Animaniacs & Pinky and The Brain on DVD

[Goufunaki]

I loved these shows as a kid. The sets come out on the 25th. Definitely buying Animaniacs.


Animaniacs

Pinky and The Brain




Yakko's World is still one of my favortire skits from the show.

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

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I need money with which to buy Animaniacs.

[AbstractOrigin]

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The Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain are a HUGE part of my childhood.
Almost as huge and TMNT. I'm getting both even if it kills me.

[Loki]

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I think Animaniacs was overrated. Sure, there were some really funny skits but for every good one there was twenty terrible ones.

Did anyone like Ritta Cat, Buttons and Mindy, or The Hip Hippos? What about Chicken Boo which was the same cartoon repeated ad nosium. The Goodfeathers were ocasionaly funny and I think I laughed at Slappy and Skippy once (it was a "who's on first" skit about The Who at Woodstock). The early Warner Bros cartoons were often the best, but after a while they became repetative and lacked orginality. Same with the Pinky and the Brain 'toons. Those jumped the shark, so to speak, long before they became their own show.

It had it's charm but it was no Tiny Toon Adventures

[Goyle]

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I just need Freakazoid and I'll be happy.

[Magus]

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[Animaniacs] had it's charm but it was no Tiny Toon Adventures

I think the same could be said of Tiny Toons, really. That got pretty damn embarrassing at times. It's funny, I was having this conversation last night...

But you're right, Rita and Runt were annoying and pretty much anything that wasn't a movie parody or obscure joke got tiresome.

[Nixon]

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Loki, I was with you until you got to the tiny toons part.

I watched the show when I was younger, but it's really not much better than Animaniacs. All they did was use "junior" versions of classic characters, while mostly re-cycling old WB gags/plots. And they were guilty of repeating stupid jokes as well... *flushes baby plucky*

Each show has some decent skits/highlights, but overall they are fairly mundane. The pinky and the brain animaniac shorts are the only ones I still enjoy.

[Goufunaki]

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here's a Freakazoid fix for ya!

[Loki]

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Hrm. The Tiny Toons link was to the laughably bad NES game. I was trying to be ironic.

[marcus]

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Animaniacs were a huge part of my childhood so it holds a pretty big place in my heart.

What about Chicken Boo which was the same cartoon repeated ad nosium.

Chickenboo was a postmodern satire on bipedal animals in cartoons being mistaken for humans even though they usually only wear one article of clothing. Chicken Boo would pop up wearing something ridiculous like a letterman jacket or a top hat and it wasn't until he lost it did anyone figure out who he was. It was a bit too much for its target audience but when I got older I fully understood it and found it pretty refreshing for making fun of itself.

There were a few skits that I fondly remember. Katey Kboom had some dark and twisted monster designs, Good Idea/Bad Idea was good for a slap-stick loving laugh, there was one episode of Minerva Mink that included a revealing shower scene (which is why that skit was never aired again hehe), and an episode where Wakko eats too many meatballs, dies, and goes to hell where the Warner family ****** off satan.

I'll enjoy this just like the Goof Troop DVDs and the soon to be released DARKWING DUCK. I'm a big child at heart and I love traditional animation so I can't pass this up.

Yakko's world

That was a good one... but chekylslovakia didn't exist during the writing of the show

[Nixon]

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Oops. Sorry Loki.

I'll enjoy this just like the Goof Troop DVDs and the soon to be released DARKWING DUCK. I'm a big child at heart and I love traditional animation so I can't pass this up.

Do you remember the Darkwing Duck countdown ad they had on TV? It was some horrible jingle that would annouce how many days were left until it the show aired. I enjoyed Ducktales and Tailspin at the time, and I remember thinking "this better be good."

[Loki]

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No. Chicken Boo was one joke. The chicken would be mistaken as a person. One guy would see the truth and been deamed crazy. Chicken Boo would be revleald. The one guy would say "I told you so, I told you it was a giant chicken." And Chicken Boo would be run out of town (or wherever) while the theme song played.

And this same exact cartoon would be put into different set peices but it was always the samn damn plot with the same damn joke.

It wasn't satire. It was tedious and pedictable and even a little pationzing.

[Magus]

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Darkwing Duck was odd in that it got a little too serious sometimes.

[John Mora]

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Darkwing Duck was odd in that it got a little too serious sometimes.

There was an episode where Goslyn made a deal with the devil.

[Magus]

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That's silly.

I'm mostly making reference to the episodes with the bull villain and Goslyn's and everybody's life was in very real danger. And there was some father/daughter subplot with rainbow buttons and a melody or something... I think Chrono Cross may have ripped it off!!