Awesome / Animaniacs (2020)

This is what happens when you hurt one of Yakko Warner's siblings.

No totally insaney adventure is complete without awesomeness! And that's a fact.

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General

• The outro at the end of every episode is not only staying true to the original series, but they also enhanced it by using a timelapse sequence as the sky turns from day time to night over the Warner Bros. Studio. It's just beautiful.

Season 1

• The opening of the series, a parody of the first dinosaur scene in Jurassic Park with Steven Spielberg himself taking the role of John Hammond gleefully bringing the characters back.
• The first new Pinky and the Brain story reveals Brain spent the last 22 years creating today's entire online culture.
  • Said story ends with Brain actually winning. At least until he's back to square one thanks to Pinky posting another funny animal video with the mind control filter.
• After almost twenty two years of no history or geographical song featuring the Warner Sister, Dot finally gets not just one but two! One song had Dot, with the help of her brothers, organizing a century's worth of cartoon characters and successfully getting them the right to vote. The second one had her following in her brother's footsteps as she sings all the First Ladies of the United States with her brothers cheering her on.
• Brie, the 1950s intern in the Senate gets one. She starts being suspicious of Senator Gerp when he doesn't recognize her despite asking for a cup of coffee. (It's actually Brain disguised as a human.) Brain then tosses the mug and demands one with canned ham and mayonnaise. Cue Brie being the only member of Congress by default who isn't accused of being a mouse. When Brain tries to put her on the stand, she turns the tables on him by saying that accusing her of liking cheese doesn't mean she's a mouse, but that she's American because what's more American than cheese? Then she makes Pinky crack and confess everything, reminding him that he's under oath. Brain says it wasn't Pinky's fault as they make their escape, conceding that Brie was a Worthy Opponent.
• The end of "Good Warner Hunting". After Chicken Boo is exposed as the hunter who has been hunting down all the original Animaniacs characters as revenge for being left out of the reboot, he gets attacked by the characters he captured after he tries to sneak away.
  • Points to Chicken Boo for upping his disguise game and successfully catching the Warners. He nearly breaks their spirit before they realize the Hunter should have Chicken Boo mounted on the wall.
    • As horrifying as it is to see the results, you have to give Chicken Boo credit for successfully hunting down the rest of the cast (sans Pinky and the Brain, of course). Even Slappy Squirrel. And anyone who knows Slappy knows she doesn't go down easily.
  • Guess who's in the front? The Goodfeathers, with Squit leading them. Normally Squit was the Butt-Monkey whose attempts at being intimidating were ridiculous. Here, his Death Glare is truly menacing. Nice going, Chicken Boo; you made him take a level in badass!
• The entirety of the rap battle between Jay-Pac and Yakko in "Gift Rapper". Especially the second half. After he's defeated, Jay-Pac can only hold out his fist and say: "Respect." Also doubles as Awesome Music.
  • What’s even more awesome is that Jay-Pac is one of the few people who the Warners messed with and DIDN’T descend into madness as a result.
  • Really, just the fact that Yakko was able to defeat a rapper who, in-universe, has won thirty Grammys. "The one who yaks", indeed.
• One that fits both the Animaniancs and their animators: a pitched battle in Anime-style from the episode "Bun Control". View here for the awesomeness.
  • At one point during the fight, Wakko gets hurt, which results in Yakko going into a Berserker Rage, as shown in the page image.
• Although their first two attempts fail, the Warners managing to get Odysseus in the end. Conversely, Odysseus vanquishing the Bieber-Siren and attempting to 'win' Hades was enough to make the Warners resort to their final tactic.
• The Warners inadvertently terrifying a Pennywise Expy.
• Scratchansniff gets one in the season finale. He fakes being sick to get the Warner siblings to run an errand for him, gleefully boasting about how he played them for fools after years of dealing with their madness. The Warner siblings got outplayed by Scratchansniff, their most regular victim. Admit it, that is a worthy feat.
  • Yakko warns Scratchansniff that the soda they brought him is a bit shook up. Normally this setup would have the boasting antagonist dooming themselves by brushing off the warning. Scratchansniff however avoids that pitfall. He just points the can at the Warners and sprays them when he opens it. Scratchansniff got one over on the Warners, twice over. And while his own arrogance did cause him to wind up with his head swelling up like the Hindenberg and crashing in the Warner Studio lot, it's still impressive to get one over on the Warners TWICE.
• In "RalphCam" the Warners hunt and fight an actual vampire. And not with kid gloves either. They smash the guard gate into jagged wood that they use to try and stake the monster. Yeah the Warners were fighting a vampire for real and they did not hold back.
  • At one point the vampire gets his hands on Yakko and is about to bite his neck, when Dot shoves a piece of wood in his mouth to block him and wrestles him off of her brother.
  • There's also the conclusion to the fight. The vampire has both Yakko and Dot in his clutches and is closing in on Wakko, who got distracted pillaging Ralph's mini fridge. Wakko then takes the upper hand again by using a jar of Kimchi (a Korean cuisine side dish that typically contains garlic) to compel the vampire to release his brother and sister, and ultimately forces the vampire to flee altogether.
• "Babysitter's Flub": Brain seizing control of a toy car and saving Pinky from a cranky, power-hungry toddler.

Season 2

• A majority of those who watch The Bayeux Tapestry song agree "Yes, this is the Animaniacs I remember!" due to it having the same feel as songs like The Ballad of Magellan.

• Pepé Le Pew's cameo in "Yakko Amakko," especially when he was rejected from Space Jam: A New Legacy for...reasons.

• After her Face–Heel Turn, Julia makes a great supervillain in "Reichenbrain Falls". Not since Snowball has Brain been faced with an opponent as brilliant and resourceful as himself — and not only that, he is responsible for both her genius and her madness.

Season 3

• "Soda-pressed": After suffering under the iron fist of Nora, Gigi Soda stands up for herself and quits being an idol. The Warners even applaud her for standing her ground.
• "Slappy's Return": That's right! Slappy Squirrel comes back, with Sherri Stoner reprising her role and everything. Sure, it's only for 20 seconds at most, but it's still awesome seeing the beloved, fan favorite member from the original series make one last appearance before the series ends. And in perfect fashion too, telling her annoying, bothersome fans to stop asking for her return and leave her to retire in peace.
• Two awesome moments in "All's Fair in Love and Door".
  • Once virtual!Julia realizes she's just a computer simulation, she quickly uses the contents of Brain's lab to build a Killer Robot body for herself and comes very close to smashing Brain.
  • How is robot!Julia defeated? Earlier in the episode, Pinky (who's watching the fight from a safe distance) had mentioned that he thought Brain's latest device (which is the basis of Julia's robot form) was a piggy bank and put his money in it. Taking advantage of this, Brain asks Pinky to open his piggy bank with a hammer. Pinky proceeds to attack RoboJulia with great gusto, reducing most of the robot to scrap iron.

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