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Meet the wacky cast of the [[Warner Bros]]/[[Steven Spielberg]]-produced cartoon ''Animaniacs'' and its spin-off ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''. They are categorized by which characters starred in which segments. The characters that show up in ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'', including Pinky and the Brain, who started as characters as part of a segment of ''Animaniacs'', should get listed in the ''[[Pinky and The Brain
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* [[Hair Decorations]]: Dot's flower.
* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]/[[The Cutie]]
* [[Ears
* [[Flower in Her Hair]]
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Most of Dot's "Pets" when she does the "Wanna See My Pet?"
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** [[Insistent Terminology|Call her Dottie, and you die.]]
* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Her skirt.
* [[Sitting Sexy
* [[Talking to Herself]]: With Hello Nurse.
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* [[Inkblot Cartoon Style]]: The Warners were created in the 1930s when this style of animation was very prominent.
* [[Karmic Trickster]]
* [[Madwoman in
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Yakko and Wakko.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: They're actually about 60.
* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: Repeatedly.
* [[Two Guys and
* [[White Gloves]]
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* [[Blue Eyes]]
* [[Dumb Blond]]: In the early episodes she could occasionally come across as one, but as her characterization stabilized it was firmly averted; she's as smart as her bosses, emphasized at the end of ''[[Wakko's Wish
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In the beginning of the show, and indeed in some of the early spin-off comics, she didn't have much of a personality and was mainly just there to be sexy -- and she had several moments then when she displayed definite traits of a [[Literal Minded]] [[Dumb Blond]]. Eventually, however, she was developed a little more, to become Scratchansniff's extremely intelligent, [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]], and her [[Dumb Blond]] moments completely vanished.
* [[Gainaxing]]: She is sometimes animated this way.
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* [[Talking to Himself]]: With Ralph.
* [[The Napoleon]]
* [[Throw the Dog
== Minor Supporting and [[Recurring Character|Recurring Characters]] ==
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]
* [[Oh God,
* [[Take That]]
* [[You Say Tomato]]: Mr. Director discusses this trope.
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=== Baloney the Dinosaur ===
A sappy orange and light blue dinosaur who is an obvious parody of [[
* [[Captain Ersatz]]
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* [[The Ditz]]
* [[Take That]]
* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: Took [[Anvil
* [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]: Subversion of the usual portrayal.
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* [[Big Fun]]
* [[Cameo]]: In ''[[Wakko's Wish
=== Sodarn Hissane ===
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* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[Grumpy Bear]]
* [[Hates the Job, Loves
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: And she was too, as evidenced by her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79kr6ha6pnA Buttermilk ad].
* [[Jerk
* [[Mama Bear]]: Slappy gets very pissed if you harm Skippy.
* [[Medium Awareness]]
* [[Never Mess
* [[No Fourth Wall]]
* [[Older Than Television]]: She was described as "octogenarian" in one episode and has works dating back to the 1930s, perhaps earlier.
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* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]
* [[Tagalong Kid]]
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Nathan Ruegger's voice had to be pitched up in later episodes because he was getting too old for the part. It's particularly obvious in ''[[Wakko's Wish
=== Walter Wolf, Sid the Squid, and Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison ===
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==== Tropes that apply to Sid the Squid: ====
* [[Everything's Squishier
==== Tropes that apply to Beanie: ====
* [[The Ditz]]
* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: [[Playing
==== Tropes that apply to two or all three of them: ====
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==== Tropes that apply to both: ====
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: The both of them disappeared as series regulars after Season 2, to the point that a parody of the ''[[Rugrats]]'' intro showed a picture of them on a milk carton. They eventually did come [[Back for
* [[Female Feline, Male Mutt]]
* [[Furry Female Mane]]: Inverted.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]
* [[Little Guy, Big Buddy]]
* [[Local Reference]]: When Rita and Runt go to Poland in "Puttin on the Blitz", Rita sings that it doesn't look like Burbank, more like Van Nuys. (Both are cities in Los Angeles. You can guess which one has higher property values).
* [[Musical Episode]]: Rita and Runt have at least one song per short.
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=== Mindy and Buttons ===
[[File:mindyandbuttons1_5897.jpg|frame]]
A send up of ''[[Lassie (TV series)|Lassie]]''. Mindy Sadlier is a toddler who constantly wanders off into dangerous situations prompting her dog, Buttons, to keep her out of it at the expense of his safety.
==== Tropes that apply to Mindy: ====
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==== Tropes that apply to both: ====
* [[Little Guy, Big Buddy]]: Arguably so.
=== Mindy's Mom ===
A woman who Mindy always calls "Lady", except in ''[[Wakko's Wish
=== Mindy's Dad ===
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=== Newt ===
* [[Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag]]
* [[Distracted
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Newt is voiced by Arte Johnson (one of the cast members from the late 1960s sketch show ''[[Rowan and
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: YMMV, but Newt has his work cut out for him. And yes, [[Captain Obvious|he IS the villain]] of "Meet Minerva".
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* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]
* [[Burning
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Every problem a teen could have (panicking over her date being late, trying to learn how to drive, getting a pimple, etc.) causes her to turn into a monster.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: And that's why the writers created [[Cute and Psycho|Katie Kaboom]] to explain to innocent little children [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|why their big sister chucks a psycho for NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON WHATSOEVER once a month]]. Basically, their explanation was [[Teens Are Monsters]].
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* [[Animals Not to Scale]]: He's a chicken, I tell ya! A giant chicken!
* [[Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag]]
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Exaggerated
* [[You Have to Believe Me]]: The entire point of the character
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One of the original stars of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio, Buddy was hastily created by animator Earl Duvall as an ersatz of [[Bosko the Talk Ink Kid]], and from late 1933 to 1935, he served as the lead star of the [[Looney Tunes]] shorts. In real life, the character was reviled by the staff due to his [[Flat Character|complete and utter lack of personality]], only magnified by the dull, plotless cartoons he starred in, and was immediately phased out once [[Porky Pig]] became the studio mascot. In-universe, he was upstaged by Yakko, Wakko and Dot, who were brought in to spice up his boring cartoons by bashing him in the head over and over again with a mallet. His sole appearance in the series is in "The Warners 65th Anniversary Special", where he comes back as a villain in an attempt to get revenge on the trio for destroying his career.
* [[A Day in
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Flat Character]]: The original B&W Buddy. The special gives him a little more personality.
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