It’s Animaniacs! Ranked!
10. Chicken Boo – Stops having any entertainment value after you’ve seen it twice.
9. Hip Hippos – The one with Noah’s arc was good. Other than that…
8. Minerva Mink – Obnoxious lead. Has its moments.
7. Katie Kaboom – Clever concept, but repetitive. Maybe I’ll enjoy it more when Lain is a teenager.
6. Goodfeathers – Definitely has its moments, but episodes seem to bifurcate between good and kinda boring, with the latter outnumbering the former. Never terrible, though.
5. Rita and Runt – Reasonably steady and consistently good, though (almost) never really good.
4. Slappy Squirrel – The Woodstock segment, below, is utterly brilliant for fans of classic rock and Abbott & Costello. Segments tend towards the good or bad, with not much in between.
3. Pinky & The Brain – There is a reason this one took off.
2. Molly & Buttons – I am not sure I would have appreciated this one as much before Lain was born. But she was and I do. It’s also one of Lain’s favorites.
1. Warner Brothers (and their Sister Dot) – Yeah. Obviously.
The best feature was that Animaniacs was just as irreverent as the original Loony Tunes. There was no attempt at a moral at all.Report
But… wheel of morality!Report
It told us the lesson that we must learn.Report
And that lesson was irreverence.Report
Not strictly true. There WERE censors after all.
“No, you can’t have A attack B with a knife, a kid might emulate that!!”
“How about an Atomic Bomb?”
“That’s better”
Teaching people that hyperbole is a FIIINE thing.Report
I wish this weren’t MD, so I could ask “(Politician’s name redacted), are you pandering what I’m pandering?”?Report
I watched this every day after school, even in high school. I remember the Woodstock skit well.Report
Huh. We must be closer in age than I thought we were.Report
I’m 39, with the cantankerousness of a 70 year old.Report
Yep, off by close to ten years!Report
Wait… I watched this after school. I’m 31. When was this show on?Report
31??? Was it a one-room school house? Was it in black and white or something? Did you watch it on a CRT?Report
’93-’98.Report
I watched it a lot, but I have virtually no memory of it. It always seemed busier than it was entertaining. Like any sane person, I have a fondness for Pinky and the Brain (not where my username came from, btw), but even they did fall into a bit of a rut.Report
Well they did have the same goal every episode.Report
Maybe this is so obvious that you feel silly mentioning it, but Animaniacs was produced by Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg, of course, is best known for playing the clerk in The Blues Brothers…Report