child fans, and parents who watched the channel say that their kids loved it even more than ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Unfortunately, after the channel became Creator/DiscoveryFamily, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork the series was one of the few that was completely removed from the channel]], though its predecessor ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' stuck around for the next couple of months.
16	** [=GO!=], an Australian family network similar to The Hub, aired this show twice in the morning, noon, and night when they had the rights. It even axed ''WesternAnimation/BenTen'', ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'' and the Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}} anime's English dub just so they could show more ''Animaniacs''.
17	* ApprovalOfGod: According to Tom Ruegger, Creator/StevenSpielberg showed Creator/MartinScorsese the Goodfeathers segments and he thought they were funny.
18	* TheCastShowoff: Creator/MauriceLaMarche is able to perform throat singing in the Tuvan style, but only for short durations. Since this sounded like belching, he was the one to provide all of Wakko's belches for the show. He was even asked to "belch" in key, so that they could be sampled into a keyboard patch for musical numbers (think of the pitched-up and down keyboard samples at the start of ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''.)
19	* CelebrityVoiceActor: While most of the celebrities were impersonated by the cast, there were a few high-profile actors on the show.
20	** Most notably, Creator/BernadettePeters spoke and sung for Rita.
21	** Tom Bodett, aka the "Motel 6" guy, narrated the "Good Idea/Bad Idea" and "Mime Time" cartoons, as well as ''Wakko's Wish''.
22	** The iconic comedy team of [Jack] Burns and [Avery] Schreiber voiced Slappy's foes Sid the Squid and Beanie the Bison, respectively.
23	** Ernie Anderson (of Creator/{{Ghoulardi}} fame), the announcer for the promos of ABC at the time, narrated the biblically-themed episodes "Guardin' the Garden" and "Noah's Lark", where he parodied his promos for ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'' in the former, and ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' in the latter (complete with the elongated "looooooooooooove").
24	** Creator/EdAsner voiced the Papa Bear-esque Vern in "Garage Sale of the Century".
25	** The late Creator/PhilHartman as the villainous anchorman in "Broadcast Nuisance" (originally named Slam Fondlesome as a parody of Sam Donaldson, but later redubbed as the generic "Dan Anchorman").
26	** Creator/KennethMars as noted composer and pianist ("Mmwah! Goodnight, everybody!") Beethoven in "Roll Over, Beethoven".
27	** Creator/HarryShearer as the irritated game show host Ned Flat in "Fair Game".
28	** Creator/BenStein as the droning Francis "Pip" Pumphandle in "Chairman of the Bored".
29	** Dick Button, an ice-skating analyst, provided his own voice in the wraparounds where Yakko sings all the words in the English language.
30	** Creator/JonathanWinters voiced one of Slappy's archenemies, Stinkbomb D. Basset.
31	** Creator/ElisabethMoss, long before she was on ''Series/MadMen'', voiced the little girl Katrina in "Puttin' on the Blitz".
32	** Dave Thomas of ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' fame voiced King Arthur in "Sir Yaksalot".
33	** Creator/PhyllisDiller as Slappy's ex-partner Suzy Squirrel in the ''Theatre/TheSunshineBoys'' spoof "The Sunshine Squirrels".
34	** Creator/WilliamKatt as plastic surgeon Dr. Roma in "No Face Like Home".
35	** Creator/BuddyHackett, who was previously mentioned in jest in "Slappy Goes Walnuts" and "Chalkboard Bungle", voiced the Rockefeller Center CEO in "The Christmas Tree".
36	** Creator/ChristopherGuest as Umlatt in "King Yakko".
37	* ChannelHop:
38	** From FOX Kids to Kids WB for its second season, which premiered with the block exactly ''one'' day after the show last aired on Fox.
39	** With [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 the 2020 revival]], the show moved to Creator/{{Hulu}} -- which ironically means that an iconic Warner Bros show, whose main characters are literally ''called'' the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister, Dot) and live in the WB studio water tower, is now distributed via a service majority-owned by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Warner's arch-rival]].
40	%% Do not list reruns as part of this. The page itself explicitly states that only first-run episodes count.
41	* {{Corpsing}}: In Episode 41's "Good Idea/Bad Idea" segment, Tom Bodett noticeably laughs when reading the line "Bad idea: Whistling while you eat."
42	* ConclusionInAnotherMedium: The DirectToVideo movie ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', an AlternateUniverse medieval fantasy with a semi-serious plot that ultimately gave all of the characters in the series resolution despite the fact they were all removed from their traditional settings.
43	* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: To ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', which was also produced by Amblin Entertainment and shared many of the same writers. More to the point, just as ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' was a reimagining of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''Animaniacs'' was something of a {{Deconstruction}} of Tex Avery's cartoons.
44	* CrossDressingVoices: While the series mostly subverts this with young male characters, being voiced by either [[DawsonCasting adult males]] or [[ChildrenVoicingChildren actual boys]], most dubs play this straight. But one of the more interesting cases is that unlike most versions, Wakko in the Latin American dub is voiced by actress Giset Blanco.
45	* CutSong: Randy Rogel wrote a song entitled "The Geologic Clock," in which Yakko sings about the history of the Earth, that ultimately went unused.
46	* TheDanza: Colin, the kid who talks about Randy Beaman, was voiced by Colin Wells.
47	* {{Defictionalization}}: The puppets the Warner siblings use in "Lookit the Fuzzy Heads" were made into actual toys around the time the show was still airing.
48	* DescendedCreator: Series writer and producer Sherri Stoner voiced Slappy Squirrel.
49	* DevelopmentGag: Slappy's brief curvaceous design in the "Got Milk" parody resembles the early concept art of Minerva Mink.
50	* DubNameChange: The German dub changes the CharacterOfTheDay Professor [[OverlyLongName Otto von Shnitzelpusskrankengescheitmeyer's]] name to Aloysius Bierpichlersemmelknödelmeier.
51	* DuelingShows: This show shared the same time slot as ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'', which was one of the names considered for it until Creator/{{Disney}} beat them to trademarking it. While ''Bonkers'' was more a of a BuddyCopShow for kids, with the humor revolving around Bonkers' interactions with his human partner(s), this series was more of a broad satire of pop culture in general. This series was not above delivering [[TakeThat take thats]] to ''Bonkers'', such as Slappy saying Skippy is dumb from watching it in "Slappy Goes Walnuts", and a funny episode of it being an item on the Warners' scavenger hunt in "Deduces Wild". Sure enough, ''Animaniacs'' won this duel, as it lasted a total of 99 episodes over the course of five seasons, and even today is fondly remembered as one of the greatest cartoons ever made, with a three-season revival in TheNewTwenties, whereas ''Bonkers'' lasted a total of 65 episodes over the course of four seasons and is generally seen as SoOkayItsAverage without much of a lasting pop cultural footprint today.
52	* EditedForSyndication:
53	** When ''Animaniacs'' aired on Creator/{{Nicktoons}} Network and Nickelodeon, the opening theme was so plastered with references to the channel (through use of redubbing and digital editing) that fans rejoiced when the [=DVD=]s of the original episodes were released.
54	** One major edit that the Nickelodeon versions was to use one of the variable line clips, with "Nickelaney" dubbed in, for ''every episode''.
55	*** Another major edit was that the entire theme song was made one pitch making the Warner's voices (up until the "We're Animani" line) much higher than they are.
56	** Averted with Cartoon Network and The Hub, as both channels air the episodes exactly as they used to air on FOX and the WB and on the DVD sets.
57	** Good luck finding a copy of the original version of "Broadcast Nuisance". Word is that Spielberg thought the Warners were way too violent and mean toward the anchorman character. Some excised bits include:
58	*** Yakko pieing the anchorman in the face.
59	*** A bit in which the Warners act as makeup artists and make the anchorman look like a clown.
60	*** A brief cameo by Slappy during the scene in which the Warners change the channel.
61	*** In addition, the anchorman's name was initially Slam Fondlesome (as a parody of Sam Donaldson), but parents apparently caught on, so his name was redubbed as the generic "Dan Anchorman" (which can be seen as a nod to Creator/DanRather).
62	*** Aside from the name change, the "William F. Yakkley" sequence (where Yakko does an impersonation of lecturer Creator/WilliamFBuckleyJr) was also redubbed, since the bit originally occurred after the anchorman was given a bit of breaking news that "Slam Fondlesome is a big fat dope". So instead of discussing whether or not the anchorman is a "big fat dope" or a "big fat ''stinky'' dope", instead, they discuss the stinginess of the anchor, since he wouldn't tip them.
63	** In the original Randy Beaman sketch where Colin talks about the time Randy Beaman ate Pop Rocks and drank a soda, Colin was covering his crotch and crossing his legs, clearly having a PottyEmergency. This was changed so that he was simply standing and talking, like most of the other Randy Beaman segments.
64	* EnforcedMethodActing: Whenever Nathan Ruegger (Skippy) had to laugh as part of the script but couldn't laugh convincingly enough, his dad would come into the studio to tickle him.
65	* FakeBrit: Wakko and Pinky both have British accents provided by American voice actors, but other than their accents, there's really nothing to indicate that they are British.
66	* FromEntertainmentToEducation: Two of the geography songs, "Yakko's World" and "Wakko's America" have been used to teach the nations of the world and the U.S. states and their capitals.
67	* GodNeverSaidThat: There have been numerous PopCultureUrbanLegends circulated around for why Rita and Runt suffered ChuckCunninghamSyndrome after the first season, the most popular of which is that it was too costly to keep bringing Bernadette Peters on. Tom Ruegger denied this on an ''Animanicast'' episode though, and claimed the writers simply wanted to focus on other characters and they never officially dropped the two.
68	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
69	** The original theatrical version of "I'm Mad" (released with ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina\|1994}}''), with the title screens, was never released on home video, save for a brief snippet being seen on the "Yakko's World" sing-along tape.
70	** The alternate version of "Potty Emergency" which has a scene where a man using a hose has it turned away from the camera was only ever screened in Canada on Creator/TeletoonRetro.
71	*** Another hard-to-find original cut of an episode is the version of "Broadcast Nuisance" where Mr. Anchorman is named Slam Fondlesome and the slapstick violence against him is more brutal. The episode does exist, as most international cuts have shown it, but it's not available on DVD or streaming in America.
72	* KidsMealToy:
73	** In 1994, UsefulNotes/McDonalds released a set of eight race cars featuring not just the Warners, but the supporting cast such as Pinky and the Brain, the Goodfeathers, Slappy and Skippy, and Buttons and Mindy as well. Four of these toys were also released in Europe.
74	** In 1995, a set of eight stretchable toys were released.
75	* LateExportForYou: Not counting a VERY rare series of 4 VHS tapes from 1997, the series didn't premiere in Russia until 2003, 10 years after its American premiere.
76	* MemeAcknowledgement: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deK6gND2dwA&t=0s Someone edited the "What does this remind you of?" "Girls." short]] so Yakko answers with "[[VideoGame/AmongUs Amogus]]" instead. Creator/RobPaulsen [[https://twitter.com/EsportsArena/status/1399553789565095936 later redubbed the scene with the "Amogus"]].
77	* MissingEpisode:
78	** Episode #55 has a chase scene bumper that's missing from the [=DVDs=] as well as reruns on The Hub. It is, however, on digital releases.
79	** When Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network ran this show, [[https://nickstory.fandom.com/wiki/Animaniacs a few episodes]] [[https://cnas.fandom.com/wiki/Animaniacs were skipped]] for reasons unknown.
80	* MilestoneCelebration:
81	** Spoofed by the "65th Anniversary Spectacular!" FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize 1) airing in the mid-90s, it roughly corresponds to when the BackStory claims the Warners were created; 2) it ''is'' a 65th - the 65th ''episode''; and 3) it's an actual milestone, as the first season finale ([[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon 65 episodes]] being the traditional minimum for a children's series to enter syndication).
82	** For the show's 20th anniversary, following a six-year gap, the fourth and final DVD set was finally released containing the remaining episodes.
83	* NetworkToTheRescue: After The Hub droped the show upon its transformation into Discovery Family, Creator/{{Netflix}} and Creator/{{Hulu}} picked up the show, the latter giving something not even The Hub would do in its lifespan; giving it [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 a full on revival]].
84	* NewbieBoom: The original ''Animaniacs'' received this in 2020 as a result of the popularity of its [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 reboot that year]], with many people discovering and appreciating the show's writing and humor despite its more dated aspects.
85	* NoExportForYou:
86	** When the show started to get DVD releases, it only got 1 volume in Romania and Hungary. In Brazil, [[SubvertedTrope four separate discs from that same volume were released]].
87	** As mentioned in ''Screwed by the Network'' below, Season 2 onwards are this to Malaysia, where RTM 1 canned the show after airing the first season.
88	* NonSingingVoice:
89	** Creator/JeffBennett filled in for John Mariano on the very few occasions Bobby sang. [[note]]With the exception of the very brief [[Theatre/WestSideStory "Coo"]] segment.[[/note]]
90	** In "Le Behemoth", while Flavio and Marita were voiced respectively by Welker and [=MacNeille=], their singing voices were provided respectively by Ray [=McLeod=] and Wendy Knudsen.
91	** [=MacNeille=] and Knudsen also went double for Madame Bruntwind on "O Silly Mio".
92	* OneTakeWonder: Paulsen performed the song "Yakko's World" in a single take, and he continues to perform it live at conventions.
93	* TheOtherDarrin:
94	** Walter Wolf was voiced by Welker in "Hurray for Slappy" and Harnell in all subsequent appearances.
95	** Subverted with Nathan Ruegger as Skippy. His voice started deepening but they just pitched it higher in post-production rather than recasting him due to the vocal changes that come with male puberty.
96	** Greg Burson voices Tweety and Yosemite Sam, replacing Bob Bergen and Jeff Bergman respectively. Burson in turn would be replaced by Jim Cummings as Yosemite Sam in "Back in Style."
97	** Rob Paulsen voices Porky in the first episode, but was replaced by Greg Burson in "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special".
98	** Frank Welker voices Elmer Fudd in his appearances here instead of his usual voice actor at the time Greg Burson.
99	** Maurice [=LaMarche=] voices Marvin the Martian instead of his usual voice actor at the time Joe Alaskey.
100	* OutOfHolidayEpisode:
101	** "My Mother the Squirrel/The Party/Oh! Say Can You See/The Twelve Days of Christmas Song", which contains a segment about Christmas, was aired on January 27, 1996, a month after Christmas ended.
102	** "Cutie and The Beast/Boo Happens/Noel", which also had a Christmas-themed segment, aired on September 7th, 1996, three months before Christmas.
103	** "The Christmas Tree/Punchline (Part I)/Prom Night/Punchline (Part II)", whose first segment revolves around Christmas, aired on April 25, 1998.
104	%%* OutOfOrder:
105	** The exact production order isn't clear, but the first season -- which accounts for the majority of the series' run -- was clearly aired out of order because some characters' introductory episodes, like Minerva Mink and Katie Ka-Boom, clearly aren't their actual first appearances. The DVD releases retained this error, leading to "Meet Minerva" not showing up until the third volume out of four.
106	** "Taming of the Screwy" feels like a pilot episode, since it's all about establishing the Warners' personalities, and its style is much closer to ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' than ''Animaniacs'', which you'd expect from a first attempt to write a script for a new series. But it aired as the fifth episode (the end of the first week).
107	** In actuality, the real production order ''is'' clear. According to [[http://www2.cruzio.com/~keeper/AHEM.txt this guide]], the ''real'' first-produced cartoon of the series is ''Draculee, Draculaa''. It was telling that it was meant to be a very early short due to Yakko's rough voice, majority of Wakko's gags involving him eating various objects (and being [[TheQuietOne much more silent in dialogue]]), and the surprisingly rough animation by {{Creator/TMS Entertainment}}, among other things.
108	* PopCultureUrbanLegends:
109	** At one point, the Japanese Wikipedia entry for the show had translated titles for episodes that weren't dubbed (only the first 12 and episode 49 got dubbed in Japanese), all of which were fake and later got removed.
110	** Due to a Website/PlatypusComix [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/onlyme/toonfax.html article about the show]] mentioning the fact, many people believe that Zalgar from the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "Plan Brain From Outer Space" was supposed to be a redesigned version of Gagnort from the ''Animaniacs'' episode "PottyEmergency". No evidence of this being the case has been found.
111	** For a while, it was believed that there were more unaired shorts featuring [[MsFanservice Minerva Mink]] that were pulled out of concerns that she would attract RuleThirtyFour (which of course, she did anyway). When asked about it on a Reddit AMA, Tom Ruegger revealed that there were no Minerva Mink shorts other than the two that already aired.
112	* PromotedFanboy:
113	** The short "Please Please Please Get A Life Foundation" quoted several posts by fans on the alt.tv.animaniacs newsgroup, specifically two guides about various pop culture references and goofs in the show.
114	** In 1995, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1W-wnh__DM a group of twenty fans]] got to visit Warner Bros. Studios to meet some of the voice actors on the show, watch several then-unaired shorts, sing a spoof of the theme song with the cast and watch the scoring session for "Bingo".
115	** One fan, Ron O'Dell, known as "Keeper" by the fandom, was known for wearing a distinctive hat. This would later be drawn on The Lobe in fellow WB animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''
116	* RealLifeRelative: Many of the child voices are provided by the staff's relatives.
117	** Tom Ruegger's three sons each play at least one role.
118	*** Nathan Ruegger voiced Skippy Squirrel and Baby Plucky (reprising his role from ''Tiny Toons'')
119	*** Luke Ruegger voiced The Flame, Bumpo Basset and the Brave Little Trailer.
120	*** Cody Ruegger voiced Baby Blue Bird in "The Wild Blue Yonder", "My Mother the Squirrel" and "Twelve Days of Christmas". The latter was merely Tom's way of having his son sing his mangled version of the Christmas carol, by replacing all the gifts with turtledoves.
121	** In addition, Ruegger's ex-wife, Adrienne Alexander, provided the Creator/MarleneDietrich-esque voice of Dr. Phrankenstein in "Franken-Runt".
122	** Colin Wells, son of Deanna Oliver, voiced Colin, aka the "Randy Beaman Kid".
123	* RealitySubtext: Brain's frozen peas homage to Creator/OrsonWelles was pitched and developed as a surprise for [=LaMarche=], who is an avowed fan of the famous outtakes from that commercial. [=LaMarche=] had fallen into depression, so voice director Andrea Romano arranged for the segment to cheer him up and let him riff on something he loved so much.
124	* RecycledScript: The episode "Wakko at the Bat" is basically a rehashing of the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' short "Buster at the Bat" in that it's a retelling of the poem ''Casey at the Bat'' that ends with a happy ending after a fake-out of following the original poem's DownerEnding. Ironically, the same episode featured a parody of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' called ''Jokahontas'', which featured a musical number accusing Disney of recycling the same old stories in every one of their movies that featured a female protagonist.
125	* RoleReprise: In the German dub, the entire main German cast of ''Friends'' reprised their role for the episode ''Acquaintances''. Furthermore, Oliver Feld reprised his role as Creator/JerrySeinfeld.
126	* SameLanguageDub: Aside from Latin American Spanish dub, the show also has a European Spanish dub, which for some reason was recorded not in Spain, but in Venezuela with the same cast as Latin Spanish version. Elena Prieto (who voiced Dot in both Spanish versions) directed the dub and helped other actors speak with the European Spanish accent, as she was the only Spaniard in the cast.
127	* ScienceMarchesOn: The cut song "The Geologic Clock" would have become a victim of this due to claiming none of the dinosaurs survived as "the last one died about 70 million years ago." We now know some dinosaurs DID survive as birds, while the rest died 66 million years ago.
128	* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
129	** Jamie Kellner (whom you may know as the guy who claimed watching television while skipping ads with a [=DVR=] is tantamount to stealing, as well as the guy responsible for cancelling all programming from Wrestling/{{WCW}}, leading to the company's purchase by Wrestling/{{WWE}} in 2001) apparently ignored the very high ratings from older audiences while the show was on WB and found the low ratings from kids to be an excuse to cancel the show, though it shouldn't be a surprise as a lot of cartoons created by Warner Bros. at the time were canceled for similar reasons, like ''Freakazoid!'' and ''Road Rovers''.
130	** [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-04-13/animaniacs-freakazoid-producer-credits-pokemon-for-wb-cartoon-decline/.101008 Series creator Tom Ruegger later confirmed]] that ''Animaniacs'' and several other Warner cartoons saw their cancellations in the 90s due to their higher production costs in comparison to then ratings sensation ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', which was licensed to Kids WB on a discount.
131	** The show got even worse treatment on Nickelodeon. The show was heavily edited, with the theme song being shortened (and the CouchGag changed to simply having Dot say "Nickel-aney" in ''every episode''), random scenes removed for time (one example was the "Can you do the funny thing?" gag in "Cutie and the Beast") and references to other networks (like the "Coming soon to Kids' WB" line in "Pinky and the Ralph") excised. And if that wasn't bad enough, the show only lasted three months in its' afternoon timeslot before being moved to 6 in the morning to make room for reruns of ''WesternAnimation/{{CatDog}}''. While Nicktoons treated the show slightly better, the edits made on Nickelodeon stayed on Nicktoons (despite the channel being ad free at the time). It got removed in 2003 on Nickelodeon and August 2005 on Nicktoons (a month before the Nicktoons Network rebrand).
132	** As stated before Creator/DiscoveryFamily canned the show when it replaced Creator/TheHub.
133	** RTM1 in Malaysia aired the episodes once a week on Sundays at 5:30PM back in 1995. They stopped after the first season and did not continue with the rest of the series.
134	* ShrugOfGod: There are conflicting explanations on where Skippy's parents are. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock" implies that they are dead - as he's sent to a foster home when Slappy can't look after him. Slappy however appears in ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' to say that she is just babysitting while his parents are away on a long trip.
135	* SoMyKidsCanWatch: A variation. When the final drafts of the characters were being approved by Steven Spielberg, Buttons and Mindy were chosen by his daughter.
136	* SurprisinglyLenientCensor: The creators said in an interview with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic that they were surprised the infamous "finger prints" joke was left in.
137	-->'''Tom Ruegger''': I mean, we've obviously put that in, and we just said, "Oh, let the censor have a laugh and call us." [laughs] And I guess the censor was away that week, because that's still in there. It's amazing.
138	* ThrowItIn:
139	** If time was running short on an episode, they would use a "Wheel of Morality" segment to pad it out.
140	** The line from Slappy about "More of your tax dollars at work!" in "Bully for Skippy" was thought up by animator Jon [=McLenahan=] during the episode's recording.
141	* UncreditedRole: In the original series, actors generally only got credited with one character per episode, even when they played multiple roles in multiple shorts (which was often the case for Creator/FrankWelker), and the actors playing the Warners were ''only'' listed for that role (meaning that it took a while for fans to figure out that Creator/RobPaulsen was voicing Pinky and Scratchansniff along with Yakko).
142	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen.{{Animaniacs}} Has its own page]].
143	* WorkingTitle: The segment "Meatballs or Consequences" was originally titled "Death or Consequences". The title was changed when broadcast standards complained about it using the word "death", as [[NeverSayDie it's a word that isn't used in many kids' shows]].
144	* WriteWhatYouKnow
145	** It's been said that the episode "Bumbie's Mom" was based on Sherri Stoner's own trauma at seeing the death of WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'s mother when she was a child.
146	** "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock" was based on Tom Rugger's last few visits with his grandmother as she was growing more and more senile.
147	** Many of the segments were based on experiences that the writers had.
148	*** "I Got Yer Can" was based on a brief altercation Stoner had with a neighbor when she threw her empty Diet Coke can into her recycling bin.
149	*** "Ups and Downs" was inspired by the time Rugg and Oliver were trapped in an elevator for hours.
150	*** "Survey Ladies" was inspired by actual survey ladies Oliver and Stoner kept bumping into at the mall.
151	* WordOfSaintPaul: While in character as Mr. Director during an interview with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, Paul Rugg admits that the uncanny resemblance between Mr. Director and the Clown in “Clown and Out” is no coincidence. The Clown is in fact Mr. Director, who was a bit down on his luck at the time.
152	* WriteWhoYouKnow:
153	** Nicholas Hollander based Katie Kaboom on his teenage daughter.
154	** Deanna Oliver based the creation of Mindy and Buttons off two sources from her life. One of them was her little sister Cathy, who like Mindy would be tethered outside the house and would runoff, and their dog, who was actually named Buttons go out and get her back.
155	*** Another source of inspiration was the voice of a neighbor kid who lived next door to Deanna, who would always say "OK I love you buh- bye"
156
157	!!The comic:
158	* MilestoneCelebration: Both Issue 25 and Issue 50.
159	* RecycledScript: Some of the earliest issues have outright comic adaptations of Pinky and the Brain shorts from the show instead of original stories.

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