Airdate: October 28, 1993
Opening line: "Shirley McClaine-y"- Dot
Good Idea Bad Idea Good idea- Dressing up for Halloween as a pirate Bad idea- Dressing up for Halloween as a pinata
Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled: The Warner’s stumble upon Hades and butt heads with Satan.
Moon Over Minerva: Minerva Mink falls for a hunky werewolf, unaware that his true form is a nerd.
Skullhead Boneyhands: Mr. Skullhead is taken in by an unwitting family.
Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled has examples of
- Big Red Devil: Satan and his minions in hell all fit the red devil stereotype, with Satan himself being the largest.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment:
- Apparently eternal damnation involves, among other things, being forced to watch endless reruns of The Facts of Life.
- Satan decides to subject the Warners to "whiny protest songs from The '60s". It actually terrifies them.
- The Devil Is a Loser Yakko, Wakko, and Dot torment Satan, who comes across as a complete chump even amongst the show's villains. Eventually, Satan banishes them from Hell because he just couldn't stand them.
- Double Entendre: The episode is about the gang trying to find "Six Flags Over Flushing". This might mean that Wakko is having a Potty Emergency.
- Fire and Brimstone Hell: This is the Hell where the Warner siblings end up in. It is where sinners are tortured by being thrown into lakes of fire, poked with pitchforks, and forced to watch reruns The Facts of Life. True to Warner form, the kids proceed to torment Satan until he can't stand it anymore, culminating in freezing Hell over, leading to him kicking them out of Hell and into Heaven instead.
- Get Out!: Satan has all he can stand of the Warners when they literally freeze over all of Hell, and tells them to get out before kicking them out and sending them straight to Heaven.Satan: You've frozen everything! Do you have any idea how long it takes to get the pilot lit?! Get out!
- Here We Go Again!: After Satan kicks the Warners out of Hell, they land near Heaven's pearly gates and Saint Peter.
- Hot as Hell: In the opening we see three demons who look like beautiful women in red suits with little red horns and devil tails whom are based on the musical group the Andrews sisters, who sing about the tortures of Hell in a humorous manner.
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: The Trope Namer Dr. McCoy makes a brief appearance when Yakko is looking for a way out of the Warners' predicament.McCoy: Darn it, Yakko. I'm a doctor, not a magician!
- Lyric Dissonance: The short opens up with a jazzy showtune (sung by demonic Expies of The Andrews Sisters, no less) about Eternal Damnation and what to expect there.
- Oh, Crap!: The idea of being locked in a room with a whiny protest singer from the 1960s scares the living daylights out of the Warners.
- Protest Song: Satan's idea of a Cool and Unusual Punishment is listening to these.Satan: Beyond these doors is an agony worse than all others... you will remain in here for eternity listening to... [opens door] WHINY PROTEST SONGS FROM THE SIXTIES!
Singer: (bad Bob Dylan imitation) Oh I hate the government
More than you hate me
The government took my goldfish
And unplugged my TV
Warners: [Scream] - Satan: Satan is depicted as the ruler of hell, being a Big Red Devil in a goatee.
"I am Beezelbub, Lucifer, The Reaper of Souls, The Really Angry One, I am SATAN!!!!!"
- Stealth Pun:
- The word "Hell" is not spoken and is simply referred to as "Hades" due to censorship, but they still take a crack at a few puns that commonly use "Hell" in their phrases.
- After learning they have arrived in Hades, Wakko runs off to grab a snowball before returning and the snowball melting in seconds, with him remarking "they were right, it didn't have a chance", referencing the saying "Not a snowball's chance in Hell".
- Yakko uses a remote to "freeze-frame" everything, with everything literally freezing over, referencing the saying "When Hell freezes over".
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Suspiciously Similar Song:- The opening song is a parody of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy".
- When the Warners float on the boat to Purgatory, they sing a song that parodies "California Here I Come" (which was already owned by the Warner Music Publishing Company, oddly.)
- Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: The Warners were looking for Six Flags Over Flushing, but ended up in Hades. (Just for the record, Six Flags does not actually have a location in Flushing, Queens.)
Moon Over Minerva has examples of
- Abhorrent Admirer: Minerva is unattracted to Wilford's Stereotypical Nerd appearance and gets annoyed at his attempts at asking her out
- All Men Are Perverts: All of the males in the episode are affected by Minerva's beauty, even the ones who are seemingly in a committed relationship, much to the anger of their partners.
- All Women Are Lustful: All of the female characters, including Minerva, have Wild Take reactions to Wilford's Hunk Wolf Man form.
- Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag: Wilford switches between Funny Animal (in his normal form) and Wolf Man (when he turns into a werewolf).
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Minerva and Wilford wear clothes and seem like Civilized Animal, yet they never wear any kind of footwear.
- Bowdlerize: In the closeups of Minerva, the line that is supposed to represent her cleavage is painted out to make it less prominent.
- Comical Overreacting: A Running Gag throughout the episode is how everyone has a comical absurd reaction to being aroused, mostly via Wild Take.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: The episode starts showing a seemingly happy bird, frog and bunny couple. Then Minerva walks in and the men both go gaga over her, to the distress of their female partners.
- Digging to China: The female bunny's Wild Take at Wilford's werewolf form has her ears turning into a drill and digging to the floor until eventually, a Chinese hat pops out and falls onto the male bunny's head.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The female frog reacts to her mate losing it over Minerva by pulling out a cannon and blasting him with it.
- Eyelash Fluttering: Minerva flutters her eyelashes flirtatiously at Wilford at the end, when she tells him she's willing to wait for the next full moon to date him.
- Eye Pop: Invoked multiple times.
- The male rabbit's eyes spring outwards when he sees Minerva.
- The female bird's eyes leave her body when she's ogling Wilford's werewolf form, as does Minerva's (though Minerva's actually fly over to glance at Wilford from multiple angles).
- Gibberish of Love: Minerva goes into the classic "Homina, homina" routine when she first sees Wilford's werewolf form.
- Girls Like Musicians: Wilford tries to invoke this when he serenades to Minerva with a saxophone, but since he's his awkward Stereotypical Nerd and not a Sexy Sax Man, it fails and Minerva just angrily rejects him.
- Gold Digger: According to what she writes in her diary, Minerva's perfect man has "really rich parents".
- Hammerspace:
- The female bird and frog both bring out items from out of nowhere to punish their mates with.
- Wilford's Nerd Glasses vanish whenever he changes into his werewolf form.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Minerva's good looks cause the men around her to have Wild Take reactions. Wilford's Wolf Man form gets a similar reaction from the female characters.
- Heart Beats out of Chest: Minerva goes through an interesting variant when she's brought into werewolf Wilford's embrace: each beat causes her head to expand until it detaches from her body, nearly floating away before she pulls it back down.
- Heli-Critter: Upon seeing Wilford in his werewolf form, the female bunny's ears spin around rapidly, carrying her into the air.
- High-Pressure Emotion: Minerva doing a Hair Flip causes the male frog to blow steam out of his ears.
- Hunk: Wilford's werewolf form is a tall, and handsome with a Heroic Build.
- Hypocritical Humor: All the female characters react as Clingy Jealous Girl when their male partners ogle Minerva. But when they see Wilford's Hunk form, they all have similar Wild Take reactions.
- Interrupted Bath: Minerva is angry when Wilford interrupts her shower with an obnoxious saxophone serenade outside her window and drives him away by splashing him with water from her shower.
- I Will Wait for You: Played for Laughs. At the end when Minerva discovers Wilford is a werewolf that can turn into a Hunk under the full moon, she tells him she's willing to wait thirty days until it's full again.
- Letting Her Hair Down: The episode begins with Minerva having a scarf on her head, seemingly for the sole purpose of having her take it off dramatically and doing a Hair Flip, which is what triggers the male frog's Wild Take.
- Losing Your Head: Minerva and the female bird's heads pop out of their bodies during their Wild Take reaction to werewolf Wilford's hotness.
- Loves My Alter Ego: Minerva couldn't care less about Wilfred in his normal nerdy and unsophisticated form but unquestionably has the hots for him when the full moon turns him into a muscular, smooth-talking hunk. After finding out the truth from Wilford, she decides to stay with him because "some things are worth waiting for."
- Lunacy: As usual for werewolf stories, the full moon triggers Wilfred's transformation into a muscular werewolf. The transformation cancels out whenever the moon is covered by clouds, leading to Minerva being confused by her dream guy suddenly "vanishing".
- Lustful Melt:
- After Minerva teases him, Wilford melts into a puddle, not even seeming to mind when she reveals she was leading him on and rejects him.
- Minerva herself melts into a puddle when she sees Wilford's Hunk form for the second time.
- Magic Pants: Taken in an unusual direction. Whenever Wilford changes into his hunky werewolf form, his pants seemingly shrink and rip a little, but when he comes back to normal, they seem to magically return to normal.
- Meaningful Echo: While charming Minerva, Wilford describes going on a date with her using the exact same words she used earlier.
- Mr. Fanservice: Wilford in his Wolf Man form is a tall, muscular Hunk with handsome features, long hair and a suave voice.
- Ms. Fanservice: As usual Minerva provides a lot of fanservice, with her oversexualized demeanour and gratuitous Shower Scene.
- Not So Above It All: The female animals are all disappointed at the male partners for their blatant ogling of Minerva. Yet when they see Wilford's Hunk form, they also end up ogling him.
- Oblivious Transformation: Despite later admitting to being aware that he's a werewolf, Wilford is confused over Minerva going gaga over his transformed state.
- Obliviously Beautiful: Wilford doesn't seem to realize the effect his werewolf form has on women.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: A somewhat unusual version. Geeky Funny Animal wolf, Wilford B. Wolf, turns into a hunky wolf when exposed to the full moon. Minerva won't give his geeky self the time of day, but she goes crazy for his moonlit self.
- Parasol of Pain: The female bird strikes her mate on the head with an umbrella in retalition for his Wild Take over Minerva.
- Prehensile Tail: Minerva wraps her fluffy tail around Wilford when she's teasing him about cuddling.
- Secret Diary: Minerva's diary has a lock and key (which she keeps hidden in her Victoria's Secret Compartment) implying she cares a lot about keeping it a secret.
- Sexy Silhouette: When Minerva is showering in her home, only her nude silhouette from behind the shower curtain is seen by the audience.
- Sexy Slit Dress: Minerva's skit has a slit on the right side to expose her legs.
- Serenade Your Lover: Wilford does a saxophone serenade outfit of Minerva's window when trying to win her over. It only gets her more frustrated with him.
- Sexier Alter Ego: Wilford is normally an awkward Stereotypical Nerd, but turns into suave Hunky Wolf Man under the full moon.
- Sexophone: A brief saxophone tune is played whenever Minerva is playing up her sex appeal.
- Shout-Out: The frog's dancing during their Wild Take is a parody of Michigan J. Frog's "Hello my baby" dance from One Froggy Evening.
- Also, when going to see Wilfred in his werewolf form, Minerva wears a red dress and purple opera gloves, like fellow Fanservice character Jessica Rabbit.
- Shower Scene: Minerva is shown taking a shower at her home while singing when Wilford is outside her house serenading for her. Although only her Sexy Silhouette is visible, it's still played for fanservice.
- Spring Coil: The female bird's head suddenly develops one, sending it springing upwards in reaction to werewolf Wilford.
- Stealth Pun: Why did Minerva's head balloon up and float away because of her pumping heart? She got light-headed!
- Stereotypical Nerd: Wilford is a physically scrawny, unattractive, awkward, stuttering guy with Nerd Glasses, which is why Minerva finds him an Abhorrent Admirer.
- Supermodel Strut: Minerva does a short hip-swaying walk towards Wilford when she's being The Tease and talking about having a "romantic walk under the starlight".
- The Tease: When Wilford first asks out Minerva, she flirts and teases him to the point of Lustful Melt, but then reveals she was just leading him on and just coldly rejects him.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: Minerva keeps the key to her Secret Diary hidden in her cleavage, and seeing her do it is what triggers the male bunny's Wild Take.
- Visual Pun: When Minerva starts pretending to flirt with Wilford, he develops literal goosebumps on the back of his neck.
- Wingding Eyes: The male bird and female bunny get hearts on their eyes during their Wild Take reactions.
- Wild Take: The male characters have comical cartoony overreactions to illustrate their attraction to Minerva, like Heart Beats out of Chest, Lustful Melt, High-Pressure Emotion, etc.
- Wolf Whistle: The male bird does a wolf whistle from the branches when he first sees Minerva.
Skullhead Boneyhands has examples of
- A Day in the Limelight: This marks the only short to star Mr. Skullhead that is not a "Good Idea Bad Idea" short. The Warners open the short by singing the "It's The Mr. Skullhead Show" theme that Elmyra sang in Mr. Skullhead's introductory appearance in the Tiny Toons episode "Take Elmyra, Please".
- Whole-Plot Reference: To Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands.
Closing Tower Gag: Wakko: "Wanna see me make bubbles with my spit?" Yakko: Aaaaaaaaaahhhh....maybe later."
