Release date: November 20, 2020
Opening line: (Wakko) "Parents will complain-y!"
Hindenberg Cola: The Warners visit Dr. Scratchansniff to find him sick and asking for a soda. When they go to get it, they run into Nils again.
Roadent Trip: Brain constructs a self driving car, but ends up trapped inside it.
Flotus, Flotus. What Do You Know About Us?: Following in her brothers' footsteps, Dot sings about the First Ladies throughout history.
Tropes found in "Hindenberg Cola":
- Ambiguous Syntax: The door to Scratchansniff's office has a sign saying he's still practicing. Yakko says he'll eventually figure out how to do it.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Nils drives around cars with bumper stickers that read "Baby on Board", "Puppies on Board", and "Baby Puppies on Board".
- The Bus Came Back: Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff finally makes his first vocalized appearance in the revival, which is odd it took so long considering that he shares the same voice actor as Yakko.Dot (happily): Dr. Scratchansniff! We haven't seen you all season!
- Nils Niedhart returns since "Gold Meddlers", having escaped Hell to get the last cola.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Lampshaded by Nils with "Baby Puppies on Board".Nils: Well, das ist just ein tautology.
- The Dog Bites Back: The short ends with Scratchansniff finally one-upping the Warner siblings, then gets himself by getting an allergic reaction to the soda.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Hindenburg Cola isn't just a name, as the ending shows.
- Healing Factor: Wakko revealed that he's five percent salamander when he regrew his tail.
- Here We Go Again!: Nils ends up crashing back to Hell by the end of the episode.
- Lethal Chef: Scratchansniff makes some sauerkraut so bad, cockroaches die.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Wakko doesn't seem to express pain when his tail gets torn off by Nils, remarking that he's 5% salamander and proceeding to regenerate it.
- Nobody Here but Us Statues: While running from Ralph, the Warners hide from him in an Animaniacs title poster.
- Over-the-Top Roller Coaster: The Warners and Nils Niedhart get on one to retrieve Hindenberg Cola.
- Overly Pre-Prepared Gag: The drink is called "Hindenburg Cola", and Scratchy's cranium begins to take on the shape of a blimp after he drinks it. He suffers the exact same fate as the Real Life Hindenburg disaster.
- Playing Sick: Scratchansniff turns out to have been feigning his illness as part of an elaborate prank on the Warners.
- Precision F-Strike: "I thought you were in Hell," Wakko Warner said calmly.
- Put on a Bus: Hello Nurse has apparently taken a job with Doctors Without Borders.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Dr. Scratchansniff gets one up on the Warners for once, but he also suffers a nasty reaction to the shaken-up soda he drank.
- Soda Can Shake Up: After the Warners get Scratchy the cola, they warn him that the can may be shaken up, and he responded by spraying it in their faces.
- Take That!:
- When Wakko and Nils leap at the cola can, it suddenly goes super slow motion. After a few seconds, Yakko peers over the roller coaster car and snaps, "Hey, Zack Snyder! It's a seven-minute segment! Move it along!"
- With Scratchy so sick that he doesn't even bother trying to put up with their ribbing, Yakko comments that it isn't any fun, while Dot says she's just finding herself empty now. Wakko replies to both comments with "Like the end of Rocky V!"
- Travel Montage: At a bus stop, the Warners board a bus and then the montage begins.
- Wingding Eyes: The cockroach that dies from eating Dr. Scratchansniff's sauerkraut has Xs replace its eyes.
Tropes found in "Roadent Trip":
- Armor-Piercing Question: As Pinky and Brain carry on driving for what looks like for the rest of their lives, Pinky tries to have a talk with Brain to put him at ease. He then delivers this:Pinky: You're always trying to work out HOW to take over the world, but you've never told me WHY you want to take over the world, Brain.
- Bolivian Army Ending: The cartoon ends with Brain saying his ending catchphrase as he and Pinky are walking down the road, only to be cut off when a large truck comes at them, and the screen immediately cuts to black.
- Cassandra Truth: When the security guards enter the lab, one laughs at the other for believing the lab has an evil supergenius talking mouse in it.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Pinky reveals he had a tablet the whole time that Brain could have used to override the controls of the car, which the latter does to get them out at the end.
- The Key Is Behind the Lock: The problem occurred when Brain left his "Release" button outside the car, and it couldn't be opened from the inside.
- Mood Whiplash: Brain's origin story mentioned below is tragic as heck. Pinky's backstory? Not so much.
- Multiple-Choice Past: The Brain was given three different origin stories in three different episodes of Pinky and the Brain ("Snowball," "Leggo My Ego," and "Project BRAIN"), all completely incompatible with each other. The reboot adds a fourth, equally incompatible origin to the mix.
- Robo Romance: Between the car and the vacuum that was broken earlier.
- Shout-Out:
- When Brain asks the Model B to open the doors, it replies "I'm sorry, Brain, but I'm afraid I can't do that".
- During the song the car is chased by an oil tanker that ends up driving off a cliff with Pinky noting that not seeing the driver made it much scarier.
- The driver is revealed to be E.T.
- Take That!: Brain says the Model B has every Harry Potter film on-board except The Order of the Phoenix, 'cause he claims it has too much teen angst. The touch screen even shows seven icons with numbers 1 through 7, with 5 missing and 7 appearing twice as it's divided into two films.Pinky: *grumpily* Danny was still finding himself!
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: When Pinky asks Brain why he wants to take over the world, Brain reveals that when he was young, scientists used him in an experiment on learned helplessness, electrocuting him whenever he tried to take a piece of cheese they'd left on a plate in his cage. Traumatized, the young Brain vowed that he’d be the one in control for once- not just of himself and his surroundings, but the world itself.
Tropes found in "Flotus, Flotus. What Do You Know About Us?":
- Artistic License – History:
- Despite being mentioned in the song, Martha Jefferson, Rachel Jackson, and Ellen Arthur all died before their husbands came into office, and aren't technically First Ladies of the United States, Martin Van Buren was also widowed prior to becoming president, but his wife Hannah wasn't mentioned anyway.
- In addition to Bess Truman, Dot also forgot about Woodrow Wilson's first wife Ellen, who died early into his first term.
- They also claim that there have been 45 First Ladies (one for each president up to the 45th President Donald Trump). However, Grover Cleveland is counted twice for his non-consecutive terms (#22 & #24), while James Buchanan never married and both John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson were widowed and remarried while President. Discounting those that died before their husbands' presidencies, means there had only been 42 First Ladies at time of going to air (not counting the female relatives of Presidents who filled in as acting First Lady, in which case there would have been 53).
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: When Dot introduces herself by her full name, she allows the audience to call her their "favorite Warner sibling" instead of calling her "Dot" like in the original cartoon.
- Brick Joke: The fake In Memoriam from the previous episode's "A Zit!" is done again at the end here as an apology from the staff for forgetting Bess Truman, thanks to Dot having no choice but to rush through the whole thing.
- Disaster Dominoes: Dot causes one at the beginning of the episode where she accidentally leans on one of the president wax figures, causing them all to fall over.
- Dot: Oops! [laughs] Sorry, gentlemen!
- Didn't Think This Through: Dot didn't time her song beforehand, and wastes several lines on Eleanor Roosevelt, so she has to rush through the rest and cut verses (she wrote three for Mary Todd Lincoln alone) in order to stay below her self-imposed two-minute time limit. And even then, she forgets about Bess Truman.
- Distaff Counterpart: To the President's Song from the original series, albeit out of order.
- Overly Long Name: Dot mentions her full name Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca III at the beginning of the segment, which also means that it's still canonical to her in the revival.
- Shout-Out: The Equal Rights Amendment for which Rosalyn Carter campaigned is represented by Bill of Schoolhouse Rock! fame.
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Despite what is claimed in the song about honouring all 45 presidential wives (not all of whom served as First Lady, see above), Dot only sings 42 names, 43 when apologizing for forgetting Bess Truman.
