List of Animaniacs episodes
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This is an episode list for the animated show Animaniacs. The show first aired on FOX Kids from 1993 until 1995; the show appeared on The WB as part of its "Kids' WB!" afternoon programming block from 1995 to 1998. The show itself was a variety show, with many short skits featuring a large cast of unique characters. Each episode was traditionally composed of three short mini-episodes, each starring a different set of characters.
[edit] Season One: 1993-1994
| # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 13, 1993 | De-Zanitized | Dr. Scratchansniff relates the story of how he once tried to make the Warners less zany with psychoanalysis. |
| The Monkey Song | In the tune to Calypso music, the Warners and Dr. Scratchansniff sing about their tumultuous relationship. | ||
| Nighty-Night Toon | In a slight parody of the children's book Goodnight Moon, each of the Animaniacs are wished a good night's sleep. | ||
| 2 | September 14, 1993 | Yakko's World | Yakko sings a song to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance about the nations of the world. |
| Cookies for Einstein | As scouts, the Warners have to sell one more box of cookies. They get to Einstein's house and inadvertently help him discover the theory of relativity after causing chaos. | ||
| Win Big | First Pinky and the Brain short. Brain competes on a trivia game show entitled "Gyp-Parody" to win money to buy a device in order to take over the world. | ||
| 3 | September 15, 1993 | H.M.S. Yakko | The Warners trespass on captain Mel's beach. He tries to get them to leave. This cartoon is a takeoff of the Gilbert and Sullivan's musical Pirates of Penzance and The H.M.S. Pinafore. |
| Slappy Goes Walnuts | First Slappy Squirrel cartoon. Slappy tries to get some walnuts in a yard guarded by a dog. | ||
| Yakko's Universe | Yakko's sings a song about the Universe. | ||
| 4 | September 16, 1993 | Hooked on a Ceiling | Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. |
| Goodfeathers: The Beginning | In order to become a Goodfeather, Squit must find the Godpigeon some food. | ||
| 5 | September 17, 1993 | Taming Of The Screwy | Thaddeus Plotz has invited over some very important buissness people to a buissness dinner and it's Dr. Scratchnsniff's job to train the Warners with manners so they can attend. |
| 6 | September 20, 1993 | Temporary Insanity | When Plotz's secretary gets sick, he is forced to hire Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. |
| Operation: Lollipop | First Buttons and Mindy short. After Mindy receives a Lollipop, she gets into trouble when the lollipop sticks to the side of a mail truck. | ||
| What are We? | The Warners are hypnotized by Dr. Scratchansniff in order to make them less zany. Dr. Scratchansniff fails and asks them what they are. The Warners offer a number of suggestions. Eventually they decide on the answer: They are cute. | ||
| 7 | September 21, 1993 | Piano Rag | Dr. Scratchnsniff, Ralph the guard, and Hello Nurse all chase after the Warners, so they hide in a piano concert until the coast is clear. |
| When Rita Met Runt | First Rita and Runt cartoon. An owner gives up her cat Rita to a pet prison because she's too independent. Later on, another owner gives up their dog Runt because he dosen't listen to commands. The two meet up, bust out, and decide to make a journey of finding a home together. | ||
| 8 | September 22, 1993 | The Big Candy Store | After a nun is kicked out of a candy store, the Warners give the owner of the candy store a hard time. |
| Bumbie's Mom | Skippy and Slappy are watching a film called Bumbie, the Dearest Deer. When Bumbie's mother dies, Skippy gets upset and starts crying. Slappy takes him to meet the cartoon actress who played Bumbie's mom to show him she's not really dead. Though she is old. | ||
| 9 | September 23, 1993 | Wally Llama | Wally Llama, who lives on top of a mountain in the Himalayas, is the wisest creature in the world. After he grows sick of answering questions, he vows to stop for the rest of the day. |
| Where Rodents Dare | With one of his new inventions, Brain plans to freeze all the leaders of the world when they are at an international peace conference in the Alps. | ||
| 10 | September 24, 1993 | King Yakko | Yakko inherits the throne of Anvilania, a small kingdom best known as the world's largest producer of anvils. |
| 11 | September 27, 1993 | No Pain, No Painting | In 1905, the Warners arrive at the Paris home of the famous artist Pablo Picasso. They want to help him paint and annoy him so much that he will let them paint as he relaxes. |
| Les Miseranimals | Runt escapes from the pound after having being imprisoned for stealing a bone to eat. He is tracked down by the relentless Camenbert. Rita and a number of other cats are imprisoned by a tavern owner named Tristesse. When Tristesse runs out of meat for his meat pies, he decides to use the imprisoned cats. | ||
| 12 | September 28, 1993 | Garage Sale of the Century | Papa Bear is having a garage sale, but runs into problems when the Warners take the expression too literally. |
| West Side Pigeons | The Goodfeather are having a rivalry with a group of sparrows when Squit falls in love with Carloota, who is the sister of one of the sparrows, named Noodles. | ||
| 13 | September 29, 1993 | Hello Nice Warners | On a day when our heroes are happily running from Ralph, they hide in a film suggestions room and meet a crazy voiced director and they have to make his movie and follow his script. |
| La Behemoth | First Hip Hippos short. When Flabbio and Marita's maid quits over a misunderstanding, the Hip Hippos are forced to do their own housework with disastrous results. | ||
| Little Old Slappy from Pasadena | In order to deliver a letter, Slappy drive her brand new car all over town. She has never taken a driving lesson in her life and ends up being chased by the police. | ||
| 14 | September 30, 1993 | La La Law | When Dr. Scratchansniff gets a parking ticket, he goes to court to fight it. The Warners act as his lawyers and frustrate the judge with their hijinks. |
| Cat on a Hot Steel Beam | Mindy follows a kitten into a dangerous construction site. | ||
| 15 | October 1, 1993 | Space Probed | The Warners are abducted by aliens and taken aboard their spaceship where their hijinks begin to annoy the aliens. |
| Battle for the Planet | Brain wants to take over the world by tricking people into thinking that aliens are invading. | ||
| 16 | October 4, 1993 | Chalkboard Bungle | 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. |
| Hurray for Slappy | Slappy goes to a banquent held in her honor in order to receive an award. Walter, Beanie, and Sid, however, plan to blow her up with explosives. Slappy gets the reward and Walter, Beanie, and Sid only succeed in blowing themselves up. | ||
| The Great Wakkorotti: The Master and His Music | Wakko belches The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss. | ||
| 17 | October 5, 1993 | Roll Over, Beethoven | Yakko, Wakko, and Dot help Beethoven compose his fifth symphony. |
| The Cat and the Fiddle | In 1690's Italy, a violin maker named Stradivarius takes a stray Rita, but not Runt, to live with him. Stradivarius hopes to use Rita to make violin strings. When Runt finds out, he rescues Rita and destroys Stradivarius's violins in the process. | ||
| 18 | October 6, 1993 | Pavlov's Mice | In turn of the century Russia, Pinky and the Brain are conditioned to respond in strange ways to the sound of bells. Brain plans to take over the world by stealing the crown jewels of Russia. Unfortunately, his conditioning prevents him from successfully getting the jewels. |
| Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov | First Chicken Boo short. In New York, Chicken Boo is mistaken for a ballet dancer and dances in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. | ||
| Nothing but the Tooth | Rasputin has been hypnotizing Russian Czar Nicholas II for a number of years. Unfortunately, he has a toothache and needs a dentist. The Warners arrive and pull out all of Rasputin's teeth. | ||
| 19 | October 7, 1993 | Meatballs or Consequences | In Sweden, Wakko enters a meatball eating contest and eats too many meatballs and says he will die. He is declared dead by Death. Yakko and Dot must play checkers with Death to stop Wakko from being taken to the ever after. |
| A Moving Experience | Flavio and Marita head to New York in order to find a trendy new place to live. | ||
| 20 | October 11, 1993 | Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago | On a train to Gettysburg, the Warners help Abraham Lincoln write the opening of the Gettysburg Address. |
| Wakko's America | In a Jeopardy!-style game in the classroom, Wakko has to name the 50 states and their capitals. He sings an enitre song with everything right but in the end he forgets to answer in the form of a question. | ||
| Davy Omlette | Chicken Boo is mistaken for Davy Omelette the frontiersman. He helps a number of pioneers who are being attacked by a bear. | ||
| The Flame | The Flame lights the room as Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independance. | ||
| 21 | October 12, 1993 | Hearts of Twilight | A crazy film director is millions of dollars over budget, so Plotz sends the Warners out to stop him. They help him finish his film, The Wretched Clown. |
| The Boids | The Goodfeathers are hired as stunt birds for an Alfred Hitchcock horror movie. They try to keep their jobs, but the move shoot turns out to be harder than they expected. | ||
| 22 | October 13, 1993 | Guardin' the Garden | God makes Adam and Eve and tells them not to eat the fruit that comes from the tree of knowledge. Slappy Squirrel, however, lives in the tree of knowledge. When the evil snake tries to tempt Adam and Eve, Slappy is in charge of guarding the fruit and stopping the snake. |
| Plane Pals | Onboard a plane, the Warners annoy a tightwad who is forced to sit by them because of a computer error. They annoy him so much that he bails out of the plane. | ||
| 23 | October 15, 1993 | Be Careful What You Eat | The Warners sing about the ingredients of junk food. |
| Up the Crazy River | When Mindy chases a butterfly into a rain forest that is being cut down for wood, Buttons follow and protect her. | ||
| Ta Da Dump, Ta Da Dump, Ta Da Dump Dump Dump | The Goodfeathers must help Pesto when he gets his head caught in a plastic six-pack ring while rummaging through the garbage. | ||
| 24 | October 18, 1993 | Opportunity Knox | Brain wants to steal all of the gold out of Fort Knox. |
| Wings Take Heart | When a male moth who resembles one of The Warners and a female butterfly who resembles Hello Nurse fall in love they head to the city. |
