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It originally aired on Creator/FoxKids (on the Fox television network), and later Creator/KidsWB, both of which were programming blocks on broadcast network stations, making ''Animaniacs'' a godsend to kids without cable. On January 7, 2013, the show began airing on [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily The Hub]]. The whole series is now available on DVD and digital streaming.

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It originally aired on Creator/FoxKids (on the Fox television network), and later Creator/KidsWB, both of which were programming blocks on broadcast network stations, making ''Animaniacs'' a godsend to kids without cable. On January 7, 2013, the show began airing on [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily The Hub]].Hub]] (today known as Discovery Family, which became a sister company to WB long after the show left the network's line-up). The whole series is now available on DVD and digital streaming.
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* '''The Warner Brothers ([[InsistentTerminology and the Warner Sister]])''': This was the main segment of the show. Yakko (Creator/RobPaulsen), Wakko (Creator/JessHarnell), and sister [[OddNameOut Dot]] (Creator/TressMacNeille) were cartoon characters that resembled anthropomorphic dogs or cats [[note]] Within the show they were occasionally referred to as "puppy children", "kiddies", or "kidsies." [[/note]]. Their {{Backstory}} indicates that they were created in the 1930s by the Warner Studios animators, then [[ArtInitiatesLife leapt off the page]] and ran amok through the studio. The Warners' cartoons ("which made absolutely no sense") were put in the studio vault, never to be released. As for the Warners themselves ("who made even less sense"), they were locked in the studio's water tower and the studio [[UnPerson publicly disavowed any knowledge of their existence]]. The Warners eventually escape 65 years later, and HilarityEnsues. Studio psychiatrist Dr. Otto Scratchansniff (Rob Paulsen), his [[HospitalHottie exceptionally-hot female assistant]] (Creator/TressMacNeille), dimwitted studio security guard Ralph (Creator/FrankWelker), and blustering studio president Thaddeus Plotz (Frank Welker again) suffer more from the trio's antics than anyone else. Some of the shorts involving the Warners were their "classic" cartoons, which played with different animation styles and tropes based on the cartoons of the time they were said to be from. When not following classic formulas, the Warners engaged in parodies of pop-culture or inserted themselves into history (wherein they would simultaneously both annoy and inspire famous figures like UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln and Music/LudwigVanBeethoven). Not content with BreakingTheFourthWall in their own shorts, they would occasionally come dashing through the other characters' shorts, usually with Ralph in hot pursuit.

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* '''The Warner Brothers ([[InsistentTerminology and the Warner Sister]])''': This was the main segment of the show. Yakko (Creator/RobPaulsen), Wakko (Creator/JessHarnell), and sister [[OddNameOut Dot]] (Creator/TressMacNeille) were cartoon characters that resembled anthropomorphic dogs or cats [[note]] Within the show they were occasionally referred to as "puppy children", "kiddies", or "kidsies." [[/note]]. Their {{Backstory}} indicates that they were created in the 1930s by the Warner Studios animators, then [[ArtInitiatesLife leapt off the page]] and ran amok through the studio. The Warners' cartoons ("which made absolutely no sense") were put in the studio vault, shelved, never to be released. As for released, while the Warners themselves ("who made even less sense"), they sense") were locked in the studio's water tower and the studio [[UnPerson publicly disavowed any knowledge of their existence]]. The Warners eventually escape 65 years later, and HilarityEnsues. Studio psychiatrist Dr. Otto Scratchansniff (Rob Paulsen), his [[HospitalHottie exceptionally-hot female assistant]] (Creator/TressMacNeille), dimwitted studio security guard Ralph (Creator/FrankWelker), and blustering studio president Thaddeus Plotz (Frank Welker again) suffer more from the trio's antics than anyone else. Some of the shorts involving the Warners were their "classic" cartoons, which played with different animation styles and tropes based on the cartoons of the time they were said to be from. When not following classic formulas, the Warners engaged in parodies of pop-culture or inserted themselves into history (wherein they would simultaneously both annoy and inspire famous figures like UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln and Music/LudwigVanBeethoven). Not content with BreakingTheFourthWall in their own shorts, they would occasionally come dashing through the other characters' shorts, usually with Ralph in hot pursuit.
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