Airdate: September 30th, 1995
Opening Line: "Uhh..."- Yakko
The Tiger Prince
Yakko stars in a parody of "The Lion King", which makes Yakko highly confused at the end.
"The Tiger Prince" contains examples of:
- Affectionate Parody: of the "Circle of Life" scene from the beginning of The Lion King (1994).
- Black Comedy: After Yakko accidentally drops the cub, his line suggests the cub didn't survive.Yakko: Oooh. I thought they were supposed to land on their feet.
- "Lion King" Lift: With Yakko as Rafiki lifting up the tiger cub. Which he then drops.
- Song Parody: “The Surprises in Life” is this for “Circle of Life”, the lyrics of which are about all the different surprises life brings…like getting hit by a bus or socked in the jaw.
All the Words in the English Language
Part 1': In a sequel to "Yakko's World", Yakko attempts to sing all the words in the English language, with Dot Warner and guest star Dick Button providing commentary as a skating routine.
Part 2: By the second act, Yakko begins to get tired as he makes his halfway point into successfully singing all the words. Dot is assured that Yakko will make it.
Part 3: An overly-exhausted Yakko manages to scrape through the final sets of words in the English Language but is shocked to find out that tomorrow he'll have to sing all the numbers above zero, causing Yakko to faint.
"All the Words in the English Language" contains examples of:
- As Himself: Skating analyst Dick Button provided his own voice, analyzing Yakko's performance like a figure skating routine. At one point, Button mispronounces Yakko's name just as he does with actual skaters.
- Follow the Bouncing Ball: The words are highlighted in the giant dictionary behind Yakko as he sings them.
- Here We Go Again!: While Yakko, who is overly exhausted in the final act of the episode, manages to scrape through all the words, the episode ends with him finding out he'll have to sing all the numbers above zero. The episode ends as Yakko faints to the floor.
- Patter Song: Just like “Yakko’s World” which this segment is a sequel to.
- Take Our Word for It: We are only seen Yakko singing some words from the A's, the F's (briefly, in a "costly error"), the L's, and the Z's, because if he actually sang all the words in the English language, the short would be too long.
- Tired After the Song: Yakko is already a bit out of breath by the middle of the song and is straight-up exhausted towards the end. He nearly passes out before accomplishing his goal, but then he wakes up and says "Zaire!", completing the song.
The Kid in the Lid
Yakko, Wakko, and Dot star in a parody of a famous Seuss book.
"The Kid in the Lid" contains examples of:
- Aside Comment: After meeting Mary and sizing her up, Dot turns to the camera and whispers “I’m cuter”.
- Extreme Omnivore: Wakko eats cans of vegetables and a bag of flour (yes, this includes the containers), then he eats the dishes, the sink, and the refrigerator.
- Fun with Flushing: After Yakko gives Scooter and Mary's pet woodchuck a bath, he pulls the plug to drain the water. The woodchuck goes down the drain and ironically ends up in the toilet.
- Fur Is Clothing: When giving the pet woodchuck a bath, Yakko rolls up the fur on one of his arms as if it’s a sleeve.
- Heat Wave: In contrast to the source material, Scooter and Mary are inside because it's too hot to play outside instead of too rainy.
- Long List: Yakko’s list of fun things to do.
- Man-Made House Flood: Yakko floods the entire house by sending the kids’ pet woodchuck down the bathtub drain and up through the toilet.
- My Card: The card Yakko hands Scooter says “Make a Mess Inc. Yako, Dot, Wakko”.
- Parental Abandonment: Scooter and Mary's parents have been gone for 90 days, spending a vacation in the Bahamas. They do return home near the end of the short.
- Product Placement: Two references are made to Rice-a-Roni.Dot: The San Francisco Treat.
- Rhymes on a Dime: Much like the source material, all of the dialogue is done in rhyme.
- Rhyming Title: Fitting for a segment parodying Dr. Seuss.
- Shout-Out: At the end of the short, the family is seen eating Green Ham.
- Something We Forgot: Yakko traps the woodchuck in the toilet. At the end of the short, the woodchuck can be heard saying "Hello? Hello? Anyone? Anybody? Can anyone hear me? I'm still in the potty!"
- Sticky Situation: One of Yakko's ideas on how to have fun is to glue things together.Yakko: Lots of wet glue, we'll make a big mess! We'll glue things together! Your parents will stress!
- "Take That!" Kiss: Wakko and Dot do this to Scooter and Mary immediately upon meeting them, letting them know right away that they’ll be causing even more trouble for them.
- Toilet Humor:
- When the two kids are bored from doing nothing but watching television, Scooter spills some soda on his crotch, making it look like he wet his pants. Mary sees this and giggles.
- When the woodchuck objects to Yakko visiting, one of the things he describes about him is that "His pants have a real funny smell." as he holds his nose.
- A literal example after Yakko gives the woodchuck a bath. When he pulls the plug, the woodchuck goes down the drain and ends up in the toilet. The toilet then explodes and its water floods the house and splashes into the street, where the children swim in it.Scooter: Kids came from all over to splash in the lake, not knowing the source was our potty break.
Mary: They're swimming in water straight out of our toilet!
Scooter: Think we should tell them?
Yakko: Nah, that'd just spoil it.
- Trash the Set: The Warners' antics end up destroying Scooter and Mary's house. However, they do rebuild it so as not to get the two kids in trouble with their parents when they return home.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To The Cat in the Hat.
Method to Her Madness
Slappy and Skippy visit an acting studio in New York City.
"Method To Her Madness" contains examples of:
- Ash Face: All of the other actors get their faces covered in ash after Slappy’s bombs go off.
- Beatnik: The 1950s are touted as the time of the beatniks. Dot is seen performing at a beatnik poetry reading and Skippy uses beatnik slang throughout the short.
- Black Comedy: Slappy says that being in a coma would be more interesting than the acting class and then yells out for someone to get Kevorkian on the phone - referring to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, aka Dr. Death, who’s known for facilitating over 130 assisted suicides.
- Cartoon Bomb: Slappy uses these to help the acting students with their expressions, especially the Wild Take.
- Circling Birdies: When one of Slappy’s bombs go off on the Marlon Brando look alike, it blows a hole in the wall and he gets hit in the head with a cinder block, giving him a “halo” of circling stars.
- Double Take: Stressbird does one when he notices his feet are on fire. This turns into a Wild Take when he realizes what he thought were matches in his shoes are actually sticks of dynamite. This is all lampshaded by Slappy as being part of her lesson.
- High-Pressure Emotion: The acting teacher gets so mad at Slappy that his face gradually turns red and steam comes out of his ears.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The actors Slappy and Skippy encounter are caricatures of famous 1950s movie stars like Marlon Brando, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. The teacher, Lee Stressbird, is a parody of Lee Strasberg, a teacher of the Stanislavski method at the Actor's Studio in New York.
- Piano Drop: Slappy tells the teacher that Skippy should be learning about classic comedy routines, like pianos falling from the sky. Stressbird asks “What pianos falling from the sky?” and she replies “Well, those for instance”. Pianos then materialize out of nowhere and land on him and several students.Slappy: Now that’s acting!
- Shout-Out:
- The scenes Skippy reads with Brando contain lines from films for which Brando would later become famous: the "contender" scene from On the Waterfront, screaming "Stella!" from A Streetcar Named Desire, and "an offer he can't refuse" from The Godfather.
- After Slappy takes over the class, the students all start acting like famous Looney Tunes characters such as Hugo, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner, and Sylvester.
- Spit Take: Discussed. Slappy disagrees with Skippy being called the best actor of their generation because he can’t even do one of these.
- Totally Radical: Invoked. Skippy in this short speaks like a beatnik, Daddy-o.
