Airdate: September 9th, 1995
In general, this episode contains examples of:
- Rearrange the Song: What used to be "While Bill Clinton plays the sax" has changed again, this time to "We pay tons of income tax". Unlike last time, no reason was given.
Super Strong Warner Siblings contains examples of:
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Reeva, the Captain Ersatz of Rita Repulsa, turns a praying mantis Kaiju sized to attack the Warners.
- Captain Ersatz: Our villains for this piece consist of copies of Rita, Goldar, and Finster. Squatt, Baboo, and Scorpina don’t get any imposters, though.
- Destructive Savior: The Warners destroy the studio fighting the giant mantis. Mr. Plotz demands they pay for repairs, but Yakko gives him a fat-free yogurt instead.
- Fantastic Aesop: "Playing with giant bugs isn't cool."
- Palette Swap: Mindy makes a cameo, but colored differently; her hair is brunette instead of blonde, and her clothes are blue and red rather than lavender and white.
- Parody: Of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
- Parody Sue: The Warners not only are flashy martial artists, but also academic geniuses and absurdly generous and positive; outside of battle they act like walking PSAs.
- Running Gag:
- "Here, have a bag of money."
- "Here, have a fat-free yogurt."
- Weaponized Landmark: The Warners fight the giant bug by using the water tower as a Transforming Mecha.
Nutcracker Slappy contains examples of:
- Animated Actors: Slappy and Skippy are constantly breaking character to argue with their director, who is Recurring Character Charlton Woodchuck (a.k.a. Baynarts). He got a directing option on his contract; Slappy mentions that Skippy got the same deal, and we cut to him dressed as Steven Spielberg.
- The Cameo: When Slappy and Skippy walk off the set, they walk by the Warners.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: Unlike most Slappy cartoons, this is a Mime and Music-Only Cartoon - or at least it would be if Slappy wasn't complaining to the director all the time.
- Hammerspace Hideaway: Slappy gets even with Charlton by shoving him inside the empty walnut shell.Slappy: Now there's a nut inside.
- Hey, That's My Line!: The final lines.Skippy: Now that's comedy!
Slappy: You're adorable, but that's my line! - Prima Donna Director: Charlton, whose insistance on filling her cartoon with metaphors and symbolism about the inherent struggle and emptiness of life rubs Slappy the wrong way.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: After all the trouble she goes through trying to break open the walnut, it turns out to be empty. Charlton did this on purpose for symbolism, which Slappy is not happy about.
- Shout-Out: Slappy derisively calls Charlton "von Stroheim."
- Surprisingly Super-Tough Thing: Slappy and Skippy have a hard time cracking the walnut open as they try increasingly over-the-top methods of opening it. Unlike most examples, where the thing only opens after the character gives up, her grand finale attempt actually DOES open the walnut. However, it's rendered a Pyrrhic Victory after the super tough walnut turned out to be empty.
Wakko's New Gookie contains examples of:
- Call-Back: One of the celebrities Wakko gets an opinion on his new gookie from is Kirk Douglas, still dressed as Michelangelo from "Hooked on a Ceiling".
- Hypocritical Humor: Yakko tells Wakko that there is no need to change his gookie if people still like his old one. Then he reveals that he's working on a new catchphrase ("Yes siree, Boberoonie!"), which Wakko doesn't like.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Wakko shows his gookie to other celebrities, including Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn.
A Quake, A Quake! contains examples of:
- Bowdlerize: When the song was released on a soundtrack album before the release of the cartoon, all references to California were removed.
- Lyrical Dissonance: The short has a lively and joyful song about the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, which killed 57 people, injured 8,700 more, and caused billions of dollars in damages.
- Naked People Are Funny: Ralph is caught outside naked except for his socks. Thankfully, his crotch is blocked from view by a mailbox.
- Public Domain Soundtrack: The melody of the song is mainly inspired by "The Happy Farmer" by Robert Schumann, with a bit of "London Bridge" at the end.
- Reaching Between the Lines: Scratchansniff calls the insurance company, but Yakko comes out of the receiver to inform him that it's too late for him to get coverage.
- Ripped from the Headlines: This short musicalizes the January 1994 Northridge earthquake.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The final verse has the Warners express this in song.Yakko: A quake...
Dot: A quake...
Wakko: It's time to put up stake.
Yakko: We're all fed up,
We can't deny it!
Dot: Fires, quakes,
And floods and riots!
The Warners: We want someplace
With peace and quiet...
So we're moving to Beirut! - Techno Babble: By Yakko. In song!Yakko: Seismologists all say,
"Tectonic plates are in between
And encroaching crustal mantle."
Wakko and Dot: Yeah? So what the heck's that mean?
Yakko: It means, "A quake! A quake!"
Wakko and Dot: Oh, really? Yeah? No fake?
We kinda had that feeling
When the ground began to shake!
