Airdate: September 8th, 1997
Message in a Bottle: The Warners find, naturally, a message in a bottle.
Back in Style (Parts 1 & 2): A documentary sequence showing what happened after Warner Bros. closed its animation department in the 1960s. Apparently, they loaned out the Warners to some limited animation television cartoons.
Bones in the Body: The Warners sing their own version of "Dem Bones".
Message in a Bottle contains examples of:
- Disney Owns This Trope: The message turns out to be this.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To The Rocky And Bullwinkle Show. After Wakko asks if it's "fan mail from some flounder", Yakko replies, "Nope. It's the entertainment lawyers. We shouldn't have stolen this bit."
Back in Style (Parts 1 & 2) contains examples of:
- The Bad Guy Wins: The villain of Thunderdog winds up succeeding thanks to the Warners' antics.
- Cliffhanger: Part 1 ends with the Warners getting captured in a net.
- The Cameo: Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Yosemite Sam show up near the beginning. Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng are also depicted.
- Gasp!: This is how Obese Orson's friends react when he tells them that the Warners want to have fun in their territory.
- Informed Species:
- The below-mentioned "Grey Panther" that a caricature of Friz Freleng draws has a head that looks more like that of a wolf than a panther.
- Calhoun C. Capybara looks more like a bear than a capybara. Of course, he IS a Yogi Bear Expy...
- His sidekick, Loo-Loo the Ring-Tailed Lemur, doesn't look much like a ring-tailed lemur either. With his brown fur, he looks slightly more like a cartoony red panda.
- Laugh Track: Obese Orson has one.
- Limited Animation: Invoked and used hilariously in the TV cartoon parodies, especially the Obese Orson sequence produced at Phlegmation.
- Parody Assistance: Yes, that is indeed Frank Welker* voicing the Fred Expy in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! parody.
- Shout-Out:
- When leaving the studio, Bugs tells Daffy there's a powdered drink ad waiting for them, and Daffy says, "Wait up, Tex!" After the WB animation studio closed, the characters were used for commercials for products such as Tang, and Tex Avery returned to direct some of the ads.
- A caricature Friz Freleng sketches a parody of The Pink Panther called "the Grey Panther".
- Warner Bros. loaning out their cartoon characters to another studio for a limited animation TV cartoon actually happened back in 1972 with Filmation's Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies, and this segment is loosely based off what happened with that special.
- "Stop Having Fun" Guys: Invoked. The Obese Orson segment is all about this:"You don't have fun?!"
"No. We prefer to preach pro-social values till they spew out of everyone's ears and all over the ground." - Take That!: The parodies of other cartoons like Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, and Underdog featured in this episode aren't particularly affectionate. In particular, they pull no punches in mocking the shows' Limited Animation. The parodies of Filmation and its' Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids seem to particularly get the worst of it (most likely due to that time Warner loaned out the Looney Tunes to Filmation in The '70s.
- Two-Part Episode: Although there wasn't a title card for part 2, since it just cuts back to Warners trying to break free.
Bones in the Body contains examples of:
- The Cameo: Runt of Rita and Runt fame shows up at one point.
- Educational Song: The Warners, with some help from Mr. Skullhead, sing about the skeleton.
- Standard Snippet: The song samples "Dem Bones".
