You know, it is kind of surprising that this show even has an origin story. 3 personifications of carton chaos has cause so much destruction in Warner Bros Studios and their films made no sense, so they were forever(not really) locked away in a water tower. 60 years has passed and everything in WB was restored and back to normal... inthil they escape.
This sounds like a major epic story. Unfortunately, it's not.
I laways figure that. I thought that that was what referred to the characters. But just being the name of the show?
Now think back, one could blame the opening theme for the Title Confusion.
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/a/animaniacs8676/themesong295727.html
We're Animaniacs! Dot is cute and Yakko yaks. Wakko packs away the snacks, While Bill Clinton plays the sax. We're Animaniacs!
It's not our fault.
edited 30th Aug '12 10:56:15 AM by asiacatdogblue
Yep, I'm still here.![]()
I put this on the Fridge page for the show, but I thought I'd mention it here, too. I noticed that, intentionally or not, some of the songs have borrowed some very appropriate tunes:
- Yakko's World is a song-list of the countries of the world, and thus it is sung to the Mexican Hat Dance, which would be a song that American viewers would see as being foreign (although associated with a specific country rather than being generically foreign or worldly).
- Wakko's America, on the other hand, is to the tune of Turkey in the Straw, a traditional American folk song that fits for a song about the US states.
- Be Careful What You Eat, which is the song about food ingredients, is to the tune of the Can-Can, which has an association with the French. Stereotypically, the French are associated with cooking and fine food. However, since the song is about candy bars and ice cream, the French connection may be a bit reaching it.
- The Ballad of Magellan is to the tune of Get Along Little Dogies which is originally about a rancher traveling with his cows (not dogs) and this is appropriate for a song that is about a long journey.
Obviously the song "Panama Canal" is to the tune of the "Erie Canal," but that's not an interesting coincidence like the other ones since that one was almost certainly intentional.
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You probably get no satisfaction from this like I do...and that's a sin to me.
edited 4th Sep '12 1:05:28 PM by x86x2
Someone wake me from this nightmare, I've become my darkest fear...Are you American? If you are, you must be a young'n. This show was on broadcast TV, Nickelodeon just reran it.
THANK YOU! It befuddles me that people could take these characters so seriously. It's a comedy in the spirit of Looney Tunes. What do people expect?
Still crossing my fingers for the final volume. I was a teenager by the time the show ended and missed many of those episodes, since I no longer cared about getting up early to watch cartoons on Saturdays.
edited 3rd Sep '12 10:04:07 AM by redhed311
I don't take them seriously, but I still find Yakko, Wakko, and Dot annoying. Maybe some of it's just subconscious because of how much I hated the show as a kid.
(reposted from a thread specifically about this link)
Dunno if y'all have heard the word, but we are FINALLY getting a Volume 4 DVD, thus completing the entirety of the show on DVD! (Aside from Wakkos Wish, but I'll take what I can get!)
Linky: http://cartoonatics.blogspot.com/2012/10/animaniacs-dvd-volume-4-at-last.html
Specifically from which On Demand service and what subsection?
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.The cover art doesn't match the other three. It's clearly just a stock promotional image. But I agree this is really no time for semantics. We're getting the final set, that's all that matters.
edited 16th Oct '12 10:25:57 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Hey, better than the creepy as all get out cover of Volume 1 of Tiny Toons.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.And The Fandom Rejoiced! I just wish that it was being released in time for Christmas, but beggars can't be choosers.
I misread that as "bloggers can't be choosers" at first.
edited 17th Oct '12 3:24:37 PM by 0dd1
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See, the joke was that he obviously wasn't human, but only one guy could tell.
This joke, a couple of years later, would be much better executed elsewhere.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.I always thought the Chicken Boo segments were kinda lackluster and, dare I say, a bit dumb, but I always do still laugh at 'em. It's just pure nonsense and I love it.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Katie Ka-Boom was definitely a segment that I'd be fine with never seeing again. Not one of those shorts were funny or clever even the first time. Compared to the stuff surrounding it, it might as well have been a rejected All That sketch concept.
edited 17th Oct '12 9:07:31 PM by 0dd1
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Has anyone ever seen the one where Yakko sings "All the Words in the English Language?" I used to be obsessed with that one, mainly because I loved that Yakko actually got tired in it, since his smugness used to REALLY annoy me. I've heard that it was intended to be a parody of their own list songs, too.