There was a PatB episode with this same sort of thing. The Brain is doing voice over work, and being snotty and generally Brain-like, until he steps out of the control booth and sees many mice being auditioned to replace him. He then straightens up and flys right.
What is frightening, though, is that Orson Welles actually did someting like this. Have to see if I can find it, now…
It’s right here in RealAudio, crunchy crumb crisp coating and all. You can’t emphasize “in” in the phrase “in July!”
Brain: “Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
Pinky: “I think so, Brain, but…Me and Pippi Longstocking? What would the children look like?? Oh, it doesn’t matter, they’d still be loved!”
Brain: “One day we shall live in a world where a mouse rules and it is humans who are forced to endure these humiliating diversions.”
Pinky: “You mean Orlando?”
[hijack]For those of you who don’t have RealAudio, or just want to see it in writing, I transcribed the Welles session here.
From the “mixed up” episode of Animaniacs:
They’re Mindy and The Brain
Yes, Mindy and the Brain
One’s a small child
and the other’s…The Brain
In the tongue twister episode, at the Hacky Sack Sack Kicker factory in Secaucus, I almost literally peed my pants laughing.
Damn them to Hell (or at least Darn them to Heck) for canceling those shows…
Yes! Another one of the most obscene things ever said on television that the Protecters of Our Nations Youth never bothered to notice (for god’s sake don’t tell them).
Is that where I heard that? I say it to my son all the time.
Is anyone else embarrassed to realize that much of their daily conversation is stolen from cartoons? At least I recognize what I’m saying when it’s from the Simpsons. Heaven help me if I’m quoting Scooby Doo too.
Hellooo Nurse!
Spoon!
There’s more, lots more. Maybe I can find a support group.
There was this one episode where Pinky broke into the “I’m too sexy” song with lyrics somewhat along the lines of this:
I’m too sexy for my NARF
Too sexy for my ZOIT
Too sexy…
It continued on some more with more of Pinky’s “words” (narf, point, etc.) It was absolutely hilarious.
Another of my favorite quotes is:
Brain: Are you pondering what I’m pondering Pinky?
Pinky: Well, I think so Brain, but we’re already naked!
Another Pinky song that always gives me jollies…
Pinky: “I wish I was a window sill, 'cuz then I’d be… uh… uh…”
Brain: “An imbecile?”
My favorite gimmick was when Brain created a replica of the Earth out of papier mache, then lured the entire population of Earth onto it by giving away free T-shirts. Then, of course, the REAL world blew up…
I LOVE PATB and Anamaniacs!!!
“Helllllooooo Nurse”
B:“Pinky, are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
P:“I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals, no one would buy them.”
“Silly Buttons”
And I LOVE the fun they had with the theme song, here’s the whole thing (and all of the variations)
Theme to STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS ANIMANIACS
Music by Richard Stone. Lyrics by Tom Ruegger.
YW+D : It’s time for Animaniacs
And we’re zany to the max
So just sit back and relax
You’ll laugh 'til you collapse
We’re Animaniacs!
Y+W : Come join the Warner Brothers
Dot : And the Warner Sister, Dot
YW+D : Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot.
They lock us in the tower whenever we get caught
But we break loose and then vamoose
And now you know the plot!
We're Animaniacs!
Dot is cute and Yakko yaks.
Wakko packs away the snacks
While Bill Clinton plays the sax.
++ We’ve got wisecracks by the stacks.
+++ We pay tons of income tax.
We’re Animaniacs!
Meet Pinky and the Brain who want to rule the universe.
+++* Meet Ralph and Dr Scratchansniff; say hi to Hello Nurse.
Goodfeathers flock together; Slappy whacks 'em with her purse.
Buttons chases Mindy, while Rita sings a verse.
The writers flipped; we have no script
Why bother to rehearse?
Cast : We’re Animaniacs!
We have pay-or-play contracts.
We’re zany to the max
There’s baloney in our slacks.
We’re Animanie,
Totally insaney
*Dot : Here’s the show’s namey
*YW+D : Pinky and The Brainy
*Dot : Come back, Shaney
*Dot : The rain in Spainy
*YW+D : Cockamamie
*Dot : Shirley MacLainey
*YW+D : How urbaney
*Yakko: Citizen Kaney
*Yakko: Andromeda Strainy
*Wakko: Where’s Lon Chaney?
*Yakko: Eisenhower Mamie
*Yakko: Miss Cellany
*Wakko: Chicken Chow Meiny
*Yakko: Dana Delaney
*Dot : No pain, no gainy
*YW+D : Hydroplaney
*YW+D : Money down the drainy
*Wakko: Penny Laney
*Yakko: Ehhh…
*Dot : Tarzan and Janey
*YW+D : Novocainey
*YW+D : Here’s the Flamey
*YW+D : Meet Mark Twainy
*Yakko: Presidential campaigny
*Wakko: Hunchback of Notre Damey
*YW+D : Bowling laney
*Yakko: Bangor, Mainey
*YW+D : Frasier Craney
*YW+D : Mister Haney
*Dot : Quiche lorrainey
*Yakko: Lake Champlainy
*Dot : High octaney
*YW+D : Public domainy
*Yakko: Candy caney
Cast : Animaniacs!
Those are the facts
I actually have the “nations of the world” song memorized.
Favorite quotes?
Brain: Pinky, we are here in 13th century Germany to find Guttenberg’s greatest accomplishment.
Pinky: You mean Police Academy IV?
I was gonna say that one!!!
In the same vein as the ‘prints/Prince’ one where YW&D meet Beethoven and he’s trying to tell them he’s a Pianist…
Yakko: GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY!
Heheh
Slappy and Skippy’s “Who’s on Stage” from “Woodstock Slappy” is the funniest version of “Who’s on First” since the original. It blows my mind every time I hear it…I mean, this is not a short gag. Time and care went into its construction.
Slappy: Do you see the band on stage?
Skippy: No, that’s not The Band. They’re a totally different group. Who is on stage.
Slappy: That’s what I wanna know!!
At this page you can find the wav file. Good stuff.
Pinky: We’ll be there before you can say “Poit!”
Brain: We shall reach Mars before I say “Poit.”
(later, when the sub has been hit)
Pinky: Brain? Brain?
Brain: (floating upside down) POOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIITTT!
I love that. The only time Brain ever said a Pinky-ism (I think).
I just realized, this is my 500th post! Yay, I’m halfway to 1000. And it took a hell of a long time for me to get there, I lurk too much. But anyway, as I was saying…
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Animaniacs wasn’t the first cartoon to sneak in a mature joke. In the old Saturday Morning “Sonic the Hedgehog” show, episode 4 (“Warp Sonic”) contains following scene:
The funny part is that I didn’t even get the joke until years after I saw it the first time.
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What about when they meet Pablo Picasso?
Yakko (I think): “Did you know you have P.P. on your shirt?”
Dot: “Dee-sgusting!”
Or when they met Michelangelo…
Mike: “Oh no… I’m ruined!”
Yakko: “I knew it… he prefers the Young Elvis.”
Or the weasel in the candy store…
Weasel: “Wait! You’re nuns! You can’t resort to physical violence!”
Head nun (with an Irish accent): “He’s right… let us pray.”
::they pray… a bus pulls up to the candy store, the football team runs out and beats the crap out of Weasel::
Head nun: “Our prayers have been answered!”
I am a lab mouse, I escaped from my cage
Never had a job, never earned minimum wage.
But you will respect me, YES - Once my plan is unfurled -
You’ll call me your leader, I’ll be king of the World!
Citizens of the world, you are under my control…
Actually, what cracks me up about that episode is when they are buying their bus tickets:
“Whoo-eee! You’re a tall drink of water!”
“Actually, I’m a lab mouse on stilts”
(Walks away)
“Well, at least he didn’t ask me to pull his finger.”
Ha! Why did she say that? Do people ask her that often enough that it’s a problem? Ha Ha! Anyway…
Brain: [writing a poem] Pinky, what rhymes with “noon?”
Pinky: [thinks] No, it doesn’t!
I’m okay on Animaniacs! and I think Pinky and the Brain is comic genius, but am I the only person who’s upset that the two shows steamrolled over their predecessor, Tiny Toon Adventures?