Funny / Yakko, Wakko and Dot

Being the stars of the show, it's no surprise that the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) would have no shortage of these moments.

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In the series

• "The Wheel of Morality adds boring educational value to what would otherwise be an almost entirely entertaining program!"
  • "It's that time again!" "To make fun of the Disney Channel?"
    • "To make the Fox censors cry?"
  • One of the "morals" is "possums have pouches like kangaroos", prompting a shrug from Yakko.
  • Some of the wheel's segments aren't even morals, just game show standard prizes and penalties. One time it lands on a grand prize, much to the Warners' joy.
    Yakko: And the moral of today's show is... win a free trip to Tahiti!
    All Warners: WE WON! WE WON! WE WON! WE WON!
• In "Hooked on a Ceiling", when Michelangelo tries to throw the Warner siblings out, the next shot is him somehow getting thrown out instead. How did that happen? It doesn't matter, and that's what makes it hilarious.
• "The Big Candy Store", during the climax. The nun, who was rather rudely kicked out by Mr. Flaxseed, the store owner for asking him for charity, returns to find Flaxseed in the middle of abusing Yakko, Wakko and Dot. This does NOT sit well with the nun, who calls for backup in the form of her justifiably angry convent, who begin bearing down on Flaxseed with yard sticks. Flaxseed tries to get out of it by interjecting with the fact that nuns can't resort to violence. Stopped in their tracks, the lead nun stops the others. It then leads to this:
  Nun #1: He's right girls, let's pray.
  (The nuns huddle together and pray furiously)
  (Cut to outside Flaxseed's candy shop, where a bus for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish pulls outside and the entire team, including the cheerleaders, pile out to give Flaxseed one hell of a beatdown.)
  Nun #1: Our prayers have been answered! (blows a whistle to start the beatdown)
• Remember during the Beauty and the Beast episode when they were lost in the woods? Funnier if you're aware of the political environment during the time it was made.^note Aired September 7, 1996, about two months until the Presidential Election.
  Wakko (looking at what is presumed to be a map): According to this we've lost our way.
  Yakko (taking the map): This isn't a map. It's a flyer for the Republican Party!
  Wakko: "Lost our way as a country," that is.
  • Earlier in the same short, we had Yakko, Wakko and Dot trying to introduce themselves to the audience... only for Dot to fail to say her full name correctly four times in a row, in a set of 'out-takes', until she eventually snaps and begins cussing angrily.
    Yakko: That's my cute little sister who said that! Good night, everybody!
  • Dot chewing out Wakko for "P-popping" into the mic:
    "Oh, Poo! I never Pop my P's!"
  • "What is this? Make Fun Of Your Sister Day On Animaniacs?"
  • There's also the part where Dot says "And I'm Pincess...", which is followed by Yakko and Wakko saying "Helloooo, pincess!" and laughing.
  • Right after this, Dot furiously asks Yakko to try saying her line. He does so, immediately and perfectly. Dot's response? "Well, thank you, Mr. United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama! Big whoop!"
  • The ending credits gag of this episode. The Warners finish up their sign off to the viewers, the lights fade out and the credits begin rolling. However, as the credits are appearing on the screen, the Warners are still seen (as silhouettes) and can be heard making complaints about the show's staff and how tiring it is to work for the network - even going as far as to scoff at their own voice actors - before realizing they left the mics on. While the show is not the only one to use this sort of gag, the execution is done perfectly, with the Warner's shedding their childish demeanor and actually sounding quite adult and real, and having good banter. Here.
• The episode with the teacher.
  Ms. Flamiel: Yakko, can you conjugate?
  Yakko: Who me? I've never even kissed a girl.
  Ms. Flamiel: No, no, no, it's easy. I'll conjugate with you.
  Yakko: Goodnight everybody!
  Ms. Flamiel: You don't understand. Let me go to the board and show you.
  Yakko: (To the audience) Don't look.
  • And it gets taken even further in other places.
    Yakko: (as a detective) Number One Sister, dust for prints!
    Dot: I found Prince! (Carries the singer.)
    Yakko: No, no, no. Fingerprints!
    Dot: (looks at Prince, who grins) I don't think so. (throws him out the window)
• "King Yakko"
  • Basically, Duck Soup updated for the 90s.
  • "Polka Dot?" (Cue Dot with polka music)
    Dot: Not again!
    (cue Dot involving EVERYONE in the immediate area in polka dance)
  • From that same episode:
    Umlatt: No, no! This is the uniform of a great man!
    Yakko: Does he know you're wearing it?
    Umlatt: I am Umlatt of Donlikus, and I am here to demand you surrender Anvilania to me! I give you 24 hours to vacate!
    Yakko: Vacation already? This is only my first day on the job!
    Umlatt: I demand your surrender!
    Yakko: I will not surrender! You surrender!
    Umlatt: Me, surrender?
    Yakko: Okay, I accept. Hand over the keys to your castle.
    Umlatt: Don't be ridiculous! I'll go to war before I surrender!
    Yakko: Well go ahead, and don't you come back until you've learned some manners, young man!
    Umlatt: Very well, you silly child! [throwing his hands into the air] This means war!
    Yakko: I thought that meant touchdown?
    • There's also the absolutely AMAZING Aside Glance Yakko gives to the audience when Umlatt is demanding they surrender. THIS is when you know that Umlatt is in way over his head and is going to play right into the Warners' hands. See here.
  • "Get that camera out of my mouth!"
  • The "Anvilanian Family Tree" song and "Perry Coma" are two of the series' best musical gags.
• Inevitably and hilariously, the Warner siblings wound up crossing paths with a certain well-known purple dinosaur in Baloney & Kids.
  Wakko: Are we being punished?
  Dot & Yakko: Yes.
  • Anvils fall on Baloney throughout the episode.
  Yakko: Who's dropping those anvils anyway?
  (the camera pans upward to reveal both Princesses of Props and the Prince of Props)
  Princess of Props #1: Take us with you!
  Princess of Props #2: Don't leave us, please!
  Prince of Props: Free us from the lumpy thing!
  All: Take us with you!
• From "Papers for Papa":
  Ernest Hemingway: [talking in a woman's voice] Who is it?
  Dot: Pushpen Office Supply delivery for... Mr. Ernest Hemingway.
  Hemingway: Mr. Hemingway isn't here right now. This is, uh, Alice B. Toklas.
  Warners: No you're not.
  Hemingway: Yes I am.
  [Camera zooms out to show the Warners standing right behind him.]
  Warners: No you're not.
  Hemingway: [in his normal voice] Daah!
  Yakko: You can't fool us. Alice B. Toklas doesn't live here anymore!
• Pavarotti + Close encounters + Animaniacs? Funny? Definitely. Awesome? That too.
• Wakko vs. psychological assessment:
  Scratchansniff: Wakko, what are you drawing?
  Wakko: (shows off his blank sketch pad) It's a cow eating grass.
  Scratchansniff: ...but where's the grass?
  Wakko: The cow ate it.
  Scratchansniff: ...but where's the cow?!
  Wakko: Well she's not gonna stick around if there isn't any grass to eat.
  (Scratchansniff gawks at the camera)
• Mr. Director (the Jerry Lewis-esque director) pretty much anytime he appears, especially in the first episode with him. "Ohhhh I LOVE these kids, they's so funny, nice kids that look like puppies! Flammeil!" Not to mention the Warners "WTF?" reaction to Mr Directors behavior, and their increasingly desperate attempts at getting away from him. Thats right, there is a person who is so zany and over the top that even the Warner siblings are afraid of him.
  • The ante gets upped with "Hearts Of Twilight", an Apocalypse Now pastiche with references to The Day the Clown Cried... two references that kids would get right off the bat. The fake Jim Morrison steals the show on that one, however.
    "This is the ending, the ending of our story. The ending, the ending..." *gets run over by a golf cart* "...the ending..."
  • During the filming of Illinois Smith, not only do we get Dot channeling her best leading lady in an Expy of Willie Scott but Mr. Director has fully devolved into his Jerry Lewis voice which makes this line even funnier.
  Dot: [cowering behind Mr. Director as the mummy (played by Wakko) approaches them] Protect me, Illy!
  Mr. Director: You're frightened? I have to potty!
• From "Clown and Out": The Yiddish Clown who, like Mr. Director, acted in a very Jerry Lewis fashion with an extremely stereotypically Jewish style.
  (after his first fall from a great height) "I wish the ground was mushy and soft..."
  (just before his third fall from a great height): "I'm in the sky."
  (after his third fall from a great height): "I don't want to do this no more..."
  • After Wakko uses a cannon made out of a balloon to hit the clown, who says, "It blowed up at me", before falling, Plotz and Scratchansniff are watching the whole thing from Plotz's office and Plotz is expressing utter glee at the clown's pain. When the clown attempts to leave, Plotz sends him back for more and gleefully exclaims, "Oh, baby, is that clown gonna get it! Yes!" and Scratchansniff guides him back to the couch for more therapy.
  • "A clown is my friend. A clown will not bite me and throw me in the basement. A clown is not a big spider."
• From "The Girl With the Googily Goop", when the sibs get spat out into another studio's cartoon, where literally everything is alive:
  Yakko: This is going to be the most frightening six minutes of our lives.
• "Yakko's Universe":
  It's a great, big universe and we're all really puny!
  We're just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney!
• "Wakko's Gizmo," a loving tribute to Rube Goldberg taking his absurdly complex machines up to eleven. Aireborne ows, orbital satellites and the Warner Brothers studio tour all play key roles.
• The short sketch in which Dot "translates" Puck's closing monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  Yakko: That you did but slumber here / while these visions did appear...
  Dot: Ya fell asleep on your butt and dreamed the whole thing.
  Yakko: And this weak and idle theme / no more yielding but a dream!
  Dot: There's a hole in the plot you could drive a truck through.
  • "And Robin Will Restore Amends!" "And the Boy Wonder Will Save Us!" *the Batmobile drives up, with Robin opening the passenger side, letting the Warners in before driving off*
• "Fair Game" is a goldmine of these, when the siblings constantly buzz at the wrong time, usually saying "Issac Newton," until the answer actually is Issac Newton, when they just can't seem to remember it. One of the best moments, however...
  Host: Very well. The answer is what?
  Yakko: It is? What was the question?
  Host: I don't know.
  Yakko: Then don't buzz in.
  Host: I didn't buzz in!
  Yakko: Then you can't answer the question.
  Host: Do you think this is funny!?
  Dot: (Buzz) Yes.
  • At one point, the host grabs them all by their tails to keep them from buzzing while he can say the entire question, while the Warners try to reach for the buttons. After letting them all, each of them were about to buzz, but then they start to think for a moment. They're ready to buzz, but are thinking again. For added humor, the correct answer to this question (Isaac Newton) was the same answer the Warners had been randomly dropping the entire episode, except now when it was actually correct, they didn't know it!
• Any of the Great Wakkorotti musical shorts, where Wakko belches to classical music.
  • "Excuse me, oh excuse me."
• One from "De-Zanitized", the first short of the entire series, mostly due to the Genius Bonus that comes with the territory:
  Scratchansniff: (with fuller, wilder, and brown Einstein Hair): Now, tell me about these dreams you've been having, Mr. Reagan.
  (Cut to a younger Ronald Reagan, an actor at this point, dressed in a white tuxedo, purple pants and sporting a pompuador)
  Actor Reagan: Well, in my dreams, I'm president of the United States.
  (Cut back to Scratchansniff, who freezes from his writing to give the audience a grimace, as though he is asking us directly "You just heard that, too, right?" and proceeds to write into his notebook)
  (Cut to Scratchansniff's notebook, which has the heading of "Delusions of grandeur". He then adds "Incurable" in capital letters, underlining the word with a passion.)
  • The entire therapy session with Wakko. Especially the end when Scratchansniff loses his patience.
  Scratchansiff: *rips off a clump of hair* This is hair, this is hair!! It is not on my mind, it is on my head!!
  Wakko: ....nnnno, it's in your hand!
  • Dot having an inkblot test:
    Dr Scratchansniff: I am going to show you some pictures and I want you to tell me what they look like. (shows ink blot) What do you say to this?
    Dot: I'd say you're not a very good artist.
    Scratchansniff: I didn't draw that.
    Dot: Well, whoever did needs to go back to school!
    Scratchansniff: No, it's an inkblot.
    Dot: I'll say.
    Scratchansniff: No, no, no. It's not supposed to look like anything.
    Dot: Then you did a very good job.
    Scratchansniff: I DIDN'T DRAW IT!! (deep breath) Doesn't it look like a little kitty cat or a butterfly or something?
    Dot (getting up from her chair): No. (somehow takes the blot right off the sign and turns it into a butterfly in her hands) That's a butterfly!
  • The ending, where Scratchansniff thinks he's gone insane, and sees the Warners diagnosing him with "Acute Warneritis". This causes him to scream and his head to fly off his head and land on a planet in outer space.
• POTTY EMERGENCY — specifically, Wakko goes through a ton of cruel yet hilarious gags about being unable to go to the bathroom. He eventually has to resort to Breaking the Fourth Wall in reverse, going into the movie he was watching at the beginning of the episode in order to find a restroom. He then shakes hands with the actor in the movie, who remarks in a slight lisp,
  "That's disgusting. He didn't even wash his hands!"
  • There's also the scene where Wakko finds what he think is a perfect spot to pee and places his toilet there. The curtain opens just as he is about to go, and he then turns around and does a funny smile.
• The Dot's Pet gags are usually hilarious. Dot carries a tiny box that, thanks to Hammerspace, contains a giant hideous beast that's different every time she opens it. The best one is definitely the one from The Party episode, where she shows it to a Xenomorph.
  Dot: Wanna see my pet?
  *Dot opens the box, and out pops the giant head of Mr Director*
  Mr Director's inner jaw: OH, MONSTER!!! 8D
  *The Xenomorph runs off whining like a scared dog*
• This segment from "Dot's Poetry Corner"
  Dot: I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, and here's a note from my shrink. He says I'm getting better! Last week I thought I was a toaster oven! (disturbed laughter)
• "The Warners and the Beanstalk":
  Giant: Ow, that smarted me!
  Yakko: I doubt it.
• "Turkey Jerky". After being outwitted by the Warners and the turkey, Miles Standish orders them to go away and leave him alone. They do just that and remove the props and scenery, leaving him standing alone on a blank white screen.
• "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special" overall, especially the reveal of who the Warner siblings hired as their agent to negotiate with the studio. Irving "Swifty" Laboo AKA Chicken Boo.
  • "He wasn't an agent, he was a chicken!"
  • The fate of Lon Borax, the animator who originally created The Warners in-universe. He and producer Weed Menlo were working on one of the old Warner Bros "Buddy" cartoons, an actual cartoon character from the '30s, and in the Animaniacs universe, Memlo hated the first Buddy cartoon and forced Borax to work day and night to come up with something to make the short funnier. Borax eventually went insane from stress and lack of sleep, and created the Warner siblings just before running off in a Laughing Mad fit.
  Weed Memlo: "The next day we were supposed to show the cartoon to the studio head, but I couldn't find Lon around anywhere. Later I found out he went all funny in the head. But I hear he's getting better!
  *cut to an aged Borax sticking his head out the window of an asylum bearing the sign "Home For Retired Animators (Who Went Nuts!!)".
  Borax: We're having soup today!!!
  • Another comedy gem from the 65th Anniversary episode is the series of cartoons the Warners made after Buddy got fired, which included an 8-hour skit of them with flypaper stuck to their butts, a baking cartoon where you can hear Menlo screaming directions to Wakko in the background since he kept eating the props, and finally, Mr Plotz biggest mistake in his career, the last of the original Warner cartoons, which he let Wakko direct. It was nothing but the Warner siblings in navy uniforms while Wakko played Yankee Doodle with his armpit. This is what indirectly led to Plotz locking them in the water tower.
  Daffy Duck: It was alright for a short, but this went on for eight hours. Eight. Hours.
  • Can't forget the expose on the Warners activities between WWII and present day. Once every decade or so, the water tower had to be fumigated for termites, to Plotz would allow the Warners out for a day. They'd rush off to run amok elsewhere. They showed up at the post-war meeting between Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt (where they asked to jump on Churchill's belly like a trampoline; it went fine until Stalin demanded to jump on his belly), did a surprise walk on music performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, outperformed John Travolta in a disco contest and helped tear down the Berlin Wall in exchange for candy money.
• Dot's huge crush on Mel Gibson, and Mel having no idea how to handle it in the handful of episodes they have together... most notably the Pocahontas parody and the "Temporary Insanity" episode.
• The Cutaway Gag about the writers laughing about the Warners being right behind Thaddeus Plotz.
• The whole of "Ups and Downs" could qualify, but Wakko's "Knock Knock" Joke really stands out:
  Wakko: Knock knock.
  Scratchansniff: (completely unenthusiastic) Who's there?
  Wakko: Max.
  Scratchansniff: Max who?
  Wakko: Max wants to come in and go crazy!
  Scratchansniff: (giving the audience a confused Aside Glance) Well, ok, that's not really a joke, is it? You see, because it makes no sense.
  Wakko: It does if you know Max.
  Scratchansniff: But I don't know Max!
  Wakko: If you did, you'd be laughin'!
• Hooray For North Hollywood which had the Warners' film consisting of as many film parodies as the staff could shove into a single episode, including The English Patient, Forrest Gump, Fargo, and Jerry Maguire.
  • From the Fargo parody, Dot and Yakko are discussing whether a man in the snow is dead or just sleeping. Dot comments how good her coffee is and accidentally spills some on the guy, who then gets up and runs away screaming because of how hot the coffee was.
    Dot: Oh gee he really was sleeping!
  • The Overly Long Gag of the Warners going "We wanna make a movie!" and Plotz going "You can't make a movie!:
    Skippy Squirrel: That was pretty much it. For a full half hour.
    • The beginning of the episode's next half:
      The Warners: We still wanna make a movie!
      Plotz: You still can't make a movie!
• From "Draculee, Draculaa":
  Count Dracula: I am Count Dracula...
  Yakko: Didn't you use to teach math on Sesame Street?
  • Check out the head shape of Dracula when he screamed upon seeing the Warners in his coffin. He looks like Bart Simpson! Why, he sounds almost like him when he screamed!
• "Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled":
  • The Warners go to hell and annoy Satan.
    Satan: That's it! I'm going to inflict upon you the worst torture imaginable!
    Yakko: What is it? Another Bob Hope special?
    Satan: WORSE!
  • First thing Wakko does when he finds out he's in Hell? Run to the surface, pack a snowball from a snowfield, and run back down to Hell. It melts in two seconds. "Boy, there were right! It didn't have a chance!"
  • The Warners get sentenced to indescribable torment and agony while in Hell...listening to whiny protest songs from the 60's.
    Singer: ♪Oh, I hate the government, more than you and me. The government stole my goldfish, and unplugged my TV!♪
    [The Warners scream in terror].
    Satan: Enjoy! [Satan gets thrown in instead]
  • What happens when Wakko and Satan have a challenge to see who can grow taller:
    [an angry Satan grows taller than he previously was]
    Wakko: I can do that, too! [Wakko's neck stretches up to Satan's head] Look at me, I'm a giraffe!
    Satan: Hah! Silly mortal, I can grow taller than you!
    Wakko: Bet you can't. [he and Satan gradually grow taller until Satan hits the roof with his horns] You win.
    Satan: [with his horns stuck in the roof, he shrinks back to this normal size] Blasted horns, I knew I should've gotten them trimmed.
    • Hilarious in Hindsight: Satan is played by Ron Perlman, probably best known for doing Hellboy—you know, the demon with the trimmed horns...
  • The "Purgatory" song, with Ron Perlman providing the singing voice for the Ferryman.
  • Yakko pressing the "freeze frame" button on his remote control which ends up literally freezing Hell over, resulting in the Warners getting kicked out of Hell.
  Satan: Do you have any idea how long it takes to get the pilot lit down here?!
• The William Shakespeare shorts, where Yakko acts out a scene from a Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet and Macbeth respectively, with Dot translating the dialogue.
  Narrator: Welcome to (Play Name), translated for those viewers who, like Yakko, have no idea what he's talking about.
  *Yakko looks offended and Dot giggles*
  • The funniest part is that the dialogue is word for word, even if the translation isn't, though it usually goes somewhat by what the dialogue means.
  Yakko (as Hamlet): Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
  Dot: How come you're not funny right now?
• While escaping from Ralph, the Warners use a trampoline to bounce back to the water tower. Then, Ralph tries to do the same and emulates their "Boinkie-boinkie-boinkie!" chant before the trampoline collapses on him.
• The "Super Warner Siblings" parody of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers which legitimately could be considered an episode of Power Rangers with the Warners in it. What's especially funny about the whole thing is that Rita Repulsa knockoff's voice is so similar to the real deal you'd genuinely think she was voiced by Barbara Goodson.
• Chairman of the Bored is wonderful solely due to the fact that the Warners are the ones being tortured. It's beautiful to see a creature so annoying that even the Warners can't handle him.
• The entirety of "Bingo" counts due to being several Who's on First? routines between Wakko and Otto Von Scratchansniff at a Bingo game, such as Wakko misinterpreting "I-30" as "I'm thirsty" and "Oh, nein" as "O-9", but this exchange takes the cake.
  Otto: I-29.
  Wakko: Oh, no you're not! You must be at least fifty! Really, 29...
• When the Warners see a rumbling in the ground in The Warners and the Beanstalk:
  Yakko: Beans'll do that to ya.
• The Bones Song. And at the beginning, the old man wants Yakko to play it but he's not interested.
  Old Man: I'll give you some more beans.
  Yakko: Nah.
  Old Man: I won't give you some more beans.
  Yakko: Okay... This is not the Bean Song.
  • The Warners assert that without your skeleton "your body would become a scrambled egg" and "all your brains and guts would fall out on the floor".
  • During the verse parodying "Dry Bones", Dot says that the slide is connected to the trom-bone and begins playing one.
  • Wakko says that we should be thankful that the ankle is attached to the rest of the leg or else we'd all fall down.
• "OH, LADY! OH, LADY! OH, LADY! OH, LADY! OH, LADY! OH, LADY! NICE LADY! OH, LADY! OH, LADY! OH, LADY! NICE LADY!"
• "A Hard Day's Warners" has the Warner siblings being chased by their fans all throughout the short. How do they get them off their backs? Yakko tricks Brain and Pinky into going to the convention they're at and gets the fans to chase them instead.
• In "Multiplication", there are a few funny moments before the song.
  • Ms Flameil gives Dot a word problem about if she had a certain amount of cookies, someone took some and now Dot has another number of cookies, what does the thief have? Dot replies, "A broken hand." Ms. Flameil says no, but Dot says, "Well, someone would if they took my cookies."
  • When Ms Flameil asks Wakko what Isaac Newton learned when the apple fell on his head, Wakko's response is "To sit someplace else?"
  • The book's title is "Mathematics-easy as [Pi symbol]"
  • When the Warners have fallen Asleep in Class, they each try to answer the teacher's question but say something random due to not having heard her.
    Yakko: Fourteen!
    Wakko: Ninety-two!
    Dot: Uh, Columbus sailed the ocean blue?
• "The Please Please Please Get A Life Foundation", a satire of the fanbase of Animaniacs nitpicking at every single detail in the show, had several of these moments:
  • Yakko saying that being happily engrossed in inconsequental cartoon trivia causes people's socks to stand up by themselves.
  • The torture for the toughest case being Baloney coming to visit the fourth geek.
  • Yakko telling the viewer to call the foundation before they rewind to see what was in the bedroom in the opening shot.
  • The ending, where the first geek notices that the last "Please" was spelled with two Es, believing it to be intentional.
• "A Quake! A Quake!"
  • Ralph standing on the drive in only his socks.
  • "We kinda got that feeling when the ground began to shake".
  • Yakko being the insurance guy and simply saying, "Too late!".
  • The song ends with the Warners getting fed up with the earthquakes and making a break for Beirut, right before another earthquake sinks the land under the sea.
    • Although this becomes less funny after the 2006 Lebanon War.
• Yakko had just sung "All The Words in the English Language". Dick Button then asks him to sing all of the numbers starting from zero. Poor Yakko can't take it anymore and faints.
• One of the best visual puns on the show, in "Chairman of the Bored", one of the tables has Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Michael Richards sitting at it. In other words, Kramer vs. Kramer... and Kramer.
• This line in the Monkey Song:
  "We're not monkeys, we're just cuckoo!"
• The loudmouthed titular characters in "Survey Ladies," who never stop trying to get the Warners to answer their questions. "WOULDJA LIKE TAH TAKE A SURRR-VAAY?"
  Yakko: No, would you like to take a hike?
  • Even better is the fact that the whole survey centers on beans and George Wendt (another reference that was pretty much designed to go over kids' heads) in endless combinations. "Do you eat beans?" Would you like to see a new movie starring George Wendt?" "Would you like to see George Wendt in a bean-eating movie?" "How many bean-eating movies have you seen with George Wendt?" "How many beans do you eat at George Wendt bean-eating movies?"
• In the Picasso episode:
  • When Yakko says, "There's P.P. on your shirt", Dot cringes and says "Dees-gusting"!" because she thinks he said, "pee-pee".
  • Picasso says, "No dogs allowed".
    Dot: "We're not dogs."
    Picasso: "OK then, cats. No cats."
    Wakko: "We're not cats either."
• The Warner siblings accidentally discovering the Theory of Relativity, by Wakko writing "emca" ("acme" backwards) with an "A" that looks like a "2". Einstein has an epiphany, writes in the "=", and the rest is quite literally history.
• "What Are We?":
  • The whole premise of the song is that the Warner siblings don't know what species they are.
  • Dot wonders if she and her brothers are cats and tries sharpening her claws on the couch. She slashes it to pieces instead.
  • Yakko wonders if they're horses, and Scratchandsniff just says bluntly, "No way!".
  • Yakko suggests they may be dinosaurs, only for Scratchandsniff to say, "But then you'd be extinct!".
  • When they suggest they're bugs, Scratchandsniff says, "You kids are buggy in the head!".
  • This exchange:
    Dot: "Maybe an electric eel."
    Wakko: "Or a seal."
    Dot: "Get real!"
  • They eventually decide that what they are is cute.
• In "I'm Cute", Yakko and Wakko sing, "She's becoming a pain in the—", only for Dot to interrupt with "But I'm also quite nice".
• From "Shnitzelbank":
  • Yakko's first improvised lyrics are "Is dis nicht ein piece of bread? Does it fit in Wakko's head?".
  • Dot calling Otto a cute man (with her brothers agreeing) and kissing him on the lips.
  • Wakko singing Otto's Overly Long Name and pointing out that it's an "incredibly long name to have to try and say".
  • The Warners stripping Otto down to his underwear to point out his gut, butt, French underwear, hairy chest, and the fact that he's undressed. This is what leads to them being literally kicked out.
• The song "Macadamia Nut" is a parody of the Macarena, about Dot's brothers giving her the nickname "Macadamia" because she's "a nut".
• Just before singing, "What Are We?", Yakko says, "Only our hairdresser knows for sure" when asked if he and his siblings are "still zany".
• "Plane Pals" features the Warners crossing paths with Ivan Bloski, who has a Small Name, Big Ego to end all egos. Naturally, the Warners have a field day torturing him with their shenanigans.
  • After Bloski has spent the opening of the episode being a completely careless, selfish jerk to everyone in his immediate proximity (even throwing a man on crutches out of his way), he sits down, prepared for "a relaxing flight"...and his Laser-Guided Karma kicks in none too soon as we zoom out to learn the Warners are his seat neighbors. Who are expectedly goofing off to his frustration.
  • This early exchange in the episode is particularly great:
  Wakko: Hey sir, what's this?
  Bloski: A vomit bag.
  Wakko: Oh, poo, I got gypped! There's none in here!

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