Animaniacs Episode Rating Graph

The Warners are beamed onto their favorite old sci-fi show, Star Truck, where they cause chaos to the crew and introduce engineer Squatty to donuts.

To the William Tell Overture, the Warners sing about all presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton.

After the Warners walk out of this cartoon too, Pinky and the Brain plan to steal Zeus' lightning bolts in ancient Greece as part of Brain's latest plan to take over the world.

A parody of the grand opening of Disney's "The Lion King".

The Warners are stuck on a forum show with an old Warner Bros. animator named Cappy "Cap" Barnhouse, who keeps falling asleep as he reminisces about his time at the studio.

The Warners sing about sibling rivalry.

Wakko gets in a fight with himself over a game of Go Fish.

In a parody of The Maltese Falcon and film-noir, the Warners (as detectives) search and protect a mysterious statue from several suspicious characters (Minerva, Hello Nurse, Dr. Scratchansniff, and Ralph).

The little bird from Wild Blue Yonder returns and is adopted by Slappy.

Mindy and Buttons are seen as superheroes.

Wakko proves to Schratchnsniff that his song made of two notes is actual music.

The Warner siblings cry "fake" when they attend a wrestling match.

A short milk ad parody about why Slappy drinks buttermilk.

An advertisement about a device that slaps people, commonly used by Slappy.

Yakko recites a monologue from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", while Wakko plays Horatio and digs and Dot translates.

Yakko sings a song to the tune of the "Mexican Hat Dance" listing the nations of the world.

The Warners get carried up a beanstalk where they face a hungry giant (based on Ralph the Guard). To get him to eat something other than them, the Warners pester him to eat gold eggs and meat in a style similar to Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham.

The Warners help Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel.

In the midst of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Rita and Runt help a little girl reunite with her father while avoiding the enemy (and Newt, a tenacious dachshund).

Ten short films with Wakko being his zany self.

The Goodfeathers try to cheer up Bobby.

Slappy faces off against her smelly old rival Stinkbomb D. Bassett in order to get her nuts.

Dot sings while trying to find a peaceful place to read, so she looks all over the world in order to find a quiet place.

Yakko sings a song about the relative vastness of space from one person to the entire universe.

The Warners sing about the senses – the usual five, plus several others.

Slappy goes to get plastic surgery, but Walter tries to mess with her face.

Slappy finds herself facing pioneer Daniel Boone, who wants to cut down her tree to build his house.

Wakko sings a song about his favorite girl (Hello Nurse, of course).

Yakko sings a song about multiplying 47 by 83.

Dr. Scratchansniff holds a group therapy session with the Warners and Elmyra Duff, but Elmyra's behavior drives the trio crazy. To escape, the Warners find Buttons and Mindy, and have Elmyra take all the pain that Buttons usually gets.

Wakko shows off a large and bizarre Rube Goldberg device that sets off a whoopee cushion.

The Warners announce that this will be a very special episode due to characters being mixed up.

Squit gets a case of the hiccups, forcing the other Goodfeathers to come up with different ways to get rid of them.

The Warners are tortured going through the longest, most boring one-sided conversation of their lives courtesy of a drone-voiced man, Francis "Pip" Pumphandle (Ben Stein), that they meet at a party.

In 1969, Slappy and Skippy head for their summer cottage in Woodstock, New York, but find themselves in the middle of the Woodstock Music Festival.

In the late 1800s, Brain drinks Dr. Jekyll's potion as part of a scheme to take over the British Empire, and then the world.

Pinky and The Brain become "Spellbound" when they attempt to use Merlin's book of magic to take over the world.

Pesto tries to stop his widowed mother from remarrying.

Modern art is born when the Warners help Pablo Picasso discover his painting style.

The Warners bother Sherlock Holmes for help with their scavenger hunt.

Ralph the Guard unexpectedly gets married to Chicken Boo.

A showing of the Warners' appearance in a Googi Goop cartoon, "Little Red Riding Goop".

Pesto has to watch his sister Sasha's egg, but it starts rolling all over town.

In a running gag throughout the episode, Wakko has various medical maladies caused by cartoons that are inside him.

Ned Flat has the Warners compete on his game show "Quiz Me Quick" where they drive him bonkers.

Rita and Runt find a litter of "puppies" that cling to the stray cat as their mother.

Yakko leads a trip through the universe as he sings about the galaxies.

As chimney sweeps, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot annoy Ludwig van Beethoven, and accidentally give him inspiration for his Fifth Symphony.

A clip show segment of "the first 99 episodes" of Animaniacs intended to fill out the remaining time in the show's final episode, set to an orchestral arrangement of the show theme and various character themes.

Slappy Squirrel tries to convince Skippy that "Bumbie's Mom" didn't really die in the famous movie.

Brain competes on the trivia game show Gyp-Parody! to win enough money to buy the final part of a device that Brain is building in order to take over the world.

In a slight parody of the children's book "Goodnight Moon," each of the Animaniacs characters is wished a good night's sleep.

On a train to Gettysburg, the Warners help Abraham Lincoln write the opening of the Gettysburg Address.

When potential foreign investors want to meet the wacky Warner siblings, the studio boss orders Dr. Scratchansniff to train the untamable trio.

Chicken Boo is a leading actor who delivers the money shot kiss in a movie without anyone knowing that he is a giant chicken. This skit managed to get away with saying the word "sexiest".

The Warners trek to Tibet seeking answers to the mysteries of life from a famous sage.

In a parody of Tom and Jerry, the Warners run amok at a toy store.

Parody of Disney's Beauty and the Beast with Dot as the heroine, taken in by a beast played by the Tasmanian Devil. The fourth wall was broken almost constantly in this episode and also got away with using censor bleeps.

An old Warner cartoon where the trio get jobs in a bakery and try to eat everything in sight, but have to avoid their strict boss who kicks them out when they first enter.

A frustrated and lovelorn Minerva avoids a tenacious dachshund named Newt, who either wants to capture her or have her!

Charlton "Baynarts" Woodchuck gets a job in Hollywood in a film while getting severely injured in the process.

Runt and Pesto find a home with a kind old woman who does not like pigeons.

Yakko sings about the planets in our solar system. Wakko notifies him at the end that he forgot Uranus, leading to one of the show's elusive innuendos.

In a parody of Harry Belafonte's "Monkey," the Warners and Dr. Scratchansniff sing about their tumultuous relationship.

Wakko and Dr. Scratchansniff are stuck in an elevator for several hours.

The Warners are hypnotized by Dr. Scratchansniff in order to make them less zany. Dr. Scratchansniff fails and asks them what they are, leading the Warners to offer a number of suggestions.

The Warners sing a song about the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

The Warners have fun at a video store where the movie covers come to life, a possible update of the Looney Tunes cartoon Book Revue.

The Warners perform a musical tribute to Gilbert & Sullivan.

During a visit to Sweden, the Warners run afoul of Death, who tries to bring Wakko to the realm of the dead after he eats one too many Swedish meatballs during a contest. To save him, Yakko and Dot challenge Death to a game of checkers.

The Warners wake up from suspended animation in a spaceship in a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. When AL5000, the computer of the ship, orders them to return to their sleeping pods, the Warners refuse to and things get out of hand.

The Warners invite several people to their water tower in expectation of a surprise guest, who Thaddeus Plotz believes to be Steven Spielberg, but is really a different "Steven".

Tired of their episode's latest plot (meeting a hot-dog salesman), the Warners walk out of their cartoon.

In the 1950s, Slappy and Skippy attend a method acting class, which Slappy turns into a comedy class.

Katie's dad makes a big mistake when he allows Katie to drive the family car home.

Buttons chases Mindy across Paris as she tries to catch a balloon.

The Warners, as the Three Musketeers, protect Louis VIII from the threat of "the Viper".

In 1690s Italy, a violinist named Stradivarius takes a stray cat (Rita) in so that he can make violin strings out of her "catgut."

A freak accident of lineage results in Yakko becoming "King Yakko" of Anvilania.

Plotz hires the Warners after the his secretary goes home sick.

The Warners come to the United States as immigrants, and invade the home of the Friends cast.

A parody on The Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia. The Brain builds robots, and almost succeeds in dominating the world, but Pinky gets in the way.

A cuckoo clock bird falls for a real female bird and tries to win her love on the hour, though he keeps retracting into his clock.

Katie Ka-Boom has been invited to the prom, but gets angry while arguing with her parents over her curfew and what to buy.

Snow White's magic mirror tells her that she is no longer the cutest one of all, so she decides to settle the score with Dot, who has taken her place as the cutest.

Mindy chases a frog through a graveyard, while Buttons tries to keep waking zombies at bay.

Yakko and Dot explain to Wakko through song about how to read the headlines in Variety Magazine.

The Flame is present and watches along as Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner during the War of 1812.

In a parody of Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din, Dot is the only one with water in a village and everyone wants it, because it is hot out.

Wakko, suffering from laryngitis and unable to belch, uses fart sounds from his hands to perform the "Chinese Dance" from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.

After being made to believe that his aunt Slappy is going insane after watching too many tabloid talk shows, Skippy places her in a retirement home for cartoon characters. A parody of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Yakko narrates a parody of the poem Casey at the Bat, with the Animaniacs crew as the Mudville Nine and Wakko as Casey.

After Wakko gets the hiccups from drinking a milkshake in a single gulp, Yakko and Dot attempt to cure him.

Chicken Boo disguises himself and creates a TV schedule that everybody likes the most, yet all the shows are chicken-themed.

Skippy is forced to deal with the school bully, Duke, while Slappy faces an advocate against cartoon violence.

In New York, Chicken Boo is mistaken for a ballet dancer and dances in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Slappy's plans to take Skippy to a baseball game at Dodger Stadium go wrong when an opera performance by the famed Domino, Pepperoni, and Carumba is scheduled for that night instead. The singers (a parody of the Three Tenors) return at the end of the show to perform a shortened version of the Animaniacs theme. This episode also features parodies of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Simon.

The Goodfeathers take revenge on Mr. Plotz to the music of Ride of the Valkyries.

The Warners sing Noel in some very strange ways.

A Warner version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the Warners as the three spirits and Thaddeus Plotz as Ebenezer Scrooge.

In a blatant attempt to win a humanitarian animation award, the Warners make an extremely politically correct cartoon.

A parody of the "Macarena" music video with a song sung by and about Dot, a.k.a. "Macadamia".

When Mindy chases a butterfly into a rain forest that is being cut down for wood, Buttons follows and attempts to protect her.

Parody of Disney animated films concentrating on Pocahontas, with Dot as the eponymous Native princess.

Another eternal question is addressed: "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?"

Bobby and Squit must help Pesto when he gets his head caught in a plastic six-pack ring while the trio are rummaging through the garbage in a garbage scow.

Onboard a plane, the Warners annoy a tightwad named Ivan Blosky who is forced to sit by them because of a computer error.

The Warners chase Ernest Hemingway around the world when he refuses to sign for his office supply delivery.

The Hip-Hippos are delivered in a new baby in the form of The Brain.

The Warners write a movie script only to have Mr. Plotz reject it, so they decide to crash a star-studded gala in hopes of making a deal with another studio.

Standing in for Richard Stone who is out for the day, Neivel Nosenest is driven completely crazy by the Warners for the scoring of a cartoon.

Chicken Boo is mistaken for the frontiersman Davy Omelette. He helps a number of pioneers who are being attacked by a bear

The Warners cause chaos when the famous magicians Schnitzel and Floyd (parodies of Siegfried & Roy) invite them onstage as volunteers in their act.

In the Stone Age, cavegirl Mindy gets in trouble and Buttons rescues her.

The Warners sing a song about Attila the Hun.

Rita gets adopted by Cleopatra, and Runt saves her after he finds out that Rita is about to be sacrificed.

The detective Warners go in search of Marita's missing jewel on a cruise ship filled with "the unusual suspects."

Flavio and Marita head to New York in order to find a trendy new place to live.

Wakko tries to come up with a new "gookie", or bizarre facial expression.

Buttons tries to keep Mindy safe after her lollipop gets stuck on the side of a mail truck.

The Warners sing about Lake Titicaca.

Brain wants to steal all of the gold in Fort Knox as part of his latest plan to take over the world.

A retelling of the birth of Jesus, set to several familiar carols. The Warners (as shepherds) deliver their own spin on "We Three Kings of Orient Are" and jazz up "The Little Drummer Boy".

Then, Mindy narrowly escapes danger with the help of her dog, Buttons, in the railroad adventure.

The Warners confront a troll who won't let them cross his bridge.

Slappy Squirrel takes her car for a drive, set to the tune of a classic rock 'n' roll song "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)."

The Goodfeathers battle the Sparrows over possession of a statue of Martin Scorsese in a musical spoof of "West Side Story."

Dr. Scratchansniff goes on a cruise. Unfortunately for him, the Warners tag along with him.

A sneak peek of a fictional spin-off starring Pinky and Ralph the Guard.

The Warners join in a carpool where they drive the rest of the passengers crazy.

The Warners are lost in sea and found a message in a bottle floating on the surface.

The Goodfeathers are hired as stunt birds for The Boids. They try to keep their jobs, but the movie shoot turns out to be harder than they expected.

Dr. Scratchansniff's date at a drive-in theater gets out of hand when the Warners join him.

Buttons tries to protect Mindy in an Alice in Wonderland-like world while chasing a bunny.

Mindy pursues a kitty into a dangerous construction site, and Buttons tries desperately to save her.

The Goodfeathers try to outwit a hungry young owl.

The Warner Brothers (and their sister Slappy in place of Dot) pay a visit to Sodarn Insane (a parody of Saddam Hussein).

A newly-hatched bird tries to find its mother and ends up following a F-117A Nighthawk plane.

Several old-time movie stars talk about their encounters with the Warners and how Milton Berle hated Yakko.

The Warners sing about the United Nations to the tune of "Down by the Riverside".

Slappy goes to a banquet held in her honor in order to receive an award while three of her old nemeses (Walter Wolf, Sid the Squid, and Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison) plot revenge for years of torment by her.

A candleflame guides us through a special night in American history.

When a male moth and a female butterfly fall in love they head to the city, leading to disaster.

Chicken Boo finds himself as a sheriff in the midst of a spaghetti Western.

Dot stars in a parody of the "Mary Tyler Moore" show opening sequence.

The Warners try to tell people in a TV commercial to "get a life" instead of going over every little reference in their show.

Plotz loses his job after the Warners' movie becomes a box office smash, but they realize that they miss having him yell at them and conspire to bring him back.

The Warners sing about the names of the ingredients in a carton of ice cream and a candy bar.

Rita and Runt end up being chased by a crazy female mad scientist who wants the idiot dog's brain for her own experiments.

In a Jeopardy!-style game in Miss Flamiel's classroom, Wakko has to name the 50 states and their capitols, but fails to put his answer in the form of a question, instead putting it in the form of a song sung to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw."

A discarded soda can sparks an escalating, one-sided battle of wits between Slappy and her conceited neighbor, Candie Chipmunk.

Slappy protects Adam and Eve from eating an apple in the Garden of Eden, just as a snake tries to grab it and tempt them to do so.

Dr. Scratchansniff has only one player for his weekly bingo game – Wakko.

Slappy and her old partner Suzi Squirrel reunite to perform a old sketch on a TV show.

Slappy tries to get away from the filming of a blockbuster action movie on her vacation day.

Chicken Boo re-enacts Forrest Gump.

Wakko belches The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss.

In a parody of Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, Mr. Skullhead (a character brought over from Tiny Toon Adventures)) is adopted and finds acceptance in a suburban family.

After witnessing their stained-glass window get destroyed by prima donna opera singer Madame Bruntvin, the Warners torment her in their own variations on Carmen.

Bridging segments: Yakko reveals pieces of completely useless information.