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Recap / Animaniacs Episode 44

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Airdate: November 18th, 1993

Opening Line: "Shirley McClaine-y"- Dot

Useless Facts: Yakko provides some "useless facts".

The Senses Song: The Warners sing about all of your senses.

Dot's Poetry Corner: Dot recites Humpty Dumpty

The World Can Wait: The Brain falls in love with a lab mouse named Billie.

Kiki's Kitten: Rita finds herself the pet cat of a gorilla named Kiki.

Useless Facts has examples of the following tropes:

  • Informed Species: The shrimp that Yakko encounters when telling us that a shrimp's heart is in its head doesn't look much like an actual shrimp.
  • When I Was Your Age...: When Yakko tells the viewers that termites can live to be 50 years old, he sees an elderly termite telling his grandchildren, "Why, when I was a young termite, we used to have to walk 50 miles in the snow with no shoes for a good piece of wood. Not like you kids today!"

The Senses Song has examples of the following tropes:

  • Be the Ball: At one point, Wakko and Dot briefly turn into balls.
  • Call-Back: As the song goes off the rails near the end, we get one to "Yakko's World".
  • The Cameo: Ralph, Dr. Scratchansniff, Rita of Rita and Runt fame, Hello Nurse, and Pinky and the Brain all make cameos throughout the song.
  • Hammered into the Ground: This happens to Dr. Scratchansniff when he chops down a tree.
  • Smelly Feet Gag:
    Wakko: The sense of smell's the way you tell that you need to change your socks!

The World Can Wait has examples of the following tropes:

Kiki's Kitten has examples of the following tropes:

  • The Cameo: The Warners run by a sleeping Runt.
  • Demoted to Extra: Runt only appears at the beginning and end of the short, with much of the focus on Rita.
  • No Fourth Wall: At one point Rita groans, "Something tells me I'm gonna hate this episode..."
  • Oh, Crap!: Rita, when she first sees Kiki.
  • Shout-Out: Kiki is a parody of the famous gorilla Koko, who had owned a few kittens during her lifetime.


Closing Tower Gag: "It's over. It's definitely over." - Runt

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