Airdate: November 15, 1993
Newsreel Of The Stars
Opening Line: "Here's the show's name-y."- Dot
Buttermilk: It Makes a Body Bitter: Commercial parody featuring Slappy Squirrel. Remember to drink your buttermilk!
Broadcast Nuisance: The Warner Siblings square off with a stuck-up evening news anchor.
Good Idea Bad Idea: Good Idea- Having breakfast served to you in bed. Bad Idea- Having tennis balls served to you in bed
Raging Bird: The Goodfeathers take on Raging Bull.
Good Idea Bad Idea: Good idea- whistling while you work. Bad idea- whistling while you eat
Buttermilk: It Makes a Body Bitter contains examples of:
- Shout-Out: To a series of "Milk: It does a body good" commercials from the late 1980s/early 1990s that showed a Bratty Half-Pint getting taller and prettier because "I'm drinking milk".
- Youthful Freckles: Slappy sports these during her teenage stage of drinking buttermilk.
Broadcast Nuisance contains examples of:
- Bowdlerize: The version that made it to air was quite a bit different from the original, where Dan Anchorman was more clearly an Expy of ABC reporter Sam Donaldson (given the name Slam Fondlesome), and the Warners played crueler pranks on him, some of which were rejected for fear of being copied by children.
- The Cameo: Lost in the censored version is a Slappy Squirrel cameo who gives an exploding bomb to the anchorman and says her catchphrase, "Now that's comedy!"
- Eyelash Fluttering: Anchorman is trying desperately to seem like he cares about the sad news he's presenting and furiously bats his eyelids to appear sad (as big lashes appear on his eyes for just this one scene.) He then demands his makeup artist draw sympathy lines around his eyes.
- Insistent Terminology: When Dan Anchorman calls the Warners little kids, Yakko tells him they prefer to be called "vertically impaired pre-adults".
- Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: To get them out of his hair, the anchorman locks the Warners in the control room. When Dot asks why he would do that, Yakko responds "I don't know. Maybe he wants us to direct." Sure enough, they start messing around with the video controls and screwing up the broadcast until the anchorman is driven mad.
- Pie in the Face: When Anchorman and Yakko argue over the Warners being called little kids:Anchorman: I'll call you anything I want — I'm the anchor!
Yakko: We protest you calling yourself an anchor. You should be referred to as the pastry enhanced!
Anchorman: "Pastry enhanced"? I don't get it.
Yakko: You will!
(Yakko proceeds to hit Anchorman in the face with a pie.) - Shout-Out:
- The "We're Beatrice!" tag Dot gives at the end of the "Sam 'n Ella's" song is a reference to a real ad campaign for the Beatrice MegaCorp, from the mid-1980s. Beatrice at the time was the product of an unwieldy merger between three already huge companies note and they were trying to save face. It didn't work; they were bought out by infamous private equity firm KKR and cut up for scrap over the last half of the 1980s, with what was left going to food company ConAgra in 1990.
- Yakko at one point imitates political pundit William F. Buckley Jr..
- While the Warners are in the control booth, they switch the channels so that Dan ends up in various other shows, including Gilligan's Island (where he's pelted with coconuts) and a Godzilla movie (whose foot, when it comes down on Dan, resembles the one on Bambi Meets Godzilla).
- Waxing Lyrical: In the control booth, Wakko quotes the opening lines of "Space Oddity".
Raging Bird contains examples of:
- The Cameo: I'll give you three guess who appears when Pesto calls Bobby a "wacko".
- Shout-Out:
- The episode's title is a clear one to Raging Bull, with Bobby and Pesto taking on the roles originally played by Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, naturally.
- Most of the plot is a spoof of Rocky, with the owl who trains Bobby based on the trainer Mickey, and the training montage ending with Bobby running up stairs... where he's stepped on by Rocky Balboa. Pretty Boy Robin is also based on Rocky. When he literally falls to pieces, he says, "Yo, Adrian!"
Closing Tower Gag: "It's over. Go away!"- Slappy
