Airdate: September 16th, 1993
Opening Line: "Here's The Show's Name-y"- Dot
Tower Escape: The Warners inflate a hot air balloon in the tower and float off.
Hooked on a Ceiling: The Warners pester Michelangelo Buonarroti, who is painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Wakko is used as a movie camera to start the next cartoon
Goodfeathers: The Beginning: The story of how Squit became a Goodfeather.
Wheel of Morality: Never ask what hot dogs are made of.
Tower Return: Wakko pulls a ladder out of his gaggy bag.
"Hooked on a Ceiling" provides examples of:
- Actor Allusion: During the Ninja Turtle cameo, only one of them gets a line, and it's provided by Rob Paulsen (voice of Raphael on the original cartoon series).
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: When Michelangelo begs the Warners to help him finish the the Sistine chapel by tonight after showing them what it is supposed to look like.Yakko: Wait a minute, you expect us poor innocent children to climb up dangerous scaffolding and paint naked people all over a church?
The Warners: We'll do it! - The Cameo:
- At the beginning, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make an appearance after the narrator references Michelangelo.
- The bell ringer at the beginning is Charles Laughton as Quasimodo.
- The Goodfeathers appear, standing on a statue of David.
- Creator Cameo: His Eminence turns out to be Steven Spielberg.
- Demoted to Extra: Yakko has most of the dialogue in this short, with Dot having a speaking line here and there, and Wakko only speaking twice.
- Everyone Has Standards: When Michelangelo starts openly sobbing after the Warners cover the ceiling in white paint, meaning he'll have to start working on it all over again, they stop messing around and help him finish it.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Michelangelo is a caricature of Kirk Douglas. The narrator is a parody of John Houseman.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis: The narrator bemoans how, after centuries of acclaim for their great works, the Renaissance artists were overshadowed by the similarly named Ninja Turtles.Narrator: I'm afraid popular culture has successfully eradicated the actual identities of the true poets of art. In my opinion, this stinks!
- Pun: "We don't paint floors 'cause they're beneath us!"
- Shout-Out:
- On the ceiling, the Warners paint a parody of "The Creation of Adam" featuring Elliot and E.T..
- At one point, Yakko does an impression of the doorman from The Wizard of Oz.
- At the end, the Warners say, "Hey, Mikey, he likes it!" - a reference to the advertisements for LIFE cereal.
- Stealth Pun: In real life, Michelangelo always said there was a sculpture in every rock looking to get out and all he had to do was free it. When Michelangelo gets mad at the Warners for making a fool of him and hits a pillar behind him, he ends up smashing it to reveal a sculpture.
"Goodfeathers: The Beginning" provides examples of:
- Butt-Monkey: All three Goodfeathers suffer plenty of abuse just to get a bagel for the Godpigeon.
- The Cameo:
- The Warner siblings and Ralph run by the pigeons twice.
- The black and white kitten who crosses Bobby and Pesto's path resembles Pussyfoot.
- Everyone Meets Everyone: Squit becomes the newest member of the Goodfeathers and meets Bobby, Pesto, and the Godpigeon.
- Given Name Reveal: This is the only time that the Godpigeon's real name, Sulley, is mentioned.
- Shout-Out:
- Plenty to GoodFellas, of course, including the infamous tracking shot (hint: watch when they're entering the subway station).
- "Are you walkin' with me? I don't see anybody else here."
