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Rainbow Pomeranian Lover from Central Illinois (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
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#51: Mar 31st 2012 at 5:27:52 AM

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.

asiacatdogblue This Won't End Well... from Chicago, IL Since: Feb, 2010
This Won't End Well...
#52: Aug 30th 2012 at 10:55:45 AM

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

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Wackd Since: May, 2009
asiacatdogblue This Won't End Well... from Chicago, IL Since: Feb, 2010
This Won't End Well...
#54: Aug 30th 2012 at 11:43:46 AM

[up] Guess, I was asking for too much. Modern fiction has ruined me.

Yep, I'm still here.
Rainbow Pomeranian Lover from Central Illinois (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Pomeranian Lover
#55: Aug 30th 2012 at 4:47:05 PM

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.

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#56: Aug 30th 2012 at 8:38:33 PM

Nope, sorry, guys, I still hate this show.

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x86x2 Eternally dreaming... Since: Nov, 2011
Eternally dreaming...
#58: Aug 30th 2012 at 9:26:27 PM

[up][up]You probably get no satisfaction from this like I do...and that's a sin to me.

If you know me and my complaints with another really popular show that I hate and he likes (because of how I ended up associating that show with the show being parodied in this video), I ended up being really satisfied with this episode in particular.

edited 4th Sep '12 1:05:28 PM by x86x2

Someone wake me from this nightmare, I've become my darkest fear...
vanthebaron Mystical Monkey Master from Carlyle, Il Since: Sep, 2010
Mystical Monkey Master
#59: Sep 1st 2012 at 9:36:41 AM

ORANGE DEMON! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT!

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redhed311 Since: Sep, 2010
#60: Sep 3rd 2012 at 10:03:55 AM

I wish I had cable back when this show was around... it was a work of genius.
.

Are you American? If you are, you must be a young'n. This show was on broadcast TV, Nickelodeon just reran it.

I love the animaniacs and to this day it just bugs me when people get all serious business about the characters.

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

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#61: Sep 4th 2012 at 11:24:08 AM

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?

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.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#62: Oct 16th 2012 at 9:17:50 PM

(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

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Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#63: Oct 16th 2012 at 9:19:32 PM

[up]And while Wakko's Wish isn't available on DVD, it IS available On Demand.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#64: Oct 16th 2012 at 9:26:40 PM

Specifically from which On Demand service and what subsection?

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Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Wackd Since: May, 2009
#66: Oct 16th 2012 at 9:59:15 PM

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.
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#67: Oct 16th 2012 at 10:11:11 PM

Hey, better than the creepy as all get out cover of Volume 1 of Tiny Toons.

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redhed311 Since: Sep, 2010
#68: Oct 17th 2012 at 2:12:11 PM

And The Fandom Rejoiced! I just wish that it was being released in time for Christmas, but beggars can't be choosers.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#69: Oct 17th 2012 at 3:24:20 PM

[up]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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HeroShepherd from Earth Since: Oct, 2012
#70: Oct 17th 2012 at 3:52:42 PM

I do not get that Chicken segment.

edited 17th Oct '12 4:44:37 PM by HeroShepherd

Wackd Since: May, 2009
#71: Oct 17th 2012 at 4:23:41 PM

[up]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.
HeroShepherd from Earth Since: Oct, 2012
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#73: Oct 17th 2012 at 8:57:54 PM

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.

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NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#74: Oct 17th 2012 at 9:01:05 PM

Chicken Boo was funny the first three times or so, but then it became too much of an obvious one trick pony. And unlike Katie-Kaboom, the writers didn't get it and kept on using him over and over, doing the exact same ONE joke over and over...

Gah.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#75: Oct 17th 2012 at 9:07:22 PM

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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