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Recap / Animaniacs 2020 Episode 20

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Release date: November 5, 2021

Opening line: (Dot) "Are you not entertain-ey-ed?"

Yakko Amakko: Yakko gets into a fight with the animator.

The Longest Word: The Warner siblings try to demonstrate the longest word in the English language.

Happy Narfday!: Brain doesn't let the fact that it is Pinky's birthday stop his plan for world domination.

Magna Cartoon: The Warners sing about the Magna Carta.

Tropes found in "Yakko Amakko":

  • Art Shift: As with "Duck Amuck", there's a few of these. Notably, the animator redraws Yakko in the style of the 1993 show — at which he screams in horror.
    Yakko: I thought we were past all this!
  • Author Avatar: The animator appears to be a caricature of the principal animator and character designer of the new Animaniacs, Genevieve Tsai.
  • Briar Patching: Yakko begs the animator not give him extra arms. When she does, Yakko uses them to grab her pen and overpower her.
  • Call-Back: Yakko eating dairy-free ice cream may be a reference to The Stinger gags from 1993 - one of which has him claim that he's lactose intolerant.
  • The Cameo: PepĂ© Le Pew is drawn into frame at one point (surprising given that he was purposely omitted from Space Jam: A New Legacy, though this could be because this episode might have been produced before he was cut).
  • Defeat Equals Friendship: After the animator explains that tormenting her cartoons is one of her only outlets she has and that he's actually her favourite Warner, Yakko is quick to forgive her. The ending has them screwing with the other side-characters over ice cream.
  • I Always Wanted to Say That: When Yakko's voice is swapped with Wakko's, instead of immediately refusing, he says he's always wanted to say something in this voice and takes a moment to quote Ringo Starr.
  • Meet Your Early-Installment Weirdness: Following the "Cheshire Cat" bit, Yakko's originally drawn in the style of the original Animaniacs cartoon before he complains and regains his updated appearance.
  • Me's a Crowd: One of the ways Yakko is messed with is by using copy-paste to make a crowd of him. Later, when Yakko and the animator decide to work together, they make Dr. Scratchansniff give himself therapy.
  • Tempting Fate: Most of the changes that happen to Yakko are invoked like this, such as saying he'll try to be "the bigger man" before the animator shrinks him, or asking them to practice their art elsewhere before a Pablo Picasso-style filter is applied.
  • Thinking Up Portals: After Yakko falls through one of the animator's freshly-drawn holes, he complains that the portal bit has been done before, and calls out Portal, Portal 2, Sliders, and Time Bandits.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: A self-aware and 21st century version of the classic Looney Tunes "Duck Amuck", though with Yakko in place of Daffy in his fight with the animator, and rather than fighting with pencils, pens, and erasers, Yakko has to deal with the wonders of Photoshop editing tools. Yakko even acknowledges the homage and pulls out the Duck Amuck title card, hoping to get the animator to stop because it's been done before.
  • You Wanna Get Sued?: When all of Yakko's body gets erased except for his mouth, he calls it "the Cheshire Cat bit", and tells the animator to give him a body before they get sued.note  Later, after Nora Rita Norita's voice is replaced with that of Daffy Duck, she's only concerned about if they have the right to use that voice.

Tropes found in "The Longest Word":

  • Antidisestablishmentarianism: This is the word that Yakko claims is the longest, though Wakko argues that it's Floccinaucinihilipilification, and Dot claims it's Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
  • Hostile Show Takeover: The segment starts with Yakko teaching his siblings about the word, only for Wakko and Dot to get upset that he's always the teacher in segments like this and try to usurp him to teach their own words.
  • Take That!: After Dot takes over as teacher and presents her word, she decides to try teaching her brothers Spanish with a dubbed episode of The Big Bang Theory, and they call it low-brow hack comedy.

Tropes found in "Happy Narfday":

  • Actor-Shared Background: Pinky's birthday is revealed to be March 11th, the same day as Rob Paulsen.
  • Asshole Victim: In one of Brain's Imagine Spots, Kim Jong-Un, Vladimir Putin, and Nicolás Maduro are locked in a steam room by Brain, as he turns the heat up to unbearable levels.
  • Birthday Episode: The episode's centered on Pinky's birthday, the one day of the year where Brain promised not to try and take over the world. Brain, of course, still tries to do so.
  • Contrived Coincidence: It turns out that an amulet containing a one-of-a-kind isotope that the Brain requires for one of his schemes was on-sale at a hipster swap meet that Pinky takes him to.
  • Forgotten Birthday: After the amulet breaks and a frustrated Brain admits he barely tolerated Pinky's plans for the day, Pinky admits that his real Narfday was actually a month ago and Brain forgot because he was too busy with his plans, giving Brain a Jerkass Realization.
  • Gift-Giving Gaffe: At the end of the day, Pinky isn't happy to learn that the amulet Brain gave him for his Narfday (which has just broken and released the isotope) was just a component of his latest scheme.
  • Imagine Spot: A montage of Pinky and the Brain riding a Ferris wheel and going to an aquarium and sauna is intercut with Brain imagining how he could've used them to take over the world.
  • Saying Too Much: When Brain questions how Pinky was able to efficiently schedule his birthday itinerary and stay on-time down to the minute, Pinky lets slip that it's because they're all things he wants to do. They arrive at their next destination before Brain can process what Pinky said, though it foreshadows the sketch's end.
  • Wham Line: When Brain gets fed up with Pinky at midnight and gladly declares his Narfday to be over, the mood instantly shifts when Pinky states that he knows, and "It's been over for weeks."

Tropes found in "Magna Cartoon":

  • Call-Back: When they realize they still have some time to kill left in the sketch Yakko asks King John whether or not he would like to hear all about the Battle of Hastings.
  • The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson: The Warners sing about how the Magna Carta influenced history to come, such as the US Constitution. King John, of course, has no idea what they're talking about.
  • Incessant Music Madness: The Warners get King John to sign the Magna Carta by driving him mad with their song about it. He abdicates the throne when they threaten to keep singing.
  • Opening Scroll: The sketch begins with one, but Yakko cuts it short because they only have five minutes.

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