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Recap / Animaniacs (2020) Episode 9

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Release date: November 20, 2020

Opening line: (Warners) "Authority distain-y!"

Here Comes Treble: While performing a sketch, the Warners butt heads with the music conductor.

That's Not the Issue: Apparently, the previous "Yakko, Wakko, and Dot" segment was too short, so we get a bonus episode featuring them! The Warners appear on a news show and get on the host's nerves.

Future Brain: Brain's future self arrives to aid him in conquering the world.

The Incredible Gnome In People's Mouths: A man is transformed into an angry gnome and lives in people's mouths to speak for them. Yes, really.

Tropes found in "Here Comes Treble":

  • Anything but That!: For the composer, being forced to play Turkey in the Straw, on the jug.
    Conductor: It's not even an instrument, it's just recycling!
    Dot: I guess folk music's not really his forte.
  • Bookends The short begins and ends with "Turkey In The Straw", the song that the famous "Wakko's America" was based on.
  • Orchestral Bombing: Once the Warners have replaced the conductor's orchestra, they force him to conduct The 1812 Overture, complete with cannon.
  • Recycled Premise: This short is essentially a remake of "The Scoring Session" segment of the original series' finale.
  • Shout-Out: The sequence set to In the Hall of the Mountain King is one to The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
  • Standard Snippet: Four, in order they are, Turkey in the Straw, In the Hall of the Mountain King, The Dance of the Comedians, The 1812 Overture, and finally Turkey in the Straw again.

Tropes found in "That's Not the Issue":

  • Anvil on Head: Tuck Buckerson asks the Warners how they feel about violence in children's television. They answer that they're all for it, and drop an anvil on Tuck's head.
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Yakko's questions on the nature of tomatoes. "Are they a fruit? A vegetable? Or a deep state cover agent working for the CIA?"
  • Eagleland: Type 2, Tuck Buckerson's intro ident is filled with the stars and stripes, fireworks, a bald eagle and fighter jets.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Yakko's first argument is that cyclists should be buying cars so that drivers can't use them to pollute the earth. What's better is that it's deliberate.
    Tuck Buckerson: So the issue is climate change?
    Yakko: No, the issue is totally insane solutions to pollution.
  • Malicious Misnaming: The Warners keep getting Tuck's name wrong and make it very clear that they don't care each time they're corrected by repeating the incorrect name.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Tuck Buckerson is a parody of Fox News personality Tucker Carlson.
  • Script Swap: The Warners mess with Tuck's teleprompter at the end.
    Tuck Buckerson: I'm Dump Truckerson, and I'm a giant baby who wears ladybug diapers... Wait, that's not the line!
  • Take That!: Faux News is an obvious parody of Fox News.

Tropes found in "Future Brain":

  • Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: As a variation, the question is asked by Future Brain and Pinky asks if, being from the future, he's supposed to know.
  • Future Me Scares Me: "Scares" might be overstating the issue, but the two Brains ultimately come to blows, with modern Brain (not unreasonably) blaming Future Brain for disrupting his world domination plan of the night while trying to shift the blame to Pinky.
  • In Medias Res: The episode starts in the middle of Brain's latest scheme to Take Over the World, which involves becoming an Oscar-nominated director and kidnapping Hollywood's elite with an immobilization ray at the Academy Awards ceremony.
  • Noodle Incident: Whatever Pinky did to cause the future to be a desolate wasteland. Future Brain doesn't elaborate.
  • Portal Cut: A woman sticks her hand into one of Brain's portals as it is closing and ends up losing her hand.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Future Brain tries to recruit Brain in trying to saving the future, but Future Brain really doesn't elaborate as to why the future is so bad.
  • Shout-Out
  • Spot the Imposter: Parodied. Ever-oblivious Pinky threatens Future Brain with his own time portal ray, but can't tell the Brains apart... even though Future Brain has a metal arm and a scar.

Tropes found in "The Incredible Gnome in People's Mouths":

  • Art Shift: This short has a noticeably flatter, outlineless, 1950s-esque look compared to the rest of the show.
  • Gross-Up Close-Up: When the Gnome accuses Sean of wanting to marry Marsha for her pinball machine collection, he proves it by showing that his fingers are calloused from being a "pinball freak."
  • Orifice Invasion: The best way to summarize the premise of a gnome living in people's mouths.
  • Recycled Premise: Someone at WBA must have a real thing for lawn gnomes, as they were also used as ancillary characters in Freakazoid!.
  • Shout-Out: The intro is a based on such sci-fi dramas as The Incredible Hulk (1977), The Six Million Dollar Man and Quantum Leap. The ending, which has the Gnome walking along a country road, is a reference to Hulk well.
  • Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: At Sean and Marsha's wedding, the priest asks if there's any reason they shouldn't wed. Of course, this just sets the Gnome off.
    Gnome: ANY REASON?! HOW ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE JUST MET?!

  • Sequel Hook: The segment ends with the Gnome wandering off, wherever he is needed next, complete with dramatic downer music.
  • To Be Continued: How the segment ends. Also meaning that the segment will return in Season 2.
  • Mood Whiplash: Immediately after the sequel hook, complete with dramatic downer music, and having this being the last segment of the episode, the end credits roll with the show's theme song kicking in, much to the confusion of the show's fans.

 
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Tuck Buckerson, is a clear expy of Fox News' Tucker Carlson. Needless to say, the Warners are nothing but cruel to him.

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