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Dr. Scratchansniff uses every known technique to "de-zani-tize" the Warners, who are just too zany.

De-Zanitized

In a parody of Harry Belafonte's "Monkey," the Warners and Dr. Scratchansniff sing about their tumultuous relationship.

The Monkey Song

In a slight parody of the children's book "Goodnight Moon," each of the Animaniacs characters is wished a good night's sleep.

Nighty-Night Toon

Yakko sings a song to the tune of the "Mexican Hat Dance" listing the nations of the world.

Yakko's World

As scouts in Switzerland, the Warners attempt to sell cookies to Albert Einstein and accidentally help him discover the mass-energy conversion formula (mistakenly referred to as the formula for his theory of relativity).

Cookies for Einstein

Brain competes on the trivia game show Gyp-Parody! to win enough money to buy the final part of a device that Brain is building in order to take over the world.

Win Big

The Warners perform a musical tribute to Gilbert & Sullivan.

H.M.S. Yakko

Slappy and Skippy Squirrel gather nuts from Doug the Dog’s yard.

Slappy Goes Walnuts

Yakko leads a trip through the universe as he sings about the galaxies.

Yakko's Universe

The Warners help Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel.

Hooked On a Ceiling

To become a Goodfeather, Squit must pass the initiation test: find some food.

Goodfeathers: The Beginning

When potential foreign investors want to meet the wacky Warner siblings, the studio boss orders Dr. Scratchansniff to train the untamable trio.

Taming of the Screwy

Plotz hires the Warners after the his secretary goes home sick.

Temporary Insanity

Buttons tries to keep Mindy safe after her lollipop gets stuck on the side of a mail truck.

Operation: Lollipop

The Warners are hypnotized by Dr. Scratchansniff in order to make them less zany. Dr. Scratchansniff fails and asks them what they are, leading the Warners to offer a number of suggestions.

What Are We?

The Warner siblings disrupt a piano concert at Carnegie Hall.

Piano Rag

A savvy cat and naive pooch join forces to escape the city pound.

When Rita Met Runt

The Warners meet the meanest candy store owner.

The Big Candy Store

Slappy Squirrel tries to convince Skippy that "Bumbie's Mom" didn't really die in the famous movie.

Bumbie's Mom

The Warners trek to Tibet seeking answers to the mysteries of life from a famous sage.

Wally Llama

Pinky and The Brain infiltrate a summit of world leaders in the Swiss Alps in an attempt to take over the world.

Where Rodents Dare

A freak accident of lineage results in Yakko becoming "King Yakko" of Anvilania.

King Yakko

Modern art is born when the Warners help Pablo Picasso discover his painting style.

No Pain, No Painting

In a musical parody of Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables, Runt breaks out of Le Pound to save Rita and the Miserable Cats.

Les Miseranimals

The Warners attempt to buy the seller's garage at the Garage Sale of the Century.

Garage Sale of the Century

The Goodfeathers battle the Sparrows over possession of a statue of Martin Scorsese in a musical spoof of "West Side Story."

West Side Pigeons

While running away from Ralph, the Warners get hired by a Jerry Lewis-based comedy director for his movie, leading to a clash of comedic styles. Soon, the Warners end up directing, giving the director the worst day of his life.

Hello Nice Warners

La Behemoth

Slappy Squirrel takes her car for a drive, set to the tune of a classic rock 'n' roll song "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)."

Little Old Slappy From Pasadena

Dr. Scratchansniff gets a parking ticket and is represented in court by the firm Warner, Warner and Warner.

La La Law

Mindy pursues a kitty into a dangerous construction site, and Buttons tries desperately to save her.

Cat on a Hot Steel Beam

The Warners are abducted by aliens and taken aboard their spaceship where their hijinks begin to annoy the aliens.

Space Probed

Brain wants to take over the world by tricking people into thinking that aliens are invading Earth and having them flee the cities in a panic.

Battle for the Planet

The studio hires a new teacher named Miss Flamiel to teach the Warners. Despite her best efforts, she meets only with frustration and is unable to teach them anything.

Chalkboard Bungle

Slappy goes to a banquet held in her honor in order to receive an award while three of her old nemeses (Walter Wolf, Sid the Squid, and Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison) plot revenge for years of torment by her.

Hurray for Slappy

Wakko belches The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss.

The Great Wakkorotti: The Master and His Music

As chimney sweeps, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot annoy Ludwig van Beethoven, and accidentally give him inspiration for his Fifth Symphony.

Roll Over, Beethoven

In 1690s Italy, a violinist named Stradivarius takes a stray cat (Rita) in so that he can make violin strings out of her "catgut."

The Cat and the Fiddle

In turn of the century Russia, Brain plans to take over the world by stealing the crown jewels of Russia, yet with one setback: he and Pinky have been conditioned by psychiatrist Ivan Pavlov.

Pavlov's Mice

In New York, Chicken Boo is mistaken for a ballet dancer and dances in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov

Rasputin has a toothache preventing him from hypnotizing Tsar Nicholas. Unfortunately for him, the Warners are his dentists.

Nothing But the Tooth

During a visit to Sweden, the Warners run afoul of Death, who tries to bring Wakko to the realm of the dead after he eats one too many Swedish meatballs during a contest. To save him, Yakko and Dot challenge Death to a game of checkers.

Meatballs or Consequences

Flavio and Marita head to New York in order to find a trendy new place to live.

A Moving Experience

A candleflame guides us through a special night in American history.

The Flame

On a train to Gettysburg, the Warners help Abraham Lincoln write the opening of the Gettysburg Address.

Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago

In a Jeopardy!-style game in Miss Flamiel's classroom, Wakko has to name the 50 states and their capitols, but fails to put his answer in the form of a question, instead putting it in the form of a song sung to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw."

Wakko's America

Chicken Boo is mistaken for the frontiersman Davy Omelette. He helps a number of pioneers who are being attacked by a bear

Davy Omelette

A crazy film director is millions of dollars over budget, so Plotz sends the Warners out to stop him.

Hearts of Twilight

The Goodfeathers are hired as stunt birds for The Boids. They try to keep their jobs, but the movie shoot turns out to be harder than they expected.

The Boids

Slappy protects Adam and Eve from eating an apple in the Garden of Eden, just as a snake tries to grab it and tempt them to do so.

Guardin' the Garden

Onboard a plane, the Warners annoy a tightwad named Ivan Blosky who is forced to sit by them because of a computer error.

Plane Pals

The Warners sing about the names of the ingredients in a carton of ice cream and a candy bar.

Be Careful What You Eat

When Mindy chases a butterfly into a rain forest that is being cut down for wood, Buttons follows and attempts to protect her.

Up the Crazy River

Bobby and Squit must help Pesto when he gets his head caught in a plastic six-pack ring while the trio are rummaging through the garbage in a garbage scow.

Ta da Dump, Ta da Dump, Ta da Dump Dump Dump

Brain wants to steal all of the gold in Fort Knox as part of his latest plan to take over the world.

Opportunity Knox

When a male moth and a female butterfly fall in love they head to the city, leading to disaster.

Wings Take Heart

The detective Warners go in search of Marita's missing jewel on a cruise ship filled with "the unusual suspects."

Hercule Yakko

Rita gets adopted by Cleopatra, and Runt saves her after he finds out that Rita is about to be sacrificed.

Home on De-Nile

The Warners perform a unique interpretation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Several old-time movie stars talk about their encounters with the Warners and how Milton Berle hated Yakko.

Testimonials

An old black-and-white Warner cartoon where Dot goes into the movies (literally) to find the man of her dreams.

Babblin' Bijou

In the midst of watching a scary sci-fi movie, Wakko drinks too much soda and scrambles to find an available bathroom. Even after he finds a toilet in his "gag bag", his quest to relieve himself goes from bad to worse when he cannot find any privacy.

Potty Emergency

The Warners are recruited by King Arthur to save Camelot from a dragon.

Sir Yaksalot

Greek playwright Aristotle tries to win cash and prizes on "You Risk Your Life," a game show hosted by Yakko.

You Risk Your Life

A discarded soda can sparks an escalating, one-sided battle of wits between Slappy and her conceited neighbor, Candie Chipmunk.

I Got Yer Can

In order to win funds for his latest world-conquering scheme, Brain enters the Kentucky Derby as the world's smallest, lightest jockey. But Pinky's meddling alters the outcome of the race in an unexpected manner. First appearance of Phar Fignewton, a parody of Phar Lap. Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme" plays in this skit.

Jockey for Position

The Warners protect the legendary Moby-Dick from the wrath of Captain Ahab.

Moby Or Not Moby

In the Stone Age, cavegirl Mindy gets in trouble and Buttons rescues her.

Mesozoic Mindy

Chicken Boo finds himself as a sheriff in the midst of a spaghetti Western.

The Good, The Boo And The Ugly

Lost once again, the Warners end up in the fiery realm of Hades, where they end up giving Satan his own eternal torment.

Hot, Bothered And Bedeviled

First Minerva Mink skit. A melancholic Minerva Mink avoids the come-ons of geeky Wilfred Wolf, until the full moon brings out the real wolf in both of them.

Moon Over Minerva

In a parody of Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, Mr. Skullhead (a character brought over from Tiny Toon Adventures)) is adopted and finds acceptance in a suburban family.

Skullhead Boneyhands

In an attempt to head towards their ancestral home of Pennsylvania (since their parents are the pencils that drew them), the Warners end up at the estate of Count Dracula in Transylvania.

Draculee, Draculaa

Rita and Runt end up being chased by a crazy female mad scientist who wants the idiot dog's brain for her own experiments.

Phranken-Runt

After witnessing their stained-glass window get destroyed by prima donna opera singer Madame Bruntvin, the Warners torment her in their own variations on Carmen.

O Silly Mio

In the midst of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Rita and Runt help a little girl reunite with her father while avoiding the enemy (and Newt, a tenacious dachshund).

Puttin' on the Blitz

The Great Wakkorotti: The Summer Concert

The Warners are tortured going through the longest, most boring one-sided conversation of their lives courtesy of a drone-voiced man, Francis "Pip" Pumphandle (Ben Stein), that they meet at a party.

Chairman of The Bored

Yakko sings about the planets in our solar system. Wakko notifies him at the end that he forgot Uranus, leading to one of the show's elusive innuendos.

Planets Song

Buttons and Mindy are part of a space colony, and Buttons goes after Mindy when she chases after her ball.

Astro-Buttons

In a running gag throughout the episode, Wakko has various medical maladies caused by cartoons that are inside him.

Cartoons in Wakko's Body

Noah (who looks and speaks like comedian Richard Lewis) is instructed by God to build an ark for the Great Flood and to gather animals two-by-two, including the Hip Hippos.

Noah's Lark

Chicken Boo is a leading actor who delivers the money shot kiss in a movie without anyone knowing that he is a giant chicken. This skit managed to get away with saying the word "sexiest".

The Big Kiss

Squit gets a case of the hiccups, forcing the other Goodfeathers to come up with different ways to get rid of them.

Hiccup

A clown (who looks and speaks like the Jerry Lewis-esque Mr. Director) is hired by Mr. Plotz for Wakko's birthday party, but Plotz learns from Dr. Scratchansniff that, like Mr. Plotz, Wakko has a bad fear of clowns, resulting in the clown being battered and bruised. The skit has become somewhat of an internet meme.

Clown And Out

The Brain becomes a country-western star in order to plant hypnotic suggestions for world domination. But his main problem in his rise to fame: Pinky keeps screwing up his name.

Bubba Bo Bob Brain

The Warners announce that this will be a very special episode due to characters being mixed up.

Very Special Opening

Brain tries to prepare a plan for world domination, all the while watching over Mindy's mischief. This is followed by a short skit called "Pinky and the Cat", where Pinky is swallowed whole by his cagemate, Rita.

In The Garden of Mindy

Runt and Pesto find a home with a kind old woman who does not like pigeons.

No Place Like Homeless

In Katie Ka-Boom's first appearance, she discovers the hard way that her latest boyfriend is a giant chicken (Chicken Boo to be exact).

Katie Ka-Boo

The Warner Brothers (and their sister Slappy in place of Dot) pay a visit to Sodarn Insane (a parody of Saddam Hussein).

Baghdad Cafe

After movie critics Hiskel and Egbert (parodies of Siskel & Ebert) blast her cartoons on a review show, Slappy decides to get revenge: first by blowing their home up, then by sabotaging their latest film viewing. Note: Includes clips from the Looney Tunes shorts What's Opera, Doc?, Duck Amuck, and Porky in Wackyland. Shirley the Loon from Tiny Toon Adventures makes a non-speaking cameo.

Critical Condition

The Warners, as the Three Musketeers, protect Louis VIII from the threat of "the Viper".

The Three Muska-Warners

The Goodfeathers (as carrier pigeons) are forced to deliver an important message through a World War I battlefield.

Dough Dough Boys

The Warners head for summer camp but wind up in basic training instead, leading to chaos, confusion and an angry drill sergeant.

Boot Camping

The Southern Rebels of the Civil War are led by Chicken Boo.

General Boo-Regard

Pinky and The Brain become "Spellbound" when they attempt to use Merlin's book of magic to take over the world.

Spell-Bound

Rita and Runt find a litter of "puppies" that cling to the stray cat as their mother.

Smitten With Kittens

Yakko recites a monologue from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", while Wakko plays Horatio and digs and Dot translates.

Alas Poor Skullhead

As Wakko plays piano in the water tower, his gloves run away by themselves and have an adventure of their own.

White Gloves

The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been (supposedly) created in the 1930's, but their cartoons were too screwy for the general public to handle. The three Warners were locked up in the studio water tower until they escaped in the 90's. There, they run wild, causing chaos everywhere!

The Best Seasons of Animaniacs

The Best Seasons of Animaniacs

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5