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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc"]YouTube - Animaniacs - Nations Of The World[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUDDaEOvuY&feature=related"]YouTube - Wakko's 50 State Capitols[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvy0wRLD5s8&feature=related"]YouTube - Animaniacs - Presidents[/ame]

Gotta love them :)
 
They just don't make cartoons like they used to.
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTtqpen-Wo0"]YouTube - Best Animaniacs Quotes, Yakko Wakko Dot[/ame]

(To Michaelangelo) "You expect us poor innocent children to climb up dangerous scaffolding and paint naked people over a church?!... WE'LL DO IT!"

Hah.I think The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show Animaniacs Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid! are all solely responsible for my bizarre sense of humor in adulthood ;)


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XthZ7rFPKh8&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XthZ7rFPKh8&feature=related[/ame]

And they said television wasn't educational!
 
Sorry to say but animaniacs was one of the few cartoons I did not like as I was growing up. I did really like tinytoons though, which was made by the same people.
 
IndigoSensor said:
Sorry to say but animaniacs was one of the few cartoons I did not like as I was growing up. I did really like tinytoons though, which was made by the same people.
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I can see how they would annoy a J-child...especially if they were too young to understand the subtle undercurrent in the humor at the time of airing. They were pretty wacky and all over-place on the surface.

I loveeeddd them because of how fluid they were with the language. I picked up quite a vocabulary from Yakko. lol.
 
TheDaringHatTrick said:
I can see how they would annoy a J-child...especially if they were too young to understand the subtle undercurrent in the humor at the time of airing. They were pretty wacky and all over-place on the surface.

I loveeeddd them because of how fluid they were with the language. I picked up quite a vocabulary from Yakko. lol.
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I was not language oriented as a child. I was articulate but on a very piecewise basis. Therefore I didn't exactly pick up on subtalties that this show did. I liked more pure nonsense, or more direct forms of language silliness. Such as this, this episode by far made me laugh more then any other episode on any show as a child, and it highlights the silly language stuff.
 
IndigoSensor said:
I was not language oriented as a child. I was articulate but on a very piecewise basis. Therefore I didn't exactly pick up on subtalties that this show did. I liked more pure nonsense, or more direct forms of language silliness. Such as this, this episode by far made me laugh more then any other episode on any show as a child, and it highlights the silly language stuff.
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See, I was the opposite. I disliked Rugrats. I preferred Hey Arnold! which was kind of the last real kids cartoon I got into.

Afterwards, the strange, disfigured and gritty-exaggerative animation styles kind of deterred me from cartoons, as did the simplified, almost-canned dialog. Kind of started with Nick cartoons like Rugrats (more because of the animation, not the plotlines/dialog)

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This is my favorite:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3tGgD4nMk"]YouTube - Animaniacs - Schnitzelbank[/ame]

Wakko: Ist das nicht ein pair of pants?
Y+D : Ja das ist ein pair of pants.
Wakko: Ist das underwear from France?
Y+D : Ja dat's underwear from France.
YW+D : Pair of pants, shorts from France
 
IndigoSensor said:
I was not language oriented as a child. I was articulate but on a very piecewise basis. Therefore I didn't exactly pick up on subtalties that this show did. I liked more pure nonsense, or more direct forms of language silliness. Such as this, this episode by far made me laugh more then any other episode on any show as a child, and it highlights the silly language stuff.
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That would explain so much, I was very language oriented as a child. I also loved Rugrats..He Arnold I never really liked for some reason..
 
I miss real cartoons, to think there are children born in america who are not going to know who Bugs Bunny is.
 
Raccoon Love said:
That would explain so much, I was very language oriented as a child. I also loved Rugrats..He Arnold I never really liked for some reason..
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I really learned a lot from Animaniacs. It was a show that, for all its silliness, didn't condescend to kids. It dressed up real world concerns, politics and education in more kid-friendly colours, but it still addressed them.. rather honestly too. And as a kid, you kind of pick up on that in a way.

That and the smart-aleck humor was fantastic.

Yakko: "We protest you calling us "little kids". We prefer to be called "vertically-impaired pre-adults".

Umlatt: This is the uniform of a great man!
Yakko: Does he know you're wearing it?

Miles Standish: Begone, pests, and give me the bird.
Yakko: We'd love to, really, but the Fox censors won't allow it.
 
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I found animaniacs very inspirational as a teen.
 
TheDaringHatTrick said:
I really learned a lot from Animaniacs. It was a show that, for all its silliness, didn't condescend to kids. It dressed up real world concerns, politics and education in more kid-friendly colours, but it still addressed them.. rather honestly too. And as a kid, you kind of pick up on that in a way too.

The smart-aleck humor was fantastic.

Yakko: "We protest you calling us "little kids". We prefer to be called "vertically-impaired pre-adults".

Umlatt: This is the uniform of a great man!
Yakko: Does he know you're wearing it?

Miles Standish: Begone, pests, and give me the bird.
Yakko: We'd love to, really, but the Fox censors won't allow it.
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Now I love stuff like that, it makes me seriously LOL. It's one reason why I love new shows such as chowder and flapjack, because they have sprinkles of that. As a kid though this stuff would go in one ear and out the other, I just didn't register stuff that way. I did learn a lot from cartoons though, the problem was when the info was inaccurate, in a way I couldn't tell. I remember in one particular case, rugrats called a court jury "the jerky" and I remember a few days later saying that to my family. They cracked up at my naiieveness over that, and I stared and said "but thats what the tv said! they said jerkey!". I had the sarcasm filter of a cheese cloth.
 
IndigoSensor said:
Now I love stuff like that, it makes me seriously LOL. It's one reason why I love new shows such as chowder and flapjack, because they have sprinkles of that. As a kid though this stuff would go in one ear and out the other, I just didn't register stuff that way. I did learn a lot from cartoons though, the problem was when the info was inaccurate, in a way I couldn't tell. I remember in one particular case, rugrats called a court jury "the jerky" and I remember a few days later saying that to my family. They cracked up at my naiieveness over that, and I stared and said "but thats what the tv said! they said jerkey!". I had the sarcasm filter of a cheese cloth.
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Yeah, age was a big factor in appreciating certain shows over others and the timing really mattered. We were lucky enough to catch the tail end of the cartoon renaissance before everything went to the gutter from the mid-90's onward due to budget cuts, stricter network regulations and the public outcry of "the MEDIA IS CORRUPTING OUR CHILDREN!" that somehow translated to sucking the life out of story content and structure and bloating dialog with stock phrases and simplified vocabulary.
 
Off Topic, but I was very musically oriented as a child. I remember the fifty states because of this song I learned in 5th grade:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_HeLofy7IE&feature=related"]YouTube - Fifty Nifty United States[/ame]

And i used this song to help me remember cellular respiration in general bio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZrkdzrd04
 
I didn't understand a lot of the sly comments on Animaniacs, since I was more into the slapstick comedy. I guess I wasn't very language-oriented as a child either, which would be very ironic since I'm working on a series of novels and write poetry now.

At this point, though, I think Animaniacs is hilarious.
 
I was a teen when animaniacs was on, so I had no trouble understanding it and just thought it was awesome.
 
Animaniacs was cool, but a lot of the references in the show were too American based.
 
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