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Recap / Animaniacs 2020 Episode 18

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Release date: November 5, 2021

Opening line: (Dot) "Polyurethane-y!"

The Warners Are Present: The Warners heckle an artist at a museum.

The Pinktator: Pinky and the Brain sneak into a dictator gathering in order to steal secrets from them. Brain poses as the dictator of "Albrainia"; while Pinky poses as his assistant. To get further into their circle, Brain must join the dictator's dinner and use Pinky to win its fool contest.

Know Your Scroll: The Warners find something to watch on Webpix.

Tropes found in "The Warners Are Present":

Tropes found in "The Pinktator":

  • Call-Back: The Brain mentions the events of "Future Brain", while Pinky mentions "Ex Mousina", "Mousechurian Candidate", "Of Mice and Memes", and "Roadent Trip".
  • Inventional Wisdom: When the nuclear submarine ends up exploding due to a Self-Destruct Button, Brain questions why it even had that.
  • Shout-Out: Much of this cartoon appears to take inspiration from the 2010 film Dinner for Schmucks.
  • Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Kim Jong-un's guest was one of these.
  • Xanatos Speed Chess: Initially, Brain infiltrated the dictators' party in order eavesdrop on them and learn military secrets, only for them to gossip instead. However, upon learning that the party was for fools and the winner would receive a nuclear submarine, Brain decided to enter Pinky in the contest.

Tropes found in "Know Your Scroll":

  • Anti-Humor: The comedy special that the siblings watch has the "comedian" tell a very "relatable" joke: that he has kids. This is enough to get the entire audience cracking up.
  • Bland-Name Product: "WebPix" is a parody of the streaming channel Netflix, which streamed the original Animaniacs in the US from 2016-2017.
  • Fake-Out Fade-Out: Yakko says he won't rest until they find something awesome to watch, they scroll endlessly as we pull away from the water tower and the camera cuts to black. But when it seems that the credits was gonna roll, however, the cartoon wasn't over yet, we cut back to the Warners, with them all exhausted having failed to find anything to watch.
  • Ret-Gone: Happens to the man in the Korean Drama parody.
  • The Stinger: In a pre-credits scene, the Warners have been worn out watching WebPix and couldn't take it anymore and Yakko says he's had too much of the golden age of television.

 
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The Warner siblings criticize every painting they see except for one with a familiar face.

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