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Airdate: October 21, 1993

Opening Line: "Here's The Show's Name-y."- Dot

Testimonials: In-between the shorts, various elderly stars discuss their encounters with the Warners back in the day.

Babblin' Bijou: A classic-style Warners short in which the siblings cause havoc at a movie theater.

Potty Emergency: Wakko drinks too much at the movie theater. When the restroom at the theater is out of order, he has to find a bathroom before he has an accident.

Sir Yaksalot: Camelot is besieged by a dragon, and only the Warners can stop it.

Testimonials have examples of:

Babblin' Bijou has examples of:

Potty Emergency has examples of:

  • Bag of Holding: Growing desperate, Wakko searches his Gag Bag for a potty. After pulling out a bunch of random odds and ends, he finds one.
  • Bathroom Control: A mean shopkeeper doesn't allow Wakko Warner to use his bathroom because Wakko has no money.
  • Buy or Get Lost: A store owner won't let Wakko use the bathroom unless he buys something. Since Wakko doesn't have any money, he gets kicked out.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: The gas station attendant hasn't cleaned the restroom in a year, and cackles madly after telling Wakko this. His crooked nose and pointy chin don't do him any favors, either.
  • The Cameo: Runt and Rita make a short appearance in an alley where Wakko was trying to use his potty.
  • Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: When Wakko is unable to find a bathroom, he tries not to think about it. Unfortunately, upon entering a park, he sees constant reminders: sprinklers, a man watering his lawn, kids at a drinking fountain, and a lemonade stand.
  • Disgusting Public Toilet: The gas station bathroom Wakko tries to use. We don't see the inside, just his horrified reaction, plus the entire door frame is covered in cockroaches that scatter when he turns on the light.
  • Everyone Has Standards: The only toilet that Wakko could have used (with privacy) was so disgusting that he couldn't bring himself to go in there, no matter how bad he had to go.
  • Gigantic Gulp: Wakko drinks from a huge cup of soda labeled Abyss Boy.
  • The Noisy Straw: Wakko loudly slurps his drink every time the woman in the movie screams.
  • No Sympathy: Everyone around town shows indifference to Wakko's plight and refuses to let him use their bathrooms.
  • Potty Emergency: The Trope Namer.
  • Shout-Out: The spaceship in the movie has MST3K written on the side.
  • Television Portal: Wakko finally finds a bathroom by going through the movie screen and using one inside the ship in the movie.
  • Unabashed B-Movie Fan: The Warners are watching a cheesy sci-fi movie with obvious cheap sets.
  • Wrong Bathroom Incident: Wakko notices the men's bathroom is out of order, and, because of how bad he needs to go, decides to try the women's bathroom. He is kicked out as toilet paper rolls are thrown at him.

Sir Yaksalot has examples of:

  • Anvil on Head: Every time a villager comes in shouting "The dragon!", Yakko asks for someone to stop him. An anvil falls on the man, and Yakko says "Thank you." The final moment has the entire village yelling dragon, and the animator draws a giant anvil and thus crushing the whole village.
  • Cross Over Punchline: The "Dragon" was actually a robot controlled by Pinky and the Brain.
  • Hong Kong Dub: The Japanese generals in the war room are depicted with dialogue that just barely miss the lip movements.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • Shout-Out:
    • The Running Gag of "Could somebody stop this man from saying, 'dragon'?" originates from the stage show and film Hellzapoppin', when a woman keeps roaming through the audience looking for someone named Oscar, and someone on stage would say, "Could somebody stop that woman from saying, 'Oscar'?", followed by a gun shot, and the actor on stage would say, "Thanks."
    • The opening scene of the episode features a Creator In-Joke cameo by the short's animators of Lupin III's Daisuke Jigen in the background on a bison-pulled cart and wearing era-appropriate clothing.
  • Suddenly Shouting: King Arthur can't seem to control his voice's volume.
  • Well, This Is Not That Trope: The Warners arrive to fight the dragon.
    Yakko: Did you call for the bravest, most daring knight in all the land?
    King Arthur: Oh, yes!
    Yakko: Well, too bad. You got us.
    Dot: What a silly mix-up!
  • You Wanna Get Sued?: As explained in the beginning, the Incessant Chorus can't sing the score for Camelot without paying a hefty legal fee.
  • Rule of Three: Yakko would get annoyed every time someone repeatedly said dragon and he'd drop an anvil on someone. The third and final straw was when the entire village all kept saying "dragon". This made Yakko, Wakko, and Dot furious and proceeds to crush the entire village with a giant anvil.

Closing Tower Gag: "Gooooooooooodbye, Nurse!"- Yakko, Wakko, and Dot

 
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When Yakko, Wakko, and Dot finally slay the dragon, it is revealed that the dragon is all a world-domination scheme by "Pinky and the Brain".

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