# It's time for A-ni-ma-niacs.....again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745 "2017-05-31T00:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/1 "2017-05-31T00:14:38Z")
Still in the early stages, but it looks like Animaniacs is being rebooted! > **[‘Animaniacs’ Reboot Being Developed By Steven Spielberg, Amblin TV and Warner...](https://www.indiewire.com/2017/05/animaniacs-reboot-steven-spielberg-amblin-1201817336/)** > > They’re zany to the max, and now Yakko, Wakko and Dot may finally be back with their first new episodes in nearly 20 years. Not gonna lie, I loved the show growing up and I’ve heard the voice actors do the voices as recently as within the last year. Trust me, they still got it. Is anyone else excited? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/2 "2017-05-31T01:10:35Z")
- I found Prince! - No, no, no; _finger_prints. - I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/3 "2017-05-31T01:21:15Z")
I’ll watch. Some of that stuff is a little dated though. I can’t see them bringing back “Goodfeathers”. Also, the whole “Hellooo Nurse!” thing might not play out very well in today’s climate. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/4 "2017-05-31T01:29:43Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Also, the whole “Hellooo Nurse!” thing might not play out very well in today’s climate. Baloney. The “Hellooo Nurse!” Thing was innocent and funny. It’s not like the 1990s were some kind of Stone Age of sexist gorillas running wild. It was only 20 years ago, my god. I could argue that things are worse today, with the Electoral College putting Mr. “Grab 'em by the Pussy!” In the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/5 "2017-05-31T01:33:05Z")
What do YOU want to do tonight, Brain? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/6 "2017-05-31T01:40:46Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Baloney. The “Hellooo Nurse!” Thing was innocent and funny. It’s not like the 1990s were some kind of Stone Age of sexist gorillas running wild. It was only 20 years ago, my god. > > I could argue that things are worse today, with the Electoral College putting Mr. “Grab 'em by the Pussy!” In the White House. Okay, the “Hello Nurse” thing pings exactly zero on my outrage meter. But to say it was “innocent” is false. Animaniacs were a pretty tongue in cheek (if not down right raunchy) group. **Dr. Strangelove** does a pretty good job of illustrating that. Also, there has been a strong feminist movement since the 90’s. So I still say it might not play well with Millennial parents. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/7 "2017-05-31T01:47:23Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Baloney. Oh, is [he](http://animaniacs.wikia.com/wiki/Baloney) back as well? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/8 "2017-05-31T01:50:10Z")
Goodnight, everybody! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/9 "2017-05-31T02:22:54Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Oh, is [he](http://animaniacs.wikia.com/wiki/Baloney) back as well? 😃 I originally wrote “Banana oil!” As Rube Goldberg coined them both and used them interchangeably. Switched to “Baloney!” To avoid confusion. In any case, they are both Animaniacs-style terms! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/10 "2017-05-31T03:18:53Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I could argue that things are worse today, with the Electoral College putting Mr. “Grab 'em by the Pussy!” In the White House. Chicken Boo as the President, pecking out tweets on his phone? I could see it. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/11 "2017-05-31T03:29:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > What do YOU want to do tonight, Brain? The same thing we do every night, Pinky. TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/12 "2017-05-31T03:38:32Z")
“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?” “I think so, Brain, but would the new Power puff girls would had been better off produced by Adult Swim like Samurai Jack was?” I hope that the group that works on the new Animaniacs does not fall for the mistake of making a show **just** for little kids. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/13 "2017-05-31T15:38:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Animaniacs were a pretty tongue in cheek (if not down right raunchy) group. "You mean you want us poor innocent children to climb around on high scaffoldings to paint naked people on the inside of a church? "We’ll do it! “But we’re not doing it for the art. And we’re not doing it for the money. We’re doing it because we like painting naked people.” ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/14 "2017-05-31T15:47:23Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Chicken Boo as the President, pecking out tweets on his phone? I could see it. He’s a chicken, I tell you. I GIANT chicken! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/15 "2017-05-31T15:52:41Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Baloney. The “Hellooo Nurse!” Thing was innocent and funny. It’s not like the 1990s were some kind of Stone Age of sexist gorillas running wild. It was only 20 years ago, my god. [After hours making a case](https://youtu.be/dszVJI-IX9I?t=2m56s) for the good women role models in Animaniacs. Bottom line, if the writing is as good as it was the first time around, there is no reason why the show shouldn’t make a comeback. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/16 "2017-05-31T16:11:30Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Baloney. well, there is baloney in their slacks. I always loved the songs, I wonder if they’ll add a few verses to the President’s song. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/17 "2017-05-31T19:26:36Z")
I would love to see the show return. IF (and it’s a big if!) it had the same quality writing. Else, please no. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/18 "2017-05-31T20:18:18Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Baloney. The “Hellooo Nurse!” Thing was innocent and funny. It’s not like the 1990s were some kind of Stone Age of sexist gorillas running wild. It was only 20 years ago, my god. No, you don’t get the joke, y’see: Every era was immediately preceded by a Golden Age when people didn’t get offended and Those People were kept silent. _Every_ era. Which naturally means that, in twenty years, _this_ era will be a Golden Age when people didn’t get offended and Those People were kept silent. Things were always better in the past, and decline geometrically. Which can be used to prove that eighty years ago, eighty years to the _day_, the world was Eden and Jerusalem (the Good Jerusalem, not the kind you get these days, sonny) and Paradise On Earth, where “Offense” was an unknown concept, Hard Work was rewarded, and Those People were dumb as posts. Yep, eighty years to the day it was. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/19 "2017-06-02T17:27:36Z")
Some of those songs are actually useful in teaching. They make good introductions to topics. I might use them as I will be teaching 4th grade this year. I have to correct one thing in the state capitals song: Annapolis, MD, has many better foods than clam chowder! Crab cakes! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-a-ni-ma-niacs-again/787745/20 "2017-06-02T20:27:18Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > …Annapolis, MD, has many better foods than clam chowder! And there are other capitals with better clam chowder than Annapolis, or so I’m told.