Talk:Yakko, Wakko, and Dot

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1 "Article's Intro."
2 "Inkblotted"
3 User:64.165.11.76
4 Wakko's accent
5 Musicians - Prose
6 Fictional dogs and fictional orphans categories
7 Fictional extraterrestrials?
8 monkeys?
9 'He's the middle child, and subsequently the most weird and absurd of the bunch'
10 Fair use rationale for Image:Dot Warner.JPG
11 Fair use rationale for Image:Wakko Warner.JPG
12 Fair use rationale for Image:Yakko Warner.JPG

[edit] "Article's Intro."

Someone must fix that, I don't know how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.112.6.104 (talk) 22:25, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Inkblotted"

Nice article. Can you explain the use of the word "inkblotted" and the linking of same? "Inkblotted" redirects to blackface; I don't see the connection. I suspect that "inkblotted" may be a specialized animation term, but if so the link to "blackface" and therefore the linkage here weaken the article. Certainly the Warners weren't racial stereotypes in the way, say, Heckle & Jekyll were. Jgm 01:37, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've been trying to figure this out for some time. Every time I change it, the same person edits it back in. (This is also apparently the anonymous user who created the inkblotted redirect to blackface, so I'm sure that connection is deliberate. Also note that said redirect is listed on rfd, for what it's worth.) The consensus seems to be that it should not be linked to blackface - they are characters that could reasonably be said to resemble ink blots, but there is actually evidence of a deliberate attempt to avoid having them look like blackface characters. (Note the change of Bosco to look like the Warners when he makes a Tiny Tunes cameo.) I just don't get it - if anything, they have white-painted faces, not black.

If you are the one who is doing this, and you are reading this, please talk to us! If you have evidence to back your claims, please share it! If it's true, it's important information. (But without evidence, I prefer to think better of the folks who made this cartoon and assume it isn't true.)

I also keep removing this paragraph, because it's the wrong POV and I don't know how to correct it:

"All three of us are performed in the Animaniacs band as vocalists, and they are typically managed by their human "dad" and leader; Dr. Otto Scratchansniff."

--Aranel 03:15, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

A bit more research finds a few instances of the term "inkblot characters" for non-specific animal cartoon characters; I've tried to clarify this in the text. I don't know whether the term is meant in the psychological sense (ie. they can be whatever animal you see in them), the physical sense (ie. the black-ink ears and head), or both, however. Jgm 13:43, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

There is a user who repeatedly adds grammatically awkward text without any discussion. It is quite frustrating. I believe that the paragraph you are referring to is one of his creations. It is even more annoying because some of his edits are valid. However, as is our policy with vandals, we have to revert his useful edits along with his harmful ones. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 15:52, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)

About that...well, The Warner trio do have inkblotted like faces, but, not black. If the show got racial critisism, then it would already be on this (the artical) page. - Shadow the Hedgehog 6:05, 23 October 2006

[edit] User:64.165.11.76

Hey again. I have a question about the "band" you keep referring to, of which Yakko Wakko and Dot are members of. Is this from a particular episode or is a recurring element? I've also posted this on your talk page, please respond or these edits will have to be reverted like your other ones. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 16:10, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, it is a recurring thing, as they do play instruments various times through the series, and it is a musical cartoon. Check out the artical I wrote about it. - Shadow the Hedgehog 6:07, October 23, 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wakko's accent

The article says Wakko's accent is a Scouse accent, but I read the description of that accent and see very little similarity... - furrykef (Talk at me) 14:17, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Probably this references to the iMDB entry on the voice actor Jess Harnell: "Based the voice of Wakko Warner on Beatle Ringo Starr." - SoWhy 13:47, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it also has that Jess Harnell did a John Lennon like voice, but when he saw that the character was short, he raised the pitch. - Shadow the Hedgehog 18:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

It's funny because I always thought that Wakko sounded like George Harrison and it seems I was told he was in fact modeled after George. To read that he was modeled after Ringo and the voice was more of a high-pitched John seems odd, especially when you listen to the actual voice of George Harrison and then listen to Wakko. It's obvious to me, that if you raise the pitch of John's voice, you get George, sort of. *smile* Dmoorefield68 13:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Harnell has repeatedly said it's based on Ringo. Now, he may have been thinking George and saying Ringo, but he says Ringo. -- Jay Maynard 13:13, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

In the interview for the Volume 1 DVDs he says Lennon. I'm starting to think that Jess himself isn't sure which Beatle he was going for. Roundelais 20:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Musicians - Prose

The musicians section needs a little cleaning up... Maybe just collapsing the headers and getting rid of "just the major ones".--Htmlism 21:59, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fictional dogs and fictional orphans categories

Whoever you are, please stop adding this article to the fictional dogs and fictional orphans categories:

Fictional dogs: The Warners are not dogs. They are not any particular species at all. They explicitly deny they are dogs and cats, as well as several other things, in the cartoon What Are We?. The show's creators repeatedly have said they're not anything in particular.
Fictional orphans: They are not orphans. They were created as completely new characters, as shown in the Newsreel of the Stars opening to several episodes. They play orphans in Wakko's Wish, but that's a role they adopt for that one story. The announcer on Cartoon Network was simply wrong, and is not an authoritative source.

Finally, your combative edit summaries are not helpful or appropriate. If you keep adding these bogus categories to the article, they will keep getting removed. If you keep adding them long enough, the article is likely to be semi-protected so that anonymous editors cannot edit it at all. Please stop. -- Jay Maynard 03:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't care! Also, we don't their parents. Plus, they use the same names in Wakko's Wish.

[edit] Fictional extraterrestrials?

Someone added this category to the article, as well as "The trio are actually aliens, but are variously referred to as animals", etc. I haven't seen every episode, but this just seems wrong, and I've removed it. While the species is deliberately unclear, they're (within the show) cartoon characters, created by the animators at Warner Bros., right here on Earth, in a way like the Toons in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. PaulGS 19:01, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] monkeys?

no one's mentioned that they've been called monkeys in a song by the professor. ("don't know what to say the monkeys won't do")

does that deserve a mention in the "species" section?

they're a fictional species like marsupilami --Lerdthenerd 19:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 'He's the middle child, and subsequently the most weird and absurd of the bunch'

Bias, anyone? I'm removing the 'subsequently'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.15.64 (talk) 20:18, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Dot Warner.JPG

Image:Dot Warner.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I've added fair use rationales for the pictures of Yakko and Wakko, but the picture of Dot has already been deleted. Can someone please re-upload it? PaulGS (talk) 08:41, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wakko Warner.JPG

Image:Wakko Warner.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

BetacommandBot (talk) 03:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Yakko Warner.JPG

Image:Yakko Warner.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

BetacommandBot (talk) 03:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)