Recap / Animaniacs Episode 96

Airdate: January 3rd, 1998

Hooray For North Hollywood (Part 2): The Warners are still trying to get that movie of theirs made.

Hooray For North Hollywood (Part 2) contains examples of:

• And the Adventure Continues: The Warners decide to stay in the Warner Bros. Studio for good and give the CEO position back to Plotz and the episode ends with the Warners heading off for their next adventure...that happens in 22 years.
• Break the Haughty: Plotz gets hit with this big time. After he rejects the Warners' script for the titular movie, repeatedly tells them no one will ever make their movie, and even evicts them from the studio, producer Pressberg Katzeneisnerman is so impressed by the script that he green-lights the movie anyway. Sure enough, it becomes a smash hit, while the film Plotz green-lit, "Jamalot", bombs, leaving him shamed and humiliated, and eventually resulting in him getting fired, leaving him without a job or a home, and no one to blame for it but himself.
  Plotz: All alone on New Year's Eve. What an arrogant pig-headed fool I've been.
• Grand Finale: Along with Part 1, even though both episodes aired out of order, this is the final episode of the series before the reboot.
• Here We Go Again!: How does the episode end? With the Warners making ANOTHER movie script and heading off to pitch it to Mr. Plotz.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Mr. Plotz's reaction to rejecting the Warners' script when he learns how successful their movie has become.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: We get a LOT of celebrity caricatures in this episode. Just a few of them are John Travolta, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Clint Eastwood, David Letterman, and Joel Schumacher.
• Previously on…: Parodied. Skippy introduces the episode, saying that the first part consisted mainly of this: the Warners pleading, "We wanna make a movie!" and Plotz replying, "You CAN'T make a movie!"
• Shopping Cart of Homelessness: When we next see Plotz after he's been fired, he's ragged and homeless with a shopping cart by his side.
• Shout-Out:
  • Yakko and Dot say that their film will be a big budget blockbuster like Titanic.
    Dot: Except our movie will cost under two hundred million.
    Yakko: As long as Wakko keeps his licorice habit under control.
  • A huge chunk of the movie parodies The English Patient, with Dot in the female lead.
• Take That!:
  • Plotz decides to make a film called Jamalot, which acts both as a parody of Space Jam featuring a Michael Jordan caricature alongside several bored-looking cartoon characters, and as a reference to the 1967 film adaptation of the musical Camelot which nearly bankrupted the Warner Bros. studio. It's an enormous flop.
  • Dot meets Joel Schumacher at the party, tells him that she's seen all of his films, and encourages him to make more. While walking away, she mutters, "Eventually one of them is bound to turn out watchable..."
• Toilet Humor: This exchange...
  Dot: I suggest we evacuate immediately.
  Yakko: I already evacuated.
  Wakko: Me too. Oops. Twice.
• Victory Is Boring: The Warners eventually get bored with the success of their movie and begin to miss Mr. Plotz, so they decide to spend all the money they made on their movie to buy stock of the Warner Bros. Studios and reappoint him as CEO.