- ♪ ...and El Salvador too - I've seen this before on Instagram.
- Okay, this seems like a funny show.
♪ (playful intro) ♪
- ♪ It's time for... ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Animaniacs ♪
I remember this.
- ♪ It's time for Ani... ♪ - (sings along) ♪ ...maniacs ♪
♪ We're zany to the max ♪
- I used to watch this show.
- (chuckles)
- I don't think I've seen this before.
- Is this a new TV show?
- They told us the plot real good.
- ♪ We're Animaniacs ♪ ♪ We have pay-or-play contracts ♪
- They're, like, the second 4th-wall-breaking cartoon.
- ♪ Totally insane-y ♪ ♪ Cockamamie ♪
♪ An-i-man-i-acs! ♪ ♪ Those are the facts ♪
- I've never heard of that.
- I don't really know that much about it,
but I do know something.
It's so funny, 'cause it breaks the 4th wall,
like, 50 times. Like, oh, we got contracts,
walk around the Warner Bros. Studios. I love it.
- (FBE) So, that was the intro for "Animaniacs".
- (singsong) The Animaniacs.
- (FBE) So, before we tell you a little bit more about the show,
we have some scenes to show you. - Oh, okay.
- ♪ We're Animaniacs ♪
- ♪ United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru ♪
- I think we sang this for school.
- I've seen this before on Instagram.
- I'll dance with you. - I like his dancing.
- ♪ And Iceland and Finland ♪ ♪ And Germany, now in one piece ♪
♪ Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia ♪
♪ Italy, Turkey, and Greece ♪
- It's surprising how many places rhyme.
- ♪ Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali ♪
♪ Sierra Leone and Algier ♪
♪ Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya ♪ ♪ Cameroon, Congo, Zaire ♪
- I literally haven't heard of any of these.
- ♪ Crete, Mauritania ♪ ♪ Then Transylvania ♪
♪ Monaco, Liechtenstein ♪ ♪ Malta and Palestine ♪
♪ Fiji, Australia, Sudan ♪ - Oh, gosh.
Whoever's the voice actor for that dude
has to KNOW the countries.
- He said that really fast. It's impressive.
- I'm pretty sure I cannot do that if I tried.
Drop the mic!
(air whistling) (loud explosion)
- ♪ She's the woman of the year ♪ ♪ Independent, a career ♪
- (giggles) - I don't remember this one.
- ♪ Whatever street she's walkin' down ♪
♪ Everybody turns around ♪ - They really like her.
They think she's really cute. - (Yakko and Wakko) Hellooo, nurse!
- (laughs) This is so funny.
- ♪ She's manna sent from Heaven ♪ ♪ Too bad I'm only seven ♪
- And the same age as me.
- I didn't think they were actually that young.
- ♪ I wish you'd take care of me ♪
- (giggles) That was funny.
Before I watched Looney Tunes, I would watch this.
- That's funny, 'cause they all have a crush on the nurse,
and he's only seven.
- No cartoons nowadays could be anything like this.
- (knight) Sorry to do this, kids, but it's my job.
So, let's get it over with. Any last requests?
- (Dot) Yeah. Set us free. - (chuckles)
- (knight) No can do, pretty missy. - He sounds like he's a surfer dude.
Like, "Man, what are you doing, man?"
- (Dot) Pretty please with whip cream
and a cherry on top? - (snickers)
- (knight) Whoa, man! You're working your cuteness
on me, man. - Yeah. Stop it, man.
- You can call her a dude, but not a man,
'cause she's only a girl.
- (Dot) Pleasie, squeezie, weezie-wee? - Aww.
- (knight) Nooo! - (chuckles) That's funny.
- (knight) Fire! (loud boom)
- (king) Ah, music to my ears.
- I'm happy that it's not one of those shows where it's all, like,
everyone in the world is animals.
- (knight) Oops. Missed. You're free.
Just no more of the thing of cute. We can't take it.
- (men) They're too cute! - (chuckles)
- (knight) Now, go! - (Dot) It's a gift.
- (chuckles) That's funny. She got out of held hostage,
because she was so cute.
- I wish this show would still run.
I would probably watch it.
- I liked it. It was fun.
I would actually walk this on the weekends.
I wanna watch more of it!
- If I was younger, I'd find that a lot, a lot,
a lot more funnier. It's a little bit too far-fetched.
- (FBE) So, after watching a little bit of this cartoon show
called "Animaniacs"...
- (in high pitch) "Animaniacs." - (FBE) ...do you think that this
is a show that came out recently, or does this look
like an older show to you?
- I would say this came out 2009 or 2010.
So, I was either one, zero, or two.
- Definitely older. I'm not saying that the animation's horrible,
but it's not that much detail.
The animation today has a lot of detail.
- It looked very old because of the animation style.
They're singing. They don't really sing a lot in shows anymore.
- If I've never seen it before, it would seem like
it was a newer show, 'cause it's really funny.
- It looks like an older show to me, because it's more like a little fuzzy
and stuff. I feel like it could definitely air on today.
I mean, if people still watch Looney Tunes,
they'll watch this.
- (FBE) So, Animaniacs was actually released
all the way back in 1993. - Oh! Okay. So, I was way off.
- Oh my god! That's so old!
- (FBE) Meaning that this is its 25th anniversary.
- Oh, it is?
- To me it sounds old, but it's not really old.
- (FBE) So, this animation series was actually very popular,
because it appealed to both kids and adults,
since a lot of the humor was actually geared towards adults.
And yet, the wacky cartoons made it fun for kids.
- I agree with that. The nurse scene!
- It reminds me of the joke in SpongeBob,
because SpongeBob's more for older kids.
- (FBE) Does "Animaniacs" look like a show that you and your friends
would watch today if it was on? - I don't know about my friends,
but I think that I would. - Yeah, it seems funny.
I don't get all of the jokes, but half of them I do get,
and I think it's really funny. - I would.
The older stuff can be much better than the newer stuff
or maybe the same as the newer stuff.
Just 'cause it's older doesn't mean it's outdated.
- Yes. The whippersnappers today just don't understand that
any cartoons that come out now will never match up to the old ones.
- (FBE) "Animaniacs" didn't just feature
the three main characters that you saw.
So, "Animaniacs" was a variety show, which obviously they've got
several different segments, like musical performances,
comedy sketches, and more. - Oh, okay!
I remember seeing two mice that I've seen before in something.
- (FBE) So, some of the characters in "Animaniacs" even got
their own spin-off shows that you may have seen.
So, we wanted to show you a few scenes
featuring those characters and see
if there were any that you knew. - Okay.
- (Brain) Pinky, I need you. - I knew it!
"Pinky and the Brain." I saw 'em in the intro.
- (Brain) Pinky, stop this foolishness.
- "Pinky and the Brain"? It's weird now just knowing
that they're spin-off characters from a different TV show.
- (Pinky) Brain, haha, we were just talking about you.
- (Brain) I knew I'd find you out here wasting time with this horse. Come!
- (Slappy) Skippy, what's the name... - I don't really know this immediately.
- (Slappy) The name of the group. - (Skippy) Who.
- I think I've seen the squirrel before,
but not the skunk/rabbit thing.
- (Slappy) The group playing on stage. - (Skippy) Who!
- (laughs) The group name was Who!
- (Skippy) Who! - (Slappy) You're starting to sound
like an owl, Skippy. - "Who?" "Who!" "Who?" (chuckles)
Now, I'm starting to sound like an owl.
- ♪ Let's try for two ♪
- I haven't seen this before.
- ♪ Just me and you ♪ - It just looks like Bugs Bunny.
- That one looks a little familiar, but I don't know the name of it.
- (reporter) Boo Ryshnikov, rumor has it you defected
from your country to join the NYC Ballet.
Is it true? - (reporter) Rumor also has it
you're a giant chicken. Is that true?
- Yes, it's true. - (man laughs) You, a giant chicken?
- Ah! That's a weird chicken.
- (man) You are the best dancer I have ever seen.
- He is a giant chicken!
- A giant chicken? Best dancer I've ever seen.
- The god pigeons. - I don't know this one.
- (pigeons speaking foreign language)
- Is that the mafia pigeon?
- (laughs) - That's so cool!
- (laughs) - Okay, this seems like a funny show.
- How did he not get ran over?!
- It's "The Godfather."
- It's such a weird idea that it's a good idea.
I like the variety in the shows.
- I like that one, 'cause they don't have
a lot of humans as main characters. - That's funny.
I haven't seen those either. I don't know anything. Jeez!
- I would watch all of them. I expected nothing less
from the good animations that this world had.
- (FBE) So, it was announced in January that there will actually
be a reboot of the series on Hulu in 2020.
- Really?! I don't have Hulu, but I'm gonna get it soon probably,
'cause I really wanna watch it.
- (FBE) So, this'll be the first time that new episodes of the show will air
since 1998, when the show was canceled.
- Oh my god! That's such a long time ago!
- (FBE) So finally, as a kid yourself, do you think it's a good idea
for them to make a reboot for your generation?
- Yes, but no. It's probably gonna end pretty fast
since the adult jokes are probably still gonna be in there.
- Yeah, I think it would look really good
if it had better quality again and if they had a bunch of jokes
in there, I think it would be a good show.
- It's a great idea, 'cause I feel like kids will probably like it.
Nowadays, there's so much stuff, big things happening,
and I really wanna see what the Animaniacs would do
with their crazy ideas with that.
- I don't think reboots are as good as the old ones.
They're not as original. The comedy's worse.
Sorry to say, but it's true.
- I'm gonna probably go back, watch the old ones,
see what it's about, and then in 2020,
I will watch the new one.
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