After the Warners walk out of this cartoon too, Pinky and the Brain plan to steal Zeus' lightning bolts in ancient Greece as part of Brain's latest plan to take over the world.

Hercules Unwound

Rob Paulsen

Jess Harnell

Tress MacNeille

Maurice LaMarche

Sherri Stoner

Chick Vennera

John Mariano

Nathan Ruegger

Nancy Cartwright

Audu Paden

Nick DuBois

John Ludin

This Pun For Hire

Buttons in Ows

The Warners bother Sherlock Holmes for help with their scavenger hunt.

Deduces Wild

Slappy is asked to attend Walter's funeral, which is really a ruse planned by Walter to blow Slappy sky-high.

Rest in Pieces

The Warners sing about the United Nations to the tune of "Down by the Riverside".

U.N. Me

In a parody of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the Warners fight against a giant insect destroying the Warner Studio.

Super Strong Warner Siblings

Slappy and Skippy resort to extreme measures in order to crack the last nut in the kitchen, accompanied by music from The Nutcracker. Guest appearance by Charlton "Baynarts" Woodchuck (from "Hollywoodchuck").

Nutcracker Slappy

Wakko tries to come up with a new "gookie", or bizarre facial expression.

Wakko's New Gookie

The Warners sing a song about the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

A Quake, a Quake!

Yakko and Dot explain to Wakko through song about how to read the headlines in Variety Magazine.

Variety Speak

Slappy's plans to take Skippy to a baseball game at Dodger Stadium go wrong when an opera performance by the famed Domino, Pepperoni, and Carumba is scheduled for that night instead. The singers (a parody of the Three Tenors) return at the end of the show to perform a shortened version of the Animaniacs theme. This episode also features parodies of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Simon.

Three Tenors and You're Out

Dr. Scratchansniff has only one player for his weekly bingo game – Wakko.

Bingo

In a parody of The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night, the Warners run from their fans as they try to reach a cartoon convention. Guest appearances by Pinky and the Brain; Elmyra Duff is among the crowd of fans.

A Hard Day's Warners

Slappy tries to get away from the filming of a blockbuster action movie on her vacation day.

Gimme A Break

The Warners try to tell people in a TV commercial to "get a life" instead of going over every little reference in their show.

Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation

A parody of the grand opening of Disney's "The Lion King".

The Tiger Prince

Throughout the episode, Yakko tries to sing all of the words in the English language dictionary to the tune of the "Mexican Hat Dance", similar to the previous skit, "Yakko's World".

All the Words in the English Language

The Warners visit brother and sister Mary and Scooter and raise a ruckus in the style of The Cat in the Hat. Guest appearance by Charlton Woodchuck.

The Kid In The Lid

In the 1950s, Slappy and Skippy attend a method acting class, which Slappy turns into a comedy class.

Method To Her Madness

Tired of their episode's latest plot (meeting a hot-dog salesman), the Warners walk out of their cartoon.

Gimme The Works

Buttons and Mindy parody The Wizard of Oz.

In a parody of The Maltese Falcon and film-noir, the Warners (as detectives) search and protect a mysterious statue from several suspicious characters (Minerva, Hello Nurse, Dr. Scratchansniff, and Ralph).

The Warners are beamed onto their favorite old sci-fi show, Star Truck, where they cause chaos to the crew and introduce engineer Squatty to donuts.

Star Truck

Wakko gets in a fight with himself over a game of Go Fish.

Go Fish

Yakko sings a song about multiplying 47 by 83.

Multiplication Song

To the William Tell Overture, the Warners sing about all presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton.

The Presidents Song

Pinky and the Brain plot to replace the Declaration of Independence with Brain's Declaration of Obedience, which will make him emperor of the world.

Don't Tread on Us

The Flame is present as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes his famous poem called "Paul Revere's Ride"

The Flame Returns, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In a musical parody of The Sound of Music, Mr. Plotz hires Prunella Flundergust (a parody of Maria von Trappe), a nanny who unknowingly gives the Warners a hard time with her singing and motherly personality. Since they can't do anything to her, they get Slappy Squirrel to take care of her.

The Sound of Warners

Chicken Boo attends a table read for the movie The Flintstones.

Yabba Dabba Boo

The little bird from Wild Blue Yonder returns and is adopted by Slappy.

My Mother The Squirrel

The Warners invite several people to their water tower in expectation of a surprise guest, who Thaddeus Plotz believes to be Steven Spielberg, but is really a different "Steven".

The Party

The Flame is present and watches along as Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner during the War of 1812.

Oh! Say Can You See?

The little bird from "Wild Blue Yonder" (accompanied by the Animaniacs orchestra) sings The Twelve Days of Christmas, with all of the gifts being turtledoves.

The 12 Days of Christmas Song

Dot is hired to take up an act in a famous musical. When the director, Andy Lloud Webby, becomes annoying, she and her brothers decide to ruin it.

Dot's Entertainment

A showing of the Warners' appearance in a Googi Goop cartoon, "Little Red Riding Goop".

The Girl with the Googily Goop

In a parody of Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din, Dot is the only one with water in a village and everyone wants it, because it is hot out.

Gunga Dot

Slappy is the coach of Skippy's soccer team. Skippy keeps getting hit in the face by the ball, causing him to cry and Slappy deciding to put him out of the game. But at the final game, the last ball that hits Skippy's face gives the team the win.

Soccer Coach Slappy

Katie Ka-Boom gets furious when her parents will not let her wear clothes that are "in-style" at her school, since they make her belly button visible.

Belly Button Blues

The Warners wake up from suspended animation in a spaceship in a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. When AL5000, the computer of the ship, orders them to return to their sleeping pods, the Warners refuse to and things get out of hand.

Our Final Space Cartoon, We Promise

The Warners are visited by network censors after harassing Attila the Hun, their cartoons being too violent.

Valuable Lesson

Wakko proves to Schratchnsniff that his song made of two notes is actual music.

Wakko's 2-Note Song

Yakko sings a song on the Latin American waterway to the tune of "Low Bridge".

Panama Canal

Wakko sings a song about his favorite girl (Hello Nurse, of course).

Hello Nurse

The Warners sing a song about Ferdinand Magellan to the tune of "Git Along, Little Dogies".

The Ballad of Magellan

Wakko, suffering from laryngitis and unable to belch, uses fart sounds from his hands to perform the "Chinese Dance" from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.

The Return of the Great Wakkorotti

The Warners sing about their big third-season wrap party at the water tower.

The Big Wrap Party Tonight

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!

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