Animaniacs in Home Video

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Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs was a children's animated television program that ran from 1993 to 1998. Over the show's course, several VHS collections were released, and DVD box sets are currently being released as well.

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[edit] VHS

Several VHS videos were released in the United States and in the United Kingdom. All of these videos are out of production, but are still available at some online sellers. The episodes in the VHS "volumes" were generally jumbled at random and are in no particular order with the series. The other videotapes (with the exception of Animaniacs Stew) feature episodes that had focused on one general suject. Each video featured four to five skits each and was accompanied by a handful of skit intros, with a running time of about 45 minutes.

Video Name (Volumes) Ep # Release Date Episodes Featured
Volume 1 4 Ups and Downs; Critical Condition; Wally Llama; Spell-Bound
Volume 2 5 Drive Insane; Cat on a Hot Steel Beam; With Three You Get Egg-Roll; Jockey for Position; Woodstock Slappy
Volume 3 7 Hooked on a Ceiling; The Big Kiss; Mesozoic Mindy; The Flame; Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov; Nothing But the Tooth; Pavlov's Mice
Volume 4 6 Cookies for Einstein; Hiccup; The World Can Wait; The Wild Blue Yonder; Hurray for Slappy; The Three Muska-Warners
Volume 5 5 Draculee, Draculaa; Phranken-Runt; Scare Happy Slappy; Brain Meets Brawn; Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled
Volume 6 5 Chairman of the Bored; Ta da Dump, Ta da Dump, Ta da Dump Dump Dump; Smell Ya Later; Lookit the Fuzzy Heads; Where Rodents Dare
Video Name (Collections) Ep # Release Date Episodes Featured
Animaniacs Sing-Along: Yakko's World August 24, 1994[1] Yakko's World; Wakko's America; I'm Cute; HMS Yakko; I'm Mad
Animaniacs: The Warners Escape August 24, 1994[2] Newsreel of the Stars; De-zanitzed; Temporary Insanity; Hello Nice Warners; Video Review
Animaniacs Stew 7 August 24, 1994[3] Slappy Goes Walnuts; Operation Lollipop; Sir Yaksalot; In the Garden of Mindy; Baghdad Café; Yes, Always; Bumbie’s Mom
Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff 6 August 26, 1997[4] Draculee Draculaa; Phranken Runt; Meatballs or Consequences; Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled; Scare Happy Slappy; Witch One
Animaniacs Sing-Along: Mostly in Toon 5 August 26, 1997[5] The Ballad of Magellan; The Presidents Song; The Planets; The Panama Canal; Be Careful What You Eat; A Quake, A Quake; Big Wrap Party Tonight
Animaniacs: Helloooo Holidays September 28, 1999[6] Twas the Day Before Christmas; Little Drummer Warners; The Great Wakkorotti: The Holiday Concert; A Christmas Plotz

[edit] DVD

Volume one of Animaniacs had sold very well; over half of the product being sold in the first week made it one of the fastest selling animation DVD sets that Warner Home Video ever put out.[7] So far, the first 75 episodes are available in 3 DVD box sets, although only Region 1 DVDs have been released so far. The release of Volume 4 should hopefully be released once the macarena parody is licensed.

DVD Name Ep # Release Date Additional Information
Volume 1 25 July 25, 2006[8] This five disc box set contains the first 25 episodes from season 1. Includes the featurette "Animaniacs Live!", where Maurice LaMarche hosts an in studio via satellite big screen TV with Animaniacs friends (voice actors, composers, etc.) as they comment on the show. The video is presented in its original television aspect ratio, with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio in English, with French, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles.
Volume 2 25 December 5, 2006[9] This five disc box set contains the second 25 episodes (26-50) from season 1. Includes the featurette "The Writer's Flipped, They Have No Script", where Maurice LaMarche leads a gathering of writers on what their favorite Animaniacs episodes are that they wrote.
Volume 3 25 June 19, 2007[10] This five disc box set includes the last 15 episodes (51-65) of season 1, all 4 episodes (66-69) of season 2, and the first 6 episodes (70-75) of season 3. Includes two featurettes: "They Can't Help It if They're Cute, They're Just Drawn That Way": Meet the Character Designers, Storyboard Artists and Art Directors who give life and lunacy to Wakko, Yakko, and Dot; and "They're Totally Insane-y: In Cadence with Richard Stone": The music of Animaniacs, highlighted by a tribute to the late Composer.
Volume 4 24 TBA 2008 Although a release date has not been confirmed, this final volume will contain the remaining episodes of season 3 and all of season 4 and 5.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Amazon.com Yakko's World product information. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-03.
  2. ^ Amazon.com The Warners Escape product information. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-03.
  3. ^ Amazon.com Animaniacs Stew product information. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-03.
  4. ^ Amazon.com Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff product information. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-03.
  5. ^ Amazon.com Animaniacs Sing-Along: Mostly in Toon product information. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-03.
  6. ^ Amazon.com Animaniacs: Helloooo Holidays product information. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-03.
  7. ^ "Animaniacs" Vol. 2 on DVD: Wakkorotti and WHV Belch Out Another Great Set. Toon Zone (2006-12-03). Retrieved on 2007-05-24.
  8. ^ Lambert, David (2005-11-10). How Long Before Animaniacs Escape the Water Tower?. TVShowsonDVD.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  9. ^ Lacey, Gord (2006-08-16). Time to go Wakko (again)-Volume 2 News!. TVShowsonDVD.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  10. ^ Lacey, Gord (2007-02-28). Slappy the Squirrel joins the Warners on Volume 3. TVShowsonDVD.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.

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