Apparently, I need to pay closer attention. I've been wondering if
Animaniacs would ever come out on DVD, but apparently TV Shows on DVD have been all over the story for awhile now. Well, now it's official, and
Animaniacs Volume One will be released on DVD on July 25. The set will include a hefty dose of 25 episodes featuring
the Warners, weird dog-like creatures who were too insane for even Warner Bros. animation standards and were locked
away in the studio's water tower. The show, I think, was even more of an homage to the classic Looney Tunes than its
predecessor, Tiny Toons. It satirized celebrities and packed episodes with pop cultural references, just as
Looney Tunes did back in the day, and with the exact same kind of aloof detachment.
Do any of you Animaniacs maniacs have some favorite moments from the show? I'm quite fond of the Imagination Song from an episode featuring a parody of purple dinosaur Barney called "Baloney." It went like this:
I is for "Imagine"
M is for "Me"
A is for the letter "A"
G is for "G"
I is for, um, "Imagine"
N is for "Nice"
E is for "Egad! I said 'Imagine' twice."
That still cracks me the heck up.
Thanks to Sean for the tip!
UPDATE: I missed that Pinky and the Brain is also coming out at the same time. Thanks, elf.
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4-03-2006 @ 1:11PM
RevErsE said...
Hmm, quite insane for Warner Bros.? :) Ha ha. Well, let's wait until July 25 and we'll see
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4-03-2006 @ 1:29PM
kerry said...
"It's a Great, Big Universe and We're All Really Puny" was my favorite Animaniacs song:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/astronomy/
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4-03-2006 @ 1:33PM
Radical Bender said...
Oh Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca, oh why do we sing of your fame? Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca, cause we like saying its name!
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4-03-2006 @ 1:38PM
Karsh said...
Chicken Boo will forever be my favorite.
You wear a disguise to look like human guys / But you're not a man / you're a Chicken boo
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4-03-2006 @ 1:50PM
elf said...
"Serves twelve, unless you're Rush Limbaugh, then it's an appetizer."
"Finger Prince? Ewwwww."
"What are you doing" "Badgering the witness" "Stop that." "Now what are you doing?" "Goading the witness..."
I really could go on all day...
OK, seriously, this is the news I've been waiting for. And not just because my wife and I had what must have been the world's first (and likely the only) Animanics-themed wedding.
And for anyone who didn't read the links, Pinky and the Brain volume 1 will come out at the same time as Aninmanics volume 1. Start saving your money now. Or maybe hold a garage sale to raise money. Or a yard sale...
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4-03-2006 @ 1:57PM
Nicholas said...
What a great show. Favorite quotes? I've got lots of 'em. For example:
Miss Flamiel: We'll move on to science. Dot, what can you tell me about the great scientists of the nineteenth century?
Dot: They're all dead.
Miss Flamiel: No no no!
Dot: All right. They're all living.
Miss Flamiel: No no no!
Yakko: Well, now we're getting into philosophy.
Or:
Yakko: We'd love to stay here and count our brain cells as they die one-by-one.
Dot: But we can't.
Or:
Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Um, I think so brain, but -- me and Pippi Longstocking, I mean, what would the children look like?
Great stuff. I'm looking forward to the DVD.
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4-03-2006 @ 2:43PM
Patrick said...
Yes. This is good news.
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4-03-2006 @ 3:06PM
tozmervo said...
SLAPPY: Unfortunately, yes! Skippy, what is the name of that group playing on stage?
SKIPPY: Who.
SLAPPY: The name of the group.
SKIPPY: Who.
SLAPPY: The group on stage.
SKIPPY: Who.
SLAPPY: The group playing on stage.
SKIPPY: Who.
http://wbtower.ashyre.com/docs/atrans/atrans59.txt
and so on for about 40 more lines :D
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4-03-2006 @ 3:38PM
vaccenyl said...
I don't know how I missed this, but apparently The Tick (animated) series will be out on DVD before 2007!
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4963
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4-03-2006 @ 4:44PM
Bex said...
The United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Brazil... Is that how it went? Used to get that one stuck in my head all day.
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4-03-2006 @ 4:53PM
Chris said...
The episode where they end up in Hades and mess with Satan kills me. Wakko runs up to the surface, grabs a snowball, runs back down, drops the snowball down and as it melts says, "They were right. It didn't stand a chance."
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4-03-2006 @ 5:48PM
kerry said...
Bex:
You're thinking of this:
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/a/animaniacs8676/yakkosworld295693.html
Man, I'd forgotten about that one. I had some of it memorized back in the day, but now I've forgotten pretty much all of it.
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4-03-2006 @ 7:49PM
Sherman said...
"Oooh... meet our new best friend!" in countless episodes.
Our family's all-time favorite is "King Yakko", a hilarious send up of the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. It included the national anthem ("Anvil-ania") sung by Perry Coma (sic), and polka dot dresses that invoked everyone to dance: "Polka, Dot?"
After a year of slavishly Tivo-ing from Nicktoons and then burning the best bits to DVD, I'm not sure about buying the Warner release... ah, who am I kidding? Of course I will!
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4-04-2006 @ 12:02AM
Will C said...
only one line
"would you like to take a survey?"
-wC
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4-19-2006 @ 6:14PM
alan said...
i can't potty in there! it's disgusting!
- wakko warner
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4-20-2006 @ 6:29PM
jennifer said...
Hello---o Nurse!
Who can forget the spell of all spells? Charlie Sheen, Ben Vereen, shrink to the size of a lima bean!
-Brain
Or Dot's ever famous line, Dumber than advertised!
Love luck and lollipops!
(I think I'm going to be at the store when it opens July 25th.)
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