Airdate: September 15th, 1993
Opening Line: Come Back Shane-y- Dot
Tower Escape: The Warners use a makeshift wooden car to escape
H.M.S. Yakko: Yakko, Wakko and Dot encounter a vicious pirate.
Slappy Goes Walnuts: Slappy faces off against a dog guarding a walnut tree.
Yakko's Universe: Yakko sings about the universe that we inhabit.
H.M.S. Yakko contains examples of:
- The Cameo: Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, and Babs and Buster Bunny (no relation) appear during "I Am the Very Model of a Cartoon Individual". Hugo the Abominable Snowman also makes a brief appearance.
- The Napoleon: Captain Mel.
- Tongue Twister: Wakko challenges Captain Mel to say "Private pirate property" five times fast. When he fails, Wakko says, "You lose."
- Uncertain Doom: Captain Mel is last seen running away from the cannibal Bert, who clearly intends to eat him. The camera zooms in on Bert's open mouth before cutting to the Warners finishing their song, leaving Captain Mel's fate in the dark.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance, complete with reworkings of some of their songs.
Slappy Goes Walnuts contains examples of:
- Anvil on Head: Doug the Dog gets this in the very end.
- The Cameo: The Warners get chased by Ralph outside Slappy's tree.
- Early-Bird Cameo: A younger Walter Wolf appears in the cartoon that Slappy watches in the beginning. Slappy also mentions Sid the Squid and Beany the Braindead Bison in passing.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Skippy is much more hyperactive in this short. But in context, it's because he is hyped up on sugar cereal. He's also a wide-eyed innocent in awe of his aunt, rather than the competent, snarky Kid Sidekick he would soon become, although the ending, where he drops an anvil on Doug the Dog's head, hints at his future self.
- Frying Pan of Doom: Slappy implements this on Doug the Dog.
- Mr. Exposition: After Skippy says that Doug the Dog has been trying to eat Slappy for years, Slappy sarcastically drops the trope name by replying, "Thank you, Mr. Exposition."
- Right Behind Me: Subverted and lampshaded. While Slappy tells Skippy how she's seen/done every trick in the book, Doug sneaks up behind her. However, Slappy notices Skippy's petrified expression, so she pulls a club out of her purse and hits Doug in the head without looking behind herself.
- Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: Skippy has seen Slappy's cartoons "about a trillion times."
- Shoot the Television: A variant: Slappy tosses a brick at her television set when a commercial for ACME Snax cuts off the ending to her cartoon.
- Shout-Out: Doug reminds Slappy of a very young Scooby-Doo.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: After Slappy gets mad that her famous catchphrase was cut off for a commercial, she launches into a child-friendly version of this.
- Stating the Simple Solution: Skippy suggests to Slappy that instead of raiding Doug's tree for the walnuts they need, they could just go to the store and buy some. However, Slappy declines because she doesn't believe it would make for a funny episode.Slappy: Oh, yeah, we'll have them in hysterics with that bit! Six minutes in a checkout line! Ooh, somebody stop me, I'm laughing!
- Take That!: "No wonder you like that Bonkers show. That junk's rotting out your brain there!"
- This Is Reality: Skippy says this. Slappy then turns to the audience and says, "Don't tell him. He'll crack."
- Xylophone Gag: Doug tries it on Slappy. Skippy knows what's coming and begs her not to play "Those Endearing Young Charms", but she does... and somehow Doug gets blown up instead of Slappy.Slappy: Old gag, new twist.
- It then gets Double Subverted near the end when nuts start falling down on the xylophone just as Doug is lying next to it, playing "Those Endearing Young Charms" again. Fortunately, they stop falling just before hitting the last two notes... but then Slappy passes by and tosses two rotten walnuts over her shoulder...
- You Remind Me of X: In the first appearance of Slappy's Mad Libs Catchphrase, she tells Doug the Dog, "You remind me of a very young Scooby-Doo."
Yakko's Universe contains examples of:
- Educational Song
- Recycled Animation: Some animation is used from "The Planets Song", which had yet to air, but was in production at the same time.
- Take That!: "It's a great big universe and we're so small and puny / We're just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney!"
[The Warners are in pirate costumes.]
Warners: [singing] We are the very models of cartoon individuals!
Warners: [singing] We are the very models of cartoon individuals!
