Airdate: February 3rd, 1996
Dot's Entertainment: Playwright Andy Lloud Webby hires the Warners to star in his newest musical.
The Girl With the Googily Goop: A 1930s cartoon co-starring the Warners and an Affectionate Parody of Betty Boop.
Gunga Dot: The cast of Animaniacs stars in a parody of Gunga Din.
Dot's Entertainment contains examples of:
- On Ice: Near the beginning, a marquee for Animaniacs On Ice can be seen.
- Shout-Out: At one point we get a parody of That Girl starring Dot... and then another one starring Wakko.
- Take That!: Towards Andrew Lloyd Webber and his musicals, culminating in the Warners singing a parody of Evita blaming him for how bad the plays are.
The Girl With the Googily Goop contains examples of:
- Affectionate Parody: Of the Betty Boop cartoons and Little Red Riding Hood.
- Animate Inanimate Object: All over the place. It freaks Wakko out.
- The Cameo: A very early version of Porky Pig appears at one point.
- Censorship Bureau: Being a Betty Boop parody, there were a few jabs to how the character was a major target of The Hays Code, with the short's songs featuring many nods to the censors' complaints and the Big Bad Wolf disguising himself as Will Hays.
- Roger Rabbit Effect: In a tribute to the "Out of the Inkwell" shorts, Googy and the Warners appear in a live-action animation studio going back into an inkwell.Dot: Personally, I prefer living in the water tower.
- Shout-Out: In a bit spoofing the scat sections of "Minnie the Moocher", the Warners name drop Heidi Fleiss, Hedy Lamarr, Yehudi Menuhin, and Yo-Yo Ma.
Gunga Dot contains examples of:
- The Bus Came Back: This would be the penultimate time that Bernadette Peters would voice Rita in the series proper.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To Rudyard Kipling's Gunga Din.
